skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They agree when their interests agree, and they have plenty of treaties and rules between them when it comes to this sort of minutia. The question is, is any of them better served by a rotating Olympics than a fixed one? If the answer is yes. Say, because it gives them a chance to gain soft power via a PR demonstration of hosting the Olympics, then it will clearly not change. But my point is not that it will change, my point is that what the IOC wants doesn't decide that, what the governments involved want does.

One possible way to explain the current situation is that there is a big incentive for both the EU and, in a lesser degree, the US, to have the Olympics fixed in Greece, a country inside the western system of alliances. Conversely, there is a big incentive for China and Russia to be able to compete for hosting the Olympics themselves or have them hosted in states that are more closely aligned with them, even with the economic cost involved. Smaller countries have incentives to both host or avoid hosting the Olympics. But none of this, none, depends on petty corruption from the IOC. This is not an engineering problem, but it is also not a business problem. As you pointed out just now, it is a geopolitics problem.
I've been using Buddy Build and I really enjoy their environment. How does this compare to that?
I'd turn this feature on my phone right now for gmail just for "lost phone" mitigation.
I used to feel like that. But now, 10+ years into my career, with a wife and 2-year old son, plus a full time programming gig, I just don't have the time or energy to dive into new projects after work or on the weekends.
I agree that in principle a strong portfolio is a great way to communicate software development skill. What I don't understand why he feel "now" is different.

Github isn't exactly new and there is plenty of time for others to innovate in this space. Why haven't we seen this effect already? If it could happen fast it would already have happened. Why won't it be a slow taking a decade or more like the proliferation of Social networks?
It's up 2% after hours...
I'm glad that people look up to someone like that.

What I am disappointed by is how his fans react to criticism. There's healthy respect and there's unhealthy worship. When you have a bunch of people who will get really upset due to any criticism that is on the worship side of the coin. Any community with voting arrows (HN/Reddit) suppresses anything negative said (no matter how supportable/well constructed the criticism may be).

Plus these same fans love to attack competition who are also doing really cool stuff instead of supporting them (e.g. Orbital ATK, Faraday Future, NIKOLA ONE, et al). Using arguments that are often double standards or ignore Tesla/SpaceX's own history to make them work.
Lots of technology is non obvious, even simple tech. The wheel wasn't widely known in the Americas. Large wheel wagons like you see in rickshaws were not widely known in the West.
Have you had a look at Whoosh and Haystack?

Whoosh is pure python and Haystack is a nice Django-like wrapper around search engines.

* whoosh.readthedocs.io

* haystacksearch.org
Okay, sure. I can give you a serious answer if you'd like.

First of all, you're attempting to take down some strawman. _Who_ is applauding this discovery, and simultaneously calling NASA's climate change research "all a big con"? It's disingenuous when you just present a (IMHO) off-topic opinion that the majority of the other commenters here have, in the form of an innocent question. If you would like to discuss the view of a public figure or other commenter, that's fine. If you want to discuss how you think that people should accept NASA-related research as a whole or not at all, that's fine.

But don't ask a false question to take down a strawman.

Second, your statement "either you think NASA is good at science or you don't" is a massive trivialization. NASA is a 19 billion dollar organization, with over 17,000 employees (not counting contractors). Beyond the problems of the phrase "good at science" (What does it _mean_ to be "good at science"? That's an incredibly complex topic.), NASA is huge, with many, many different people and departments, opinions and beliefs, cultures, etc. Thinking of NASA as a fixed, singular, cohesive entity is a flawed assumption.

And I guess finally, to get back to your original question, it's quite straightforward. The (economic, political) implications of habitable planets 40 light years away is quite different from the (economic, political) implications of American industrial and economic activity needing to be massively changed, very quickly.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a firm believer that climate change is a human-caused phenomenon. But I don't feel that your original question was presented in the best possible way.
What Studies of Actors and Acting Can Tell Us About Memory [pdf]
The overwhelming majority of people CBP actually deals with at the border are in fact citizens.
Since there are a myriad of registrars that can register .com , and it was apparently registered and domain-validated successfully at the time of cert issuance. Is there any way that LE can obtain from Verisign a historical copy of the whois record as it appeared for the domain at the time it was issued, while the domain was live? I'm hoping that verisign keeps such historical records for expired or deleted domains.

edit: In addition to all of the data currently captured via the ACME client challenge/response, would it not be a good idea for LetsEncrypt to store a copy of the 'whois' record for a domain at the time a new cert is issued? In a worst case scenario for a .com domain, all of the registrant details can be opaque and hidden behind a privacy proxy, but it will have at least one functioning authoritative nameserver, and the hostname and IP address of that authoritative nameserver can be stored forever.

