skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. We are wrapping up a beta version and soon will are hoping to publish it on Show HN.

We are privately sharing the link to our circle around and it would be amazing if we can get more opinions on it. Please let me know here if you are willing to share your email, I will send the link right away.
Still. What's the cost of deploying 800 sattelites vs cost of fiber infrastructure for 6 million people?
Phonetic chording keyboards are faster than typical speech, they just take a lot of training to learn. A regular keyboard with extensive custom shortcuts for common words is also potentially faster than speech, but not nearly as ergonomically friendly as a chording keyboard.

Keyboards are also much better than speech for making very precise inputs. You’ll be hard-pressed to invent a speech interface which outdoes vim (for instance) for efficiency at general text editing tasks, even if you have a general AI interpreting the speech commands. Even just for straight typing computer code, mathematical formulae, musical notes, poetry with precise constraints on punctuation & spelling & layout, or e.g. controlling a video game or CAD program, a keyboard is much more effective than speech. A keyboard input can also have real-time response to partial input, like autocomplete, etc.

Perhaps most importantly, typing on a keyboard doesn’t distract/leak the content of your typing to everyone in earshot.
It's common for many types of cells, but much more difficult for Sunpower cells. Instead of having top contacts, Sunpower cells have a fine array of contacts on the bottom [1]. Cutting this without creating shorts or defects is quite difficult. It would be better to have Sunpower custom make them.

Given SpaceX deadlines it's possible that they just ran out of time for this optimization.

[1] https://sc03.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1XRXrHVXXXXXeaXXXq6xXFXXXM/3-5...
Eugene.

We agree about the need to use encryption.

We disagree about it's limitations, and how to use it effectively.

Unfortunately this isn't a theoretical debate. Journalists, for example, around the world are being killed at increasing rates by governments, with this year reaching an all time high. State surveillance is an issue of tremendous importance for civil rights and personal freedoms. Our conversation and recommendations have to be sober and give candid, informed advice.

I think you absolutely have the right motivations: to encourage people to protect themselves from state coercion and violence.
> SpaceX expects its own latencies to be between 25 and 35ms

Unless you're doubting their math, that's not a high ping at all. In fact, that's a pretty amazing improvement given that existing satellite internet is >500ms. I didn't realize the difference between LEO and geostationary was that high.
No, he's right. Apple is putting on a PR show. If a warrant is served to Apple they'll hand over whatever data they have on you including any metadata on your encrypted data. They also have teams working 24/7 to serve up this data to government officials and law enforcement. It's all in the leaked Apple/Podesta emails.
> Every 30 minutes or so, it wakes up, builds up a wifi connection and starts doing something.

Have you tried to intercept the traffic?
You might want to understand my point before you start 'shouting' at me.
Risible tirades like these is why people don't take you seriously.
Most private security firms spring for CCWs. Here in Jersey it's a norm for most private security to either have tasers or a CCW.
Google and/or Facebook aren't setting the agenda, they're just in a position to sell that power to the highest bidder - and profit handsomely in the process.
Exactly. Had a similar experience in the Vatican. Coupled with restrictions on photography and the like. And it won't improve as more and more people are in a financial position to travel (Chinese middle class, as one example).

I think initially people will decry virtual tourism as inferior but eventually cost and convenience will make it very popular. And then we'll see a seriously blurred line between true tourism (Versailles, for example) and enhanced (Westworld, shot around Moab in Utah) or completely invented worlds (Avatar). And another blurred line between those sorts of traditional experiences and the same being gamified at varying levels.
>Broken bones heal.

I agree with your sentiment about the relative differences between broken bones and head injuries, but this statement isn't completely correct: if you're an adult, a broken bone almost always leaves behind some kind of problem, usually at a minimum the tendency to have arthritis at the point of fracture later on. Broken bones don't heal perfectly, just like significant cuts will always leave a scar in your skin.

Hopefully medical technology will figure out soon how to fix this, and make it so we can regenerate like those animals that regrow tails and limbs, but not yet.
Only if you buy that one phone from them on their website.

You could not get that phone second hand (or from any other reseller) and send it in to them for repair.

That's basically "insurance" included in the price of the phone, not a "pay for what you broke" repair center.
It says exactly the opposite of what you are trying to imply.

>Article 11. In any operation of collection, storage, custody and treatment of records, personal data or communications by connection providers and internet applications in which at least one of these acts occurs in the national territory, shall be obligatorily respected the legislation and the rights to privacy, the protection of personal data and the confidentiality of private communications and records.

http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2014/lei/...
Founding a Startup for Engineers – From the CEO of Opsee
You mean like the Raft?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
Why do you ask?

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Quite frankly, I am in an existential crisis. The world no longer makes sense to me. The world that contains "President Trump" as a real thing is like... unreal. It's like I've woken up in some alternate reality, except it's not.

