skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been other accidents where multistage fail safes failed at multiple stages. I’d stand back.
You can build nickel-iron batteries yourself, and they use reasonably easy to source materials. The nickel is expensive though, so they can’t easily compete with lead-acid.
Basically they ship the deck all by itself in a 747.
Is firing people for which party they vote for REALLY a war that you want to get into?

Do you really believe that only Republicans would be targeted?

If this stuff becomes normalized the Left needs to understand that there are a whole lot of powerful conservatives in the world, and that left leaning people will be hurt just as much as right leaning people.

Attacks on open discourse, and freedom of thought hurt EVERYONE. And you should be careful what you wish for.
I used to checking Hacker News and Reddit while my code was compiling.

A solution to "stay in the zone" for me was to just compile in a separate terminal and continue coding while compiling in the background.
My colleague argues that it's ok for Time Warner Spectrum/Comcast to control specific areas and districts because they laid the pipe and own the last mile (when they've decided to). I try and argue that it's anti-competitive and that I shouldn't be held to ransom by 'Rectum for $60/mo (their minimum) if I want reliable internet.

I do see where he's coming from though but I don't know how to counter those arguments as I don't know the history of how all the fiber got laid and who actually "owns" any of it. It seems like the phone lines or water that it's a public good at this point.

Bringing up that example is countered with what a f up all the Baby Bells became.

Anyway, curious as to what some folks here that are much older and might have had a hand in the growth of broadband have to say.
I think municipal fiber is great (we're doing it in rural parts of Maryland right now). That said, throwing around the word "competition" in the context of municipal broadband is disingenuous. Government-supported services don't "compete" with private services, they supplant them. Where municipalities offer water, sewer, or trash pickup, there is almost never any private "competition" for those services.
Assembler and disassember for ForwardCom
Folding and SETI @home existed for more than a decade. I've never understood why nobody mentions them for Proof of work. Maybe the work's not verifiable?

http://folding.stanford.edu
You are absolutely right. On the "regular user" scale it's nearly impossible.

For "celebrity users", it's more scalable and necessary.

Everyone is probably logged into their employee account, and on that scale, I would think Twitter would have everything logged, so they know exactly who did it. But for accounts marked with "Celebrity Status", I would have thought they had something in place that blocks their "regular employees" from being able to delete those accounts without approval, and it must go through some approval of a higher-up. So it is definitely scalable in regards to celebrities, even though there are hundreds to thousands on Twitter, I'd think if I was running Twitter, I'd have just a few select who could actually delete celebrity accounts. After all, it is those celebrity accounts bringing in the most page views.

Hell, I can't install anything on my computer at work without getting administration approval from the IT guy. All email outside of the work email is banned, simply blocked, to protect the data. We work with highly sensitive data, so all applications installed must go through an approval process, submitted to the higher ups, reasons explained for the need of the application, what it is, and why it is being used for work purposes.

So to delete a celebrity account, I would think they would have had similar measures in place. Reasons for deleting the account, approval process, etc.
I wish there was a text explanation, I don't have the patience for video most of the time. How does this technology compare to already-commercialized nickel-iron batteries?

[0] https://ironedison.com/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93iron_battery
I remember reading about Laika when I was a child. Growing up when the space race was really big I remember both countries us and the Russians sending up animals to test how they would react in space before sending up a human.
How is it produced though? I'm guessing in large parts by fossil fuel.
Don't forget to compare launch costs:

From Wikipedia
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Saturn V: $110 million per Vehicle (In 1966 dollars)
equivalent to $16.6 billion in 2016

Falcon Heavy: $90 million (In 2017 dollars)

It really highlights the value of the intellectual capital passed down to us from previous generations. I bet most of the Saturn V cost was R&D.
This was a very futile and stupid gesture on that employee's part.

The important aspect of this story that we should be talking about is the incredibly bad idea it is for the POTUS to use Twitter has is primary communications platform. Twitter is not a defense contractor, they haven't been contracted by the government at all. The only have to operate by their own user agreement, which is wholly insufficient for the role they are playing.

An unknown number of employees with unknown backgrounds have the ability to put words into Trump's mouth, and that doesn't include anyone who manages to hack into a company that doesn't have to conform to government security regulations. They could crash the stock market on a whim. They could destabilize world peace. The potential damage is almost incalculable.

And the person at fault is Trump. Twitter isn't obligated to take care of this guy. He shouldn't be using it in the first place. He just doesn't care.
Everyone without competition. I live in a neighborhood with 3 ISPs offering gigabit service. I use RCN since they're contract-free and cheaper and their service is great (entirely available over Twitter DM, I might add).

