skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies are making money from our personal data – but at what cost?
Question is whether they will have a launch pad at that time and how long investigations will last and until a fix is deployed. May well be that there are no more launches this year.
It's a common practice, particularly because CSS doesn't have easy to use namespaces or modules.

Maybe not a "good" practice, because yeah so much as anything it's a sign that maybe we've reached the natural bounds of the CSS language and it's time to look into making it better.
From Sunday 11 pm to tuesday morning
Seemed pretty likely though don't you think?
I'm sorry, but the commercial aspect of this just seems crazy. Would people really pay money for this, or ever want a code review (one of the plan differentiators)?
For me, the only part that might be unethical is when they say "controlled risk." And then don't describe how the risk is controlled at all on the hyperlinked page. How is it controlled? Where am I in the pecking order if things go sour?
True, which is why I suggested an outlier-focused approach as well. My point is that blending the two metrics does not really tell us much other than that a particular VC happened to pick slightly better outliers in the time period under analysis.
As a professional web developer this article was free of any useful insights -- if there's something interesting about Pantsuit I'm failing to see it.

It might help if they put some stuff on GitHub, but as it stands this is article seems to be just PR.
How much does it cost to develop a social media app?
nah, wrong. If you go over the allowed bandwith, you can get either limited to 10Mbit/s or pay 1,37€ per TB. In comparison, this is pretty cheap, but that is about waht you pay, when you buy transit.
Source: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en
I'm curious. Does this apply to just French journals? Or just French scientists? How would that work with journals based in other countries? Or multi-national research collaborations?
Explosion at SpaceX Launch Site at Cape Canaveral
I've wondered about OpenBSD on the NTC CHIP computer. I have one that I haven't quite gotten around to doing anything with that I'd love to OpenBSD-ify.
Will there be a hardened version? Shielded from laser attacks, EMI attacks, projectiles, explosives, etc?
GNU libc and Linux
The reason Hungarian Notation is considered bad practice is that it encodes in a variable name what is already, or at least ought to be, encoded in the variable’s type.

CSS is not really a programming language, and it doesn't really have types.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the guidelines.
I said deliberate mistake.

As in they said "This is the best way", later it turns out to have been a mistake.

Negligence or neglect are not the same thing (they are bad, but they are not educational, so they are not part of this list).
correction, 1,17€/TB
PostgreSQL 9.6 RC 1 Released
> when I point out that inhaling smoke of any sort is bad for you at some level, I get a LOT of pushback for a claim that seems self-evident.

I don't argue this claim—I don't have any evidence either way—but nor do I regard it as self-evident. An honest, not rhetorical or leading, question: why should inhaling smoke be bad when inhaling, say, ordinary air isn't? Is it the heat? Particulates?

EDIT: Thanks for the excellent responses! (The detailed discussions below are far more interesting than my question, I think.) To be clear (since I am "submitting too fast" to reply to comments below), lest I sound like some kind of denier, when I say "I don't have any evidence either way", I mean literally that—just that I haven't bothered to get any, not that there isn't any.
Wow thanks for the input. I am wondering if they are seeing an uptick in business for compliance reasons which is one of the reason I am asking actually.
This is very interesting, but I don't understand many things he said.

is there a good introductory material for writing code for quantum computers and how quantum computers work?

also is there a way to evaluate the performance boost with the simulator?
But not the point of startups.

Also, not what's better for founders.

You're better off with a %50 chance of being worth $200M after 7 years than a %1 chance of being worth $1B after 3.

VCs place many bets, you only get to place one.

At this point if I were to ever take VC again, I might take it from A16Z. They would be top of my list. All those "top tier" guys would have to give me terms I believe they are not inclined to give me.

Fortunately things are radically different than they were even 10 years ago, and VCs have a lot less power.

