skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point, and lets assumes that you can rig the rocket's legs for that without adding any weight. The issues I can imagine would be that you wouldn't get much help very far from the pad, given how quickly the EM force drops off with distance. Even worse, in those last crucial instants, instead of only having to calculate in relation to gravity, now you have to consider the rapidly increasing electromagnetic force. I'm wondering if you'd just rip any realistic feet off the lander?

Either way, it seems more like adding complexity, than a safety net. The really hard part isn't the last foot, it's getting it into that position.
The Nintendo Switch is the company’s biggest, boldest gamble in years
Thanks. But I often feel that that core metric is way too often overlooked by those lamenting injustice.

The fact that 'the first rough metric' is pretty decent, I think speaks to the general fairness and goodwill in the tech industry.

I've worked in tech my whole life - and without a doubt the people are pretty good. It can be a little guy-ish sometimes, and there are some bad-actors/companies, but I reject the idea that Tech is bad for women. Google and Facebook are probably 95% Obama voters, and progressive on almost every issue. To scream bigotry among this group is just too rich.

So yes - the story does not end there, and there are clearly more obvious problems as you move up in management - but I also don't see an entire industry that's in some kind of trauma.

Interesting tidbit: a survey of tech workers shows that men point primarily to the 'funnel problem' whereas women point to the 'lack of role models'. Which I thought was telling, and hints at an opportunity for improvement.
The geek side of me really wanted to install a smart thermometer. It would record my movement and learn when to turn the heat on for me!

Then I realized I could just program my old one to turn on in the morning and evening when I am home on my set schedule. It works just fine, and I know enough to think that replacing it with a complicated machine-learning process might cost me more headache than occasionally turning the heat up.
Respectfully, I think you're missing the complications outlined in the rest of the thread. The difficulty in the biosciences and even in chemistry and some physics is that they can't really be formalized in the way that is necessary to construct these "chains of proof".

The scientific literature is an ongoing conversation anchored by rigorous experimental facts and data. But rigorous doesn't mean it's clean like a mathematical proof. In fact, most science approaches its "proofs" in quite a different way than math. For example, as far as science would be concerned P!=NP in complexity theory. We've done the experiment many times, tried different things, it's pretty much true. But it's still not mathematically proven because there isn't a formal proof.

That's not to say it's invalid to expect more rigor, or that we wouldn't all love to have "chains of proof" and databases and signatures for data etc. It's that it's simply not practical given how noisy and complex biological systems are. In contrast to math, you pretty much never know the full complement of objects/chemicals/parameters in your experimental space. You try to do the right controls to eliminate the confounding variables, but you're still never fully in control of all the nobs and switches in your system. That's why usually you need multiple different experiments tackling a problem from multiple different approaches for a result to be convincing.

Formalized systems would be great, but I don't think we're even close to understanding how to properly formalize all of those difficulties and variables in a useful way. And it may not even be possible.
"Whoa there. txt.fyi's under heavy load. Come back soon!"
There's one part of home automation that's interesting I think: energy savings. With electric cars, electric batteries and solar panels and smart heating getting cheaper than the gas version, there is a need for all home devices related to high energy usage to be automated...and sadly machine learning needs lots of data that is going to be provided on the internet by the home devices (that will create lot of privacy issues of course).
Oh, management has a full picture. It's exactly what they encouraged. HR doesn't just decide on their own to ignore the issue. That tone is set right from the top.

It's just that the full picture turns out to be a giant dumpster fire, and they don't want to admit that publicly.
There are a few problems with your proposed solution, based on the facts as described in the opinion (and thus as alleged by Google's lawyers):

First, Google's architecture supposedly constantly moves data from place to place, so US law enforcement could spend considerable effort going to a court in France and convincing them they should hand over the data, only to hear, oops, while you were doing that we moved it to Canada. It also potentially splits data into many parts, requiring the US to go to several different courts. (Google also didn't even say which country or countries the data is stored in, though I suppose the US could probably subpoena that information.)

Second, Google says that the only system they have for giving data to law enforcement requires going through employees in the US, regardless of where the servers to be accessed are located. Makes sense, since their architecture is location-agnostic by default, and handling law enforcement requests is a specialized job. But a decision from a foreign court is not binding on those employees! US law enforcement would have to try to get the country hosting the data to go and physically seize Google's servers, and manually search through their hard drives. Admittedly, they'd probably only have to pull a stunt like that once before Google decided to get more cooperative, but it's still a messy situation.

