skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why? You don't have expertise needed to do that yourself?

You are taking code criticism to personally. Keep it professional.

> point me to this software that was rewritten from unsafe C code and was replaced with memory safe language.

From my own field - bunch of libraries for python. Mysql driver for example - used by large amount of people.

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.
SSH connection between EC2 VMs via CPU cache
Not to mention GNU/Linux support. That's one of my main reasons for sticking around. Wire just can't compete, unfortunately.
When you launch single-use rockets every next one is more advanced and reliable than the previous one. It includes some of the error corrections that were found during previous launches. This is an often ignored point.

I highly doubt that reusable rockets would be economically viable at our current state of material technology. We need better materials for the engines and the tanks to make them reusable. Even airplanes have to be retired when they still look new just because they've been through multiple pressurization/depressurization cycles and accumulated microfissures. Of course they are not even close to the levels of stress sustained by rockets.
To me Whatsapp is terrible. I can only use it on Mobile in any meaningful way, so it's actually worse than SMS for me. Eg, i get a better UX of seamless multi-device SMS via Hangouts, than i do with Whatsapp.

Frequently i get kicked off of Whatsapp because my phone has been idle for too long. Frequently my messages are out of order between the web client and the android client. Semi-frequently Whatsapp hangs when sending messages, sometimes dropping them (i assume due to my phone going idle).

I wouldn't recommend anyone to Whatsapp.. for UX, at least.
coal/oil/nuclear

One of these is not like the others.
Microsoft announces third IoT and AI Insider Lab in Munich
A UI toolkit
> Telegram on Windows is a native app (Qt)

I thought Qt still bypassed the native user interface and drew all their own controls?
Ockham's razor is not a heuristic, it's the only principled universal prior for Bayesian reasoning. This was formalized in Solomonoff Induction.
The problem I have with AskHistorians, what keeps me from subscribing, is that Reddit's algorithm isn't designed for content that gets popular and then starts receiving replies, it's weighted towards content that gets popular because of the replies. When an AH post hits the front page, there's never any answers, and by the time there are answers it's gone.

I don't subscribe, but I browse "best of last week" occasionally.
I also went with Private Internet Access, but I'm not sure what you mean by

>I don't plan to watch Netflix with it for example, which might have pushed me to a service that would allow me to select specific servers for traffic egress.

PIA has servers in many different countries that you could switch to, does that not that fulfill this?
Correct - the link is http://info.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-stig-disa-security....

This STIG is actually for open source PostgreSQL. The EnterpriseDB link posted relates to a STIG for EDB's PostgreSQL Plus Advanced Server product and requires EDB's proprietary version of PostgreSQL.
Oh My God Particle
Give your website more credit.

I mean what do people do after learning they are fat and feel depressed? They buy crap to feel better. Maybe your website is exactly what advertisers need.
That only applies to source code sold, right?
Sure it's dumb but in the U.S. employers pay for that stuff before income tax so the difference in price isn't as pronounced as you're implying.

But I'm frustrated that with all the time and energy put into healthcare over the last decade, no progress has been made in keeping health insurance coverage separate from employment status.
The Air Force also wanted to be able to launch the Shuttle on a polar orbit out of Vandenberg, do a single orbit, and land back at Vandenberg on the next pass. The idea was that if there was a critical mission for the Shuttle (capturing or disabling a Soviet satellite, for example) and the Soviets were in a shootin' mood, this would minimize the window of risk to the mission.

Of course, the Earth rotates underneath the Shuttle while it's in orbit, so when the Shuttle comes back around in a polar orbit it's quite some distance to the west of the launch site, so it needs to be able to make significant maneuvers for this to work.

Vandenberg never ended up hosting Shuttle launches, of course. It was nearly ready, with mission planned and everything, when Challenger exploded. This caused a reevaluation of the whole idea, and it ended up being scrapped. But the design consequences remained part of the vehicle until the end.
I can vote, just as everyone else :)

So, the problem here is that I don't understand why you think Jeff Bezos is a "leech" exactly. The guy built a business and became very successful. What the heck is wrong with that?

I'm building a house for me and my family. I mean literally building it myself, not hiring people to build it for me. It's fun - sometimes. Other times it's hard and frustrating.

I've also been involved in building three companies so far. That has been fun - sometimes. Other times it's hard and frustrating.

If one of those companies is/was successful, would I also be a "leech" by your definition?
A very well-known cross-platform GUI library. If you google qt, the top hits are the official website and Wikipedia. Without clicking any link, the descriptions would have given you an answer.
The two "main" clients for Android and iOS are no longer open source.
MIT licenses don't assign any rights to use patents associated with the code, which is a pretty hairy situation for most larger corporations (those who would hire lawyers regarding license compliance in the first place).
The key part from that TD post for me was:

[...]it requires a social media feed that includes a number of links to outside sites. However, they said that "given a history with 30 links originating from Twitter, we can deduce the corresponding Twitter profile more than 50 percent of the time."