This could help to track down future abuse in the event that large numbers of suspiciously named domains can all be correlated to a set of common authoritative nameservers.
With all due respect, I will never understand how that statement differs from trying to understand the ways of an abusive ex and trying to thread carefully based on it? pretty sure the abusive nature comes from somewhere and then for some darn reason I'm walking on egg shells when I could pretty much invest my time in a more nicer manner. Unless you think that putting up with complete crap is something people ought to aspire to do (don't mean to come up as an asshole, but seriously mate?)
Good to hear. The registrar is godaddy though.
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Sure, I was referring to the part where the microbe survives the initial blast, the passage through space, reentry, and landing, and happens to land in a spot where it can survive.
I went through the FPGA book with Oreilly. It is not great but bad. If you know zero about FPGAs and are not super technical (more of a hobbyist), this could be a very good book. It has a bunch of chapters, each is a project with a particular board. Some of the boards are kinda dead now (the version of Papilio .. I couldn't figure out how to get one for my own hobby purposes).
> you should rather [put] the "use strict" outside the function instead of on the inside.

Modules and classes are always in strict mode. In practice, it really isn't an issue.
iCloud backup. It's pretty darn easy to restore an iPhone after factory reset (as long as you have a decent internet connection and are willing to wait for however long it takes to reinstall all your apps and download all your data from the backup).
What is unusual is that if someone had it and then deleted it, it doesn't still show up in the whois records in a 30, 60 or 90 day redemption period. From dealing with a few .net domains that recently expired and went into redemption, it takes a long time for a defunct domain to actually disappear and become re-registerable again by another totally different purchaser.
FULL MOVIE: Fifty Shades Darker 2017 720p HD 480p HD
> You suggested that making people who are less price sensitive pay more isn't a goal of market segmentation

No I didn't. I said the specific thing being discussed was not market-segmentation. Venn-diagram.

> it's literally the textbook example of market segmentation

If you aren't just trying to be patronising, then please point me to a textbook that literally uses tipping as an example of market-segmentation.

Note, tipping higher amounts in different, more up-market places doesn't count, because like I already said:

> Just go to cheaper places if you are 'price-sensitive'

OP was suggesting people choose to tip higher amounts based having a higher income; regardless of venue, and regardless of social-signalling or marketing encouraging you to do so, simply because you can, and because it's a moral and socially responsible thing to do.
Fair enough!

There are many good ideas here and I'll even wager that a 'trip mode' of some sort could even produce benefits outside of the held-at-the-border use case. It really does seem silly at retrospect that these tech giants have decided the default needed to be "expose all of the connections"
Investors are not fools; anyone reading these statements and reports is smart enough to understand the difference between GAAP and non-GAAP. Investors should make up their own minds as to which metrics are useful, just as you have made up yours that reporting the non-GAAP numbers is intrinsically suspect.
Cool I'll check it out!
I realize that .NET is F#'s biggest strength from the perspective that Microsoft probably holds of trying to push C# more functional, and trying to attract talent from R, Ocaml, Rust, Julia, Haskell, etc, but it also feels like its biggest weakness.

I'd love to see some sort of bootstrapped version that makes use of .NET Native or CoreRT or whatever they use today, and I'd REALLY like to see a strong Stdlib for F# that takes into account what functional programmers are used to.

I've been doing functional programming for several years, and I feel like a moron working with F# because I don't know half of these dumb .NET classes and some of the domain problems don't really leave me able to budget enough time to bootstrap my own solutions OR learn all the .NET stuff I need. Especially not when I can jump into several other languages and have a working prototype often in days or hours.
> and lastly: test, profile, test and profile again!

This, this and this. I see so much code where threading and caching are thrown around as a solution to a performance and no one ever tests to see if it's actually an improvement. I saw one the other day that used multiple threads to call a micro service which locked execution to a single caller and most of the bottleneck was serialization/deserialization. Making the microservice a library would have been much more performant.
The problem with that is that CBP can (and surely soon will) compel travelers to log into their accounts from CBP's own equipment.
It really does not matter as we could build them today with a lot less effort.

It would cost something like $5 billion today and would take ~2,000 people ~5 years. Which is relatively speaking a lot less expensive. Put another way, Bill G could build ~17 of them in his lifetime and not be broke.
The person above claimed that people "lost their shirts" shorting Tesla. Clearly if they were down within normal trading hours, some of those shorts would have paid out. That was what I was responding to.

