skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's doubtful we'd send people to Mars as a one-way trip (though some regard that as a reasonable cost-cutting measure). The day-night cycle is almost the same. We don't know what extended time in ~40% gravity would be like, but people have lived for an extended time in zero G, which is a much more extreme change. Sailors on submarines have survived in tight quarters without natural sunlight or wide-open spaces for extended periods of time.

I think you're thinking of a trip to Mars in the most pessimistic terms possible: a small team of explorers with no return trip and they live out the rest of their days in a tiny RV buried under the Martian soil and totally dependent on Earth for supplies and entertainment and no possibility of meeting anyone new.

Consider a different possibility: a smallish community growing into a large community by periodic waves of immigration and shipments of equipment needed to establish self-sufficient infrastructure. Ships travel back and forth, so trips are possible. Living and working spaces are small at first, but are constantly being expanded by continuous construction. You can live and work with interesting people on an ambitious project to establish a permanent human presence in a hostile environment.

We don't really know which of these alternatives is going to be a more accurate description of the situation presenting itself to the first Martian settlers, but we'll have a good idea which it's going to be before sending anyone. And if it looks like it's going to be a miserable experience and way too expensive, well, we can wait another decade or so and let the technology mature.
I'm still sore about Google Reader. I haven't found another reader that has quite found the right UX to replace it.
They have an AI now that guarantees no subtle flaws in the C code.
What do you mean by "fake news"?

Is it yellow journalism? Right propaganda, left propaganda? Articles from the perspective of the skeptics, from the alt-right, Neo-Nazi's, communists, cultural Marxists or from radical feminists? Something else?
>I'm an open source guy only as much as it makes sense.

That means you're not really an open source guy. You're just using whatever is best on the market at the time.
News will get to me. I need to proactively seek entertainment. I would rather pay for entertainment than news.

Though of course i am a public radio funder.
> Unix got its start as a volunteer project with no organizational recognition from Bell Labs, and Linus Torvalds started working on Linux as a hobby.

I'm not Richard Stallman, but I consider it worth mentioning the middle steps of GNU and the GPL that gave the hobby a useful endpoint.
As a 6'8" guy (with long thigh bones) you are making a minor problem out to be a major one. Yes, we have to splay our legs a little bit but I have no problem doing long haul flights in economy.

What exactly is causing you this great discomfort? Personally the act of sitting down for so long is far more painful than anything my height causes.
I really like this comment. It's almost a mini sci-fi novel.

Plus it has insights.

Although the splinternet is huge. You have the Koreans and Japanese who have (had?) huge mega networks outside of "the general part" kept at bay by language and cultural reasons. But these walls wills fall and the one who does it will make a mint.
Feels like the elephant in the room for the description is not once mentioning Futures but instead jumping straight to using async / await keywords and the actor model.

As evidenced by C#, you can't avoid leaking the type signature of async operations if you actually support generic programming- so while that's a nice ergonomics improvement, it only adds complexity to the actual concurrency model. Go enthusiasts out there will appreciate that go solves this by refusing to support PROGRAMMABLE generic abstractions at all (looking at you, channels and map).

Referencing the actor model and making it first class is interesting, but probably a mistake. Actors are hard to reason about because they're so flexible. Pony is a good recent attempt at combining static types with actors, bit they didn't put performance into the "non-goals" section of their language spec.

If you want task level concurrency and you want it to play nice with your type system, you have to start with Scala and work backward to the alternative implementation choices you're going to make because it checks all the boxes of all the "goals" and ALSO has a very mature actor model implementation that doesn't require promoting actors to keyword status in the language.
Yeah–I was trying to find out what the difference to "good faith" is, and from a bit of googling, it appears to be an attempt to sell the old concept with a new name?

I somehow prefer "good faith", even though it's meaning is harder to parse when you first hear it. The 'faith' does a better job of hinting at the emotional component of the concept.
Didn't Google invent this watermark defeating mechanism? So they're proposing protection against an attack they created?
Why Study the Classics?
That is incorrect, and I respectfully disagree. You're half-way there. Hate speech is protected speech. Incitement of violence is completely different from hate speech, and it is absolutely illegal. Consider the following scenarios:

1) Standing up and saying "I hate black people. I wish they would all die."
2) Standing up and saying: "I hate black people, if you see them, kill them."

There's a clear difference here. The first is speech, an opinion, not directing action, advocating for violence, or to break a law. I say that's protected, as distasteful as it may be. The second is clearly criminal, and illegal. It is speech, but it is directing violence, and a law to be broken. That is the incitement of violence and a crime.
I don't think that's the argument free speech advocates are making.