I'm paranoid enough to stay away from big social media altogether, but I realize that is uncommon.
Don't cryptocurrencies break that model? They are financial assets in the economy that are not created or presently controlled by governments.
Airplanes get retired after many uses... so why can't rockets?
only when you consider bits to be the final, indivisible, fundamental unit of information.

which they aren't.

if you have a data storage thingy that can store any of three values, a ternary digit, it is exactly equivalent to log2(3) = ln(3) / ln(2) ~= 1.585 bits.

kind of like US pop-science articles like to say stuff like "a volume 1.5 olympic-size swimming pools" (because a megagallon is just weird), even though obviously, can never have half of such a pool or it would empty.

(ok after some consideration, you could have the bottom half)
Phones will not replace PCs, iPad and tablet does a better job with touchscreen, large screen and offer the ability to draw in free form.
> If someone is willing to throw a few hundred million or so at re-building an operating system from the ground up that is 100% safe and reliable and that does not have more bugs than what is available right now then they are free to do so.

But at the same time - we are spending those billions. We keep throwing billions at Apple by buying their new phones, yet they release lists of security issues which this time were basically all:

- malicious crafted image -> remote code execution

- maliciously crafted font -> remote code execution

- maliciously crafted audio -> remote code execution

I'm not sure if I have to be able to write a font parser and rendering subsystem in a memory safe language myself to be allowed to complain that Apple is using my money for something other than doing just that. To me it's completely mind blowing that someone uses a C library to parse complex third party binary data from the internet.
Top IoT Operating Systems Will Unlocking Future of a Smarter World
> not going to run cities

No, that's the big mostly offshore wind farms. Currently sitting at 12% of demand: http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Energy independence on the personal level is as much of a pipe dream as economic independence. You might be able to achieve it at great expense, but what for? Even on Eigg the islanders are on a little grid.
>Minimum wage erodes the strength and bargaining power of trade unions.

Trade unions are almost always in favor of minimum wage and increases. E.g.

http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Jobs-and-Economy/Wages-and-Inco...
> You have to inject it into your testicles

You need an anatomy lesson or you need to read the article before commenting
It looks like in [1] that each device registered to a user has a device_key and when an encrypted message is sent, they user's public devices keys are requested and the message is encrypted for each device. New devices can't see old messages.

[1] https://matrix.org/docs/guides/e2e_implementation.html
This is really interesting! I've always wanted to get in to stuff like this, but I haven't been able to find any good resources for it, I'll definitely check this out over a weekend.
Starve the beast has never been about making federal agencies work better. Its been about creating a path to privatization
I know what it is, it's just not lightweight.
After that, it was all downhill: The 60-plus-hour-a-week researchers were the least productive of all.

Could causality be in the other direction? Researchers who aren't getting publication-worthy results spend more time in the lab desperately trying?
The stellarator approach is not new though. It was more or less "given up" when the Soviets had early success with a Tokamak. But some researchers were still curious why the stellarator didn't work as expected. And it turned out that problems were understandable and solvable with modern computers... In the podcast, their main criticism of other approaches is that they either don't publish their numbers --- or they are quite bad. "Some" fusion is relatively easy, producing energy with fusion is hard: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-video/106807...
ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV
I feel like the point is telling them that they don't look fat, because chances are they might not be.

But yeah, that is a smart way to upsell. Even if it's morally questionable.
I liked the clickbait title, why did it get changed to something more neutral :(
Well worth a read, especially for those convinced of the certainty of mathematical rigor. In the words of one of his contemporaries, "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."... even mathematics profits from empirical grounding.
It probably isn't there yet, but once they get it figured out, used rockets should be safer. Just think: how comfortable would you be flying on an airliner that has literally never flown before? The SpaceX fan community has taken to calling these rockets "flight proven," and while that might be a bit ambitious today, I think that's a good way to think about where it should end up.
The obvious answer is to offer (or require) a maintenance plan. Charge XX% per year for a given level of support, updates, and maybe a newsletter.

Here's a list of some common revenue models: https://taprun.com/revenue/
Same with HD capacity info.
It also seems to take 3x longer while the previous version was no speed demon either. Guess why I have so much time to post here?
I've actually grown extremely bored of programming language debates and yet continue to be fascinated with the act of programming. Each language has something new to offer and also some limitation(s). Why not try them all?

I believe opening our minds will be the only way to achieve meaningful improvement in software development.

I also believe this is easier said than done.
Audi to acquire rental provider Silvercar to expand its mobility services
5 Silly Mistakes That Are Ruining Your Productivity
Wow. Every time I read a story about how the business of health care in america really works, it makes me really angry.

