skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I once saw a talk by one of the Steve K. Robinson, a mission specialist on the STS-114 where a gap filler came loose from one of the tiles and was protruding near the front of the shuttle. Accord to him, this was a very scary situation. The reason being that the gap filler could trip the flow near the front of the shuttle from laminar to turbulent.

This would be very very bad. So if you haven't taken fluid dynamics, turbulent flow transfers heat a lot better than laminar flow and once flow becomes turbulent it tends to stay that way. So what this meant is that pesky gap filler could have made almost all of the flow trailing it turbulent, creating a region of increased heat transfer across much of the shuttle, which could have destroyed the shuttle.

And unfortunately poor Steve knew about all of this because he did some work on hypersonic flow in grad school. So NASA engineers went all apollo 13 and macgyvered some procedures on how to turn the hack saw aboard the station into filler slicer-offer. Steve Robinson himself decided to perform the mission, this was the first and probably only time a spacewalk was performed under the shuttle's heat shield. This was a very risky mission where a small mistake could do more damage than the gap filler could do. Luckily in the end, the gap filler was loose and easily removed by pulling.

All that caused by a tiny piece of ceramic sticking out about a centimeter! Now the interesting thing is that a couple missions later, NASA engineers decided to put a turbulent trip on the shuttle on purpose, because we don't understand hypersonic boundary layer transition all that well[1]. It was near the end of the shuttle, so the region of increased heat transfer couldn't do much damage, but still performing such an experiment on the shuttle, almost right after the Columbia disaster, was pretty nuts. Necessary though, because experiments on hypersonic flow are difficult to perform in wind tunnels.

One of the reasons capsules are so compelling is that there is less distance for this laminar to turbulent transition to occur.

[0]http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/crew/EVA_gapfiller.html
[1]http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2011001...
Cambridge MA, has a resident tax abatement program. It hasn't seemed to help much as we are starting to see foreign all cash sales...
Fedora is my choice for desktop Linux. It works great. If GNOME isn't your thing then almost every other DE is available in RPMFusion.

Overall I find it nicer to work in Fedora than Ubuntu fwiw.
Bags of Cocaine Worth $56M Are Found at Coca-Cola Factory in France
Maybe elaborate a little bit? Its certainly an influential book. I can think of a lot of professional lessons it could contain, (I've turning the other cheek a lot at work this summer with some very abrasive folks; hard to tell how well its worked so far...) but you probably should be the one to justify it. I'm an Atheist, though culturally christian, so I won't pretend to understand it well.
Apple historically got a lot of praise for having a great user experience that was intuitive.

Apple also historically had a small fraction as many users as Microsoft and had Steve Jobs, who didn't seem to care if existing users were bothered and instead wanted the experience to always be perfect.

Once you reach a certain number of users, any menu or UI change becomes increasingly painful for your current users, at the expense of new users and, sometimes, what feels like common sense.
Barely working networks tend to use custom caching systems where TLS accesses often taken dozens of times longer.
HN is an liberal echochamber, any wrongthink will be greyed out!
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Seconded.

For those interested in Seneca's timeless letters but short on time (or if you find existing translations a bit dry), http://stoicletters.blogspot.com/ is a phenomenal resource which concisely but effectively modernizes the language. They're a pleasure to read.
> The difference is Cloudflare is perfectly content to forward the backbone traffic unencrypted over public internet. In fact, they advertise this malfeature.

This puts you into segment #3 in my list above. And I agree with you: the CloudFlare "flexible" SSL that sends last-leg traffic in the clear over the open Internet is a terrible idea.

But while that terrible idea opens up the potential for MITM attacks, it is not, itself, a MITM because the website owner has authorized CloudFlare to do that.

And of course there are levels of CloudFlare service that do properly re-encrypt the last leg to the origin.

> Anyway as I stated before the bar for calling it MITM is simply the intended behaviour of the protocol (HTTPS). Which is very much violated. Whatever negative or otherwise connotations the term has doesn’t change the fact that it is technically correct. Really all I’m arguing here.

You need to understand that you are not correct on the technicality. None of the protocols used in HTTPS are violated by decrypting or encrypting a session using the proper keys, even if it happens several times along the way.

Not every bad idea is a technical protocol violation. Not every bad idea is equivalent to an attack.

Abusing the term "MITM" makes it harder to talk with specificity about actual MITM risks. If CloudFlare itself is always a "MITM", then how do we explain why their Flexible SSL service is riskier than their Full/Strict SSL service? The former makes it easier for some mid-point to impersonate or alter the origin website. But now what do we call that? An "actual" MITM? A "real" MITM?

