skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is directly addressed in the books, sufficiently, in my opinion:

> The heptapods are neither free nor bound as we understand those concepts; they don't act according to their will, nor are they helpless automatons. What distinguishes the heptapods' mode of awareness is not just that their actions coincide with history's events; it is also that their motives coincide with history's purposes. They act to create the future, to enact chronology.

> Freedom isn't an illusion; it's perfectly real in the context of sequential consciousness. Within the context of simultaneous consciousness, freedom is not meaningful, but neither is coercion; it's simply a different context, no more or less valid than the other. It's like that famous optical illusion, the drawing of either an elegant young woman, face turned away from the viewer, or a wart-nosed crone, chin tucked down on her chest. There's no "correct" interpretation; both are equally valid. But you can't see both at the same time.

> Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.
Coverity is a static analyzer, and it can detect bugs in code that is not run.
3 simple ways to update Android firmware for any device
Second page, last two paragraphs are probably the most interesting.

My tl;dr: Von Neumann sees mathematics as being primarily inspired by empirical problems. The further mathematical theories veer from their empirical origins, the more "baroque" or "degenerate" they become.

It would be interesting to know what inspired him to write this. Maybe something equivalent to, e.g. modern string theory, which was pissing him off.
>PS: Imprisoning people for smoking pot isn't a good example here because it goes through the normal criminal system.

In the 60's and 70's in the US it was not uncommon for parents to have their children committed to asylums because they were high on marijuana (it was called "reefer madness" after all). And even today recreational use of marijuana is considered a mental illness according the the DSM-5.
Developer of Things: What API devs who aspire to work with IoT need to know
More terrible tech reporting from NYT, why are they being spammed here so much now? Can it stop? Tired of the clickbait and paywall. I thought HN was against both.
They're probably using several bloated SDK's within their app for core Google services, view elements etc etc. If they're using dynamic linking, they have to include these in the binary even if they only use a small percentage of the libraries.

That's potentially one explanation.
which is not the point I was referring to , nice way to take my comment of out context. For avoidance of doubt I originally said

("The hit job was some of the other items they'd cut together to make the "anti-semetic" charge stick. One item where he was comparing youtube policies to those of the Nazi's (i.e. casting both in a negative light) the WSJ used as "proof" he was pro-Nazi. that's what prompted my thought of the quote.")

My point was the the part where they conflated PewdiePies comparison of Youtube and the Nazi's as being him supporting the Nazi's, this was entirely take out of context. I wasn't referring to the sign there at all.
You can model your face and your voice in future RPG games.
It depends on your definition of money.

From my point of view, cryptocurrencies are financial assets but not money. They are not an IOU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOU).

Government money is a IOU because you are promised that it (and only it) will be accepted as a payment by the state.

Anyway, state money can never be totally replaced at least that the government accept payment taxes in the new currency. And why people would start using other currency if they have to get the official currency for taxes payment?
I'm still curious to hear Moxie/OWS' take on the Wire issue, where they supposedly demanded $2.5mln for implementing the Signal Protocol (which is open source) and using source code where the documentation lacked (which is open source).
Yeah, I absolutely think that curl should stay a C project until the day it dies. I also think someone should write a curl-alternative in rust. And at some point, people may start using the Rust version instead of the c version.
I'm pretty stoked we are staying right next to Jeti park on spring break and are planning on watching this launch tonight from the beach. We've got to see one other Delta IV launch, but really looking forward to seeing this one. We just missed OCSILY heading out to landing zone, but I got a good view of the parking spot and unloading area.
Eh, that's not too bad considering the alternatives. I like the SMR concept, but sadly it's been very hard to find good cost estimates, the hardest one Akademik Lomonosov (still projected for ~$300M), but it's a barge with a pair of KLT-40, meanwhile mPower's been shuttered, etc…
> racket is a terrible language to work with.

> ...

> I don't leverage public dollars to write bad tools

That's, like, your opinion, man!

Further, if your habit is to make feature requests in combination with this kind of subjective disparagement, I can see why the Racket community didn't jump to implement your request.

Lighten up. Everyone here is on the same team.
Smmry
That sound more like urban legend, I would be surprised if pregnancy like that would even be possible. Anyway, you should use condom during random sex encounters due to risk std anyway. Nothing wrong with combining them with something else, absolutely do it. But this new contraceptive wont prevent std whether hiv or syphilis.
That just sounds like ZRTP to me, from the short description in your comment.
>> Those annual checkups and cleanings demonstrably reduce the incidence of catastrophes.

There is strong evidence that they actually do not.[1]

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http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article...
> Yes, you can. But at least you have a better option and better chance of other people using it, so statistically you'll have less errors.

