skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Let me make it very clear: fusion is, if you simply look at the carbon dioxide goals we have, fusion would be too late to bring those carbon dioxide emissions down at the rate that we need. If renewables do the job, fusion could become part of a network of dispatchable power generation units. However, if renewables don’t do the job, fusion will be too late to prevent serious damage. In that scenario, we would find ourselves in a bad situation for a period of time that extends beyond when the first fusion reactors come on line."

This quote is so telling on the limits of technology. So many people think of fusion as a technological miracle that can save the world. Here we have a man telling the world that we're fucked if we just sit on our asses waiting for this miracle.
Not necessarily. IMO, she proposes a specific way of "thinking" about the paper's content (I use another approach [1]). Papers are written following a certain structure because many people think it's a better way of presenting the ideas in detail/with the necessary rigor (that's what other "scientists" in the field would expect). For example, no researcher expects a five-sentence summary of the background. Personally, I expect an explanation of the relevant concepts/techniques and some sort of analysis of how existing work relates to the paper (instead of a list of related papers). At least in software engineering, many papers state the research questions explicitly, i.e., they would be identified if you read the paper from beginning to end. They tend to have a "results" section as well, so summarizing the results myself would be an intellectual exercise. Once you understand how papers are usually structured, you pick up on many of those things as you go (I mean, as you simply read the paper as the author intended).

On a side note, I'd say that many researchers don't do a good job of conveying their ideas clearly (it gets worse with conference presentations). It won't really matter in what order you try to read their papers.

[1] http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/p...
FYI to Sysadmins: Paying the ransom at this point will be a waste of money, as the contact e-mail address has been blocked.

https://posteo.de/blog/info-zur-ransomware-petrwrappetya-bet... (German)

https://posteo.de/en/blog/info-on-the-petrwrappetya-ransomwa... (English)
Yep, forced updates + NSL = they don't need 0days anymore.
Fair enough. One use case I could think of for this is testing games for long periods on Android, and use this tool to find out where the bottleneck is if there is any. Though given that this is designed for long running apps I can see that it wouldn't be useful for quick profiling but rather for production testing (QA stage etc). There's something similar to that already called Gamebench but it isn't as detailed as this, so was keen on knowing whether this tool would make it to Android :)
> The profits generated can then be used to attract even more consumers.

Wut?
it will be less toxic, but probably tastes awful.
> But the potential of the end goal might be enough to keep people working on it perpetually.

Working on it perpetually, you say? If only we could somehow harness that energy...
I think you're in agreement with meddlepal. The idea is that if you want to do AOT, it would be nice to be able to minimize how much of the JRE you need to link in (via help from the module system).
While that's true, the OP's solution is one way to help promote thicker stems if your lighting is sub-par. E.g. more light is best, but failing that for some reason (budget, space, whatever), stimulating the stems is a reasonable backup.
Totally into this! I've been wanting to start open-source Fridays to coordinate open-source contributions from multiple companies, but haven't had the staff to make it realistic yet. I have held the org github.com/opensourcefridays which may be redundant but I can offer it for non-githubbers if that helps!

I've always felt '20% time' is like 'unlimited vacation', there should be a mandatory minimum to make it truly effective.
Do remember IR can damage your (and other's) retina even though it can be hard to see.
> but when it comes down to it I think CBP are far more reasonable than they are given credit for because of the crappy environment it happens in

I don't think this is true. The circumstances/environment are the same but compare entering America to entering any other country.

No country but America has ever fingerprinted me, searched my luggage, detained me in a small room with no explanation for 3 hours, forced the departing airport to search me again after security (on 3 separate but consecutive flights to the US, months apart) or made me spend more than ~10 minutes in a line waiting to get through security or immigration. America has done all of these things.
Uhm, glyphosate doesn't affect pollinators.[1] It's an herbicide. And drift that reduces "critical forage"? That's not even part of the glyphosate controversy. Glyphosate either works on a plant or it doesn't. Where you're killing your neighbor's plants by drift, you're going to get a citation or sued or both.

[1] https://goo.gl/lGpC1k
Practice of employee ownership as a business model?
This is going to sound a bit conspiracy theory but here goes...

I was looking at the highlights of the EU competition commission[0]. Is it just me or is there a theme (with a few exceptions) that runs something like:

+ Large US company XXX gets anti-trust fine.
+ EU company gets state aid approved.
+ rinse and repeat

Maybe it's just a coincidence but I wonder what the P&L for the Competition Commission looks like given that fines go to the EU not to the aggrieved parties.

As an EU citizen, it's nice that the Commission is working hard to reduce my tax bill but I do wonder if this is entirely neutral.