FWIW, I agree with your concerns about foreign data privacy laws, but the solution can't be to effectively make certain data immune to court-ordered access of any kind. (Well, at any rate, such a solution would be contrary to political orthodoxy even in the EU, though cypherpunk types might be happy with it - a category I count myself in to some extent. :) Maybe the US needs to pass laws explicitly addressing this situation, but considering the current political situation, I wouldn't expect that to happen anytime soon…
Tesla Is Burning Through Cash
Yeah, uh, does the syntax highlighter crash every minute in Android Studio? Does the Java compiler regularly segfault? Beating Xcode is not difficult.
> Search engines are instructed not to index posts

Oh, I'm sure the internet archive guys will honor that request.

/facepalm
Source code protection is a horrible idea and antithesis to what has made JavaScript work so far. Source-code-only is the future of software distribution. One of my long-term goals involves building a new dynamic language runtime - the plan is no ABI and AGPL licensing to only allow Free Software to use the runtime.
What's the process for evaluating a new database?
It’s official. For the first time in 6 years, California is now 83% drought-free
And here I'm refactoring a PHP application feeling like I've come so far. I love that I always have more to learn.
I do believe that the future is mobility services. I don't think it's going to happen soon but I do believe it is going to happen. I believe that it will, within my lifetime, become illegal to drive your own vehicle on public roads.
It was always 10k:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13646438
French here : eggs are usually sold refrigerated (Leclerc, Auchan - but not my SuperU for instance) and I keep them in the fridge, like everyone I know (and have seen manipulating eggs)
You do realize that the 1st Amendment only applies to government restrictions of free speech and not restrictions by private entities?
I think the point of polymagnets aren't to maximize the magnetic attraction in one specific direction but to allow for custom magnetic field designs. From what their site says, it appears as if they are just controlling in fine detail which parts of a face of a magnet point north and which point south. Pointing sideways inside the magnet might not be possible for their equipment. Its probably easier and cheaper to just assemble arrays of regular neodymium to create the Halbach array than using something like polymagnets.
A virtual machine isn't all that complicated. Balancing that out, Ethereum's account balances are simpler than UTXOs, and of course Bitcoin has its own more-limited scripting. Ethereum is entirely defined by a 32-page spec, which is detailed enough that independent clients have been built from it.

Ethereum isn't technically any more malleable than Bitcoin. You might say it's more socially malleable, but governments can't force the community to make any particular decision, any more than they can with Bitcoin.

Ethereum's supply is currently inflating at 13% annually. Bitcoin was at 9% just before last summer's halving, and when it had a $1 billion market cap it was inflating at 33%. If Ethereum succeeds with proof of stake its inflation will drop below 2%, less than Bitcoin has now.

Bitcoin's hashrate is much higher, but that's misleading since Ethereum has a completely different hashing algorithm, running on different hardware. If you compare how much each chain pays for security, the difference is roughly equal to the difference in their market caps.
78+89 = 80+90-3=167
> A cluster of a few machines experiences a bunch of requests that trigger pathological memory usage. One machine OOMs, drops out. Now the rest of the cluster has to take more load, needs more memory, and increases the likelihood that the other machines also run out of memory.

A performance cliff (as you'd inevitably see while swapping) also puts you at risk of cascading failure. It might actually be better to completely drop out if the restart time is reasonably low. This is similar to GC thrashing with Java servers: many people prefer to configure their servers to suicide when GC time is over some threshold rather than try to go on as long as possible. I'm one of those people.

Better ways to avoid cascading failure are overprovisioning (RAM is pretty cheap for servers) and load shedding / graceful degradation at the application layer, coupled with care in client-side retry logic. (Avoiding accidental capacity caches, using exponential backoff on any retry.)
Have you become competent? I.e., are you doing different work than you used to when you felt like you were often in a "state of flow"? Or do you just need less concentration to do the same work?

I was feeling terrible for a while and then I noticed I was doing strictly more difficult work, and faster, but that work had become routine and trivial by now, so the deep focus wasn't needed.
> They are sincere and thoughtful, it's just that they've got a severe case of bias that causes them to hold contradictory evidence to an absurdly high standard, while blindly accepting anything that agrees with them.

This seems to be a recurring theme.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/23/14703472/cp...
Do Robots Deserve Rights? What If Machines Become Conscious?
Seems like a cool idea, and the creator is pretty responsive on Twitter. I offered to assist with the infrastructure as a way of supporting the project.
I also enjoy block size drama, but I'm not sure it effects the speculators one way or the other; many of them have probably never created a single on-chain transaction.
I once swore if I had at least 200 Mb of ram I would turn swap off. Decades and giga bytes of ram later that still hasn't happened
Proportional representation probably
Outside companies I really have no clue to be honest, it's mostly down to upbringing I think.

