skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Live video stream from the Kennedy Space Center (you can paste the link into something like VLC):
http://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/channel4

(Via Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/live/xix3m9uqd06g/updates/fcbc544a-70...)
Just tried going to the website and received a warning from Webroot SecureAnywhere stating the website contains a knwon threat and has been blocked. (Contains malicious content). You might want to get that checked out...
A Primer on Encryption: How Public Key and Symmetric Encryption Work
I was just going to bring this up - $45 BILLION just sounds wild.

Funny scenario: If Microsoft bought Yahoo, that would've ALSO been on this list for consideration as the biggest mistake for a big company.
I'm wise enough to know

"(average age 27) "

Is enough to stop reading the article.
And I gave a more specific objection there too.

A string is quite different from a stream. A string is typically considered random access, for a start.
Same for all who so post here. I have the URLs and when ready for beta testers will return and contact everyone here.

Many thanks to all for your interest.
There have been studies in the past few years showing that the health risk from smoking perhaps isn't as bad as was commonly believed. Here's one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25521349
I wouldn't buy DDoS protection from Hetzner, not to talk about using it for free. There is no such things as free ddos protection which means tons of free bandwidth, this cheap marketing.
Lottoland
It's true that luck is a big deal. Myself and colleagues/friends were working an internship at the end of grad school and they didn't have any room to keep us on. So we were all furiously applying to places and having zero luck at all, we all wanted to work at the internship place permanently.

Months of searching later, I ended up running into my old boss on a chance trip for eggs to the grocery store. A spot had just opened up and she put me up for it because she was reminded of my work from our chance encounter. I ended up getting the only position out of about fifteen of us, and I was far from the best intern. Years later I built on that and have an awesome career that I'm very proud of, whereas just about everyone else ended up floundering significantly.

If I hadn't decided to bake something, pretty out of character for me, and realized I was out of eggs, and then had the drive to actually go to the store to get eggs, and then happened my old boss happened to be leaving just as I was walking in, I wouldn't be anywhere near the career level I am today. Literally if I had hit an additional stoplight on the way or decided to sit in my car for a minute extra or something I would have missed my old boss and the whole course of my career would have changed.

Stuff like that makes me realize how much of a role luck plays.
You're talking about the graphical representation of a string. A string is any stream of measurements (over time, if you like).

> If they weren't, I'd be happy writing my day-to-day code in Turing Machines.

And if they weren't, we'd see neurons or DNA using type-theory!
I've read a lot of articles about farmers using drones to remotely view their fields, with stuff like thermal cameras so they know what needs to be watered. Can't immediately think of any other common uses, but people are creative. And as the article says, the rules should loosen a little by the end of the year.
This is exactly what Ireland and a bulk part of the EU constituent countries don't want. We're scared of tax harmonisation. Where will the boundary of what makes a uniform trading environment be drawn?

It is worrying that the case will prove that the EU can actually do this, using the EU court to do it (EU law have primacy except with the sections stated such as taxation - using competition to bypass this is disturbing).

No one but Germany wants this political union, the EU was supposed to be a union based on trade, not this.
I had to load a version from https://web.archive.org/web/20160330094157/https://duetapp.c... but this looks very cool. I do a small amount of paid side work and currently use https://www.freelancecockpit.com/

Once the demo is back online, I'm looking forward to giving it a test drive.
Isn't this common in publishing and in music? Every big hit seems to have been turned down several times. A lot of publishing houses aren't the arbiters of taste but instead have goals and metrics for certain types of work and only shop for them. You may have a great historical novel on your hands, but if the agents are only looking at sci-fi and YA stuff, then you might get turned down until you find a publisher willing to take a chance on something the market isn't necessarily asking for.

Also guitar groups were on their way for a while. The charts in the early 1960s were pop bands like the Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Andy Williams, The Sensations, Ray Charles, etc. Obviously, rock became a powerful force by the mid 1960s but that was difficult to predict. I don't think anyone saw the British Invasion, Dylan, psychedelic rock, and the hippie counter-culture coming.
Smartphone makers: Go niche or go home (and why I love the Cat S60)
Unfair, yes, but that is how tax law works in the US. Of course, he could challenge it in court and hope the judge sides with the original interpretation of the law. Also, there is limit to how many years back they can go in such a case.
So does that put the rocket in a situation where its either launch or warm up and explode? I'm adventurous, but I don't want to be strapped to that thing if thats the case.
I think I found a typo on the front page but I'm not sure, all the way down at

"plus... Duet has everything you need to run your business"

...

"Client Portal: Give _you client's_ access..."