The argument is that facebook/twitter as well as some of these other platforms cloudflare/app stores, etc are a form of speech & they have a somewhat debateable stronghold on facilitating speech.

So, when they deny speech to a specific group of people, they're not just denying service, but denying speech.

The argument is debateable, but that is why people are upset, not that they don't think companies can act however they like towards their customers.
The former!
Yes, conditions for the web as an open publication platform are rapidly deteriorating. This has major implications for everything that's changed during the PC revolution, not just political speech.

EDIT: Welp, this is the last comment from me for a while. HN's anti-thoughtcrime metering, which was activated on my account when I shared the illegal opinion that Kubernetes is not always a good thing to use for your production server infrastructure (n.b., HN is invested in Docker, and closely associated with Google), has kicked in to prevent me from sharing any more dangerous sentiments like "If you make a censorship-resistant network, don't let the people who have recently been censored know about it."

I look forward to the next five hours of watching every comment that isn't "Great! Delete everything I hate!" drop into the grey, and watching replies to my comments without being able to engage in the conversation. Very fishy stuff going on at HN recently. Source: user for 3315 days.
With the oligarchy in Russia being what it is, it's not a stretch to think that any large company based in Russia is a proxy for the government. At the very least, the executives of that company could be pressured by the state security apparatus.

Pretty much anyone with money in Russia crosses the Putin government at their own peril. There are numerous cases of Russian billionaires in opposition to Putin losing their companies to supposedly trumped-up charges of tax evasion and subsequently dying in jail under suspicious circumstances.
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The issue is that the cost increase is not proportional.

If you go from an Economy Basic seat to a Economy Plus seat I'll pay 125% more. Meaning a $39 seat now costs $90. Does it cost over 100% more to fly an over six foot person than a five foot eight person? No...
In their defence, Mozilla has done a lot of work to fix these issues, and Chrome really isn't that much better.

I'm on FF 57 at the moment (nightly) and it's stupid fast. Like, really fast.
Intriguing. I always assumed it had to do with greater alcohol strengths anesthetizing the taste buds.
Thanks, this is the kind of stuff I was looking for.

BTW, I looked a bit at FaunaDB pricing. If I understood corectly, 1 mil requests costs $10.

In Cosmos DB, also if I understood corectly, 1 month of 400 req/second, so 400 x 86400 x 30 ~= 1 billion requests costs $25.

I don't know much about FaunaDB, and very likely you can't compare things the way I did, for once, Cosmos DB has separate storage costs which seems included in FaunaDB, spikes in usage require extra provisioning in Cosmos, but it's still a 3 orders of magnitude pricing difference. I'm not saying you're not worth it.
I think you have: it's pretty fucking clear what information should and shouldn't need help to be distributed. These hosts of this site could throw their page up on a home computer right now and it would be widely accessible to whomever wanted to see it. Nobody's under any obligation to make it safe (SSL certs), convenient (domain registrars) or available (bombardment security), especially when it's something so abhorrent.

If you want to be a hateful little shit, go right ahead, but don't expect a helpful hand. That's the "plot" here, friend.
It's odd that, in this day and age of ubiquitous and cheap yet very good cameras, the owner or one of the employees didn't just take the photo themselves.
While it can be a little unclear what people mean, the Wikipedia take on threads is:

"Multiple threads can exist within one process, executing concurrently and sharing resources such as memory"

Whereas Erlang/Elixir processes don't share memory and have their own independent heaps and garbage collection.

Shared memory can lead to complicated effects if two threads try to change the same bit. You don't have that with Erlang processes.
Care to point one out in particular?
It is a trivially reimplemented mechanism. This is not an attack that needs Google scale to be feasible and just like videogames and DRM, once the "crack" exists the technical ability needed to exploit it approaches 0.
Can you please post your sources on what you are saying? I'm inclined to say that the opinion of this incident being "potentially from an accident" is extremely misguided.
That's how research works.
You act as if Google didn't just pay a multibillion dollar fine for violating a law based on censorship of certain shopping comparison websites.

SV is not beyond the power of governments, governments are just slow to catch up. For good reason.
I don't think there will be a general part once it gets splintered.
It will probably be like China except every nation state will have their own version with their own censorship.

The open web started dying with the great firewall.
Just because they legally are allowed censor speech doesn't mean that nobody is allowed to criticize them for it.
"Stop picking sides"

as opposed to picking the side that aren't Nazis?
Aside from what is already mentioned in other posts, there would be logistic concerns to enable downloading in a large scale.

