skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact. Although on some genres, digital is still very disregarded. This happens a lot here in Berlin, specially on the techno scene. I can understand how for non-techies digital is somewhat alienating---vinyl is more sensorial and helps having a more intimate relationship with the music.

However, I find that as a developer for me digital is less alienating. I play with Mixxx, a libre DJ software, and I have dug in the guts of its code... its digital wires feel intimate to me. I have also built a framework for scripting it [1] and tweak or rebuild the scripts for a specific event. Analog is for me more rigid and limiting.

I expect that as coding becomes more common in the general population, digital will be perceived less and less alienating and the current elitism around vinyl will fade...

[1] https://github.com/arximboldi/mixco
> Compare to VW who initially attempted to blame a bunch of engineers

That’s quite a misinformation.

VW US said "rogue engineers".

VW DE fired the CEO and suspended 20 top engineers, several of whom were on the board of the company (VW mostly recruits managers from their own engineers).
> biggest energy source of our galaxy

You meant the Sun, of course. However, your phrasing sent me on a quest to answer the galactic question. From the following article, I learned that the "supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way" emits "cosmic radiation at petaelectronvolt energies", which fits the bill for largest energy source of our galaxy.

https://www.mpg.de/10390310/acceleration-petaelectronvolt-pr...
There were a couple of mechanisms intended to hook it upright to the surface upon landing. Instead it bounced 2 or 3 times and landed tilted in some rocks. The battery was only sufficient for a few hours of pictures and other experiments. If it had landed upright and charged by solar panels it could have operated a long time, perhaps until now. The hope was that some of the solar panels were exposed it might revive after a couple of weeks. There was a hint it called the orbitor at least once, but no more data.
Software Configuration Management (SCM) Security
Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained W. African Ebola epidemic
GPU rendering with Cycles Renderer Blender
>Rolling them by hand is awfully low-level, and completely defeats the point to using a high-level language.

The problem is that you can't have "compiler/interpreter plugins" on the web, you have to use the language itself in order to extend it.
This isn't React, Angular or even jQuery we're talking about, it's a library implementing a "fundamental" language feature that may be used tens of thousands of times in an app.
This is why these kind of extremely low level optimizations matter for the makers of such a low-level library.
Shadron – shader-based procedural graphics editor
The CEO stepped down but claimed he didn't know anything. He was not fired.
Often, they use "hipster" to mean "trend follower".

I'm not sure it's always not worth saying; being too focused on trends is a valid criticism.
I agree 100% with you and, most of my situation was because I lean a bit too far in the "against the grain" category. Because of that, I definitely made it more difficult for myself and would regularly lose drive to continue because I felt "I'm not getting it, I suck. Why can't I learn this the normal way?"

>Being self taught can easily lead the learner to some critical mistakes. ...

I really glad you brought that up. There have been countless times that I was working on some formula which looked good to me, and even had correct results (some of the time), only to find that it was completely backwards when someone else looked at. Its essentially like learning to program versus learning to program correctly. I cant tell you how many times I pronounce words incorrectly because I have only read it and never heard someone talk about it. Also embarrassing.

I have actually read that same thing about your [2] foot note and I wanna say I saw it here on HN but cannot remember when. It was pretty interesting and I can totally see how not learning math the proper way can cause a lot of issues related to research. In my case doing physics for simulations, its not as pronounced, because its a small user base but in a larger scale, I would be terrified of publishing my work for this exact reason.

And I by no means intend on convincing others to learn this on their own. I would actually suggest doing it the standard way because it was much more difficult and time consuming trying to learn this stuff by your own. Especially since I had no real person to talk to about it. I kinda wish I could have gone back and changed majors.
The state of game development in Rust
Just curious...

Any recommendations for the easiest to drop-in pretty looking charting library that supports dynamic streamed data from a WebSocket.

For instance, let's say I want to show an dynamic CPU usage graph of one of my servers over time. I don't want a ton of dependencies, it should be lightweight, easy to integrate, and quick!

I'm not an HTML guru, so I don't want 100's of files that I have to build with bower/grunt jobs. Just a link to a script and a bit of JavaScript. That I can manage,

Suggestions really appreciated. If this is it, that's fine too.
No, they're not. Failures are around 4% - 5%, and they've been around that since the 1980s.

Chemical fuels are just barely powerful enough to allow reaching Earth orbit. They can't get any better; they're already as energy dense as chemistry permits. NASA's "The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation" explains this clearly.[1] The payload fraction for the Saturn V was about 1%. The Space Shuttle, 4%. A 747 freighter, about 25%.

