skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Especially with the part about CAs and a more SSH-like approach.

But unlike you I have little interest in "browsers". This is why I would want a "naclwrap" utility but you might not see any point. CurveCP is the experimental transport protocol. I do not need it in a browser because I am not interested in browsers. I like experimenting outside of browsers and the "web" so I have no reason to resist CurveCP.

What is the advantage of scraping TLS? If you mean for everyone, maybe there is none. Why not allow both TLS and NaCl to coexist? Why does TLS have to be "redone" with NaCl?

For me personally, the advantage of "scraping TLS" is that I get to ignore all the cruft and complexity that I have to sift through to get to the proper "subprotocol" within TLS. Too much work.

I am not the one who will write "naclwrap" if it ever is released. The person who wrote it does not introduce bugs and security issues. He is not like the people who work on TLS and most developers in general. He is careful.

In any case, I am not tasked with persuading anyone else to scrap TLS. I am simply a user who 1. likes NaCl, 2. prefers the idea of per packet encryption to the notion of encrypted "tunnels" and 3. is apt to complain about TLS only because like other web users I am forced to use it whether I want to or not.

For someone focused on influencing developers who write programs for other people, shaping web standards or at least very interested in where they might be heading, your comments are poignant. But I am just a user. I write trivial programs for myself. I am not futilely trying to tell developers what to do, shape standards nor am I very interested in where things are heading, except to the extent I can minimize the computer usage-related annoyances I must endure.
We didn't skip out on another class, it was just part of the curriculum. This was 8th grade, and I transferred out after that year, so I don't know what they did in High School.
I agree. We were in the market for a new car this past summer and I was really intrigued by the Bolt but had to pass on it. It's still just a bit too expensive and a bit too short on range to make it a primary vehicle. Not to mention, it's not a particularly "cool" looking car.

I'm excited to see where things are in 3 to 5 years when we're in the cycle for another vehicle. If a moderately equipped package can land in the $30k range and travel 350+ on a single charge, it will be very intriguing.
I complete toy code problems on kata sites. It allows me to exercise producing code, learning techniques, and reviewing other's code to learn more.

This helps for building a solid foundation in a language, but greater mastery usually requires project work. I'm not too great at balancing this part out yet.
Is there similar iOS alternative?
Be careful, Tesla drivers discovered that never using the brake, particularly in areas that use salt on the roads, results in expensive corrosion. Automotive brakes haven't been designed with one-pedal driving in mind...

https://cleantechnica.com/2016/05/24/8500-new-tesla-model-s-...

Recommendation: consciously use the brakes in a firm deceleration once a week.
Those are separate concerns and entangling them is counterproductive. As an employee and shareholder of a fast-growing company, I might very well think that the best thing for the company is to eschew profits and invest in growth. Yet I could also simultaneously desire liquidity in some of my shares (for example, to buy a house).
This is amazing. I've been dreaming of something like this forever for the iPhone.
iOS restrictions are probably never going to be lifted, however.

I get by with Panic's Coda terminal, which is great, but even though I have multiple remote servers, sometimes I'd like to run something on my local network, like ping, wireshark, etc

Running mutt as a local mail client would be nice as well
Advertising or data-mining supported services are not free. We are still paying in time or headspace or personal data, so it is perfectly valid to have a problem with the quality of service we receive in exchange for that payment.
It's a matter of platform and the libraries that you're using.

After all, back in the days we had 360k floppy disks, and executable written in C which did much more than just printing out "Hello world" would fit comfortably into less than half of that.

Modern C and C++ runtimes are bloated, because a 2MB executable isn't considered huge anymore and dynamic linking is common.