I highly doubt that this specific bug would not happen in any typesafe language. The only way I see this not happening is if there is no native float-like type. Is there such language? They could have make it safe in C, and they did not, probably because it's convenient to use float.

> No, do not add another rule to a million of rules people have to already follow, make compiler worry about enforcing that, not developer.

It can be implemented in C so it's forced by compiler.
Interview with economist Michael Hudson on debt and economic rent
I think you don't understand what the comment was implying. If it was open source anyone could build it using xcode and install it in their devices themselves.
Facebook rolls out location sharing feature in Messenger
I've found that fusion is one of those topics that's exceedingly difficult to discuss with most people. Most people I've met in the tech world know what they've read in popsci articles here and there, and a lot of science fiction. It's rare to run into someone you can sit down and talk about resonances with, the challenges neutron bombardment, why aneutronic pathways are so difficult to achieve, etc...

If you know a little about fusion, it's very exciting and seems very real and very close. If you know a lot about fusion, it's exciting, but you realize that the odds of practical fusion power plants in our lifetimes are extremely low. The problem is that to get someone from one state of knowledge to the other requires their active participation, and most people see that as "pissing on their enthusiasm".
> and then noting off-hand that he lived to be 100 (somehow validating his hypothesis?)

Longevity like this is virtually all genetics, so it wouldn't validate any such hypothesis.
This is wrong. The domain name is revealed through SNI but the path of the URL is sent as part of the encrypted HTTP request.
Yet Another Article With Initial Caps Telling Me How To Live My Life
Any CDDL-related pain is totally self-inflicted. There's no good reason to be creating projects and licensing them under CDDL in 2017, and there was even less reason to use CDDL in 2004. If people and orgs are experiencing pain with the CDDL, it's well-deserved.
SpaceVim release v0.2.0 with mnemonic key bindings(which key) feature
Of Particles, Stars and Eternity – Cedric Villani [video]
Considering this required £1.6m of subsidy (£20,000 per person) , only being able to hit 90% renewable, with loads of gotchas (like serious rationing)

If you scaled this out to the UK, it means it would cost £1.2trillion to reach 90% renewable electricity.

While there will be some economies of scale and you probably wouldn't use diesel for backup, the UK doesn't have enough hydro to do this model, so it's likely the £20,000 per person subsidy would actually be way higher.

I think people are really underestimating the capital required to get past 30-40% renewable. It starts getting seriously expensive once you get past the easy bit (wind + solar).

Govt seems very happy to agree to a 90% renewable target by 2050 (say). There doesn't seem to be any costing at all to see how we get there.
Fix and prevent known vulnerabilities in Node.js and Ruby apps
Bartholomew L. Bartholomew
As the saying goes, "ignorance of the law is no excuse." Seems like you could argue that's incredibly unfair (classist, maybe?) in this case.

Then again, you could probably make a good argument that it's unfair even if all the laws are freely available.
Show HN: 1-hour Interview with DHH from Basecamp about Marketing BS (MP3)
I understand that MBA's can command high salaries, so they're helpful for the degree holder in that sense, but how useful is the degree beyond just being a signalling mechanism for potential employers that the candidate is driven?
The same goes for Telegram. The android client hasn't seen any updates to it's github repo since sep 2016.

And, it is quite easy to verify that WhatsApp's encryption is doing what we think. A friend of mine managed to reverse engineer their protocol in 2012 in less than 24 hours, by himself. And there is quite a big chunk of the computer security market that would disagree with the claim that something has to be open source to be verifiably secure.
> the temperature of the planet being raised, not by a greenhouse effect, but by the raw power output of all those fusion reactors.

Not that Wikipedia is the best source, but...

World energy consumption is about 12 terawatts [1], whereas the Earth receives 172,000 terawatts in the upper atmosphere. [2]

The difference is 4 orders of magnitude. i.e. The Earth receives in one day the same power as produced by humans in 10-15 years.

I think we're safe.

> The solution for that is to move the Earth farther away from the sun

That's firmly in the realm of science fiction. The power required to move the earth would be so enormous that it could power human technology for billions of years.

i.e. it would be energetically more efficient to use that power to fix the current problem, instead of doing something ridiculous like "move the Earth".

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy
That's a really cool site. Thanks for linking to it.

...but I do need to point out that 12% of electrical demand is about 1800 ktoe, which is only about 1% of total energy demand. We use about six times more petroleum energy that all electrical demand put together.
SaaS KPIs: Which to focus on at each stage of your company's growth
I am as happy as the next person to accept that you can work less and achieve more.

Ordinarily, I would protest that there is no data here, just some anecdotes.

But in this case, I say, let's just accept this claim at face value.
You just added another line to my face. So thanks for that. Just don't leave out the small openboileros crew serving up lawsuit magnet heat due to insurance issues of modifying your water boiling code.
> a car is capable of stopping in a shorter distance

Stopping distance has more to do with speed than weight, since reducing weight also reduces the frictional force against the road at equal proportions to the reduction of potential energy, whereas the impact of velocity on the energy to be dissipated is squared.

