skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do this everytime. Pretty much any EFF post that makes it to the top of HN, I see a comment pointing out how the post is flawed and clickbaity.
Two major US technology firms 'tricked out of $100M'
If that's the case, there's an obvious answer.

Don't have patents, have certificates of safety. That way anyone can make a drug, and show consumers that it's been tested safe.
I think the success of those companies is due in no small part to the fact that they don't force account creation for passive use. If wikipedia presented me with some bullshit intro to an article with a promise to be allowed to read the whole thing with an account I'd either go to the competition, or sign up with bogus account info, and then copy/share the article with whoever I can to save them the hassle of making an account.
Maybe we shouldn't use JSON as a configuration format. There are numerous better alternatives such as INI files and YAML.
If you go by metropolitan area London(13M) and Paris(12M) would be 13th and 14th the country population list.

Ref:[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_...]
Nice to see Linux Desktop so high. Are we entering the era of Linux Desktop ?
[I live in Argentina, so I hope this feedback is useful but I'll probably never register as a user.]

I don't understand what are the credits in:

> Pay farmers up-front for seasonal products. Trade and donate credits when you have extra.

Also, while looking at the site I really wanted to know which products are available. (My guess is this site is more useful for raspberries than for potatoes.) (Can I buy potatoes anyway?) Can I request a new product?

What happens if a farm have some natural disaster and the production is destroyed?
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GNU C Library Regression in Ubuntu
That's what I meant. If I didn't say it, it was because of a typo.
What's the name of it?
In terms of metal fatigue, aluminium doesn't last very long at all. That's one reason why you want electric cables made of copper, not aluminium.
>Why can't patents have a duration?

They do.
And this is why I read vim threads. I've been using vim for years, yet didn't know about ^O, ^I, ^E, ^Y or ^^.

That last in particular is going to be a big help. No more `:e #` for me!
I spent a minute looking at the results of that phrase on ddg, and got a hit on the book in question. While it's not a direct quote, a search of the book finds this line:

> On the one hand:
We set limits to reason, preventing it from leaving the guiding-thread of empirical conditions and straying into the transcendent and explaining things in terms that can’t be cashed out empirically.
And also, on the other hand (this being my present point):
We set limits to the law of the purely empirical use of the understanding, preventing it from making decisions about the possibility of things in general—i.e. of things of any sort—and ruling that intelligible things are not merely incapable of explaining appearances but are impossible.

I assume that's what OP meant.
There aren't any flights to anywhere in the world out of London that would connect through Paris unless you require a flight on Air France.
Titanium is heavier than Aluminium and only a little bit stiffer, so it's not necessarily a good choice for a weight-sensitive load bearing part even with unlimited budget.
I agree, it tickles my apatheist spot in the same way that talk of "God" does. Questions that are obviously not within the realm of human exploration are not interesting or compelling questions; the logical equivalent of "Is there a god?" or "What's North of the North Pole?"
Agreed, but I'm not bothered if the tools' sole purpose is to run - on the same hardware - software whose own minimal requirements make installation the CLI runtime env a trivial addition.
Kindof. If you look at aws lambda, you get a few more things for the overhead price: namely, integration with other services (Iam, cognito) and no need to worry about whether your auto scaling setup or instance sizes are appropriate... It really is just a logical extension of the concept of the cloud.

Then again, I certainly wouldn't use it for everything, but ymmv
I poked around a bit and shared some notes here:
https://bryanalexander.org/2017/03/19/what-is-lbry-and-what-...
LBRY's Twitter team was also very responsive.
How's it possible to get all that wear in ten miles? That's just a trip to church. My car tires don't even register that.
I took me a while to realise this was a blockchain development.
Also to prevent refilling a Lexmark cartridge with inexpensive third party ink.
I think he's just commenting on the wheels, not the mission as a whole. We obviously are good at making wheels that last longer than 10 miles here on Earth.
Macs are good travel laptops.

My windows and linux installs never reliably go to sleep on their respective laptops when I close them -- and I cannot be bothered to figure out whether it's a hardware problem, or a software problem... I'll just bring the mac which does sleep reliably.

It also has pretty good battery life compared to my other machines.
Why not, a jet powered plane can fly 17,300km, electric plane must have about 2x energy efficiency (70-80% vs 35-40% overall) because it's not a heat machine, so with 50x less energy density it translates to 700km. Actually it can be more because batteries are a lot denser than jet fuel so plane will be thinner, thus having a lot less air resistance, so 800km is possible. As you can see they are shooting for 500km, must be easily possible.

