skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX is showing that this sort of thing is within reach. Before the last few years, I would have looked at the current state of the art and politics of rocket technology and space exploration and dismissed this plan as a fanciful dream that could never happen. SpaceX has been killing it, though. They've been building new engines, landing rockets, and it's only a matter of time until they re-fly one; this is the sort of real progress we haven't seen in decades, and it's all in service of solving some of the thorniest bits of the "new" plan. I think it's time to reset our expectations and believe that something like this is possible. Musk himself said it's a long shot, and obviously it is, but I don't think it's rational to dismiss SpaceX after what they've already shown us they can do.
I'm not arguing about the objective benefits in safety. I'm arguing that your average Joe is not going to let the nerds create a huge hassle for everyone too poor / not wanting a self driving car. This is a social issue.
I thought we were over the "torture the interviewee" interview stuff, this blows my mind

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Olaf : This is just to Fred. Fred and I probably talked for 45 minutes–a long time. Then Fred gave me a really brutal mathematics problem ...

Okay. So there are 100 lockers in a row. They’re all closed, okay? A kid goes by. He opens every single locker. A second kid goes by. Now he closes every other locker, every second locker. Third kid comes by, every third locker. If it’s open, he closes it. If it closed, he opens it. Then the fourth kid goes by. Every fourth locker, he changes the state. And now 100 kids go by. What is the state of the lockers after 100 kids go by?

...

Craig : What was the actual job?

Olaf : Customer support
Yeah, even BB10 was pretty solid. It was a completely different operating system that kept the name, and the result was that nobody realized how much it had changed.
Rest/JSON is not a RPC. Technologies like Thrift can be used for RPC. It depends on how you define low friction for rest + JSON. JSON is schemaless, and that can be great for prototyping, but as soon as deployed services get out of sync, in terms of how they communicate, it becomes more of a burden than an advantage. Thrift, protobuf, avro, can enforce schemas and can raise exceptions for communication mismatches so less defensive programming is needed checking json responses. For internal service communication, I really think using a schema enforcing communication protocol is a good thing.
Most bakeries use commercial yeast in addition to starter in what they call sourdough. If you haven't already been doing this, you need to ask if there's commercial yeast in their sourdough. You might need to shop around to find a bakery that does it pure.

My partner has a similar condition (not celiac, not gluten sensitive, but 'something in bread' sensitive) and she found that sourdough from locally made starter was way easier on her system than anything from bakeries or the store.

(Source: We've been experimenting with breadmaking at home, so I've learned more than I ever expected to about bread over the past year.)
Because I get paid way more than I did in my mid thirties.
It makes me really unhappy to see comments on HN that liken human beings to garbage, even if they are ignorant human beings making dangerous choices. It makes me even more unhappy to see that such a comment is the #1 voted comment on a front-page story. If this situation is not corrected today, I will take a one-year break from commenting on HN. I encourage anyone else who values basic decency to other human beings to join me.
This project was posted here 6 months ago, but has since evolved quite a bit. Version 1.1.0 was recently released, so I personally wanted to hear HN's thoughts on this more stable version of the project. (I am not affiliated.)
Breastfeeding is recommended by every medical body for most populations. (Obviously there are some populations where the risks outweigh the benefits) it's about the least controversial thing ever.

Home birth only puts your own family's health at risk so very few people will care.

Your choice to not vaccinate is a grave danger to the population as a whole so yeah people are gonna get pissed off as hell.

Your attitude of "everyone is out to get me" isn't healthy or constructive.
These Medical Terms Still Bear the Mark of the Third Reich
What exact method are you referring to with tracking pixels? I'm only aware of doing so based on the cache, which can be defeated by clearing the cache.

Loading pixels can be used to allow cross-site communication, but that's not really what's under discussion here (and FWIW doesn't run afoul of the security model I expect from a browser)
All metaphors and similes are leaky. The point is to focus on the ways it works and doesn't work, because each has the possibility to expand your thinking on a topic. The original comparison could have only worked in a singular facet, yet that would still make it a valid, correct and possibly useful simile. Here you've expanded on some ways the two things are different, which is also generally the point of using an analogy, in that it promotes that thinking as well.

> You can't fork the US or an individual state in the same way you can download a different distro to your Raspberry Pi.

Well, you can (in that you can fork the rules and structures), it's just finding the resources (people and location) to make use of this new government is hard, because we are currently resource constrained. In the past, when land was plentiful, this happened. It happened to some extent with the Pilgrims (although it mostly a separation from the prior church, not the government, although I don't doubt it was also viewed as a partial separation from the government due to the distances involved). If we start colonizing Mars at some point, I'm pretty sure there will be some more separatist movements and forking of governments.

