skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much as I'd like to think humans-in-space in large numbers will become a reality any time soon, I don't see it happening in the kind of time frame it offsets the dangerous growth curve we're on.

The cost to keep one human alive in space is logistically incredibly expensive. It'll get cheaper the more infrastructure we put up there, sure, and eventually we may see space-based colonies become self-sufficient. But I don't see it happening any time soon.

Meanwhile, current projections suggest that ~2050, human population is going to get very hard to maintain. Even if we could get 100,000 people living in space by then it would be a drop in the ocean.
Eh, I think it's clear they don't host the actual intellectual property; they're mostly like signs pointing to who actually is hosting the IP. It seems like prosecuting those actually hosting the IP is too much work or would cost too much money and so the torrent indexers are prosecuted instead.

I don't think their motives are relevant.
Every country in the world has underdeveloped digital defense. There is no secure country anywhere. It has nothing whatsoever to do with encryption policy (one of the rare tech policy issues that I agree wholeheartedly with the HN conventional wisdom on). It's that software security is simply an unsolved problem, but the world is plowing full speed ahead into deploying more and more of it, and will continue to do so.
Rails and jQuery. Seriously. This is at the top of list of the most maintainable, well documented web app methods that exist.
It seems that Google searches do not aid in identifying murderers but once they have been identified Google searches certainly seem to help convict them.
He was abducted via honeytrap from Sydney, but physically overpowered and drugged once in Rome.

Your comment implies he is free. He spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 in solitary confinement, and while 'released' is apparently surveilled, subject to a lot of restrictions and forced to stay in Israel.

he shall not be able to have contacts with foreigners

his telephone and Internet use shall be monitored

he shall not enter Internet chat rooms

he shall not own cellular phones

he shall not approach or enter embassies and consulates

he shall not come within 500 meters of any international border crossing

he shall not visit any port of entry into Israel

he shall not leave Israel
Where Creativity Comes From
That's a very specific thing.

The co-pay is a part of the price of the product that your insurer doesn't cover, so technically it's not theirs to begin with. Which is also why it's not a refund of the deductible paid, because that -is- considered part of the insurance contribution, i.e:

(deductible paid by customer + insurance payment) = your insurance contribution
co-pay = your personal contribution to the cost of the treatment.
Just a note that the SSA advises not laminating your card.

https://faq.ssa.gov/link/portal/34011/34019/Article/3786/Can...
I never had an LinkedIn account and I get a suspicious amount of LinkedIn emails. The often are very creepy. One asked me to connect with my boss from a decade ago. Keep in mind, I've never had a LinkedIn account. Said boss didn't know my email address then and certainly doesn't know my new email address since its changed since the last time I've seen her a decade ago. Never seen her profile before that, never even knew she had a LinkedIn.
I agree. Unless you are in an environment where there are very specific pay scales for fairly specific positions and levels, with lots of chances for advancement (e.g. Google or the like), expecting a significant raise at your current job is unlikely unless you have a lot of leverage. Put another way, you've been giving the company the extra work for free. People (and companies) don't like to pay for things they're used to getting for free. That just feels like an unnecessary expenditure, so is resisted.
Good points. Still, having the known answers discoverable (and indexable) probably wouldn't hurt - bot and FAQ as mutually supporting tools, not one as replacement of the other.

Is there, perhaps, a demo site to showcase what you have in mind?
"Secret questions" are almost always not two factor, they are "Wish It Was Two Factor". The two factors are supposed to be: something only you know (a password) and something only you have (a physical key or device you keep with you).

Secret questions are still just something you know, therefore not a second factor from passwords. Secret questions are often worse than two factor because they also violate the "only you" part of the security factors by often asking mostly the equivalents of public record information making them generally only about as useful as tertiary usernames/IDs. (Which is why the advice these days is to treat them as passwords and give them pseudo-randomized phrases, unconnected to actual answers of the stated question.)
Ah, sorry: mayor. Thanks.
If you are using Rails, Angular is rarely necessary from my experience. Even if you have a lot of SPA-type functionality, jQuery can handle it pretty well in the asset pipeline.
That would be an example of faking your death online. Something tells me we can really work with this notion.
Hidden-pod: Static Tor hidden services with no effort, in Clojure
You know you've got a live wire when the top comment has 5 likes, but 200 replies.
I think that's part of it, but also I think that most people overestimate the benefits of the average experience of televised 'fame', and underestimate the risks.
Do you plan to include python in your roadmap in near future (I can possibly help if you don't have in-house expertise on it ;), or choosing to avoid competing with Tensorflow?

I suspect Python would be fairly popular amongst companies looking to build deep learning based products.
This works too.

