skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get an electromagnetic counterpart, you need matter to be in the system. It may be possible for binary neutron star and some neutron-star black hole mergers. These types of mergers are one of the predicted sources of short gamma ray bursts, so if we get reasonably lucky it may be possible to find one in coincidence. Gamma ray burst are beamed, however, so to detect it, it would have to be point towards the earth, and many of the gamma bursts that we have accurate distance measurements for are currently outside our sensitivity range. We only have estimates for a fraction of GRBs though. Lower energy EM radiation may be possible to see as well with these mergers.
I seem to recall someone made a "smartphone" the size of an adult as a marketing stunt. It was meant for advertisement but was fully interactive.
Many articles about the purchase of Bonobos by Walmart state that it will allow Walmart to better compete with Amazons technology.

A quick review of the Bonobos website shows it to be a fairly simple web store.

This does not strike me as something Walmart can use to close the gap with Amazon on technology.
https://pando.com/2012/06/06/zappos-hands-over-warehousing-t... - as you can see, the warehouse isn't included in any of the good stuff, it was just unceremoniously handed over to Amazon to be run as Amazon warehouses are run.

I agree that this is inconcsistent with the Holacracy movement (even if the move preceded the movement officially, clearly these workers were never fully Zappos employees in Tony's eyes, which is sad).
That's not how most people using CloudFlare think about it since their plans are flat rate. So when you sign up for this you just expect to pay whatever shows up in your dashboard under bandwidth * 10 cents.

It is surprising to be billed for blocked traffic.
People commenting below are probably correct wrt border entry for the common business traveler, but might be surprised if they checked their wifi logs at how many things are hitting it maliciously.

For some companies/positions you may be targeted surreptitiously.

Spying exists. The people who granted me my expedited Russian visa inside the consulate were kicked out as spies.
Tweeting quietly is an awesome skill to have
Nice work Honza!
Exactly. Additionally, one might be forced to take a side in who they support with time or money. Assange and his ego has forced that decision before causing his co-founder to leave his ass with the data (destroyed it). Assange always loved the spotlight, being in control, money, and so on. His recent actions should be thought about with that in back of mind.
They fixed that bug after we (and others?) reported it.

It now properly pro-ratas the $5 and even credits back the remainder of the month if you cancel it from the Billing tab.

And let's you re-enable it. :)
memchr returns a pointer, not an offset.
C && is short-circuit-evaluated. Something like 'if (y && (k = x/y))' won't crash if y is 0.
More ironic is how the declassified documents from when we backed him described him as a "presentable, young man" and other nice things. Later was called "in some ways worse than Hitler" as U.S. and Europe gave him money or "dual-use technology." All political BS.
Hopefully better than AP1: http://imgur.com/gallery/T5j32i9
You can't drive a normal car in park either.
Can't agree more. We have an othermill that's come in handy mostly for intermediate boards that involve mashing together other already made boards. We can get boards back from OSH in a week. We even experimented with a "24 hour" turn around service that skips the soldermask.
Here's a great visualization of the piece that helps you see the structure: http://www.pianophase.com/
Ditto; & well-said. A number of friends and colleagues from my solar car days (at the University of Michigan) are now working at SpaceX, Scaled Composites, etc.
Regulatory Capture
The equivalent in Chrome is to install the Web Developer plugin and click CSS->Disable All Styles.
Saddam was mild? He threw people off roofs. I saw the videos. The roofs weren't even high enough to kill them outright.

I don't think it was a good idea to go launch a war at him, but it's good he's dead. That was one of the few silver linings in the Iraq debacle.

Unfortunately, the suffering greatly increased after Saddam's death, mostly because we tried to occupy the country. If we hadn't done that, things might've turned out differently.
Or even public financing of NFL stadiums.
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$1.7 billion dollars, with a B!
Thank you for shining a light on this!

Americans don't even care that brown-skinned people are dying in their own communities. That's why Black Lives Matters was started.
You guys should really retest with it off. Might save a bunch of money. :)
What a nice propaganda piece on Western Union, enabler of scammers worldwide and reliably preying on those disenfranchised parts of the human population we've decided can't have debit accounts.
I'd prefer they stop curl from detecting a pipe on STDOUT and assuming that the user must want download progress garbage. Why would I want it in a pipe any more than I'd want it standalone? Inconsistent behaviour violates POLS.
I wonder why there aren't any cheap, simple tests for botulism that people could use to test their home-cooked food. You'd think something like that would be available by now.
Text fonts can be easily fixed with [Ctrl/Cmd]+[+]. There is similarly easy move for contrast.
Already turned it off and will compare the numbers with the two weeks or so that it was on. Didn't have much of a choice as I did not want to continue racking up a larger bill from the abuse traffic being blocked.
The discussion of "typologies" doesn't discuss what happens when they trigger false positives. Essentially government pressure forces Western Union to be much more restrictive on it's compliance rules. Do they reject hundreds of transactions for each criminal transaction it catches? How much does this disenfranchise customers?