Edit: companies are easy, because their motivation is always clear, people are.... weird
pgp does not provide anonymity at least not in the widely accepted form. every message has the recipient keyid in plaintext, unless you --throw-keyids but then you run into incompatibilities and inconveniences that make the whole exercise user unfriendly and widely unsupported.
Have you ever done an AMA? I imagine that would be interesting..
"An Upspin user joins the system by publishing a key to a central key server. We’re running our own server for the moment but anticipate converting to Key Transparency."
https://upspin.io/doc/security.md
https://builtwith.com/txt.fyi

Looks like C# possibly since ASP.NET popped up.
An Open Letter to the Uber Board and Investors (Mitch and Freada Kapor)
Hi! Creator here. It's getting a good kicking right now so I took down the "new post" page. Everyone's fyis are still live and well.

I wanted to make a publishing widget so minimal it would operate without fuss on a $5 digitalocean plan, and I think I almost succeeded!
>These aren't speculation, they're facts. The base Model 3 will be faster 0-60,

You know for a fact that a car that doesn't exist yet is faster than one that does? That's interesting.

I, on the other hand, will wait until there's a comparable Bolt and Model 3 on the market, with a similar price, to determine what's better. A 3 series BMW is also "better" than Bolt, but that's irrelevant.

>"The charging infrastructure for long distance travel in the Bolt is awful"

You realize that there are far more regular chargers across the nation than superchargers, right?
The behavioral evidence seems to agree with them, as well.
Start by mapping out your target's usual movements. Check public records for any fatal collision hot spots in the area. Check out their vehicle. That will determine what you do next.

For instance, if I were trying to kill me, I'd find out that I usually take the same routes to and from work every day, passing twice through one intersection that has a relatively high number of injury accidents, in a Honda. So I would either crack the remote access security of the traffic control computer, or install a device in it that would allow me to control it remotely. I'd break into my car, replacing the air bag with one modified to outwardly resemble those recalled, defective, exploding Takata air bags, but guaranteed to explosively project shrapnel into the driver. This would be relatively easy, as my car is not parked in a secured or observed spot. Then I'd use my remote device and binoculars twice a day, until I saw that I was passing through the dangerous intersection, and try to manipulate the lights to get myself into a t-bone with a larger vehicle at 45 MPH. On impact, the air bag would deploy with metal shrapnel and loose screws, shredding my chest, face, and neck. That, plus any injuries from the collision itself, would likely be fatal. Just in case, the air bag device would also contain cloth infused with resistant bacteria cultured from the local hospital, so that any open wounds would be infected, antibiotic-resistant wounds.

I might also do a weak denial of service attack on the local emergency medical response immediately after the collision, using a recorded message to 911 from a burner phone. The message would suggest a high-priority emergency, such as a stroke or obstructed airway, and hang up.

The other driver would swear that I ran the red light, and I would be too dead to say it was actually green. The local cops would likely just sweep up the glass, rule it as an unfortunate accident, and not investigate further. The auto manufacturer might catch some flak for not mailing me a recall notice for my air bag, but I'd be the 12th recall fatality, and no one would really care. My target's bereaved spouse might even get a settlement.

That would just be for me, though. Someone else might get a flat tire in the wrong spot, or hit a patch of black ice on a day that's too warm for it. Or they might get their onboard computer hacked, or hallucinogenic vapor in their interior air. Or maybe they get catfished by someone who starts sending crisis texts while the target is driving.

Excuse me now, as I'm going to silently rock back and forth in the corner and pretend my world is safe.
128=(11+1)8=88+8=96

1111128 = 1111118+8=888896
Not to sound stupid, but I have the option for a 401k Traditional vs 401K Roth.

When you say 'Roth', do you mean Roth 401K or Roth IRA? This is what had me confused the entire part of a year - Roth IRA vs Roth 401k.
When I was a young hoodlum, one time I took a piece of a paper shopping bag, wrote my home address on it, and dropped it in a mailbox. About a month later, it was delivered to my house in a zip-lock bag, with the same note the OP got.

> When sending a package, put the label directly on the cardboard and write the address in marker on the side.

While you've got the marker in your hand, also make sure you black out any barcodes on the box from previous mailings, because supposedly they can make your package get redirected to unexpected places.
Sales and Marketing:

http://www.closingcall.co/
That's true, the minimum MLR creates a distorsion to the incentives.
I'd bet its cheaper.
> After a (semi-)black president, is this really still relevant?!

When the current President has committed to rolling back much of what said President achieved socially, economically and culturally, it's fair to say that Obama being elected wasn't the panacea people thought it would be.

> Maybe because Oxford is in England and England is predominantly white?

The number is off then by two orders of magnitude - and there are specific patterns of underachievement amongst black youth in England which exist when you control for other factors such as class and wealth. Black youngsters in the U.K. are twice as likely to be unemployed as white ones.

