skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you could totally do this, almost free. I think the entire (pictureless) wikipedia is ~8gb ? maybe more ? That file could be broadcast over multicast off these things on their unused frames. For instance, the bird knows that when it flies over some impoverished region, there's maybe 0-3 paying customers probably not maxing out the capacity at any given time. They could freely broadcast wikipedia or other educational books on a multicast basis. It would just require word of mouth and equipment to tell them what to tune into. After, say, 5 days, you eventually get all 8gb and can unzip it.
I was a little surprised to see mr Hunt publishing the IPs of the Mongo servers. That's not something he usually does.
Networked smart phones and tag-wearing kids turns into personalized video
Im not so sure why it has to be a "white supremacist" as opposed to "career criminal", "wall street husker", "hong kong gangster"

Maybe because those examples are from the 80's?

i can only guess the political affiliation of this author.

And his drug of choice, I suppose?
I just commented this below. Soulseek is amazing! Returned to it after years recently - I remembered the Mac version sucked. Now it's great.

Haven't been let down yet and I listen to a lot of rare experimental stuff.
How do you get an uplink? I generally thought of satellites as providing pretty good downlink, but high latency because the uplink was through some alternative network - eg. phone/dsl lines.
This was first brought to my attention through an article at Popular Mechanics [1]. Comparing the differences between the writing and focus of the two articles leads to interesting idiosyncracies. Ars Technica seems to emphasize the challenge of combining these enzymes to produce a new cycle. It's not technical, but it does allude to some techniques.

Pop Mech emphasizes how much more carbon gets taken out of the air, compared to photosnythesis. An indication of their attention to scientific content comes from their description of the methodology:

> To oversimplify matters, they mixed together all their enzymes with some chemical fuel and calculated how much CO2 was being pulled out of the air.

I actually didn't realize these were talking about the same paper until I noticed that I had opened up the same link to the original paper twice.

[1]:http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a23938/fix-ca...
http://archive.is/wdNh3

http://archive.is/vnmkv
Please don't post spammy messages like this on HN.
Alternatives: zeronet or the more anonymity oriented Freenet.

For something like this I think IPFS is about the right balance though. Zeronet does already have a torrent site called "play" though.
I was on oink and I was on what.cd and I fucked up both of my accounts.

RIP
That isn't just a dead deer. It's half a winter's worth of meat.
Don't worry,they'll just create another start-up to inexplicably solve this problem with a new trendy web service.
It's quite common. HTC even advertise it as something you can do for free: http://www.htc.com/us/uh-oh-protection/
Cool no problem. It's pretty disappointing lack of support on uTorrent's end here, and I can't speak for now, but I researched lots of different clients back in the day and couldn't find any that had any decent extensibility.
Some genetic disorders may be caused by defects we couldn’t detect
I was a member for 6 months. People are extremely understanding - there are a number of people who get very visibly nervous on stage who get very helpful feedback from everyone in the club. Age rage was 20-60 for my club, the only thing I disliked about ToastMasters was that occasionally a speaker would talk about things a bit too personal or act like its a self help group (might be different in the clubs in the CBD.)
Oh I already know how to use (most of) those things. What I meant was more that if something on my machine is not working, like a driver or something, I usually have to resort to just copy pasting whatever people tell me to do.

I guess what I meant was more that I don't understand how Linux the OS works, not how to work in Linux?
Would be nice to see a change log.
Wait - What kind of phone manufacturer offers accident coverage right out of the box?
Perhaps I am not following your logic correctly, but it sounds like you are saying "Apple says government threats are an issue, but then backdoors the phones for the government anyways." which, to me, paints Apple in a very poor light.
That is true. I was pointing to the abuse of power thou.
Thanks for the link and the blog post - the climate justice split is affecting efforts in Colorado as well.

However, my impression is that the Washington initiative from the Vox article would have performed well in Colorado, as it tends to lean more pragmatic/conservative pro-environment.
Smudged Volcanic Crystals Offer Clues to Past Eruptions
Show HN: Ondevice.io – ssh tunnel without router config
I haven't used Alfred but I think you might find rofi[0] interesting.

