skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I have picked up on that subject, passenger aircraft have multiple layers of protection against blades separating from the engine. The cowling is supposed to contain it. If that does not work, the fuselage in the area of the wings is hardened to prevent the separating part(s) from entering the passenger compartment and doing damage there. This is typically implemented using a Kevlar lining on the hull.

The Quantas flight is remarkable in that engine parts were not contained successfully and managed to damage critical systems inside the wing not related to the engine itself. Some reports say that the flight crew was overwhelmed by over 50 individual failure reports resulting from this damage. I was actually quite surprised when I learned that it was so easy to damage that many major systems with a seemingly small puncture in a wing.
Only programmers program is a myth only believed by programmers. Programming wouldn't even exist without statisticians, engineers, physicists and others.
I expect it's a side effect from casual youtube users who've mostly experienced abuse of the feature and think i'm lying.
Hmm they are sort of different things. Freenet basically has hash-addressed content plus some relationship between human-readable strings and the hashes, so you/can/refer/to/stuff/like/this making it easy to use HTTP on top of Freenet for navigation. In contrast IPFS makes the hashed content itself in charge of navigation by using git-like objects -- if you understand the way git objects work https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects then you understand that this allows you to navigate an immutable tree of content and an immutable history. In contrast, on Freenet particular files are immutable, but that's as much as they guarantee.

They also differ in the way routing works. On Freenet you ask a (mostly) random neighbor whether they have a file with the hash you want. If they don't have it, they ask another (mostly) random neighbor. This can go on for a while, until it either finds the content or hits a maximum number of hops, in which case it backtracks. The only point of these rube-goldberg shenanigans is anonymity. Since IPFS is more concerned about performance it flips this on its head: instead of blindly asking nodes for content, it carefully keeps track of peers who advertise what they're looking for; aside from being much more efficient, this also allows you to choose not to do business with leechers, like in bittorrent.

Maybe IPFS is a reinvention of a past technology, but certainly not Freenet. (Does anyone know of something closer?)

Freenet paper: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs414/2003sp/papers/freene...

IPFS paper: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/blob/master/papers/ipfs-cap2pfs...
create a monstrous new private entity that sucks blood money from the public.

Kinda like what IBM is trying to do with Watson.
Oic ... the framework/middleware is not. I took parallels to Android. Thanks for correcting me.
IMHO it's worth to point out that IT "innovations" in this decade are born out of maturing internet economies rather than driven by end-user demand and technology limitations.

For example, the push for "the cloud" and "solutions" like Docker (and the obscene complexity of orchestration tools around it) mostly benefit cloud providers who want to sell large amounts of containers, which they can offer at really low cost due to the increased density afforded by Docker compared to dedicated or virtual servers. At the same time, they can't be held responsible for eg. DNS miconfigurations or basic QoS issues. But those thousands of containers replace a small cluster of Apache servers because everything has to be "web-scale". In effect, it's becoming much more expensive to run a web backend due to staffing cost alone.

Another trend has been the appification of the Web, resulting solely from the desire to sell SaaS solutions due to the decline in end-user software sales.
That's the same thing we've got now, except that going through the process of "replicating the file" usually means either paying an a hosting company and learning how to maintain a server or signing your control and rights over to a company like Facebook.

There's nothing preventing anyone from going through these same measures with IPFS or dat. It's just that you don't have to in order to get started hosting something.
and roundabouts! physical obstacles always seem to work best, for some reason ;)
Scary low compared to what?
Keep in mind that the Quantas failure, while horrible, resulted in zero fatalities.
In support of this, have you happened across Deirdre McCloskey, and her tomes Bourgeois Dignity and two books that follow.

She does a decent job of thrashing out, at length, why the dignity to participate in the free market by innovating and bringing those innovations to market is the thing that created the modern world. In her own words she gives a "full scale defence of capitalism."
How does a straw really work?
No idea. I thought they moved to HTML5 video...
On average.
Git itself doesn't inherently provide the services that github does: discovery, project management, and social tools.

The kinds of tools that would make distributing those aspects of github are precisely what this article is advocating for!
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The Corrosion of High School Debate
Puerto Rico to waive rent payments for public housing as 10k remain in shelters
In "Surly you're joking my Feynman" there is the story of RF talking to the painter who teaches him to mix paints, and the colours you need to get make yellow. Turns out you should talk to the person who's been mixing paints all their working life.

Isn't there a similar story after the challenger accident where he talks to the maintenance people on the ground?
Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine
Ask HN: Marketing - Show personality or not?
I own some websites where I sell evidence-based health advice on training, nutrition and alike (SaaS).

Of course, people want to know something about who is the person behind, is he trustworthy and so on.

On the other hand, I feel a strong urge of the masses to form a tribe, cultivate norms, feeling superior to other groups, watching battles of leader figures.

