skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iridium is in LEO, but the comms hardware itself is pretty slow (1 to 2+ seconds latency). The throughput is also very low (2 to 4 kbit/s).

Iridium is a great low-cost, low-bandwidth network though.
This isn't a very useful comparison. For one, according to their FCC application SpaceX is planning on launching satellites with a mass of less than 400kg. For comparison, SES-10, a communications satellite SpaceX launched recently, had a mass of around 5300kg. Secondly, they're planning on deploying them to an altitude of 1000km. Again, for comparison, SES-10 went to geostationary orbit, which is a reasonably common communications satellite orbit, at 36000km altitude, though the Falcon 9 only had to push it into GTO, which still takes quite a lot of energy.

Finally, the plan is obviously contingent on bringing launch costs further down and realising economies of scale in the satellite manufacture. I'm not sure if they can do it, but being able to launch at least 10, and maybe even as many as 20 at once makes a large difference.
What you really want to understand is the abstract model the brain uses to think, then you can go build that using other tools that may or may not look like a brain.

Sure, the biology gives us some clues, but it may not be the most useful way to view what is going on.
Yes, great point. But I said _easier_, not _easy_. Using HTTPS, a user may have a more outdated version of the Tor browser with different cipher suites than everyone else. Using plain HTTP, that can't happen.

> unless someone at the Tor project massively screws up

And that is what the author of the article is claiming.

My comments here aren't in agreement with the author of the article, and I'm not claiming "HTTPS is bad" or anything like that. It's simply a categorical fact that HTTPS has more vectors to be fingerprinted than HTTP.

But of course, as you mentioned, features enabled by Javascript are the bigger problem, which is why users who wish to be anonymous should completely disable it!
Here's a local law where if you meet all the criteria (income made off the island, spend > 180 days per year here, various other criteria), you're exempt from income taxes here. And since you're a resident, all your income is here. Effectively exempting you from federal income taxes.

The idea was to attract high net worth individuals to spend money here.

Every analysis I've seen says it has worked quite well.
Amazing burgers also :) Love that place.
You're right, I stand corrected.
For the first and third picture, the important part seems to be the use of bokeh, right? iPhone 7 Plus can do bokeh. And for the second picture, that just looks like an HDR photo to me, which phones have been able to do for a while.
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I see that it claims that, but that's not entirely true. The closure compiler does a variety of perf optimizations as well (e.g. inlining).

Closure is really a great compiler, it's just a shame it doesn't interact well (that is, at all) with the modern JS ecosystem.
I was at a Boston VR[0] meetup last week, that was lifestreamed via youtube[1] to AltspaceVR[2]. An organizer used a recent Samsung phone in a Daydream headset (which has a closed back), to host the VR space. The biggest problem seemed the low duty cycle - use it for a few minutes, then take the phone out to cool down. Some demo setups at the recent VRLA Expo, had a small fan attached to the phone. So will we see a GTX 1060 equivalent on a flagship phone in 2 years... maybe? But I was struck by how far we've come already.

[0] https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Virtual-Reality/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iGszROz58U
[2] https://altvr.com/
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Nothing the parent said assumes voters are rational.

They pointed out that CA voters can remove her. True.

They pointed out she's still there, so the plausible majority of the people that cast votes must have wanted to elect her vs the opposition choice (as of the last election). True.
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JavaScript parsing is still a huge bottleneck. 1mb of it will still take 1 whole second to parse in V8 (note: just to parse it, not actually evaluate or run it!).
Nice to see some technical leadership from Yelp. A tight partnership with 3rd party developers may be a nice way to go up against Google My Business and Bing Places.

If anyone from Yelp engineering is reading this, I'd love to see a major player get behind some standard for uniquely identifying places on which we could join public and private place-based datasets. I like mapcodes: http://www.mapcode.com/
Blue Bottle Coffee's Coffee Match is a recommendation algorithm based on coffee experts' and customer's tastes to select the best coffee for it's customers.
Original HN discussion from the time - several on here, including myself thought acquisition looked like quick flip from the outset:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12315205
Usually traceable unless you use a tumbler to "clean" your coins, even then it's still traceable I think
Some people think so. Others aren't so sure. US courts have not yet ruled on it.

However, even the people who DO think an implicit grant exists would mostly agree that the implicit grant is not sublicensable, which makes it a horrible mess and probably unusable.

