skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Exactly how do you argue that aren't the ones dying of hunger/disease by lack of treatment that are the brightest and most suitable for the needed positions of high intellectual achievement needed to run a space program?

I was in no way advocating for a culling. I was just pointing out how that wasn't the best analogy as it seemed you were trying to compare it to something ridiculous when in fact it is a common phenomenon, sadly.

> In any case, one would think than in the XXI century we would be more advanced than expecting a nation to prune the disabled/destitute part of their population by letting them die of hunger/disease while they launch rockets into space.

But we aren't. It's sad to say, but a cursory look at history finds that a significant amount of progress and technological development was fueled by human misery and suffering. American society still allows for perverse incentives like the opportunity to profit off of health care and incarceration when the moral hazard is so glaringly obvious. Welcome to profound disappointment. I believed in the promise of the Internet to create a more informed, compassionate, open, and enlightened society. Look how that turned out. What I've realized is that people haven't changed. We're still the same species we were 70,000 years ago. Our collective knowledge and institutions have evolved, but we haven't.
Darn, I bought the DVD when it came out as a two-sided disc (!) with no commentary. And now I... er... how does one get DVD movie commentaries / featurettes in this day and age?
To be fair I do have ads as well, but it's just Adsense so there shouldn't be any of the bad stuff. Removing them comes with the Patreon membership too.

(Also, thanks!)
Assuming it gets the green light from customer's legal team and IT.
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> Can I have a two-node cluster of PostgreSQL machines where a failure in the first results in failing over to the second automatically? It's okay if I have to run something manual on the first just to bring that back up to speed and act as the new secondary.

You can do this with repmgr from 2ndquadrant, see the documentation [0] for details on the configuration. Since repmgrd doesn't require anything other than postgres to be running, it doesn't add any new failure points.

One thing you need to make sure you do right in such a setup is fencing the failed node, pgBouncer or pgPool is a good way to go about this - in your failover script you can modify your configuration on the pgBouncer server to point at the new master before the failover takes place, this will prevent clients from talking to the failed master and prevent a split-brain.

Alternatively, you can use something like keepalived and STONITH, but I'm not comfortable relying on somehow shutting down or cutting off the other machine from the network as it is less reliable than modifying a configuration file if things are going really wrong.

[0]: https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/repmgr
I'm also suspicious, since they say that your blockchain address is used for authentication - couldn't colluding websites track your public key and use it to track you between websites?
It's funny you should say that. I'm curious, do you have an example?

I'm engaging in this ugly probably unsightly (but helpfully quick and maintainable) practice in a project with a short developmental cycle right now, and I've yet to have any issues outside of temporarily forgetting that I have already globally defined a specific style or enclosed a style I thought I'd left global.

(It's a corp. annual report -- that my team got tasked with as a favour -- so it has some repeating styles, and others isolated between pages)
Cool insight!

I wonder if ChyronHego isn't available real-time due to not being able to provide it in real-time or just that there is not enough money on the table for them to do so.

I'm pretty sure the Opta data is available on a much shorter timeframe than every five minutes, as a side note.
In other words, smarthomes need smart hubs for the average consumer.
I immediately exit websites which want to notify me and ask for my e-mail after 1 seconds I spend on that site. Bad marketing.
Or, Russia is not a model for capitalism.
I mean... yeah obviously, but your examples of toxic behavior and fraud are about as far from the case in question as possible, except insofar as they apply to the guy who bricked the door opener. I'm not suggesting that businesses tolerate abuse or fraud, but this is far from either.
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I noticed that, as I get older, I tend to have less time, and so I try to optimize my time.

When you don't have an hour a day to work on your side project, but 15 minutes a week, then you do what is needed for it to start working, even if it's not perfect or far from what you wanted.

If you have plenty of time try to make the smallest thing that does approximately what you want. Then iterate over it, but always small but fully functional incremental changes. Don't be afraid of having to throw it away, no need to get it right the first time.
We are talking at cross purposes. The system directs wealth to rentiers, they are non-productive. The rich are the non-productive. The system does not allocate resources correctly, it's totally flawed.
Coal vs nuclear just isn't an argument worth making.

Clean coal and clean fission are arguably about as likely, and would be about as expensive.

Why bother, when you have solar?
> note that the composition operation composes two effects on the same computation, and the identity operation adds an empty effect.

Thanks - While I did have this vague idea, and it says it from the types, seeing it written out in this way was clarifying.
I am not a web developer and this kind of grid addressing bewildered me too.

Why isn't 0 the left most line as column and the top most line as row. That would make so much more sense, IMO.

What could be the reason they haven't done it this way? Or are 1 based arrays normal here?
Gzip compression over https is a vulnerabilty[1].