Let's just leave MITM to mean an attack. It's a lot clearer that way.
My cost of living is about the same as the typical family with kids attending good public schools along the SF Bay Area peninsula, but the approach should be repeatable in most places. My expenses over the years has stabilized at less than 50% of take-home salary (not including bonuses, equity grants, etc.) for my main job, in line with a previous post of 30% of income. So the absolute worst case scenario for a 4% return is 25 years.

In my particular case, I had saved all my bonuses (both cash and equity) and most of the income from the aforementioned portfolio. I was also fortunate to have held a consistent side job for most of my career.
Very impressed at how well this works on mobile!
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The same reason why we see sugar with label "carbon free" and water with label "no GMO". Marketing. Yes, it gets old with time and they have to look for the next gimmick. But if that brings them some income in the meantime, that's what they do.
Change.org lays off 30% of its staff
This analogy is not a good one. None of the alcohol-related effects fall into "tragedy of the commons" territory the way creating antibiotic-resistant super germs does.

Liver damage is a person harming themselves by their own choice. Drunk driving is a collection of specific instances of a person breaking the law and taking action which will cause direct harm to another. Alcohol as date rape is just a non sequitur designed to be incendiary. It only effects people who drink and, again, is just a person using alcohol to aid them in committing a crime.

Commonly available antibacterial hand soap hurts everyone even if you are using it reasonably, legally, and responsibly. The harm to the commons is directly proportional to the quantity of it that is used in the normal, reasonable way by everyone.

Alcohol is not great for "society" because it increases the likelihood people will make bad decisions, and can cause specific health problems for the people who choose to use it.

This is akin to emissions standards, which I assume you oppose as well?

Saying you are comparing apples and oranges wouldn't be accurate, because at least apples and oranges are both foods.
Formally, there's the Civil Reserve Air Fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Reserve_Air_Fleet and in general these planes can be used in emergencies. The transport planes the US military tends to buy have additional requirements that aren't conducive to civil air fleet profitability.
Microsoft and Liebherr Collaborating on New Generation of Smart Refrigerators
Out of curiosity: were there known solutions for an arbitrarily large number of fixed generals? Could a similar solution as with Nakamoto consensus be obtained by having a huge, fixed number of generals, setting some as occupied and using live inputs for those, and then using an alternating series of yes/no votes for the unoccupied generals? (Maybe you'd have trouble with off-by-one errors in the alternating series, but you could ad-hoc fix that.)

Come to think of it, why does the variable number of generals make a difference? When you are making a single decision, is that decision not an atomic operation such that the number of generals influencing it is fixed? Otherwise, wouldn't necessarily the outcome of the vote be (marginally) affected by the order in which you evaluate the votes cast? (That seems like a very bad property for a consensus algorithm to have.)
I believe you, but the OS told me to upgrade to El Capitan using the App Store and the App Store told me I had to log in to iCloud and iCloud told me I had to give it a credit card. I believe you that there is a way around it, but there is also a way around getting upgraded to Windows 10. If the OS doesn't tell the average user about it, it's not part of the UX.
Either you or the Uber driver in question completely made that up. Nobody is paying drivers $60 for $3 rides.
The Ivanpah facility was built on public land, not wilderness.
5. Enter password

6. Tap Subscriptions > Manage

7. Tap on a subscription

That's a crazy convoluted flow. It's hard to believe it was made that way on accident. Hopefully this change in iOS 10.
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Can someone expand on use cases for this?
I get that this is suggested in every similar thread and it may not be an option for you, but I really recommend giving something like Arch Linux* + GNOME Shell a shot. With Numix it looks amazing and the usability of Linux has came a long way in the past few years.

* I suggest Arch instead of Ubuntu, as I feel that a lot of users automatically go with Ubuntu and then blame the broken stuff, (i.e. Wifi in 16.04) on "Linux", whereas in reality Arch, Gentoo, Fedora users are having no problems.
This could easily be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Focus most of your efforts putting the good stuff into the thin phones and then run the numbers how everyone is buying thin phones!
The reason that housing is increasing in cost is because of a market failure where politics is used to create housing scarcity, called "economic rents." In this case, the use of politics to create zoning laws that place artificial restrictions on housing density. As in any form of "economic rents", this benefits a special interest group -- in this case the landlords over the general population of rents and buyers of houses.

In another case of politics creating scarcity was the artificial limit of 13,000 taxi medallions in NYC. Uber/Lyft fixed this scarcity by increasing the supply of taxi-like vehicles while lowering the cost of taking these vehicles. The price of a taxi medallion was $1.2 million prior to Uber/Lyft is now $700,000. With the political restriction on taxi medallions effectively eliminated, the "taxi landlords" lost out and the consumer gained.

London, NYC, DC, Boston, LA, SD, SF and other cities all have these restrictive zoning laws that artificially limit density to increase housing costs.

