skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Traveling back in time subsequently doesn't make sense because the "past" is simply what we call previous configurations of matter.

So? If my future goes from the world as it is now to the world as it was in 2000, in what sense am I not in 2000?

I mean, you guys seem to be under the impression that there's a single universal clock I cant reset... There's not. In whatever sense it ever was 2000, rewinding all the clocks would make it 2000 again. There's no clock besides those local ones, so if you reset them all, you're in the past (in whatever sense there was ever a past).

I just find it particularly silly to have said there's no time when you keep commenting on time happening.

(Also, does traveling a foot to the left not make sense because there's no distance, just past states Ive been in? Cause you said time was like distance, and you're right: both exist or neither exist in exactly the same sense.)
Another fundamental flaw in my opinion is the cats-and-dogs analogy frequently used to highlight the use of inheritance in OO.

Cats and dogs being mammals is a taxonomy. It's data, not code. Unfortunately, I see OO programmers coding taxonomies all the time just for the sake of it, ending up with deep inheritance trees of classes without ever taking the step back and asking themselves, why they do it the first place. (e.g. to share functionality or to reuse code)
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For something as fundamental as a container library, GPL will basically mean it's not used widely. There's a reason many language ecosystems generally use BSD/MIT licences for almost all libraries (haskell being just one example I know this to be true for). Applications may be another story.
Maybe it's just a different local optimum. When the Swiss Republic was instated in 1848, the founders drew upon the old tradition of direct democracy, now on a national level. Swiss people are typically very weary of big organisations, which is why we aren't in the EU for one - the federal Republic had to overcome this problem by basically installing checks-and-balances on crack (no one person having executive power alone, two chambers, everything can be overruled by people's votes on every level of the administration). So it basically started with a profound mistrust, but I think through these instruments people over the generations have come to trust the system quite a lot - at least so much that the government has been allowed to do quite a few relatively progressive projects even when challenged by the people's vote.
I believe there's a mobile version, and the first chapter is free.

https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/steins-gate/id454136236?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mages.stei...
Actually, you can.
Blender allow it's user to have custom feature via python scripts.
You can have a button to create a brick wall.
s/weary/wary/ I think.
Apple was pretty clearly shaped by their near death experience and it showed on the balance sheet. It took them a very long time for them to start returning cash to shareholders, but Tim Cook finally did it and that was the right capital allocation decision. They've returned $186 billion via buybacks and dividends since then and cash (and equivalents) has grown in spite of it.

They would rather stay relatively small (115k employees but over half of that is probably retail) and operate like a start-up than grow headcount to support more products. Frankly that's the right decision. There's been a lot of whining from Mac fans about being neglected and today people have been sharing this Vox piece [1] saying they should change to support more products, which would be fine if it wasn't the fact that being resource constrained is part of Apple's organizational culture and if it wouldn't kill the magic that led to their position in the first place.

[1] http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/27/13706776/apple-funct...
Agree with you on needing context. Glad everything worked out in the end.
> I do think it is entirely within the realm of possibility that Apple will kill off their desktop and laptop lines.

How would anyone develop apps for their IOS devices than?
Ask HN: Any good generic backup solutions?
We need a solution to take backup of very small amount of data, ~20GB per VM.

Our product requires to host data for our clients with geographical limitations and need a generic solution to take backup of data and the most important thing to handle is fast restore time.

Many cloud providers like Google and Amazon have snapshots as easy goto solution for backup but we need it in a format which is general to all our hosted VMs (Cloud, on-premise etc.)

Unfortunately cloud services like Google Cloud and AWS do not provide export of snapshots.

We are good with VM snapshots if it can be exported or simple backup of data with restore capability, Any good ideas?
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It's not that uncommon in academia to have events that are limited to speakers so that everyone is contributing. This looks like that kind of event. Note that LF has plenty of conferences that are open to the public.
Please do something with the fixed header on [1], it wastes 15-20% of screen space on every device that doesn't have at least 1920x1168 resolution. That's not cool.

And it would be great to decrease the content block's width to something like 75-80%. Just like GH, HN, millions of other websites, and even BB.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com
Win10, Chrome 54.0.2840.99, works fine here. (They link to PDF files though, more likely that's the problem I suppose).
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Would be kind of fun to get this in email. Kind of like word of the day.
How did you figure out that the battery is the problem? Samsung has yet to figure out a root cause, so it may be mechanical design, or ...
I'm curious why UDP and not just a small HTTP server? Honestly the overhead is tiny particularly in this use case.
Wouldn't a better solution be to just make sure dangerous batteries don't get sold? Just regulate them for safety like tons of other dangerous goods already are
What the Fuck Was Siri Doing with Liam?
As the Server Goes, So Goes the World
Software Management and Solutions
Very bad, we were hosted on OVH for a year and it was troublesome - their documentations do not match with the feature set. DDoS protection is weak and they do not provide interface to configure firewall rules or anything like that.