Should that not be "Give your clients access" ?
Reliance’s Ambani Lays Out Plan for Low-Cost Mobile Data in India
SpaceX frequently conducts these static fire tests with the payload on board. So unfortunately it's entirely possible that AMOS-6 is lost too. Very sad. Hopefully no one is hurt.
Thanks for letting me know. There's definitely no malicious content on the site. I've had false positives in the past with a different service. I'll look into it and try to figure out what's going on.
To be fair, people have been operating drones commercially outside of line of sight for years now (many of them even legally) using FAA exemptions. There's a number of YouTube videos which show this occurring (look for a FAA exemption ID to be included in the video or description).
I actually expanded upon my comment to cover that and it didn't post. Smoking it we can all agree isn't good for our lungs. However I wonder about the long term mental impact on regular users. The only ones I've known (and we're talking a couple of people so not a big sample) regularly lose focus and zone out when I talked to them (and they were sober). We look at cigarettes and alcohol as indulgences. We know they cause damage so we make a choice to accept that or enjoy them occasionally. Marijuana talk tends to be focussed around health benefits still and at one time this was the same for alcohol and cigarettes. For example we don't look at daily marijuana users the same way we would alcohol users.
Just read no injuries. That's awesome. I mean, bad for the rocket, but hooray for no human loss of life.
Ironic, they have a twitter icon in the top right, yet getting a pdf of a twitter account doesn't even work.
How MIT funds student projects
New IBM Blockchain web site with sample code
The imgur link doesn't work but the other one does.
fallacy or not, I do believe that doing good is... good for mankind, especially long term. it might not come back to you personally, maybe your kids and maybe not, but it will make a small difference. and at the end big difference is nothing but a sum of small differences
They're still doing quite well all things considered--really well in fact relative to most people trying to manage other people's money.

Personally I don't place much value in comparing short term returns as it applies to saying who's a better manager. The same thing happens with hedge funds. A firm can have a great year but the real test is how they perform over years or even decades. How many hedge funds can outperform someone like a Warren Buffet over the long term? Not many. In fact sadly many fail to even beat index funds. One great year makes a headline, consistent great years makes a great investor.
For those of us not familiar with Florida, Cape Canaveral is directly East of Orlando.
Perhaps someone has hacked you today? After getting the warning Chrome basically locked up and I noticed it said it was trying to connect to paypal.com?
Whenever i laugh after happiness come.
How? How can you make a ramdisk resistant to a reboot?
Since you seem to have thought about the fine details of this much more than you are letting on here and on your blog post I suggest you post an addendum (or even a new blog post) to be more precise about what exactly they are. There's a lot missing as it stands, and interested readers like myself are left to fill in the blanks.
Android Smartphone Users Are More Honest and Humble Than iPhone Users
The note about technology increasing winner-take-all systems is important, and one that has applied throughout human history; technology has always run ahead of our normal capacity for work, so that by increasing the power of any individual, it ends up increasing the power of whatever individual is lucky enough to be the first to hit it big. More lines of communication and the encroachment of AI onto more industries could push this issue into true unsustainability, with the one hardworking pioneer lucky enough to capture the market owning more means of production than ever.
Union Carbide is still around (as a subsidiary of Dow). It was a horrible, horrible thing they did, but man's inhumanity to man is on grand display when you realize that the stock market did not punish them, and legally, both of the governments that could have done so barely enforced their penalty. It is absolutely horrifying as a human being, but if you put yourself in the shoes of a sociopathic CEO, it turned out OK for Union Carbide. Not so much for Bhopal.

Rereading the details of the incident, it is striking how negligence at every level compounded the problem. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster) If not for a long string of terrible decisions, nobody would have been hurt, killed, or poisoned. Even worse than I remembered.

See also "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia"(http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-be...). There are an appalling number of these incidents. It's quite depressing if you think about it.
Thank you! I'd confused it with recent changes to the iOS program allowing people to self-sign so they can test on their own iOS devices.

It looks like Educational memberships are Sign-In With Apple ID only, which doesn't provide a Developer ID (which is required for code signing, as far as I can tell).
Wait till you hear about the East India companies
Unconfirmed via reddit live stream: payload not on booster, and it was a scheduled test firing so no human beings affected (everyone was well clear).
Peirce also remarked in a letter how electrical relay circuits correspond one-for-one with boolean logic formulas. He seems to have been the first to notice this, almost 50 years before anyone else.

His writings are very tedious to me, though, and I hope this article I just glanced through makes him more palatable.
NET/C# Generics History: Some Photos from Feb 1999 (2011)
I'd love HTTP content encoding to support this and see a comparison to Brotli. Looks like it might be yet another good alternative to gzip.
I missed win98 sometimes. It was light, easy and it has best ui in my opinion.
Stay up to date!

https://www.faasafety.gov/search/default.aspx?keywords=drone...

https://www.faasafety.gov/search/Default.aspx?keywords=suas
Making people to sign on quora to read the answers.
Sadly I have the same experience. They lost me after a small ddos (which results null routing our ip).
As they say 'When in Rome', I think it ends in 'get sacked by barbarians'.
If that's the case and the FAA can overrule laws prohibiting it, then why bother changing the law at all? In fact, doing a ctrl+f for "law" right now in that article, it's not in there, it only mentions "rules". I'm becoming more confused the more I read.
Search and Rescue, cinematography (which includes things like filming flybys of houses for realtors, in addition to making films), remote mapping (including mapping out fires), agriculture (frequently using IR and other camera technologies), delivering small payloads to remote locations (such as tools or materials to smokejumpers or mountain climbers), remote inspection...

