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> Interesting but completely baseless new myth.

Preventing war has been an explicit aim of European integration going back to the beginning. From the Schuman declaration (1950, founding document of the ECSC): "The solidarity in production thus established will make it plain that any war between France and Germany becomes not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible"[0]. This principle has been widely accepted in Europe for the last 65 years.

You may of course disagree that economic integration is the main reason for the lack of intraeuropean wars since then (especially compared to the previous few millennia), but dismissing it as a "myth" is at very least least a surprising claim that requires some actual argument to back it up, and "new" is just factually incorrect.

[0] http://www.robert-schuman.eu/en/declaration-of-9-may-1950
This is pretty much useless. Attackers have moved on to using information leaks in order to determine memory layout and placement of objects.

So in practice, this doesn't really deter anything. Information leaks are everywhere.
The reused rocket will be used to launch SES-10 later this year, not AMOS-6.

Source: http://spacenews.com/spacex-to-launch-ses-10-satellite-on-re...
But... Why???
Thanks for the details. Did the TMC1795 have an instruction decoder? I did an google search and could not turn-up any details. From the image it looks like it could be broken-up in two regions, but I'm not sure. Maybe you discovered some details from the patent docs?
I doubt few if any of the people that we think of as icons today had the fortune of being immediately accepted.

Elvis was rejected by nearly everone, JK Rowling's Harry Potter was rejected by a slew of publishers.. basically everyone who is currently famous has these stories, and often many of them.

The lesson though, is that the key to success is perseverance.
This is from the same people that make Systems Toolkit (STK), which is well-known and used a lot in the space industry. They know what they're doing.
While both Spark and BigQuery do the shuffle step in-memory, there are some differences[1]:

- BigQuery's execution is pipelined (don't wait for step 1 to finish to start step 2)

- BigQuery's in-memory shuffler is not co-tenant to compute

And, of course, it's one thing to have software and hardware. BigQuery provides a fully-managed, fully-encrypted, HA, redundant, and constantly seamlessly maintaned and upgraded service [2].

[1]https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/08/in-memory-que...

[2]https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/08/google-bigque...

(disc: work on BigQuery)
Rumour: Samsung considering a total Note 7 recall
Your project doesn't have to be open source to have a landing page on GitHub.
According to sources (twitter), they where F-3 minutes so no-one should be out on pad, payload was not loaded either.
A New Tor Bridge Authority
>I feel that large companies back in the 90's didn't care about any of their workers all they cared about was making money .

I'd suggest that companies of the 1990s had nothing on 1930s-1940s IBM: IBM allied itself with the Third Reich to develop technology (punch card databases) as a key facilitator of the mass identification, enslavement and genocide of millions of people. They also backed another horse in that gruesome episode, creating the punch card database key to running FDR's Japanese internment camps in the western United States.

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
Montana/Wyoming had an oil boom here recently. Don't know if that is in the area, though. Plus, there is agriculture there.

Some of us just like keeping the neighbors at arm's length.

Q R 94

https://goo.gl/maps/EWKQyStTpeA2

Point being, not every one is like you.
Melbourne, FL for those wondering.
Debian packaged rustc since 1.0 (May 2015): http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/r/rust... . The Debian maintainers have been working with the Rust upstream developers to improve the ability to package it, and that work has helped other distributions start to package it as well.
Are you using Spark? That's the context.
IG Farben entanglement with the Nazi regime. They ended up being part of countless deaths and the company was declared by the Allies to be too morally corrupt to be allowed to exist and broken up after the war. Their successor companies AGFA, BASF, Bayer and Sanofi are all still big today, so IG Farben could have been a massive conglomerates if they have acted differently.

This was also not just a business failure where one lost money. IG Farben participated directly on some of the worst crimes in human history.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben
SpaceX Rocket: Explosion at Kennedy Space Center Ahead of Launch
Wow. I'm the author of keychaindump. Didn't expect to become a malware co-author.
Study: Conflict of Interest slides shown too quickly to be read
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

-- Plutarch
How to find a career mentor (ft. Rob Spectre)
This looks very cool. However, the Kanban side looks a little less-than-robust compared to trello.

You're also in an uphill battle against Colony[0], who are the new hotness in this space.

0. https://colony.io/
It comes back to my mind that I ran into a source code that was both valid Java and valid C++... Can't remember what was it though.
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Text Translation in JSON
We sure that's a smoke plume? There's a lot of radar activity over Florida presently due to the "OMG first hurricane in 11 years!!!"[0]

[0] I live in and am in the Big Bend area, so the news, tweets, emails, and texts about the storm are a bit ... much.
It's not a hacker news traffic bump, I found this project a few days ago and the site also didn't load. I thought it's gone for good.
Note that it's 60TB compressed

Mostly it's about speed. With multiple machines you can bring more cores to bear for the processing, and have more RAM to cache partial results. Postgres could certainly do the job, but I'd be surprised if it would run within an order of magnitude of these results.
I'm sure it's not like that. Pressure relief valves aren't exactly rocket science.
Though it seemed for a period that Reddit/Facebook ended the constant migration, the cool kids are once more on the lookout for a new coffee house as it has become clear the current platforms have many intolerable shortfallings.