Another way to look at this is that you can fork the government right now, you just can't supercede the rights of the current government you are part of. To follow the resource and forking metaphor, you can virtualize governments to your heart's content, but in cases where your rules conflict with the host government, you can emulate the result but you can't enforce it. That is, Ring 0 doesn't care what you think you can do, the rules are the rules.
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being down voted for what?

None of what i said is remotely controversial.
Great work! This looks very sophisticated and polished. I hesitate to detract at all from their good work so I don't know why I'm even saying this, maybe just looking for commiseration, but in my career I've found that collaborating on any kind of design work is a guaranteed way to ruin it.
Show HN: Twitter bot that calls Congress
http://voiceunsilenced.com

Currently calling Congresspeople in CA after the shooting in El Cajon. Each time another shooting happens, we update the zip code, and the bot calls the Congresspeople in that area.

Open source version here: https://github.com/keithhamilton/voiceunsilenced
This has been scattered around the existing comments, but I'd be really interested to hear people who are keto comment explicitly on its perceived cognitive effects. I know a number of pretty successful scientists who have told me they feel that being keto provides them a significant performance advantage. I'm really interested in how it affects perceived energy, clarity of thinking, fatigue, and creativity.

I'm gearing up for keto induction myself in the next month (the social things are the hardest for me to deal with, so require a lot of planning to make it feasible), but I'd love to hear (or be pointed to) stories on this topic, especially for knowledge workers / intellectual-types.
> Purely based on population numbers it is difficult to believe the bay area has a higher concentration of educated people.

At this point, I don't think it's arguing that. There's a critical mass of domain specific professionals in SV, pure and simple.

The argument is that if anyone wants to create a competitor to SV, they'd be playing catch up because there is already an established core in SV. You'd need to peel away a large number of folks already established there before that concentration is no longer as strong as it currently is.

There's a limited number of experts in the world. Wherever has the highest concentration is going to have an innate advantage in terms of appeal, regardless of cost, etc. Creating an affordable alternative elsewhere can't compete on that level.
> I mean I did do light cardio on and off, but I think it was mostly the diet that did it for me.

Most likely. The amount of calories burnt by exercising is surprisingly low. Unless you really do a lot of it simply eating a bit less may be easier, esp. because you get hungry after exercising which easily leads to more intake than you have burned before.
Why is it here?

The other day US have killed another 62 Syrians and over hundred wounded by mistake. Still no news here about it.

https://www.rt.com/news/359678-us-strikes-syrian-army/
I suppose one way to do so is to build an electro-thermal equivalent of a low-bypass turbofan, with a jet section to deliver high-velocity thrust and a fan section to deliver low-velocity thrust.
They use NTSC-J, which is slightly different. I remember it as being different enough to be incompatible with US NTSC, but it doesn't look like it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC#NTSC-J

However, Japan uses both 60hz and 50hz power, so I wonder what that does to frame rate.
15 grams of sugar is above the daily recommended sugar intake for adults. Recent research indicates that 10 grams daily is a more realistic limit for maintaining health.
Internships for Starting Undergraduates in London
Hello all,

I am a first-year undergraduate in London looking to obtain a software engineering internship and gain experience in the field during my time here.

What is the best way to get started? Do you have any tips/advice for CV/resume related items as well as for recruiting, networking and outreach? Especially since I'm just starting out, what should I list in place of work experience?

Is there a specific type of company that typically recruits first-year undergraduates, and is there an archetypical progression of sorts in terms of work experience (e.g. are small-mid size start-ups more accessible to first-years than the Bign 4, are there typical seasonal employment cycles, is part-time work common, is off-cycle employment rare)?

Also, I am from the United States. I do plan on interning in the U.S. during most breaks and working full-time upon graduation. If anyone is familiar with this, I would greatly appreciate if they could fill me in on any differences between London and U.S. application processes as well as on anything useful to know about applying to U.S. companies from London.

Thank you all very much in advance.
There are horror stories on the consumer side too. Multiple withdrawals when only one was instructed, delays in getting money after a buy/sell, locking people out of their accounts still with Bitcoin in them without providing a reason, canceled buy orders during a volatile market, and what not.

r/bitcoin is littered with such user complaints. It is sad that the best way to get support on Coinbase issues is to go on reddit to complain.