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
If all of a country's exports were produced by entirely robot-ran factories with no employees, the country could be quite wealthy... With absolutely terrible quality of life. (Without aggressive redistribution.)

Wealth only trickles down in fairy tales, or through low profit margins.
I remember reading the blog and thought it was cool how the story progressed.
If Google maps (I presume) is working well enough for you, why are you trying so hard to switch to Apple Maps? :)
Some prettiness to go with what you already accomplished:
https://cdn.rawgit.com/JeffreyBPetersen/5a3198c940ccca39ff63...

Unfortunately the transcript is missing past a point. I haven't checked to see if that's the case in the original document.

edit -
Looks like I should've refreshed the thread first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12514873
The tool seems great. They should provide a SAAS version that can work with Github.
Dead people usually don't close their accounts.
He's a genius? I thought the US was embarrassed by how dumb the vulnerabilities he exploited were. Which is it?
This came up in Ohio, with the judge ruling a man dead despite his appearing in court to contest to decision.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/10/10/jud...
Net neutrality and investing in infrastructure are completely orthogonal to data caps, so I'm not sure what you're trying to argue.
So maybe it's time to re-open the debate on AC vs DC in power distribution? :p
Yep. The 3.5mm audio jack comes in the box, so they didn't really remove it, they just moved it off-device. Maybe they could move the battery off-device too and make the iPhone 8 even thinner.
That makes lot more sense.
So then why suggest it's time to "reevaluate one's own behavior"? What would that achieve?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstraZeneca#Nexium

Nexium is just pre-broken-down Prilosec, which had just run out of patent protection. They then manipulated the results to make it look more effective so they could market it as such:

> AstraZeneca's scientists had misrepresented their research on the drug's efficiency, saying "Instead of using presumably comparable doses [of each drug], the company's scientists used Nexium in higher dosages. They compared 20 and 40 mg Nexium with 20 mg Prilosec. With the cards having been marked in that way, Nexium looked like an improvement – which however was only small and shown in only two of the three studies."
> Hundreds of Iranian refugees are currently residing within the country

It is not very good example. Greece took 600K refugees, Hungary similar numbers, etc...

Problem is that those countries do not offer any social benefits. Refugee needs at least 600 euro/month to feel welcomed. Albania is actually very unfriendly towards refugees.
Postmate.js: Promise-based postMessage library
Very long ago, before index registers were a fancy new feature for the cool kids, one would modify the address fields of load/store instructions in order to stride through memory or traverse a list.
App has social/word of mouth buzz, is instant gratification, and is easy to pay for.
My point exactly. Not to mention you could just be in a car hacking away on their wifi.
Can you point me to a few of these "non sequiturs rationalizing piracy"? I can't find them, and I'm just reading people criticizing the state of the law and its penalties.
Ask HN: How (not) OK is it to analyze text from SciFi books using torrents?
I had a cool idea today I wanted to try. It would be a comparison of popular science fiction and fantasy books and the language used in those books. I would absolutely love to share my results on the internet.

I worry though that it would be crossing too many lines to download ebook torrents and also post my text analysis results.

Is torrenting ebooks too immoral? Are there other options to getting plain text scifi/fantasy books?
So how does one fix bugs in ProDOS 2.0.3? I assume John Brooks does not have the ProDOS source code. Is he patching the old binaries?
A Harsh Message for Big Data Vendors
The post has a misleading headline.

It doesn't expose anything and mostly just whines about Uber's valuation.

If anything it underscores the challenges of disruption and the fluid nature of the on-demand services.

It may even be a case for opportunity in the space because this seems to indicate that people want it, but no one has gotten it right, yet.

I don't know if this is a conclusion or an indictment, "It’s increasingly obvious that Uber’s $69 billion valuation makes sense only in a world where it’s the only player in town—with workers who are either squeezed or replaced with robots." Either way, it's silly.
Perfect timing! I was post processing my some of my night photography pictures recently. Maybe a silly question (I'm definitely not an astronomy pro) but, is that the milky way I got on my pic here? - https://www.instagram.com/p/BKWqWHZAQps/
What is the equivalent book for Python and data science?
Anybody else having trouble with the link that they provide to their "Quick Start" documentation?

I can't see all the code unless I zoom out on it:

https://react-router-website-xvufzcovng.now.sh/quick-start
>people on HN don't want to work their way up, then want it handed to them

Yes. How terrible would that be. How terrible would it be for someone to have a title / position commiserate to their skills, not how good they are at office politics.
Why do people buy coffee instead of caffeine pills? Why do people buy Red Bull instead of coffee? Why do people buy 5 Hour Energy instead of Red Bull?

People like choice.
I've got some audio from Jon Kabat-Zinn, and sometimes I use it when meditating, sometimes not.