An explicit grant is strongly preferable, IF people can agree on the terms. Facebook's terms are on the harsh side, but there's clear advantages to it existing.
This is getting harder and harder. Chrome allows you to do a .click but it also sends a tainted flag. I'm not sure if headless browses also send non-tainted events.
I love how it's always the "other" voters that are irrational and voting against their best interests, never the observer.
Only if you're looking to play the CHSH game with Bob.
The average time between stock market crashes is roughly 8 years... so 2 in 10 isn't outrageous.
It's impossible for them to migrate away from it today _silently_

The question is "What is their status with their setup today: Want to keep Erlang or migrate to Go/Java/Rust"

Anyway... Erlang is considered to be the/a main reason for their success bcs it keeps out the mediocre Java-Developers
No, it can't[1]. However, vestigial marking of present-tense third-person-singular verbs is going strong and pretty much nobody considers the fact that it's completely useless as an argument against doing it.

The difference is that nearly everyone doesn't know the who/whom rule -- it is dead -- while nearly everyone does know the living pres.3sg rule, and they have trouble violating it even if in the abstract they might like to.

[1] The strongest argument in this direction is that no one in the modern day knows what whom means or under what circumstances it appears, meaning that when a whom is encountered it can only make them more confused.
I think you would be surprised, and if you are into hunting, pleasantly so by the level of shooting that goes on in Europe.

Outside the US the stereotype about America goes the other way: that all the shooting is of people. In case it's not obvious: I know this belief is incorrect.
Puerto Rico bonds were paying 8.7% when US Treasuries paid about 2%. I'd say that any competent investor knows perfectly well that Puerto Rico might well not honor the bonds.
One thing in addition to everything you mentioned is that there is NO ACCOUNTABILITY. How many news people got fired for the poor reporting around WMDs and Iraq? I only know of one prominent news-person that got fired: Phil Donahue, for questioning the status quo. We caught Donna Brazille giving Hillary the debate questions (via seemingly the only reputable news source around: Wikileaks). Sure, she got fired from CNN, but now she still has a cushy job at the DNC. I will NEVER vote for a DNC party member while she's still on the payroll. FWIW I voted Obama his first term.
They also pay full medicare and social security tax, but only receive ~15% of the medicare benefits they would be entitled to on the mainland.

The tax/benefits situation is complicated.
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I agree with this. Also, I think that if this (Electron-based apps) keeps getting the type of attention it has been getting (people who are used to web technologies using it for native apps), it will push on Google and hardware manufacturers to start optimizing this stuff more and more. If eventually Electron apps run blazing fast and take miniscule amounts of CPU (not to mention CPUs will continue to get better and faster and more efficient), wouldn't it be better for everyone? I think this kind of stuff is innovative and keeps pushing the boundaries, so I'm all for it.
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Thing of this as the logical extension of the analysis "you've got another thing coming". ;D
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https://bitbucket.org/lindenlab/dullahan/src/default/README....

I imagine Headless Chrome will make this obsolete shortly but just in case anyone wants to play with it, here is Dullahan - A headless browser SDK that uses the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). It is designed to make it easier to write applications that render modern web content directly to a memory buffer, inject synthesized mouse and keyboard events as well as interact with features like JavaScript or cookies.
I love the idea of explanations through analogies! Looking through them, it seems like there are some very good ones in here. That said, why not put all of these items in an existing database like urbandictionary?
Using undocumented APIs that are able to be changed on a whim doesn't seem like something I would want to trust my finances too. This is not meant in a bad way it just seems a bit too risky for me to trust moving my money about with. I am glad you are doing something though, the state of banking access is atrocious.
You get what you pay for to some extent too... as Mercedes found out, German Engineering is no match for Alabama manufacturing....
Without bankruptcy protections, what prevents companies from lending out an unlimited sum of money? Countries don't die. You can't send them to debtors' prison. A lender could effectively sell a corrupt or stupid government unsustainable amounts of debt and then effectively put a lien on the country in perpetuity to get its money back. That hardly seems just towards the citizens, who committed no crime other than electing stupid leaders, many of whom might have been elected before they were even born.
Will scam coins fund the future?
OP made a sucker's bet for two reasons:
1. Fees, which he doesn't mention this write up
2. Hedging, which drags performance in up market years. Markets tend to move up over time, so the longer the outlook, the more likely he is to lose.
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You've got a knack for going with the worst programming languages available (python aside) don't you?
Some good gdb plugin for vim?
I used vim/tmux/gdb separately. But now I want something can integrate GDB within Vim.

I tried Conque GDB which is written in Python. But it was so slow. This video shows how it works with Vim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcSjaYSoqnc But on my Linux PC, the Conque gdb plugin view would refresh every time I typed a letter.

