skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty surprised at this:

>For every valid report they get, they get 3 that aren't valid.

Because taking the time to write and to submit an invalid report is a total waste of the reporter's time. Reports aren't the type of thing that someone will accidentally say "oh this is a severe vulnerability! here's some cash" even though the researcher has submitted bullshit.

So can you talk about "3 that aren't valid" for every valid report? Who makes these? Weird, obscure cranks, of the type who in other industries would be churning out perpetual motion devices? I would expect 80%+ of vulnerability reports to be serious and real - quite different from what you just wrote.
How high would it need to fly for the parachute to be effective?
It's a lot less efficient.
Graph databases, embedded Python and runs on Linux!
SQL Server sure has come a long way in the 20+ years I've been working in it :-)
Thrust in the radial direction (straight out) unintuitively does not raise an orbit; it increases eccentricity, so the highest point is higher and the lowest point is lower, but since the impulse is orthogonal to the direction of motion it does not add any energy to the object.

In any case, heating from the Sun vastly outweighs anything coming from the Earth, and so would tend to push the object inwards on average.

You can get orbit raising/lowering from outgassing and radiation pressure with a rotating object [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarkovsky_effect], but that depends entirely on rate and direction of rotation.
Grab small servers with one or two big disk (Hetzner will give you two 4TB disks for 39.00 EUR, OVH one 6TB for about 30 USD w/ an ARM CPU, less than 50 USD for two 4TB under the soyoustart brand), serve them over iSCSI, use RAID-Z3 to create a nice huge ZFS filesystem. Do not forget to have hot spares. Done. Costs about half or even third of what S3 costs and it's a filesystem instead of an object storage. Also has transparent compression. ZFS grows online. Both OVH and Hetzner and I bet other such providers have API so you can just script the whole thing to grow as soon as you cross a threshold.
Official subtitles are sometimes awful, and are a good reason for fansubbers not to take down their subs even when something is officially released in their country with subs.
a new building development put up LED lights and its awful. I cant open my curtains without having piercing white like come in. its hard to explain, its not like a spot light is on the window, but it hurts my eyes even when its hitting the peripherals.
Well, many transport authorities don't care and would rather save money on electricity costs and materials (less LEDs and less powerful drivers) than actually make the road more driveable at night.
This seems to be in the genes analyzed by 23andme

While logged into your 23andme account, open a new tab and type this URL https://codegen.eu It will ask permission to copy your raw data, and then identify a huge number of scientific papers that discuss your genes. You can filter it on terms like CRY1 or circadian to get a short list of papers that may be of interest.

Requires some smarts to figure out all the biomedical and genomics jargon but well worth it to understand your own genes better.
Greedy corporations leaning on governments to drive people away from their content, criminalizing remixing and making content unusable by the blind and others speaking different languages not approved. Plus, they probably want to charge a fee for alternate language or requiring purchasing the content again in that language. F that!
I wasn't trying to compare countries; I don't know anything about Canada's health care system. I'm just taking issue with the assertion that "the healthcare coverage you will get from any tech company paying 6 figures is going to be essentially zero cost full coverage", because that isn't, according to my experience and observation, actually true.
There are a number of Islamic charities that have been prosecuted under suspicion of funding terrorism. Of course, as soon the government thinks Ethereum is being used to send money to ISIS, anyone associated with the project will be swiftly conveyed to Guantanamo Bay.
I'm not the authority on journalism by any means, but I'm happy to provide my own take.

There have been some stories on NPR (and most news sites as far as I can tell) that I've felt more knowledgeable about, and realized things were being simplified to make it easier to digest.

I guess another way of putting it would be that at first glance, you think NPR is awesome, and does a great job of covering the news. But then at second glance, you realize that while not intentional, it's just not as detailed or complete as you'd like it to be.
I'd argue that's visual design. A subset of UX.

UX primarily starts with user research, then a metric shiton of postit notes, paper prototypes, a bit of testing and then some hi fidelity mockups
You're right, a good yearly review should be a boring summary of everything you already know.

But often, it's not.

A lot of colleagues and managers are too timid to provide timely feedback, they think they need a formal moment like an annual review to speak up.

