skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Receivers can tell the process ID of the sender, so they can do security checks.

Does this run into security corner cases around pid reuse? (Or race conditions like a process dropping it's privileges after sending?) I remember the kdbus authors talking about making a lot of security metadata attach to the message itself, rather than indirecting through a pid, maybe for these reasons?
Spain in the 19th century tried to avoid that by massively increasing the ticket price (even now, it's still 200€ per full ticket). It didn't work, people just pooled their money and bought "shares" of a ticket.
Yeah ! Actually, Vitalik Buterin in conferences gives this precise example of crypto-lottery as a good example of what we could create with blockchain :)
Any way to narrow down the location further than the zip code? My zip code covers a large area touching the ocean, there's a dramatic weather difference between the coast and 5 miles inland.
Hey, thanks! This is exactly what I was asking from you and the fact that these points remain in your mind despite being distant memories makes your reply particularly interesting.

(What I mean is if if you worked with Go every day you likely would not have the same perspective anymore.)

so thank you, perfect reply.
This is actually a hard problem. In order to be provable, you have to be deterministic (i.e. you can't leave the RNG as a black box). However you can't let any individual (nor any conspiring individuals, think Sybil attacks) predict the result, nor have any control over the result (except perhaps to disqualify themselves).
It's a shame it's Carl Benjamin instead of Walter Benjamin[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin
It wouldn't surprise me if it was doing something similar. Why be a shitty privacy invading company on only one platform?
The use of thorium in the MSR is perhaps 30x more fuel efficient than the current light water reactor. Large amounts of thorium have been buried in the desert by the U.S. government. Also, sufficient deposits exist in the U.S. to support centuries of use.

As for nuclear waste, the real reason why the problem appears intractable is that nuclear waste is not waste.

The LWR gets only 2% or so of the energy in uranium, the same fuel could be reprocessed and used in fast breeder reactors to release the other 98%. In fact, it is the presence of plutonium and other actinides in spent fuel that requires environmental isolation beyond 500 years or so. If we use those actinides as fuel, they do not need to be buried, and if we do that, the volume of waste is vastly reduced along with the half-life.

The fast breeder/reprocessing route has not been commercialized as of yet for a number of reasons. Probably the most discussed is that plutonium, neptunium and other actinides useful for nuclear weaponry could be nicked from the reprocessing plant.

The thorium MSR is an alternate path to a breeder, aka a "thermal breeder". In the case of the MSR, the reprocessing is done online or nearline to the reactor. It is also possible to do thermal breeding with thorium with a modified version of the light water reactor. Reprocessing that is a bitch though...

The most immediate problem facing the industry is an inability to say "it is going to take X years and Y dollars to build a reactor" and then finish it somewhere near on schedule and on budget. Being over 10% would be no scandal, but it is still looking more like 10x than 10%.
I'd still go with whatever your local bike shop stocks. They do go wrong at some point and you will need a repair and even a courtesy bike while it gets repaired. Shipping a bike is not fun.
I'll put in a vote for Fresh Air:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fresh-air-hyperlocal-weather...

Very cool visualizations of upcoming weather.
You have way too much hope for the internet to not shit post.
Was it incorrect as well as rude, or just the latter? Tell the truth - dang is watching.
I don't think it meant to be a literal question.
Approximately all nations, the Nuclear test ban treaty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Nuclear-Test-Ban...)
Against a Madoff perhaps, yes. But the point is rather that the FBI probably doesn't need to respect the rules outside of the US.
Safety is overrated. In CA it makes sense to strive for it, and boy, it's safe enough that people are worried about radiation! But in GA I feel like a bit more risk is incurred for productivity and efficiency reasons. Some stupid risks are taken, but I figure that's because the market tolerates it. Smaller planes also tend to generate less risk on the ground. Who am I to say that they should be safer; people are happy to drive cars of all things, no matter how crazy they must be to undertake that risk.
Do these people not do code and/or security reviews? The random number generator for a lottery seems like the most important part and should be heavily audited.
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> as soon as the company raises prices to cover costs ... new entrants (and revived old entrants) would quickly come into the market

Is it really that easy to create an Uber competitor once it's established a monopoly? If you're a driver, would you spend your time on an upstart with very few customers and similar prices? And if you're a passenger, would you use an upstart with few drivers? I'd have to have a significant financial incentive to do so (and that amount represents the excess profit Uber can charge).

This is what Warren Buffett calls an "economic moat", caused by what Silicon Valley calls "network effects". Those effect looks pretty powerful in Uber's case. I think a competitor would have to come in with heavy subsidies (heavier than what Uber offers now) once Uber is established.

Why do you think it will be cheaper to take monopoly power from Uber once they are established than it is for Uber now to establish monopoly power? I think it goes the other way.

