skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This still doesn't explain why a civilization with interstellar travel technology would ever want to attack another civilization in the first place. What is to be gained?

Safety, security.

These sorts of arguments are not about access to resources, they are about removing as many existential threats as possible.

Fewer civilizations --> fewer risks of nutjob firing a light speed weapon which makes the star which you live around go nova. Stross writes about a Nicoll-Dyson Beam:

>A Nicoll-Dyson beam is what you get when the entire emitted energy of a star is used to pump a myriad of high powered lasers, all pointing in the same direction. You could use it to boost a light sail with a large payload up to a very significant fraction of light-speed in a short time ... and you could use it to vapourize an Earth-mass planet in under an hour, at a range of hundreds of light years. [0]

A civilization which can build a Nicoll-Dyson Beam should be fairly concerned that others may also have this capability.

[0]: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/04/on-the-g...
Of course I don't blame anyone for being an economic migrant. It's a very natural thing to do: search for a better life. It's what I would do. Economic and technical development has progressed in Africa and Asia so that larger numbers of people than ever are able to consider migration. We see that now on the Libyan coast.

However, particularly for European governments, it's now becoming visible that there is a selection to be made: you can have completely open borders, or you can have a welfare state, but you can't have both.
Australia was colonized by a single group 50,000 years ago
For Single Mothers, There Is No “Day Without Women”
I almost didn't read to the end (got annoyed). Isn't it wonderful that 'Linux' is able to be friends with companies and welcome them?

So many slanderous remarks, 'you can abuse Linux', 'the Linux Foundations has no ethical concerns', 'work with the community, and not against it'. And shouldn't there have been mentioned that VMware afaiu won a (first?) court case?

The questions are important of course. Here a imo much more fruitful reading, likely well-known: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/...
I think adding absolutes is not helpful
Interesting. Do you mind going into more detail?

I'm thinking of implementing a similar system – though not using Go.
http://www.mailinator.com/ is probably better. They have a ton of domain aliases, see their homepage.
In 1947, Alan Turing said the following in a lecture to the London Mathematical Society[1]

> I expect that digital computing machines will eventually stimulate a considerable interest in symbolic logic and mathematical philosophy. The language in which one communicates with these machines, i.e. the language of instruction tables, forms a sort of symbolic logic. The machine interprets whatever it is told in a quite definite manner without any sense of humour or sense of proportion. Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result. Actually one could communicate with these machines in any language provided it was an exact language, i.e. in principle one should be able to communicate in any symbolic logic, provided that the machine were given instruction tables which would enable it to interpret that logical system. This would mean that there will be much more practical scope for logical systems than there has been in the past. Some attempts will probably be made to get the machine to do actual manipulations of mathematical formulae. To do so will require the development of a special logical system for the purpose. This system should resemble normal mathematical procedure closely, but at the same time should be as unambiguous as possible. As regards mathematical philosophy, since the machines will be doing more and more mathematics themselves, the centre of gravity of the human interest will be driven further and further into philosophical questions of what can in principle be done etc.

He added (not related to the topic of language per se, but still amusing):

> It will be seen that the possibilities as to what one may do are immense. One of our difficulties will be the maintainence of an appropriate discipline, so that we do not lose track of what we are doing. We shall need a number of efficient librarian types to keep us in order.

[1]: http://www.vordenker.de/downloads/turing-vorlesung.pdf
Uh, yeah, that's some bullshit, buddy. You know what we're doing? Constructing and testing our code! A lot of those collaborative editors lack the ability to run code, which makes them only good for displaying final results. Plus, we all have editors we're familiar and productive using, why wouldn't we use what works for us? Plus, copying and pasting in from Stack Overflow is an issue? Come ON, buddy, that's just a sign of a good developer. A good developer does as little reinventing of the wheel as possible. If you want to make things more challenging then just increase the difficulty level of your questions so that more Stack Overflow code will need to be found and cobbled together. But yeah, if I got shit for not literally typing live into the crappy cooperative code editor, I'd politely thank you for the opportunity and end the interview. Senior-level people don't have a lot of patience for that kind of crap, particularly the truly good senior people.
Big difference between intentional and unintentional technical debt. If you as the programmer are taking on intentional technical debt but the people making resource decisions don't know about it, it is in fact unintentional technical debt.
In this city's case, they've dragged their heels on public transport - nothing near what I found in Amsterdam, for example. Slowing down car drivers by 5 minutes will not get them to switch to the public transport that would add 30+ minutes. Include better public transport, and more people would switch. But throwing up obstacles without providing alternatives doesn't do the job (and based on my city, there would have to be some mind-control to get more public transport funded, unfortunately).
uhm... what are the current speculations as to what they may be holding back?
It seems the situation around online grocery ordering and taxis is particularly bad in the US, this might explain the excitement for these companies. I remember ordering groceries online in Brazil (of all places!!) as early as 2006 from a major chain and things just worked (and continue to work).