Brakes also wear down, steering linkages break, lugnuts are improperly torqued, tires blow out, debris can impact sensors or power packs, roads can be compromised by loose sand or potholes, lightning can strike the vehicle... failure modes are plentiful.

You also still need to account for bugs and sensor failures; both of which will result in crashes in "non optimal" ways. As an example, I had a gyro fail in my multirotor; it was a gradual failure which was not immediately obvious (and completely invisible to the controller), and resulted in a couple of pretty spectacular crash that the multirotor (even with human inputs) had no way to recover from.

Sure, you can add redundant systems (ideally in batches of three), but at some point there will always be a single point of failure.
Link to a transcript of Hamming's talk on the subject:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
Radfan looks great - I'd never heard of it, and I'm in the UK so very tempted to try it out.

Does it turn off when the radiator's cold though? Seems senseless to have it running 24/7, and annoying to turn it on/off all the time.
MongoDB is the exception that says "no".

Every hypothetical I've seen addressed with the AGPL involves a company running a server for users and then modifying that server and having to give the code to those users. But rarely is anything that clear: if I have a task queue that processes internal jobs, do I need to provide the code to end-users? Or are the "clients" just my app and the queue workers? If I don't, can't the whole AGPL be trivially circumvented with a reverse proxy?

I would give the AGPL more than three "?"s.
Its a dissapointing thing (usa) that both republicans and democrats cant simply agree to make them declare prices etc.

Its like all these "acts" have no intention of addressing the real issues at all. Then its amazing to see both parties argue over their plans which will never work because none of them address it from bottom up.
Yeah, I remember years ago when I was pondering writing a desktop app in Python and thinking "Python? It would be so bloated!", and nowadays nobody gives a shit about being able to load more than four programs at once.
I have put together systems of considerable complexity (>100k lines), and am working professional programmer for almost 2 decades. Most of my work does not involve C, but various "safe" languages.

There were better alternatives already available at the beginning of the 70s, and certainly when most of the software was written that we are using today. Just to name a few I am familiar of with:

- Pascal being as old as C, and later on

- Modula 2, Oberon, the Oberon System was completely implemented in Oberon

- Eiffel

and of course, today:

- Rust

- Go

So, even back then, there were more safe alternatives to C around. C gained more popularity, and consequently the tooling gave it some edge, but there would have been alternatives. Of course, when you have a nice debugged C program, that is something worth keeping. And as a consequence, for mostly historic reasons, a lot of our current infrastructure is built on top of C - but that alone does not mean that C was the perfect or even the right tool to build all of this upon.
Shameless plug: for memory allocation tracking you can use https://github.com/samsk/log-malloc2
Is it just me, or are the images on the page incredibly broken?
Or they believe the Republic propaganda that the Social Services are broke and unsustainable, that anything they save is going to be stolen from them through taxes anyways, so there's no use saving.

As is usual, the answer is somewhere in the middle, which is being lost in this increasingly polarized world.
My wife and I just cut the cable, and it feels great. Even adding HBO Now and Turner/Criterion to Netflix and Hulu Prime, we save a ton of money, and no commercials.

Not being subjected to network news like MSNBC, Fox, and CNN is another fine bonus.

Paying for ESPN on cable, and never watching it was a nudge to cut the cable.
I made the mistake of buying a 16 GB iPad mini 2. While pretty much all I use on it are a screenful of streaming apps, it's chronically low on memory. I have iCloud Photos enabled and it set to optimize storage, but it regularly gets in a situation where there's not enough free storage to upload new photos to iCloud Photos, since iCloud Photos has filled up the 4 GB free storage...
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space launches have crashed because of confusion over standard units.

in that case it was confusion between metric and certain fantasy engineering units, but an error of 1000/1024 will cause troubles just as badly.

so with that attitude maybe don't write that code, and better stay inside or a rocket might fall on your head.

but for serious, that correction probably has taught more than 10 people the difference between uppercase B = bytes, lowercase b = bits, uppercase M = mega = 1 000 000, lowercase m = milli, MiB = mebibyte = 1024 x 1024 bytes = 1 048 576 bytes, or at least made them aware of the important fact there is a difference. while your pedantry about nitpicking has taught nobody anything except to always be alert cause there's people like you that like to offload mental ballast and use wrong units because they insist their errors can be inferred and corrected from context... which is an important lesson also, but as a warning, not to defend the behaviour.
> You are taking code criticism to personally. Keep it professional.

What? I am asking if what you are writing is based on your experience or it's just theory that you've read somewhere. How is this personal?