However, people pay for stuff sometimes for the psychological effect. For example, we pay to have someone clean our house. But the day before they come to clean, we pre-clean. It keeps us accountable to not letting clutter take control.

I listen to the Kabat-Zinn audio, not so much for the instruction, but that it helps keep me "on the cushion" for a longer duration. Without it, I'm more likely to get distracted and stop early to do something else.

So sometimes that is the actual value, the accountability. It's an intangible value.
He refers to Stephen Pinker as a 'psycholophaster'.

Having never heard it before, I looked it up. It appears that Taleb made it up.

The acronym PHAST stands for 'participatory hygeine and sanitation transformation'.

'The approach is a participatory learning methodology that seeks to help communities improve hygiene behaviours, reduce diarrhoeal disease and encourage effective community management of water and sanitation services'

So my best guess is that Pinker is someone who applies this sort of methodology to mental hygiene. I'm not sure the term will catch on quite the way 'Black Swan' did.
>If your code blows up in production on a Saturday afternoon, and you don't answer email/skype/phone, you've effectively left me in the shit.

Um, why aren't you calling the person on-call? If you have up-time requirements then you write out-of-hours terms into your contracts and have designated staff.
I've wanted to fake my death in Facebook for some time. A kind of blaze of glory.

It seems remarkably simple, all I needed to do is to get an obituary in a local paper, and fill in this form https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/234739086860192. How hard can that be right?

Unfortunately my wife put a stop to it soon as I told her.
The bulk of a social network's value is in who is using it. Unfortunately, the medium that twitter provides is so crippled that, for me, that value is too low, no matter who I follow and interact with.
So what if taxpayers are paying for it? Companies need to make a profit.

Is there a specific reason why the price is unreasonable? (don't anchor the previous price)
I've never seriously considered it, though there were times during my previous marriage that no one would have faulted me for trying. That said, if I were going to it would be hiking or camping, outside of the state I'm in now, and I would have to prepare incrementally over a year or so. Buying or making survival gear, stuffing away $5 at a time here and there, and preparing myself to live off the land for the foreseeable future.

The reason I say that is because it's becoming much more difficult to be a "nobody" in an urban environment. You can only disappear until your first run-in with police. Even if you've never been arrested you're still in the system.
Twitter is loosing users because of lack of innovation. They aren't adding necessary new features. Even the existing investors aren't happy.

What features should they introduce. any suggestion?
It is interesting to me to hear how many say it doesnt have value to them. For me one aspect alone is worth it and that is real time news. It makes everything else look archiac.You can also scan a wide range of peoples opinions and find varied sources and angles fast.
I was going to say the same thing, ex: with rails callbacks...it's hard to know exactly what is going to happen LOL.
I would say the vast majority (greater than 99.99%) of raises come from the threat of quitting. That can either be an active threat (where you approach management for a raise to set expectations) or a passive threat, where management wants to make sure you aren't looking around for better opportunities, and those opportunities will often pay more than they have to raise your salary to keep you, which makes retaining you after you've shopped around much more expensive.

Large companies that realize losing institutional knowledge is costly put in programs to make sure there are good expectations on what is required to achieve the next position and what the pay-scale range is for the next position (which also helps fight racism/sexism). You see this at Google (and I'm sure many other large companies), who had identified this as a problem that needed to be solved.
Hyperparameter Optimization 101 [video]
I got the same idea, plus an implication of "if you're not worried about morality, this is still really hard". I imagine lastingly faking your death is often harder than getting away with murder.
I have a hard time putting into words how little interest I have in Minecraft personally, but I may have to buy a copy myself to see if I can get this working and get my daughter interested in it.
Real-world friends are the basis for your FBK graph, work colleagues are the basis for Linkedin. But Twitter? What's the community?

Regarding monetization: Twitter creates a lot of value - but its hard to monetize because the value is primarily positive externalities. News media benefits by publishing news on twitter, celebs reach their fans, politicians use it as a campaign tool. And Twitter makes very little from all this.

The irony: while telcos are fighting hard to avoid becoming commoditized dumb pipes; Twitter by design are a dumb pipe ferrying tweets.
How so? He seems very nice to me and people in general like him and his course.
These are great suggestions! I loved reading them because I do like to run and think it is good for health.

I will keep trying and adjusting.

BTW, do u run on snow? Jogging is my favorite winter activity hehe. I run up to -25C (-13F).

I am curious to hear if you have any experience running in winter.
Is there (or are there plans for) a version of this in Jupyter notebooks?
Ask your manager to have a couple days out of the week where you can "go dark" and focus on projects.
> Speed and agility are your only advantages.

Are you sure? Having experts in a given field isn't an advantage to look for? The mere fact that you're able to turn on a dime if necessary without having to reorganise thousands of employees and projects towards your new goal?