Economics Nobelest and NYTimes columnist Paul Krugman has discussed this.

Harvard Economist and city expert Edward Glaeser has written extensively on this topic. Financial Times columnist (with a BS and MS in Economics from Oxford) addresses this topic in "The Undercover Economist." He discusses how in the 1930's London had Green Belt (park) surrounding the city installed which has resulted in increased housing prices for landlords. But bad zoning laws that limit housing density has also contributed.

See:
Edward Glaeser: Build Big Bill
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/build-big-bill-article-1....

Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist (2nd Ed).
This book has sold over 1 million copies
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199926514/

David Ricardo explained this in 1817.
David Ricardo: On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
http://www.econlib.org/library...

See Ch 2.3 - 2.5
Most of the startups have negative cashflow anyway. Early investors invest into potential, idea, team, tech, know how, market share.
On the one hand, it would really help if we all switched to Linux and paid for it (but I wouldn't know which B2C-oriented companies provides a good Linux support, plus I'm afraid that the recent multiplication of Linux distributions will harm the image of the OS).

On the other hand, OEM versions of Windows have done lot worse. First of all, you are not supposed to alter the OS provided by your OEM if you want to keep the license. Second, there are all those drivers that are supposedly necessary and which installed the Ask toolbar, IE skins, and even a root CA certificates in the case of HP! They take away up to 40% of the power of your computer in average (yes, when it's the OEM's supposedly antivirus), they display advertising, they communicate your personal information and open breaches. Actually I kind of wish Microsoft provided OEMs with a set of APIs where they can do their harm, but forbade them from going further.

So your Windows PC has been full of malware way before Windows 10 added spy tools. I'm just happy it's official now - Hope it will help more people switch to other OSes.
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Average Saleries for NetOps Engineers with DDoS Experience in US
I head up product for the data side of EventBoard (http://eventboard.io) and what we see is that it is typical for employees at large companies (>1000 employees) to have around 15 meetings a week, taking up about 10 actual hours, but the standard deviation is pretty wild.

We ran the numbers for our dev team specifically, and they have ~8.5 meetings a week, taking up ~4.2 hours. We’re a smaller company; but data shows that on average, developers spend less time in meetings than the rest of their collective co-workers. More interestingly, this data shows that each company has a unique culture around meeting behaviors, and so your meeting schedule will be a function of your ‘big corp’ collaboration culture. Would love to talk more if you have questions!
I have a lot of the classics on my list, but a new one that I've found extremely growth spurring was "Ego is the Enemy" by Ryan Holiday. I never really considered myself an egotists; confident perhaps, but something I never struggled with. This book showed me that I indeed did have more ego than necessary and gave me some really good guidance on how to live a better, happier, and more fulfilled life. Really something for a book I didn't even know I needed.
> But people spend millions on this product every year? Surely they get some benefit

A psychological one, sure. They perceive that they're getting a health benefit (whether or not they actually are), so the money seems worth it. But the evidence is that it doesn't actually get your hands cleaner than non-antibacterial soap and that it may contribute to creating stronger bacteria.

The FDA's judgement is that the downsides outweigh the upsides. I tend to agree.
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The key binding change for New Folder from Command-N to Command-Shift-N still gets me. I think it's been a decade since they did that.
I agree with that, but would you say that the "trend", if there is one, is towards providing that through AI, or more humans?

If I recall, they had computers grade the GMAT essays for at least 10 years, but they had to have a human in the loop because that is the ultimate measure for whether a computer is "correct" in terms of grading an essay.
Ever since the idea of a modular phone was first introduced "Phonebloks, or whatever it was" I have known for a fact that it was a fundamentally flawed concept and would never see the light of day, despite the enormous hype and support it received.

Is this proof that I am more intelligent than everyone who believed in this idea? I think so?
Alcohols actually kill bacteria.

They also harm your skin, that is protecting you from infection, so get your conclusions, because I don't have any study on it being healthier to use or not to use them.
>>Crapple

Take this stuff elsewhere please, thanks.
The Crowd Safe is not similar to YC Safe or any convertibles issued in pre seed financing that I have seen or received. Crowd Safe seems to cap upside for investor during conversion and defers everything to company's discretion. Even the example in OP's link shows in the event of exit, the investor upside is capped at company's discretion. The whole thing is structured pretty badly. I have stayed away from equity crowdfunding because no corporate governance, no voting and information rights, and lack of influence. There is no way to diversify away the risks that come with early stage investing. And platforms can't be trusted to do due diligence or put investor interest above their own.
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With regard to your example, in any decent IDE you can mouse over "auto" and get the type information. However p.first and p.second are obscure and hard to read no matter what your tools do.