Focusing resources on the specific problems these communities face is not playing 'divide and conquer' any more than is providing specific support to LGBT communities who have a higher prevalence of mental health issues.

http://www.runnymedetrust.org/blog/how-black-young-men-are-o...
The price of Bitcoin has nearly tripled in the last year, and dropped from $1150 to $750 last month. It's neither slow nor steady.
profitable indie websites
https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses
Also, HFT practices (or lack thereof) are far from the staid enterprise practices you may be thinking of.

Absolutely right.
How would that work? Last I checked, Signal used Signal servers for key exchange (or whatever the equivalent in their lingo is). Is there any way to use Signal without relying on their servers?
Happy Valentines Day!
yeah, I tried....
Flatten your hand, palm down.

Pinch your knuckle skin from the sides.

If there's a peaked fold that stays for more than a second or two, have a drink.
Why chance with Firefox? Google has Chrome already safe and clearly on top of things. This is not a static thing as in there will be others with parts of the crypto tool chain or maybe stack?
The biggest municipal concession has been waiving build-out requirements. You know that because Google won't even start projects in cities that impose build-out requirements, whereas it has already deployed fiber in many cities without one touch make ready ordinances.

(And again, that doesn't explain why Google hasn't tried to bring fiber to the Bay Area. If OTMR ordinances are really what drive fiber rollout, why not fight that battle on its home turf?)
Why Government Incentives Help Foster Green Innovation, Curb Emissions
Extracting 25 TFLOPS from AWS Lambda
I'd take a look. I'm curious about what you tweaked to the code?
IP Mnemonics
Technically, no history was re-written! No transactions were undone, but the fork agreed to new rules. The users of the new version also had a choice if they wanted to support the fork or not, the majority went with the fork.

Ability for a community to set and agree to new rules is healthy for a blockchain and it makes it more likely that Ethereum can evolve and successfully hardfork to POS mining in the future.
They have pulled it off several times now without the additional complication so I assume it is just not worth the effort. Also what does an electromagnet capable of holding up a rocket require in power?

Would the barge still be agile enough to function? Would the benefits outweigh the additional complication? The absence of such a system on the SpaceX barges suggests the answer to those questions is no.
> and know the form of your voice is out there forever.

Lots of these types of sites usually have some limit. That is, if the page hasn't been visited in 6 months - out it goes. Curious what the time limits are.

Also, unable to test (site under heavy load) but is there an edit link that's made available after making a post? From the comments, that doesn't appear to be the case. So if I wanted to use it as a knowledge base for something, I wouldn't be able to keep updating it. I think this is the missing (basic) feature.
There are now at least six submissions of this.

The main discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13717321

There are a few comments elsewhere.

Here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=An+Open+Letter+to+the+Uber+Boa...
Not following on MS?
English is already pretty redundant, you only need about one bit per character for most text. You can see this if you compress a block of English text; you'll probably get 12.5% of the original size which is one bit per eight-byte character.
Why humans? People are concerned about the survivability of human species, and it's certainly a noble goal, but at this point it's outside or technological reach. Preserving life, in the other hand, could be doable. We «just» need to take some prokaryotic cells to one of those planets, assuming they have the right environment, and in some million years you have a complete ecosystem...

Assuming also, of course, that there is not life there already.
It can be beneficial early on for the tax advantage to increase your net income for the year, but you'll probably want the Roth later. Also, look into the Saver's Credit. If your AGI (adjusted gross income) is low enough (easier if married), you get a percentage of your retirement savings back as a tax credit. Traditional IRA and 401(k) accounts reduce your AGI and make hitting this mark easier, and increase the tax credit you'll receive.

I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations yesterday. As a single adult (non-dependent), if you were to max a Traditional IRA, Traditional 401(k), you could make up to around $70-75k in gross income, and still be able to qualify for the Saver's Credit. Your AGI after contributions, standard deduction, personal exemption, and deductions for things like medical insurance premiums, could reduce your total income to $37k or lower. You'd then get 10% of your contributions, up to $2000, back as a credit. At ~$37k AGI, your tax burden is approximately $5k, with the credit, it's approximately $3k (numbers crunched on excel on another computer, these are estimates from memory).

If you're married the max AGI to qualify for 2017 is $62k. Looking at my tax forms from early on in my mid career, I definitely could've swung that if I'd been married and sometimes did (but wasn't married so no credit), and at the start of my career I could have hit that $37k AGI by making additional retirement contributions, had I known about it.
> On windows when you allocate it will gurantee it has the memory to fulfill the request at the time of the request. On Linux no check is made until you try to use the memory.

That's not true, you have to turn vm.overcommit_memory on in Linux for that to happen I believe. Which is off by default in most distros.
I never got around to actually learning Morse Code, but I think the English language corpus is probably dramatically different from the messages that are actually sent via Morse Code. My understanding is that abbreviations are commonly used, greatly skewing the letter frequencies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_abbreviations