Yeah, I guess there were people stupid enough to think Myspace was forever too, but that's not your entire demographic! I bet all the cool kids can't wait to switch over to the newest social media platform. Oh wait, all the cool kids are still on IRC, email, and personal websites.

The pre-alpha version is to be released sometime this month when we can all see how this works in practice, but from Alisie’s description, the platform is a mixed combination of Medium, Twitter, Reddit and Facebook all in one.

Medium, Twitter, Reddit, and Facebok all in one?! Sounds legit.

Combined with the quadratic voting mechanism we mentioned earlier, the entire project becomes very interesting.

Yeah, I always felt like using the same voting system as bees would improve my social media experience. Super interesting.

The people who use Reddit, Facebook, and Hacker News(!) aren't desperately looking for an escape. They don't care. They have and have had plenty of places to switch to. They only care enough to get angry and then do nothing. That's what social media is. Getting mad about things and then doing nothing. If you actually care, do something besides up vote an angry post.
I always remember the company who lost all it's assets in one day due to a deployment bug to one of their servers. They were a high frequency trading company, so seconds/minutes to them were obscenely expensive.

I feel a cold pit in my stomach putting myself in the shoes of the developer that did the `cap deploy` that day. Yikes!
~20GB/s read/write over a thousand+ cores seems slow, especially for embarrassingly parallel data such as this (split on security). That works out to megabytes per second per core. Am I missing something?
The Side Business Time Coach: An Online Course
The notion of a function having any inherent complexity is rather at odds with your earlier assertion that putting any sort of meaning on the result of running a Turing machine is strictly human interpretation rather than a hard fact of computation (and of course, you also turn around and favor certain interpretations over others based on the cost of embedding them in your favorite computation model).
Ask HN: Where's Who's Hiring for September 2016?
As many have been posting about new beginnings and starting afresh, it's time for another Hiring thread.

Please lead with the location of the position and make it clear if working remotely is a possibility.
You're right, it could turn out to be a horrible idea. Based on the compounds involved and how they work in the body, I don't think so, but please do your own research as to its safety and efficacy, don't take my word for it.
I can't speak for big query, but for our open-source BigQuery alternative EventQL [0].

On the upside, massively parallel SQL databases allow you to express what probably took facebook a lot of code in a single SQL query.

On the downside, with any database that supports streaming inserts and dynamic resharding, you will have to eventually write each entry more than once. The more manual approach with spark prevents this.

[0] https://eventql.io
Everyone will have clones, simply borrow one from a friend's clone!
A billing hiccup with my host actually. My credit card expired and I didn't keep up with the messages from my host letting me know I needed to update it. So they took a more extreme measure. It was only down for an hour or two, but sorry for the inconvenience.
Except Osborne admitted in a Wall Street Journal article that he made up that excuse for their failure. It's been so long I can't remember the details of the real reason, but it was the general sort of thing that companies like that screwed up.
> and solves a harder problem than necessary to compute that function in the normal set-theory sense

People who use set theory as their foundations impose on themselves the even harder task of making sure their mappings are coherent w.r.t. whatever notion of structure they want to work with, i.e., homomorphisms in a category of interest.

> Otherwise, I could create a language model that solves all NP problems in polynomial time by defining my language as requiring a proof certificate with every input problem

No, this is wrong. Changing the input type means that you are not, in fact, solving the original problem.
Does it handle the usecase where KML has tracks that cross the -180/+180 latitude boundary?
Barings Bank gave Nick Leeson responsibility for a) trading, and b) settling his trades. $1.3 billion lost and the world's second oldest merchant bank destroyed.
When Blockbuster passed on Netflix, Netflix was not what it is today. They were DVD's by mail. Arguably, who cares, right?

If they were acquired Netflix wouldn't have become the treasure it is today.
I'm also curious to try it out... I spend all day searching for emails.
Thanks partly to the anti-smoking campaign, I was expecting to see an article on the cooking equipment, not cigarette smokers.
We've been doing lots of work in recent Rust releases to help make packaging for distros easier; the bootstrap process changed in 1.10, for example. It's going to become extremely important over the next year or so, especially as Firefox picks up more Rust code. Even if distros don't start packaging other Rust programs, that's a big one. Managing distro release cycles, Firefox release cycles, and Rust release cycles, and the various dependencies between them gets complex.
My advice is to more fully engage your active users. Those users will provide a sense of what really works. Inactive users might provide a sense of what might work but it will be filtered through politeness.