EDIT: relying on anecdata from HN comments, I have never tried online grocery shopping in the US.
This is well trodden ground. Start with the Fermi paradox: statistically there is a very large amount of stuff in the universe, so even low probability things like life should be out there, but currently don't appear to be.

The wikipedia page has a nice collection of reasons including yours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
I agree. This comment reveals a complete disconnect between how this interviewer thinks developers work, and how they _actually_ work.
some users from https://github.com/Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS also will have trouble I think
ScyllaDB Closes $16M in Series B Funding
> we never look at or train with real user data, unless explicitly donated

What is the rationale behind this? Why not train?
Hey, thanks for the feedback.

I agree with your comments about "workaholic" and the "usual HN moral". I'll be better.

I disagree with your implication that my comment does not try to help the OP with keeping his skills up. I think it's a very legitimate question and my advice is to try and find a challenging job. I don't understand how my comment can be read as a dismissal of the OP's question. It's a great question that I relate to.

Also, I realize now that you read "workaholic" as a slur and probably most people did. For anyone who felt attacked/offended by that: it was not meant that way and I think I mistranslated the term. I did not mean it as a slur and I wrote nearby that I envy the people with that kind of energy / work ethic. I miss the time when I was a workaholic (it was before I became a parent).

I do feel that there is a growing culture of "work over everything" in startup land and I believe that this is a bad thing. When I wrote my comment, most top comments were indeed examples of ways to squeeze every single ounce out of the day (they are again as I write this). I don't understand why you imply that proposing an alterative ("skill-up on the job") is not a legitimate response in that context.
iOS Security / iOS 9.3 or later [pdf]
Fireside Fiction Company is science fiction’s best-kept secret
None of this addresses the parent's comment - they believe the pay disparity along gender lines disappears when hours worked and time spent out of the workforce.

> Women in their late 20s earn around 92% of what their male peers receive, whereas women in their early 50s make just 71% of the average man's wages

That makes sense, but doesn't mean that disparity increases as a woman ages - my first impression is that a woman in her late 50s entered the workforce about 40 years ago. There was certainly pervasive inequity at that time, and the opportunities those women were excluded from early in their careers compound.
All settlements and encampments made use of fire so it is not unlikely that they just found each other in that way through smoke. Then, the native American population was prepared to handle Europeans militarily, but not from an immunological standpoint. Many conquests were achieved by amplification through local tribes (e.g: fall of Tenochtitlan, largest native settlement was achieved through a force composed of only 4% Europeans, the rest were Tlaxcalans). Incans were contacted during a civil war. The fiercest resistance was offered by the Mapuche tribe in southern Chile (Arauco War, which ended in 1810).

Then, life hasn't evolved to become invisible to predators, it has just evolved to survive. e.g: grass hasn't evolved to become invisible to goats. Then, a predator cannot survive if all the preys die. If they're too efficient at killing or too large in numbers they eventually exhaust their food source, just like the cuckoo birds cannot do their trick in every nest and some parasites are better off by not killing their host.
Focus on value, not cost. Sure, 3 bil is too much if all you want is Jet.com as is. But 3 bil might be just fine if what you want is a team to help you catch up online and compete with Amazon.
Clicking you back on, "the first lady to come out" was Diane Greene, the SVP of Google Cloud.
I cannot be specific in the open, but if you look at my profile you might be able to take a guess.

Frankly my experiences are limited to the Walmart Open API that came out of labs, so likely I'm just looking at a very small portion of what they're really doing (I'd guess most of which is for in house audiences).
Labs has many good people but also lots of legacy from Sterling world. This affects culture. For example, their execution (especially speed) is not as good as Amazon's. Their use cases are more complex than Amazon's because customers expect store pickup and/or store delivery. They are trying to leverage their stores but it adds is more work. Marc and team has been brought to change how execution happens.
Just need a bot that submits fake applications to this bot. This will overload the system and reduce the probability of human-generated applications being processed.
Gunk from Neanderthals' teeth tells us they used medicine
Detroit's real estate crisis is real and for whatever reason it wasn't handled during the city's bankruptcy.