This is real.

Millions of people voted for Donald Trump for POTUS and to me that makes no sense.

I don't think I'll do anything. What is there to do? Why bother?
This is different. I work at Airbnb - we've been working on what was announced today for quite some time, and it has been our intent to fully own and provide an Airbnb-branding-appropriate offering.
What does this even mean as a patent? What is this protecting?
> Apple of course backdoors their phones for government surveillance access.

Nice job slipping a completely unfounded lie into your response.

Starting with iOS 10, you can actually just mount the root filesystem disk image from iOS restore images. You are able to reverse engineer and audit any application or daemon that the OS runs. You can use open source tools (Such as idevicerestore) to perform an OS restore on your device, and point it directly at the filesystem disk image that you just audited the binaries of. That way you can be sure of what is being flashed onto your device if you have any doubts that the OS you just audited is the one going onto your device. No "blackbox" at all in this process.

I am looking forward to hearing any form of evidence regarding your claim.
Internet off line?
Is there a way to live off grid and have internet? If I had power, a computer, and a satellite in the middle of nowhere could I get internet?
> The other thing is that the entire pathway can now be put inside cells, either normal bacteria like E. coli or the synthetic cells with a minimal genome that researchers are working on. If that's the case, then the need to supply all the chemical co-factors should go away, since the cells should be producing them anyway. More importantly, if the cell is made to depend on this pathway as its only source of carbon, evolution would have the chance to optimize it even further.

Immediate thought: What happens when that bioengineered E. coli or whatever, which you're hoping evolution will make work even more efficiently, leaves your carbon-sequestering vats and starts reproducing in the wild? Eventually you reach a point where we're getting record low CO2 levels. Hello, new Ice Age.

(I am sure there are many reasons this would not happen but it certainly makes for a nice bullshit explanation if I wanted to write a story set in a far-future ice planet.)
I've addressed all your other points elsewhere in this thread, but the following is new:

> You're also characterizing this as a "vast" change. What is the vast change here?

That marriage should now be an institution open to homosexual couples as well as to heterosexual. Taken in isolation, it doesn't seem like a big deal to me, either. But nothing in society exists in isolation, and quite aside from the historical novelty of it, many millions of people regard this particular change as a very big, and very undesirable, deal indeed.

The impression I have is that those with whom I've argued the point here today see no reason to doubt that they know better than those many millions who share this opinion - so much better, in fact, that there's no point taking very seriously any argument, opinion, or belief, other than that which they themselves advance, espouse, or profess - or at least already agree with on all substantial points.

I was that confident once, too. Sometimes I miss it. But nothing is ever simple, and pretending otherwise can make fools of us all.
this is why I ended up with spherical.fish - memorable, my first name is buried in it, and cheap.

also, there's no .cow gTLD so I can't do spherical.cow. Spherical.horse is squatted already.
Google Think Tank Launches New Weapon in Fight Against ISIS
Traction vs. Product
Tesla shareholders approve deal to buy SolarCity
Think about the other side of this - the host side. For hosts of these experiences, they don't need to be rich or capital-owning at all in order to be exposed to people of many different backgrounds through experiences.
Right. I cannot even comment on the whole 'stick is better for rally cars' debate, because I don't care about that sport and certainly don't qualify as a driver.

For me it feels closer, more direct, more fun. And .. that's about it. If someone provides convincing evidence that it's less fuel efficient (maybe?) and that automatic transmissions accelerate faster (a given?) then I shrug and say .. "But this is fun!".

On the other hand: Given that I drove manual most of my life and only drove really crappy automatics so far (Smart occasionally, Prius now) I might be biased twice. Both because manual's the norm and everything else feels off by default and because probably not every automatic transmission is created equal.

(Advanced challenge: Drive a Citroën 2CV - still one of the cars I love the most. 4 gears, unusual layout, weird stick position)
I will revisit 'hg' a little bit myself again to see how it and its ecosystem has evolved. Thanks for the recommendation.
"Some sources not yet included in this list (although their practices at times may qualify them for addition), such as The Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, and Fox News, vacillate between providing important, legitimate, problematic, and/or hyperbolic news coverage, requiring readers and viewers to verify and contextualize information with other sources. "

I really appreciate the fact that she put this in here. The HuffPo is the worst offender on the list for waffling between legit news and total hyperbole.

And this wasn't much of a surprise.. she linked to another list, where the commenters are just screaming that the author is a right wing shill and a Trumpkin.

This is why we can't have nice things.
The "secret" part is that they include information that is only interesting to law enforcement (timestamps and durations) in addition to pulling information from third part communication tools like WhatsApp.