Of course, Uber could be thrown off by regulation or lawsuits or a technological shift. Without one of those, I would pretty confidently bet on Uber.
You just did put it out there, so why not elaborate on your reaction? What politicization are you concerned about?
The expected return is not minuscule.

It's a reasonably sized negative number.
evidently, you need it to stroke your ego

(the author of this piece, i mean)
More likely they'll just update their ToS to prohibit running it.
The main story here is probably this line: "The system is generally at that peak traffic for only a few minutes a day".

AWS charges by hour. Google by minute. If your peak traffic only last a few minutes, hourly billing is inflexible, simple as that.
While I definitely see where you are coming from, simplifying people's emotional reactions to things to "some people need to chill out" belittles their feelings in a way that isn't helpful. We can support folks who are being attacked unfairly (as @rvagg appears to be from a cursory review of the "evidence" against him) without belittling those who feel maligned.
Weatherline has been my choice for a few years. It has a clean interface that's easy to understand and makes viewing the next few days trivial. It uses the data from DarkSky so it's pretty accurate, but doesn't use DarkSky's confusing navigation model (I left the app when they first implemented it).

It's a paid app, no ads or creepiness.

Only complaint? No watch app. Since Apple made the built in one worse in iOS 3 (for my use case) I've been wishing for the 7 day forecast from weatherline on my wrist.

http://weatherlineapp.com
It is a bit amazing when you think that on average, there is a new millionaire (or even multi-millionaire) made by the different lotteries in the USA every day
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> There are very few cases where a for-loop is the right thing to write.

I'm trying to get my head around that, do you mean any for loop is bad or many nested loops?
Richard Stallman was largely motivated to start project GNU because he took issue with the appropriation of source code by corporations and other proprietors, which he saw as replacing the communal way of writing and consuming software at the MIT A.I. lab.

My feeling is that we are seeing today a similar appropriation, not of source code (most people who use computers at this point now see them as appliances, and wouldn't have any use for source code), but of the ability to embed externally imposed media within (and subservient to) our own private scheme of organization. Let me explain: in the old days, when you subscribed to a magazine, you admittedly would be forced to navigate it so long as you read it, but you would be free to place it and store it anywhere you like in your house, and even cut clippings out from it and rearrange them as you may. But computers are not just appliances when used as such, but instead become giant magazines which overtake the role of your entire house and mind.

We really don't have the equivalent capability to organize things as we please in smartphones, and people are using such capability less and less in desktops (and not at all so long as they only use the PC as a glorified web browser). Ted Nelson thought about the kind of organizational tools the user would need to have at his/her hands, and John McCarthy wrote about it a bit too (e.g., look for discussion here on HN in other threads about his paper, "The Home Information Terminal: A 1970 View", in which he points out that because people will control what they see, online advertising, for example, wouldn't even be possible).

As with other systems of control, my feeling is that you're not going to peacefully overthrow it so long as a large enough segment of the population is in fact perfectly happy with it, or at least unaware of any reason not to be. John McCarthy admitted this much when he conceded that most Americans are TV watchers anyway and won't need a home information terminal to do research, and Neil Postman wrote about the negative effects of television in his 1984 book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
Didn't DarkSky come out first, launching Fotecast.io later?
A persistent threat can stay on a device even when it's offline.

Nobody here is saying that an attacker can easily access your domain's localstorage, but just expressing the sentiment that "storing plaintext passwords is bad in almost any case".

Just like you can store plaintext passwords in your application database, and theoretically they are safe, but if a bad guy gets in your users are screwed, not just on your site but on others.
>fewer travels, less expensive hotels, and luxurious meals.

Doesn't the customer typically pay all these costs for a consultant anyway?
I used to love that, but a few years ago the accuracy dropped quite a bit for me. It's now 'now bad', no longer 'freakily accurate'.
CFC global ban in the 90s - http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history...
I can't see a startup cracking fusion.
Nope. The core tenets of net neutrality have always been around access and priority of the content going between networks. The only factor where net neutrality would regulate the physical pipe like this is based on edge providers and backbone service access. E.g. A fair price would have to be consistent with what all where being charged. You couldn't say charge Netflix 100 million dollars to have access to inter-network backbones then simulataneously only charge Disney 1 million dollars for the same thing. This is because most large scale network providers are also content companies in the USA.

To quote a nice layman summary from the EFF/Save The Internet:

Net Neutrality is the internet’s guiding principle: It preserves our right to communicate freely online.

Net Neutrality means an internet that enables and protects free speech. It means that ISPs should provide us with open networks — and shouldn’t block or discriminate against any applications or content that ride over those networks. Just as your phone company shouldn’t decide who you call and what you say on that call, your ISP shouldn’t interfere with the content you view or post online.