It seems to me that one of the central issues is, how all these hospitals and providers can continue to get away with keeping these billing codes proprietary information- how can the prices for your services be a trade secret??

If I receive a hospital bill how is it that I, the customer paying that bill, not receive an itemized list of the procedures done, with prices? I wonder what the legal reasoning behind keeping them from your customer could possibly be?

It also strikes me that the companies that aid in coding/billing for providers are an example of software with unintended evil consequences. If you are a developer at one of these companies, how can you justify your role in making healthcare more unaffordable for everyone?

I'm now incredibly curious about how this ecosystem really works and how all these perverse incentives are setup and perpetuated. Who are all these software vendors / training course providers / coding specialists / lawyers who maintain this system?

A while ago I remember reading stories like these: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/u-s-health-care-pr... which compared costs on a geographical level vs. this story where the costs are compared system-by-system, and similar procedure vs. other procedure. Neither makes any sense at all.
The way they see it, it's already had a test flight.

Another flight would just show there are unlikely to be failures on a second launch, but wouldn't say anything about a 3rd launch. So would you do a 3rd test launch to check that? When do you stop testing and just launch something worthwhile?
Arguably someone adhering to the C++ Core Guidelines, using GSL and using the new static analysis tools (currently only in VS?) can be reasonably confident about choosing C++ for a new project in 2017.
Republicans as well are claiming that an automated tax return creates a passive tax payer, thus lessening the tax payers hatred of taxes and, in turn, the government.
Not quite accurate. "Fewest assumptions" assumes that axioms are equally comparable, but this isn't necessarily true. Obviously one should eliminate redundant assumptions, ie. ones that have no effect on observable predictions between two theories, but this provides little guidance for selecting between two theories with drastically different axioms that differ in only a small set of predictions for which we have no data.

Ockham's razor, when formalized as in Solomonoff Induction, suggests preferring theories with the lowest Kolmogorov complexity.
Actively exploited zero-day in IIS 6.0 affects 60,000+ servers
Then you have the issue of anonymous payment, and trusting your VPN. Many paid services are honeypots, because, the assumption is why pay if you are innocent.
Everything is rationed, it's just normally done with tradeable allocations. There are plenty of people on the mainland whose electricity goes off from time to time because they can't afford to put money "in" the meter. A more acute form of rationing in some ways when people around them can afford more energy than they need.
Concluding from this that fusion is bound to fail would be a logical fallacy though.
So if I unknowingly buy a stolen bike off Craigslist, I get to keep it? If the owner later identifies it with proof and requests me to return it, do I get to say "sorry, no" to him?
Think of legalise as a low level language for defining law. It has to cover not only the common cases, but also the corner cases, account for differences in running environments (i.e. courts), cover bugs found in previous versions, and so forth.

Even simple programs, made robust enough to run anywhere, get pretty damned big.

That makes the Apache 2.0 license a simpler choice than a MIT style license (from the point of view of a lawyer), as it's incredibly explicit and battle tested.
Well there's a group of people in the Core Team. I know at least one of them has been hired by their company (LinkedIn) to work on the framework full time, as their app (and subsequent business) is built on top of it, so it makes sense to have someone paid to focus on it.
Maybe not so sadly? Apparently many many people don't like Apache2 because of the patents thing.
Apple Pay and NFC payments have been publicly out since 2014, and yet still many many cashiers freak out whenever you try to pay using Apple Pay. Thankfully MOST places take chip/pin now and almost all of those also take Apple Pay, even if they don't know they do. I end up doing a lot of NFC and Apple Pay education!

I can't imagine me trying to get them to scan a barcode going very well, half the time they get confused about their own rewards cards!
>I'm using Telegram as my main messaging system but I hope they'll open source everything.

A bit too late, now that you're using as your main system.
As does Wire, just for the record.

They are one of the newer kids on the block. Open sourced in March 2016, End to End encrypted (everything and by default) since June 2016 (or the other way around). Supports chats, calls, video calls, file transfers and multiple devices (including Linux, though Electron...).
How is the quality of web based VoIP through the browsers in your hosted riot.im ?
No, it wasn't unfair of you. He puts ?? for all the GPL variants while also saying it's easy to hire compliance experts. In other words, GPL is one of the most widely understood licenses and yet he finds it confusing.
You are describing security through obscurity, which was considered a non-starter even before the advent of widely available software. It presumes that everyone who knows something is to be trusted, and everyone who doesn't is not competent enough to bridge that knowledge gap.
IIRC, it's deterministic in a sense that isn't equivalent to the way de Broglie-Bohm is deterministic. The latter is generally what people mean by deterministic, ie. it's a classical theory with an extra term to account for quantum influences.
> Insurance is for dealing with catastrophes. Not to cover an annual physical or dental cleaning.