But you can have a 5k static executable printing "hello world" on Linux if you just trade in your stdlibc to musl.
People have also managed to use musl with Rust to produce pretty small executables:
https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executab...
anybody else?
I always figured we should put advertising on the currency of exchange... seriously

You're not being serious.
I think he means fructose that is not bound to glucose ..
Maybe a stupid question but why not just run Debian on a chrome book, or any cheap laptop? Or spend a bit more for a thinkpad or dell XPS
>This is the standard "engineers other than software are idiots" type HN FUD

What? I don't think that has anything to do with it at all, and the distinction between types of engineering seems irrelevant. I think he's pointing out that they're trying to make a profitable business without understanding the necessary costs. Given the nature of startups to overpromise and underdeliver (as that's a common tactic to help raise money), his skepticism seems reasonable to me. I see just as many criticisms of software businesses on this site (actually many more, since there are far more articles about software companies here than hardware companies).

I have very little aerospace experience so I do not claim to be an expert, and while like to see people tackling big problems eventually succeed, his points seem salient to me.
Agreed. Even if I were going to spend that much on a car, it wouldn't be this car at that price point. I got a lightly used Fiesta ST for around $15k, and I'm very happy with it and probably wouldn't even want the Bolt for the same price (even if it's more practical)
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Wow, this article's claim that text is what enables us to think is incredibly elitist. Are illiterate people incapable of rational thought? Oral traditions are deep wellsprings of human knowledge and culture.
That's a truism. Which makes it thoroughly uninteresting. What is interesting is: How much is too much? And, How much are you currently consuming?
You can get a 1 year old Volt for about 15-17k. Best deal out there IMO.
Pictures of lunar cave entrances:

https://phys.org/news/2015-08-technology-illuminate-mystery-...

Three photos are from the Marius Hills location the article mentioned, though I'm not sure if it's the precise tunnel they investigated.
In some cases, but ravendb 4.0 is natively clustered and has more querying capabilities and performance when using all of the document store functionality.
Boom are flying with turbofan engines, not the turbojet engines that were common in the 60s.

As for aerodynamics, the F-22 is relatively efficient at high subsonic speed and also doesn't require external tanks like earlier jets do.
"The problem with society is, everyone wants to build things, but no one wants to do maintenance." - Kurt Vonnegut

I remember when Chris McNamara founded the American Safe Climbing Association to fund bolt replacements. It was such an obvious idea in retrospect--something the American Alpine Club should have thought of years before. I think they're affiliated now somehow. But it seems almost certain that they have saved the lives of some climbers by doing maintenance.
Two things I know about LinkedIn: 1. Lots of former Yahoo people work there, and 2: If Facebook has it, LinkedIn needs it.
A very small percentage of people born in 1930-1955 were involved in building the Internet. I suspect people like Vint Cerf don't get age-discriminated against -- we're mostly concerned with age discrimination against people in the ~35-70 age range who don't have specific major accomplishments.

(I was born in 79, but first got (limited) Internet access in 1986 or so, and much more Internet access in 1990. At the time, everyone was ~18-~40yo. There were some BBS people who were slightly younger, but even that only kicked off in the 80s.)

There really weren't a lot of people working on Internet technology until the first dotcom boom of the 1990s -- people who were generally young at the time. Even then, it was a small percentage of people compared to today. There were more people involved in UNIX, telcos, general technology, etc. who were early adopters of the Internet in the 90s, or who retained access from university in the 70s or even 80s and continued in parallel with their primary career, but in the mid/late 90s, "knows how to use the Internet" was still a useful selector in hiring, as it was rather rare.

There are all the other reasons why older people get discriminated against (perceived and real higher salary expectations, working requirements, location inflexibility), but those aren't as specific to technology. Hence, I think the actual level of discrimination in tech is going to fall to be the same as a lot of other fields.
I use it as a replacement for Android apps in several cases.

- Need to jot a note: vim is far better than most native apps

- Need to access a remote system: use ssh or mosh

- Need a calculator: Python is there, with a lot of useful libraries

It even emulates a mouse, so elinks is quite usable on text heavy websites. For some mobile hostile websites it is more usable since the text is large enough to be legible.