Without Net Neutrality, cable and phone companies could carve the internet into fast and slow lanes. An ISP could slow down its competitors’ content or block political opinions it disagreed with. ISPs could charge extra fees to the few content companies that could afford to pay for preferential treatment — relegating everyone else to a slower tier of service. This would destroy the open internet.

No real mention of advertised speeds being ahered to. Speed in the context of which you were using it also would not be correct. Speed in the context of Net Neutrality means no prioritized slow downs or speed ups in exchange for cash, essentially. Again, I think that had more to do with access and not actual pet megabit speeds

https://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-what-you-need...
From an article on here yesterday, there are also network effects to consider.

Who actually has continually refreshed map and traffic data from users? Google, Apple, Uber, Lyft, Tesla, possibly some other auto manufacturers.

Better data allows you to provide better autonomous route planning, which causes more people to use your app, which gives you better data, etc.
> Statistically, it is a quantifiable unimprovement.

What's the probability that someone on SSI will be a millionaire before they die?

What's the probability that someone will become a millionaire by playing the lottery?

Which is a larger probability? It's possible that many people aren't as dumb as we think.
Do you mean fabric8/openshift/kubernetes+docker images ?
This. I work with PE firms every day and this is essentially how they operate.

Consulting has notoriously low multiples and so if you couple a consulting business with a "computing/services" business you increase the multiple over night.

I expect this page to expand drastically over the years:

https://www.thoughtworks.com/products
Ex* Employee #500 here. All reinvested.

* https://paulhammant.com/2015/01/06/farewell-2014-farewell-th...
And I wish hey would, for these kind of reasons. So many popular apps flagrantly violate the rules but get to stay because their popular (Uber, Facebook, etc).

Lots of minor ones are seemingly ignored. They break rules too but Apple doesn't seem to care.
Part of it is the psychology of it. The fraud triangle is opportunity, rationalization, and pressure.

Many people have convinced themselves that they're not doing anything wrong, or that they deserve it. If you're not doing something wrong, why flee?

Others get greedy. I had an accounting professor who used to say, "If you're going to steal, steal big and steal once."
From what I can see there seems to be a shift in thinking as people buy less stuff and spend more on experiences. The signaling is still there with the experiences, though.

I like your "stop signaling" rule. That's really the root of the waste, and not many of us mix in circles where the spending is expected.
I don't think scientists in the Manhattan project knew exactly how to do it. That's why they ended up having (at least) two totally different types of bombs, one with a Plutonium core using spherical implosion and another with a Uranium core using cannon-like ignition.

Why try one scheme when you can try two at twice the price?
My point about Pivotal was not about the investor; it was about the similar investment thesis.

the rabid cost cutting is pretty typical.

True, if the thesis is around bloat, mal-investment, adventurism, etc. If the theory is something like "tech talent roll-up in the face of an industry-wide cloud migration", then cabid cost-cutting would be disastrous (modulo all of the SG&A position eliminating)...
I think it comes down to people wanting AI to do what we say ought to happen, rather than what we actually do. I wish the solution was to fix what we actually do, rather than have to rejigger the data, but here we are.
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we have 7 billion people with a new billion every decade. 1-2C differences in temperature are going to have a huge impact on agriculture.
Yep - and nobody cares. Write clean code instead. Much harder than simply changing the looping style.
It's definitely quite nice being able to code while mobile. I've often used a laptop while travelling, and internet connectivity can be something you get used to not having.

Sure, if I'm stuck with a particular error message, a google search is often the quickest way to resolve. And yes, if you have to add a library that you don't currently have, you're out of luck until next time you're connected.
But I've definitely found some of my most productive time while disconnected.
This is the mandatory class attendence problem from college in a nutshell: if you have to require people to attend class, then you're obviously not delivering value in class.

If a summary covers all the relevant information in the article, then actually reading the article is a waste of time. And note how GP used compression to excise pieces that would be repetitious for an average HN reader.
So there was a meltdown at a liquid sodium cooled reactor due to a materials problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_Reactor_Experiment

I don't see a pump seal test in this experiment... does anyone know if a solution to the SRE meltdown problem is known at this point? Perhaps the LFT chemistry would not have the issue.
Then I'll just modify it to directly input a support ticket into their system >:D
Oh no of course not. Sorry I must have missed something here. I was speaking specifically of iterating over/with values. Numpy is optimized for this kind of thing. Though you can help yourself out and make sure you python code is also optimized by using comprehensions and itertools I would suppose
Do you have a source for the Tesla battery degradation?

How many cycles over 8 years?
That's exactly what happened to Pivotal. Boutique consulting shop turned into a consulting/services behemoth by strategic investments and business flow.
A standards process is frequently about documenting what already exists in common implementations so that there is a specification for future implementations. POSIX was very much one of these processes.
The FBI don't operate outside the US. It would be the CIA if anyone.
Good luck. It's pretty difficult with the various capital controls in place to get lots of money out of the US without attracting attention.