Depending on the scale, shaving a few kB here and there can amount to significant savings in the long run.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREACH
Ask HN: How can Brick and Mortar malls utilize ecommerce?
a) Is it sensible to bring an entire mall's individual shops' inventory online for customers to browse easily and have items delivered to them?

b) What would be the value proposition for the mall’s owners?

c) What are some examples of malls that have all their shops plus their inventory listed online?
...And that's exactly the first thing they should put in ZeroNet.
"But I think Chernobyl was the result of under-investment and poor management"

Chernobyl was extremely poorly engineered, Soviet Union style. Its major flaw was no containment vessel.

Even then, it took real effort to make it fail, and it was all totally unnecessary. It was probably the worst testing-related disaster in history.
The Radfan looks pretty ingenious and actually I could see a lot of use for it at my alma mater's dorms as they are all using radiators.

Great idea.. Let me know if you need help pushing/promoting it in Canada.
Could a phone/computer display multiple profiles with just a different password?
The parameter I'm thinking of specifically would be one username with multiple passwords such that it's not obvious to another person that there are multiple accounts.

I've been thinking a lot about US border agents and law enforcement generally demanding to have access to people's digital devices and though I think it would be great for everyone to take a stand and refuse, it seems like this could mess up your day pretty bad. If you could give a different password that would then show them a generic or empty account so you can be on your way it would probably go a lot smoother. You could also have this dummy account signed in to generic social media accounts if you wanted to go this step.

How possible is it to build something like this on different platforms (win/mac, android/ios)?
You don't have to feel satisfied. You're supposed to feel unsatisfied with an MVP. If you didn't, you wouldn't have the drive to build anything better.

For me, I use three other feelings to combat my high standards.

One is fear. In particular, fear that I'm building a bunch of stuff that won't work. It's the same fear that drives me to write automated tests, or at least to manually run something and see that it works. Except here the fear is that it might work for me but not for my audience.

Another is rigor. This part feels very sciencey to me. I'm trying to test the hypotheses that are implicit in the thing I'm making (and that I've hopefully at least tried to make explicit before I start coding). I want to test my hypotheses as early as possible, and when I don't I start to feel like I'm not being rigorous.

The third is joy in results. The early tests are only looking for one step forward. If that's all I'm looking for, it is really exciting to see that. And so I temporarily set aside my concerns about all the things I'm not testing for and celebrate the wins when I get 'em.
Q3 or Quake Live? i've spend quite a few (hundred) hours in Q3 + CPMA...
A/B testing for Windows 10 occurs in the wild, instead of extensive QA testing.

You don't see it, because you're in a separate group.
That is clever and I like you.
It was modeled after HK, but it wasn't HK
> I hope you don't have to test your theory in court, because you will lose - because the law is clear on this matter.

The law is clear. You can keep the product. You are not entitled to services. You can keep your lump of silicon, that is all you are entitled to.
Is that at all likely? Looks like SQRL was published in 2013... and this is the first I've heard of it.
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Everything to the right on that diagram came after 2006.

I don't believe the story line to GITS 2: Innocence excludes Stand Alone Complex. If the person who made that diagram believed there was a reason, they omitted it in the diagram.
Wrong. People constantly lose despite pouring all their best efforts into something. I'm sure some amateur military historian can give you plenty of examples where some army lost simply because they were defeated by overwhelming opposing force.

Surely you've heard the saying "pick your battles carefully". Sometimes it makes a lot more sense to just give up and look for greener pastures.
I dont think any advice is any use unless we know what you want.

First thing is you should decide why you're doing it. Is it to make money, or have fun, or enhance your current mgmt skills or to learn to code in a whole new area?

Only once you've decided that, then questions like "I don't have any frontend dev skills. Where should I start?" and "Should I outsource the website development part?" are possible to answer.
End of road for trucking startup Palleter
Did you (and all the critics going this way that I guess will become the mainstream) even see the '95 movie recently?

The highly praised philosophical content is ridiculously short. Barely a few sentences. There is not much talk at all in the movie. Google up the script. It's short. Really short. Most of the movie is action and slow shots where nothing happens and this is the best part of it.

Actually when I saw the anime for the first time on VHS, there were those hardcore manga fans complaining in the same way about it. Now today I see the whole /r/scifi going up in fire on how shallow that was. Just to praise the next super hero reboot a few weeks later.

I've been in the cinema to watch GitS and I rarely go there. I expected crap. What I got was a beautiful designed cyperpunk action movie that delivered more of a story to one of my favorite characters then the original movie. It couldn't end up being better with all those messed up reboots currently so popular out there.

You say the dialogue was bad? So I guess you speak Japanese because all translated versions of the anime I've seen were...let's say: basic stuff blown up.

