skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Verisign is running the nameservers for .com and .net, it will cause DNS problems across the board. We'd have to rely on DNS caches until new .net and .com nameservers come up. This would impact not only new domain registrations, but DR grade migrations, and DNSSEC.

If coordinated with an attack against the root nameservers so we couldn't change the .com and .net nameservers, DNS would become a real disaster. If combined with some BGP trickery, you could even see domain names being poisoned.

We should be able to be worked around the damage eventually; but so much of the internet relies on so few root servers/hosts/routers.
Just running docker containers is basically a show stopper for certain use cases. Not every use case can even fit into a docker container. E.g. testing kernel modules.
Poor wording. Verisign operates .com for the US government. So if Verisign's .com servers were to go down, then .com would go down with them. The author shouldn't have used the word "registrar" which makes people think of the creation of new domain names, à la GANDI (good) or GoDaddy (bad).
Crazy Wireless Range in San Francisco. (LoRa Radio Tests)
That may not be completely true. All H1Bs I know make 10-15% more. At some point - we need to accept that US has broken education and health system. And don't have enough talent to fill all the positions. H1B is cheap - is indeed true, but that is not the fundamental problem.
Yes and no. Tumblr is a lot more curated. The hashtag and featured list makes aimlessly strolling obsolete.
Are there any hosting solutions that offer GPUs yet?
Thanks :-) Fixed it.
Don't drink and copy&paste ;-)
The future for Asia’s sovereign patent funds is in the private sector
It has changed a ton. there is now super dev mode (I don't know when you last used it), so it no longer requires that java applet plugin. Also after the first compile, you only need to recompile changes. I agree with others after going to Angular, etc, I continually scratch my head on why GWT is not universally used more.
> "I make way more than that, what are you thinking??"

Way more than that being $30/hour = $60K per year.
As a YC alum, I help a few companies polish their pitch every application season. I have no connection to most of those companies - they're just folks with an exciting idea who sent me a compelling email.

My cofounders & I got the same help from folks we didn't know when we were applying to YC. It's a pretty awesome community.
> The implied difference is that in bribery you're asking the official to do something that they must not do, to have him act against his employer.

That's not the usual definition of "bribery" (though generally it is true of all bribery, including the type you are trying to distinguish, since taking extra personal pay for service is usually formally prohibited, even in places where it isn't effectively enforced, so even what you try to distinguish as "greasing the wheels" as distinct from "bribery" is asking the official to do something that they must not do, and acting against the employer.)
To gamify or not to gamify communities
It's Bayes All the Way Up
and that's the thing. i just recently had to deal with an iphone owner who had backups enabled. but his 6 gb of photos just don't fit on the standard 5gb free icloud storage. ppl just don't want to pay for backup space. now imagine ppl with 256gb phones. they are supposed to pump even more ridiculous amounts of money into tim's ass just for storage.

don't get me wrong. in general i think apple's prices are justified. but icloud storage with ppl having backup enabled by default ist just one giant rip-off.
The start of every US war in the ME has featured attacks on communication and infrastructure, starting with hacking in to the telephone exchanges weeks or months before the hot war starts, and culminating with the takedown of critical physical infrastructure, like power, water, etc. as the first thing to go when the shooting starts.
I find that worrying for the future of Gitlab.

It's really hard to charge money, especially against a truckload of both free AND paid tools which do the job.

They decided to NOT charge money on the number of projects or the number of runners. They've made a product with no incentive whatsoever to pay for it.

We could say it's great, we get get another free tool! but how are they going to make this work on the long term?

They have no business model and the investor funds will eventually run out at some point. Then, we'll be left with another free open source abandoned projects, just like jenkins?
+1 to hckrnews.com - I've not used the "real front page" for, well, many months (how long has hckrnews.com been around? seems like forever...!).
This is huge. It basically means that WADA confirms an attack by a Russian cyber espionage group. What's WADA you ask? I have no idea. Did I actually read the article? No.
I imagine that the users do not retain rights over their data.
The browser is an extremely well designed platform/environment. Web applications run on pretty much ever modern device: Windows, Mac, Linux, game consoles, smartphones. It's an awesome distributed system that allows for deploying applications from server to client in an efficient way. The barrier to entry has historically been very low, getting a hello world app running is incredibly easy. The web has always been extensible -- you can add scripts to any existing web page if it doesn't quite meet your needs, or to make yourself more productive. The web has typically been an open platform. You used to be able to view source and see how someone built something (even by unminifying the js). Sharing code is very common, just look at how many jQuery plugins exist. The web community has a culture of evolving and pushing forward even with issues like fragmentation (Internet Explorer). I'd argue that the type of developers who are willing to pick up JavaScript given it's issues of not being typed, having to figure out all the workaround for making up for weird type conversions, the flexibility of it's language and having to make all of your data structures out of JSON objects, functions, and utilizing the scope chain are the reason why the web has been so fruitful and productive. The web community formed around JavaScript, and I don't think it was successful in spite of JavaScripts "shortcomings". I think it's shortcomings ended up being (and causing) very good design.
Actually, the translator is injecting alien thoughts into his tribe, therefore betraying the native customs and ideas.