Just one more step on the road to legitimizing bitcoins.
That's odd. I heard my four year old playing this piece just the other day.
I decided to use it largely because of its proven track record, optimization passes, and its ability to act as a JIT compiler. LLVM is very competitive with other compiler's backends in terms of speed (see clang and gcc), and it is well established so there is plenty of help and documentation available. The builtin optimization passes means I can spend more time on the language itself rather than the IR, and the JIT, while not the fastest, is usable as is, and is extensible should I need it. Compared to using C as an intermediate language I would say there is a slight learning curve, but overall I found llvm easy to learn.

One of the only disadvantages is that because llvm is so large it requires some odd build steps that can be a pain to setup, especially on windows. The llvm-config tool however, manages many of required flags for you. Also, because there are so many libraries, compilation of the compiler itself can be rather slow.
First of all I need to clarify that I'd likely be making these posts even without my personal interactions with Linode, just as I'd advice against using SSL 2.0 or gasp ColdFusion if I saw someone using them.

I'm certainly not alone in recommending against Linode, any sane security person will share the sentiment.

>Why do you hate then so much?

I don't really "hate" Linode, but I certainly don't wish them luck.

Why?

They wasted a bunch of my time because some guy with a very thick Aussie accent prank called them and the police while introducing himself as me.

>Why not attack an organisation that is "more evil" ?

I can do both, although I'm hardly "attacking" Linode. I'm simply pointing out their very poor track record, which is an indisputable fact.

Why advice folks away from a hosting provider that covers up known breaches for months? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845985

Or one that tells their employees to lie about breaches? https://imgur.com/sJd56AT

Or one that refused for years to spend a couple of minutes thinking about security, until it started to actually hurt their bottom line? As jsmthrowaway points out, Linode was aware of serious security issues for years and did exactly nothing to protect their customers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14572970
In my experience ssh works but tunneling over ssh does not. Not sure how they do that. Personally when I am there I only miss Google for programming issues. It is terribly inefficient to use something else imho.
So does this mean that quantum computing will become more viable? Since in quantum computing, calculations are accomplished by measuring the spin of an electron, I would imagine this would increase the throughput to a measurement instrument since this is allowing one electron to pass at a faster pace. While electron measurement instruments still need to be advanced significantly, I would imagine an innovation like this would further advance the reality of true quantum computing. Is this an accurate assessment?
This looks really interesting. I'm fascinated by gender dichotomy and how different my experiences would be with just a different chromosome.
I personally like the progressive unreadability of downvoted posts, the semantics are perfect. If for some reason I'm curious about what they say (normally triggered by some answer) then I do the mouse select thing to read them.

The Ask HN makes no sense.
Judge allows lawsuit on life-ending drugs for terminally ill
Cloudflare CTO here. I'll look into this. Doesn't make sense we'd charge you for traffic we filtered out.
So we're just waiting for Sufficiently Smart Car Software, is what you're saying?

That sounds speculative.
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... and my point was, probably no they cannot.
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I'll add to mcbit's excellent description that there's also advantages in verification. Passes on a simple, intermediate language can more easily be equivalence-checked by symbolic (eg KLEE) or formal (eg VeLLVM) methods to ensure the transformations didn't break the program somehow. So, you get piles of people contributing optimizations plus potential improvements in verifying they work.

https://klee.github.io/

http://www.pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir/ucklee-cav-2011.pdf

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/vellvm/
Even if there was no risk of botulism, attempting to make alcohol from potatoes and wild microbes sounds like a bad idea in any case. Yeast can't ferment starch directly, so you'd need some other microbe to ferment it to sugars first. Eg. to make sake, rice is fermented by koji (Aspergillus oryzae) to sugars, and then yeast further ferments it to alcohol. You almost certainly have wild yeasts floating about nearby, but it's less likely that there's something that will convert the starch to sugars effectively. You could easily end up with chunks of rotting potato and no extra alcohol from them.
It's definitely true in San Francisco, where much of the library literally reeks from all the homeless people. Many of them do seem to be using it, though I'm sure plenty come in just to use the bathrooms, rest, or sleep.
You can support Wikileaks and it's goals, and still know Assange is a scumbag.
I think you'd also need to redefine the meter and second to speed up light. Unfortunately, the footnote specifies that we can expect only "major changes in the kilogram, ampere, kelvin, and mole" in the new SI 2018, so it seems we'll have to wait for the release after that.

On the bright side, the changes to the kilogram might begin to address the obesity crisis.
Brasília for some time is trying to be less dependent on the government to grow, but I doubt it will be successful in any economic sector outside of public one. The stadium built there for World Cup is the biggest shame and example that GP is right.