[0] https://davedavenport.github.io/rofi/
I agree that some classes (like M) should exhibit only limited invariance, but the examples here are clearly rotation invariant to us since we can readily recognize them.
How will this be affected by weather?
This is awesome. My wife and I are planning a round the world trip to celebrate our last college tuition payment. We've talked about becoming 'Citizens of the World' and eschewing the canned tourist experiences to instead live the same lifestyle as the citizens of the countries we visit: Stay in a neighborhood instead of a high-rise hotel, shop at the same grocery stores, eat the same home-cooked meals, get around via the same transit, I mean as high-fidelity as is reasonable. We expect the main friction will be language, but we anticipate that we can work through that.

Thinking a little bigger, I can see no better way to combat bigotry and nationalism than to experience life the same way as humans from the other side of the planet, and realize that we are the same in so many ways.
IIRC, the 70mb hard disk that we used in the mid 80's on a multiuser Unix (system V) system cost roughly $2000 at the time or $28 per MB in mid 80's dollars. Doing strictly work that was on green terminals and essentially accounting it was actually large enough to run a small business. The entire system cost was roughly 35k in 80's dollars including software and 10 terminals. Was fast and worked fine for it's purpose.
I'm from Seattle originally. Every time I visited Seattle (well Bellevue/Redmond) for work, it wasn't that bad. People are pretty mellow, well, I guess you would have to go to Beijing to understand that there are different levels of dumb assery.
Freeleeches (you get upload credit, without being counted for downloads, in the same way), tokens (get to download a free item), and uploading original material (you get credit (potentially) without ever having downloaded) would inject new resources into the economy. Also having someone leave the site with <1 ratio effectively injects resources. However, If someone with a surplus left, it would hurt.

edit: just explaining terms for non site members, but you're right, definitely something you need to get right. Too strict and the economy dies, too permissive and there isn't incentive.
Agreed, two is one and one is none. I say some sort of RAID as I have read it might be somewhat preventive of bit rot. I hope for my archive to last generations, unfortunately it does not appear that any current storage technology will permit this yet. Write once media like CD's and DVD's and Blu-rays apparently won't last the decade from what I've heard.
His babble about purging the insiders is all noise. Observe his list of likely cabinet picks.
Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?
Resistance to the national ID card idea mostly came down to two things 1) cost to government, and 2) cost to citizens.

There's also the fact that ~87% of the population already hold a passport, and some of those that don't likely have a drivers license.
What you say about history may well be true, but burning a man alive because of something he said is enough to doom any other organization.

> an easy one since slandering the Church is acceptable and even respectable today

Slandering the church...

They have opposed science... molested children and protected molesters... Started wars... controlled countries... and if you are an atheist you might think that the very idea of religion is peddling in lies. I happen to think that.

Any secular group protecting molesters or starting a single war would not exist long enough to be slandered. They committed crimes and rode Jesus to avoid prosecution. Many of those individuals died hundreds of years and avoided justice, but the organization that enabled it still exists.

> It's all too common that people think it's okay to slander anyone you don't like or disagree with.

I am not for slandering the church. I acknowledge that the organized religions are a net loss for humanity and I would see them dismantled. What little good they do I would see replaced with secular institutions that are accountable for their negative actions.

You never hear about a school, corporation or non-profit NGO immolating or imprisoning people they disagree with. A group of otherwise moral people burning a human alive requires god.
A new tracker will pop up soon.
I started a long time ago. Still don't have many awesome stuff that was on what.cd. And there's much more I don't even know about yet, which probably also was on what.cd already. To continue using our metaphor, a vast personal book collection is still less than a real public library. It's still a lot about sharing. I'm proud of my collection, but in terms of significance it's not comparable to that of entire what.cd, not to say the Library of Alexandria.

