skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a bit more Googling, it appears that hydrazine's lifetime in (Earth) atmosphere is measured in hours. I'm not sure what that would be on Mars, or if soaking into the soil there would increase its lifetime.

It's a fun mental exercise, I guess -- I'd love to hear from somebody in the field who knew more about hydrazine -- but as the Opportunity rover is still a long (likely impossible) distance away from the crash site, it will likely just remain a mental exercise.
Odd thesis. Whatever comes before will influence how people perceive what comes after. Uses example of seeing clouds or coins; then buying a sofa. Those that saw soft things, bought softer sofas. Hm. I'm having trouble imagining how they measured that.

Then the opposite example is used - a queen says "I have a weak body but" and then excites the troops to battle. How is that similar? Its the opposite. They 'explain' it by suggesting the truthfulness of the initial statement establishes the truthfulness of the following statements. Very meta.

This sounds weak. Either 'pre-suasion' works one way or it doesn't? Which is it? I don't think the OP understood what they were saying. In fact, I think they made the whole thing up.
Yes! I wasn't aware that a second fly-over with a better imager was going to happen, but now I'm morbidly curious.
To play the devils advocate, where does this stop?

Do you deny them any sort of public space where they can communicate with each other?
On keeping secrets in comfort
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It seems to me that you've decided I fit some kind of preconceived archetype "people like you", which largely seems to consist of a lack of faith. "He's done X, why not Y?" Because when he promised X, he did so with a plan which accounted for the issues inherent in X. This is not the case for the orders-of-magnitude more ambitious Y.

"He's done incredible stuff, so take him at his word" is the kind of nearly religious suspension of logic I'm talking about, mixed with equally unfortunate hostility at the "unbelievers" (aka 'people like me'). That you end with a note of incredulity at the notion that I could have arrived at my viewpoints while fully informed walks the fine line between insulting me, and insulting yourself.
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In this case the password is hard coded in the firmware (and the web interface isn't aware of the telnet interface). They actually designed something where the password literally cannot be changed by the user :-/
What is wrong with curl | sh with HTTPS?

Linux does essentially the same thing with GPG signatures instead.
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So... if a company does all due diligence to perform a recall, but very few people actually send back their five dollar web camera. Is the company pretty much off-the-hook then if that customer's kept webcam gets hacked and is used to brick a nun's IoT pacemaker?
To me, that's what health insurance is. Insurance should be for rare (or at least uncommon) events. Flood, fire, car accident, etc.

But health "insurance" has crept into regular health maintenance. But that's not really insurance; that's more like an extended warranty for your life.
I think Apple is making a mistake by taking the privacy first approach. I strongly believe people will be trading privacy for convenience and companies which shamelessly mine the customer data will win.

This could also affect recruiting, since I assume it is more interesting to be working with AI projects in company like Facebook or Google where you have access to was amounts of customer information.
> Guess what looks better to management though?

Spot on. Not to mention all the future debugging time you saved by deleting code.
I take issue with Hans Rosling (even though i happen to live in Stockholm). His message is 'dont worry, they will have babies for 50 years, then it will be all ok'. Sub-saharan Africa will have a similar population density to south east Asia. The world will have 10 billion. That's ok. But the truth is we don't know the carrying capacity of the earth. It's deeply unpopular to say this, but the only way i can see us solving this collective action problem is with a world government.
This would be a lot more compelling if it included testimonials from actual projects bitten by any of the arguments against docker. On its own it just looks like a thorough but not necessarily real world rant.

Also it doesn't provide practical alternatives. The link to Guix at the end says not ready for production. I am having a hard time accepting the veracity of the contents if they recommend something that's not production ready.
Bravo to Ms Thomson for championing this kind of thinking. I also like her choice of languages -- m4!

Still I wish the write-up spelled out her thinking more. I think her two examples are supposed to be positive here-is-how-you do it cases. But then she immeditaely says they could be better, and even points out a serious problem with the second example.

The biggest thing though is culture and process: it's great to have style for leaving comments to your co-workers about restrictions and guarantees. But in the wrong work environment, those comments will be ignored. What I want to know is how to build the right environment.
Yeah that's kinda my point that deciding who lives and dies based on a line on a map seems kinda silly.

There is a peculiar similarity between foreign and domestic policy right now, in that at this time most of the minorities killed by the USA are being killed unjustly regardless of where they are on a map. Seems unfair to stop killing the locals and keep slaughtering innocent foreigners unless you invoke really weird doctrines like our folks have souls but theirs don't so they're not human, or that crossing a magic line in the dirt is the most important criteria of human rights rather than say, being human being the most important criteria of human rights.

We consistently treat life as cheap now. It'll be interesting to see what happens if we change to treat some life as separate but more equal than others or whatever ends up happening.