Not getting the text exactly right is peanuts, aside from being impossible.

(Ridendo, etc.)
I had the same thought. This article was published two years ago, surely that's enough time to measure the effect.
Not too complicated an equation— one can find a basic room in a share for $1k a month uptown or in Chinatown, plus $110/month for a Metrocard or $10/month for Citibike, plus a reasonable amount of money for food like $300/month (cook a big pot of something a couple days a week, pack lunch from that, and have a few meals out for a $10/day diet).

That's about half of $35k for basic expenses while living in Manhattan, which leaves plenty of room for taxes/savings/going out/travel/etc. And there are a lot of great free events in NYC, too.
In a competition which requires athletes to be in specific medical condition I think it's ok to require from athletes to disclose their medical records if they are the decisive argument on whether athlete should be allowed to take the drugs or not. It's voluntary for athletes to participate in competitions and agree to their terms, so it's not a violation of their rights.
> https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/06334a190ea9589e983

If you remove /commit/06334a190ea9589e983 and look at the actual README.md on the project page [1], you'll see it's called uBlock Origin =)

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
This is a really good idea! I'm definitely trying this with my moka pot.
New Partnership with the Royal Society to Increase Research Data Discoverability
If you want to claim education has positive externalities, then make that case. But that's a little hard to square with BenElgar's idea that subsidizing some degrees more than others is "damaging". His comment argued nothing about externalities.

After all, if it turns out that the public external benefits of a physics degree exceed those of a women's studies degree, then the former should be subsidized but not the latter.

In any case, what do you believe the external benefits of education are?
New programming language delivers fourfold speedups on Big Data problems
GWT has been continually approved upon. Compilation is super fast now, and developing is a breeze with super dev mode. You can even debug your Java (precompiled) code within chrome. as a GWT user, I don't have to worry about all those things that trouble Javascript developers. Refactoring is easy as it is just Java.
It seems we murder the stripe blog. It's down for me.
Iron seeding for plankton is a pretty well talked about solution to introducing forces to work against the warming of the planet. It's not like he's concocted some wild new idea.
I'm curious what others may have to say about which regions have great independent shops (or franchises, if such exist). I'm lucky to travel all over the world for work, in part because I can taste-tour espresso culture everywhere. There are scant few places with consistently good espresso (read: flavorful, non-bitter shots with rich, oily crema). Australia has proven to be the steady best. I've been thoroughly disappointed by espresso in Italy, France, San Francisco, and so many other places.

I'm lucky to live close to one of the best espresso shops, which is the one which taught me that espresso shouldn't be bitter (Metto Coffee in Mount Pleasant, SC). They use beans from Zoka, specifically Espresso Cuatro, in combination with great equipment, water treatment, and mentorship from the owners.

In my experience at home, the beans make the most difference. Even a cheap grinder and equally cheap Krups espresso machine can give you a decent shot if you use distilled water and great beans (such as the Cuatro I cite above). As others have said, there's great joy in iterating your way towards pulling consistently good shots at home.
They're saying that because there is a queue, the innovators are staying in India.
Eclipse has always struck me as a bloated over-architected pile of weird abstractions. Workspaces and perspectives were front and central, while Projects and Edit / Run / Debug features / modalities were implemented in terms of the first-class things the IDE exposed.

The implementation details were the primary artefact, the actual developer's experience was very secondary.
I think the article may have been referring to page 30 of this 2014 Parsons Brinckerhoff document on HSR's site:

http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/about/business_plans/BPlan_2014_S...

where it says:

Total Benefits $80,541,866,770

and

Grand Total Discounted Costs $34,639,084,822
> The Raspberry Pi boots from its GPU and only non-free software is currently available for the GPU, even starting the machine requires a large (2MB) blob of non-free, unsupportable software