Airbus works on a 1000km battery powered regional plane (catch is, it's probably a turboprop) by 2030, by the way.
Just replace "Simulators" with "God", and you'll find that your beliefs are virtually indistinguishable from a religious conviction. In that light, the comfort it provides is by no means hard to understand.
It may feel logical, but it isn't. The Lexmark suit isn't about free products, it's about them being able to restrict what you do with a product AFTER you paid for it. You probably should read the entire article before chiming in.
Currently the shortest LGW-CDG flight is 1h. There is LCY-CDG lasting 1h 20m. For both cities it takes 30 - 60m to get to the airport from central location and you should be there at least 1h before the departure (for a total of 2-3h non-flight time). This makes total travel 3h - 4h30m.

For comparison, the fastest train is 2h 25m. I guess you need to travel to and from the train station too, but it's definitely more central (2x15 min) and you can easily hop on train even five minutes before the departure - although I usually plan at least another 15 min buffer. That is a total of a little over 3 hours.

I don't pretend to know enough about economy of future trains vs future electric flights, but it looks like short distances will always be a tough sell for airplanes. Personally I also find trains more comfortable and I was never given a free massage for carrying scissors in my pocket when boarding one.
Should have strapped an SRB on the rover.

Reminds me; I wonder just how much ion engines are overpowered in KSP compared to their real-life equivalents. Or, put differently, if one could replicate a hovering Minmus rover I made in KSP (which used ion engines to stay afloat for a long time).
It's not that simple. A corollary is with cellphone firmware for the radio. They have to answer to the FCC. Updating the firmware will let you broadcast with more wattage, for example. FCC doesn't like that.

JD has to answer to the EPA. See Tier IV.
Ambitious, VC backed business has grown a few amazingly successful businesses, while many more have hopelessly dashed on the rocks. Do consumers ultimately win from this kind of king-making and gamesmanship? Within the ecosystem of a company, we certainly receive lots of benefits:

* Services we don't pay money for - Github, Google Search, Facebook Messenger

* Services we receive a hefty discount on (for now) - Uber and Lyft rides

* Ambitious projects that require hefty upfront investment - SpaceX, Tesla (all of the above)

On the macro level, I'm not qualified to say whether we could end up getting these benefits from self-funded or lifetime profitable businesses in the same sphere. But I fundamentally agree that not every entrepreneur needs to take over the world. Making your "dent in the universe" by providing a sustainable, considerate and quality (paid) service is a meaningful achievement and worthy goal.
Ask HN: Whiteboard interviews don't work, what's your ideal technical interview?
We're hiring developers right now and from what I can tell recruiters haven't figured out the ideal way to interview tech hires.
What do you guys think? I'd love to hear some opinions from the developers themselves.
> Subsequent attempts to engage sincerely were also met with derision, so I'm not sure anything could have ever been done that wouldn't have been met similarly.

Some people are like that, where if you respond to their snark, your response will be used against you to tarnish your reputation in the eyes of bystanders.

It is important to never let them get the moral high ground.

If someone says something like...

* "Your team is all white."

* "Your team is all male."

* "Your team is all American."

* "Your team is all able-bodied."

A better way to respond would be something like, "That's true. We're always looking for new talent and embrace diversity, just haven't had much luck yet. <hiring page URL here> if anyone's interested."

It addresses the problem, and contains an open invitation for people of diverse backgrounds to apply.

(All of this is assuming you're willing to work with people who aren't white, aren't male, aren't American, and/or aren't able-bodied, of course.)
Setting up GOPATH, when _starting_ Go projects, has been one of the top frictions for newcommers. That why Cloudflare came up with a solution: https://github.com/cloudflare/hellogopher.

> Hellogopher: "just clone and make" your conventional Go project
I am sure that is how many in the engineering dept justify their unethical practices so they can sleep at night

But it still just BS they are selling to themselves
JSON is not for people to write, despite what people try to do. It's for machines.
However, the pure/single crystalline form is potentially strong enough that it would be possible to use less material than for the non-crystalline form.
Still 1.5 year old Apple A9 chip in the iPhone 6S is thrashing the Snapdragon in multiple test. That shows (1) the quality of the team designing the A-series processors, (2) Apple is will to spend more money to put a larger chip into the iPhone...
How to short Uber (and other private companies)
It matters because if we are in a simulation there could be a "magic ritual" that would cause those running the simulation to pay attention. There might even be hints. Those claiming to talk to God might be half right. Of course we wouldn't have a way of knowing the consequence of drawing their attention - it could be the equivalent of dumping bleach in the petri dish, or they could decide to let us out.

If we are in a simulation that is strictly following a set of basic natural laws and running it beginning to end without an exceptional influence, then you are right, it probably doesn't matter.

But if you are running in a simulation as part of a game where the entity running the simulation takes delight in messing around with it?

