skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laser propulsion is thought to be a better way for launching from the Earth, and has been tried with small models. You build a powerful laser ground laser system, and through some method I'm not clear on, heat air in pulses? in the bell of the rocket chamber. Once that gets too thin, the top layer of the chamber is ablated to provide the final thrust needed.

Supposedly can be gentle enough for humans, see some of Jerry Pournelle's fiction and non-fiction for examples of this.

Or, if you're in a hurry, there's always Orion (see Niven and Pournelle's Footfall): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
I refuse to not be salty if somebody else has something I don't have.
Here is a well laid out argument for flat tax

http://www.hoover.org/research/flat-tax-solution
I can only speak for myself, but sitting at a computer has not done me any good for networking.

I did one speaking engagement talking about my career and what I do and that did more for my network than everything else I've ever done...combined.

Going outside, in my opinion, is the only way to network. Following up on Linkedin etc etc is only the aftermath.
The use of TL;DR bothers me because the word "summary" is appropriate or even "key points". It's not common use among all groups of people (old timers for example who also could read a blog post) and it really doesn't serve any clear purpose that "summary" does not.
Oh, as the benefits of Oracle vs Postgres?

So the biggest in my experience is not enterprise support. Folks generally expect it to be.
The biggest is actually flexibility. Oracle DB is good at handling some edge-case scenarios, such as a RAC cluster with a failover cluster running an Advanced Dataguard Reporting instance in a whole different state.

Basically you are running a (super expensive) near real-time cluster that's doing compressed log-shipping to another cluster, and you have a standby on that secondary cluster that's open in a read-only mode. And none of it requires cron jobs or excessively complicated setup.

However... even though I've done stuff like this for a number of clients, there are SO MANY better ways to address these sorts of scenarios with creativity and elbow-grease that Postgres tends to be a better tool.

The caveat, of course, is when the person who sets it up leaves, and some other person has to take over. With Oracle's scenario, it's mostly just a slightly unusual config of a standard set of tools. The more creative Postgres solution might be quite a bit more of a learning curve.

This is just an example off the top of my head, but it is one that came up recently. A client had a shipping/receiving system that could not go down, so the 20k+ per node was trivial. To reduce the load for reporting, they just simply had us open a standby DB for read-only reporting on the failover cluster - and they liked that so much, we set up another one for them local to the offshore reporting team.

It's absolutely possible to do something like that with Postgres clustering, but there's a whole lot fewer folks doing it.
It looks like it makes you think there's some Vast Conspiracy to make comments like that. So we all now know what kind a a person you are. Thanks for making that clear.
Did you think about database dump of popular services like HN, SO or Wikipedia to speed up crawling and revelance?
> if it was warrantless then it's inadmissible

I'm not sure if that really matters anymore. So much data is being collected on everybody all the time that the government doesn't need a warrant to collect the information because they generally aren't the ones collecting it. The police often can just ask the individuals and companies that are actually collecting the data to see what they have. They might be told to come back with a warrant and that warrant is super easy to get.

A guy in my neighborhood set up a license plate reader outside of his house. He logs all the traffic into and out of the neighborhood. I would bet the police would just have to ask him for the data and he would turn it over. I believe his data helped catch a couple that was stealing Amazon packages during the day.
Will the MOOC content be in any way different from How to Start a Startup by Sam A. (class taught at Stanford)
How Machiavelian. We're talking about people, not things. People are often inconsistent. You cannot reduce them to a simple stratagem without a risk of total mistake.
Why wouldn't you take into account the VAT which taxes all consumption?
To be honest - 30 years after fall of communism, the vast majority of people still doesn't care, because why should they? Those folders are only a talking point for the media, and something our asinine politicians use against other asinine politicians. Pigs fighting in mud, nothing you want to be close to.

My biggest gripe is with those from general population who care that other people have some entries in their folders. It's their attention that weaponizes this information. If that minority didn't give a shit either, those folders wouldn't be an issue nowadays.