Anyway, the assessment of building a capital to escape its population is correct regardless.
I find these tools to be really useful in evaluating designs and emphasizing to stakeholders where designs fall according to standards:

- http://www.checkmycolours.com/

- https://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html#fg=33...

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edit: adding extra lines to get proper line breaks
See this is why people die. I had no idea of this danger and was just thinking the other day of making a garlic-infuses oil.
Analyst: Apple is cornering the market for VR laser tech
I did not know this existed. Thank you very much!
I can't speak for Tesla. But I have a newest generation VW with lane assist. And lots of road construction sites in my area, where the normal white lanes markers are "overridden" with some yellow lane markers, which are narrower and often also take different pathes. Once I'm inside a yellow lane and drive straight it halfway works and the lane assist keeps that lane. However on the first position where the lanes depart (e.g. normal white lane goes straight, but yellow lane turns left to change over to other side of the road) the car has not really an idea what to do and mostly follows the wrong lane --> Without manual intervention a crash in these conditions would be guaranteed.
Would a fidget spinner spin forever in space?
A simple RF transmitter in new versions of the existing reflector discs would do it.

It wouldn't need to do anything but "ping", the battery could last for years. You could even have a mechanism to disable it when the lines are repainted, though normally roads that use the existing version of these reflectors would have them removed when moving lines.

The transmitter would have to be powerful enough to go through a small amount of snow in some states.

The question is can we get the car companies to agree on a standard for this? Would it make sense to put it in the frequency range allocated for vehicle radar systems?

What we get instead is an attempt to define the whole system de jure, including full V2V protocols and specifications.
Couldn't parts of it be turned into condo's or offices? Wouldn't it be a pretty iconic (desirable) place to live/work?
How about an alternative Chormium-based browser (which is not Chrome)? Anyone tried this?
High Sugar environments too
Have you been back to the library as an adult and looked around at what people are doing there? As a child I only ever noticed ragged looking folks at the library, but that's because I was a child. Nowadays I notice all the people on computers. Shoulder surfing them (yeah, yeah) and it looks like a lot of them are taking care of business online that I would normally do at home on my own computer. Finding information, job applications, some gaming, etc. Also the library helps people file their taxes and learn how to interact with local government and vote. This is all on top of the more traditional functions you'd expect at a stereotypical library. I never noticed any of this as a kid, but I definitely notice it as an adult.

You're going to see more homeless people in a library that is located in an area with a lot of homeless people. They can congregate in the library where it's climate controlled and there are bathrooms as well as something to do (books to read). That's pretty common in larger cities.

Some libraries I've frequented also have spaces for hosting public events and also maker spaces for folks who can't afford access to such things on their own. It's really a great thing to see.
That is Tesla's existing track record, yes. How far they can improve on a given sensor platform is the unknown part.
These would also apply to Lane Departure Warnings present on more and more cars each model year.
The claims I was referring to are highly inaccurate:

1. shadowsocks is a good example that certain vpn/proxy can survive after becoming popular.
2. GFW blocks sites/pages/connections based on content, it has been doing this for more than a decade. whether shadowsocks can fool GFW or not doesn't change the nature of GFW.
You can even do React with JSX this way (but please still build for production systems): https://gist.github.com/guscost/27736c5f0913184695492ac40fd3...
Western Union is really good as a reliable indicator that a transaction is a scam.
I can only speak for the Detroit and Los Angeles/Santa Monica/Beverly Hills library systems but I can say the overwhelming majority of people using the public computer terminals are the elderly, homeless, and poor.

In the Southern California area, it provides a respite from the unrelenting sun and stifling heat during the day. In addition, it is one of the few venues that provides a source of entertainment for those who could not otherwise afford it.

I don't know if this is still true, but part of my education involved taking quarterly trips to the library where we were taught how to properly research a topic and how to determine if a source is credible or not.
I will communicate cryptographically with people using C, so no.
Not if they are sung by Katy Perry!
So you think humanity has a primary right to bank accounts?
You want to force private entities (banks) to work with an obviously unreliable subset of the population? How do you prevent money laundering if you can't reasonably identify your clients?

What exactly is your solution?
There's a serious problem with Twitter's account security
New poll of rural Americans shows deep cultural divide with urban residents
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That's certainly what it looks like. They told developers to "talk to us" if the change is a problem. I opened a support ticket immediately, but haven't yet heard back. I'm sure the people at ObDev have done the same.
Yes, it is pretty hard. The article is largely about foods that are not made in boiling water or pressure canners. The Underground Meats HACCP plan is not simply "10 minutes at boiling temperatures".
Similar story here. I didn't completely tank my GPA due to solar racing (Rose-Hulman, ASC2001) but it certainly didn't do it any favors. None of that mattered though as the practical engineering skills I gained far outshined anything academic on my resume.
Actually, he did a show interview in the embassy, where the prosecutors weren't allowed to ask direct questions.
What platform, out of interest?
You absolutely can make garlic oil; you just shouldn't hold it for very long.