Think of anything we use a helicopter for now, and drones will probably help cheaply supplant those uses wherever possible.
Pretty sure that's just Gumroad pre-loading things it needs for it's checkout experience. But definitely going to look into it.
Ask HN: Scaling a tech team
Hey HN.

I need some help!

I am tech lead for a small team consisting of 3 engineers. We've been bootstrapping everything for the past 2 years but the business is showing promising signs of growth and has secured a solid round of investment. Based on KPIs etc we expect to hire an additional 10-15 developers over the next 12 months. I have never led a team of 15.

I have not scaled a team, been responsible for cultivating a good tech culture, establishing core values and disciplines, keeping team moral high, reminding people of what our mission is here and why we come to work each day, attracting talent, interviewing candidates and so on..

It would be amazing if I could get some advice for the next 12 months and share with me their experiences and learnings.

Cheers :)
Right, but when your job is to pick winners, this is a problem. Netflix has been doing a spectacular job of this lately, essentially turning themselves into a must-have "channel". HBO, too, by going a la carte.

Contrast with Blockbuster's decision not to buy Netflix. It may have been understandable, and hindsight is 20:20 (I left Google because I couldn't figure out how they'd ever make any money), but these are nonetheless big mistakes.
I'd been a very happy and loyal Nokia cellphone user for about 10 years up to 2008.

When the beautiful-looking N96[1] was announced early that year, I excitedly signed up to be notified of availability, and waited expectantly for a call or email.

I never heard anything.

A few months later, the iPhone hit the market in Australia. I bought one shortly after, and have used only iPhones ever since.

Could they have done anything to rival the iPhone? Who knows, but I feel that if only they'd been the kind of company that followed up with loyal customers who'd expressed strong interest in buying their new release, they might have had a better chance at building a competitive product.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N96
If Google would be bought by Yahoo then probably we would forgot about Google by this time. Then that would be the biggest blunder for Google.
He was my "academic grandfather" (I did research in Amy Palmer's lab at CU Boulder). The number of applications of the fluorescent proteins he helped develop into research tools is staggering. The article mentions their use in cancer and HIV research, but those are just a couple of applications -- at CU we used fluorescent proteins in combination with the phenomenon of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Förster_resonance_energy_tra...) to measure metal ion concentrations in various parts of the cell (my work was specifically calcium ions in mitochondria) in real-time (we were looking at amyloid precursor proteins to investigate Alzheimer's disease). It's hard to overstate how useful this research tool is. Roger will be missed.
The Scottish Darien Company attempted to establish a colony in Panama in the late 1600s, to compete with England. Backed by almost half the money in Scotland, they completely failed at establishing a colony, lied about it, got more money and settlers who then also utterly failed at establishing a colony, almost started a war with Spain, bankrupted Scotland, and set the stage for Scotland to be absorbed into the United Kingdom in 1706.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
Forcats: a new R package for factors
AFAICT, that delta was because there was high probability that Yahoo would have to pay tax on the profits if it tried to sell Alibaba, not because the market determined that Yahoo! had negative worth.
I do that too. I also like to imagine a post-apocalyptic, no-internet time where I have a generator, PC, BSD disk and the knowledge to use them to rule the new world while everyone else is stuck on the "Activation Required" screen.
I am surprised that no one has mentioned whether or not this failure is related to SpaceX's first time reusing a rocket. If so, hopefully this isn't too much of a setback!
It's not bike shedding it's code review! There we baked it into our process and gave one party unilateral and unlimited leverage.
I don't see such a large difference between your wording and mine; "should" implies making some kind of best effort at doing something where possible. But regardless, where we differ is that I think that people are generally neutral or indifferent instead of kind. I don't believe this can be radically changed in a way that works out, that would be Utopian thinking. I gave you a very common example where being kind is not advisable, yet you claim this happens only in very extreme circumstances. I'm curious how you arrived at such a conviction.
How to acheive an entrepreneur success mindet
Here is the video from Sungard FIS and Google Cloud discussing their approach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqOpaCS117Q

TL;DR: They achieved a peak of 56m qps and sustained 38m qps when processing market data.

(disc: I work at Google)
Tesla has a great credit facility backed by Goldman and Deutsche bank.

