skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> eight first stage rockets have been landed already.

Wow this is truly amazing! I didn't realize they've landed it 8 times already... I still remember watching the youtube live stream of the first successful landing and how exciting and moving it was to watch. We're truly entering a new phase of space exploration and I can't wait to see what comes of the next decade and beyond!
Unfortunately that doesn't seem to give any indication of how long that might be. I just saw a post from one of their engineers about a year ago that said secondary indices would only take about 2 weeks to implement.
What is the actual attack vector? The leak document just lists a dll that could be replaced to do nefarious things. How are these dlls getting replaced?
By and large, it was middle-middle and upper middle and above who travelled by plane then. They tended to be the kinds of people who typically had some decorum (you mention the suits, so it's clear they are people of some higher status), so you didn't have your run of the mill middle-class and lower-middle class brats on the plane. And people hadn't thought of exploiting the system much --till the 70s when it became democratized and then you had highjackings every week practically and so now we get what we get.

That's not a bad thing, but as things gain a wider audience and becomes less of a luxury item things change --kind of like what one sees in online discussion boards and their evaporative cooling effect.
When the company I was working for transitioned to the Czech Republic, they wanted to convert our pay over to the Czech koruna 1-1 conversion (laughter). At the time all the CEO/CIO where all getting paid in Euro's. They made it out so easy that we could easily get our super/retirement money from the Czech government when we retired. Granted nothing against the Czech people (love ya) but trying to keep track of a super fund in another country when you don't speak the native language (HA) would be more time than its worth.

Bumped into the CEO/CIO after I departed a couple of years and they offered the position again but agreed that they would never see their retirement fund from the Czech system.
Yeah, but I'm not one to force conversations. Maybe I can gently steer it the next time a Matt Damon relevant post comes up in gifs, assuming I get there before it's swamped in comments.

In the meantime, I guess I could make some gifs. Because that's a much better use of my time than research, learning, or taxes...
>> You can buy potassium permanganate tablets to purify drinking water.

Or drink your own piss, ala Bear Grylls. Healthy, and helps build character. I just think that these Albertans are just a bit too... spoiled I think?
> It's not that hard to remember 32 for ice. With Celsius you need to deal with negative temperatures all the time, and worse, the size of the degrees is too coarse.

Well, the whole world manages to deal with °C and only America and a handful of backwater countries insist on using °F.

"Too coarse" is absurd. People just measure to the nearest 0.5°C if you want to get all fussy, but that's not normally the case. It's 12° out? Wear a jacket. 12.0 vs. 12.5° isn't going to change that.

It keeps the numbers smaller. Temperatures here flop between -40°C and +40°C, so the numbers never get large. Meanwhile in the US you see temperatures of 100°F all the time as well as negative ones like -30°F. It's a much wider spread for no real reason.

I hope you know the only reason America didn't get with the program and metricize like it was fully intending to do in the early 1980s is because Reagan was an asshole.
This tedious trope is uncivil and unsubstantive. Please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13826770 and marked it off-topic.
You don't know Australian psyche that housing double's in price every 7 years and the safest investment you can ever make and you will never lose money.

Idiotic, illogical, but that's the country I live in.
I like this approach - first medium data real world solution I've read
RTFA, it has to do with how the food separates in the stomach.
The claim is that women (im aggregate) make different life choices than men, and once we account for those, the "wage gap" disappears.

I honestly don't see anything wrong with different life choices leading to different outcomes, since the same is true within genders! That is, there's nothing sexist about that fact.