This is a dilemma because I'm rather introverted and like to engage in ideas more than in people. In fact, I feel that if I engage too much in this tribe stuff, it prevents real progress of the development of fundamental work.

Sure, I could do it just 'my way' and waive the extra money that comes with this type of marketing. And I'm happy to earn less. But I still feel a constant wanting for more stories, action, and sensationalism.

It may be my personal responsibility to set the direction and ignore the customer voices. Nevertheless I wonder, if someone has similar issues: How do you handle the situation? What is your mindset?
You don't need Bezos to disrupt it. Just copy what Europe does.
Disabling Pocket in Firefox has been basically a right-click and then clicking the remove button option, even in Firefox 57. Of course, this isn't really about disabling Pocket, but about removing it, being some kind of ideological struggle.

To set the records straight, Free Software has nothing to do with choice, as can be seen by how GCC and other projects were developed.

I did try wallabag. I appreciate the effort of its developers, I wish the project succeeds, but the mobile apps are pieces of shit compared with Pocket. So arguably, that open source alternative you're speaking of does not exist.

I really don't understand how Mozilla is not putting the users first, because by their actions, it seems to me like they are.

The really interesting phenomenon however is that I'm not seeing the same vitriol whenever Google's Chrome is being discussed on HN. It's like there's this really vocal minority that really wants Firefox to die, this comment included. No worries, if the current trends holds, Firefox will end up being dead and then you'll be able to have a choice between Chrome, Edge or Safari.

Or you'll be able to fork Firefox, invest in whatever projects you want to invest, build whatever features you want to build and in general put your money where your mouth is.

Can't wait to see that happening. Good luck.
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Give me your tired, your poor, your teeming masses huddled.

I know this is the wrong answer, but my hungry mouth welcomes every one of these creatures to their new home.
>As an outsider, it's strange that nobody here seems to question whether the referendum really makes sense.

I think now that the referendum has started it should be really obvious why Catalonia doesn't want to be a part of Spain.

Just look at twitter being filled with imagery of Spanish riot police beating up kids and old people while trying to stop the vote.

https://twitter.com/SERCatalunya/status/914390058383413248/p...
https://twitter.com/naciopolitica/status/914383283718410240
https://twitter.com/ThIsCatalonia

Who would want to live in a country where the government sends an army of masked thugs to violently attack people who are doing nothing criminal?
> Even when given explanations, simulations, and formal mathematical proofs, many people still do not accept that switching is the best strategy (vos Savant 1991a). Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific mathematicians in history, remained unconvinced until he was shown a computer simulation demonstrating the predicted result (Vazsonyi 1999).

It's such a deceptively simple problem that's so easy to get wrong. I introduced it to my boss and he just wouldn't believe me when I told him the answer. He spent about 10 minutes formulating a simulation in Excel in order to convince himself.
Because we're not concerning ourselves with the plush lives of the top few percent.

The parent comment is referring to the majority of middle and low income families who's children come of age with zero wealth.

All of the countries doing well have a problem, right now, where middle income earners can't afford to buy homes in the cities people want to live in, while the top income earners are saying things like young people can't afford to buy houses because they're blowing all their money on smashed avocado on toast.[1]

1. https://twitter.com/60Mins/status/864065346516377600/video/1
I didn't mean to say that they would do something 'decentralized' - of course they wouldn't. But possibly something 'better' than HTTP.

One of the things about the net, is that it's transactionally open.

There's no inherent identity/or security, it was grafted on with SSL - 'kind of'.

I suggest it might have been better if identity were required to even make connections, to avoid many kinds of attacks. Hopefully, it could be done in an unbureaucratic manner, also wherein 'identities' can remain de-facto anonymous.

My main point was that 'http' is kind of old, but we're stuck with it unless a 'major power' does something about it.
http://go.linuxfoundation.org/linux-kernel-development-repor...
That's a tried and true method from any group that wants to get rid of some system and then gets in charge of said system. Just make it impossible for it to succeed, for instance by decreasing their funding or adding onerous beuracracy that makes everything run slower. After that you can just point to how the system is running poorly as an excuse for dismantling it
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While this might solve distributing content serving, i'm still stuck with transporting all my data through my single point of failure + spying ISP, when all of my neighbors live within wifi-range.

For a truly distributed network we should look into ways to make internet work more like a mesh.

Back in university, all the student dorms were connected to the same internal campus network, back then internet was slow but you could still share files blazingly fast with all the other students on the network (using DC++ at that time). While this wasn't exactly a pure mesh either it shows that local data works and beats internet many times, even with just a few thousand clients. Then DC++ was mostly focused on pirated content but with a more human friendly solution, like IPNS, it's not unimaginable that average Joe neighbor with one click can create a local mirror of the whole Wikipedia for you.
There's also a long-term experiment being performed on the International Space Station:

http://knts.tsniimash.ru/ru/site/Experiment_q.aspx?idE=191 (in Russian, but Google Translate seems to work well on this one)

It's not finished yet but apparently preliminary results [1] show that microorganisms can be lifted into the upper atmosphere from the oceans somehow.