It's also a general point about surveillance state, I think - a lot of its power to hurt people comes from the personal immaturity of citizens, who get aroused by the knowledge that someone else has commited some indecency in the past. I know this is a collective problem so it's hard to change, but again - if people minded their own morals instead of those around them, data collection would be much less of an issue.
LoRa Wireless Range Is Bananas. First Look at Cellular for IoT in San Francisco
Flagged. I don't see how this will lead to anything constructive that hasn't been beat to death all over the news, and other web sources. Nor does it seem very interesting in the ethos of Hackernews.
Think about it this way. If you live in US and use gmaik, NSA spies on you and you have potential to be put away in terrorist military prison.

If you live in US but use yandex, Russian gov spies on you but you live in USA and therefore cannot be arrested as easily.
Wasn't the DC sniper case solved by a tip and not by the widespread abuse and hard press interrogations of law abiding people tracked down through these gun sale records?
Making Babies Without Eggs
Yeah, but you still have to pay for the meal. Once Google starts charging you a flat fee for every search and you can optionally choose to view an ad where the revenue goes directly to a customer support employee (customer support at Google, ha), then you might have an argument.
We (NVIDIA) recently moved away from Quay/Github/Jenkins to Gitlab for our deep learning automation and the experience so far has been truly amazing. We were able to automate our most complex DL container pipeline in a matter of days. We still have to workaround some Gitlab limitations (e.g. issues [CE]17069, [CE]18994, [CE]18106, [EE]224) but overall it's great to see everything working in harmony (i.e. Docker registry, CI pipelines, Git repositories, Runners on-premises). On a personal note, I would like to see more storage on Githost.io instances considering the fact that you can't easily delete pipeline traces and that Docker images can quickly add up.
Which is why there are so many formal or semi-formal systems.
How exactly are athletes "the ones who need them the most".
"(...) the ME will sync it's internal clock with NTP servers across the internet once every 30 days, to make CRL checks for the remote management PKI work." (in https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2016-September/0... )

That's pretty crazy to think there's a sub-ring-0 rootkit running on your CPU contacting NTP servers without your knowledge.

Does that work over wifi (where does it get the WPA password from)?

Where does it get an IP address? Does it leech off the host's DHCP IP by intercepting ethernet packets?

Is there any way to fingerprint the traffic? TTLs, sequence numbers, etc?

It'd be interesting to run a system behind a router for a while while logging all ME traffic...
Here is the Newton-Pepys problem explained by Professor Joe Blitzstein in the Harvard class Stats110: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7NE4WF8j-Q&feature=youtu.be...

We see that probability is counterintuitive and complete understanding can elude the strongest of minds.
This should probably replace TLS.
Cops, usually
> that other people received a benefit you didn't

Actually, probably not. That's part of it, but if student loan debts are forgiven, the banks aren't going to eat all of that cost - the government is going to step in and help recoup some of that cost. So not only did I have to pay for my own college education, I'll be taxed to help pay for thousands of others, as well.
Yes, I have a lot of new ideas about how to improve if after teaching that class.

I plan to talk in more detail about it near the end of this year.
The only reason H1-Bs are attractive to employers is because the employee is effectively chained to them (through the Green Card process) - which in the case of employers looking to cut costs suppresses wages.

I think the best solution is to decouple the work visa and green card like Canada - and hand over more control to the employees. It will solve a lot of problems!

Canada also does the Labor Market Opinions/US-PERM Certification in the visa phase instead of the Green Card phase in the US - which can theoretically cut down on the abuse of H1-Bs by companies like Disney via. consultancies.
Russia's extensive use of online trolling means I'd be as worried about their government surveilling me.

http://www.stratcomcoe.org/internet-trolling-hybrid-warfare-...
It is generally safer to start with neutral inquisitive stance. Some people take the easy positive them attempt to browbeat you because "you have agreed".
IMHO, at this level binary compatibility isn't important. Linux could be easily ported to run on any ISA.