That said, we still should think about fire-resistant public libraries, not just personal collections.
It's available in the current public release, you still must enable it explicitly like other optional Windows features (like Hyper-V)
Show HN: Visualizing Our Git Repository Activity
And hella pingtimes ;)
C-PLEX and Gurobi -- R. Bixby.
A visualization of our git repo from the beginning to launch of http://launchaco.com/ using http://gource.io/
Dead satellites and debris in low altitude orbits will experience orbital decay and burn up in the atmosphere within a few years. High-altitude objects (e.g, at GEO) are more of a concern.
The use of goto in C for error and exception handling is good practice. It keeps the code easy to read, and also provides common code for error and/or exit handling. You'll see this paradigm used a lot in large open source C projects, such as the Linux kernel and QEMU.

In my experience, a lot of closed source C projects ban goto outright, in (IMO) an overly dogmatic adherence to the idea that all goto use is spaghetti code and therefore bad.
System Integrity Protection Inexplicably Disabled by Default on Some New MBP's
You are following my logic correctly.

To be fair, the amount of leverage the US exerts on businesses for military purposes is astounding. This should be factored into the understanding.
Running Is the Worst Way to Get Fit
I like both Monero and zCash. As technologies they both have different advantages and they are both pushing the state of the art in privacy cryptocurrencies. As a researcher it makes me optimistic that we are pursuing multiple paths to the goal of "digital cash".

>Using zCash requires 8gb+ of RAM, and takes over a minute on a Xeon processor.

Cryptography in this area is rapidly advancing, we have seen dramatic speed ups in zkSNARKS (cryptography behind zCash's anonymity) over the last few years and the launch of zCash will probably accelerate this trend.

> it's limited to the people moving from traceable addresses to z-addresses who haven't identifiably moved ~the same amount out.

This number, X, is growing and will continue to grow.

>ZCash is useless at best, dangerous privacy theatre at worst.

zCash is an excellent and exciting experiment. It is not a very mature platform (it has only been live for a month), but that doesn't mean it will never been mature.
sort of meta.. who's behind The Intercept? A lot of their headlines (which I've been seeing more of these days) seem rather inflammatory and bordering on clickbait. So does some of the writing. Using words like "surreptitiously" when talking about the iPhone syncing call information. (it's really not doing it surreptitiously.)

Not a fan of them.
It means you know that there are problems with the current way, and at a minimum you hope there's a better way to do it, but it by no means requires you to know what that better way is. You can be capable of recognizing the flaws in something without figuring out how to fix those flaws.
For reference the bug is here

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318359
Only if poorly managed. It's 4000 objects in an area greater than the surface of the Earth - so still very sparse. And they're low enough to deorbit from drag in 7 years, so if something did get lost or blow up, it would fix itself naturally.
> “Optical inter-satellite links permit flexible routing of traffic on-orbit. Further, the constellation ensures that frequencies can be reused effectively across different satellites to enhance the flexibility and capacity and robustness of the overall system.”

Is optical communication between satellites an existing technology that's already known to work, or is this new? Also, is this sort of thing done (or expected to be done) by aiming laser exactly at the destination satellite, or is it more of a non-directional blink-a-really-bright-LED sort of thing?
> I wrote a sudoku solver in my first year of college using some heuristsics and some sort of branch-and-cut algorithm, in java.

What class of cutting planes did you use in your B&C algorithm (full disclure: I do my PhD on cutting planes, thus I'm interested)?
It will be expensive bandwidth no matter what.

The way they can make this work is if they

1) are targeting traditional satellite internet customers (ships on the sea, commercial aviation, etc) and

2) integration with 5th generation mobile networks trough wireless network virtualization. Mobile network provider can sell a service where traveling customer pays extra for connection that works in the middle of nowhere. When the device is within normal cell network or WiFi, connection goes trough those networks, when they are sailing with their yacht, it can jump from the picocell in the boat or backpack to the satellite network. At any given time there may be
millions of customers who pay little extra for coverage and just few tens of thousands who actually use it.
> assuming the deal goes through.

