skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile in this universe

well the GP said "landing", so that disqualifies your mention of the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Observer, and Deep Space 2 was carried by the Mars Polar Lander, so that really only counts as one loss.

The statement was not "it's actually weird how US has only had success at landing on mars". It's still difficult to land things on another planet. The expense and the distance limit quick iteration. So...pretty successful, yeah.
Ask HN: Why calling C in mainstream scripting languages is not so simple?
This is how Newlisp http://www.newlisp.org imports and calls C printf function from libc library.

(set 'library "/usr/lib/libc-2.24.so")
(import library "printf")

(printf "%s\n" "hello world")

The question is why is it no so simple in other scripting languages??
I'd say it has more to do with demographics than specs. Nintendo's demographics usually only buy first party titles, and Nintendo hasn't done much to market themselves towards the xbox/ps demographics. If they're paying devs to have Skyrim/NBA on their consoles, that's a good first step, and hopefully a sign of things to come.
OK, then I should have said the "party that wraps themselves in the constitution any chance they get".
The vulnerability specifically has to do with Angular being used in extensions where the extension has more privileges than the webpage it's affecting. Judging by http://www.slideshare.net/x00mario/an-abusive-relationship-w..., the issue has to do with a general design feature of Angular: it runs eval-like functions on text within the page DOM. Angular simply isn't built for the page DOM is controlled by an attacker (ie. Angular is running in a higher-privilege extension, and the webpage controls the DOM and wants to inject code into the higher-privilege extension). Angular has band-aids over a few specific ways that this can be taken advantage of, but it's extremely difficult to make bullet-proof (as blacklisting strategies often are) and it's not an issue that affects regular non-extension web pages.
Verdun (http://store.steampowered.com/app/242860) looks pretty good. Maybe not AAA good, but close. Normal mapping, particle effects, HDR/bloom, etc.

Umbrella Corps is darn close to AAA as well (http://store.steampowered.com/app/390340/).

Just because most Unity games are indie doesn't mean that AAA studios can't make a good looking Unity game. It just means that most studios using Unity don't have the money to make a good looking game.
I'm glad that SIP has no footing here.
REST/HATEOS is an entirely orthogonal issue to the structural issues of the javascript code that he is discussing.

So are the models referenced in the image you link to.
>They should think on how they express themselves in these conversations?

Everything we say, including the way we say it, is a reflection of our values and though processes. If the way somebody talks off-record is drastically different from the way he/she talks on record, the problem is not the off record talk. The problem is that this mismatch indicates that the on-record talk doesn't actually reflect the person's true values and opinions and is just a facade.
Thanks! We think what we've built can potentially give you the best of both worlds. No one is going pigeonhole your entire API solution into just serverless infrastructure. But a portion of it can be and should be if you want the most efficient cost of compute and manageability.
half the country? first it's only expected voters which is like 40 pct of america. then only around 30 pct of those support trump. so yes i'm fine not associating with 12 pct of people.
And since life probably formed (in the same way, in deep-sea vents) on Mars and Earth in parallel, and was later exchanged via impacts, life on Earth is probably partially Martian anyway
Cardiogram: How could an app save your life?
Sounds like a perfect example of why the "right to hack" is crucially important. If Tesla tries to monitor and control the way I use my car, I should be able to hack the firmware and cut them off.
How Trumpism Threatens Silicon Valley
"I saw that debate yesterday – you people don't deserve these beautiful screens. Ohhh, glorious glorious pixels!"

"Oh, you're only downloading the software you need, when you need it, from the network? That's smart, you must be really smart to fit all these pixels into 640k"

"Who cares if everyone will need the 'core'. Back in the 80ies the rule is: if you can avoid a goto, doso!"
Well, I don't care about their personal dealings, and I tend to not worry if the phrasing of their communication is less than tactful, but I do think a lot of private conversation about public matters is held by those in power, and is private only because it's damning rather than because it's exposure is a national security threat.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12754526

It was hyperbole. I personally think that the language is clear too. Here's a good post explaining the usage of the phrase "For all I know" since apparently HN isn't familiar with the idiom https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/92207/what-is-th...
I'm not sure what logic you are using here. Is it "if someone does something bad, they no longer have the right to data about themselves"?

Privacy is something like the inability of one's neighbor to get any information about you. That would come if each person could anonymously some portion of the time or if there wasn't a way to aggregate the trails people leave or if the aggregations were somehow protected from all but "good people". Good luck on the later two parts - so anonymity seems like the main thing that's going to secure privacy.