The problems are economies of scale and the perfect being the enemy of the good. What is the interest in an expensive custom chip when you still can't trust that it wasn't compromised by the fab?
A good example is Google. How many H1-B visas does Google employ? Why? They are the premier company in the US. They have their pick of employees. The idea they cannot find qualified employees is laughable. They want to keep rates low. Period.
> And if it was warrantless then it's inadmissible anyhow, right?

Generally, no. Only if it was a product (1) of a search (not all information received or acquired by law enforcement comes from what is legally a search), that was (2) warrantless, (3) of the property of the person against whom it was used (the exclusionary rule does not exclude evidence illegally seized from someone else), and (4) occurred in a context which is not covered by one of the exceptions in which a warrant is not required for a search to be reasonable.
Doping is everywhere and eventually it will be impossible to tell if your values are genetic or from doping. I think we are very close to that point.

Where do we draw the line? Maybe sports as a competitive event will change in to more of a entertainment event and who wins will no longer matter.
A structure that targets 100% payout directly to Vets/pets in need seems a lot more efficient than other options. I expect there's lots of animal lovers out there who appreciate an opportunity to 'share the love'. I like it.
In pursuit of sustainable seafood, startups track fish from sea to plate
Not the interest of the student loan, the 'interest' of the opportunity cost of paying $4000-$6000 year instead of some other use (eg personal or retirement savings, or saving for a house). There is a huge forward cost in their financial quality of life because of these early debt payments.
I block ads primarily for privacy reasons. I don't mind ads in themselves if they're just static and not trying to track my every move. I don't want ads to be "relevant" to me. I find that not only is it just creepy but really useless to see ads for something long after I've purchased. I'd rather it be more of a discovery tool for new products (movie trailers for example).
iOS developer for hire. Contract. (SOMA / south beach)
FB is the main news outlet of a majority of friends. The fact that FB owner and some its main investors are from Jewish ascent is really an menace to the diversity of points of views.
True, but it should be possible to create high performance UI controls inside an HTML5 canvas element.

With canvas, every browser has hardware accelerated immediate mode rendering that could be used to create UI toolkits. Looking around the web, there are some attempts to make this happen, but none of them seem to be hugely popular.

Last time I looked into this (years ago), a big blocker was that nothing inside a canvas element is visible to accessibility APIs, so UI rendered in a canvas would be invisible to people using assistive technologies like screen readers.
It's already seen during couple of years – google author's name on postgresql.org (maillists archives)
How much are you thinking? That is, at what point is your claim testable?
> A person can end up in one of these databases by doing nothing more than sitting on a public park bench or chatting with an officer on the street.

So does this mean that public park benches are under constant video surveillance?
Interesting to uncover data that's not directly related to a requirement: get some search results. Of course it's humans sitting at the laptop, so time matters. But the other data you mention also has the nature of "the thing we care about" along with "time associated with the thing we care about."

I wonder what other extra-dimensional (totally made up term on the fly) data we might care about. Power per query. Temperature per query. Water consumed per query. Water consumed per current activity level of trending topics.
You would have to enable it first I think though.
Of the big three in social outside China, Google and Facebook both have Jewish CEOs. So does Yahoo, if that still matters. Twitter's CEO is Catholic.

Of the new generation of social networks, Instagram is owned by Facebook, Snapchat's CEO is Episcopalian, and Tumblr is owned by Yahoo. So 5 out of 7 are under Jewish control.
Oracle licensing costs are ridiculous.
Watch E.coli Evolve Before Your Eyes
Link seems broken.
Since Groovy has come to Apache it has thrived, though.

https://twitter.com/aalmiray/status/775614209442840576
Russian hackers leak Rio athletes' confidential medical files
The way you phrased it makes the question sound like a trap. It presumes one couldn't think of any reason.

Try "What are some reasons one would vote for Trump?" Neutral tone of voice included.
> uBlock Origin forked off of uBlock

No, uBlock Origin was the original. The fork was confusingly also called uBlock. Origin==original.