There's a battle being waged between civic hackers and real estate interests in the city that I believe will soon rage in cities across America, but only if the civic hackers prevail.
The Chez Scheme rule is also used by Niklaus Wirth with respect to the actual language design, and it shows in the evolution from Pascal to Modula-2 and Oberon. All have extremely fast compilers, although some implementations expend more effort on optimization than others.
The owner apparently decided to withdraw their IAMA but you can see a cached version of the post here:

http://archive.is/EdvDf

> I'm the owner of UnemployedProfessors.com, and I'm joined here today by /u/IamDeleuzienne and /u/IamProfessorRogue, two of our star writers. You might have seen an article about us on reddit's front page last week (TIL), which led to several requests for an AMA. We're here to answer your questions and share our stories.
Proof
We get some pretty crazy clients and a lot of hatemail, which we understand. We help people cheat. Sometimes we are infiltrated by journalists or other academics who try to dox us. Sometimes people try to 'out' us as a fake paper mill. For example, this Daily Dot journalist who planned to expose us, only to receive an A- paper written by /u/IamDeleuzienne
As far as we know, we're the only major site that writes original papers, guaranteed to pass TurnItIn.
Edit: 9pm EST - We're still answering questions, and will be answering them throughout the evening, but there are around 1500 comments, I need to pee and my professors are doing work for the site in between responding, so there may be a delay.

Edit: Apparently UnemployedProfessors.com serves up everything, including account login, via insecure HTTP: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5v7wvg/we_are_the_own...
Hi Hacker News!

A month ago, we showed DJ Trump as a tool to make Trump say anything you type. It was fun, but many people mentioned that the videos sounded choppy.

We decided to pivot to focusing on making sure the videos can sound interesting and fun without expert editing. We added filters to create audio and visual effects that make Trump sound intoxicated or like Judge Dredd or Alvin and the Chipmunks.

We'd love to hear if there are any interesting filters you'd like to see added.

Thanks!
Best I can tell is that Intel hyperthreading supports 2 threads in an execute-until-block model. Some resources are shared. So if you disable hyperthreading, the loop buffer resource doubles in size for the single thread running on that core.

MIPS supports more simultaneous threads with an actual scheduler. Dunno if that actually gets you anything.
Github: https://github.com/jwoglom/ryancare

It's pretty simple, just a static site. But aren't dumb things like this exactly what the Internet was designed for?
Reading and writing single-atom magnets
Conversely I've always wondered what the effect on the zeitgeist would be if we discovered the ruins of an obviously advanced civilisation.

Like an Earth-like habitable zone planet who's atmosphere was heavily contaminated with fission byproducts.
this NEEDS to be republi.care

let the republicans own this.
My business does this as a part of its offerings. The deals are usually all custom as they are potentially very valuable domains involved.

Most of the time though they have a buyout component after a certain period of time and they sometimes allow part of the lease payments to apply to the final payment price.

It really just depends. More leverage for the terms on do.com vs say "Ilovewebsiteswithorangeheaders.com"
In college, we had to do a senior project in order to graduate. For CS, this consisted of building something and writing a 15-30pg paper about what you built and the technologies it uses. The other people in my class all chose to build things using technologies they were taught in our CS classes and how no problem finding professors to consent to their project and be their mentor during the process. I wanted something challenging, though. I wanted to build an iOS app using Objective-C (pre-swift), which was not something taught at my college.

After I came up with the app idea, I went around to the different professors I had classes with (some male, some female) and not one wanted to sign off on the project. Some simply said no, some tried to talk me into doing the same app in HTML5 or another language that we covered in class. I spoke to one of my peers and they referred me to a teacher I had never taken a class with. I went to her, expecting to be rejected, but instead, she happily agreed to sign off on the project. The one condition was that I TA her CS2 class the next semester in Python. I told her I never used Python before and she said: "Well you have 3 months to learn enough to TA the class". With her guidance, I learned enough Python to TA. With her guidance, I learned enough Objective-C to build the App. With her guidance, I graduated. This one professor taught me to push my limits and not let anyone hold back my pursuits of knowledge, and for that, I am extremely grateful.
30 minutes door-to-door, with the middle 15 spent on a train. Planning to replace this with a 40-minute bike ride soon :)
I guess I was not the only one who thought the keynote today was embarrassingly bad. The first lady to come out was robotic sounding and made some terrible attempts at humor.
You might be correct that Uber turns out to be a terrible investment. But there are a lot of smart people out there that disagree with you. And, unlike you, a lot of them have gotten to look at the details of Uber's financials.

I share your skepticism, but I'm not super confident in that belief.
Product announcements tomorrow (dozens), and a lot of Open Source talk on Friday! This was communicated on the Next site and schedule, but could definitely have been better positioned to keep appropriate expectations for folks watching remotely.
Jaron Lanier did experiments in VR with switched limbs, so your brain tries to make sense of a new "geometry".