Hope none of your friends who would listen to you were GitS fans because this is a must see for those.
If you come from a computer science/math background, and want an intro to cryptography in general, I can strongly recommend the Coursera course from Stanford University by professor Dan Boneh - https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto. To really understand the implementations of security libraries and tools, one should be at least familiar with the fundamentals and terminology of crypto. Otherwise you are blindly encrypting things without being aware of whether you are actually securing things.

The course is free and takes 6 weeks long, and is very interesting if you had never dwelled too deep into security or crypto. There's also a new cryptography class that will be available in September of 2017 - https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto2.
Namecoin has a number of innovations. It's the first 'alt-coin' fork from Bitcoin, and it pioneered the technique of "merge mining" where a miner could do Proof of Work on both the Bitcoin chain and the NameCoin chain simultaneously. A lot of mining pools implemented merged mining. Even though the alt-coin space has become much more crowded and noisy, NameCoin retains that early hashing advantage. It's a very secure chain.
Not bad, but I found this questionable:

> The other Password Hashing Competition finalists (Catena, Lyra2, Makwa, and yescrypt)

These were promoted above PBKDF2; algorithms with few implementations. PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA-512 with sufficient iterations is typically robust, and has been scrutinized.

I personally prefer scrypt, but in lieu of a solid scrypt or bcrypt lib I wouldn't hesitate to lean on PBKDF2 over the others.

Argon2i was in the same boat but being in libsodium went a long way to reinforcing trust, although Argon2i and Argon2d should really have had distinct names.
As a baseball fan who doesn't live in a city with a team, I would definitely use this. You're right that you don't get the full experience with VR, but I disagree that the view isn't part of the experience. So if the choice is no experience, only TV viewing, or some little bit of it, I'll take VR. Not every time I watch, of course, but every once in a while, definitely.

EDIT: I just realized that you're probably focused on football. Football isn't a great live sport for viewing, so I get where you are coming from there. The pregame experience (tailgating) is the biggest reason to go to a football game. I've done plenty of tailgating where we never go into the game at all.

For other sports I think this makes more sense.
You sure about that? Their presentation [says][1] "Tracker-less peer exchange is also supported". Any idea what that's referring to?

[1]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_2qK1IuOKJ51pgBvllZ9...
Ask HN: Creating a data-driven culture?
Anyone has any ideas or experience trying to shift the culture from traditional, off-the-cuff thinking to a one that's more data-driven? We're rolling out new technology and while we love it ourselves, we'd love to also help the organization adopt it.
Even Tor isn't a magic bullet, specifically because of other technologies used in combination, such as a web browser.

https://www.eff.org/pages/playpen-cases-frequently-asked-que...
I would prefer the ATCO responsible for my flight not to be distracted by unfamiliar (or from his point of view outright hostile) color scheme, thank you very much.
This is pretty cool. One thing I notice is that when you submit an answer, it shakes the editor box. This usually has a "you did something wrong" connotation (ie if you type a bad password when signing into a mac.)
"The Feeling of Power", by Isaac Asimov. In this story, humans have forgotten how to do basic math, except for one man, who regards it as a hobby.

edit: http://john.regehr.org/reading_list/power.html
And... we're back to loving IPFS :3
http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-grid

It's been supported (albeit prefixed) in IE since v11 (pre-11 versions are <<1% these days), which makes Android browser the only significant current version lagging.

In fact, one could observe that Chrome is the browser "holding this feature back", given the very high percentage of people on version 56 of Chrome (which will decline very rapidly given Google's aggressive browser updater).

TL;DR: if you start using CSS Grid today, it'll probably be widely supported by the time you commit your code.
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Advanced Android spyware found by Google after bypassing security for 3 years
To be honest, publishing most of what they are collecting makes me trust them less, not more. Why not publish all, what are they hiding?
> OTOH I would be happy with a software that is basically a web frontend for Postgres that can be customised in a way that a client can only see and edit specific fields based on assigned rights.

Take a look at Adminer [1] and their Adminer Editor [2] (the later is what you're asking for).

[1] http://adminer.org/
[2] https://www.adminer.org/en/editor/
>There would be more deaths if Japan and Tepco would not pour billions of dollars into collecting as much waste as possible.

(a) Citation needed.

(b) How many more deaths?

(c) Sure, it's good that we clean these things up. There would be more deaths from cars, airplanes, trains or just about anything if we didn't do something about it.

From the NYTimes article:

"400 tons of water a day"

Sounds bad, right? Except when you compare it to a coal plant, which produces about 350 tons of ash (which is more radioactive) and >500 tons of toxic sludge per day in normal operation.

Oh, and just how bad is that water?

"The authorities are debating whether it might be acceptable, given the relatively low radioactive levels in the water, to dilute the contaminated water and then dump it into the ocean."