I am not asking for myself. I already know the answer for that question after reading your comments (the last one only confirmed that), but people that are reading your comment may not, so why don't you just answer the question ?

> Numerous compilers and related tools: Golang runtime for example. Objective-C to Swift migration. Various parts of Firefox. Coreutils (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils). Ruby extensions: https://codeandtalk.com/v/fullstackfest-2015/full-stack-fest.... remacs: https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs Whole industries run from C/C++ to Java/Python/.Net. Millions of projects there.

I am talking about projects that NEEDED C for it's time/space efficiency and cross platform support. Not any C project. Do you see OS kernels in production written in python used by millions ? Do you see video/audio codecs written in Java/python/.net used in production by millions? No. This is where C is used because it's needed.

Coreutils in rust, remacs, ruby extensions - this is not used by millions.

> Objective-C to Swift migration

What? This are different languages. It's not SAME software rewritten from C.

> Various parts of firefox

Whole software, not parts.

So the only valid example you gave is Go (Go compiler is not used by millions by the way). So you gave 1 example instead of 10 and Go compiler is now twice as slow after rewrite.
Espn fucking blows in the past few years.

Part of it is the pandering. They have apparently decided the race card trunps all. But they have gone so far downhill from reporting on sports itself that it has become a travesty.

EDIT: wow, apparently there are some Bristolites around here.
> [the judge] made the extraordinary finding that Public.Resource.Org is engaged in "commercial" copying despite being a nonprofit, stating that the organization "profits" by "the attention, recognition, and contributions it receives in association with its copying and distributing the copyrighted OCGA annotations, and its use was neither nonprofit nor educational."

I know legal definitions might not always mesh with lay definitions, but is this a standard interpretation of "commercial?" It makes sense if you factor in that the grants public.resource.org receives (a few 100k a year) are directly related to their presentation of information, but the quoted passage seems a bit all-encompassing.
Chase already does this, its a big reason all the credit card blogs pimp Chase cards so much.
Winged stage is not practical because SpaceX wants to immediately relaunch (after refueling) for their Mars missions.

SpaceX ITS video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qo78R_yYFA
Call quality is much better now. I believe it's a combination of direct peer to peer stream support and a switch from Speex to Opus.
If Virginia had taken Medicaid expansion, she likely would have been covered, or had access to less expensive insurance.
CPU cache-based communication between two co-located virtual machines
Fewer than 1 percent of papers in scientific journals follow a scientific method
> It's not asking for trouble to avoid relicensing until you can see the new license.

Legally speaking, you're right.

Practically speaking, if you're running a project with a lot of contributors, hunting them/their heirs down and getting buy-in for a license change could be a huge project in and of itself.
So, they run their campaigns with an open targeting and then they trimed the websites to the ones users clicked, and then, selected which ones had better brand value for them. That's simple optimization and they should have always been doing that.

The question arrises when you have to start from scratch. They would also have to start with an open targeting to learn what performs for them.
Their latest build has WebRTC calls, which improved quality dramatically.
Goo Technologies AB Declared Bankrupt. Goo Create and Goo Engine for Sale
I've been involved in a project that went from standard Win32 controls to Qt, and while I was very much against Qt at the time (such bloat!), I can't deny how easy it has made cross platform UI work. With many apps being written in HTML/JS, a C++ Qt framework is still magnitudes faster than a JS interpreter.
You know, it is possible that these members didn't vote because of some quid pro quo relationship but because of ideological beliefs that aligned with voting this way. Maximizing liberty and 'leveling the playing field' (WRT FANG) seem like beliefs one could reasonably hold. The end doesn't justify the means to all people, and reaching decisions one doesn't like is sometimes the outcome of remaining true to one's principles.
Yeah. I see a lot of COBOL guys that are extremely critical resources for big enterprises. As GP said, they are not paid like C-suite executives, but not very far from it, and no one asks them how they spend their time. Needless to say they are a very relaxed bunch.
> We need better materials for the engines and the tanks to make them reusable.

Better than which target? Yes there is a lot of stress, but what make you say with such certainty that the stress levels are not suitable for 2, 3, 10 or 50 launches? Just reusing a rocket a single time would be a huge cost saver. I don't see how this is not "economically viable".

> When you launch single-use rockets every next one is more advanced and reliable than the previous one

Let's not forget that we have been using russian engines build in 1960 and stored in a hangar for decades in siberia on the Atlas and Antares...
How is that a trend, and not just the reality this country was founded on? How many of the original people here were either indentured, or just enslaved? We just keep shuffling the verbiage and the optics every few decades while refining the overall system. Slavery in prisons, rotating jail terms for people who can't pay fines for arbitrary crap, no education, no hope, and no voice.
We have the same thing here in Germany. It is good, but it could be much simpler, still.
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