Correct, and that's why we're in the situation we're in today. Insurance turned from, well, insurance into a bizarre discount club.

The real solution to the high price of medial procedures and prescription drugs is to do away with insurance (as we know it today) and normalize paying out-of-pocket for procedures and drugs like we did so many years ago, and still do for car-related expenses. I have no doubt that if the auto insurance industry worked the way health care insurance worked a routine oil change would cost $3000 and the out-of-pocket expense would be anywhere from $30 to $200 depending on how good your coverage is.

But fortunately for us, that industry can't obfuscate prices and consumers are informed and can shop around. And the prices stay sane. Funny, that.
I made the mistake of getting a 16GB iPhone 4s last time. I'll never make that mistake again (well, it's impossible now I guess). I was forever having to delete stuff to make room for updates (and IOS gets all sideways when you run out of space halfway through an app update) and managing the memory. It's just not worth the constant headache.
whoa it already exists: https://disputebills.com/
I feel like it's a little different when you speaking to someone versus in a news article. I could read the article tomorrow and be very confused, but I won't hear you say those words tomorrow unless you actually mean tomorrow.
Yeah, the psychology of that is fascinating. I don't give the bureaucrats credit for doing it for that reason though. I think they did it because they wanted the cash flow earlier. Nonetheless, it does a wonderful job at making people grateful that they've been given the gift of having a portion of the money that was taken from them returned.
And a believable business model would be cool.
Look at the common theme among your suggestions:

- do not use builtin operators in C for that,
- instead create new functions, e.g. addMeters()
- hide the int in *.c file

Those are "best practices" instead of compiler-enforced type-check errors. Likewise, suggesting a best practice such as "don't free() memory twice" is not the same as a GC-language (Lisp/Java/C#/Go) freeing memory on the programmer's behalf or a static-ownership checker (Rust) preventing a programmer from making that mistake.
DL is over hyped. This idea that people from a few AI labs are producing everything is basically SF VCs sniffing the farts of AI departments near SF telling them that only their labs and the labs of a few friends are magically producing pixie dust. It must be nice to be so well connected. When the bubble pops very soon, 1 year on a 500k salary will have been enough for them anyway.
This made me laugh:

And of course, there was John Glenn, monitored inside and
out, blood tested, urine sampled, entire organism analyzed
for signs of accelerated aging. Close observation of the
Senator suggested that there might not be any medical
obstacles to launching the entire legislative branch into
space, possibly the most encouraging scientific result of
the mission.
I think your point is weakened a bit by the fact that SpaceX is both the only company flying a rocket designed for re-usability, as well as the company that is iterating their design far faster than any of their competitors.

SpaceX has had trouble getting approved for Air Force launches in the past because they "tweak" the design of Falcon 9 too often. They had to commit to NASA to fly seven launches of a "fixed" design (what SpaceX is calling "Block 5") before they will be allowed to fly crewed missions (for NASA).
I imagine unlimited cheap energy would help facilitate moving us off this floating rock we call earth.

Unlimited cheap energy on any plant would enable us to implement environmental controls, using that energy, so we could build habitats in hostile atmospheres.
Indeed, it was blocked by my mobiles hosts file
F# supports units of measure: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/units-of-measure/
Insightful comment which took me 2700 mS to write.
I can +1 Wire. After looking into it, I was very pleasantly surprised.

It's not as good as Telegram's UI and featureset, but they're much newer/younger still. I'm starting to use it more and more.
Nope, that is not the reason.

The reason is that they don't know it exists. Condoms are OK, but for that drunken one night stand, not necessarily good enough. Female birth control has the problem that you have to trust your partner (spoiler: not everyone is trustworthy.)

When my son has his first girlfriend and if it is getting serious, I would get this done for him if it was available.
Venture Capital Funnel Shows Odds of Becoming a Unicorn Are Less Than 1%
How Much MBA Grads Are Paid at Startup Jobs
I use the OSX app, too. But there was a downgrade going from the App Store version to the recent "Desktop Telegram" version.

The latter lost bindings like ctrl-a, ctrl-u.

If I could be bothered, I'd delete the "Desktop" release and go back to the App Store version.
A Deep Neural Architecture for Kitchen Activity Recognition [pdf]
It is compared to Electron; I don't know how WPF compares though, IIRC the 'de facto' way to make windows native apps nowadays also involves some web technology?
it makes sense for a select few, airlines and perhaps an entry country and their tourism industry. that's about it
WhatsApp on your computer uses your phone as proxy, so it's kind of cheating (you never get the data in 2 devices).
Agreed. Also YouTube ToS defines the service to be used by individuals aged at least 13 years and up. Point 12: https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=CA&template=terms