In other words, do more of what works. That's a better way of getting people to care than telling them why they should.

Good luck
And the famous click of death.
Two Women in Nigeria That Got Mack Zuckerberg's Attention in Nigeria
>Solar City had to issue debt for an 18 month term at 6.5%

HackerNews tends to rip on the "bankers" for deceptive practices during the mortgage crisis. Yet SolarCity is offering unsecured and untransferable bonds, directly to the public, and on the front page is comparing the available interest rates to savings accounts and GICs:

https://solarbonds.solarcity.com/

With the financial situation as you describe, there is far more risk involved in buying these bonds than a savings account, so the appeal to the high rate of interest is not a fair comparison. I'm curious what people here think about this practice.
Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to StatusPage.io
I still "trust" FedEx as a company, but the delivery man in charge of my area is sh*t.
I doubt any company comes close to Sears.

They had the Sears catalog, and even more important an entire distribution network all over the US. They shut it down just before the internet became big.

They also had the ISP Prodigy and a credit card company.

With just a slight change they could have been larger than Google and Amazon combined.

Instead.......
It means that if there's a launch failure, you can't just let the stuff sit there. They clearly can pump it out -- the normal sequence for this sort of test (which SpaceX generally does before every launch) involves filling the tanks and then running the engines for only a second or two, and they also obviously need procedures for last-minute launch scrubs, which can happen for a whole bunch of reasons. (One launch was recently delayed because someone steered their boat into the no-go area.)

The main operational consequence to date has been to limit the number of times that they can try to launch within an extended launch window. But if something goes wrong with the fuel-handling equipment, or thermal management inside the tanks, things can get bad.
Hetzner announced this a couple weeks ago on their German language forums. What's concerning is they still have not stated their filtering capacity and the bandwidth and throughput protection levels being provided. If it's only 5 gbit and 500k PPS of filtering it won't be all that helpful.
Ask HN: How do you scale complexity?
I'm working on a tool that will make scheduling meetings with other people super simple.

I have built the tool we have now with a couple angular directives. I do not feel i have a good understanding of angular.

Right now our codebase is pretty bad. No standard way of doing anything, all my angular directives are on different pages, and zero tests client or server side.

I want to switch over to react & redux, but have no way to tell if that is adding unneeded complexity at this stage. Are there any 'hard' and 'fast' rules for deciding when to focus on background engineering tasks and when to keep building the product? I want a workflow that makes sense and is easy to scale, how can I figure out what works for my team and I?
No payload on rocket while hotfire test.
If you're relying on crawlers to build your database how do you plan on dealing with spam traps? I see you have a verification aspect to your service but from what detail you have provided it would be incapable of distinguishing legitimate from trap.

Their presence in your lists could ultimately render the service useless as users risk blacklisting by contacting such addresses.
You're probably thinking of this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group
I'm pretty sure the market has been expecting another Tesla cash raise at some point before the Model 3 launch. Maybe not one that is happening quite this soon, but I don't think this is a major shock. I expect this might be a larger hit to their share price than other cash raises because of that + SolarCity, though.
> Seriously I can't believe it's not even mentioned.

Wasn't that an accident rather than a deliberate mistake?

I know their behavior in aftermath was bad, but the actual incident was an accident, so I don't think it's part of this list.
The archive.org version appears to be pretty out-of-date at first glance
No mention of Sears?
Distributed Learning and it's impact on education
The way the question is presented, at least in the MIT examples and Trolley problem, dictates that slowing down isn't an option. Probably due to catastrophic brake failure or something similar
Downvoted? Wait, I don't think I'm getting that wrong. They probably would've preferred to avoid the outdated links that this[0] proves this.

[0]:https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/313
This. If you don't prepare the correct phrasing you will be saying it at least twice and probably fumbling with the keyboard to get it into the right mode to accept voice again -- waiting for the acknowledgement that it is listening. Voice interfaces are currently incredibly cumbersome. There is no way to reconcile "3x faster" with actual excruciating experience that is voice input.

Edit: one time when it was faster is when I had a string of 4-5 alarms that needed to be set. Of course I used the touch interface for prompting the voice input.
That's the one. God damn, imagine wiping out your entire company. Jesus Christ.

"Hey guys let's do a DB rollback, something went wrong."
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The job spec is here: http://goo.gl/BpPpL1

We are looking for 1 or 2 back end or fullstack engineers. While the requirements are mostly focused around the node.js stack, we are open to using different languages or technologies instead.

Drop me an email at bfield@vercer.co.uk with any questions you have

Thanks,

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I am a guy. I narrowly avoided suicide around 18. I should first note that I'm doing much better these days.