[1] https://www.energia.ru/ktt/archive/2015/01-2015/01-03.pdf
Why not use Amazon EMR directly instead of installing Spark on EC2 instances? https://aws.amazon.com/emr/
A successful Git branching model (2010)
A question on your model then: How does the progression of people through those "states" work. Are they judged by the team?

I've interacted with a couple of senior developers who - without a doubt - had considerably more experience in the industry, knew more about niche-specific technology etc. etc, but were worse in all the things you just listed for the freshmen than some of the people I studied with.

Experience and insight might get you very far, but there are also people who really don't care to learn new approaches on a certain topics, and those might as well be unit testing, versioning or even the readability of code.

I guess in bigger companies, this might balance itself out, but if your dev team consists of about five people, there's always the chance you're in for a surprise if you're the new hire.
Well, it IS definitely future proof though...
Distributed systems are suited to static content or "append-only" mutable data - canonical examples include Magnet links, distributed hashtables, git, and the Bitcoin blockchain - they're all reliant on content-addressable storage. Not all web-applications can support this model, for example a banking app or online shopping cart site, which depend, respectively, on secrecy instead of complete transparency and mutable ephemeral state. What is the "Raspberry Pis in the walls" solution to those problems?
Also stuck on this one... last thing I did was open up a terminal (with no luck). lol.

res = (1..20000).to_a.map { |val| val * val * val }

res.select { |a| res.any? { |b| (b - a) == 1729 } }
Those other factors due exist for preventing raises to other employees. The claim, however, was that demand was _far_ exceeding supply. When that happens with any good people start hoarding the resource and going out of their way to maintain their existing supply. If there was truly that great a difference between the demand for software devs and the supply of them, we'd see companies doing their best to keep their employees, at least on average. Instead we're in a situation. Where companies are engaging in some sort of brinkmanship with their employees to see if they'll accept the lack of compensation increase, and they dont appear to care if they are loosing employees due to it.
I’m a massive MW proponent but the privacy claims are very weak compared to ZCash and Monero. What MW does well is scalability.
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Very interesting, thanks for the answer. I'll read the papers you linked.
Personally I don't feel like the real centralization problem is on application level
Citation points to this more detailed article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
> The metric system

While I agree with your sentiment, this one is a bad example.

I grew up with the metric system, as did the vast majority of the world. I have an intuition for "meter", "kilograms", "seconds", and so on.

I need to convert to cumbersome stuff like "miles", "inches" or "pounds" only when reading articles written by, you know, inhabitants of that strange, large country over there.
Why can't America have a public health care? They have public post service USPS..
I don't think it's about the money, but about having a different culture that's not being respected by the central government. I've recently read about a lot of (very reasonable sounding) Catalan decisions that got blocked or reversed by Madrid.

With this referendum too, this article gives me the impression that it might be Madrid's unreasonable reaction to it that might really drive the independence here. With this kind of response, I don't blame the Catalans for wanting independence at all.
Too many politicians receiving lobbying money.
Nope. A directive is not a regulation. A directive means the member states must implement into their own law a comparable version of the directive. A regulation is when the countries must enforce the EU regulation as if it were their own law.

(The difference is marked in the case of the General Data Protection Regulation, which will become enforceable in a few months. There is no wiggleroom in interpreting it, compared to its predecessor, the Data Protection Directive, where each member state has implemented their own version, with varying levels of data protection.)
The colliqual usage of monopoly does not mean that the group described as a monoply has 100% of the market as seen here[1]. Having nearly all of the market is sufficient to be described as a monopoly. Once you are able to unialterally affect the market as you wish, because you control such a large portion of it, you are exercising monoply power.

As an example Microsoft didn't control 100% of operating systems when the US government went after them, but they were still found to have been absuing their monoply power. Google putting their reviews above the search results when you search for a restaurant, which always made them appear before Yelp's, is pretty much the exact same situation as Microsoft forcing IE to be the default browser on Windows but you don't hear anyone in the government even hint at going after Google nowadays

[1]http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/monopoly.asp
IPFS can discover other nodes in the same local network via mDNS -- you don't need to have an internet connection at all to share data locally.

Combine this with the recent work on PubSub [1] and CRDTs [2] and you can make many applications work locally, that are otherwise annoyingly strongly coupled to internet services (thing Etherpad, Google Docs, Skype, Github, etc.)

> For a truly distributed network we should look into ways to make internet work more like a mesh.