But some efforts to stop aggregation are good even if they are going to be something of a fig leaf. Especially, it would be good if an ethos where bad actors were punished proportionately rather than in the "you something wrong so you no reason to complain your entire life is ruined and you'll have to sleep under bridge forever - unless you go to prison" manner.
Yes, across a public interface in a shared library. The SysV ABI just requires that the callee passes a pointer to the structure return value as a hidden parameter; there's nothing saying that pointer must point to different memory than the named object in the program. (Consider how you would implement the call to MyFunction and MyFunction itself at an assembly level that would absolutely require the compiler to allocate two different bigthing objects.)
And? You'll fill it out, possibly lying, possibly not, and hand it back to them. They will not read it, they will serve you, and then they will attempt to get payment from you at some point in the future.
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12748805

I've changed the original wording.
based on that statement and others my read is basically:

We know a lot of important people and they gave us information you don't have, to which we have made business decisions that affect you that we didn't communicate. Did we tell you? no. Now that you know, are we going to elaborate? nope. trust us, our people on the inside will be proven correct soon enough, so you can thank us later.
Are all the star systems blinking in much the same way? If so, that suggests a natural phenomenon. Or there is a vast interstellar empire with a fascination for sending out the same kind of pulsed signals. Which pretty much tips it towards natural phenomenon.
Did you read my comment? It wasn't about the piece, but the comment I responded to.
No, they're far less person-dense than rail transport on dedicated lines. Having a human operator is not the bottleneck to the scale-up; the high space requirement is. (Also, the need to yield to all the other traffic.)

They can, however, supplement rail infra, by covering last-mile in the suburbs for commuter lines, or off-hour transport when it's too noisy or unprofitable to run the lines.
You can avoid the restrictions on Teslas by not purchasing a Tesla. You can avoid the restrictions set by government by...well, you can't really, unless you want to leave where you are.
Trying it a few times in training is not stupidity, it's just curiosity.

Doing it over and over in a game, even when your coach and teammates tell you not to, is stupidity...
I though it would be funny to edit my comment to me it look like I was right all along. On reflection, this was petty. My original comment was mistaken in just the manner described.
> They might not "focus" on it (whatever that means-- it has the feature, it works, what more "focus" do you need?), I suppose.

To me, it means many first party titles are designed around using it. For instance on Nintendo consoles: the main Mario series games, Mario Kart series, Smash Bros series, Mario Party series, Mario Sports series, Nintendo Land, Splatoon, etc, etc, are all designed with multiplayer in mind.

I guess the difference is, it's not just a couple of titles, or "it works", but instead it's a major company focus for their titles. That's a pretty big difference.
"What is San Francisco doing? Let's copy them!"

I'd honestly be surprised if this has ever been uttered out loud in America. San Francisco's governance problems are well-known across the country.

http://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/the-worst-run-big-...

The bay area economy is the envy of every city worldwide -- but the governance of SF sure isn't.
Maybe you should gift her with a newer pasta machine. :)

Pasta certainly isn't a staple of Finnish cuisine, but through family I have Italian relatives, and my parents have been making handmade pasta since before durum wheat was widely available here (it certainly was a very different world back then). Their hand cranked pasta machine has among other “heads” a tool for ravioli, taking in two sheets of pasta dough and automatically applying contents for each one it cuts. Certainly faster than filling them one by one, can't tell if you can taste the difference. (I really used to like pasta, shame that certain grains and I don't get well together.)
Yes, I think Wickard v. Filburn was incorrectly decided, and must be overturned, regardless of stare decisis. It seems that the comment I replied to had actually proposed an even more expansive interpretation of the commerce clause, which would broaden the federal government's power to regulate all state government activities with an impact on commerce, which I would interpret as absolutely everything.
Oops, accidently sent.

We're currently building an online editor that:

1 checks for compatibility of words in a sentence (essentially popularity)
2 give example sentences for a certain word
3 word suggestions depending on context.

Language models would be a decent way to check popularity though it would be noisy. Sentence level rewrites would be hard unless you make it template driven.
I'm not sure you're actually disagreeing with me here? SkyrimSE is using the upgraded "Creation Engine" variant of the same Gamebryo engine; that's what I was referring to. It's still Skyrim-era assets, for the most part, and that has a much bigger impact on performance and suitability for Tegra-esque hardware than the particulars of that flavor of the underlying engine.
We still have no idea what carries the force observed as inertia. While it may be a hypothesis that aliens exist, it's also a hypothesis that they don't. We know things have inertia, but have no idea why they do. We have a reasonable assumption that aliens exist. Proving they exist consists of finding an alien civilization, but proving they don't would include an exhaustive search of the entire universe. Inertia appears to be a universal force, but proving that would also require an fairly exhaustive search from everywhere in the universe.
I am not sure that I agree. It's hard for me to say where the responsibility for disclosure lies, but if I was Mozilla I'd need to find a good reason not to disclose such a vulnerability to the project owner/development team.