The truth is the people advocating for equalizing pay when the sexes make different choices are arguing for sexism, not against sexism.
Strange many discussion is about game. The article is more about cloud computing including AI, impact to HP etc
Nike's history of supporting runners and track and field athletes speaks for itself.
https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws
This is a good point. On any sizable site, especially one that has evolved over time, you can't really remove CSS, it just gradually accretes more and more. But most of the rules aren't even used on most pages. Being able to first remove anything not used, then remove anything that gets overridden in the cascade, could reduce CSS down to a tiny fraction of its full size (never mind comments and spacing). But would that give better results than loading a big bloated and wasteful CSS file once and caching it for the entire site (or many sites in a case like CDN'd Bootstrap)? Either way is one form of bloat and waste or another.
This is bad news for bodybuilders. How long does poor Arnold have left? I mean pro bodybuilders are eating around 4000 calories just to _maintain_ their weight at about 200lbs. Eating anything less than that and you're getting smaller. Let's not even talk about powerlifters..
Thanks for the link! Apparently 'Buy Jupiter' it self is a story (so all the stories on the page are free)
This looks pretty silly, a Lenovo P51 beats the specs aside from GPU but supports ECC RAM for half the cost.
That would be great, never seen MkDocs but looks like it might be an improvement for jumping between topics.
How is HCl related to KMnO4? And why would one combine them?

Why not just add a hypochlorite to water if the end goal is to disinfect with chlorine?
Is there a real need to go at this level? Notepad++ has a 3rd party plugin model which it happily auto-updates all the time. I wonder what would it take for CIA (or any big pocketed attackers) to "buy" one of those things and push updates with their own stuff. Chrome extensions are even more merky. Many of these 3rd party popular extensions would be happy to sell their business for couple of millions dollars and let buyer push whatever they wanted.
This is a useless change. There was no issue in Notepad++. The attack involving scilexer.dll just happened to be a convenient way to inject code GIVEN you already have root access to write to the program directory. There are an endless number of other ways they could have done it in those circumstances.
Licensing Windows 2016 Datacenter would cost a fortune for the 2P server.
Is there really a window under the carpet the pilot can use to check if the landing gear is down?
oh please, google did their own study. They want to hire more females than any company but the conclusion was that there aren't enough women in the engineering pipeline.

So yea, the more likely reason is
C) Women don't want to become engineers as much as men do, for whatever (social/biological/cultural) reason
No. They skip the python to bytecode compiler and go straight to the interpreter and runtime. More or less. You should know C.
If they did it for International Women's Day they were a little early.
Make flying great again
Do you have citations for the stats you claim? That's not a dig, btw; I'd honestly like to see them.
> a team that has not proven an ability to generate a profit

There is more than one flavor of unprofitability. On one end, you have Pets.com-style "selling stuff for less than it costs to stock and ship", and on the other end you have Amazon-style "every penny of profit and funding goes into expanding infrastructure ahead of projected demand and leveraging current infrastructure to enter new markets."
Interestingly, it's also referenced in Futurama.
Cal in = Cal out is always true. However, the
Cal in side has a very important % energy extracted modifier. Simarly, the
Cal out side is modified by metabolic rate and exertion modifiers.

Those individuals with high energy extraction and low metabolic rate will find it very difficult to eat as little as required to balance the energy equation without constant hunger and living with excessively small portions. While this is achievable, it is hard and failure is frequent...especially given all the other challenges in life. So naturally, asking whether and how these modifiers can be adjusted is pressing. There is a lot to learn, but thereare known factors that can influence these factors.
For example, co tinued cold exposure leads to activation of brown fat that generates heat, which dramatically raises metabolic rate (e.g. Californian's feel cold in 12°C weather, but someone in New England would wear shorts in that weather). Interestingly, cold weather increases gut caloric absorbancy to compensate for these expenditures..(sorry Id provide references, but I dont have it bookmarked on my current device).
Pale Moon Survey 2017
I see it come up pretty regularly. It usually is then followed by racist pablum of one sort or another--so the resistance to racial issues isn't exactly different from the resistance to gender ones.
I think it's a good unit of comparison. Virtually everyone has listened to a song to completion, and a very large number of people have done so in the past 24 hours, or even hour. It's also much easier to quantify the length of a song. Whereas with books: well, it's been a couple months at least since I've finished a new book. And number of pages in a book is not as meaningful to the human experience as amount of time. And the amount of time spent on a book -- i.e. minute per page -- greatly varies per human.