Unless you're building another Uber. Don't build another Uber. Build a github.
How about Clothing neutrality? :)
Andreessen Firm's Returns Trail Venture-Capital Elite
I can only say that tax cases that go just to the lowest court instance in Denmark can take years to complete. Here's the most recent tax related cases I could find: http://www.skat.dk/SKAT.aspx?oId=2232974&vId=0

This person said they were not taxable for 2008 and 2009. The tax authorities disagree. A complex case with the person moving abroad is described. The amount of money that would be taxable is less than $200,000. In 2014, a tax court ruled one thing. Now in 2016 the first city court looked at the case. And that's just for one person, with relatively simple finances.

I can imagine considering Apple and the even more complex EU law could take huge amounts of time to process. The article said 3+ years was used on just investigating the case. Maybe if they had an extra 500 lawyers and accountants they could do it quicker. Or better legal powers to investigate this sort of tax stuff between the countries. But from what I've heard, I imagine the cross-border investigations are sending letters to the local authorities and waiting months before you get any concrete information. These guys are nothing like the federal law enforcement of US.

Take the tobacco lawsuits in US -- wasn't it known for 40+ years that tobacco was extremely harmful? Should the companies be allowed to continue given they haven't been sued by the government or stopped in some way for that amount of time?
This trailer made by IBM’s Watson proves AI knows how to creep you out
Seems likely. Based on the photos we've seen the strongback sure as hell is. It's all twisted and mangled.
This looks almost exactly like the intro for Promethease

http://imgur.com/a/Guov3
It sure looked like a plume. I like the simple animated gif view of the radar:

http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar_lite.php?rid=MLB&produc...

The first couple of images have cycled out now, but they showed that blob expanding from nothing right where it starts in the current sequence.

(it starts at 1246 here: http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/RadarImg/N0R/MLB/ Not a great view without the map underneath.)
Voter Sentiment Study of the Presidential Election
Irrational Optimism: The Entrepreneur’s Blessing and Curse
This seems like a strange comment. Your parent suggests that your grandparent should have made a specific different interpretation, and you respond that the suggested interpretation is different?
In Retrospect: A New System of Chemical Philosophy
The only alternatives I can think of are (1) have the filename of the stylesheet reveal what type of style it is, and (2) stop acting like stylesheets are a better way to factor out UI code than React's JS-based component-oriented styling patterns.

I personally do #2 but Pantsuit seems reasonable for sites that are relatively simple content + UI affairs (e.g. Wordpress) without a complex state-space (e.g. a T-shirt designer app).
Ouch. I hope that things pull through. He is taking so much risk on with the SpaceX program, Solar City, and Tesla. I feel like it is a crazy risky bet which will either pay off very well or leave him totally broke.
At what age? If it's not too young, you still have 30-40 years of additional research on your side. There is a genetic predisposition in some families.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/12/alzheimers-disease-colom...

Perhaps you should participate in a study, if possible? There's an interesting documentary on HBO:

http://www.hbo.com/alzheimers/about-the-project.html

I believe BioGen's drug is discussed in the movie.
Is the black hole at our galaxy’s centre a quantum computer?
Punishment is distinct from restitution.

If a thief takes your MacGuffin, and gets caught, he must return it to you to make you whole, and then might also be required to forfeit an amount up to its value as punishment for thievery.

At the point when the cops nab him, it may appear that he stands to lose double what he stole, but that's only because what he stole never belonged to him in the first place.

This is why "treble damages" are a big deal, as 3 times the provable harm goes beyond what Lex Talionis normally allows.