I agree in a sense that if we "escape the box" we'll just expand our idea of what reality is (and wonder if there's a box outside i), but that doesn't mean that the existence or absence of anything outside the box doesn't matter. It's just that we have to accept that it's not certain that we can ever know, and that we almost certainly can never know if we've found the outermost box or just haven't found a way out yet.
Go programmers have no trouble reading err and resp, since they're so standard.
From Objects to Streams: The Reactive Paradigm Shift
> it hasn’t quite proven itself when faced with experienced hackers at contests such as Pwn2Own

A company's support of white hats and continued payout of large rewards shows a much greater commitment to security than a company who is never publicly exploited.
Agreed but I would call the landing anything but hard. The precision and care with which that vehicle was delivered to the surface is just a mind boggling feature of engineering.
Which would make it about 338 kilos on Mars - wikipedia lists Mars' gravity as 0.376g (vs earth's 1)
This is how I meditate on Stoicism
So I have Ctrl-P installed and I used it sometimes, but often I just use NERDTree to navigate to a file. I think my brain does a better job of retrieving the location of the file than the name of the file or module/class. I find it mentally less taxing to use NERDTree, even if it takes a few more keystrokes.
17 Things Spock Would Say About Influencer Marketing
Sabre CMS already uses Guetzli on all jpegs
The better idea for the first electric flight is probably LCY-AMS. It's a 35-40 min flight but there's no alternative to it (train 4+ hours, ship 8+ hours). There's a lot of demand for that route, you have more than 15 flights per day across all London airports.
Cryptography and Abstractions: Why All the JOSE Hate? – Tozny
Heh. Two of my clients are still using VB Apps I wrote for them in VB6. I'm not ashamed. They work, and they've worked well for 12+ years, with only the most minor of updates. Not every business follows the 'innovate fast and break things' mold. Thankfully.
Your car tires aren't made out of <1mm thick aluminium driving over rocks either.
Well sure, I think the difference is between what's courteous and what's contractually stipulated. It's rude to give short or no notice regardless, but it's not always a contractual obligation.
I can confirm that there is unpatched exploitable vulnerabilities with high impact in the following software products:

Linux

OpenBSD

iOS

Windows

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

Safari

Apache

nginx

openSSHd

bonzi buddy
eff.org should maybe been a hint.
the wheel skin is 0.75mm thick, and was specifically designed to a goal of 10 to 20 km with the smallest weight possible: the rover mass is 899kg, the launch vehicle totals was 531000kg - by reversing the payload fraction one can see that for every gram of rover one needs more than half kilo of rocket to get it to mars, so there's that - you can get outside of your launch weight real fast.

this article has all the answers you're looking for:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/0819063...

short story - the wheel were tested to specification against expected rocks etc but once on the boogie suspension the front wheel had to support weight plus the force of the other wheel pushing, so there's where the extra punctures come from, this is what force was not accounted correctly.
The pound is a unit of mass, same as the kg (it's defined as exactly 0.45359237kg). Just as 900kg is 900kg everywhere, 2000lb is 2000lb everywhere. The colloquial weight is literally a force, and its imperial unit is thus the pound-force.
10 Characteristics of a Bad Tester
And then charge overnight and be used as energy storage for the time they're not in use. As flight times are very predictable, they should be a good use case for battery storage.
Related: http://www.npr.org/series/248799434/planet-moneys-t-shirt-pr...

NPR's Planet Money podcast created a T-shirt and attempted to follow it every step of it's economic journey. An interesting look into the gears and cogs of global manufacturing of an everyday object.

Also related: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/26/491342091/plane...

Planet Money buys a barrel of crude oil and follows its journey through the various actors and entities in between pumping it out of the ground and selling it as a final product.
> create a 2nd vlan

That's only a temporary workaround. SoCs with an integrated LTE modem have been available for a while (e.g. Samsung Exynos). In the near future, manufacturers will try to remove even the ability to corral IoT spyw^H^H^H^H"smart" to the local network.
this has been submitted more than 20 times in the last 10 hours... duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13928365
Am I the only one that's nostalgic for the earlier days of the mobile ecosystem, where this would have been an announcement of an API integration or similar instead of another "ME TOO MUST DOMINATE ALL INTERACTIONS CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME" cloning?
USB-A is still the most widely used port. My friend bought the new macbook and how he loves to have to lug the stupid dongle adaptor thing everywhere.
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I've not seen any updates held back by my carrier (unless, I guess, they don't send them out to anyone until all of the phone companies agree on them). As far as I've seen, I get my ~monthly security patches over the air from Google when the rolling updates hit my phone or I get impatient for an important one and just download it from Google myself.
For another famous example, the Wright brothers spent most of their latter life litigating patents [1]. Who knows what other great things they might have invented otherwise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers#Patent_war
Yeah, that's a good way to put it. Thanks!
For those of us who are new to go, can you say a little more about how this might be different if it was updated for 2017? (Or if it is involved, perhaps a link?)
If someone makes a drug and proves it safe, someone else could piggyback on that and say they're making the drug the same way, thus it's safe.
I don't know about other people, but I read symbols not characters, and having those symbols be actual words makes them easier to parse.