https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi
I haven't estimated building costs yet. Several billion could be in the ballpark though.
A little worrisome that the fix hasn't been merged. (edit: it's been fixed)
This is insanity...and whats worse, is Russian state-media are trying to say they were doping...theres NO doping on those charts.
You seem to be focusing only on their public instance gitlab.com which is comparable to github.com. They essentially have the same model as GitHub(free for the community, payed for enterprise/companies). From where I am standing they seem to be giving GitHub some healthy competition in both areas.
Show HN: Hacker News, who are going to vote for in the U.S. election?
His worry is probably that his returns would let people estimate his wealth and income. Trump's business is largely built around licensing his name, and its value comes from the perception that he is very wealthy. If it turns out that he is only worth a billion or less it could greatly reduce the value of his brand.
Once again, as open source becomes key to what is shaping up to be a multi-billion dollar market, people who like to own markets will make their moves to own those markets.
Oh wow, I didn't knew this. Will look into this, thanks.
I used to feel the same way, but just because our generation got fucked, there's no reason to take it out on the next one.
Evernote doesn't just OCR handwriting to a single text; it indexes a bunch of possibilities for every handwritten word. This way the search functionality can search through all these variations, not just the most likely one.
You make it seems like that's the only question, I click on the link, thousands of questions. We're not being paid enough for this.
R&D should have a positive multiplier else why do it at all? Much of what's called "R&D" sort of isn't - it's not that easy to disentangle maintenance from development.

The H1B visa encourages headcount-think, which is a "policy smell" in tech development. At least some people I've known who've had H1B visas felt it was exploitative.
> has a bit of an elitist attitude about it

I agree, there is a kind of snobby adherence to the term by some people, as they see the point of becoming "well-traveled" to have been able to afford it.

I politely disagree that the term -- or idea it was meant to abstract -- is to convey how much distance one has traveled, but rather how varied the places have been that one has lived in. Just a short quick visit, e.g. a many-hundred-mile 2-week scourge through Europe, robs you of the experience of living in a non-tourist area where the environment is nothing like what you are accustomed to.

The idea (phrased as "well-traveled" or otherwise) from my perspective is to learn that many countries have very different ways of life; some have better/free access to health care, or not at all; some have almost no diverse ethnicities (e.g. China), or that in the middle-east, you can have countries with a strong diverse mix of many religions (Lebanon); how foreign country governments treat you (no VISA, vs. register yourself with police everywhere); etc.

For those with hard lives, many can be some of the nicest people. Visit China, other south-east Asian countries, rural India, Africa, as well as the well-developed nations in Europe. The most important trait one should take away from travel is: first-hand experience at the range of life that exists on this planet, something which cannot be read from a book.

We take for granted many of the artifacts and ways we work in our lives; seeing others gives us perspective that becomes a useful skill. I wholeheartedly agree that these skills can be developed without leaving the country, among our own rich, poor; and we are fortunate to have all four climates within our borders, too!
Procedures regarding legal work are same in every country and equally expensive. Especially if your work is some how related to government or its security.

If anything these checks are harsher in other countries than in India.
These kinds of features are standard for servers and nobody bats an eye ("out of band management"). You need them unless you want to attach a remote KVM to every single server. AMT is just that - out of band management. Intel's implementation is a lot more secure than, say, SuperMicro IPMI which had its fair share of issues.

You can disable SuperMicros IPMI though by pulling out the PCI card, though :-)
I agree it would be good to have more blog posts with that message -- I worry that good founders won't apply due to the mistaken impression that alumni connections are required.

Here's one for you: https://twitter.com/joseluisnuno/status/770711984543244288
I've started collecting my weirdest links, though I'm not sure what to do with them yet. Hundreds of watercolors featuring Nazi war criminal Reynard Heidrich transforming into a female bird, a studio producing sexy anthropomorphized American warships that's started shifting towards Trump propaganda, a network of alt-right teenage girls' tumblrs, mostly based out of Nebraska, subreddits for conspiracy theorists focusing entirely on an unremarkable seeming dude who is apparently at the center of the new world order... the internet's weirder than it's ever been.
>The technology to create those finishes is itself extremely complex and difficult to accomplish.

What about it is extremely complex?
I wonder how much practical difference it would make to pardon Snowden. It's likely not safe for him to return to the United States anyways.
Manufacturing/mining is going to be a large part of Mars colonization.
Banc d’essai leds RGB et autres
Uhmm, yes, Javascript has limitations.

But to say that we won't be using it 5 years I think is simply wrong.
"Competition is good" may or may not be true. It depends.

A rough rule of thumb is that a new idea has to be 10x better than the old idea to be worth it. The count of 10x ideas is dwindling.
In this context, I like this article from NASA that talks about Liquid Hydrogen as the fuel of choice for space exploration: http://www.nasa.gov/content/liquid-hydrogen-the-fuel-of-choi...
Above Avalon: AirPods
Those still have the eeeeevil ME, although maybe in a semi-dormant form.
Yeah, now the readable multiline version:

> Evernote’s new CTO Anirban Kundu told me the first two areas that will be replaced by Google’s machine learning APIs are its voice recognition for speech-to-text translations; and natural language processing, used to help search for contextual content.
Couple of minor nitpicks re naming:

1. `Oval` should really be `Ellipse` given that its sizing assumes symmetry on two axes.