If you steal a loaf of bread and get sentenced to 20 years in the galleys (like Jean Valjean in Les Miserables), that is quite clearly an unethical punishment. Simple restitution would mandate that the thief produce no more than one loaf to make the baker whole, and Lex Talionis would mandate that if the punishment were not to produce another loaf of bread, it should still need to be a tenth the magnitude of the punishment for someone caught stealing ten loaves of bread, and that in turn would be a thousandth the magnitude of the punishment for someone caught stealing a car.
A Type-A Guide to Time Off
That was an interesting read. I wish people in our industry were less hostile to the notion that luck plays a large role in determining success.
Cachet offers metrics, dynamic localisation, theming and much more which would be hard to do for a static site.
To have a look at what's new in 9.6 see: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Newin96

Quick list of major features:

Parallel sequential scans, joins and aggregates

Elimination of repetitive scanning of old data by autovacuum

Synchronous replication now allows multiple standby servers for increased reliability

Full-text search for phrases

Support for remote joins, sorts, and updates in postgres_fdw

Substantial performance improvements, especially in the area of improving scalability on many-CPU servers
There were no personal injuries, so I can't really be sad about a piece of electronics.
Unfortunately this is true and it may be difficult to weed out which studies are both unbiased and conclusive, if any do exist.
Did you know 12 people have walked the moon?
Food for thought:

1. Externally-provided content is dangerous. You might use a hash of the domain name, but I'd avoid files named after the sources.

2. Metadata such as a date would be useful.

3. Despite 1, a highly-sanitised hostname could be informative. An iconv to 8-bit ASCII [-a-zA-Z0-9_], and not allowing the first character to be '-' might be a start. Put a length limit on that as well.
A lot companies use Linux kernel and don't release any of the source. They are working on the backs of millions of hours of human labor. For example DJI uses linux on its drone and open wrt on its controller. I don't see any source code for that. LeTv and many other Chinese cellphone makers don't release source code for their kernels. They really have no alternate they could go to. I think it makes sense that kernel community would be more aggressive about making companies return the code with which their products couldn't really exist without.
I read original comment far above as saying that the company takes 70%, leaving 30% for the H1b employee. Or if the employee finds their own "job" (consulting gig), then the company only takes 60%. As you say, that seems more in line with typical consulting hourly mark-up.
One which I haven't seen mentioned for a while is the tale of Ratners Jewellers, which in about 1992 had a massive presence in the UK and the US. Then the CEO made a speech where he said:

> We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray that your butler can serve you drinks on, all for £4.95. People say, "How can you sell this for such a low price?", I say, "because it's total crap."

Cue half a billion pounds in losses... 1992 pounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
The payload was apparently on the rocket at the time[1]. A $200 million loss there, which sucks for the insurance company but better than losing a $2b custom government bird.

[1]https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/771352977315684352...
Overview of the Apache Spark Ecosystem
This looks fantastic. I think there is an additional opportunity you might be able to capture by adding functionality for the indie software store. The number of software developers who are paying 8% to fastspring for some pretty basic functionality is incredible. If you're looking for next steps, I'd think about a simple ecommerce storefront for digital licenses.
That's tons of work. Lots of heart and soul went into that. I can still be sad for people even if we didn't lose people.
To be honest, we probably won't try and filter out spam traps. Our service is really meant to aid you in finding specific emails.