I am not sure that being asked not to disclose is a good enough reason without further justification; in fact it seems like a poor reason to me. Mozilla is in my view kind of a shepherd for internet users and I'd hope they'd fall more on the side of "let's not let our users get owned unnecessarily" than that of "let's sit on this vulnerability just because the disclosing party asked us to."
But what kind of conservative? Obviously not socially conservative. Do you mean fiscally conservative?
I agree that it's understandable in the current environment. I'm interested in thinking about how the environment would need to change to give us the company behavior we want.
The footnote thing tripped me up. Some time after reading Infinite Jest (and Gravity's Rainbow) I decided to take a shot at writing a novel, and I splattered it with footnotes. It was great fun, but it quickly becomes an annoying habit, the kind you know you don't want to do that but you constantly find yourself doing that anyway. (So breaking the habit was exceedingly annoying.)
Letters to a Young Artist in the Digital Age – Your Personal Creative Cloud
A previous HN discussion proposed the term "scaling deeper".

Scaling Horizontally - spending resources on adding more nodes to a cluster, so more work can get done in parallel.
Scaling Vertically - spending resources on adding computational power to individual nodes, so an individual job can get done faster.
Scaling Deeply - spending resources on understanding and optimizing an application, so each job can get done with less computational power.

Each of these can be thought of as an orthogonal axis, with its own curve of diminishing returns.
Oh, hahaha.
But seriously. Lots of events , entertainment and art things.
And i suspect some kind of complex measuring of things. Exactly what i'm not sure
The grandparent of my comment was a suggestion that ETs should be an explanation of last resort for any unexplained phenomenon, which seems highly sensible to me and worthy of support.

If you enjoy probabilistic arguments, then you'll appreciate why I think that B-vN probes are inevitable.

P(probes) = 1 - P(no probes)
= 1 - (1 - P(civ launches one probe))**Nciv

If you believe that Nciv is large (and it's the number of tech civilizations up to now, not just at the moment), then you have to argue that P(civ launches one probe) is tiny if you agree that we haven't observed a probe here yet.
Slack’s growth slows as it hits 1.25M paying work chatters
How many of them are Microsoft published, and how many of them are cross-platform?
Google sells cars?
Thanks. That is a helpful explanation.
That would be a valid argument if a) you didn't need your ID/Drivers license for virtually everything else that's good in society and b) You had to wait until registration day to get an ID card.

The fair thing to do is to require proper identification in elections. The fair thing to do is to make sure anyone that needs an ID/Drivers license is able to get one, if they are verifiable citizens.
Well, except for the Virtual Boy, and we all know how well that went. In fact, that could be the reason they don't do that anymore.
while could be true, its probably not currently the case.
One metric that I'll measure a framework by is the likelihood of finding an answer to a query that is not articulated in the concepts and terms used by the framework. This is especially useful when starting out.

DRF scores well here. It's designed in an intuitive way. The healthy community around it is a big plus as well. Can't count the number of times I've come across a SO article that had updated answers for the latest versions.

I only wish there was a way to make one time donations. Currently you have to sign up for a recurring plan.
The idea here is sound. It's essentially a reinvention of one way data flow in Flux: data flows down to components, events flow back to a central point (dispatcher in Flux, main.js in this example).

His implementation is a bit iffy though. How will his app look when there are dozens of components? A single main.js module with dozens of data fetching functions is going to be really hard to work with.
But why buy a new device when the old plays just fine? We can also all have a copy of the game and the console at home. Everyone brings their own controllers. It's fun and cheap.

Limiting to 4 players allows the night to be more than gaming night. If all 12 of us are there, it allows for some rotation (most of the time, we will be 4 to 8). While some of the guys/girls are playing, some others can be spectators or be at the kitchen table talking or having some beers. We can even rock both smash and board games at the same time!

The gamecube is really our main console... funny thing is none of us were gamecube lovers when it initially came out. Lots of PC, PS and Xbox players among us. Our only Nintendo time is when it's time to play together.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12286724

Origin blog post/series the 99% invisible post is on:
http://www.mcmansionhell.com/post/148605513816/mcmansions-10...
Yes, that's USA.
Elon's finances are as jaw-dropping, inventive and combustible as his rockets
interesting sort of dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691905 looks like the cipherbrief folks are rehashing this again?
Sounds like a seriously repressive state. If the law were used, it could be invalidated as it is in violation of a person's right to make records of their observations and, especially, their right to publish those records.
> - Companies with research in this space:

- Microsoft

-- "conversational speech recognition"

- Apple
Yeah I knew a lot of the Quake and Q2 guys in our circle, definitely quite a high-tier game. We had fun with Q3 but it was definitely a less brutal take on FPS skill than Q2 in my opinion. I swear HLDM was the absolute best because at first when the Tau Cannon could splash damage through walls and arc around corners, there was no other weapon like it in any game. Later Valve patched it down and whatnot, which made it easier on (1)Player population but was frustrating as it mandated a playing style change somewhat.
Golang Interface Pitfalls and Harnessing Io.Reader
As someone who lived in upper middle class Texas suburbia, I'm pretty desensitized to "McMansions".