If your definition of "startup" includes "doing things that literally anybody else with enough money could do" and "trying to establish a monopoly at all costs", speed and agility are things you need. Unfortunately, that's the definition that most of SV seem to use. But if you're trying to push boundaries and do something new with experts in your chosen field? Not so much.
From a tech talk for SF Bayarea Machine Learning Meetup at Heroku, recorded by Hakka Labs. Second ever tech talk!
Artistic Interpretation of Reporting
Weaponize is the new leverage. A while back I noticed people started using "leverage" instead of "use". Now we're moving on to "weaponize".
There is a pretty big difference between taking in the people of the same kin and people from another culture far far away.
How many Serbian Kosovars did the Albanians give hospitality?
Layered systems do not have to be 'monolithical'. Note that we're both at this moment using layered systems to have this conversation.

> A layered monolith can still easily have random people cut across boundaries without you knowing because there are hundreds of engineers all working in the same system.

I appreciated your final word regarding "social reasons" and I think we're in strong agreement in that regard.

In the final analysis, it seems accurate to say that Microservices approach permits runtime operational [micro] payments towards organizational and analytical debt [1].

The hypothetical system(/straw man?:) you posit above is indicative of organizational, not architectural, failure/deficiency.

[1]: in the 'technical debt' sense.
Difficult indeed. This happened to a guy in Ohio - he just up and left, and was declared dead in absentia.

He wasn't charged with anything because he never pretended to be dead (and also because he was legally dead and therefore tricky to prosecute). But, he went before a judge and totally failed to get the declaration reversed. Last I heard, he's still just dead for legal purposes.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/10/10/jud...
I created this as a kids learning tool: http://webblocks.uk/

Has a built in code editor. Had the opportunity to run a few workshops around it. Kids seemed to enjoy it.
So? Money is a representation of human effort. Nobody wants to work for free or invest for 0% gain.

Is there a reason you think the price should be lower? (remember people working need money too)
I guess the mods here aren't driving, but they did give the directions?
When I saw Apple's playground story yesterday, my first reaction was that it would be benchmarked against Minecraft. Perhaps an example of the submarine [1]?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
That's a redundant question. Zabbix is why not zabbix.
There's a large number of such books, though none that are as authoritative with respect to Python (this is a statement about the size of Python's community vs. R, not necessarily about the authors):

- via Wes McKinney, creator of pandas (which makes Python about as close to R as you can get): https://www.amazon.com/Python-Data-Analysis-Wrangling-IPytho...

- http://joelgrus.com/2015/04/26/data-science-from-scratch-fir...

There are a bunch of books specific to machine learning too though I haven't read them myself.
​Oracle abandons NetBeans to Apache
> "Secret questions" are almost always not two factor, they are "Wish It Was Two Factor".

You are right. I was going along with what I perceived as my parent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12509768 )'s identification of 'secret' questions with TFA, but I shouldn't have. Thank you for the correction.

(Also, although surely there aren't many such people around here, for anyone who doesn't get your reference: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/WishItWas-TwoFactor- .)
Ha... I live in Waltham right on the edge of Newton and I think I saw the guy and I assumed it was just a new fangled baby Bjorn. At the time I just assumed the baby wasn't attached.

If I lived somewhere else it probably would have made a bigger impression on me but I honestly see weird devices all the time in the Boston area (particularly fairly bizarre recumbent bikes and skating devices particularly as you approach Cambridge).
It's very relevant. With the incentives in place now, the most profitable thing a drug company can do is alter an existing drug enough to extend patent protection for as long as possible. It's sleazy.

Are you not bothered at all about the EpiPen situation? Martin Shkreli doesn't make you angry?

A pharmacologist friend once told me that the best way for a drug company to get a customer for life is to make sure they don't cure or kill them. She was joking, but I think it's true.
I noticed the "this is legal" claim in the article, but surely taxes become a huge problem? Even if you're not working, you'd end up either failing to file or revealing that you're still alive.
This is one of my favorite hobbies when I get to a spot with lower light pollution than I'm used to. If it helps you can use tools like Google Sky Map to see where the sun is relative to where you're aiming. I am cheap so I ended up getting a Rokinon FE14M-C 14mm F2.8 Ultra Wide Lens for my DSLR. No autofocus but you'll be shooting at infinity anyway.

For inspiration check out https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography. A lot of the people who post will share the tricks of their trade and there are some awfully impressive shots I've seen.

Edit: The reddit sub also has a list of public data for you to try your post-processing skills on: https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/comments/2urd0p/ra....
Lame astroturf rhetoric. The poster has a legitimate point and didn't write the BBC article.
Not many of us are likely to need advice on how to fit in, in prison.

Or are we?
I am half tempted to try and find out.