Given that, we will be implementing multiple verification and confidence checks for each email address. This is to help ensure a given email address is for a real person, with multiple legitimate web sources listing it, before you ever send a message.
Isn't early detection and early treatment the solution to a most problems. e.g. Cancer? We still need solutions for late-stage illnesses.
Perhaps not the best question for HN. But I used both a year ago and did not see a single thing in SOLR that ES didn't do better. Starting from documentation to ease of configuration and querying, features... Documentation alone was worth the switch. Overall it seems to me that SOLR is a technology that's on it's way out.
Exascale Computing – What Are the Goals and the Baseline?
Is there anything this does (I've not looked at it) that a 'curl | pandoc' pipe wouldn't?
I can't think of the manufacturer of the top of my head, but there are definitely off-the-shelf options. They are used on the LN2 tanks and dewars you see at a lot of electronics (and I'm sure other) manufacturers, and I'm pretty sure are standard kit for any cryogenic vessel. I think the bigger issue, as one commentor alluded to, is that you might not want to vent whatever is in the rocket straight to atmosphere.
Regarding line of sight. I wonder if companies could just erect a pilot tower (in a relatively flat region). I know where I live 40 feet of height would give a pilot visibility to millions of homes because it's pretty flat. Maybe they need binoculars to see the drone when it was a certain distance away, but maybe that's within regs?
I know nothing about space - why are they doing tests, where the rocket could possibly explode or fail, with the payload on board?
This should get way more publicity than it does. It's absolutely insane to prevent this sort of investigation from being efficient by law.
online.net has serious bios problems. their ddos protection is a joke. yes they have arbor but they are not able to use it right. unmetered isn't unmetered ! they will kick you if you use to much traffic. their connection to amsix was very bad for weeks, its now good but they first oversell the network and do the upgrades to late. look on lowendtalk how bad they are
Email Scripts That Helped Us Grow Our Business
Next generation of Australian banknotes: New $5 [video]
China’s Quantum Cryptography System
How did you get started with this? Especially being so junior?
See also http://blog.portswigger.net/2016/07/executing-non-alphanumer... for executable JavaScript without parentheses.
Tell that to the people in Africa who will soon have no internet access once AMOS-2 fails.

This payload, AMOS-6, was a replacement for the soon to fail AMOS-2 which among other things is part of a Facebook initiative to provide internet access in parts of Africa.

I am not aware of any replacement in the works for it, so that service may just shut down, and who knows if it will ever start back up.

So while this might be "nothing" to you, it has actual repercussions for people.

Not to mention the effects on the Israeli company that made the payload. Insurance may or may not pay for the satellite itself (I don't know), but even if they do, they were also relying on income generated from running it.

Actual humans working for that company may now be impacted.
How to use a mountain to detect neutrinos
Yes, the TMC 1795 had an instruction decoder. Architecturally, it's a very normal 1970s microprocessor. (The 4004, in comparison, is kind of strange.) The one thing that's unusual from our perspective is the subroutine stack is on-chip, with 8 levels.

If you look at the image, the chip can be split into three horizontal slices. At the top is instruction decoding. In the middle is the ALU. At the bottom is the register file. TI originally designed the processor as three chips, and this remained visible in the final chip.

There's very little written about the chip, so I plan to write about its architecture some time. The patents are very detailed (TI is good that way), and explain almost everything if you take the time to go through them.

Here's a block diagram of the chip: https://goo.gl/photos/TRXRc2VKhQNaVxhG9
Luck is huge, but remember the old saying that "fortune favors the bold".

Timing and good fortune are often presented as a chance, but you have to be in the game to take advantage of them. Hard work is a big part of that.
Forgive me for dreaming of a world where CPI or other approaches close the ROP vector too :)
There's some discussion on the health benefits of Marijuana, but to say that "Marijuana talk tends to be focussed _[sic]_ around health benefits still" is blowing things pretty far out of proportion.

Cannabis has been a Schedule 1 drug for decades, which makes it, according to the DEA's own definition, a drug "with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse."

It's only in the past couple of years that there's been any sort of serious talk about potential health benefits. Marijuana use and sale was first banned in 1937, and when that ban was later declared unconstitutional, the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 created the drug scheduling system and placed it in the "most dangerous" category.

Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of the original 1937 ban, so it seems hard to claim that the prevailing "Marijuana talk" of our time has focused on the health benefits, rather than the dangers. The reason there's been a small but constant discourse on the health benefits of cannabis over the past eight decades is that the current laws and the official DEA stance are clearly overzealous.

It's as if soft drinks were outlawed, and our government declared that they were as bad for your health as heroin. In truth, if you are a sufficiently heavy "daily drinker" of sugar water, you will develop a severe chemical dependence, and eventually wind up with type 2 diabetes, which will permanently damage your health and certainly shorten your lifespan. However, there's nothing wrong with having a root beer every now and then.