Yes! We'll be putting more work into the network stack (libp2p) in the coming months. IPFS itself has done a ton to rework how content is defined and moved around, and libp2p will do the same for the network connections underneath. Think overlay networks, cryptokey routing, packet switching.

[1] https://ipfs.io/blog/29-js-ipfs-pubsub/

[2] https://ipfs.io/blog/30-js-ipfs-crdts.md
This sounds like an exact description of Project Euler.[1]

[1] https://projecteuler.net/
Another important factor for adoption/adoptability is how well the new system integrates with existing deployments of older systems. Ideally it completely interoperates with the older systems, while providing you with additional value right from the start.
Pity there isn't a single one from the southern hemisphere. That said, they are gorgeous. I'd just like to see something from the other side of the globe.
Having money in a third-party-inaccessible form just means that when the government decides to confiscate it, you sit in jail indefinitely for contempt of court until you make it accessible.
This guy combined IPFS and Steem. He uses the Steem reward system to split payment between the content uploader and storage host 75/25. There is a cost, but this guy figured out a way to sustainably host videos in a p2p environment.

https://steemit.com/video/@heimindanger/introducing-dtube-a-...
Easier in the sense, easier to get funding for, thus do, maybe. Not easy to implement. It took 10 years of dedicated work.
अक्टूबर में ये 5 ग्रह बदलेंगे राशि इन 6 राशि को मिलेगा खूब धन और खूब ख़ुशी
It seems like the word "Voevoda", at least in Ancient Rus, was the highest military rank given to someone who exceled in very specific areas of warfare.

For instance, the Voevoda of Defense (modern minister of defense?) would figure out how to fortify and defend a city from assault. Similarly, a Reconnaissance Voevoda would be sent to figure out the position and the size of an enemy. So it's not necessarily the general, although it looks like the highest class of Voevoda "Bolshoi Voevoda" or "Big Voevoda" could probably be compared to modern day Generals. I'm not entirely sure if one could progress up the ranks or if they just sort of branched out. Very interesting read here (in Russian) [1]

[1] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/воевода
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Most of that stuff can be cycled through, though. For example, I buy ammo in bulk but shoot through it so it doesn't sit around.
Very helpful and great explanations. To me Airbnb's JS styleguide was also very helpful, which showcases best practices and lots of examples. https://github.com/airbnb/javascript
You actually have to demonstrate why you think the international UN law defining fundamental human rights which Spain is a signatory to is 'not relevant' and that the UN has 'zero authority' on interpreting when the UN laws defining human rights have been violated.

Also - by stating that 1/2 Catalonians wouldn't agree you are giving away that 1/2 would. That's the point. If you are suppressing the fundamental human rights of 1 person you're violating them, and you admit they are violating about 3.5 million people's rights.
Very remarkable indeed, considering the damage to the landing gear, flaps, fuel tanks, and engine controls. The airplane at the time it landed was way out into the experimental flying zone.

When people talk of pilot-less airliners I have to think of incidents like this. Pilots do make mistakes and people die as a result, but when equipment fails and nobody dies because a pilot does what is needed to land safely despite the issue, it rarely makes news. Sometimes people on board don't even know.
Ask any non-technical person whether they've ever been bitten by link-rot! :)

Content-addressing doesn't alleviate the problem 100%, since content can still fall off the network - but it improves the structure of the network in a way that makes it tremendously easier to keep content around. It's not up the original source of the content (owner of the domain name) to keep the content around - anyone can help out by keeping a copy.

My colleague Matt addressed this beautifully in a recent talk at the NSDR Symposium: https://archive.org/download/ndsr-dc-2017/04_Speaker_3_Matt_...
A lot of Haskell extensions actually increase simplicity (by removing fairly arbirary restrictions) not complexity.
That sounds like the kind of thing that would be really easy to maintain your own fork for...
Apparently this is such a bad idea, that it's possibly my most downvoted comment ever. :)

I should definitely try and get this funded. :)

I'm still somewhat curious why a iOS compatible open source clone might be a such a bad idea. Even if it was from a different vendor perhaps.
There's an opioid epidemic sweeping the nation. If psychiatry has anything more effective for treatment than court-mandated AA (well, NA), now would be the time to do something, because people are dying left and right. Current treatment regimes are totally ineffectual. 30-days of rehab, along with religion-based and "addition is a moral failing" 12-step programs isn't cutting it.

It's not the number of theories that count, what counts is if there is a theory is actually useful in modeling results. If the car won't run and there's no gasoline, call it a disease of gasoline if you have to, but adding gas does wonders for my car actually running.

The late 1800's opiate epidemic called; they want to know if psychiatry has actually advanced in the interceding years.
That's funny. Never thought about that. I guess Emacs people think of it as yanking from the clipboard to the document, and Vim people think of it as yanking from the document into the clipboard.