The trick is that Comcast and Verizon are also apparently good in my neighborhood. According to multiple neighbors who've moved around the area, service is notably better when you're in the competitive neighborhoods — someone who moved just a few blocks south reported a big difference since they were in the Comcast-and-slow-DSL area. Not surprising since I've heard at least one former employee say that one of the prominent bits of information show onscreen with support calls is the competition level of the caller's address.
Ask HN: What happened to jQuery UI development?
jQuery UI hasn't had a release in over a year, and hasn't has a commit for 5 months straight.

Has there been any official word about the ongoing development of the project, or have developers just moved on to other things?
Kubernetes -> Envoy -> Istio.

Yeah, yeah, it's not rockets to mars or whatever, but I think we've spend DECADES trying to figure out how to abstract away the lower parts of the stack. The last big leap was AWS, and it forced a choice for a lot of people: do you want to work at AWS? or do you want to work on applications that run on AWS? The API is so strong that you can't do both.

There's a similar thing around operating systems, networking tools, and containers. Heroku was a cool PaaS, but ultimately is a little too inflexible to work for everybody. Companies keep rebuilding these internal PaaS systems, and I think Kubernetes has finally nailed it. It's lacking the primitives to do traffic management and introspection, and Envoy / Istio provide those primitives.

Many people see these technologies as an endgame to themselves, but the Istio community has started talking about how they're a platform themselves, and that feels correct. Like AWS, you can abstract away a TON of this stuff, and you will divide people into those that keep a cluster running vs. those that build apps on top of it. The specialization gains will be on the same level as dynamic infrastructure, imho.

Disclaimer: I work at a company that wants to build on top of this new world, but I joined them because I believe this, not the other way around.
> No one will detonate a thousand weapons unless they are declaring total war.

Or if they believe (rightly or wrongly) that the other nuclear power has declared total war. There's been a number of false alarms that have been successfully ignored, but what if one of those false alarms came during the Cuban missile crisis or immediately after the invasion of Afghanistan?
What is "Saturday school"?
Ottawa checking in. I think it's cute you think you have harsh winters. ;)
Just as long as they don't bust them up like they did AT&T. Following the same model used overseas might make more sense. Semi-natural[1] monopolies tend to form for providing access networks. We see this with power, water, gas distribution too. Over building multiple networks costs a lot more than having one good network.

The correct response IMO is:

1. Don't block municipal broadband or new commercial providers, there should be no _forced_ monopoly.

2. Split access providers up into two: the wholesale access network and the services on top. The wholesale access networks offer the same regulated (cost+) terms to any ISP/service provider who wants to reach customers on that network. Now the ISP/TV component of Comcast has to compete on the same terms as any other ISP/TV provider using that access network.

[1] I say semi-natural because in the US they're not natural but regulated and there has been a fair amount of overbuilding in cherry-picked areas.
Yep - that's it.
Automated Analysis of Cybercriminal Markets
The Legal Dangers of the Gig Economy
> I absolutely would not. Those 2 countries know far more about the process then those other countries, and they have the budget to do it right. You would have to duplicate labs, and computers, and other efforts 20 times in your scenario, and each of those labs will not be as good as the 2 higher funded ones.

If your goal is maintaining an arsenal of world-ending weapons cheaply, sure. I am not trying to optimize for that use case.

> No one will detonate a thousand weapons unless they are declaring total war.

Or they think that the other side declared total war. Or they are engaged in a small-scale conventional war, and are afraid the other side will escalate. Or they are escalating, by using tactical weapons, and the other side retaliates with strategical weapons. (Spoilers: Russia has made it very clear that it will use tactical nuclear weapons, against military targets, in an otherwise conventional conflict.) Or there's an intelligence failure, and they believe that they are the target of a sneak attack.

All of these are incredibly plausible ways for a nuclear war to start.
For image resizing, wouldn’t you use the GPU itself (assuming the server has one)? Does Python have a library that works with the GPU for image processing?

I have a Skylake Xeon server with an integrated GPU. Any way to use that with Python?
I think if companies want the best employees they will need to change established culture or risk losing them to a more modern company with an open mindset
"This was a very futile and stupid gesture on that employee's part."

Doesn't look like it to me. You're talking and thinking about it, aren't you?
Indeed, an encrypted bookmark manager in Tor browser would be cool.

Also see this blog post: https://blog.torproject.org/cooking-onions-names-your-onions
I suspect you're getting downvoted (though not by me) because the hashing computation doesn't directly provide that.

Other proof of work algorithms could concurrently secure the block chain and also provide direct, external benefit. There are some suggestions elsewhere in this thread. :)
> Renjin allows the user to plugin best-of-class implementations of BLAS, LAPACK, and FFT,

Makes sense. Why, if you want numerics that were traditionally written in Fortran, of course you have to go to JVM. :)
The field of deep learning seems to produce breakthrough results every other day.
I am not an expert in those either... do you mean something like maybe gruntjs?