A similar user friendly tool are the widgets, which makes it easy to launch a command from the launcher with a tap.

Given the number of development tools available, it is quite easy to write a program on the computer and run it on a mobile device.
I'm just switching to regular wireless service and giving up the things I like about Google Voice.
Paywall bypass? If not available then why post/upvote link to paid article when there are alternatives for free!
Wouldn’t the acceleration of falling objects be slow enough that the force delivered be much lessened?
That assumes such a question could be definitively answered. First you’d need to quantify the scale of personality traits. Too much of the discussion around this is hand wavey.
Dubai or Singapore to Heathrow or CDG are over land and still have plenty of potential.
Are those 80,000 pound trucks tailgating each other?
No, since this was chemistry, I was talking about enthalpy of an exothermic reaction (negative enthalpy), and interstellar space is pretty close to constant pressure, but not constant entropy for Gibbs free energy.

In any case:
dH=TdS + Vdp note dp is small in space but V can be large and dS is the change in entropy.

...and enthalpy of ideal (interstellar H & O) gases does not depend on pressure, unlike entropy and Gibbs energy. If you really just mean free energy U, then they are basically the same thing in open space (but not in a plasma), a distinction without difference.

For further pedantics I recommend Wikipedia, since I doubt we are helping anyone else.
That wouldn't be a problem for me, the way most people drive and cut in front of me I would easily have one firm deceleration a week.
Do France and Germany have the concept of the "contractor" worker, where the company can just call the contracting firm and say we don't need the developer anymore?
Having tried it, it's an "almost there" solution. Termux is a proot, not a chroot. This means you can't do certain things. You end up in a state where you can run nodejs and react, but you can't run create-react-app successfully. Rustup doesn't work in Termux, when it does booted into Linux on the same chromebook. You can git clone, but you can't clone a repo from a USB stick. Every single time I tried to do any development on it, the attempt ended in "nearly works" frustrations.
pretty much the opposite of Trump's America

more like:

“pretty much half of America while Trump just happens to be president for a couple of years, by some odd quirk of an electoral process”

ftfy

Just because 51% of America’s assholes suddenly came out of the woodwork and voted for a jerk, doesn’t mean the other 49% of America’s assholes disappeared.

Both sides have their albatrosses.
Great project. You can install Termux on any Chromebook capable of running Android apps and use it as a dev environment.
Isn’t it fundamentally an inherent game theory problem? Why don’t prisoners cooperate in the prisoners’ dilemma?
What I never really thought is that that‘s still a pretty dumb was to subsidize any kind of purchase. It massivly advantages the rich(er). Why do it that way?
Note that this is the Bolt not the Volt. Even as a petrol head who owns a V8 and a Subaru STI, I really like what GM has done with this vehicle.

Really really great review from Doug DeMuro here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ogGZXmepY

Doug has a great style - really digs deep into all the quirks and oddities of the cars he reviews.
Negative income tax is just a more complicated form of the same thing. Part of the UBI appeal is easy administration.
I suppose you're talking about software development.

When people use the word building like this it reminds me of that episode of Spongebob where he taps a block of marble once and out comes Michelangelo's statue of David.

If you're critical of your own work, building things will push you into deeper into your craft and into other domains.

How much to learn? Just enough to start with the use of references and examples.
No shittier than before, got it. Heck of a philosophy, but hey, they're public.
to say i don't use the brakes is a little bit of a misnomer, as i use them at stoplights in order to activate the rear brake lights for other drivers. two more bits of trivia: the brake lights activate during regen for more than .2g of deceleration, and the brake rotor metal is formulated not to rust.
The fuel costs are a larger concern to the low cost airlines charging $300 round-trip, than to a supersonic service charging say $2500 round trip (this would represent a 75% saving over Concorde). The fuel consumption per seat mile of the Concorde was roughly 3x that of a 747. Concorde used abt 700l of fuel per passenger, each way, IIRC, and today, with turbofans rather than turboject, you might achieve say 500 l. Bear in mind that airlines pay less for fuel than you and I at the pump... about $0.5/litre, today.