I don't get why people seem to think type inference equates to a hatred of static typing. Usually if I'm reading code I want as little clutter as possible, and if I need to know the type it's trivial to find it. I still like that I can know the type of something ahead of time, but I don't need it in my face constantly.
> You can't prove something is safe, because there might always be future knowledge that you don't yet know.

Don't tell that to the religiously pro-GMO crowd.
Does freepascal come with UI components? If not the same can be said about C C++ Haskell etc.
I do that as well. The other thing is I have cast iron grates which seem to not need as much cleaning as other grates.
A lot of these cities have renting laws that basically give the renter more rights over the property than the owner.

This causes it to make more sense to not rent it out.
Another is Ventusky http://www.ventusky.com/
I recently had to work with it and drove me insane. Development sandboxes should be frictionless.
Hi! Do you know if there are any scientist (or associate scientist) positions open? I'm doing direct work with a collaboration from Dr. June's team and my current company.
A vegan-once-removed.

I'm the omnivorous first cousin of my vegan self.
On Hanjin
Thanks Michael for clearing my doubts :-)

One last question: I guess most queries target a time range. Do you use BRIN indexes to avoid scanning the whole 800 MB of data in each shard, and just read the necessary pages?
Uranus has an axial tilt of around 90°, so it is undoubtedly completely wacky. I have no idea what Neptune's looks like.
If you're after either a primary or backup SMS route or numbers (especially for the UK), I may be able to assist
Primary Indexes V/s Secondary Indexes
AP or APU stands for Application Processor [Unit] which is more or less synonymous with SoC. The semantics of it are pretty boring, and the term seems a little strange considering modern cell phones are fairly identical to modern computers besides the fact that a few more functions are packages in a single IC.
That doesn't sound like a good idea, unless he wants chronic low-grade mercury exposure.
If something has to phone home to the mothership over the internet it's easy to hook into Windows networking stack at a very low level and see all the network traffic (just run Wireshark, it's using all public APIs). And even if they don't let you get that low into the network stack on the machine you can always put it behind another machine as a proxy and watch everything going by on the wire, even using SSL mitm and such to crack that open.
I love this blog. whenever I want to learn something cool I open Chrome in my Android and type: saravananthirumuruganathan.wordpress.com
Imagine you need to ping google.com from mars. The round trip would be at least 40 minutes. Put a whole new meaning into the word lag.

Seriously though, the current TCP/IP protocol is not designed to deal with that kind of distance.
Never stopped terrible products on Kickstarter from goosing thousands of dollars from naive backers.
>Is there a reason they didn't tax non-use? The "foreigner exclusion" sounds like fighting a symptom.

The cynical answer to this by the way is that there's a Provincial election in early 2017, so in the near term appearing to address the problem is more important than addressing the problem in an effective way.
Except that in advanced economies most people are not primarily motivated by potential future income when "choosing" their profession, an many people do not consider it much at all (just look at people choosing to study literature instead of business admin). Some might say future income is their main motivation but are just irrationally motivating a choice done on some other basis (the starving artist dreaming of making it big).

Even in more traditional economies, the son of a smith "chooses" to be a smith more out of filial duty than because its a job he has good potential to earn money with. Another reason is that he is too poor to change profession, and so does not change it despite there being a more lucrative opportunities.
Sounds like a bad idea buying a machine designed for an obsolete OS. Sad but true; I agree that win7 is nicer than win10. Consider switching to Linux or MacOS, because Windows isn't reversing direction any time soon.
> SIMDArray is ‘cheating’ here as it also does SIMD operations, but I include it because I wrote it, so I do what I want. All of these out perform core library functions above.

I love the brief interjection in the otherwise objective discussion.
>see also: Tumblr.

And Facebook.
> recent multiplication of Linux distributions

Recent? There were 500 distributions 10 years ago! :)
Slightly off topic but I'm just going to throw it out there. If you are cooking with charcoal I highly recommend a Kamado style grill aka big green egg (BGE). Once you get one of those you will never go back. It is extremely efficient with charcoal.

There is one made by Char-Griller that is dirt cheap and light that I use year round (another advantage of the kamado is it can be freezing out and you can still grill fine).
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts

On the surface, it's about traveling the world on a budget for extended periods of time, but deeper than that is a philosophy about going without things you don't need and connecting with people more authentically.

https://www.amazon.com/Vagabonding-Uncommon-Guide-Long-Term-...
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10 million dollar companies don't IPO
a16z is getting punished (at least, in the article) for marking their paper gains more conservatively than other funds.

Their LPs are likely smart enough to realize this.
I believe they keep them empty so they can visit at any time. They are their holiday homes.

Some investors buy flats and keep them empty and in bubble wrap for a couple of years until prices increase, then sell. Not "buy-to-let" investors, but "buy-to-sell"!
Works great for good talkers regardless of product quality.