skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"how hard would it be for someone to hack into the spacecraft by sending it a signal"

You'd need to totally own the DSN. According to the Wiki:

Because of the enormous distances and the resultant weak signals from the spacecraft, the large antennas and the very sensitive receivers of the DSN are required to provide the necessary communications capabilities. The DSN is the world's largest and most sensitive spacecraft communications network. It consists of three deep space communications complexes located approximately 120 degrees of longitude apart around the world: at Goldstone, California; near Madrid, Spain; and near Canberra, Australia. This placement permits continuous communication with a spacecraft.
Well, the relative claims ignorance of the post... so likely a fake.
New Yorker articles seem overly long for no good reason.
As ssijak pointed out, there's nothing to slingshot around.

The additional speed we might get out of it is tiny compared to the 17km/s it already has.

If they used what little fuel was left to go faster, then wouldn't be able to communicate with the Earth. The current goal is to get information about what's at the edge of the solar system.

We know it's not going anywhere close to anything, any time soon. Wikipedia says "in about 40,000 years, it will pass within 1.6 light-years of the star Gliese 445".

And for all we know, if it goes faster it might pass by some destination it would reach now.
Spend a little of it, save most of it.

I would quickly adjust to my new standard of living and continue doing everything else the same.

$60k/year is not near enough for those of us with a family.
WaPo and NYT can be counted on to amplify every rush to war and every expansion of the suveylance state. This is where the assumption of accuracy turn insidious.
> They can eat warfarin-laced poison food like it's candy.

question : where does such food come from, and why?
The title of the article is that AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime. OP responded saying he did not forget the blocking of FaceTime and that along with other reasons prompted him to move to T-Mobile. Nowhere did OP say he had not forgotten that AT&T violated net neutrality, that is an assumption you made.
No, the OP said they had no forgotten that AT&T blocked face time traffic.
Oh come on, he answered his own question:

> To my earlier question as to why the university would pursue this course, the easy and obvious response is that the traditionalist architecture of the old colleges has become essential to Yale’s identity...

> When the decision was made [in 1958] to add two colleges ...Yale chose to go modern and to hire Eero Saarinen... he rose to the challenge magnificently.

> Admittedly, acceptance of Morse and Stiles Colleges was fitful. I’ll confess that when I entered Yale as a freshman in 1969 I was pleased to be assigned to ... [a] Gothic quadrangles — and not to one of the “new” residences. After taking Vincent Scully’s course in modern architecture and learning of Saarinen’s importance...

OK, so the traditional aping of Oxbridge is an important part of Yale's branding and he himself is a testament to that. Yet he thinks they should do something essentially inauthentic? As he says elsewhere himself in this essay, dorms are different from academic buildings, and are a crucial part of branding.

MIT also built some Saarinen dorms and I remember people living in them being unhappy with them just on a functional basis.

This would be just as good as a parody of the out-of-touch humanist, except I know it's authentic.
Yeah, but your needs aren't the only needs. Would you want to restrict voting in your jurisdiction to only homeowners?
> Thankfully, pharmaceuticals are regulated, whereas chargers and t-shirts aren't...

Except, they are.

To begin with, selling counterfeit goods is flat out illegal.

Electronics have safety standards they are supposed to be tested against. Even clothing has safety standards around flammability.

If you dig deeply into generic drugs, they actually aren't all that well regulated[http://fortune.com/2013/01/10/are-generics-really-the-same-a...]. Legally a generic drug only has to be 80% as effective as the brand name drug it replaces, for psychoactive compounds that can be the difference between working and not working at all. Not so great for anti-depressants (or the vast majority of other compounds for that matter...)
Since this is talking about basic income, please allow me to digress a little and ask a few things that have been on my mind for a while.
World GDP per capita is $1,400
Only need to make all people capable of 3.5X more productive, and we'd all be able to live at that rate with some universal income + universal work.
Maybe the UBI idea shouldn't be decoupled from universal work. If we truly believe humans are worth giving $5K a month, surely we can devise a way that they can be given that no for free (without inflation, or whatnot, just plain old more distributed production.)
Should making people more productive (distributing the means of production) be concentrated on much more than just redistributing the already existing wealth.
Also look up Walmart's $4 for a months prescription for common generic medicines (or $10 for three months.) Its cheaper than a cup of coffee in many places. https://www.walmart.com/cp/4-dollar-presscriptions/1078664
Yes, I think this sentence oversimplifies things. The conclusions should be divided between:

1) Most open source software written and released today

2) Most open source software you use

The code in category #2 is much older on average.

Most people here use bash every day, but as far as I can tell, there's about one person behind it, who doesn't get paid for it (Chet Ramey).

And you're right that a lot of projects start free, and then get commercial contribution once they are valuable. Linux, git, hg, and Python all fit that profile.