The fact that Tesla rebounded after hours is neither here nor there. The shorts may have already paid out.
Talking about flow, I was wondering: couldn't something like that be implemented just with comments, leaving us with actually 100% valid javascript? Eg:

// @param somestring [String] yadda yadda
// @return [Boolean]
function somefunction(somestring) {
// @type [Boolean]
var ret;

...

return ret;
}

This would remove any type of "lock in" if you want to use it...
Are you looking for the answer "slave labor"?
What about status=ok|error[|partial]? how do you feel about this? Given its value you may have either result or errors attribute.
Facebook and Google also cooperate closely with the US government, law enforcement, intelligence services and state department. How can they be part of the solution when they're part of the problem?
This is very interesting. I worked on a similar project, but somewhat different. It's a Slack bot that monitors your Slack channels for indicators (IPs, URLs, files, etc.) and alerts you to possible threats, such as phishing attacks. Your Slack channel is as good an attack vector as anything else.

https://github.com/swimlane/makobot
I'm glad to hear that attitude still exists among hiring managers. I'm working at an otherwise great company that doesn't give a rat's behind about work/life balance. I.e., if you're not still here at 6:30 or 7:00 PM you must not be a team player. Never mind if you have a wife and small child that you'd like to get home and have dinner with.

Edited for clarity.
Why do you want turn avoid Visual Studio out of curiosity? It's pretty great now.
You keep referencing human labor, so you aren't getting it. There won't be a meaningful number of people working in the future because humans will add less value to the market than automation. I won't try to predict when the human unemployment "tipping point" occurs, but it will occur.

What is your proposed solution for when the market economy collapses due to demand side economics ceasing to exist?
Tesla wants to offer vehicles with one price, including insurance and maintenance
They did say "no evidence of a link" in the title and abstract, though the conclusion at the end of the abstract unfortunately says the study strongly suggests there is no link. Given the quoted odds ratios are > 1, this is a strange statement to make.
The IPs seem to belong to Squarespace
I've tried all three. Quick and dirty differences: ZeroNet is for sharing websites by public key -- meaning the data the public key points to is mutable by the whoever possesses the private key. Dat is for storing generic content (which may or not be a website) by public key. IPFS is for storing generic content by hash -- meaning that the data the address points to is immutable. You should also be aware of IPNS, a public key system from the makers of IPFS, thought I'm more of a fan of Dat than anything else.
Auditor Thrashes 18F for IT Security Vulnerabilities, 18F Staffers Shoot Back
Open Data at whitehouse.gov is empty
Branching out from your usual immigrant-hatred for a change, or is this the norm for you?
Maracana Stadium was not built for the Olympics, it was just used as a venue. The stadium was built in 1950...
More likely they'd just send you home. Either way, denying people entry is bad for business and tourism. If enough people want to protect their accounts when they travel, countries will have to weigh the trade-offs.
That is what is well-done in the Haskell book imho, the combination of someone just learning everything and an experienced programmer
(from oreilly newsletter...) Max Ogden apparently got there first, downloading 40 TB of open data in the last month.

https://gist.github.com/maxogden/d1e3f14bb9253ef9638a40826b0...
On the one hand, the deficiencies in that table don't look all too serious. Maybe Date.toJSON missing is the worst.

On the other hand, that's a poor excuse - why the heck haven't they fixed these issues? Cross browser compat is annoying enough as it is.
Or we just give up social media.

What, exactly, has been gained from the days of just posting on anonymous message boards and using email?

Nothing but giving unimaginable power to creepy guys like Zuckerberg and the ability for governments and employers to track your entire life. I'll pass.
Declarations can be analyzed statically. Declarative stuff is convenient that way.

If you have to execute code, things get messy.
... ... correct.
For one thing, many of the people applauding the discovery of extra-solar planets do not thing climate change is a con.

And, conversely, many of the people who think climate change is a con are indifferent to extrasolar planets.
Another platform, used to use Windows, then Linux, then Mac.
The article's premise is that most people thought Trump was bluffing/lying about barring Muslims, as well as about increasing deportation of undocumented workers. These executive orders proved Trump was serious about Muslims, and the NY Times simply found people who then realized that he probably is serious about undocumented workers as well.

Basically all the fears in this article were realized with the DHS announcements yesterday: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-immigrant-crackdown-worri...
> The planets also are very close to each other. If a person was standing on one of the planet’s surface, they could gaze up and potentially see geological features or clouds of neighboring worlds, which would sometimes appear larger than the moon in Earth's sky.

this reminds me of one my favorite films ever. it is just four minutes long

http://www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers/
Whoa, that must have been scary
18F Wants to Change the Rules, Not Break Them, Leader Says
App that helps meet with native speakers
What’s an API? (And Why Does It Matter?)
I was about to say "Visual Studio doesn't work in Linux," but apparently it (or at least Visual Studio Code) actually does now. Living in the future is weird.
If someone shorted TSLA going into earnings, they probably lost money. It's up 10% in a month, and it's up in after hours today. It doesn't matter if it dipped a little today (as stocks often do before earnings). It's practically at an all time high.
The optimism in this thread regarding the practical feasibility of long-distance space travel is encouraging. I truly hope it's just another hurdle for us to technologically overcome, rather than an insurmountable barrier.