And I tried vim-vebugger. https://github.com/idanarye/vim-vebugger But it didn't work in Vim, maybe it would work in Gvim (haven't tested though)

Do you have some good suggestions?
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I made a plugin to do this here - https://github.com/codemix/flow-runtime/tree/master/packages...
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> What if the "no-cloning theorem"[0] wasn't actually right?

So, quantum mechanics isn't linear in nature any more? And it gets to transmit information superluminally? It's probably more likely that we're all living in a simulation and the devs accept a pull request from us increasing the speed of light so we can play games better. The no-cloning theorem itself is actually pretty fundamental to quantum mechanics and it would be very unexpected if it was wrong.
Also try Garajito and (the somewhat unceremoniously named) G-Spot across from Moscone on 3rd.
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Maybe someone can try it on a large AOT compiled Angular2 project?
>He'd quite likely prefer that the FBI be legally allowed to torture suspects if extreme techniques were viewed as likely to result in useful information. To law enforcement, the rights of a suspect are a barrier to many convictions.

Not Comey. In this committee session he bluntly said torture is not effective and that his personal standard for what constitutes torture is more stringent than that in the statutes.
Please post civilly and substantively on Hacker News or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I want to know what Daphne Koller and her machine learning (probabilistic modeling?) team are doing. I want to know this badly.
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There is an excellent episode on the podcast Radio-Ambulante on exactly this. There're are accounts of a few people living there, small business owners etc. if i recall correctly

http://radioambulante.org/en/audio-en/debt

English translation: http://radioambulante.org/en/audio-en/translation/translatio...
Michael Eisen

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/qa-michael-eisen-want...

Feinstein is now 83. I don't think she has announced either way, but it is likely she'll retire. If so, then there will probably be a lot of candidates.
Still allows through recurring payments though
One amino acid is missing, as I remember.
Except the taxi industry in many cities is not a free market, my city in particular being #1 on both the world crony capitalist index and the world economic freedom index (Hong Kong). Uber stuck their middle finger at our regulators in a way that no other company had dared to before, at the benefit of consumers.

Going forward, I don't think we'll ever see another taxi company with the balls and cash that Uber has (or had).
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Even worst: The hacker could have taken a list of lets say the top 1000 banking (or any type of online service) websites accross the globe. The moment the hacker get access to your gmail account, he initiatite a password recovery request on each of those 1000 websites, get the password reset link from the email, reset the password, delete the email. he could now have access to any other online account you have that had its recovery email set to your gmail account.
Last question was what salad dressing do I prefer..? A bit odd.
Don't quote this

> It's ridiculous movies don't tell women stories, nor show women characters; just "love interest", "plot device", etc

To pretend a handful of Disney animations contradict this and make movies representative. They don't.

It's ridiculous movies are not representative. But they're not.
Who's "them" in this case?

I think it's important to respect everyone. Part of respect is fair treatment.
that's GitHub, not Facebook
Nice bill. Maybe they should finally get around to declaring Pi to be 3 too, two birds with one bill.
That's the plan - but when you have thousands or tens of thousands of satellites malfunctions can happen. Also, lots of existing space debris orbiting the earth that can hit satellites
VR as we know it today basically started when NASA built a rig sometime in the 1980s, using portable "pocket" TVs for the screens (Casio brand, IIRC). You can find pictures of these early systems (as well as early VPL datagloves) with a google search of course.

Before that, there was Ivan Sutherland's "Sword of Damocles" - arguably the real beginning of AR/VR (Philco had an earlier system, but it was meant for tele-operation, whereas Sutherland's system used computer generated graphics):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Damocles_(virtual...

Interestingly about this system - and isn't mentioned much - is a part of it called the "Twinkle Box" - it was a three-dimensional position tracking system that used light "beams" (generated by some form of slit-scanning mechanical system) to track an object...sound like anything familiar?

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1500278

Further back than that? Well - Hugo Gernsback had some kind of idea about a TV or such you strapped to your head:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/05/ralph-124c-41-a-...
Your information is incorrect.

As an investor - not as a manager - Buffett stomped the market for decades prior to the modern concept of Berkshire Hathaway becoming the business model.

Numerous other Graham disciples likewise stomped the market over long periods of time.

https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/columbia-business/sup...

Going further, other well-known value investors applying similar approaches (by their own admission), stomped the market as well. Those include the likes of Phil Fisher and Seth Klarman. The out-performance isn't subtle, it's dramatic, and it takes place over long periods of time.
> going to someone's desk for a chat would work for you, or going to play ping-pong in the lounge.