We shifted to Google cloud and feel satisfied with Google.
FPGAs Give Microsoft a “Von Neumann Tax” Break
Networks Drive HPC Harder Than Compute
I was looking for something low power to run privoxy, probably on pfsense, and ended up doing the kickstarter for https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/874883570/marvell-espre... counting on ARM support for pfsense very soon.
The Business of HPC Is Evolving
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“My Venereal Disease” (and other French startup naming blunders)
People are weird, don't base your worth on them. It is what it is.

The same people who avoid your app likely think email isn't worth $3/month, do you?

I think one of the base factors people fail to take into account is "will the outcome / result exist if I _don't_ contribute".

Sometimes the current / alternatives are _good enough_ that reasonable options are completely overlooked. I bet Yahoo could have found your last 10 searches, but you probably wouldn't say their search service is worth less than a hole in the ground, right?

If your apps were unique compared to alternatives, this could also be a barrier until some of those elements are more widespread or common. I don't know what you can really do in this case.

I'm probably not the best person to comment from a business perspective, I've never launched a personal project or anything, but your 'failures' sound like you were able to build the apps you had envisioned, which is awesome. You're basically where I'm aiming to be in the next 5 years, for what it's worth.
This is super interesting. I love how concisely they are able to convey a certain concept. I feel the ratio: amount of knowledge you acquire versus length of the explanation is incredibly high, which makes me want to keep opening more and more tabs. The only place where I have the same feeling is in fermatslibrary.com, although in a different way. I would like to see the same concept applied to CS.
Are the benchmarks supposed to look like this, with tooltips all the way at the right?

http://imgur.com/a/iY9hT

I'm on Win7 x64 Chrome.
Totally would use!
I don't think it has something to do with the community. But rather that GL and BB are losing to GH in terms of UI / UX. Well, at least I wanted to switch to GL long ago, but couldn't due to unsatisfaction by their user interface.
But the static type system is what is being evaluated here. This is like saying that python has a sound type system because the interpreter throws type errors when you fuck up.
Sadly, the Bradley trainer doesn't actually work properly in MAME, because the mathbox (a math accelerator circuit) in the Bradley Trainer used custom PROMs which differ from the stock Battlezone (implementing several more commands than 'stock' Battlezone does), and these were never dumped by Scott Evans.

Hence the "AI" (and collision detection?) doesn't work correctly.
I tried to kill myself once. I had lost all my coping mechanisms and convinced myself that not only was killing myself the only way out, but that no one would care if I did. I am not ashamed of what I did but I regret it immensely. It's hard to reconcile the fact that I would have lost so much with the feeling at that time that I would lose nothing.

I don't know what I can say that will have any meaning to you, insofar as I dismissed everything said to me at that time in my own life, but I'll say this: believe it or not, you have exclusive control over whether you have the opportunity for your life to improve. All you have to do is give yourself the opportunity by whatever means possible. All you have to do is wake up tomorrow morning.
Well there's free as in speech. And free as in beer. And free as in working for IBM without getting paid.
Ipads will also need to add extra monitor support as a buying a macbrook pro and some monitors is worth the extra cost versus developing on the small screen real estate of an ipad.

In addition, IOS app development is only supported on mac which will not be trivial to port to IOS. As @simonh said, touch and mouse UX are quite different and I don't see them being combined optimally in any near future.
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So have we gone full circle on turned html into a basic document structure? I thought the next cycle would have been in json.
As a vim user who's yet to learn emacs...

wat.
CockroachDB needs a place on a list like this :) . Seriously, who would honestly tell their VP or their clients "oh yeah, were gonna migrate this to a great new database technology called cockroach". It's rock solid enterprise level stuff.
Hello Chaps,
Very new to 'Hacking' and all it entails, However for my tuppence worth on this.

I've looked at ALL your posts and agree with you all entirely.
This is 'Quicksand' The concept is great, BUT it is a treasure trove just waiting to be hacked.
I think we need to reconsider the blanket conflation of "autistic" and "mentally disabled". Especially considering that one of the premises of this article is that autistic people are disproportionately capable of work in cyber security (which is a knowledge field).