Even if it weren't doable, who knows what kind of destiny awaits us as our mastery over physics advances.
Those are Squarespace IPs too - somebody from there probably can pull some logs and find the user who set up a site on the apple-id-2 domain.
In The Netherlands everyone is on WhatsApp, and instead of sending a text message or something like that, it is common to hear "Ik zal even een appje sturen" (I will sent you an WhatsApp message), or "Ik app je wel" (I'll WhatsApp you).

It got shortened... to just "app".
I think that this example illustrates why parent mentioned that this is a trap.
No, the worse that could happen is if I got locked out of my iCloud account. I would lose some files in ~/Documents/ and ~/Desktop/ (a lot of stuff I copied on an external hard drive before uploading to iCloud), which I don't really need.

Everything else is backed up automatically hourly, and all my work is in on GitHub.
Ok, firstly, I think it's great that so many people are engaging on issues of privacy and at least trying to help folks understand how to mitigate their risks in these situations. Something I think that is getting missed about all this is that a lot of people are being very US and techno-centric when they create these articles. Security when travelling is about more than just digital issues.

Doing something like this requires that you consider the risks of your phone seizure versus the risks you may face without your primary smart phone. If your an activist flying from London to D.C then fine. But what about if your an activist flying from D.C to the D.R.C and back - then your threat model changes from potential TSA problems to physical security threats.

For just one example of this, let's say you ask people to ditch their phones and take a burner because of a potential risk at the US border. Now you have removed one of the best devices for the person's physical security - a smartphone that can update people about security alerts, about local news, weather, disease risk, riots (e.g the stuff we put in the Umbrella App dashboard - shameless plug -> https://www.secfirst.org), share data amongst groups of people on the ground, can send GPS alerts in a emergency, can help them navigate if there is a problem, has a flashlight on it in darkness, has access to emergency contact details, insurance information, medical data, nearest hospitals etc. Now, your relatively low likelihood/low impact potential digital security risk at a US border has overridden the low/medium likelihood but high impact physical security risks...

Ditto it's important to thing about basic tactical things like that people are lazy, data is expensive and they will often not bother to restore the most important contacts and information that they may need when they travel, which can be a problem in an emergency...

Again, it's great to see people engaging on security issues but please be aware of the threat model, context and consequences of what you are trading off.
Thanks for the tip. I didn't know that you can enable https link writing for the domains. I will test this for sure in one of our low-volume domain.
Another vote for HN watcher. Great little service.
By default, technology decays over time as knowledge is lost. It takes active effort to keep things where they are, let alone keep pushing them forward.
Right now it's scanning random IPv4 addresses, everything accessible. Though it may be a good idea to add some sort of whitelist or blacklist rules.

I've mainly been using it for sampling and exploration purposes. Like a bite-sized version of Shodan.
I just want to point out verisimilitude's perfect response, without being too showy by responding directly[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707694
> Not totally surprising as I have never seen Let's Encrypt do anything that could be remotely considered diligence in not doing shady stuff.

Mind elaborating? I'm not familiar enough to know what shady stuff they've done, and I'm a happy user of LE so far. Would love to know more.
I also have Shared Days, suggested rooms, groups, and probably some others that I have to hide every week. Shared Days cannot be hidden at all.
I'm currently experimenting with if-no-window.Promise-then-polyfill via polyfill.io (I dont quite trust synchronous dynamic script loading yet, but we'll see if that's robust enough on old browsers). Sure, old browsers need an extra roundtrip, and it's an additional point of failure - but it simplifies dev tooling, and if your users actually cared about perf, they wouldn't be using ancient browsers.

It won't fix many issues (e.g. CSS), but at least some, and without making your build complicated, and without performance sacrifices for the majority of devices.
> either you think NASA is good at science or you don't

That's a false dichotomy.

Its quite possible to think (I am not endorsing this belief, only saying that it is not self-contradictory) that a large organization like NASA has people doing good and non-politicized science in certain areas in certain areas and bad and politicized science in others.

In fact, one could quite internally consistently believe that NASA does good, non-politicized science in some domains deliberately as a means of generating credibility so that people accept the bad, politicized science it does in other domains.
Well now I'm confused. My cats have never done anything that could be likened to an abusive partner.

I respect my cats as individuals with their own needs and desires and they respect me back. We're like roommates.

If you had a roommate that didn't speak English as their first language, would you make an effort to understand them so you could get along? Or would you scream or try to hit them or spray water in their face (as a lot of people do to cats) anytime he did something you didn't like? And if you did, and he reacted violently in turn, would you really be surprised?
What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
Microsoft already has released Office Online. It's lite versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They're quite good. They get certain enhancements when you buy an Office 365 subscription (in addition to the full applications).

IMHO there's nothing wrong with wanting to work for Google/Facebook/any of the big 4/5. Get one of those on your resume and you are set for life, even if the work isn't all it's cracked up to be.