The fuel fraction for rockets is so high that the structures have to be weight reduced too much. If you could build a spacecraft with the weight budget of an airliner, it could potentially be as reliable as an airliner.

With nuclear engines, one could beat those limits. Early plans for Apollo included a nuclear upper stage. But nuclear is messy.

That's why rocketry hasn't progressed much since the late 1960s.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedi...
The Post-Autonomous Car Economy
This one in Stockholm, Sweden is also sized for 20k people. It also predated the Swiss one by about 20 years. (!)

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarinabergets_skyddsrum

Google translate link: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev...

In a typical Swedish utilitarian way it was designed with two uses in mind:

a) peace-time: parking cars

b) war-time: securing people

Here's a sketch: http://hjak.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/kbgt-ritn.jpg
Enlightenment always takes a while :)

I later found a nice article documenting the entire system. It
also includes references to JohnTheRipper having a module for
this. Well, this was more fun.

--

Wonder how many times are the same items posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=filippo.io
No you can't, encryption doesn't have awareness or morals.

The Swiss made their fortune on the misfortune of others from Nazi gold to modern dictators they have an entire industry around cleaning effectively blood money.
Bragi’s new wireless earbuds are simpler and a lot cheaper
I think it's pretty clear, in my reply, I'm talking about the masses need for Mathematics. Which is for 'solving real-world problems'.

I agree with Terence Tao's sentiments.

Math, for the masses, is a great way to abstractly teach the masses how to critically think about things. Math, for the masses, shouldn't get bogged down in the rigour. But if one were to go on to Adv Math, then yes, rigour is needed and demanded of the mathematician.
This is a good observation. I've seen this happen in work situations multiple times, and I've felt those feelings as well. Which is why one of my life goals is to learn the skill of objective judgement without being influenced by emotions unrelated to the technical merits of a decision.

I believe the correct name for that personality attribute might be 'mature'.
Tesla loses money on every car they sell

This is an often repeated media trope that seems a bit misleading. It makes it sound like they would loose more money if they sold more cars. That is not true. Tesla has positive gross margins.

Tesla is investing in future production and that is part of why it is losing money. I would also draw your attention to a strange fact about GAAP accounting principles. Some investments like the GigaFactory are depreciated and the expense is spread over the lifetime of the operation of the factory. However, R&D, although it’s an upfront cost that pays off over the long term, is not depreciated. You take the full charge in the quarter the money was spent. I suspect it’s because R&D has a less predictable payoff and timeframe than an investment in a hard asset like a factory.

Another factor in Tesla’s lack of profitability is their high sales expenses (SG&A). Currently SG&A is about 20% of non-gaap revenue. At most auto companies it’s about 10%. The number of Model 3 preorders indicates that their current sales infrastructure is scalable and can support much larger revenues. At scale SG&A is likely to be a lower percent of revenue.
I agree. The majority of engineers may not utilize higher level math. However, all engineers learn how to analyze a problem and attempt to achieve an unknown solution. The solution may include known components that already solve a particular problem, e.g. authorize website users with the Spring Security library. Yet the key is synthesizing these pieces into a new solution for the problem domain. Most mathematics teach students to solve known problems and memorize formulas. Students will get far more mileage by learning to problem solve through logic, reasoning, and synthesis. Not to mention developing the willpower needed to keep working through failures and the social skills to work with others towards solving a problem.
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All they have to show for is an i3, the e-up!, the e-Golf, and basically a Mercedes Tesla.

All of which aren’t bought by anyone, because they’re too expensive when you can buy the same in the gas version for half the price.
How history forgot the black women behind Nasa’s space race
I'm willing to wager it was terrible. This anecdote is not evidence against the practice required to DJ at a professional level, sorry.
Needs a (2000) tag. @dang
Probably the usual, they were either compromised to serve up malware or their mail server was compromised to serve up phishing emails and the like and the blocklist hasn't been updated since when they fixed the issue.

To the site owner, contacting Barracuda is sufficient to get you off the list if you're clean.
I was just watching season two of Manhattan, a fictionalization of the US atom bomb project. The writers looked like they borrowed elements of The Prisoner when the federal police are trying to break a potential spy.
(I am only part way through)
Anyone that is in favor of e-voting is either ignorant of how it works or malicious.

US citizens shouldn't be just worried about election hacking, they should be out in the streets protesting this huge mockery of their democracy and demanding an end to it.
> wooden panels, leather seats and all the bling bling

every high end german car interior is completely customizable. all that wood can be replaced with plastic, or carbon fiber. all the leather can be replaced with alcantera. all the bling bling can be replaced with lightweight alternatives, or just omitted entirely from the build. you can literally change the seatbelt colors on a porsche, or the color of the stitching in the leather.

you wouldn't know this, because you probably never actually shopped for one, you decided on tesla because you like the fact that it's electric and are a fan of the company. there's nothing wrong with this, that's how many buyers of porsche, audi, etc, operate -- but it shows that you aren't really the target market for the german stuff.
That's why you always

1) store passwords in the password manager, even the ones you think aren't important.