Further, the proposal seems to amount to A) giving those autistic individuals with a propensity for cyber security a job and B) giving the support in dealing with the downsides of autism. It is hard to see where the "exploitation" is happening without arguing that all employee relationships are exploitative. I suppose you could argue that the fact that autistic people are underemployed means that we could pay them below market wages. However, even below market wages could still be very good wages (relative to other fields, we get paid very well); so this arguement would fall into the Copenhages Morality trap. [0] The proposal is also consistent with just paying them market wages, which avoid the problem entirely.

[0] https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
Maybe they felt there was no known or documented relationship between that editor and vi. Then again, they missed Bravo (which ran on the Alto) and Bill Joy has talked about its influence specifically.
Wow, the pages on your site load so quickly they're finished rendering before I even start reading the article. Thanks for sharing this. Very cool.
How many does it have to kill to be an extinction level event? By the time we deal with the radiation sickness and the lack of civilization would we have enough people left for a breeding population?
Well, you may be on to something with this idea. I believe that with the exception of humans, all eusocial species have specialized reproductive castes, while the workers are sterile. Certainly some humans are willing to give up their own reproductive success so others in the group may be fertile. We have professional "adult entertainers" so maybe it's a small step to professional parents?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_eusociality
Thank you! Somehow I heard that quote in my head, word for word, but had no idea where it was from.

I'd been racking my brain, thinking it sounded too sarcastic for a BBC doco, I didn't even think of The Simpsons.
In the game of life, anything times zero must still be zero
As someone almost killed this evening while driving home from the Thanksgiving holiday weekend by a driver texting and not paying attention behind me at highway speeds (with my wife and newborn daughter in the car), I welcome the cold, calculating embrace of self driving cars with open arms.

Edit: The driver ended up impacting a semi trailer that had been in front of us, with me leaving the lane for the safety of the grassy interstate median.
The latest iPhone and Apple Watch models are incremental upgrades, and in the case of the iPhone, everyone expected a redesign

Pretty much the only thing that didn't change on the iPhone in the latest rev was the form factor. Apple is also very well known for continual incremental upgrades. Yes, I'm going to quote Gruber:

In every regard, from performance to battery life to camera image quality to haptic feedback to water resistance to wide color gamut displays to sound quality from the speakers, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are impressive year-over-year improvements over the 6S/6S Plus, and stunning improvements over the two- and three-year old iPhone 6 and 5S — which are the models most people considering the new iPhones will be upgrading from.

https://daringfireball.net/2016/09/the_iphones_7

Is the lack of a form factor change in the iPhone 7 make you think the iPhone is not (still) a priority for Apple?
Extremely so. Lacking so much as useful keywords for finding what he refers to as "standard sources".
Maybe of you inline entire functions...
Yeah, I restarted Chrome and everything is good again. When in doubt, turn it off and back on, right? :)
"Wrath of the Khans" series from Hardcore History.

http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-43-wrath-o...
What are some of the others you know of?
Man this site is unusable on mobile
The framework itself needs description in probabilistic terms. Otherwise it has only pragmatic utility, and degraded epistemic status.
Help:We Found a Bitcoin Mining Prog / Email Server Running on Our Server
We saw that load spiked on one of Ubuntu servers yesterday and found this on the proc list using all our cores:

statd 7680 690 0.0 743976 58492 ? Sl Nov26 20914:53 ./yam -c 1 -M stratum+tcp://binyu.crypto%40gmail.com:x@xmr.pool.minergate.com:45660/xmr

This was running under the statd user.

What do we do? We checked firewall, SSH, all seem OK. How do we go about investigating this breach?
Do help!
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It's not. See https://opensource.org/osd (which is Open Source, not Free Software):

1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

2. Source Code
The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost, preferably downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.

3. Derived Works
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
So, first it stretches the definition of sci-fi beyond reason (how on earth is The Witch science fiction??), and then to add insult to injury it leaves one of the purest sci-fi movies of the year (The Arrival) off the list (though, I suppose to be fair it's trying to list movies folks may not have heard of... of course then they went and stuck Cloverfield and Midnight Special on the list).

I'm baffled.
Obfuscation doesn't work for copy protection anyway.
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It is LF, this is to be expected. Go to somewhere like FOSDEM or linux.conf.au for a real open source conference.
World's first phone with 12GB RAM
This might be kind of off-topic, but I am interested in how he create this tree diagram, is there any tool could do that? or just handmade?
The article claims: 'Over the summer at least one Mac App Store app installed malware onto users’ Macs.'

But then links to http://fortune.com/2016/07/06/mac-malware-backdoor-app/ which seems to be about something called "EasyDoc Converter" which was stated to not have been in Mac App Store...