The Governor of NY was run out of office and nearly prosecuted when some bank compliance officer when transferring a few thousand bucks to a escort service.
> One lesson centred upon Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old high school pupil who was arrested in 2015 on suspicion of building a hoax bomb when he brought a self-assembled clock to school.

I remember that one, then later reading how it wasn't really a self-assembled clock but just a taken apart 70's or 80's clock that was put in a different case.

http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engin...

> Mr Mims aims not for lecturing, but for dialogue

In that spirit wonder how much Mr. Mims allows discussion of Ahmed being in on the idea of provoking a response. He packaged the disassembled clock in a briefcase then after being told to put it away and keep it his backpack for the rest of the day he took it out later and set an alarm on it. I think it is an interesting discussion how fear / xenophobia / prejudices can be taken advantage of in multiple ways.

Later on the family demanded $15M compensation from the school district with a threat to file a lawsuit. Wonder if that is on the allowed spectrum of discussion in the classroom as well.
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Yesss I've been waiting for this moment for nearly two decades haha :)

And it's definitely possible, just look at the C64 and Amiga demoscene. Those machines haven't evolved for ages, but they've been making them do one (thought to be) "impossible" thing after another for a very long time after the platforms were essentially considered dead. I've seen things at demoparties around 2000 where C64 demos showed stuff that was thought to be impossible to do on these machines (or so I was told, I'm not an expert on the C64's capabilities, but the thing runs in the single megahertzes and doesn't have a divide instruction, so yeah). One I remember had a part with a veeery low resolution realtime raytracer, about 10fps I think, the scene consisting of just a plane and a sphere (IIRC) ... but it was done on a C64.

I wonder how long it will take for PCs though. Moore's Law broke already a few years ago didn't it? But it's not really happening, so far. Or maybe it is. I haven't been keeping up with what's happening in the PC demoscene lately. They used to be way ahead of the curve compared to PC videogames, this changed somewhere in the 200Xs, probably because around that time videogames started getting Hollywood-size budgets.
Seems like this is becoming a template for click-bait articles. "How X is introducing kids to coding!"

I've stopped paying attention unfortunately.
To say "I don't use a smartphone" in order to qualify how disconnected you choose to be is dishonest if what you really mean is, "I don't use a smartphone for [some really specific context]." or perhaps "I don't use a smartphone because I lack discipline regarding notifications/social apps/etc."

Using maps/yelp/fandango/uber covers a majority of the functionality that a smartphone provides.
Tool looks very cool and I really like idea behind it. I am not a writer, how is this useful to you who write longer prose?
> Electric cars stick with the sedan/truck model for the same reason non-electric cars do: it is what people actually want.

Precisely this. Actually, you don't need to take our word for it. Several manufacturers small and large have tried the "tiny electric car" concept in Europe, a continent much more in love with small cars than the US, starting over a decade ago, and none have actually made it a success. E.g. the Reva (G-Wiz in the UK) was in sale from 2001 to 2013 with a total of 4 600 cars sold worldwide.

Compare that e.g. to the sales volumes of the Renault Zoe (60 000 cars sold since 2012) or the Nissan Leaf (250 000 cars sold since 2011).
That's fair, but it'll be sad to see our species added to the dustbin of history after squandering such a great opportunity to move from planetary to stellar civilization.

If there happen to be any other sentient species watching us, I can only assume they spend most of the time face-palming, head-shaking and eye-rolling.
I don't know if distance matters. Let's say he found the perfect stranger who agrees to this. I think the bigger problem would be how do they exchange $7,000,000 in a way that nobody will notice?
Even if there WERE reliable autonomous cabs in the next 10 years (and I have serious doubts), switching to them would cause new problems for Uber: (1) Right now, Uber benefits from drivers underpricing the capital costs of their cars. Maintaining their own fleet would increase their costs. (2) Part of fleet maintenance is to replace vehicles every few years. This would flood the market with autonomous vehicles, each of which could potentially become part of a competitor's network (Think Lyft, but instead of driving your car, you'd have it drop you off at work in the morning, pick you up in the evening, and in between accept autonomous rides from the public).
Interesting they are using Medium instead of in house publishing tools. It is the first time I've noticed then open.nytimes.com articles.
Wouldn't that mean they don't get away with most murders?
It's true that this was bipartisan amongst elected officials, and strangely to me, a number of liberal people in my native DC area that I still talk to. I think there were varying degrees though. Do you think Trump would have let Manning go for example? I'm not sure that even Hillary would have. And yet Obama did, eventually.

Also, there is little doubt in my mind that mutual hate of Hillary brought together WikiLeaks and several previously unlikely allies.
My thoughts exactly. Once you are used to this way of developing, it is really difficult to be happy with less.