Sure, according to who you ask, a 3-minute Justin Bieber song contains less "data" than a 3-minute Bob Dylan song, but at least the quantifying of time is consistent among different people (um, relatively speaking).

And sure, 26 million songs is still as hard to comprehend as 26 million books. But again, more people can quantify how much of their life a song takes because most people have more recently consumed a song's worth of information.

The variance between data storage for song (e.g. length, kbps) is not meaningfully different enough in terms of order of magnitude.
How to Reduce the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship and Investment Industries
There's plenty of room at the bottom, after all...
Uber works to mend relationship with regulators
It's using EasyRTC to handle WebRTC. I found it a delight to work with. The live examples are running with TURN server hosted by Xirsys.

I did catch that article last week. If I remember correctly it boiled down to a lack of good support for UDP / WebRTC in a client-server arch. It's actually one of the problems I want to play with soon. There are some frameworks, like Janus, that do it but I haven't heard great things.
> A difference in temperature has the same numerical value in both degrees C and K.

I know, I used them basically interchangeably in my post.

> unless you also use Rankine

If people used Fahrenheit more often they would use Rankine more often as well (and yes, I was aware of it before this discussion).

> which would be joules in SI

Joules is a unit of energy, not temperature. You need to multiply by entropy to get temperature.

It would be one thing if the unit for temperature was based on the SI units, fine. But it's not - it's completely arbitrary, and since that is the case you might as well use the more usable Fahrenheit.

If I were doing it I would redefine it such that 1 joule of energy applied to 1 gram of water = 1 new-degree. (Right now it's 4.2 joules.) That would make the temperature scale less coarse, which is good. Then make absolute zero -1000 new-degrees.
Understanding DBus and BlueZ
Have you seen this one? It's insane:

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
That headline is not true.

Because we don't actually have potatoes growing on Mars, there is a lot of information we could potentially be missing, like microbes we haven't discovered, effects of the radiation and little atmosphere, or (going for an extreme example here) a rabbit-like creature that we have never been able to detect yet, that eats the potatoes while we're not watching.

What we've accomplished with this experiment is only to "Grow potatoes in the closest approximation to Mars setting that some scientists thought of".
If you go to the link it says:

>If the crew gets an unsafe light when putting down the landing gear, there is an alternate visual indicator on each wing in two locations. If you go to the triangle stickers and look out you'll see the small one inch diameter red post protruding up about 2.5 inches. This confirms the gear is down and locked over-center.
Ok. I was just extrapolating out that if from a microsecond to a half hour 10^9 which is within a couple of orders of magnitude of the age of the universe in seconds, then from a microsecond to a year would result in a ratio that when expressed as an integer is much larger than the age of the universe.

I'm realizing as I type this that I am not totally clear here and I will do some reflection now as to how to rewrite this point so it does not raise such objections. Thank you again for your help with this.

But I am talking about scale. The number of different size "bricks" or "units" of time that you can choose in which to execute concurrent or dependent logic is staggering. And all too often this is overlooked. Thus "February 29 bugs" and "New Years Day" bugs, not to mention the entire error classes of race conditions and cascading failures.
If Puerto Rico acquired statehood, then the Jones Act (in this case, the "Merchant Marine Act of 1920") would still apply to them and still jack up prices.

That's the case in Hawaii.

(This comment thread is complicated a bit because the "Jones Act of Puerto Rico" -- the Jones–Shafroth Act -- is different from the Merchant Marine Act, also called the Jones Act.)
You're comparing a 12" 2-in-1 with a 17" gaming-oriented desktop replacement. Configure the SP4 for its max specs, and the CPU is still lower-powered, it has half the memory, half the storage, and a tiny fraction of the graphics capability. And obviously, is about $1800 cheaper. Faster CPU, more RAM, another SSD, a larger, higher-res screen, and what has to be some amazing thermal management design. In those terms, the price doesn't seem so outlandish.