Do you believe every single employee and manager has the skillset you describe to be open, honest and trustworthy? If not, then having a system to help shepherd feedback isn't a bad idea.
If you want to think of them as different modules then most likely they should be completely separated entities.
Why on earth you would want something completely different to live in the same class? It is just screaming that it wants to be a separate class.
Namespaces are the correct tool for code organisations, certainly not partial classes.
Take a look at who bank rolls most of the federal gov't budget. It's the rich.
IANAL. My understanding is that by using your name in commerce (in particular interstate commerce) you already have an automatic trademark. But maybe you mean to ask about trademark registration, which is a separate proactive step you can take to give your trademark more protection.
I also had a lot of issues with Gluster -- when it was broken, it was hard to know what was wrong. With MooseFS, the dashboard would usually give you a good idea, and the logs were pretty good at showing how it was replicating data after a node or disk failed.
I worry what this means for the future of deep-learning based audio analysis tools to automatically generate subtitles (for the hard of hearing).

Does this mean that YouTube's audio-recognition powered automatic subtitles are illegal in some edge cases? The platform can always have a ToS/shrinkwrap allowing for automated subtitling, but legacy videos created before the policy or videos that aren't owned by the uploader could cause legal problems.

Also, is this possibly case law that can be used to outlaw other forms of describing media, such as drawing representations of the scenes or writing descriptions of what happens?

Yes, that's pulling the current situation to obserb conclusions but sometimes that's what happens with copyright.... always trying to push the law in ways it was not intended.
Exactly. Seems like a specious strawman when the attack on personal use and viewing experience is much broader. Corporate control seeks to pervade every aspect of life and shake down people at every opportunity.
Are "active daily users" humans checking a Facebook app? Or the app checking in with Facebook?
Sounds like it would be worth doing some tests instead of switching everything to white...
Blue spectrum's shorter wavelength makes it scatter readily and thus people experience glare and difficulty focusing on objects in blue much more than the red end of the spectrum. It's even worse in fog and rain.
That's how the web works today as well. That's why you need CSRF protection.
Worth reposting, one of the best essays on this topic is William Deresiewicz's Solitude and Leadership, previously discussed at HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10073663
If you have humans, you have politics. You can't escape that. We're not robots.

You're right though that the feedback should not be anonymous, I've seen that in action and it just leads to the kind of Machiavellian scheming you describe.

But if (non-anonymous) colleague writes in a system that she thought I was brusque to her, that I wasn't communicative enough during a project, I'd rather know immediately so we can talk it out rather than have her lob it like a bomb at the end of the year.
Haha! That Neil DeGrasse Tyson, what a dummy.

(Good sport, though. And I also thought a helicopter would drop like a rock without power.)
I'm curious if anyone has tied the recent talk about different hues of light and their effect on human health and citywide lighting? I'm referring to the types of stuff Dave Asprey and bulletproof people talk about. Could you influence the community as a whole through lighting choices?
But there is need for an update of the Common Lisp standard. There are lots of improvements needed without creating a new language. There are different implementations for various extensions and one needs to standardize them, instead of providing a portable wrapper library. Stuff like Unicode strings/characters/files/streams really needs to be defined on a language level.

Typical things to fix:

* basic threading
* Unicode characters and strings
* less undefined behavior
* environments
* extensible loops
* CLOS conditions and streams
* extensible sequences
* security (fixing reader eval, ...)

and more...

http://www.cliki.net/Proposed%20ANSI%20Revisions%20and%20Cla...

http://www.cliki.net/Proposed%20Extensions%20To%20ANSI
I think you're referring to the people working for theranos itself. However, investors generally try and do their due diligence before investing. Did none of the investors seek an expert to verify the claims made by Theranos prior to investing?
Yes, that is exactly what I thought. Me and Neal DeGrasse Tyson!
So when does "the next Steve Jobs" end up as "the next Jeff Skilling"?
Will the world ever come back to their senses and we will ever return to the "modern" times of 2002-2012 when all journalism was free?
I guess it's various consulting firms that want to expand there market like e. g. KPMG cyber security division and the likes.
That's a general problem with efficiency regulations: they don't model the full benefits of the (product with) higher energy use, nor do they give the users a chance to pay for the purported externalities if they they value them so highly.

In that respect, they commit the planner's fallacy of acting on costs they can't observe.

(If your model says that the externalities are infinitely bad and inherently unaffordable you're probably very wrong.)
Similarly, the purchase price of a car isn't the only cost of owning it. Someone else later in the thread broke down small plane ownership costs (about $8000, without flying, about $10k if you actually want to fly some).