You're not really doing any kind of arbitrage here you're just gambling that the deal goes through
It sort of does. Having been pushed out of negotiations around things like the stimulus bill they ended up as a unified opposition, which resulted in the "tea party" and the party moving drastically to the right
If you bought it with a credit card, you might want to contact your card's customer service number. Most credit cards offer protection from this type of manufacturer "weaknesses".
Yes, we are paid to write code. The final goal is to create a product, and solve problems, yes. However, as a coder you should think about the code, you have to breath the code, you need to feel the code. Quality of the code should become your obsession. Succinct, nice, readable and reasonable code is more likely to lead to a better product. On the other hand - failing, shitty software, often is a downright result of badly written code.
How about the Antarctic? Save the polar bears and fix Gary Larson's biggest "Far Side" error at the same time.
This is what I've found:
https://archive.org/details/whatcdcrawl&tab=about

Can't seem to get the actual data though.
I'm curious if they can launch multiple at once. I assume they can, and on top of that, once they can reuse rockets My guess is the cost might be as little as a million (or less) for a satellite in orbit.

That would be, what, $9 billion? That sounds like a lot, until you realize they can spread that cost over 2-3 years and have millions (if not billions) of people paying for internet. This would replace cellphone plans too remember...

So that means SpaceX could probably charge a nice $100 - $300 a month and people would clamor for it. Seriously, this would probably make 10x return (easy) per satellite, if not more. Even 10 million people at $100 per month is $12 billion a year. Multiply that across a two to five year lifespan of a satellite and you'll have a very profitable business.
McDonald's Is Rolling Out Touch-Screen Kiosks Nationwide – Eater
Thanks for the link. I've read all of the docs (presentations slides) related to ssl/tls and found only one weak point (Debian sessions). And none of them have information about decryption of collected traffic - collected encrypted traffic is useless, only possible (at this moment) way is to intercept multiple things in live mode and try to decode data.

It's sad, but I'm still saying "use encryption", because alternative is "don't use encryption" and it's obviously worse. So I'm much more responsible than those who are trying to propose second option.
Duh whatever Google and Facebook deem to be real news of course. The Ministry of Truth will root out all these evil white supremacist sites like Breitbart and Fox News.

I long for the day when only Salon and Slate are considered sources of truth.
It seems like GeekIn is straightforward web-scraping by a greedy creep. This is why I just create a new throwaway account whenever I need to deal with Github in a logged-in way. Thank God for Mailinator.
Most of my downloads were of out of print / rare releases. Want the Oh My God CD Single that featured a few A Tribe Called Quest remixes? They had it. Want a Willie Hutch vinyl that never made it to CD? They had it. Wanted a Beatles album, specific release/print? They had it. Heard a punk 45 single from the late 70s? They had it.
No, I just re-read my original hardcover from '96.
And here they all are in one convenient place.
Free, global internet access is the next step toward more ads.
"Current revisions only, no talk or user pages; this is probably what you want, and is approximately 12 GB compressed (expands to over 49 GB when uncompressed)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#En...
No, root pendrives must exploit bugs in USB/block/fs/UI subsystems of the OS. PCIe devices can read/write RAM directly as they please unless isolated behind IOMMU.
Command line advertising: coming to a terminal near you
There is .su (Soviet Union) gTLD.
Dropub – P2P publishing for everyone
Thank you for posting this, I hadn't thought about AW for years. It is an interesting angle.
Some Iranians are already doing basically this with satellite TV equipment: https://www.wired.com/2016/04/ingenious-way-iranians-using-s...

Definitely an interesting idea. Since SpaceX will control the pipe and terminal they could use some of the bandwidth to prime a cache in the terminal with content they know will be commonly accessed.

HTTPS makes doing this transparently difficult, though.
It's not uncommon to see thighs on sale for prices as low as $.79/pound, in my experience. There is more waste, with the skin, gristle and bone, compared to boneless breasts, but still.