It's just very different hardware, optimized for very different things.
What's that definition of insanity again?
I'm onboard for metric - just not for temperature.

Just because you manage to deal with C doesn't make it better.

Do you see the parallels? You tell Americans all the benefits of metric, they don't care. You tell Europeans all the benefits of Fahrenheit, they don't care.

People don't want to change.

> It keeps the numbers smaller.

No, it doesn't. You need 3 digits since you need the decimal (-20.5).
An experimental platform for building the peer web
Answers to Tim Ferriss' billboard question on your new tabs
Well instacart could cut out the supermarket.
Those are some really wild unsubstantiated guesses :^)
> discovery does not bring about its existence.

I would argue that it does but this is a matter for phenomenologists. The practical result is that it's as if the bug never existed. Beyond that let's agree to disagree.

#93 No hard data. How would you even begin to measure such a thing? No two software shops are the same, hell no two projects within the same team are anywhere similar. How to baseline? What about the impossibility of a control group for a software team?

I find it interesting that a power log distribution would result in the kind of behavior I am describing: relatively small impact for even fairly large variations in the number of tests applied to a project.
Original author of the paper here, happy to answer questions. It's a little strange refreshing HN and discovering new popular press about your paper.
Yes, many ARM based SOCs include PCIE IP...SOCs from Freescale, TI, Nvidia, etc. typically supporting PCIE RC and EP.

Lots of boards with ARM based SOCs are using PCIE WiFi/BT combo chips which traditionally used SDIO. PCIE also being used for storage.
Facebook will be dead in 5 years (2012)
The Anchor-Outs (2012)
A family member of mine is an orthopedic surgeon in Vancouver. Several years ago he split his time between a teaching hospital and a private practice, doing knee surgeries at both. At the hospital waiting times were typical. At his private practice waiting times were very short, on the order of days, I think. IIRC, the way surgeons get around the rules is by charging by the hour, not by the procedure. And it's completely out-of-pocket. For the kind of cookie-cutter, out-patient operations he specialized in it worked very well for him and his well-heeled patients.
Be simpler, people. Old Navy, Zero Exposure, Merona and Levis. Cheap and somewhat crappy, but worth every penny.
Here's an article that explains it pretty well: http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/is-your-language-unre...
The "beer as a safe alternative to water" is likely a myth. See https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1yts0v/comme...
Storage medium is just part of the equation. The other important and hard part is the mechanism that is required to read and write data to that medium. Would you use a CD as a storage medium when the CD reader/writer is size of a washing machine?
Maybe You, Too, Could Become a Super Memorizer
But like Jared Diamond it is entertaining.
Gastropod has a really neat episode where they talk the history of coffee and caffeine and how it came to (and changed) Europe.

https://gastropod.com/caffeine/
Exactly, I'm installing Cassandra right now.

But showed Scylla to my co worker. And he was like: holly cow! We need to install that!

And I was like: bag, we are at a bank. Forget it :)
Along the same lines, monks begin to gather energy through different methods. They aren't eating as much but can sustain themselves off the vitality of the sun and surrounding environment (if they are in a clean, restorative environment.. basically nature)
Also in the time-honored tradition of HN, the title isn't quite right. 1. we didn't build the connectome, the visual 6502 team did. 2. It's such a good connectome that we can simulate everything perfectly -- a Hansonian "Em", if you will. 3. It's still hard with total visibility to use contemporary techniques to achieve understanding.
What you keep calling "read repair" is actually just "repair" or the longer phrase "anti-entropy repair". "Read repair" is something different.
That, and their President is one W. Ed Russet Burbank, and he can (allegedly?) grow potatoes where noone else can. #respect
Sounds like a good start to a http://bahfest.com/ submission!
Can you please post a link to your Open Guide to AWS if possible?
Raw studio-quality audio and highly compressed mp3s are multiple orders of magnitude apart.
If it's voluntary absolutely not. But when people fetishize collectivism the natural result is forced collectivism, which is just a rationalization of theft, robbery, and usually murder. That is bad.
Are we talking 2-minute punk songs, 4-minute pop songs, or 20-minute jazz-prog odysseys? And is this CD quality wav, or 128 kbps mp3?
Nope, they recently changed their policy where your manager has to go through tons of paperwork for you to work from home one day a month! One of my really good friend works for IBM and that person told me about it.
And punk rock songs and prog songs can be an order of magnitude apart in length.
FYI on the term "Greyballing."