As for maintenance costs, I imagine that one can expect a very substantial decrease due to the use of CAD, better materials and improved practices. Cost reductions of >40% per flight hour were achieved in the military for "equivalent" aircraft between 1970's and 2000's, and reductions of >50% per seat-mile were achieved in the same period for commercial aircraft (eg: early B747 vs B777). Maintenance costs for commercial airlines are a fraction of the fuel costs in any case.

Finally, it is worth remembering that the Concorde was a very profitable business for British Airways, with operating profit of ~40% for the Concorde!
> In a similar vein to general-to-specific transfer, we can compose new skills from existing policies—even without any fine-tuning—by intersecting different skills. The idea is simple: take two soft policies, each corresponding to a different set of behaviors, and combine them by adding together their Q-functions. In fact, it is possible to show that the combined policy is approximately optimal for the combined task, obtained by simply adding the reward functions of the constituent tasks, up to a bounded error.

> Because the maximum entropy formulation encourages agents to try all possible solutions, the agents learn to explore a large portion of the state space. Thus they learn to act in various situations, and are more robust against perturbations in the environment.

it is keeping non-zero weights on suboptimal actions during exploration. but that tells you almost nothing. there are an infinite number of ways to keep non-zero weights on suboptimal actions and some of those are much better than the rest. the maximum-entropy approach is a very specific way to use non-greedy weights.
right, like I said you could eat less. 3 meals isn't a hard and fast limit, its just common. Even if you got down to one meal a day though, the title is saying that it costs more than the income you make working that day. That is unsustainable
>I don't see what NK would gain from "nuking Guam," besides the end of their country.

Guam appears to be an internet hub for a few relatively important lines.

"The SEA-US cable system will link the five areas and territories of Manado in Indonesia, Davao in Southern Philippines; Piti in the territory of Guam; as well as Honolulu (on the island of Oahu), Hawaii; and Los Angeles, California in the continental U.S." [1]

[1] https://www.submarinenetworks.com/systems/trans-pacific/sea-...

Here's the global map:

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/landing-point/piti-guam
So, has anyone wondered what happens when a Boom plane goes "boom!" ?

How could they call a plane something that means "explosion"?
Clear your cookies.
My assumption is the “boom” refers to the sonic boom encountered when transitioning to supersonic speeds.
The US has a highly regressive tax system, at least for middle class earners and up. We do everything that way.
I agree that suburbia can be expensive (house and garden maintenance are money pits), but city-centre living over here tends to be much worse under most parameters (from real estate and grocery prices to noise, pollution, crime and so on), because it's entirely geared towards younger people.

Also correct me if I'm wrong, but education is entirely free in Norway including university, right? In the UK universities are not free, and if you want a decent chance to get in the best ones you'll also have to pay for highschool. That's a huge amount of money right there.

We make above the median and we take home about $77k after tax. We can save about 25% of that when we don't eat out, but more than this we'd have to wear plastic bags and generate our own electricity.
I think the revenue from this would be a drop in a bucket compared to what Boeing pulls from conventional subsonic jetliners. Also, their entire engineering paradigm favors slow & conservative development. See how ULA has struggled to catch up to scrappy SpaceX.
I doubt they could with much precision, which is probably why they just gave the Concorde a ton of thrust and huge flight control surfaces.
Well, there is that. But also a large percentage of the sales tax (which includes hotels and such) comes from tourists, not residents.
What they're doing isn't even occlusion culling. It's frustum culling.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/OcclusionCulling.html

edit: I wouldn't even call it frustum calling since I don't think frustum culling makes much sense in a retained mode API (the frustum culling happens when rendering the retained mode representation through the underlying immediate mode API). 'Level of detail' maybe.
Because I don't want to be a sysadmin. I want to take advantage of all the work Google has done to make ChromeOS a slick user experience, including good drivers, seamless and invisible auto-update, fast boot, integration with Google services, etc.
I wish they'd sell a Cadillac version (or at least a decent trim level) -- the seats are horrible. I'd happily pay $5k more for $2k of better seats. (Aftermarket upgrades are a pain.)
I would have gone with hyperventilation, though there's a cutoff there
ya, thanks.
That is not true at all. You have Rails at your disposal but if you want to break free of that and use simple ruby classes and handle request/response on your own -- you are very much free to do that.