[0] http://ec.europa.eu/competition/news_en.html
If they want to make it in Brooklyn, those electrons better be vegan and cold brewed with optional avocado.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14645452.

There's nothing wrong with this submission per se, but because there is already an active discussion about this topic on the front page, we had to mark it as a dupe.

Edit: actually, since you used a spam service to buy upvotes, we've banned both you and your site. This is obviously a capital offense on HN.

All: I hope everyone realizes that when you do this you leave obvious traces in the data.
> So, I guess you also hate zip files too?

No because ZIP files serve a completely different purpose so require a different workflow.

> You didn't double click the app icon - you double clicked the container that contains the app you are about to open or move/install to your apps folder. I think the drag and drop approach to installing apps is as easy as it gets.

Having a dialog walk you through the install is clearly requires less steps and less prior knowledge than having to teach the user they just opened a container and not an app (how would they know this?) and that they have to drag and drop to install.

Have you tried installing an APK file on Android? You get asked if you want to install it and you're done.
So, how do I get my page into the carousel without using Google’s cache?

How do I get my page into the carousel when using a fork of AMP that reduces the JS load?
Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/974/
Looks great -- excited to try it out.
Ah, I learned first going to normal classes and for me the experience was the exact opposite. Now I'm doing a lot of memorization, since it's one of the pillars for learning a language that I was lacking. I recommend trying to do both at the same time, but the good thing about learning a lot of vocabulary and some grammar is that you can start reading on your own and then learn while having fun. I am reading Yotsubato for example, which is widely recommended for beginners.
Yeah, I think the important thing is that the candidate should not have to "read the interviewer's mind" when it comes to what style of question is being asked.

Unfortunately, this can also occur because the interviewer isn't clear on their own goals in the first place. They asked the question before really knowing what data points they want to come away with.
How Facebook's growth team got it to two billion users
An educational co-op is a completely different concept from what is described here. Work/school co-op means a student does paid full-time work while still enrolled in a degree program (e.g. a semester off). What is described in this article just refers to a worker-owned consultancy.
That's just a sales pitch to have companies (proactively) push their current prices to Tweakers. Where do you see anything about paid listing there?
>The last thing I want is to search for some product on Google and get a list of search results pages from other companies as a response instead of a listing of the products I'm actually searching for.

The OP isn't talking about Google linking to 'search results pages', but link to the actual product itself. You're already in agreement with them, so stop arguing :)

The only problem here is that Google seems to think that its mission is to setup a tollbooth on the internet rather than indexing information and just responding to search queries.

>According to the line from Google you quoted above, most of their users disagree with you on that. I'm one such user.

An advertising company says "Our users think our ads are awesome" - You'll have to excuse the people who don't take that seriously.
That is how I learned English and I totally agree! However in Japanese he way women and men speak is quite different, so I've been told several times that some expressions were "wrong" for me to use.
1. Because solenoid valves that can work with a very low pressure differential (a few feet worth of gravity often isn't enough to "force open" the valve) are expensive and require higher power draw than an Arduino / RPi. If you already need an external power source, might as well go with a pump. A pump is going to be a more consistent flow rate, and thus easier to control.

2. Generally not; a plant's water consumption is not steady over its lifetime.

I eventually moved on to hydroponics. Soil is just too "analog" for most of this stuff to work. Hydroponic kits are available on Amazon for cheap, though the main measurement you end up doing with hydroponics is pH measurement -- and I am not aware of any "hands off" sensors capable of accurate pH measurement that are remotely affordable.
Cold and hot callbacks
Not sure if they have an app, but the "minna no nihongo" books I had at university in Japan when I was there for a semester (10+ years ago) taught with contextual scenarios, as you said.
"That's the joke."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk

The comment you are replying to is showing by way of parallel to Microsoft that this polemic from Google is an absurd defense: your entire comment is something I would imagine the person you are replying to agrees with, which is precisely why they made the comment they did, as it demonstrates in a visceral way how absurd it is to be trying to give Google a free pass just because their product is useful.

You seem to be going around this thread making the same mistake in multiple contexts, such as when you replied to me in this other linked thread, which makes me wonder if you are paying much attention before commenting :/.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14646976
Couldn't you just pump co2 out of the atmosphere if you had sufficient energy/money ?
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could be said about your side as well ... almost all anti gmo/glyphosphate arguments can be traced back to sources with a financial interest in spreading fear about our food supply.
I'm confused why Apple hasn't pushed for a simple default installer that most downloaded apps use then. It adds to user confusion as well when installers behave differently.
You're implying that from March 14, 2000, Windows was very secure.