I was just replying to the price comparison with a car. Going up the thread, part of the premise was that they couldn't afford to buy a Cessna "Nevermind the maintenance, training and more".

Anyhow, the point's already been made (several times) that the purchase price isn't the only consideration.
>If cities want to use LED street lamps, they should be <3000K correlated color temperature, with as little blue light as possible.

Agreed that as "little blue as possible" is preferable, however, 1900K at high lumens should be the target, IMHO. Man is adapted to see at night via firelight and 1900K hits the mark.

Actually performed this experiment at home...

After having used clear bulbs for far too long, bought several of the following for our living room:

http://www.verbatimlighting.com/prod/led-lighting/candle-led...

The "feel" of the room is entirely different, particularly when unwinding after work. "Cozy seat at the fireplace" best describes it. Our baby falls asleep gazing at the bare bulbs.

Conversely, for the locals loitering to rap in our alley, bought a "clear" 150w mercury vapor fixture and bulb from e-Bay. Installed the light and even the cockroaches no longer venture into that eerie glow. If the mercury vapor alone doesn't solve the loitering issue, one can purposely damage the fixture's transformer so it produces an intolerable buzz.

Perhaps the correct lighting depends on the situation.
No problem. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something :)
Light pollution is another important side aspect of this. What if, as light becomes cheaper, people/ cities just use more of it? From other comments, it sounds like this is already happening with LED.
Listen, people. Those whom we call Russians have at least KILLED 10 000 Ukrainians at the time being in the east of Ukraine. What do you discuss? Their women? Are there any?
Seems like a cool product, Jay! Have you thought about doing a Show HN to get it in front of more of this audience?
I don't see how a CFO wouldn't see the issue with "mark to market" and showing potential future gains as current profit.

I am a little fascinated with Theranos because it seems like more employees (vs just leadership) seemed to be aware of, or participating in, the deception.

Almost makes more sense in the Enron case, as the people committing the fraud all had so much more to gain.
The apartments across from mine were renovated and the outdoor lights replaced with LEDs. Wrecked my sleep for months until I wised up and bought blackout curtains. Those things are truly awful.
CS61A still has a Scheme project (albeit written in python), and focuses on Scheme for about a month before switching to SQL.

[1] http://cs61a.org/proj/scheme/
Also many newer cars have this uber-bright white headlamps, which I think are blinding and actually more dangerous for road safety
Who is Zecco?
Thank you for the information. Very helpful!

I am for fairness and global labor arbitrage importing labor through H1-B and other means is inherently unfair. One of the things that really angered me about NYT and WaPo and other MSM is that they were backing Clinton who in fact was very pro-H1B more like Republicans Bush and Rubio while Trump and Sanders were the ones acting more like Democrats being fair to labor. Trump cared not only for STEM / H1-B but also working class (illegal aliens drive down wage rates among working class).

I don't understand your example about bathroom person because I thought the law was that employers had to demonstrate that the skill were simply not available among Americans, regardless of wage rates.

"Hillary Clinton may be more aligned with Rubio and Bush than she is with Sanders on the H-1B issue. While serving as a U.S. senator representing New York, Clinton traveled to Buffalo in 2003 to mark the opening of an office of IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). That was 12 years ago, but the H-1B issue was very much a subject of controversy by then. TCS is one of the largest users of the H-1B visa.

The Clinton links to the IT offshore outsourcing industry have continued since then through the work of the Clinton Foundation, where Tata has been participating in its STEM education efforts. In 2011, former President Bill Clinton was paid $260,000 by IT services provider HCL to deliver a speech."

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3008726/it-careers/bern...

Most of the leaders of tech were for unfairness of driving down wage rates of STEM even though many of them are among the world's wealthiest people each worth over $20 billion. Greedy instead of being thankful to their workforce.
Why the downvote? People are okay with this corporate cronism?
They would save even more money on electricity by just cutting the brightness of the lamps. Whatever official body or industry recommendation sets the standards for urban illumination really needs to bring things down.