Perfect example is running Sinatra inside of Rails: https://jacobbednarz.com/posts/sinatra-in-rails

Again: ultimately you have a Rack (ruby, https://rack.github.io) webserver interface that has a Rails app mounted inside of it.

"Rails" is just some code that is running. You can choose to defeat certain parts of it, mount other stuff on the Rack server, turn rails off entirely and just use Activerecord, etc...

I do it all the time.
This article leaves me with several questions: once a website is revealed to be fraudulent, is there not a way for the advertisers to get their money back? And are none of the advertisers suing the people behind the fraudulent websites?
Let me rephrase this to annoy you. Why are we as a society unable to account for positive externalities?

They're externalities. You're probably wrong in the grand century scale scheme of things, heck you're probably wrong in the 5 -10 year scale of things.
> I catch myself reading paragraphs after paragraphs all the while thinking about something else.

Take notes as you read? Taking notes is great because you're doing both information input and output, which helps a lot in memorization and assimilation (information fits with previous information).
That's a bummer to hear.
It works also on tablet.

Android, Termux and Dev Environment
https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2016/09/20/Android-Termux-Dev...
Ads make content available to people with no money to spend. Restricting content to those who can pay, instead of paying by ad placement, is only going to further the divide between social classes.
It may not be the most typical, but it's certainly within the range of common behavior patterns.
Oops, this doesn't actually work, because the captive portal can just let that one request through unmodified...
I've been working on using Service Workers to solve that problem: http://blog.airbornos.com/post/2017/08/03/Transparent-Web-Ap...

I'm planning on making a library to make it easy to make a web app trust-on-first-use. The main blocker is https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1208 (which would fix the non-critical but less-than-ideal issue described under "Service Worker lifecycle" in the blog post).
> Finally, it is worth remembering that the Concorde was a very profitable business for British Airways, with operating profit of ~40% for the Concorde!

You make some good points, but BA received their Concordes for free. It's easy to turn a profit with a 150 million pound gift. Air France did not have it as easy. Boom's customers will not be getting their planes for free. And a 50% efficiency saving does not translate into 75% cheaper tickets. And my experience is that claimed maintenance savings are never as good as promised, and that goes doubly so for the "A" variant of any plane.
Google ‘actively investigating’ reports of Pixel 2 XL screen burn-in
It's pretty much a solved problem for the last two decades. You can use the shape of the wing and fuselage to broaden sound wave, and go supersonic at an angle of attack that sends the brunt of the transition sonic boom above the horizon or at least on a long trajectory to the ground.
How do you plan to change emails? I'm thinking of moving out of Gmail too but didn't decide on a service yet. Office 365 with Exchange sounds good but it's like moving from one monopoly to another I guess.
Great link. It's got Apache! Always wanted to run a web server on my phone.
Go for the extra (but most important) mile, use "Free Software" and not "Open Source".
This site lets you see visualizations of sorting algorithms, and hear them
I suspect the company is named after the sonic boom, not the explosion “boom.”
It's not a small gain for me, it's basically a necessity for keeping RAM low enough. I have 16GB on my work machine, and that's barely enough.
Nice! Maintenance is a pretty big cost a lot of people forget.

How is the recharge situation when you are on a trip?
This would be far more useful if it’s measured in life years, than lives. There is big difference between pollution killing an healthy infant then killing a 86 year old suffering from a terminal illness.
Planes don't go BOOM when they crash. I think you're overreacting.