I suspect rather than a decline in globalist neoconservative warmongering we'll get a big dose of cognitive dissonance.
Not to mention there are dozens of other frameworks that support using Javascript directly like Vert.x, Jooby, Wicket (vaguely remember), Spring and even raw servlets and netty can all be programmed in Javascript using Rhino or Nashhorn.
I very much hope that the worst case is not a Venus like runaway effect. But there are many possible outcomes which for practical purpose for us humans are equally bad. There have been geohistoric events where the temperature rose by 10 degrees, causing most of the eco system to collapse. Eventually life recovered from this, with many larger species gone.
But it also selects for empathy and parenting. Both will help build a better society. In fact we've been sacrificing physical skills for emotional ones, as long as human societies have existed. This is nothing new for sure.
The first red flag is that the rule says "clockwise" where there s clearly to way to distinguish clocwise from anticlockwise inside the code. Only the completely arbitrary choice of up/down direction of the drawing affects clockwiseness.

It's been 20years(!) Why is this incorrect advise still up at c-faq?
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DPI & PPI aren't directly comparable. Displays have three display elements per pixel, and printers have a considerable amount of random variation.
I remember a different Apple around 1994 - 96, almost getting ready to close doors, if it hadn't been bought by NeXT (which is what actually happened).
See also "push polling". http://researchmethodsdataanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/le...
Why? We discourage smoking with the tax system. And I'm not talking about a regressive tax, like on smoking. It can be purely for rich healthy women.

If abortion should be rare, than why not tax it.
Well, it did, but the second iteration happened under Cook.

The original one uses AA batteries while the second iteration, pictured above, uses an integrated battery that needs recharge using the Lightning cable. As you can see, there was no redesign to accommodate this new requirement besides slapping the charge port under the mouse, making it impossible to use while charging.
>it touches on a great deal of topics ... it's likely still a great resource for keywords, no?

What? No. When a source is that biased, then the "list of topics covered" (and the keywords associated with them) do not somehow magically escape that bias; it is not a "great resource" for anything except the viewpoints of r/MensRights
> 10 is definitely a step back from 8.1, from what I've seen

10 has been an advance in every single aspect I can think of. What are you seeing as being ruined?
They "could" also do the same for the good old capitalistic result of more devices sold, but without any backdoors.
Introducing Go 2.0
It should have been "let"/"let mut", not "const"/"let" (or some other scheme that makes immutable bindings terser). I recall people warning of this outcome at the time of standardization.
Credit history is just a history of making payments on-time. You can build a history by making student loan payments, car payments, health care payments etc. Obviously it's only one factor in someone's credit worthiness, however it's not a bad metric. If you pay your bills on-time, it makes sense that a lender would value you higher/safer than someone who does not.
That's a good comment. Applies to most banks. Then there's Goldman Sachs. ;)
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If you're at all interested in psychology and the human mind, I highly recommend Cialdini's earlier book, Influence. It has some absolutely amazing insights into how people persuade and influence each other, and is one of the few non-fiction books I've read several times.
As they say on reddit, "I haven't seen it yet!" - but reposts are a bit annoying.

That said, only one of those accounts seems scammy at all, so it is a harmless repost.
Representative democracy would work much better without lobbyist that, for reason that should be discussed, are represented much more than voters. Like the Utopian dream of communism, Representative democracy that actually represent their citizens seems to be one of those government types that people talk about but never actually achieve.

Take copyright law (since this is about the pirate party). were your interest represented when the elected people let Disney lobbyist buy a law that extended copyright? Somehow, a company that "give" millions to a political party is not a bribing and completely not doing so with any expectation of returns. One could ask why they spend those money, or why historically it is so effective to spend so much totally-not-a-bribe money.

From the representative politician view, issues are often very complicated & require a lot of research, which is too hard and time consuming. Easier to just choose the highest paying lobbyist and have them decide for you. That way, you picked the politician, and they picked the lobbyist, and the lobbyist decide the law.
Parent literally said why in the rest of their comment. And if you still don't understand why, this probably goes back to understanding JavaScript fundamentals. Not understanding function scope vs block scope is the number one smell for me that someone did not learn JavaScript correctly.
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Not who you were asking, but there are definitely some implications worth thinking on that the episode mostly avoids directly addressing, but which the song choice and choice of shots during the credits assure us they did intend to raise, and I think it'd be fair to describe those as "scary". There's a real twist of the knife in those final seconds that color the intent behind and the mood of the whole episode.
> I don't know what Amazon does for AI

They've always done a lot of consumer analytics. Also, Alexa. I think there's also a lot of AI going on in their logistics operations.
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage

The nlab is a remarkable mathematical resource open to everyone. I've been using it to contextualize my mathematical learning since I was an undergraduate.
Maybe Mark Zuckerberg Should Listen to These Canadian Hipsters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws

Which contains (apart from the obvious Murphy's law and Occam's razor) such pearls as the Peter Principle, the Dunning-Kruger effect, and Hofstadter's Law. 20+ tabs guaranteed!
Facebook relaxes censorship guidelines
"Designers are ruining software in general"

Designers and Engineers collaborate to make products.