And of course that is "low" under the current rules, which follow the linear extrapolation ("no safe dosage") assumption that is almost certainly wrong, and tend to be extremely conservative even within that framework.

"200,400 Cubic Meters of Radioactive Rubble"

Again, there is no context given. For water, 1 cubic meter is exactly 1 ton. Concrete is 2.4 tons per cubic meter, but it isn't clear how dense the rubble is. I am guessing significantly less dense than non-rubble concrete. But let's assume this is about 500 Kilotons of rubble, how does that compare?

"Reports indicate that some coastal areas generated as much as 4.35 million metric tons of waste each from the disaster,"[1] (that's the Tsunami, not the meltdown)

So that's about 10 times that amount, from each of several/many(?) sites. How radioactive is the Fukushima rubble? The New York Times article doesn't say, but the one I found (which also mentions 500 Kilotons) says that they measured "133 Bq/kg, well below the limit of 8000 Bq/kq". So 80 times below the limit, and the limits are conservative, so they are just processing it with the "normal" rubble from elsewhere.

How much is 133 Bq/kg? Well, the Potassium inside the human body means that humans produce around 40-60 Bq/kg[2], or a total 4000 Bq per person. Coffee is 1000 Bq/kg. Coal ash is 2000 Bq/kg. 1 household smoke detector with Americanium is 30000 Bq (not per kg, per unit).[2] Bananas are 31 Bq/g, so significantly more radioactive![2], with a single typical Banana of 175g being equivalent to 40 kilos of that rubble. So the rubble is not really all that radioactive and not all that scary.

And so on and so on...

Anyway, I fully understand where you are coming from. Nuclear is scary and the reporting is so incredibly one-sided and innumerate that it is hard to believe just how slanted it is. It certainly took me a while, because I wasn't suspicious, if anything I suspected the media were under-reporting. They aren't.

[1] http://www.naturalnews.com/033949_radioactivity_Fukushima.ht...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

[3] http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-...
Corporate Monopoly in America
The thing with current bionics is that they are not... mindful in the way they are in GitS. Today's bionic limbs are pale imitations of our natural ones, though they are leaps and bounds over the stationary or slightly mechanical limbs of just a few years ago. There is little reason for someone to desire an artificial limb if they have a healthy functional limb.

In GitS they were, for most intents and purposes, better than the real thing. You could have a cybernetic eye with built in night vision and multispectral imaging. You could have a better/faster brain. You could have ultra-precision hands, fantastic for certain tasks.

But it puts into perspective, at what cost do these improvements come. If at a certain point, you replace your body wholesale for improvements, can you be sure you are who you think you are? If you cybernetic eyes lie to you, how do you know? If you have brain improvements, can they influence your thoughts or implant biases? There is also the whole "Ship of Theseus" thing going on. If you upgrade/replace your brain and body slowly, are you still you?

There definitely is a lot of soul/conscience stuff thrown around as well, but the above is what stuck with me all these years.
Thanks, once we've got Europe sorted we'll branch out to the last remaining countries that use steel panel radiators (turns out most countries don't pump hot water around their houses!).
Several years ago I had Tor running on a server at home. It was a regular Tor node, not an exit node. Later I was put on a blacklist because of this. What is the risk of using this?
It was a nostalgia-gasm for Gen X/Y people like me who grew up in the 80's. That feeling was so strong, that it allowed me to power through the sub-par writing and plot. I just skimmed through and only paid attention to the references. Without these, I don't think I could've gotten through the first chapter.

I'd fully expect the movie to be superior to the book. Then again, that's not saying much.
Well, his opening remark on the forum ended in "wondering what kind of piece of shit I just purchased here.."

That appears to be before any contact with anyone at all.

That, alone, doesn't cross a line. But it is a clue that the interaction might quickly lead down a path where you choose to part ways.

I'd have been initially polite, helpful, try to fix the issue, etc. But there would be some line where I'd stop.
I'm a little surprised by that, myself.

I'm normally one to push for keeping political stuff off of HN, but that's when it's not related to the tech industry.

But this would seem like exactly the kind of political topic that should be discussed here...
Queries and mutations with Meteor-Apollo
> What do you consider 'vaaaaaast majority'? And over what time range?

Since the most recent war in Iraq? Since 9/11? Since I was born? I don't think the time range really matters — it's still a notable exception when a terrorist is not a U.S. citizen.

> Also, the issue with homegrown terror is that you can't preemptively kick those people out.

But you can, you know, arrest them.
Would you mind defining "blacklist" in this context? That's kind of scary!
Encoding Data in CSS
Don't use unsafe defaults ffs, that's how things get exploited.
"fuck this product" is also not abuse. its not even personal.

people put the slightest emotions they get on a pedestal as a valid reason to do and justify anything.