I wish there was a way to drive cars without the need to be an auto mechanic.
Some tips from a software engineering work from home vet to successfully work remote. Work the same hours as your onsite counter parts, just having tools like slack and jira won't help if you're working outside the same time window during your day. You have to be transparent and give detailed information on your tickets. Always track your hours on tickets, and you need to be very careful about making sure your tickets are do-able within 1-2 days and you're closing tickets with equal or greater velocity than your onsite counterparts.
Where are the healthcare blockchains? Open-sourcing the landscape map
I'm switching to RCN this weekend because I just realized it's the same price as my current service except gigabit instead of my current 150 mbps plan. I'm not sure why I never looked into it before. Sadly it's not municipal, but it's still better than throwing money away on Comcast.
t0 = science dataset S1 => claim "cooling!" -> everyone disagreeing is heretic! There will not be a dataset S1+S2 contradicting implication of S1! Our science is correct 4 evah!

t1 = science dataset S1+S2 => claim "warming!" -> everyone disagreeing is heretic.

There will be no t2 with a dataset of S1+S2+S3 that would contradict S1+S2! Our Science(tm) is correct 4 eveh!
I'm always amazed by how expressive Mathematica is. Writing some of these expressions imperatively would be significantly more than one line.
You only care about diversity involving people from socioeconomic or racial groups associated with poverty or historical oppression.

That ignores so many other kinds of diversity in the world.

Your definition is far too exclusive and narrow minded.
Yeah it's a combo of that and also just a check on the CV that reads the checks. Mainly it's the latter since it'll be really rare for people to maliciously enter an incorrect amount.
This might be a bit in the weeds but this is related to broadcom moving their head quarters back to the US. If you work in the merger arbitrage space you'll know about CIFUS, the US committee on foreign investment.

Since the silicon space has had so many deals recently and is looking at more consolidation, moving their headquarters back to the US removes one possible legal obstacle to buying up other semi conductors chip makers as CIFUS won't review any deals where a US company buys another US company.

I mean, broadcom's sweetheart deal with Singapore is almost over as well, so the financial benefits are probably over. That probably plays into their move as well:)

If this ploy works, look for several Chinese companies to buy US companies and looking to do reverse takeovers to get a US address for their company to attempt to avoid the CIFUS review.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/02/news/companies/broadcom-sing...
And how long have they been milking that for? Boss says “make us the most money you can figure out how to”, finance people optimize for the most short-term profits because they’re required to.

We must also consider the legal frameworks which allow such companies to operate in these ways. I don’t have my energy company sending me emails and mailers urging me to get PG
It makes an amazing about of sense from a layman's point of view. On a human-sized scale, it's like that plastic bucket you left out in the cold rain. It's a heck of a lot more likely to break when it's sloshing around.
I think people misunderstand Comcast. They're arguably more in the business of retailing/financial services than anything having to do with TCP/IP or DOCSIS.

Americans as a whole are horrible at managing money. They don't pay their bills on time, have tons of credit card debt, etc. This isn't my opinion, it's cold hard reality: look at the subprime crisis, debt burden, charge-offs/delinquencies, etc. Frankly, the crowd reading this website is just way out of touch with the reality of the situation.

For municipalities where people are responsible and there's a real sense of community, sure, do municipal broadband. I'm sure it works sometimes, but for my money, I'd rather pay the extra $5-10/month and not have to be a bill collector to my neighbor. I pay $40/month for 50Mbps Comcast and I'm fine with it.
Spun 4.3 BSD unix in some years back. Surely i will put in chronological perspective today. Then U will feels incomplete compared to modern system.
I don't really think you're disagreeing. If Twitter wants to promote free expression, which I would think of as supporting the ideal of free speech, then they shouldn't ban Trump. If Twitter wants to ban Trump then they are in conflict with the ideal of free speech, or in your terms they aren't promoting freedom of expression by banning Trump.

Twitter has claimed in their own promotional material to support free expression, so it may be a bit disingenuous for you to suggest they may not want to promote free expression.
Yes, things That should “just work”, don’t. At all. For reasons that require expertise to uncover and even deeper expertise to solve. With solutions that may cause issues later. Talk about shaving the yak.
There are things I like about California and I lived there for a total of around 12 years. I recently left and I am shocked at how much nicer people are where I currently live.

I don't know what California needs to do to get its head out of its butt. These are clearly systemic problems. I am incredibly concerned about the trend of tech giants who are, for example, pro Basic Income while they live in the San Francisco Bay Area and can't treat their own employees decently and can't solve problems locally.