See https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/06334a190ea9589e983... (or Wikipedia)
How about launching the personnel carriers this way?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion#Laser_Thermal...

Then send cargo up that's hardened for 30g in a vehicle launched from a 20 mile long mass driver that's tilted 45 degrees. We should be able to build such a structure by starting several miles underground, then building up the side of a mountain. 30g over 20 miles yields a final speed of about 9735 miles per hour. With a boost like that, the vehicle wouldn't need a 1st stage and could probably get to orbit without staging.
...but the structure of the tax wedge is quite different. In Denmark, almost all of it comes from income tax while in other countries it's usually 40% paid by the employer...
Is gitlab profitable?
Understanding AWS Lambda Coldstarts
Why do I have to 'sign in' to view the answer? It's much easier to hit the 'back' button on my browser.
Yup, the documentation sufficiently covered our case- we needed the front-end to be Apache httpd for our SSO, and there were steps (and example httpd configs) to substitute it in for the nginx in the omnibus package.
Top 5 learns from building my first serverless website
I only wish Bezos success in this endeavor.

I had a chance to visit Johnson Space Center last summer and it was like a space lovers pilgrimage to witness the miracles of science and man.

The Saturn V is on display and it was so amazing taking it all in. It is massive. It is hard to imagine it can even leave the ground.

I took a few pictures (potato quality)

http://imgur.com/a/hsr00
It would be a interesting data point to see how many of the 2b pages indexed are adult. lol.
They have lots of injuries due to the strain on the body due to hard training.

Not only in US. About 50 % of Swedish and Norwegian cross-country skiers suffer from asthma symptoms.

Of course, as others have pointed out, there may be misuse/abuse as well.
I thought you couldn't disable it?

https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2016-September/0... - "AFAIK the ME will allow the platform to stay on for 30 minutes, and will then shut it down hard." (when the firmware/ME has gone bad)
This person isn't a Canadian citizen, he's a permanent resident and a citizen of Iran.

Makes a big difference.
In the week we obliterate the DPRK, they'll flatten Seoul.
You can do that with uBlock.

Have blocklists configured and activated. Then you can set a global "allow all external resources" rule, which ignores the blocklists. You can then deactivate that global rule on a per-site basis, directly from the extension menu.

(It's less confusing to use than it sounds ;))
This reminds me of stylate.com which was selling a logo and domain together for a reasonable price (hundreds instead of thousands). I'm not sure why the service ever shut down.
I've lived in SPB for a few years now (american expat), and there's...some truth to it. The idea of cops just grifting you non-stop is overstated; more likely than not they just wanna not have to do work. Even when it comes to checking documents for folks from the southern countries (uzbekistan, tajikistan, etc) most of the time the police try to speed stuff along so they can get back to smoking, having tea, or stopping off at a kebab place.

Even though everyone I know here calls the process "bribing", it's greasing the wheels - in some ways, it's bad that it happens. At the same time though, everyone is allowed to participate in the bribing and whoever takes the bribes can and will settle for what they can get.

I wouldn't say dishonesty is more pervasive - quite the opposite, most people are brutally honest, sometimes to a fault. When it comes to official things, it's true, you can grease the wheels and get preferential treatment. Certain problems can go away with a few well placed notes, and so on. Schools are a bit different too since the collapse of the Soviet Union. From what I'm told, there's a lot of pressure from the state to ensure that students pass, so students will repeat through classes as long as necessary to pass them, and often professors will just give out the lowest possible passing grade to get rid of bad students. A little bit of cash will net you a better grade, which will get you access to better universities.