Some suck, some are great.

Blame bad design on bad designers, bad software on bad engs.

Don't blame design or eng for existing.
> That's the whole point of WikiLeaks, to publish information about those who have the power in so called democratic systems.

It didn't start out as a site for unfounded gossip about politicians. It started out to call out and address censorship. Then the Manning leak turned it into addressing government crimes, and only now is it suddenly about dirt on specific people.
But farming is also becoming more difficult. Huang Chunmei, who grew up in the town of Tonggunao’er and now farms there, said the water table was two meters, or about six feet, below ground during her childhood, and “now, you have to dig four or five meters.”

This is the bottom line; you can plant trees all you like, but this is not a matter of simple erosion due to overuse or clear-cutting. Rather, the climate systems of the region are changing, and presumably they suffer from the same overuse of subterranean water that everyone else does in the developed/developing world.

I feel terribly for these people, desperately slapping band-aids on a sucking chest wound, especially since the story of this century seems to be that the people on the front lines of climate change are the people who contributed least to the creation of the problem in the first place. It's also hard to see a happy outcome for them, since they're first on the metaphorical chopping block; even if the world suddenly woke up and took notice, it would be too late for them.
MSFT should replace MVC and Web API with ServiceStack, it is that good.
Cyberattack on 3D-Printed Component Destroys Drone Mid-Air
> You get the users you tolerate.

So why did they tolerate the accounts? I don't think it was Free speech so much as a business demand: the number of active accounts needs to stay on the hockey stick curve. Reddit favored quantity over quality.
> but there is going to be a push to do that.

That's obvious - nobody wants to be blamed for its own ignorance and then if at the same time you can make money on it, the law is just a matter of time, especially in the left wing climate supporting bureaucracy and over regulation and eventually making people more ignorant and irresponsible. Vicious circle.
The Cutting Room Floor: http://tcrf.net
so as a society, it would be better to have a handful of house owners collecting the rent of everyone else? Is that a good allocation to you?
There are free pharmacy benefit managers that will get you similar negotiated discounts. There are also store programs like Walmart's $4 drugs https://www.walmart.com/cp/1078664 .

(that's what lots of drug discount cards are, you get a negotiated price instead of the cash price)

So having a PBM price is an included detail of insurance plans, I'm not sure how useful it is (I expect the formulary used by cheap insurance ends up similar to the free stuff).
Forgive me if I overlooked it in the article, but if this recall is being conducted at Hangzhou Xiongmai's own initiative, it should be applauded. No doubt it'll be expensive to fix these up, and it's not clear that the organization has any real liability for the security faults. People are suggesting that we should "name and shame", and I somewhat agree, but I think we should also applaud efforts of those who are taking the expensive steps of fixing the problem with no direct incentive to do so.

Because the DDOS's costs are borne externally to the consumer, consumers can't really be counted on to mandate security fixes. On the other hand, establishing liability for a company adding to a preexisting botnet through security faults seems tenuous.

One solution seems to be regulation (self or third-party), and it's exciting to see a manufacturer take this issue seriously and start us down the path of self-policing.

[edit: for clarity]
I mean, that's probably the best option for society, but it's going to probably hurt his relationship with her.
It's extensible in C, and modules (http://www.varnish-cache.org/vmods/) are available to talk to e.g. Redis.
> Of course those made in California would be totally safe

Maybe I'm too cynical, but from what I know about the NSA and other three letter US Government agencies, I beg to differ.

Additionally, good luck finding any type of electronic device that is entirely made in the USA. I honestly can't think of anything with a printed circuit board that is assembled in the USA from 100% American-made parts.

Then of course there's always the whole engineers taking shortcuts to meet unrealistic deadlines thing. Somehow network security tends to be very low on the list of priorities when you have to make a profit.
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It's almost as if there were a group of people who felt that the record needed correcting in /r/politics. So to speak.