Namely, Apple chose to provide this information to government surveillance when they could have (and indeed promised) to design it in a way that allows for the iPhone to be used in sensitive situations and by people who need security from state coercion and violence.
There were two factors that made What special. The first factor was its unparalleled library of music (some of which was only available on What). This is lost forever, though the data is still distributed worldwide, and a lot of it will probably be reuploaded once a replacement tracker becomes popular.

The second factor was the log checker, which verified that rips were actually lossless, direct CD rips using the log file produced by Exact Audio Copy or X Lossless Decoder. The degree to which a rip's log conformed to he log checker was displayed next to the download link. This allowed the users to be confident that a rip wasn't just a transcoded lossy version that someone found on the internet. I hope somebody has the script saved so it can be used by whatever replaces What.
To detach from discussion at this point is fine, I guess. But please entertain
my question about containers. I'm yet to try those out, be it Docker or some
other packaging solution[#], so I'd like to know beforehand what is different
with them in logging than what I usually expect from regular log
centralization.

[#] LXC/libvirt type containers I see as merely cheap VMs, though I like them
very much.
The new approach is relevant. NT POSIX or SFU was a completely different target from mainly used Unixes of their time. Now GNU/Linux has supplanted everything (Mac Os does not really rely on nor is administered by its Unix layer), Ubuntu is a major and well maintained distro, and even the WSL Beta in the AU has a quite impressive compat -- and the last insider versions are even better. So will WSL become irrelevant? Maybe: either at the same time Ubuntu does, or if MS decides to stop this subsystem project. I hope they don't... :)
Perhaps they should learn the experience of many working class workers who have lost their jobs. Their college should have them speak with the Carrier air conditioner workers in Indiana who had their factory moved to Mexico.
A few different companies and people have tried to do this before, but they've generally struggled to find adoption. I think, since this is a fairly natural complement to Airbnb's existing business, that Airbnb may succeed where the others have failed, but only time will tell.
Hmm. I see what you're saying. That's not really an MITM then, it's a poorly secured API, isn't it? If so, the target isn't the phone, the target is the endpoint that leaks data about users rather than validating OAuth credentials server-side to confirm the user's identity? I suppose there are two attacks in one: (a) an attack where you can substitute your identity for another's and thus capture activity taken in an app, while (b) is an attack on the API, retrieving profiles and data for users by spoofing the OAuth credentials with your "client app", modified, MITMed or otherwise.
Digital nomads social network
Are there any known cases of a zombie becoming a unicorn after a while?
> The primary risk with that attitude would be if our best solutions are local in nature

If the major ocean-based cycles are disrupted because of salinity change / warming / acidification, then it's not going to matter where the damage was done.
To take home users as an example, the residents generally sleep 8-10 hours a day, work 9 hours a day, commute ~1 hour a day, leaving only about 6 hours of free time at home a day. Assuming they spend that entire time watching 4K Netflix (25Mbit), they'll have used ~2TB in a month, or ~6Mbit/s total. Averaging bandwidth out over the whole month, each satellite would be able to support 3800 people. With the 4400 satellites they intend to deploy, they could support 16 million people.

Of course you generally need to provision for peak bandwidth rather than average so these numbers aren't even close to accurate but I think it's a rough explanation for why you don't need to fully provision every link.
> You used to have to go there, or phone, and you were only looking for information about a specific person.

Exactly. If $INTERNET_DATA_HARVESTER had to pay someone to watch whenever it wanted to see what I did on the internet, it would cost them a lot of money, so they would only watch if they had a reasonable suspicion of profit. Even at starvation wages of $2/day, that's $700/yr/person, which would bankrupt the major data harvesters. Even if Facebook only paid each starving person to stumble over to the DMV one day a year, it would cost them $42 billion to monitor their users.
HTC Announces $1.5B VR Investment Fund and Research Institute in China
It depends on how far apart those 6 million people are and how much infrastructure is already in place.
Using Yarn with Rails
It depends on the satellite. The higher they are, the higher the latency / lower power / lower effective speed. Spacex plans for very low orbit. They're going for 1,110-1,325 km heights, which should give them the planned <20ms latency.

Existing Iridium is at 781 km and offers rather slow and expensive, global connections. But they provide phones, with reasonable-sized antennas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications
Your framing is disingenuous, considering that any large company will have staff ready to respond to legal / discovery demands. This is a legal process, not something Apple is doing out of their own volition.
These temperatures are for North Pole Fairbanks Alaska. It's not "The North Pole", it's also not even in the Arctic Circle.In fact if you look at the first picture in the linked article, you'll see how the deltas they're referring to are not the case in Alaska. (And the temperature in the middle of Alaska doesn't have much bearing on Arctic sea ice).
Maybe once every 2 or 3 months I get an email from a recruiter, and it gets immediately marked as spam.