Just as an outsider looking in and watching, I see it more as the same bad system that exists elsewhere but at least the system is open to everyone.
Yes. I have downloaded several data dumps, but haven't gotten around to import them yet.
Oh I remember the questionable articles Vivek Wadhwa used to post on Techcrunch from a few yrs back about immigration, H1B, and startups that used to get derided on HN for lack of quality. Lots of opinion and hype, with very little data to back it up. Just look at this sweeping statement:

> The world’s entrepreneurs used to dream of coming to Silicon Valley because it was the innovation capital of the world and there were few opportunities elsewhere. This is no longer the case, as I learned during my recent trip to New Delhi. There are start-up incubators sprouting up all over India, and the quality of the start-ups is second only to those in Silicon Valley and China, which are running head to head.

You could argue that China is possibly #2 but how is India any where near #3? What has come out of India in the last decade besides the export of some good talent?
Don't forget that the vehicle would be leaving the launcher at greater than reentry speeds, so it would be even worse than a normal re-entry.
I Dare You to Build
I am talking about the remote management feature, aka Intel AMT.
This still relies on visual feedback (you need to move a cursor on a screen). It would be better if you just had to think the letter itself, not drive a cursor over it.
I am sure you are correct, but I was reading the Saturn V wiki yesterday, and while it has a huge fuel load, that fuel load is completely consumed just to get the rocket to the point where the first stage can drop. It burns 400 tons of fuel per second!
The law in Spain says that everyone is donor by default but the family or close friends must be asked always to respect the deceased will.

http://europe.newsweek.com/spain-has-become-world-leader-org...
Unfortunately it really limits performance, to about 60 Mbps on an ERLite.
Hmm interesting. I am poster higher up which started this chain. I worked in 4 places. In all cases my manager knew how much I make.

I imagine in some large companies depending on how top down there, they don't do it. But I wouldn't present it as a rule.

So how does asking for a raise work. You work with you manager all year. Then all of the sudden you go over his head at the end and talk to his boss about wanting a raise? I have never seen that. Sounds a bit strange.

Anyway, original point still stands. The lowest level boss which does know what you do and sees that you have a $50k higher salary and yet do work that not really $50k extra worth will put a target on your back.
HRW funding and staff indeed looks surprisingly US-biased. But Amnesty and PEN also score the US a couple notches above Russia and China.
We can, and do have video chat at eye-level but most people seem not to like it.

Typing is a first step and is a great way of testing the technology and verifying that the sensors are working as expected, as it's extremely obvious how accurately they're working.
It's actually iOS 10.0.1 along with the unavoidable iTunes upgrade to 12.5.1 (this is on El Capitan)
I've looked at your work, you've got pretty great pieces.

If you don't mind me asking, which kind of organizations are usually interested in your work?
but the paranoid wouldn't use windows, would they?
No. You will be drafted to work at Tim Hortons because so many of our fellow Canadians are obsessed with that shitty donut shop.
But you're right – a lot of such companies exist unfortunately.

If Uber DBAs came to IRC or any public place (see http://Postgres.chat) where Postgres experts are present and didn't hesitate asking questions, they would still be running Postgres.
I've been using my moka pot for a year but didn't know about this trick. I'll have to try it tomorrow, thanks for the tip!
And that's why I haven't seen a forbes article in a long time.
I find Mochi to be an interesting language but unfortunately it appears to be abandonware. https://github.com/i2y/mochi/pulse/monthly
http://blog.beepnetworks.com/
Almost all of your points are ridiculously wrong and some sound like a parody of Orwell.

Here, just concerning no 3:

There are different mechanisms by which speech is regulated. It's well accepted that you can be held responsible for your speech if it's illegal (i.e. defamation or the "FIRE!"-yelling classic).

This is different from censorship in that speech is regulated after it's published, not before.

It's also a widely-held misconception that life is more important than anything. Quick thought experiment:

- Current estimates are that costs about 38,000$ to save a life for the most efficient NGOs.

- Say the US presidential election costs about 5 billion.

=> Should we cancel the election or let those 125,000 people die?
And continues to be an alien for years, and sometimes decades. You only stop being an "alien" after naturalization ceremony. "Alien" terminology is not some emotional made up word, it's a real term that America calls any non-citizen.
This is a start. The same technology will be used for great things.