I think you're getting this backwards. If you say 2017, you and your children-comments' dates will be covered, because they are before March 14 2017.
It's not exactly what you're looking for, but I've always been fond of Raymond Chen's "What if two programs did this?" thought experiment:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050607-00/?p=...
I don't think there's much substance, to read this.

If anything it almost seems like this company is "Enron"-ing its way into a middle man rent collector role without doing much of note.
The EU law on cookies is specifically about tracking cookies, not first-party cookies.

See http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm#se...
Electrons travel way slower than the energy they transfer. Also, the grid provides alternating current, so the electrons never travel more than a few inches.

So if you want to know where your electrons come from, well, they all come from the wiring in your house.
This is basically hydroponics. And by "basically" I mean "exactly". Replace the soil with an inert, porous medium like hardened clay. And if you aerate the water with say, an aquarium pump/stone, you don't even need to drain it...
Wasm is basically a VM so we're going to see a lot of sites that look more like operating systems than HTML... For better or worse.
How to Build a Real Estate Website Using Ember.js
> In Java, private/protected functions/fields are mostly only a compile time check.

Indeed, with reflection you can mutate member properties... I taught myself [this trick](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10638826/java-reflection...) right away. You can also disable reflection via security policy, which would forbid that access with an exception.
That would take a FIB (Focused Ion Beam) workstation. Very expensive. Christopher Tarnovsky has one and has used it to hack a bunch of TPM chips and smart cards. It's very impressive, especially since some of what he does is done while the chip is powered on...

Delidding isn't brain surgery. Removing and bypassing (depositing new metal to form wires / cutting old connections with the ion beam) a mesh, then probing and decrypting the data bus is much closer. And even then, if you mess up you grab a new chip, with brain surgery you can't just get another patient.

As someone who's had brain surgery, I'm very, very glad brain surgeons don't often mess up!
not everyone is developing microservices.
Parabolic reflective solar cookers are fairly easy to build:

http://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/how-to-build-a-solar-cook...

If you do some research, you'll find a ton more examples. When I was around 11 years old, as part of a "science project" I built a small solar cooker to cook hotdogs with. I built a linear parabolic reflector (so that the focus was a line, instead of a spot), and placed the hotdog on this line using a skewer (a straightened piece of coathanger wire). It worked rather well.

The most efficient solar cookers, though, are solar ovens. As an adult, I've built ones using cardboard and tinfoil and cooked rice, beans, and made cornbread. You usually can't get them above 100 C (because of boiling and the vapor lowering the effective temperature inside), but if you can keep them properly oriented to the sun over hours, and keep the inner temp high enough, the oven can act as a very effective slow cooker for all kinds of food.

The trick with either one (concentrator or oven) is making them portable (easier with a concentrator - but it is possible to do it with an oven, too - if you change the design a bit). Check out some of the DIY plans out there; you'll be surprised at what is possible.
As a java dev, I'm not sure Jigsaw helps in any way. Tooling has pretty much solved the classpath management issue. What would've been awesome is if modules were version aware, and code was allowed to depend on different versions of the same module, but that's not the case.

Now the private access thing is really being pushed by the java maintainers. They want the luxury to refactor internals without breaking anyone, so they want to make it so everything non public is 100% inaccessible in all contexts to users. I don't know that I agree with this necessarily. Especially now, the problem is they already shot themselves in the foot by allowing reflection on them in the past, so changing it back would break a lot of code for a lot of people.
We are measuring both, individual profiler overhead when active (printed by the agent in debug mode) and total CPU and memory overhead of the app running over long periods of time with and without agent.
ClojureScript 1.9.660 released
Strange. Volvo previously partnered with Uber for this cause. Cold feet?

https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...
Yeah, instead it's like: "Here's an interesting question that I like because I feel I already understand it well. Let's see what they do with it, and then I'll go with whatever gut feeling I end up with. This is easy, I'm a good interviewer."
Oops: Microsoft's “Super-Secure” Windows 10 S Hacked in 3 Hours
So I briefly scanned this paper.

"The results show that our modeling and portfolio construction method are effective and they provide a quantitative methodology for venture capital investment."

I really can't find evidence for this statement anywhere in the paper.

This paper seems to conflate a prescriptive model with a descriptive model. A prescriptive model would be more focused on the data and less on the formal mathematical model. It would also be actually useful. It looks like they came up with an interesting way to model the portfolio selection problem, but it will simply not provide a "quantitative methodology" for VC investment as they claim. It's perplexing why that sentence was allowed in this paper.