There are techniques you can use to make long-holding garlic oil, too. The simplest is to make mojo, which is garlic oil acidified with lime juice. But there are also techniques to directly acidify the garlic without drastically modifying the flavor.

Garlic infuses fast, so an even simpler strategy is just to make it the day you're planning to use it.
Airlines Grapple with Potential Challenges of Broader Laptop Ban
Macron documents weren't released by WikiLeaks, or are we talking some other leak from him?

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/macron-email-hack-french-elect...
I really wish Sweden hadn't caved to what was presumably US pressure back in the 60s and halted the nuclear weapons program.

a) As a nation we are responsible enough to handle this kind of responsibility.

b) The leftist leanings here have meant that a NATO membership has not been a possibility, at least not so far.

c) The island of Gotland as well as parts of mainland Sweden is a well-known target of Russia.

Saab even designed a delivery vehicle for the bomb (interestingly enough even the then CEO of Saab had no idea of the existence of this project while it was being made): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_36

All of the above means that when there's semi-decent excuse for Russia (like som close-by regional war, most likely), they can just snap us up like a breakfast snack. Nations that have nuclear weapons don't face this kind of oppurtunity-based crime.
Physical activity... was not related to telomere status.

Other studies say the opposite:

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/09/108886/lifestyle-changes-m...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2581416/

http://www.edinformatics.com/news/exercise_and_aging.htm
two German revolutions, one probably okay/good, while the other one was a total disaster for the entire humanity. with this in mind, I'd probably argue that revolution is bad in general.

I do agree that it is always good for some political speculators.
Mathematicians deliver formal proof of Kepler conjecture, open for 300 years
And you are excusing his reprehensible personal behavior because of those contributions. Contributions that could be made by Wikileaks staffers without his presence.
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Replying to myself here but a pet peeve of mine (and all CDNs do this to some extent) is showing "improved" performance on something like... the Pingdom website tester (?) which is a one shot page and asset fetch.

There's really no valid metric that can be derived from a one shot test. Just because the 2nd run with the magic on is "faster" doesn't mean anything. Hundreds of variables could have changed between runs.

Most people use monitoring systems that run synthetics every minute and those are reasonable for an "overview" of trends, but they also don't show you the worst case times that are happening between runs.

If you start getting more granular and monitoring at 5 or 10 second intervals you get to see more real world response times.

On something like CloudFlare the averages (without Argo) are really good, but the max and standard deviation is very high. Hard to beat for $200/month but when you start paying per Gb you should start testing other providers.
Wow, as a user I don't care all that much about any of that.

I expect many users will feel the same, so developers will keep making apps for them.
...and they are an "unreliable subset of the population" because...???
Portland people interested, it just happens to be screening at the Hollywood tonight.
"who's activities include distributing the Linux kernel via kernel.org. They represent a particularly juicy target for nation-state actors"

If they really cared, they wouldn't host it on Linux. It would be OpenBSD or something with every software measure possible on read-only storage that admin physically replaces. That's just to start with. It's good that the author is taking measures but it gets amusing how much risk they keep on distribution side when you bring up nation-states going after them. Most big ones have 0-days for Linux systems anyway. They just use them in a targeted fashion to get more ROI from them. China can probably hit anyone working for Linux Foundation if they wanted to outside some really, paranoid setups that might exist.

They just don't since they don't care about them. They're 100% unimportant to Chinese intelligence. What is important is the source code of the kernel and privileged software which are freely available. If anything, letting Linux development and distribution continue is a good thing for Chinese intelligence since developers add features (and vulnerabilities) more than do code audit on a project whose source is available to the black hats. Makes Chinese spies' jobs so much easier. :)
It's possible on average red meat does improve it, but there is also a global optimum with 0 red meat when you get to be in your late ages.
I found this site to hurt my eyes and left me with really bad after images. It's dusk here and I haven't turned the lights on yet, maybe that is why, but I really prefer mild contrast when reading or I end up having striped after images and floaters become very noticeable.

Maybe the nice looking sites aren't so bad, and people who disagree can just override the settings (very easy in browsers), like has been possible since windows 3.1.
Not sure how well that Holacracy movement is doing for them

http://fortune.com/zappos-tony-hsieh-holacracy/

https://qz.com/849980/zappos-is-struggling-with-holacracy-be...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/zappos-...
Yeah, food safety is a bit of a mine field. Other common foods to watch out for are improperly cooked beans and green potatoes.
I quoted a source for my claim, imperfect though it may be. Can you support your assertion?