Mission accomplished, by the looks of it today.
They should be hard to find. Basic UL testing could establish that the most common problems are at least tested for.
How many birds are killed by house cats and cars every year? Of course one needs to keep investigating how to make windmills more bird-friendly. The solar plant which killed birds is a solarthermal one which concentrates the sunlight via mirrors. Photovoltaic plants do not kill birds.
France has a good history of running their plants, but they do get older. So the risk is constantly raising. I am living in Bavaria, Germany. Here is is still not considered entirely safe to eat mushrooms and wild boar from the forests, as they still carry contamination from the Chernobyl incident, and are expected to do so for the next decades. And Chernobyl is about 1000 km away from here.
I only go to specific subreddits and rarely experienced any toxicity (and most of the time for off-topic problems)
Game used to have an option "vote to kick player X". That is uber effective against teamkillers and abusers ;)
4Chan was never glorious, it was always an exercise in digging through scum for something of moderate value. The difference is that now, beneath the layers of sediment, is more sediment.
But with this particular vulnerability, e.g. weak passwords and no way to reset it, I would think that UL could in fact test for this and fail the device.

I like the idea of UL testing for at least basic security vulnerabilities.
Obligatory follow-up: http://kunstler.com/writings/eyesore-of-the-month/

If you are a bit familiar with architecture, laughs guaranteed.
It seems odd to say my SSL client is "bad" because it supports ciphers that are bad along with ciphers that are better. That will only be an issue if that's all the server supports, and they can't actually think that downgrading to plaintext in that situation would be "better", can they? (Then again maybe they can -- exim used to downgrade to plaintext if it didn't trust the cert...)
New plants will replace the dead plants and utilize the replaced CO2. Binding CO2 to the soil would be optimal, but I fail to see how the lifespan of plants is relevant here.
I couldn't find a search field. Is there any?
Even worse, people would happily comply with any suggestions their IT department told them to.

Sometimes IT department just google random instructions from the interweb. Some of them include really outdated security practice
The "pre-suasion" in the Queen's case was to build trust (through disarming honesty) before attempting to convince the troops to believe in her strength.

The basic idea is that you shouldn't just jump right into the message you're trying to deliver, but first prime your audience to hear it. There are many ways to do this, not just one.
I don't think anything in the rest of their comment has anything to do with block scoping vs function scoping.

I do understand the technical difference very well - I have a PhD in implementing programming languages with function scoping like JavaScript.

If you agree with the person I was replying to maybe could you humour me and explain why you think function-scoping var is a useful feature?
> 6a/ Incidentally, as a result of my experiences running reddit, I have a lot more respect for police, governors, and presidents - anyone who has to uphold a fair system in the face of multiple opposing sides, all of whom want the system to favor them because they are convinced they are "right."

This was particularly interesting. Massive communities like Reddit are a great testing ground for policies around free speech.
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Agreed. Survival requires it. Still feels like a shame to knowingly spend a lot of your time making garbage for money. MLIA
I probably forgot to add "/s" at the end of that sentence.
Atomic Rockets by a wide margin: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
Some bits of reddit are dedicated to mocking or shaming other bits of reddit that are at the opposite end of the political spectrum.

I read a book called Reality is Broken recently, and it talked about what people want from games, and it struck me that a lot of this behaviour fitted the description perfectly. They make social connections with other users, they feel like they're making a difference in the world, and every post has points attached to keep score.
> actually turned out to be right

Ellen Pao not only lost her discrimination suit against KPCB but was deemed liable by the court for KPCB's legal costs.

Reddit is laced with gender issues, someone filing a wrongful discrimination suit isn't the correct leader for that site. The Reddit users weren't willing to sweep that under the rug.
Well if you assume Hillary is a conservative...
Yes, I went to the link quite happy because I thought it was related to AppleEvents and maybe Apple Scripts. Your app is definitely cool, congratulations on your work but the name got me fooled.

PS: Maybe the HN people haven't used MacOS 9 and AppleScript a lot and will not do the association I did.
Sure, and even if there isn't one today, it's probably just a matter of time before nastier stuff gets out there.
One should also question why an individual healthcare purchase should be charged more than a work based group plan. Shouldn't the operative "group" of patients basically be everybody who is a customer of the insurance company (or at least everybody at some tier of the insurance plan).
This seems like a pretty... weak vulnerability.

Sure -- you can send an SSL server a bunch of junk data, and it'll try to process that data. But from what I gather, it's not as though it takes an unusually long time for it to process these warnings either. Any attacker with the resources to perform this attack could probably just as easily saturate the host's network connection without involving SSL at all.
I'm fairly comfortable with `curl | sh` over HTTPS, but to my knowledge, the servers serving the GPG signatures for Linux packages aren't able to sign them with the right keys.
>He mostly got hate because people hated Microsoft.

I believe that the hypothesis of the article is that people hated Microsoft because of Ballmer.
At the end of the day, broken, obsessive people with no jobs and no lives will always be more committed to their activities than the functional people who monitor them. The only true solution is that a vast majority of people learn to recognize them online, and ignore/avoid them. Anything else will eventually be subverted or overrun.
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