Unfortunately, those lenders just made Telsa amend their ABL (Asset backed loan) such that when the Solar City deal goes through Solar City will need to be firewalled off from Tesla for purposes of borrowing money.

Essentially the lenders have made Tesla agree that Solar city would not be a subsidiary of Telsa for purposes of borrowing on their ABL.

I've never seen this type of provision before and I dont' think Telsa expected it when they initiated the merger.

Solar City had to issue debt for an 18 month term at 6.5%. With today's markets those are almost loan shark terms. I think its telling that with so much cash sloshing around, Musk had to step in and buy so much of the issue.

With Tesla's credit rated in junk bond territory and both Solar City and Tesla needing large chunks of cash in the next year, it looks like Telsa is going to have to tap the equity markets again.

Hopefully the markets continue to believe in Musk. If not I'd expect Musk to be talking to Washington about a government backed loan.

Couple this cash crunch for two of his companies along with the Space X rocket explosion today, I can't imagine the amount of stress Musk is under right now!!
A(Junior)VC
"This rocket was scheduled to launch the Amos-6 communication satellite, which among other functions included the capabilities for Facebook to spot-beam broadband for Facebook’s Internet.org initiative"

Bad karma
Open-access brain scan database for autism addressing quality concerns
A great new framework linking cognitive
by working from 10 to 6....
Because it would just be speculation at this point, less than hour after it's happened?
Because now you don't need an exemption to monetize your videos of flying a drone up on YouTube. Or to film the outside of a home on contract with a realtor trying to sell that home. Or make a commercial movie/TV show.

Exemptions take time to get, and frequently can cost you fees to get a properly written request (I was quoted $1500). For a company wanting to do more, it's well worth it, but this lets anybody get started.
Such as re-installation DVDs
Generally recognized as safe does not mean it's a good idea to take something for 40+ years. If you did a 3 year in depth study on new, mild smokers (under 4 per day), it would probably look safe.
The lock up was because I was dumb and it was Werbroot waiting for me to do something with its warning dialog. But the tab did say it was trying to connect to paypal.com so perhaps webroot is keying off something involving that.
There is a difference between legal and ethical and there is a dimension of Apple's reputation that draws from ethical behavior.

Tim Cooks argument is I am successfull and am producing n number of jobs and without my success the state would lose taxes from these x economic activity so I should basically not pay taxes and be rewarded for my success with a tax cut.

While this Somalia argument completely ignoring government services can be made, its not part of the current economic and political system and social contract in which Apple has grown, exists and benefits from in higly educated employees and a rich stable ecosystem and marketplace.

We may not agree with laws but we hardly have a choice to comply because of difference of opinion. The fact that one may have resources to game the system does not make it right. No one is stopping Apple from having this discussion but this does not give them any special privileges to avoid paying their fair share or justifying the act post.

The bigger problem is the intentionally placed loopholes in the global financial system to aid creativity in tax avoidance. This is not an accident, these loopholes have been lobbied for and inserted by vested interests and must be removed to retain credibility and trust in the global financial system.

Or loopholes should be placed for everyone. As in individuals outsourcing their labour to a holding entity in a low tax zone, being paid in this low tax zone and importing funds as required by paying a small percentage than they would be otherwise liable.

This race to the bottom will drive all individuals to these low-tax states as it is driving crafty companies and the average state then won't have any revenue to offer any services. This simply won't be be acceptable for individuals and won't be accepted by any country, so why is it acceptable for billion dollar entities.
This is a brand new rocket. The reused rocket will be used for the SES-10 mission.
I've had the same observation, that the people I know who smoke pot always seem to have that typical dunceness about them. But then I've wondered if the cause and effect is reversed -- maybe it is people who already have these cognitive attributes are more likely to be predisposed to smoking pot?
It was just yesterday we read about SpaceX launching their first reused rocket. However, after searching for the news article, it's now clear to me that this was scheduled to happen "late this year".

source: http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/27935/20160901/space...
Reminds me of my old faithful Amiga, and its 3,5" floppy drive...it made a distinct, almost musical sound. You just turned the machine on and that famous splash screen would appear, then the empty drive would start ticking regularly, waiting for an 880Kb disk. As soon as a disk was inserted, you could hear its typical seek noise while the system booted, track after track...
chroot for isolated environments, but it's not as easy to set up as lxc from what I recall. You could automate setup with ansible or scripts if it's something you do a lot.

You can run VMs in qemu, but the one time I tried it it was painfully slow.

There's also work on vmm introduced in 5.9 but I'm not sure how close it is to something that is really is complete and usable.

http://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8

http://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8

http://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmm.4
> Gmail is free, would you be happy if they updated it and your email didn't work anymore?

I would shrug, meh and do something else.

I've had my lifestyle made illegal a couple of times. Perspective.