Many people have moved to Circle for a smoother consumer experience.

p.s. no relation to either Coinbase or Circle except as a consumer.
Or until the power is cycled. That's why it's best to do the crazy monkey or whatever it's called, walk into the production offline datacenter, online for testing (you do have geographically redundant datacenters right?) and pull out a half dozen random NIC cables. You can simulate with software tools but nothing beats the real test.
I'd argue bart was more the main character in the first few seasons. Even though dialogue count doesnt support it. There were a number of key episodes about him. Though others existed around the other simpsons too. Like homer becoming the safety inspector, lisa meeting bleeding gums murphy.
Good luck with the new position. I'm also an RF guy, but do some SDR programming, mainly as a hobby, but had a job offer over it recently.
There are some flattering male characters, too. Smithers is loyal, smart, ultra-competent, and his only real (albeit gigantic) flaw is being utterly blinded by love. Doctor Hibbert finds humor in unfortunate situations and is sometimes a bit of a mercenary, but he's highly competent and generally kind. Apu is a successful and extremely hard-working businessman whose catchphrase involves being polite to his customers, although he also tends to screw them over.

Most of the male (and female) characters are ridiculous, because the show is fundamentally about ridiculous people. But that's not the only kind of character they have.
Venezuela crisis: I flew to U.S. to buy toilet paper
The fundamental paradigms that React encourages have made me a better developer. Thanks to the React team!
I'll chime in here. I work for a startup with two co-founders, one in his 50s and one in his 40s. I'm in my 30s and have two developers in their 20s.

The founders are smart and know how to interview for talent, not age.
Highly politicized stories aren't a good fit for HN to begin with, but if anyone can suggest an accurate, neutral title, we can change it.
Come hack on Bugcrowd on Bugcrowd
Agreed, which is my main complaint: the older (non-retina) MBP was better at sustained CPU usage (at least in my experience - this is 100% anecdotal and non-scientific). Apple used to produce a machine that was suited for the things I do, but the rMBP doesn't feel as capable as the thicker, older vanilla MBP.

It makes me consider buying a Mac Mini or Mac Pro for audio work, but I can't justify the cost right now, since audio is mainly a hobby and my MBP works fine for most of what I do (multi-track recording live events with Dante).

I was drawn to the MBP when I switched in 2009 because of the build quality, the OS, and its ability to handle professional workflows, but it seems that they're abandoning that use case. My favorite machine of all time is still my '09 Core 2 Duo MBP.

The extra portability is nice, but if I wanted portability over power, I would have bought an Air (or I suppose a Macbook now).
> Apple put real computers in users' pockets. Blackberry just made texting and writing emails (not even full-fledged emails either!) easier to write. That's it.

For some people email is all they're looking to do and that's why it feels so much more productive. Unfortunately for BlackBerry it's a pretty small niche.
How Does Angular2 Work? Part 2 – bootstrapModule()
Are you saying the lack of access to data will be the issue? Or following health laws?

If they get some limited access to data, develop the machine learning software better than anyone, whats stopping one of the big pharma companies from shelling out $1B to acquire the company? Getting access to a tech team + IP could be very valuable. Pharma companies aren't known for their software teams either and this seems to be the core of their business offering here. Not the tests that everyone's already doing... I mean I just reread the article and they aren't claiming this is their core business proposition at all (as the OP seems to imply).

Even Illumina makes $2B in revenue currently. There's lots of money in the pharma industry and they always converge on a few big firms. They don't need to be original to provide real technical value here.

Unlike the pharma industry where you shield your IP with lawyers for 10 yrs, being first means nothing in the software world. It's about who can do it best.

The founders comments here also clarifies that they aren't going after new interesting areas because they are focusing on commercializing something that works right now and advancing that data science aspect of it, instead of making a future play on some original R&D.
Thanks!

Looks like the manual locking that I added around reading/writing the data is working out OK. Time and a lot of testing will have to tell.

Despite all that I still like SQLite a lot. It's so incredibly easy to deploy and runs on all the platforms my app is targeting.
Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Launches Three New Experimental Features
There are four additional experiments listed under this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2#See_also

So that's at least five.

In Poland, there's a Mars-like base being built right now, though not aimed at testing self-sufficient ecosystems but equipment and work procedures of potential off-world colonists. My guess is there's more of such little-known projects happening.

The point being, the number of projects related to living off-world is slowly increasing, and my guess it will only go up as the perspective of Mars mission comes closer (SpaceX is doing a lot of good work making this close to "very soon" in peoples' minds). So we're definitely not "giving it one little shot".
If "overpromise now and (under)deliver later" is the most effective and most efficient way of getting things done, isn't that worth all the disadvantages of such a strategy?
Those type of interviews have been the most enjoyable. Having to code a function to do a very specific thing while also having to come up with the algorithm with strict requirements in a half hour while the interviewer watches over your shoulder are the worst. And then having to repeat that for 4+ more interviewers just isn't worth it to me anymore.