These are not suggestions that come from a person who knows what creative burnout is. It's becoming clear to me that you've never actually had a good, hard two week burnout with deadlines hanging over your head and bosses breathing down your neck. Good for you, I can tell you it sucks.

> means you are either in the wrong job or in the wrong profession. Be a professional and do your honest best, that's all.

I am a professional. I've been through acquisitions and I've been through corporate cubicle jobs. I've founded several companies...some have failed, some have sold. I've seen a lot and learned a lot along the way, and I know how to handle a lot of different situations beyond the simple, petty mantra of "honesty is good." There are times to be honest, and there are times to hold your cards close. The world can be a harsh place, and relying on nothing but honesty and hard work to get you through it is completely naive. Other than the work you promise your employers in your contract, you owe them, honesty included, absolutely nothing. This is how they view you: a set of terms. The minute you no longer make sense, they will push you out like a popped zit. Part of being a professional means projecting an image that makes you look indispensable. Are you the person who gets their shit done, or are you the person always whining about burnout?

I'm fairly convinced at this point that you don't know what the hell you're talking about. That's fine, but maybe it's a good time to stop talking.

Come back to me in 10 years and tell me how far your complete honesty with your employers has gotten you. You'll be able to. I sign my name to my statements.
> We all love privacy, we all care about public safety and none of us want backdoors — we don’t want access to devices built in in some way. What we want to work with the manufacturers on is to figure out how can we accommodate both interests in a sensible way

How is this possibly reconcilable?
Terminology can render pictures and video in the terminal and uses OpenGL:

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology
> "What nobody wants to have happen is something terrible happen in the United States and it be connected to our inability to access information with lawful authority."

But they're not asking for that. They're asking for the ability to force companies to grant them access to information without something terrible happening.

The only way you could prevent something terrible happening, and have that prevention be "connected to [their] ability to access information with lawful authority", is to have the ability to inspect private data. And the only reasonable way they would do that is to do it surreptitiously.

They could try just asking the user to unlock their iPhone, or demand it with a court order (where I assume they can plead the 5th), but either would tip the suspect off. So they have to do it without the user's knowledge. And the only way to do that is if the company has a backdoor, or makes it so incredibly insecure as to no longer guarantee privacy at all.

The only logical way to give the FBI what it wants is to compromise user privacy.

> During the session, Comey also made repeat plays for expanding the scope of national security letters (NSL) — arguing that these administrative subpoenas were always intended to be able to acquire information from internet companies, not just from telcos.

The FBI claims that they would always get permission from a judge for invading user privacy. In the next breath, they want to expand NSLs, which is invading user privacy without requiring a judge's approval.

Both Lavabit and Silent Circle have had to close down their businesses after Lavabit was unreasonably demanded by the government (in a gag-ordered search warrant) to give up its private TLS keys, exposing all its users' privacy. But no law enforcement agency gives a shit about privacy; only secrecy.
Democracy couldn't exist if there was a mechanism to say certain votes are irrational and shouldn't be counted. It's not a perfect system but it's the best yet.
@sqs

Since you are posting in here, I figure I would ask. Are there plans to provide an API for Sourcegraph in the near future? My product is more focused on code history discovery and I was thinking it would be nice to be able to quickly transition into Sourcegraph for code browsing and search/analysis.

The discovery workflow would go something like this:

https://gitsense.com/media/source-graph-integration.mp4

For the API, it would nice to be able to just query Sourcegraph to see if the tree for that commit has been indexed and is searchable.
All of the new features I'm introducing are being called bugs. People just aren't appreciating the true value of frequent, random segmentation faults as alternatives to the Pomodoro technique
Look really nice. What other languages are in beta?
Any plans for python or JS support?
Is it possible to do more complex requests in GraphQL, like getting the favorite venues of people that favored "Garaje" or is it left to the API provider?
Privacy.com is awesome! I use it for most all of my transactions which I can't use PayPal for.
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We dont really have any proof that this is the only code that got executed. Whoever owned the OAuth account had direct access to your information from google's servers, he wouldnt need to go through you as a client to get it.
Unfortunately, mosh is very CPU intensive.
Saying their mass needs to be lower to reduce orbit degradation is the opposite of true. Assuming two spheres of equal size, their drag and thus change in momentum will be the same at the same altitude. But if one sphere was made of lead and the other made of styrofoam, the styrofoam one will decelerate much faster than the lead one. So: lighter satellite of the same shape means shorter life span. But drag dies down roughly exponentially in altitude, so if they're at 1000 km, rather than 100km, that's not a super big factor.