If there is anything scarier than attempting suicide, it would be the thought of surviving it. Permanent disfigurement, crippling, or chronic pain would only make life all the worse - and a second attempt would be made all the harder by well meaning family, police, and doctors. One thinks to be thorough, or to not try at all.

Scarier than keeping quiet about your demons, is the thought of being forced to confront them. You don't want to talk and dwell on such a depressing subject, when depression is the very thing you're trying to run from. Outward silence mirrors a desperate attempt to achieve inner silence.

Manly ideals such as the ability to shoulder burden, and self reliance, can worsen the problem. Why share such deeply personal problems, if you think others can't help you with them? After all, if even you yourself can't lick the problem - you who surely best knows yourself - what chance do others have? You'll only depress others. You'll only depress yourself further.

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I survived the peak of my first depression thanks to a fear of hell. The second, by knowing my ex still cared about me, even if she did not still care to be with me. I couldn't be that selfish.

A decade later, and long walks are for exercise and a break - not an excuse to cross tall bridges. I fight the good fight: I try to exercise. To eat well. To sleeping well and fully. To socialize regularly. To enjoy the sun. To enjoy nature. To eliminate stress. I have a career. I rarely crunch.

Medication would probably help. I'd still like a meaning to life. Maybe Love, again, but love is hard work - and even after all this time, is it prudent to risk a third heartbreak? I'm better now, and take care of myself better, but in doing so I've also learned a healthy amount of selfishness...

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It's 7AM, and I should sleep. Back to silence. I will sleep well, and wake refreshed tomorrow. Be kind to and take care of each other, and do the same for yourselves. Make friends instead of enemies, even if that means funny hobbies instead of important politics sometimes. Smile, laugh, and try to share the joys of life. They may not always shine as brightly, but it's easier to find your way towards life if the path is at least lit.
I've witnessed countless pro-legalisation fundamentalists that absolutely refuse to believe smoking cannabis has any negative effect whatsoever, phsyically or mentally.

As someone who smoked it heavily for around 10 years (don't anymore) I know it can have negative effects. I witnessed them in myself and in the people around me at the time.

I'm pro-legalisation myself, but can't help roll my eyes at these 'potheads' that give the case for legalisation a bad name.
The smoke looks fairly white and uniform. That suggests it's coming from the rocket fuels, not a burning building or other facility. To me, that means the safety protocols held, limiting the spread/damage. Hopefully nobody was hurt.
Those animated GIFs in the right column are annoying and distract me from the content. You'd think psychologists would know better.
Yeah, I was trying to make the point that in these kinds of situations, where cooperation needs to happen and neither side can trust each other, the answer is to bring in a middle man. Enter the recruiter.

You can't just tell everybody to fix their processes, that requires coordination across the entire industry, and that's just not happening anytime soon.
I don't know why you're being down voted. We've had ASLR in Linux for years and various attacks have been successful.

The string format attack is the one I remember most clearly which basically renders ASLR useless.
That seems really nice and useful. I wonder why it hasn't got any vote.
Don't mean to hijack, but if you're interested in 3D globes (and 2D projections), NASA has been working on porting World Wind to Web:

https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind

and

http://webworldwind.org

The power of WebGL is awesome!
Ask HN: Are any of you familiar with Sword of Glass' history?
I stumbled upon this review of Sword of Glass, and the mystery surrounding its creation.

https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2010/09/game-25-swords-of-glass-1986.html

The post's author says "Every once in a while, I think on this game. It irks me that we can't seem to find out who programmed it. I consider it one of the great mysteries of CRPG history."

All we know is (mentioned in the blog post):

> The main game executable says "Copyright 1985 Borland Inc." I don't remember seeing Borland associated with the game anywhere else.'

> a piece of software that wasn't offered individually but packaged with dozens of other titles and sold under the banner "100 FANTASTIC RPG ADVENTURES!" or something'

A thing I find very interesting about the game is the way to add another player to the party, and how it essentially duplicates the UI allowing another player to explore alongside.

As seen here: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I182g1bK2Yw/TI07LnuocKI/AAAAAAAABSc/d43RJEVyUvY/s1600/twoparty.GIF

I thought I'd ask on HN, as he hasn't made any progress on learning its origins, and this seems like a nice place to ask.
So they're willing to provide a SLA with 4 hrs of downtime every month. This does not however mean that you will have 4 hrs of down-time per mont - it's a managed risk.

Also, depending on the nature of your application, you can often get away with that kind of downtime. Something trivial (yet extremely popular) like Twitter had lots of down-time and it made the users love the service even more.
China Sets Caps on Peer-To-Peer Lending Transactions
You can't vent rocket fuel, the kerosine will ignite from the expansion and the friction in the valve alone.

Venting liquid oxygen is also a really really bad idea.
Just be patient

"But only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html