I am baffled as to why anyone takes their social theories at all seriously. They are, to some degree, the architects of the dire situation in the SFBA, but they think they can cure the country of its social woes by throwing money at the problem.

This sounds to me like virtue signalling, not like they have any clue what they are talking about. It sounds like trying to deflect the justified anger of the masses with Good Intentions while continuing to be part of the problem.

On the one hand, some of them make the news for how much they want to give to charity or whatever. On the other, some of the same names make the news for how badly they treat their own employees. Sometimes people point this out, but, more often, people debate the so called merits of their proposed solutions without going "Hey, isn't this the same guy who just did [shitty thing du jour] to their own employees?"

I am pretty fed up. I have started fussing at the president via tweet. I am waiting for the FBI to show up at my door. Because silencing (or turning a deaf ear to) the people being crapped on in this country instead if taking their problems seriously seems to be par for the course for the rich, including our real estate mogul president.

I wish someone would make me look like a fool by proving such assertions wrong. Sadly, I think that is increasingly unlikely.
I think that’s a bit of a straw-man. You can be critical of the NYT _and_ Brietbart (I know I am!).
> That time would be better spent working on a prospect who saw your information and didn't disqualify themselves right from the jump.

The problem is that everyone will say they don't need what you're selling, even if they do. You want to disqualify folks as fast as possible, but email doesn't work for that because even if you're selling the cure to cancer to someone with cancer, you're still going to have basically a 100% false negative rate.
Doesn't X509 certs tell what they are used for? Such as binary signing versus TLS signing?
Call up your representatives and tell them that you won’t vote to re-elect them unless they turn down the lobbying efforts. I get that this sucks but this is literally why companies like Comcast are allowed to continue their shenanigans.
Pacific bell laid the cable. The Rockefellers dug the oil they sold for less than the competition could.
The thing is none of these things happened in a vacuum. Everything has externalities. People enjoy considering other people as independent creatures but we're all working within the limitations of each other. We grow up in hives, learn in hives, go to work in hives, and eventually form hives we die in that we like to call our own.
No one owns anything. If someone claims to, ask them again in one hundred years.
Futile in that it lasted for all of 11 minutes, and I didn't need this to happen to have been thinking about it.

Also it's a reference to Animal House. It just... seemed to fit.
Since we're on the topic, I'd like to point out that DT routinely breaks Twitters TOS with respect to abusive behavior [0] but twitter won't kill the goose that lays the golden publicity eggs. Now we find out that they were trying to sell massive amounts of ads to RT [1]. Remember kids, social media is not your friend.

[0]: https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311
[1]: https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/01/twitter-offered-russian-...
Yes! This still gives me goosebumps.

I couldn't stand the 1989 [X-Men:_Pryde_of_the_X-Men] theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1qrbAGsEOw&feature=youtu.be...

facepalm
Ask HN: Best Exchange to Trade Cryptocurrency
Hello HN,

What are the recommended Cryptocurrency Exchanges for USA Citizens and Non-US citizens to trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero etc?

Please include brief pros and cons as to why the exchange is being recommended.

Thank you
The underlying commands can still be logged.

Hell, often it is useful to launch a X11 program via a terminal as they will dump useful messages that way.

And said output can also be captured in logs elsewhere.

One example of such would be SMPlayer. This is a Qt based media player that wrap MPlayer (and more recently the MPlayer fork MPV). But you can still access the MPlayer CLI output by either launching SMPlayer from a terminal, or going opening the log window from one of its menus.
Thank you for sharing the links. Is there a pure JavaScript library that helps with reading and writing data from/to Google private spreadsheet? From the links above, I think node-google-speadsheet repo comes closest to what I'd like to achieve, but it uses node, which I'm not very familiar with.
Apple taps $900B after a blowout fourth quarter
Why wouldn't they just M&A? Just curious.
An iOT device that dispenses Unicorn Chow.

"That's Unicorn food? Looks like Froot Loops to me."
I‘d actually like to be called innovator rather than Rockstar, as well as prefer working with innovators than people behaving like Rockstars...

EDIT:

(Besides that, i agree, realizing this was still the n.io thread after posting this, there’s definitely no reason to take this shop seriously...)
https://twitter.com/en/tos:

"You understand and agree that the Services are provided to you on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis."

and

"The Twitter Entities make no warranty or representation and disclaim all responsibility and liability for: (i) the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any Content;"

Doesn't feel like something you should be conducting international diplomacy with...
That would research and provide custom workarounds for all modules that don’t work, by themselves, or in this configuration, for reasons not yet known? I’d love that.
Assuming the connection is reliable, I'd pay double the price for half the speed if it meant I got to call Spectrum and tell them where to put their plan.