I did an interview at Fitbit where I did a phone interview with the manager who asked me algorithmic questions, then I had to write a program and make it optimized and pretty which took about a day to write, then I had to do about a 4-5 hour interview on site where I was drilled by about 8-10 different people 2 at a time to write code on a whiteboard. After all that and taking off work to do it I didn't get an offer saying my experience doesn't match up with what they are looking for. It was after that I realized I'm not going to go through all that bullshit anymore.
Every example you've listed has to do with subverting the free market though legislation. You didn't list other subversive forces on the market, but there's also a pseudo-regulation through non-governmental force (death threats, other threats), and boycotting / consumer groups (large groups of consumers form a sort of monopsony, refusing to purchase from corporations without a given policy).

If any of these three hold in the case of the market for women's pants pocket size, please let me know. In that case I would agree there is sexism in that market, and sign petitions etc to stop the market subversion. Examples of evidence:

* A law on the books requiring ladies pants pockets to be under a certain size. (If such a law does exist, I've just verified Amazon is violating it btw)

* A police report that (for example) a Macy's executive has been threatened over the pocket size of the pants they stocked at a store.

* The website of a large consumer group, officially boycotting a retailer due to their women's pants pocket policy.

If such evidence doesn't exist, then you should strongly consider the null hypothesis: that the overwhelming force governing the size of women's pants pockets is Adam Smith's invisible hand.

This is the default assumption when looking at markets because covert coercion on such a vast scale (literally all retailers) would require considerable organizational effort, and would consume considerable cost to maintain. We're talking government scale action, sustained over hundreds of years (see OP's story), with no leaks. All to keep pocket sizes small. That's simply not plausible.

Again, I'm not saying it didn't happen in those cases you mention above -- which is to say I think you could provide such evidence as I'm requesting for your examples -- I'm saying you can't do that here because OP's theory is a conspiracy theory.
The ancestors are not among us
Oh, I can think of a couple of reasons:

a) Relevant coverage does not exist. (I find it unlikely that full real-time coverage of the globe is available.)

b) Coverage exists, but is kept secret so as not to disclose surveillance capabilities.
You do realize that both California and New York have very large rural areas?
But no one uses them like that any more. Because we remember back when people dropped all kinds of shit into system directories, and the result was awful.
It was an explicit reconstruction policy. The government wouldn't prosecute the traitors for treason, because we were once again a big happy family. This is why 10 Army bases are named after confederate generals[0]. Sometimes, even after really crappy generals. (See Fort Bragg [ibid.])

The modern movement of embrassing "southern heritage" with the confederate flag, holidays, and monuments come from an reaction to the civil rights movement. Stone Mountain in your example was the site of the founding of the second Klu Klux Klan, which was then purchased by the state in 1958. The site and the history of memorial are deeply entwined with the KKK. I truly urge everyone to read the Wikipedia page about this site if you have any doubts about this.[1]

[0] http://time.com/3932914/army-bases-confederate/
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain
If an attacker is in your system, and if the data in question ends up in a database, then it is either decrypted or trivially decryptable.
An alternative is to use Jsonnet [0] (a JSON/YAML templating language).

You can define an inheritance relationship, where your template inherits pretty much everything EXCEPT the environment variables. Or the jsonnet cli lets you specify variables to be replaced in the template.

There's some kubernetes flavored examples in [1].

[0] http://jsonnet.org/

[1] https://github.com/google/jsonnet/tree/master/case_studies/k...
It isn't the things that you buy that linearly increase (as you correctly pointed out) as much as labor, and any thing/service that has a large labor component.

Because the staff delivering that labor also experiences an X multiplier in shelter costs (and for lower-wage workers, the multiplier is highly regressive and frequently much higher for them to obtain an equivalent quality of life), the labor input cost is increased. Unless you DIY everything, including not eating out (restaurants have very high labor input costs), fixing your own vehicles, do your own plumbing/electrical/HVAC, do your own dry cleaning/dentistry/vision care, etc., you'll see commensurately higher costs for any material goods and services with high proportion labor input costs.

For busy single professionals, two-income couples, or families, it is not realistic to even mitigate these costs. A big chunk will unavoidably come out in property taxes for everyone, paying for public schooling: all those administrative staff, operations staff and teachers, wanting to live as close-in as they can afford, paying those linearly-increased dirt costs, will be expressed in your property tax bill.

For the vast majority of people not connected with the real estate industry, they are far better off commoditizing their shelter cost complement, see [1] for this complements concept. This means vigorously opposing any increase of the "value" of their homes, even when selling. In the US, you will never, ever make back that "increased value" in the average time most US homeowners hold a mortgage (7 years), if you honestly accounted for all the actual costs you bear in all consumed goods and services for increased real estate prices. That increased value only benefits those who have a high churn rate on their properties.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
As an added bonus, this means someone armed with the real answers to those questions won't be able to get access.

When Sarah Palin's "personal" email was hacked during the 2008 election, the attacker used her Wikipedia page and recovery questions.[0]

[0]: http://nypost.com/2008/09/19/dem-pols-son-was-hacker/