2) backup your data
The frustrating truth about Silicon Valley 'innovation'
Euro NCAP vs. NHTSA

One's a European institution; the other is American.
Yeah, sorry about the sucking in effect... :-) Sometimes I go back and start reading my stuff and get lost for hours again.
UNCLOS says they're not armed at all.
Is this the source of all those Recommendations that I look at Ben and Holly cartoons in the middle of the day when my daughter is at school? Or more Italian daytime television when I've just watched a video my wife never would? In short, is this the reason why there's never anything interesting for me when I go to the frontpage of youtube?!?!
You are mistaken. China very effectively fights against rhino horn smuggeling nowadays. It is primarily vietnam where the horn is consumed. It goes so far that the demand is heavily influenced by the economic situation in vietnam.

Example source: https://www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/thorny_issues/the_vi...
> contemporary mathematics is that it is unbelievably obfuscated to most people, unnecessarily so

I disagree. I think maths are intrinsically complex. Some results may have intuitive geometric interpretations but if you want to understand the whole edifice, there's no shortcut, you have to absorb tons of theories.

Take probability theory and statistics, you can always see it a set of recipes, but if you really want to make sense of it, you need to study maths for a few years.
This is an amazing resource, John. Julien made an incredible work on this post. This kind of research supports my decision as a Product Manager in my company to use only TLS 1.2 support for all products under my belt.
Hanjin bankruptcy brings chaos but no capacity cut
The web is full of videos and PDFs with learning materials. But what is needed for learning to actually work is to have exercises to practice on. What I mean is fine gradation of difficulty and tracking prerequisites (notions needed in order to tackle a problem) so as to give students problems that are not too easy or too difficult, but just at the right level. I seldom find such problems/examples tuned to slightly above my level of understanding.

Same problem in programming and machine learning - people need a little hand holding in the form of a sequence of problems to solve that would never be either too difficult or too easy. Examples usually jump from Todo MVC to full apps, in one step, or in ML, from a simple MNIST example (or even the minuscule Iris dataset) to double LSTM with memory and attention. Where are the intermediary nice problems to learn on?

When I was learning math in school and high school there were loads gradual problems to solve, but at university suddenly there was just theory and almost no useful problems to practice on.
This is because there is no Tesla directly competing with the entry to mid level German luxury cars. That is until the Model 3. The German auto makers are definitely going to take a hit once the 3 comes out. That is why they are scrambling.
Do something along the lines of what commerce raiders did in WWII - give every hundredth or so drone ship some concealed anti-ship missiles.
Or take the Walterwerke, making machines for Ice Cream Cones, and being the global leader in that industry.

50 employees, tiny amount of machines they produce, but without them, the world would be far worse as everyone could only eat ice cream in those tasteless paper-like ice cream cones.
The term to describe reading this in 2016 when it was written in 2000 is: uncanny. So how come my tablet and cell phone aren't running Fourth/plan9?
You can turn it off on Android.
Oh, that's because you're running SSH under the hood. I see what you mean, having the port be passed to SSH would be better from a UX standpoint, but the thing is that mosh doesn't do everything SSH does, so it would need to fake every SSH option and then pass them through. As it is, you only need to learn --ssh and you can do "--ssh=ssh -D 8223 -L 1234:localhost:1234" etc.
Ask HN: What once useful product/services have you stopped using?
Silicon Valley touts that products need to be significantly better, that founder should "build something people want." I've noticed that over the past 4-5 years, a lot of products/services I once considered essential have completely dropped from my life. On occasion, a better alternative does indeed come along, displacing the old one. Mostly though, my behavior/interest changed. I want more control and enjoyment of my time, money, health, and relationships with fewer complexities, and more often than not that means removing products/services from my life rather than adding them. It means consolidating services (a single grocery store, a single media platform, a single file storage service) to minimize management of competing products/services. It means realizing that "fewer" (or even "nothing") is often the best option out there.

Or it could mean my needs changed and I simply haven't found what the next compelling product is.
Yeah, otherwise a reader might assume Forth has reached the performance of OpenPOWER or high-end Xeons with less transistors than the old, Intel CPU.
There is no official portable versions, and any of the current unofficial versions include their own PAM implementations (OpenBSD doesn't use PAM).