2. Can't decide which side of the Atlantic it's on - it has `color` and variants (US English) but also `centre` and variants (British English). Much as it pains me, programming has generally standardized on USian spellings.

3. The use of `kid` in names feels slightly odd, especially when the documentation for those names consistently uses the more common `child`.

The current theme support looks kinda limited - is it ever likely to expand to support things like gradient fills, rounded corners, drop shadows etc? Or would that be pushing too much complexity into the rendering backends?
Which is why measuring military is a moot point when comparing economies between major world powers.

Economic battles are fought through puppets (Syria, Iran/Iraq, Koreas, etc.), not between the major powers themselves, thanks to nuclear proliferation.
If you see a hot war, under current circumstances it will almost certainly be preceded (if only for a few minutes) by a full-on cyber attack.
For those of you who are claiming that this "jackass" is throwing "waste overboard", I recommend reading up on the process used[1] and recognizing that this is something that has been studied and experimented with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
Ah, then you should check Joe Duffy posts about Midori and his talk at InfoQ.
The Future Is Software Engineers Who Can't Code
I believe there is a solution in the middle. It's not all or nothing. Also, your "sometimes life is unfair" costs me $100k+. Seems criminally unfair.
Congrats! First time I'm hearing about Tonic/RunKit. The demo video looks very promising.

Can you elaborate on your roadmap and what parts of the stack - if any - you are planning on open sourcing?

Thanks!
In theory you need to apply 7.8 km/s of deltaV to an object to put it into orbit. In practice, you also need to use more to overcome to factors. There's gravity drag, the action of gravity on your rocket while it's speeding up to orbital velocity. There's also atmospheric drag, the resistance of the atmosphere to your rocket when it's traveling up to space. The faster you accelerate the less gravity drag but the more atmospheric drag you experience since you spend less time accelerating but are traveling faster lower in the atmosphere, and drag is proportional to the square of the velocity.

As you can see, using an electromagnetic cannon where you are at full speed leaving the barrel of the gun, you will have zero gravity drag but an immense amount of atmospheric drag. This means both that you will have to apply much more deltaV and that the heating caused by the passage of your capsule through the atmosphere will be enough to destroy any known material.

Finally, if you launch at full velocity from the surface of the Earth then the rules of orbital mechanics mean that, if you are going into an elliptical orbit, your orbit will intersect the launch point eventually and your capsule will lithobrake on the ground, also destroying it.

Neither of these problems apply to launching from the Moon back to Earth, for the record. The moon has no atmosphere to apply drag and heating. And if you're leaving the Moon's orbit for Earth you're on a hyperbolic orbit rather than an elliptical one and won't be coming back around in any case. So for getting off of airless Moons into orbit around their primary electromagnetic launchers are an excellent idea.
Recently I've become worried that almost all "leaks" are done by nations.
Let's say some scientifically advanced team find the way to use weakened infection as the way to get clearance for using steroids. If played properly, this can be one-time boost for the whole team that may give them many medals in Olympics. Neither initial assessment, nor audit may not find the truth, but some other people with better motivation and more time could find it based on analysis of medical records.
Do you think this scenario should be dismissed in favor of privacy?
Suppose someone offered you a free TV to sit through a 2 hour presentation about a timeshare. Does that entitle you to just take the TV and leave without sitting through the presentation?
> The electricity and cost of the rail gun isn't measured in pennies.

I think you should back this up with real numbers.
My hat is off to any scientist can create a NIH funded research project out of sampling espresso :-) Reminds me when my daughter got an independent study project to understand social behaviors of associated players in shared simulations. Basically I had complained that she was playing WoW instead of doing her homework, so she found a way to make it her homework.

That aside, food foams? What is the reasoning for giving these their own category?
The two stories you mention: "There is a God", "There isn't a God" do not seem to capture reality adequately. I believe in something more akin to "Brahman". The story I told above was just a fun what-if story, and I don't claim I have any insight into it's truth, or how you could even go about proving it.
Which is $20k over the US household average.

Not arguing that we could consider it low, but providing more context.
Is it correct that, from my reading, the authors did not speak to Mike Rothenberg before publishing this piece? If so I'm forced to categorize this more as gossip and speculation than as balanced investigative journalism.

It's clear that there are problems. But I'd rather see problems identified and corrected than aired as dirty laundry.
Limit How Much Information You Have to Process to Avoid “Mental Fog“
you are assuming that all canibals are people of color, they could be white canibals.
Did you get all the way to the end of the blog post?

"Update on 2015/09/29. Redcarpet fix has been released."
https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/loans/interest-rates indicates direct undergrad loans are currently at 3.76%. At that rate, you're best off paying as slowly as possible and putting the rest of the money into an index fund.
Really can't wait for this to replace Sketch as my primary design software.