Far more frequently though, I get emails from people asking interesting questions either about one of my projects or about something they're doing that is similar to one of my projects. I consider the (very low) cost of recruiter spam to be a price worth paying to enable those other interactions.
What are the requirements to be able to down vote?
Experts at American Institute of Climatology predict that:
http://on.cc.com/2eLuZAf
True on the latter. A bit like the verified tick on Twitter being a desirable thing. Social networks could open additional features for someone with a better record.

Remember on your first point though that it might not be a factor for the majority of people. Can also reach people through ad networks, or social networks, etc.
I find it much more useful/natural than cygwin. The places where it reminds me it isn't Linux is when something wants to create a Unix domain socket (screen) or needs access to /dev or something like that. CPAN works fine as does ssh and most things I use from the command line (gcc embedded and make, vim, etc). Nothing that would pop up an xwindow works (as expected).
Grr, i'm both affected bu this and the recent Donate Blood leak, is there anything I should be doing to increase my security to protect against these kinds of leaks?

Or, even protect things like my Bank Accounts, Utility accounts etc. against spear phishing attacks?
> It's funny, I'm this exact same boat. My pixel died a little after two week (which is the requirement to get a return). I filled out their warranty claim thing, and >48 hours finally got a response, which is a trouble shooting guide. I replied that I tried all that stuff, and had to wait another 2 days for another response (asking for information I already gave).

Are you not in the US? Maybe it's different elsewhere, but my nexus 5x died a little while ago, and I only had the default warranty, not the extra protection, and it was insanely easy to get a replacement.

I filled out the form[1] (saying I had already tried the usual android-saving moves), got a call back in two minutes as promised by that form, the customer service person accepted I had already tried things and didn't ask me to do anything else, then I immediately got the email with the link to get a new phone shipped to me. Was probably less than 15 minutes of my time.

(you also seem to be talking about something else than the OP. If your phone died in two weeks that's definitely under the warranty, regardless of if you purchased extra protection).

[1] linked here: https://support.google.com/store/answer/6301527?hl=en
Lucky bastards.

/s
Have you tried using an xserver to run GUI Linux apps through it? If so, how's the delay? Is it instant and ready for full time development?

Use case would be wanting to use an editor that can take advantage of programming runtimes installed on the Linux side of things.

Think about using Sublime, where you'd want to run a Python linter. In this case Sublime needs to be installed and ran in Linux alongside your Python installation.
> But he'd keep the border with Canada open, so Americans can flee there if they need to.

See, this kind of loopy apocalypse-mongering is why you guys are having such a hard time persuading average voters that your cause is legit. Under what possible worst-case scenario are Americans going to need to "flee" to Canada? Is that one-foot ocean rise over the next hundred years going to flood the United States all the way to Grand Forks?
The language you know the most would be best fit. Maybe Python/Rails/Go could be most optimal fit, if you know very good Java or PHP and don't want to waste time on learning something new - stay with that.
Here is the part you missed: "Optical inter-satellite links permit flexible routing of traffic on-orbit."
Stenographers can type 300+ wpm on phonetic chording keyboards with appropriate predefined shortcuts.

People can also write shorthand with a pen at 300+ wpm.

A big part of the problem with regular typing is that our phonetic alphabet is not optimized for writing efficiency. Sometimes a single syllable takes 5+ discrete characters to type.

Standard QWERTY-style keyboards are also designed to use single finger motions in serial fashion, and requires various awkward combinations of finger motions and plenty of repositioning between keypresses; the design is designed for learnability rather than efficiency, and wastes much of the possible bandwidth of the hands.

If someone with deep knowledge of human hand physiology / neuroanatomy were to design a keyboard optimized for efficiency (at the expense of requiring years to properly master), we could probably push peak performance to 400–500 wpm.

At some point thinking speed is the main bottleneck though. Regular QWERTY keyboards are fast enough to keep up well enough with most writing tasks.
The mayor and city council where I live have a big hardon for municipal fiber. I have this feeling that if and when they ever get it built they will have spent a ton of money on something that is obsolete on day one.
Probabilistic models are what I was referring to; all probabilistic models should produce a prediction, and also a measure of confidence. That measure of confidence can never be 100%. Similarly, you can never have an incontrovertible belief that is not a mathematically/logically-constructed fact 'outside' of the messy real world in some abstract chamber walled off from anything that is like a real life observation, no matter how certain. Basically, you can't have P(A) = 0 or 1 as your prior probability, because then you break Bayes' rule in the sense that new evidence is meaningless - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell%27s_rule
The time lag for noticing change and being able to respond may preclude the possibility of meaningful compensation
> A carbon tax mostly taxes industry.

And the poor never purchase anything that was made by using industry, so they certainly wouldn't have the costs passed on to them or anything.
Great! Maybe now I'll stop getting spam connect requests from all these Russians I don't even know...