I also felt regularly that all kinds of inputs are very stimulating for the brain and bolden the memory. For instance writing down with pen and paper requires more brain activity than a keyboard. Computers seem faster for note taking but the ease actually removes the colateral inputs that stimulate/challenge your brain and thus helps learning (you also have to reflect about what to trim and how to organize your notes, thus creating so semantic map of the topic).
I don't know the specifics of Sweden's judicial system, but the independence of the UK judiciary is guaranteed by the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005[1]. Judges have lifetime appointments and are professionally isolated from the other parts of the government.

Assuming that political pressure is being successfully brought to bear on UK judges is just yet another conspiracy theory, concocted to paper over inconsistencies and gaps in the original conspiracy theory.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Reform_Act_2005
Yes, as others around the internet have noted, it's a "day without women who can afford to take a day off".
The repeated misuse of "fascist" and "nazi" is only watering down the meaning of those words, and coming from an independent, is making the far left seem pretty out of touch with the rest of the world.
And I find it interesting that people suddenly claim MS is now the "good guy" and is friendly to OS community.
That's completely different to my own experience. In my experience, there tend to be minor issues with graphically intensive games but they mostly work fine with good performance. For example, I'm playing Alien Isolation on a Lenovo Ideapad laptop, with most settings at max, and I'm impressed by how well it runs.

There are some problems and glitches unrelated to the games, in my experience (like how newer nvidia GPUs have screen tearing on Ubuntu -- unrelated to vsync, by the way -- and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it for the time being)
Or we need eyes that can drive a physical response faster & more accurately than a human can react. This is the whole robotics/drone/hardware market.

Right now, most of these efforts work at the same speed humans work (probably because we still need to monitor them to make sure they're doing the right thing). But imagine self-driving cars with no traffic lights, because the cars can react & communicate fast enough to avoid a collision without any macro-scale signaling. Manufacturing processes where molten metal is shaped directly into whatever shape desired, where computers do real-time calculations of the effect of gravity & cooling rate on the position of the material. Airliners that never land and can take on passengers anywhere, because passengers ascend in a personal drone that mates with the mothership under computer control.

Unfortunately CVaaS isn't really suitable for this, because the network delays transmitting the data to a datacenter will outweigh any speed benefits of computerizing it. But I could see a big market for services that let you train a model in the cloud at high-speed, and then download the computed model for execution on a local GPU or TPU.
We basically need to just accept: "If you have a device, it is being monitored, PERIOD."
what is the "video" bit here? This is just running image recognition on a bunch of frames.
Obviously, "msg.sh" is only "easy" to use on something like a Ubuntu/Linux desktop that comes with (ba)sh and gpg -- and it's only "easy to audit" for technical users.

It's still easy enough to swap out the contents of "msg.sh" with something nefarious that sends the contents of ~/Maildir to a remote server or whatever.

The point being, if the user can't trust the framework (in this case, operating system, shell and gpg executable) there can be no trust in the handling of data either.

But blindly running code (be that a shell-script or javascript code) is generally a bad idea...
Show HN: A webrtc library for writing multi-user virtual reality in the browser
Definitely a good road to go down, and you can also find several linux distros that have the same philisophy. When I went down that road, I found it looping back to where I was with great package management being a tool to handle what I understand, not what I didn't see.
Boring? I think that emerging as the first intelligent life in a universe this old is so unlikely that divine creation would be the only reasonable explanation. A whole new can of worms!

I think it's much more likely that other intelligent life is observing us.
You don't have to blame someone for wanting to do something in order to not let them do it.
Does it matter? The alternative is to leave relics in the hands of people who will blow them up. It's ransom money, basically.
>Are you insinuating that all migrants commit sexual assault, or maybe even that sexual assault is only perpetrated by migrants?

only that there is a disproportionate amount of sexual assault committed by migrants in europe. [0][1][2]

this is a real cost associated with immigration, even if verboten to speak about amongst liberals. women pay the price for their silence.

[0] https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eez6Ab6u1C0/VmO6u36KY2I/AAAAAAAAI...

[1] https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7lHPdsLuFLU/VmOgQS6thEI/AAAAAAAAI...

[2] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-McMd_WvVqRk/VmQsLZ_rwUI/AAAAAAAAIL...
Home automation is an amazingly cool thing to do, and i theorize that it doesn't become a true part of your home unless you remove as many of the barriers to regular use as possible. Voice is very convenient, and access on every floor of the house was therefore something I wanted, so I bought 3.

The experiment is still in progress, but I can tell you they're 90% used for playing music right now :)
You might want to try shopping for ingredients from recipes instead. That and get a recurring shopping list. I use the mix of the two.
An animated GIF that shows its own MD5