If you are a VC could you extract anything that is useful and non-trivial from this paper? I doubt it.
Everyone would notice a nuclear attack. NSA exploiting vulnerabilities to their own ends, not so much.
How do you treat a dog with OCD?
"Any approach that you think will take a half hour is the wrong approach."

Unless the interviewers haven't given much thought themselves. "Hey Joe, we have to interview a guy in 20 min. and I can't remember where are those damn interview questions. Gather up a few for me, will ya?"
Passive cooling techniques in Southeast Asia: A literature review
Rise of ARM: First Windows 10 PC Running Snapdragon 835 Chip Demonstrated
Aide is a popular utility to monitor for changes to files on Linux systems.

http://aide.sourceforge.net

You could also use the built in audit subsystem if you wanted to watch a specific canary file, directory, filesysyem, etc.
https://www.linux.com/learn/customized-file-monitoring-audit...
No, I just know how to read an abstract.
Ask HN: What primarily drives you upvote something on HN?
For me it's generally a 'I like this, I want this to exist, I want it to do well, I want more of this in the world' or 'I support this, I want this message/content to get more reach'

If you've thought about it and observed yourself as you vote, what is it for you?
The Scribe's Oath (Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin)
I disagree with your argument that we should push back on policy intervention for glyphosate, because it might be non-carcinogenic to humans or it compares more favorably against another chemical in our food. My comments were other reasons why it may be dangerous. Considering it's one of the most-used common chemicals in the US, the standard for this usage must be very high.
redbutton?
It's a good way to preemptively color the reader's perception of your comment. Makes you seem more reasonable and knowledgeable when you seemingly recognize the controversial nature of what you're saying, even if it isn't actually that controversial at all. It's a commonly-seen tactic on reddit.
This seems highly plausible to me. The polishing wouldn't even need to be intentional, just a bunch of people taking good care of their equipment could create the effect.
Do Androids Watch Videos of Electric Sheep? How Bots React to Web Video
I agree with you. To put it simply, papers are optimized for the scientific community and making them "more accessible" to outsiders has a cost. I'd settle for better writing and presentations within the scientific community for now. If you ever find researchers that blog about their research in simple terms, I think it's safe to assume they're using their personal time to do that (I know of very few; Andy Ko [1] comes to mind).

[1] https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior
Why? It’s exactly what the average user expects. They see a site, with some message on top. Be it a cookie warning, the AMP header, etc.

They click the X or OK on the message, the message disappears, the site stays.

If you can find a website where the cookie warning’s X button redirects to your last Google search, please do so.
OK, how about some independent user reviews or something? Do you know a place where the service is being discussed? Couldn't find anything on the web with a quick search by the company name...
JavaScript Testing: From 0 to 80% Code Coverage
Commonly? 2,4-D is a selective herbicide, and glyphosate is not. In most circumstances, adding 2,4-D to glyphosate would be burning money. And if you're going to target broadleafs, you would not, of course, add glyphosate. They're rarely used together. And even if they were commonly mixed, is your argument really that the carcinogenicity of one should be attributed to the other?
"Your strange theory, that the economical damage is unavoidable to improve security will break down hard if those 0days are used by terrorists for the first time"

It's not a "strange theory", it's the literal reason: NatSec is not a strange theory, it's the stated reason by multiple administrators and officials for why this behavior occurs.

Plus, how much economic damage was mitigated by using zerodays against terrorists and foiling their plots?

What if they used a zero day and prevented a 9/11 size 3000 person, multi-billion-dollar terrorist attack?

To suggest that the needle is at 0 and any negative use makes the entire NatSec angle bad is very naive, because any successful NatSec use that has succeeded is classified and we're not privy.

So we don't know the score, and we certainly can't claim that the score favors one side after any particular event...

But, keep this in mind, Israeli hackers compromised an ISIS computer and were keeping tabs on plots including a plot to weaponize laptop batteries, up until DJT burned the source by outing the Israeli op to Russians.

So the idea that zero days aren't in active use seeing results against terrorists is very naive, I believe.
Fair enough. I mean to say: we should push back on policy interventions based on marginal hypothetical cancer risks.
Are these apps under load? Is there really only a 1% difference when running apache-bench or seige on the applications?
In an AC power grid, which is what all city scale power grids are these days, there is NO net movement of electrons in the wire. The electron that just went into your "light bulb" will pop out the same wire (not the other) a moment latter without actually reaching the light emitting part. Thus accounting for where the electrons come from is complete nonsense.

The field travels at nearly the speed of light, but there is no movement there.
I wrote a summary of a Coursera course, which I highly recommend, " Learning How to Learn " and a book " Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World ". You can find the first draft here https://goo.gl/mfNhp1