Aside from older houses (usually near the city center, small, and can be expensive) or custom-designed houses (very expensive), there's not much choice if you actually care about this stuff. Even the new apartment/townhome complexes could be considered "McApartments".
That makes me wonder - would routing it under the park make it easier or harder to build? Lots of factors - property ownership, construction costs, land use restrictions...
Shashlik – Android Applications on Real Linux
Thats some solid hate right there. Not expected from Mozilla at all!
Show HN: SnapEDA Plugins – Find parts inside your circuit board design software
Not to derail this conversation, but I'm so happy I live in Canada. I don't understand why the US population is so vehemently against public healthcare.
So a vulnerability of this kind would not only affect Firefox but also Chrome and others?
If we contaminated Mars with microbial life from Earth, it would have a similar genetic signature to sequenced organisms on Earth. Assuming we could get a DNA sequencing machine up there, it would probably be obvious that the organism originated from Earth unless it was some previously undiscovered Archaea.
"They are not saying the Angular team is unaware of the problem, right?"

Are we just going to assume the folks at Mozilla are clairvoyants? How would they know what the Angular team knows? If it's known in general that the Angular team knows about this issue already, perhaps through other means, then the statement that they haven't disclosed this to the Angular team makes no sense. The statement is, "Mozilla is choosing to do it's part to keep Angular in the dark about this."
Anybody have any info on how the Switch will be backwards compatible with Wii U discs (i.e. a portable drive perhaps), and 3DS cartridges? I have a stack of Wii U games that hopefully will still be playable.
I got really sick of Ebay a while back and didn't buy much on there for a rather long time. Interestingly, now that Amazon's been going downhill, I've gone back to Ebay and have been getting a LOT of stuff there. I'm now finding it to be a much better place to get a lot of small stuff, such as parts for rebuilding small engines for yard equipment. It's not the easiest interface to work with when buying a bunch of small stuff, but they do let sellers consolidate orders and reduce shipping prices, it lets me keep track of my orders easily, and so many sellers are there with the lowest prices (lower than going to a dedicated parts-selling website, in my experience). Plus, it's easy to search by part number because the sellers list the part numbers right in the title. It's much harder to find this kind of stuff on Amazon for some reason.
Zuckerberg should look at his own aegist, chauvinist company and get rid of discrimination in his own company before critiquing others who he feels are not imbracing diversity.
Dear HN community,

I posted last month about our startup SnapEDA which makes free symbols and footprints available in multiple design formats when we released InstaPart: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12571200.

We just built new plugins so that you can search SnapEDA right inside your design tool and thought I'd post again to share it (hope that's ok with everyone). These new plugins are for Altium and Eagle. The plugins allow you to search models without having to leave your design environment.

This is a beta, so would love any feedback you might have. One thing on our roadmap is to add cloud-syncing of the libraries and user authentication right from the plugin. Would love to hear your thoughts on other features to add next!
You mean like real soccer vs. the 10-0 wins without a single back pass of FIFA '99? Yeah, that's horrible.
Well put, I don't do life but have plenty of experience with P&C and some professional coverage lines. Law of large numbers type stuff makes sense, and if their actuaries don't see it happening, then yeah get out! Totally in agreement with you that ZIRP's downstream consequences are significant, and, I believe, distasteful in the context of global markets.
So, there's so many problems with this i don't know where to begin. Since folks have already noted the "not notifying google" issue, let me point out another:

Prior to banning, i can find literally no discussion or details about this being about to happen (IE no notice), pretty much ever.

You can see it was initially noted here:
https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/commit/86f4dfb44355...

I can find no discussion around it (maybe it's there but i'm missing it? I looked in a lot of places).

You can see it fixed an issue to "warn third party developers of things we banned/don't advise", but there's nothing about initially banning anything there, and it was added with an initial ban list containing angular. I would have expected a page added, then a ban discussed, then a ban added. or something.

In fact, the details of the ban changed (https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/commit/2dcc2226e2ec...) repeatedly without notice either.

This seems really bad. I would have expected, at the very least, a heads up to extension developers or something or even a more public notice when it happened so that some discussion could be had about it.

Instead, it looks like the only way you would have found out about it is by trying to lint an extension and see it banned
(IE after you developed it), or somehow random browsing of doc pages mozilla has.
> It seems to have all of the characteristics of the "no point anymore without a winner"

It's like you have never even played California Games.
Ask HN: Embedded solution for construction machine
Hi HN guys,

Do you have any experiences with embedded sw/hw development for big machines working in construction industry?

Have you any funny stories or lesson learned advice?

We are currently working on side project - embedded datalogging solution for one big construction machine. We are very excited since this machine is working in 8km tunnel.
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