'The good news is that the malware, dubbed “Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor” by the researchers, is not available in Apple’s AAPL 0.50% official App Store. Instead, the app has been advertised for download on third-party sites; for instance, a copy was available on the site MacUpdate until it was removed on Tuesday.'
What data does Google sell and to whom?
Looks like a standard solid oxide cell, going by their glitzy info page [1]. The water is used in reforming the methane but it's not a source of oxygen; that comes from the air.

[1] http://www.bloomenergy.com/fuel-cell/solid-oxide-fuel-cell-a...
What about them? This is a question that deserves a long, complicated, reasoned answer, but it's generally asked as though it's already the answer.

I'll just say for brevity that people (especially young professionals) drastically underestimate 1) the amount of opportunities there are in other, smaller cities and 2) the quality of life that's possible on lower salaries in those cities.
There is monodraw for Mac OS X: https://monodraw.helftone.com
With most type systems there's never a problem with being able to express nonexistent types. In some type systems, such "nonexistent types" itself are useful tools.

(Where by "nonexistent type" I mean "a type for which there cannot be an instance". "imaginary type" might be a better term, since the type itself exists in the type system.)

The problem here lies in the fact that Java lets you create an instance of any type you can write the signature for via `null`. This lies in conflict with the ability to specify nonexistent types (which is a relatively common ability in type systems and might not even be possible to excise without causing significant complexity).
The unfortunate reality is that battery and solar panel manufacturing processes are dirty chemical affairs, even with exploding batteries aside. Just look at the process for solar panel manufacturing......

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1. Solar panels are made in China, Malaysia, the Phllippines, and Taiwan. (I think around 40% comes from China)

2. Solar panels are made from Quartz.

3. Quartz comes from mines, is abundant, can be found everywhere, and causes silicosis for miners.

4. Quartz is turned into silicon. —metallic grade silicon. We use this to harden steel. (requires a lot of heat) output = CO2 and Sulfur Dioxide. — not too bad. ;)

5. To purify the silicon into polysilicon you end up mixing hydrochloric acid with metalic-grade silicon = trichlorosilanes.

6. The trichlorosilanes mix with hydrogen that you add to the process.

7. Then bam, you get your polysilicon, and as well some nasty stuff called silicon tetrachloride.

8. For every 1 pound of polysilicon you make, you make 4 pounds of the nasty stuff-silicon tetrachloride.

10. Okay, so some green fanatics might tell you that you can just recycle this silicon tetrachloride stuff into new polysilicon because it requires less energy, but that’s unlikely because it costs a lot to do so.

11. If you’re a prudent manufacturer, you say “Fuck it.” and you just dump the silicon tetrachloride in an oil well.

12. It acidifies the soil and demolishes any water nearby.

13. Maybe one day we’ll manufacture the solar panels with ethanol instead of chlorine-compounds. — this would forego the nasty stuff — silicon tetrachloride.

14. That’s just the process to get polysilicon, there’s still a ton more to do and a ton of risks afterwards. But anyhow, let’s progress.

15. There’s got to be a better way, right?

16. Well there is, or so the hippies will proclaim.

17. There’s thin-film solar cells.

18. Most thin film cells are made from cadmium telluride and copper indium gallium selenide — often called CIGS

19. Usually you’ll layer these and splice in some cadmium sulfide.

20. Cadmium is carcinogenic.

21. You don’t want to be dumping cadmium all over junk yards, but that’s what happens to post-consumer waste.

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I'd even go as far as to say the nuclear disposal waste risks are an order of magnitude safer than a Solar future marked by silicon tetrachloride toxicity.

If there are any ChemE's in here, I'd love to hear their take on it. I'm polymer & Systems engr, so I don't go deep enough into the mfg process.
Idea extension:

VR to enable users to maximize visual field for productivity, Magic leap type interaction which could bridge the gap between touch and mouse (pointing/"touching" at objects in a users visual field would require less effort than actually trying to tap the screens of multiple monitors) might be that synergy that will be able to bridge those gaps * .

* keyboards are still probably going to be used for a long time though.
I regret I named Giorgios Kontaxis when I meant Constantine Dovrolis (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dovrolis/Papers/evoarch-extended.p...) at one point. I usually keep Greek names as well memorized as any others!
BluePrint is a joke compare to this. Palantir can't create a landing page without crashing my browser.
Subsidizing people who aren't contributing to society seems the only humane option.

I think humane is the key word here. We are human, after all. It's human that you would take someone in to your home and feed and care for them, though they might never repay you.

It's not human that you would take 10 people into your home and support them indefinitely while they contribute nothing, and then support their children, their children's children, etc forever.
The criticism on AMP is imo absolutely justified, but for the current case: Couldn't you at least solve the broken link by redirecting the AMP url to your actual page?

Taking this a step further, you could serve a minimal AMP page that contains just a link back to your original page.