By assuming the content will be watched by a human, they can throttle buffering to transfer only what's needed for human consumption, thus spreading out the network load.
To add to that argument, GAB, StormFront, and other websites and services like it have been around a LONG time. Since the internet began. Yet we are only now seeing a reaction from those platforms that host such content. Why? What made Gab and Stormfront ok two weeks ago, but not ok now? That's the hypocrisy that needs greater focus.
That's surprising to me. The physical phone keyboards I have used have require far too much activation pressure for me to type anywhere near as quickly as I do on an iPhone. I do think my error rate would be lower with a physical keyboard, and I could obviously type better without looking at my keyboard, but the former isn't enough of a difference and the latter isn't something I would need to do anyway except perhaps in very unusual circumstances.
The problem is glibc: https://github.com/lattera/glibc/blob/master/stdlib/exit.c

And by extension, the rather complex set of POSIX exit() semantics: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/exi...

Using something like musl should save you some bloat, or simply call "return 0;" instead of exit().
As someone who is fairly but not very tall and who admittedly travels enough to get Economy Plus anyway most of the time, it's hard for me to be too sympathetic beyond a "Yeah, it sucks" kind of way. Airlines do force people who are too wide to upgrade in some way (like buy an extra seat)--though I've had bad experiences when they haven't.

But people want cheaper tickets and companies have their rules. I'm not sure there are good solutions other than negotiate something with your company or shell out the extra cash.
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C is still the king in performance I believe. Linux still has assembly code apart from C for those crucial performant sections.

Remember if you are talking at the HW-level you don't have the luxury of libraries and I doubt Go/Rust would be of any help unless you build the ecosystem for it. Something like the implementation of coreutil binaries can benefit from Go/Rust but not the OS-code itself.
I'm almost 6'2" and I basically won't fly coach anymore. It's miserable. I'd rather not go. Now I'm in the rather fortunate position that with some planning I can fly in a premium cabin. Many are not.

For me legroom is one issue but a bigger one is width. I am wider than a standard domestic coach seat such that if fly in one I'm competing for armrests or I'm hanging out into the aisle or I'm sitting in an uncomfortable position of squeezing my arms in. It's incredibly unpleasant.

The biggest problem for most airlines (from my perspective) is that coach continues to shrink and the jump to business can be massive like from $300 to $2000. That's where Premium Economy and things like JetBlue's Even More Legroom are good.

But I will optimize to have a longer trip with a layover than fly direct to avoid this problem. For example, I'll fly on American's older 737s and 767s in "First" transcon via DFW or ORD for ~$1000 return rather than $500 in coach direct or $2000+ in business direct (both of the last two on the newer A321Ts).

Premium Economy is a mixed bag though. Cathay Pacific's is quite good (with some caveats). British Airways I hear is PE in name only (well, name and cost for some reason).

Still, lie flat business class, particularly on international long haul is hard to beat.
Yes you are underpaid in most other markets too.
...then they came for you, and you decided to sideload the app and go about your day?
American companies working on the "schedule your own time" model don't even necessarily close up shop during the week of Christmas, when well over 75% of the company takes vacation. Things are slow, but they're open.

Why is that "not any better" than the model where everyone wants to take vacation, but they're not allowed? It seems like an obvious improvement, whether you decide to close for the week or not.
Protected speech has nothing to do with private entities allowing you to use their platform to promote your message, it only curbs the government from prohibiting/punishing your speech.

So for example you have every right to wear a jean jacket in court that says "fuck the draft" and the government can't prohibit or punish you for it (famous 1st amendment case) but a church can have you removed for wearing an article of clothing that says "fuck the church". See public vs private. Alternatively the government can prohibit and punish (I.e. Criminalize) burning of draft cards, because such speech interferes with the public function; therefore, is not protected (another famous 1st amendment court case). And high schools can prohibit students from wearing armbands as a silent protest (I.e. Not protected speech), because the government has more powers than normal when they are the wards of minors (again another famous 1st amendment case).

And while hate speech may be protected, it can also be criminalized when used in conjunction with the commission of a crime and enhance the penalties of said crime.

Still none of this is applicable to private business, and you would probably be glad to know if you are a business owner you Wouldn't have to permit hate speech in your establishment.
> The main issue is safety and evacuation.

Considering the FAA refused to test if current seat pitch was safe during evacuation, until a judge forced them, safety has been ignored on this issue for a long time[0].

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/29/news/companies/faa-airline-s...
Sorry to comment twice on a thread...but after thinking more, I really feel this is a dangerous precedent. The internet has been largely dominated by a few companies. I'd go as far as to call them nearly ubiquitous. When these companies start pushing political views, and start banning or otherwise blocking dissent, it becomes dangerous. What if, in retaliation, farmers of the Midwest banned shipments to California? Sure they'd survive, but not as conveniently. This is how civil wars start, and I think the two sides should start recognizing this and not pandering to the loudest voice.
I can start a discussion about racism in the US by going on TV and yelling the n-word, that doesn't mean that I did a good job of opening a constructive dialogue.
Absolutely! We are all on the plantation. It's like i woke up one day and realized that free speech is gone. I despize the crap going on in the south. what scares me more is how our masters, fb, twtr, ggle, et,al., rationalize Orwellian tyranny.