Now that OpenBSD doas(1) uses kernel assisted features, i.e: 'persist' is implemented as tty ioctl's, the likelihood of those landing on other systems is remote.
Dropbox - After two years of having over 20gb of free space, my university campus cup reward expired (people got free space based on the # of students at their university who signed up). I went down to < 3gb overnight and didn't want to pay for what I once had. This was by far the worst marketing stunt ever -- a 2 year "free trial" is not a sampler of a paid plan, it became the expected free plan.

Also, I was already using Google Drive since Docs/Sheets had already replaced MS Office. Don't need two services that do the same thing, especially when Dropbox has made no noticeable updates to its service in years.

Gym Memberships + Workout Classes - I used to be in a gym for 7-8 hours/week for years, but now I can't stand it. Realized I can get a comparably effective workout doing calisthenics at a local park while breathing fresh air and looking at the sunset and mountains.

Mobile Games - If I only have a limited amount of time on entertainment, I'm only going to play the best stuff out there.

Kindle/Ebooks - I discovered the library. Massive selection of free (well, tax-supported) physical books

Twitter - Used to check it 5x/day, but got no utility out of it aside from a few transient, impersonal messages to a handful of VCs, founders, and journalists. Deleted my account, never looked back.

Facebook - Socializing online using artifical interactions ("like", "share", one line comments) made me feel less connected with my friends/family. I still use their IM service from desktops, but refused to install messenger on my phone

Cable TV - Watching TV is incredibly frustrating with ads every 5 minutes.

Dedicated News Publishers - Used to subscribe to the NY Times, WSJ, Time, Atlantic Monthly, Scientific American, and the Economist. Although those publishers still have great content, I'd rather read what the internet surfaces (HN, Medium, random google searches)

Torrent Sites - There's finally enough free or affordable quality content to make torrenting less desirable, but maybe that's just because I've had an income.

Retail Stores - I now get all my food from Costco, Amazon (for misc spices), and farmers' markets for less. As a result, I buy fewer pre-made goods than I used to a few years ago and just cook in bulk. Far healthier and cheaper. I don't go shopping anywhere except to buy clothes every few years or medicine at a local pharmacy.
The key advantage of silicon, as I understand it, is that we can mass produce ICs on wafers via light-directed etching and epitaxy. I don't know of an equivalent process for carbon that's been proposed yet.
"Tesla loses money on every car they sell"

What data do you have on this? How is such figure(s) being calculated?

Your claim also doesn't jive with the "Secret Tesla Master Plan":

"The strategy of Tesla is to enter at the high end of the market, where customers are prepared to pay a premium, and then drive down market as fast as possible to higher unit volume and lower prices with each successive model."

https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j...
To my knowledge, these rules came from intense diplomatic pressure from the US, not from some internal realization that it wasn't ethical. I wouldn't be at all shocked if subtler approaches to dealing with tainted money have been adopted.
> Are there actually any countries whose constitutional protections apply to non-citizens and/or non-residents?

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union protects you too! If you're non-US & non-Canadian, and use Facebook, then your data is under the control of Facebook Ireland Ltd, in Ireland. And the CFREU will protect you!
Billionaire Spends a Fortune to Move One Tree
I would argue it's difficult to unlikely. People who attempt it though are sure to better themselves and probably their work output.
What about all the damage that has been done?

Indian politicians used it for decades to hide their money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_black_money#Black_money...
The Tesla model S is a lot more fun to drive than an S class. But the S class is a much more pleasant and luxurious car as a passenger.
Introducing TLS Maturity Model
That's a new, fancier Wave Glider. They've been making those for about 10 years. I heard their designer speak at Stanford. On the original version, the only powered moving part was the rudder, and they only had one underwater "wing". The utter simplicity of the thing is impressive. They're surprisingly controllable; they can generally keep to within 100 meters of the desired course. They communicate over Iridium. In early tests, they first ran one around Hawaii, then went from Hawaii to Monterey Bay, then up to the coast of Alaska and back.

The Coast Guard classifies them as "floating debris", so they don't have to show navigation lights or obey the Rules of the Road. Collision with a ship would cause no more damage to the ship than hitting a loose surfboard. Liquid Robotics' control center watches ship positions from AIS and maneuvers the little boards out of the way.
Germany had a history of the government claiming "those people there aren't 'people' hence the rights don't apply to them". I suspect the courts might take that into consideration if the government tries that line again.
The margin in size and speed for webpack2 compared to rollup is pretty minimal ~5%. Plus we plan on integrating rollup scope hoisting after we release webpack 2.x (which is stable, however pending the finishing of our documentation)!!!