Uber reportedly has a secret tool that identifies and evades law enforcement, in order to operate in cities that have imposed strict rules or even banned the taxi alternative.
The tool, called Greyball, uses data collected by the Uber app to identify and deceive authorities, as first reported by the New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...
I'm not sure why the off-centre keyboard is a deal breaker.

I use a Microsoft semi-split ergonomic keyboard, and a Razer Naga mouse (heaps of bindings for dev stuff). Prior to getting the ergonomic keyboard (and a decent mouse) I had pretty extreme RSI.

However, if I look at my keyboard setup right now, whilst the keyboard as a whole looks fairly centred, ever so slightly to my left due to the mouse. The keys I actually type on (i.e. not the arrow keys or numpad) are all farther off centre, to my left. I'd assume this to be the case for most devs, excluding perhaps vi/emacs aficionados whom don't ever use their mouse.

It's hard to tell without touching the laptop, but I doubt having the keyboard off centre is going to cause problems. If anything I find using the trackpad on my Macbook below the keyboard gives me extreme RSI pain (I don't do it except when travelling).

The price tag is fairly extreme, but it's roughly on par with a high-end Macbook Pro (which many devs, including myself, use), however unlike a Macbook Pro it has the hardware to back-up the price tag.
It's likely a myth with regard to the middle ages, but what about ancient times --ie Roman, Greek, Egyptian, etc? These places had urban centers.
> I don't know if we'll see practical atomic storage or if more than one bit per atom is physically possible, but in theory there's enough space in an atom to hold millions of bits.

What will you encode the bits with?
Microsoft’s latest open source servers shown off with Intel, AMD, ARM chips
I am far from an expert on this... but. For most software, can ARM realistically replace Intel? If we ignore the obvious advantages of the intrinsic instructions found in most Intel chips...

Intel has a really solid and reliable clock speed with a relatively small number of steady states (low power, turbo, default). In my limited experience, ARM chips seem to have variable clock speeds depending on both the type (floating point/integer) and magnitude (number of cycles/sec) load. Is this only apparent in the IoT space? Does it disappear in ARM chips designed for servers? Am I delusional about this?

It is really difficult to understand just how sensitive any given application is to the monotonic clock. Can most applications really just be ported?
I was referring to this comment at the link

>Right below that mark will be a small window in the floor.

>In case of a cockpit gear indication failure, one pilot goes back, peels back the carpet over the window, and checks the manual alignment indicator in the wheel well.
I tend to fast out of laziness and drink coffee, snack on nuts to supplement afternoon drowsiness. Then eat way too much in the evening.
True, but have you seen some of the bigger tape library robots? :-)
"Well, as of now you can't fire me, so why not hire me".
That's amazing. Thank you for creating this. It's very useful for preparing an interview in system design.

I think you miss "Show HN" on your post.
Definitely correct, they are not stupid. These tools are more of a "keep it around in case we need it" type of thing.

The CIA works abroad, not on American soil, so none of these tools are being used against the American people anyway (thats the NSA's job). I imagine this is part of a network or "library" of exploits they have, in case they encounter say a North Korean laptop with Windows 98 and they need something in a pinch.

>doesn't mean that there aren't more units

Exactly, thats why they call it a "leak" and not a "turn the hose on full blast."
> The Blade Pro has a 99Wh battery which is the biggest battery Razer could ship while complying with airline regulations

Can't they go up to 160Wh? See https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
People I know there work from home and love it.