The one that gets me is that you can often get boneless pork chops or loins for around $2/pound. Even the cheaper chuck cuts of beef that I like are usually double or triple the cost of pork.
> there are tons of ways to do more battery monitoring without root

Sorry, I mean more than the built in monitor, which is largely useless.

There is no API through which I can enumerate wakelocks, CPU usage, GPS usage, mobile radio traffic and activity, wifi radio traffic and activity or screen on/off time without system level permissions (i.e. built into the ROM). Therefore, there's no way for these things to be exposed to me as a user.

There used to be a permission called BATTERY_STATS but it was removed years ago and Google has been utterly unreceptive to reinstating it: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=61975

And of course there's a bunch of apps on my device (Pixel) that have that permission such as Qualcomm's CNE app, Play Services (com.android.vending), another Qualcomm package (com.qualcomm.qti.auth.secureextauthservice) and a bunch of other Qualcomm packages.
yeah that's how skyline is black listing journalists in conflict zones as terrorists judging from geo data[1].

they do this because they can justify their data derivative, but if there's no trace data to justify semi-justifiable decisions, such disastrous inferential machines would be impossible to justify.

it's a tricky case - but it would force law enforcement - and other parties of interest - to actually investigate before pulling triggers.

[1]: http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-pr...
This[1] article does a nice job of covering the subject, but in essence, laser-based communication between satellites has been done and it works pretty well.

[1] http://www.osa-opn.org/home/articles/volume_27/may_2016/feat...
CalArts – Brutalist Design
Judging by some of the comments here, you'd expect Tesla to release a manual...

Really, outside of a sports car with plenty of room to enjoy it, they aren't convenient. A manual in typical commuter bumper to bumper traffic is particularly annoying.
Interesting catch. My guess is that they quietly suggested she drop off the board of fellows.
Out of curiosity, how is the Linux integration? Does it feel like native, or is it disjointed like Cygwin always has?
Emacs with Org-mode. Emacs has already been around for longer than that, and will surely be in 20 years. Org-mode is a part of Emacs and isn't going anywhere. Plain text with extensive markup support, including inline images, code, inline HTML/LaTeX, etc. Easily export to HTML, PDF, blog, etc. Easy to store, backup, sync, version-control, etc.
> He knows everyone hates existing telecoms.

Not true everywhere. I'm paying < $40/month for a 100 MBit connection and I don't hate my telecom.
One can hope, but will we hear about it?
This observation is basically the root of my entire hope that he isn't going to ruin the nation.
>Like when there were riots for the assembly-line or the tractor?

Yes, exactly like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-loom_riots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Riots
Yeah I'm kinda bothered by the frequency of the Atlas Obscura submissions.
SimplyInsured (YC W13) Is Hiring Software Engineers to Change Healthcare
High latency was because it was in geosync orbit, not because of the asymmetric uplink. In fact, the asymmetric uplink was to try to improve the terrible latency.
If you have the drives, of course. Also try to obtain your drives from different retailers if possible. They have bad lots from time to time. Getting the drives off different pallets is cheap insurance.
As a Sentry user, this is exciting! Any idea when this will make it to production?
No, they really didn't. The Electoral College is not some sort of state secret. Presidential elections have worked that way for over two hundred years. Complaining about the winner in the EC becoming President is like complaining that if we'd counted score by the number of strikeouts instead of runs, the Indians would have won the World Series. True, but so what? We don't count by strikeouts, we never have, and if the rules changed the teams would have played differently so you can't draw a useful parallel anyway.
Clean architectures in Python: a step-by-step example
Skip the US. Our surveillance agencies are in bed, and American VPN providers can be strong-armed with an NSL. Use a VPN incorporated and with exit points in a more neutral/second-world country.
Airbnb has tried to do "experiences" so many times I've lost count.

Here's the one where they partnered with Vayable, all the way back in 2011:

https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/02/airbnb-to-partner-with-vay...
Congrats, Gustaf!