Did anyone else see the "schizophrenic" letter written by the cloudflare CEO this morning? I dare a psychologist to read that wacko-mole CEO's letter and sign-off on a clean bill of health.

We are like fish in the sea who abruptly realize we're trapped in a fisherman's net. The free platforms that run our social infrastructure around are not free.

Gab, one of the more librertarian network/apps, was shot in the gut today by google. The first thing Gab sould do is hire a fire breathing trial attorney to file a lawsuite and go after google for antitrust offensives. This is opportunistic and preditory shrouded in SJW moral arrogance. Never let a good crisis go to waste, crush a competitor instead.
Splinternet. Wow, that is a very good point. The real scary part is when it gets super, super easy to get on the Darknet. When everything is highly encrypted, and those who want to wallow in hate can do so, to their hearts content, because they will be off into the ether on their own, without supervision, without oversight. Then the only recourse will be full and total government control over the internet. Outlandish as it may seem, it's possible.
Well, the national news wasn't filled with pictures of people marching in the open streets with nazi flags 10 years ago, for starters.
I have been having difficulty finding a good android phone that could replace the iPhone 5SE.

If I go apple again, I no longer have the ability to sync my phone, since my Mac died under a glass of wine and I "replaced" it with a Dell Precision 5520 running Arch because the MacBook Pro lineup was untenable.

I'd go apple again if I could actually backup,sync,etc my phone. It's a good device in isolation. But don't dare step out of the apple ecosystem.
Maybe this will change with tactile screens. Touch screen keyboards are the result of a severe underestimation of the importance of the human element in hardware design.
Unfortunately we have to test as if we were the average user of our websites, so we are not afforded that luxury!
This is essentially the same reasoning why other governments and their constituents shouldn't trust American tech companies. That's pretty well established thanks to some notable leaks.
Yes, but advocating for the (peaceful) establishment of entho-states is not. Even if it makes me think less of them.
I don't care for Android or IOS. Does anyone know of a phone that runs plain old Linux?
One of the things that still seems strange to me after living in Thailand many years is that life under a military dictatorship is so much better than in a "democracy" (evil quotes because the US doesn't seem like a real democracy to me). At least as long as you aren't someone the government decides to target for saying something they don't like. A western style democracy would probably be worse for the majority of people in Thailand. None of that changes the fact that the brutal oppression of free speech (15 years in prison for saying something considered disparaging to the monarchy is pretty brutal) should be rebuked harshly by any country that holds free speech as an important value.
I'm not sure if anyone can claim to be the market leader in liquid biopsy right now. If raising money is your metric for success, then Grail has raised $1B and has the backing of the world's leading DNA sequencing company (Illumina).
Winamp 5.1. The last great version of Winamp, released in 2005. After this version, they added lots of junk that reduced speed and usability.
I'm glad to see this at the top of HN.

If you aren't personally outraged by this, you should take a step back..try to be as objective as you possibly can...and consider what it really means.

We are watching the collapse of the First Amendment.

No matter how much we may hate what someone has to say, we should DEFEND the right for them to say it. That's a principle that makes this country what it is.

Somehow this power must be reigned in.
> hurrr nazis ps my worldview requires me to remain this uninformed

Hey did you hear that 13 people died to a jihadi truck in Barcelona today? How many Muslim websites did Google knock offline in response? Or Cloudflare? How many Muslim accounts did Facebook and Twitter shut down?

I'm sure they're all scurrying to do just that, now that The Gloves Are Off in The War on Hate. Let's just wait and see.
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I think you are better off if you assume self interest and you make sure that the self interest of others serves your self interest.
The only solution for a non-US citizen is to simply not travel to the US. This is far less of a loss than it seems to many; it's a large and fascinating world out there and there's many other wonderful places to visit instead.
I've been using this for a while. I like the fact that it stores dates/times of command executed. I plan to combine this with org-mode to quickly get a report of all shell commands executed while I was working on a specific task. Helps if I want to convert it into a guide/blog post.
Funny story, Lync[1] still exists. Actually it was an update to Skype for Business, at least on our systems at work.

I'm using it right this minute: http://imgur.com/a/qQ648

http://productgraveyard.com/products/lync.html
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Are you a baby boomer? You sound like a baby boomer. You're basically saying, "I don't see why all these poor people don't just get a good job."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15042346