So if soft drinks had been illegal for the past 80 years because they had "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse" (which is true), you'd definitely be hearing some determined voices pointing out that there were some potential health benefits of sugar and water.
Not to mention money. $200MM investment into space, gone.

https://www.reddit.com/live/xix3m9uqd06g/updates/613f262a-70...
If anyone else is interested in learning more about this, I just finished a fantastic book that covers it in some detail.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Scots-Invented-Modern-World/dp/06...
You might want to install Objective-See's free BlockBlock tool to block these type of things:

https://twitter.com/objective_see/status/771189100355264512

Also, their other (free, open source) tools are very good too, like KnockKnock and RansomWhere:

https://objective-see.com/
It feels a little unfair to compare fund groups from 2003 and 2006 to those that must be after 2009, when A16Z was founded. Give it a few years and we can have an article like this...
The payload is probably loaded in a clean-room type environment.
A "new myth"? It's why the EU received the 2012 Nobel peace prize: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2012/
I just see a mailinglist sign-up on the colony site... (I'm always curious on competency-based or otherwise weighted democracy attempts)
> Betting that the market reverts to 'rational' pricing in any short time frame is a risky bet, but I'll claim it's much, much more reasonable than assuming that irrationality persists indefinitely.

Rational pricing requires perfect knowledge of future income streams. Unless you have such knowledge, you can't even know what concrete position reflects a bet that the market "reverts" (a misnomer, because it assumes that rationality is a normal state that is only in exceptional circumstances deviated from) to rational pricing.
Yes, I agree, but as a customer that sucks. The customer is the one who suffers, Hetzner is the one who wins coz they don't have to pay.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC526783/
literally every potent drug has strong side effects. Nicotine is just one of them, a powerful stimulant and analgesic. Many problems with it lie in self-medication and mass production.
I feel stupid knowing that I actually considered this when installing on the 28th, but thought that they wouldn't allow a repeat of KeRanger. Looks like I'll be building all my software from source now (and switching to Aria2).
> IBM selling Thinkpads to Lenovo.

As much as I dislike the direction Lenovo took with the brand… IBM shed a branch that was turning a massive loss because of IBM's management, and now Lenovo is the second-largest laptop manufacturer in the world and turning massive profits with the brand and the massive amount of spin-off consumer products. I can't imagine IBM being able to do either themselves.
google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%...
A Web for Everyone: Interviews with Web Practitioners – Chris Coyier
I see this as a stealth attempt by the Software Conservancy to hijack the direction and tone of kernel development, dragging it more to FSF-style militancy.

Linus is right, there is no crisis in GPL violation. There will always be violators. Any law or contract or license will be violated. Becoming more militant about enforcement will simply cause most corporate partners to disengage. Most users comply with the license. Users have access to interesting and useful source code and have never been restricted from accessing the kernel. The kernel team is on good terms with most corporate users. Going after the 5% of violators will change how the kernel team interacts with the 95% of good partners.

The only thing Linus seems to be disingenuous about is his claim of support for the GPLv2. My guess is he secretly wishes he had chosen a different, non-copyleft license.
Baidu follows US tech giants and open sources its deep learning tools
The reddit live thread seems to be the best source of current informations and updates:
https://www.reddit.com/live/xix3m9uqd06g
That was my first reaction. I thought they could create a dummy payload with the same dimensions and weight. But, then... unless the weight distribution of the payload is important.
To keep it out of search results. They can delete the image of the text whenever they'd like, and poof
I think this kind of test is generally just looking at the performance of the engines. Certainly highly unusual for the rocket to explode as part of this kind of test.
Obviously it's not useless. Not all attackers have agreed collectively to use differents methods. Also, if it leaks in multiple points, it's better to start from a hole instead of letting it all go before finding a patch big enough for all.
How to optimize your campaigns with multi-armed bandit testing?
Maybe they offer discounts to payloads on test flights