In this case, it sounds like resp is commonly used, so that's not necessarily a problem. But in general, if a line is long enough that shaving a few characters off a symbol helps, it probably should be split up regardless.
Without (ab)using patents, DMCA, etc to prevent 3rd-party products their business model would not be sustainable.

If your business cannot survive without a government-granted monopoly, it's not a free market.
I am really quite confident that no serious development of electric passenger aircraft will take place during the coming decade.

And it is not a question of feasibility, but rather of priorities. There is so much low hanging fruit to be collected! By the end of the decade, if all goes well, we will be in the middle of replacing petroleum fuelled cars and busses with electric ones, and maybe turning our attention to other land-based petroleum consumers such as trucks, agricultural equipment, mining machinery etc.

Airplanes are so far down the list of things we can easily swap over to batteries that it is not yet worthwhile to work in this field.
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It's a virtuous circle for sure, however there are very decent sub-$200 devices now with Android 6.0+ (many set to receive 7 in the next couple of months). And on the contract side, many consumers are just accustomed to getting a new device every two years regardless, seeming "free", albeit baked into their service fee.

At some point the market will settle as the pad market did, however right now the lack of pressure on vendors to support upgrades is also a reflection of a user base that is accustomed to constantly upgrading (better cameras, processors, storage, etc).
The point isn't that though. Very similar cities have a very different number of Apple stores.

Paris and London are 500km apart, a couple hours of train or plane away from each other, both capital cities, both have ~10¨7 people.
We're probably a really boring part of the simulation. Like those pre-made Sims houses you never go to but occasionally call on the phone. Jesus Christ was that pizza party.
There are a combination of factors not mentioned in the article:

One, encountering terrain with unexpectedly sharp, immovable rocks.

Two, a suspension arm design that happens to put increased force on certain wheels when they encounter immovable rocks.

Three, the wheels have a tread pattern with a sharp, angular geometry, causing stress risers at the points of the pattern, where the thin metal meets the thicker raised treads. The thinner metal thus tends to crack more readily at these points.

(BTW, it is only this last point that I consider to be a legitimate design flaw, given the innumerable constraints the engineers had to work within. The rover is a marvel of engineering on every level.)

An article for reference.[1]

[1] http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/0819063...
Hey, come and tell my bank in Cyprus. I am getting ripped off for literally hundreds of euros in fees every month on SEPA charges. I actually looked into this when they were finally forced to offer SEPA (still a hidden thing in their online banking) transfers, and I noticed they charge the same as for SWIFT. When I brought it up they said "if you make a big deal about it we will close your account"
Reminds me of the story of a poor editor during Stalin's terror who was shot for omitting a letter : instead of 'commander in chief' he had a typo that read 'commander in shit' (главнокомандующий/гавнокомандующий)
> "countries" (some are a joke though)

Which? Vatican City is fairly extraordinary, granted, but I think 'a joke' is unfair...
TBB already does that for example with HTML5 canvas element, it shows you this box: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1_n50BW8AACLKq.jpg
As I understand, those contracts aren't legally binding, but they exist as evidence a company can point to in a trial to show that they tried to keep the user from doing X. An even more credible kind of evidence is actually making X technically difficult. Obviously they can't protect themselves against everything or they would go out of business (to use your example, they won't profit from selling stationary tractors). It's all risk management, and I'm not even saying I agree with their choices, only that their motives probably aren't as nefarious as Vice might want you to believe.
Technically that would make it 899kg on Mars, the kilogram is a unit of mass. However the Rover would weigh ~8800N on Earth and ~3300N on Mars.
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They smartly tested the initial rockets in unmanned missions. (Actually, all of them yet.) So they have two explosions, a few minor problems (and many expected crash landings test) but no one was killed.

For comparison: https://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
I think your point about building good habits is really worth thinking about for anyone that thinks they can evaluate the entire set of risks every time they do something like this. Or pretty much anything really. You can't count on always having the clarity of mind you have at this moment. It's easy to get distracted and good habits protect you when you're vulnerable, not when you're at 100%.
There are similar problems with geolocation databases:

http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansa...
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Apparently the new rover - Mars 2020 - will have narrower, thicker wheels with more growsers with a different shape
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/rover/wheels/
Welcome friend ! Keep doing good job !
>Why are they qualified to receive taxpayer money to surveil vehicles wholesale, let alone receive money at all?

I assume they were the lowest bidder on the contract, but I don't know how contracts are awarded in Carlsbad.

Edit: looks like they probably placed a bid from here: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/mobile/bidList.cfm?company...
A CI company that charges per box trying to persuade you to get more boxes.
I was just looking for a route London - Rotterdam and found exactly what you mention - no good alternative to flights :)