My street’s new LED lamps could have their intensity chopped by 2/3 without adversely affecting anyone’s vision.
There are a few comments about the video here that you might be interested in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11411054
If the wings are intact it will have gliding ability. In flight breakups are really rare, and the only other reason why I'd consider a parachute is total electrical failure while in meteorological conditions: i.e. can't see with my eyes or instruments. Night time in the middle of nowhere could also be such a case. If you can't see the ground you're probably gonna hit it faster than you want.
The classic answer I recall from a maths professor was "First visualise an n-dimensional space, then simplify to the 4-dimensional case."
Herd mentality? Later stage investors probably assumed the early stage investors did their homework, while ultimately no one really did (or the early investors weren't at home enough in the space to realise the product wasn't properly working, or results were being faked, etc)
The naval shopworn is so good at punching holes it can even pinch through NATs!
The already exists an agency with this mission: the NSA. The problem is that they have two often-conflicting mission statements, WTH the other being to spy on foreign adversaries. Really what this would entail is splitting the NSA into two bureaucracies, with the information-security one then being able to wholeheartedly pursue vulnerabilities that affect American infrastructure.

The offensive organization wold probably then still sit on vulnerabilities only it knew about, but at least this would be better than the current situation.
Any chance this could be implemented for automated proof synthesis? Would love to see this used in F* or Lean.
> Thrust in the radial direction (straight out) unintuitively does not raise an orbit; it increases eccentricity, so the highest point is higher and the lowest point is lower, but since the impulse is orthogonal to the direction of motion it does not add any energy to the object.

That doesn't really address the point that that'd make it dangerous due to hard to predict flight paths - and the outgassing wouldn't just happen directly outwards for all broken up parts.

> In any case, heating from the Sun vastly outweighs anything coming from the Earth, and so would tend to push the object inwards on average.

In the case of trying to destroy orbiting garbage via laser from earth (the OPs proposal, not my idea!)? You'd pretty fundamentally need higher energy than the sun delivers, albeit for obviously a very limited amount of time.
The type system is your friend, not your enemy.
You are comparing the type errors to the null pointer exceptions, aka the billion dollar error.
You can have an extremely powerful type system, with very low ceremonies, that checks continuously that you are not shooting your foot AND having a REPL.
For example using F#.
Your code will be extremely expressive and creating DSL can be a breeze, with the huge benefit that even your DSL will be type checked at compile time.
No appreciation for humor, I see.
I'm not sure I agree to it being anything stronger than a 'catalyst' period, but regardless; as elsewhere, by 'modern' I meant 'more recent than it is'.
No it won't. Not with a wing there and canards of that size. Without power, that is a lawn dart. The only possible behavior of the rear wing is to point the nose straight at the ground in a ballistic trajectory for maximum speed of impact. That's a wide tail fin, not a wing.
Nope, “too yellow” is what you want for outdoor nighttime lighting. Anything else wrecks your night vision and your sleep schedule.
As someone who has been on the receiving end of a bug bounty's mailbox, 3-to-1 sounds about right. We got a ton of invalid "security vulnerabilities" that were essentially either people reporting OAuth as a vulnerability or not understanding how XSS actually worked. Most of these came from teenagers in southeast Asia.
How computers really work never clicked until I took a computer architecture class where we started in a logic simulator with individual gates, and progressed step by step until we had an 8-bit computer, running in the simulator, that could load in machine code generated by an assembler we wrote for that simulated computer, or compiled from a cut-down dialect of C.

That was a long semester.
I did that once where I had a complicated class with a docile public API that controlled a not so docile long running threaded 'machine' of sorts. Having them in two files made thinking about stuff easier.
I bet the birthrate drops. People's complexions will look worse and their confidence and willingness to socialize will decrease.
Hmm. I don't think Berkeley intentionally switched from Scheme to Python to attract so-called "non-nerds"; it was more founded upon a recognition that computer science will become essential in any field, and not to put at a disadvantage any student who wanted to learn but was new to programming. I mean the current enrollment for CS61A is well-over a thousand, the university lacks resources to properly fund the department, and to declare there's a 3.3 GPA minimum (assuming for Letters & Sciences as College of Engineering students get admitted into the major from freshmen admission).
FYI - Aphex Twin owns this / several of these and speaks very highly of them.
There's more than last-mile delivery, though. Amazon is automating its warehouses right now. Managing fragile and perishable goods will be an extra twist for them, but grocery stories will be starting from scratch (unless they're already working on the problem, which would be the right thing but seems unlikely.) Automated hand-off between an automated warehouse and an automated delivery platform is going to be a hard standard for grocery stores to compete with, especially on timeliness.