In the "non-company" category, I would put Linux, git, hg, gcc, Apache. A lot of people still use Apache. nginx was in this category too until very recently.

SVN is interesting because it was started by a company (CollabNet), but I believe they diverged and the company no longer had much economic interest in it.

Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is that the story is really complicated. It's not as simple as what's in that Tweet.
The interesting thing is that some drug manufacturers contract directly with pharmacies cutting out the wholesalers.
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$257 million? Who are the morons keeping this hamster wheel spinning?
Disclaimer: work for, but don't speak for, Digital Science. Am not involved in the grants.

I'll try and add that as a boilerplate disclaimer on each comment, but to be very clear I am not speaking for DS at all. While I like DS (otherwise I'd work elsewhere), I'm very sceptical of blockchain things.

I think this would be more valid as a criticism if it was the only grant available. DS run, typically, two per year which have no requirements like this. $30k is not nothing but it's also not a huge funding round (nor is it intended to be), it's a kick to get some ideas off the ground

To be honest, I'd be surprised if you went to them with "this is not a blockchain but it solves the exact same problems of distributed trustless consensus with x y z, but more efficiently" and got a bad response.

Sure, there's a lot of hype, but there's also not really that much actually built using the tech. Sounds like a fairly reasonable thing to give a bit of money to people to actually build things.
Yes, it's evidently, demonstrably, the case that ideas have value, because this is enshrined the concept of intellectual property. Even in a world where IP didn't exist, his statement would be wrong, because there will always be people who can sell an idea, and the value of something is exactly what someone else will pay for it.
Or start cheering for nationspanning American football games with other santient probes.
Interestingly I'm finding it harder and harder to find good howtos. Most of them offer too little, too specogic topic, or vaguely generic examples.
Who is turning out long-range electric semis? Certainly not GM, Ford, and Toyota. They're still laughing.

Anyway, Tesla isn't about dominating the /entire/ electric car market. They're a premium brand like Apple. They're not trying to make econobox cars. The Model 3 is probably close to the cheapest car they'll make.

And yeah, you can make really, really cheap electric cars. Just as cheap as conventional cars (and as we make advances in battery economics, nearly the same range... though the longer range ones will always have a slight mark-up).

But GM is not selling many Bolts and not planning to. It works as a halo car for them, and by only producing a few tens of thousands of EVs per year, GM can stretch out their EV credits for many years longer than Tesla. (The Bolt MSRPs for greater than the Model 3.)

The Bolt is also more vulnerable to a cut in the EV tax credit. (Tesla knew the credit would go away for them soon anyway.)

The Bolt also doesn't have access to the speedy and extensive Tesla supercharger network. This, besides the brand value, is one of Tesla's premier advantages over everyone else.

But I don't think it's necessary for everyone else to fail at electric cars in order for Tesla to succeed.
"American idiocracy"

So this is why Uber and its clones are so popular in all kinds of countries from India to China to South East Asia? To be honest it is you who seems like the less traveled one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

https://pando.com/2014/03/30/court-docs-google-hiked-wages-t...
Bankruptcy can definitely be in the creditor's interest. It can take possession of the company's assets, and then sell them off to recover principal (in addition to many other outcomes - bankruptcy is complicated).

Debt incentives do not align with equity.
Terrible analogy. Nazi execution was horrible post invasion of France. Hitler's conservative generals hadn't foreseen how effective their blitzkrieg tactics were at the beginning of the war. That justified his own delusional view of his own greatness and Nazi superiority, even though he & the Nazi's had nothing to do with the success, it came from german armies brilliant strategies/tactics/training/soldiers and preparation.

So then Hitler stopped listening to his generals, and went on to micromanage the war, and made one terrible decision after another.

• Not invading Britain before starting a war with the USSR, where Germany was outnumbered by over 3-1.

• Focusing the Russian invasion n Moscow instead of the far more important strategic objective of Kursk's oil fields. Not only did Germany needed more oil, but Kursk was also nearly the USSR's only supply. They got close to Kursk, but didn't destroy tthe oil fields when they fell short, and Germany's war efforts was handicapped by oil shortages the rest of the war. Your air force can't use it's superiority if it can't leave the ground, and neither can your tank commanders if their tanks can't start.

• Sending a million man army to attack Stalingrad when it had little strategic value, then abandoned it, losing every single man. When you are outnumbered 3-1, you can't fight wars of attrition, every man counts.

• Rejected the Army's plan to liberate Ukrainians and recruit them to fight as allies against the USSR. This would have almost evened the man-power disadvantage with a fresh supply of soldiers who hated the USSR. Instead he declared them sub-human, ordering them liquidated to make "living space" for Germany, and turned Ukrainian resistance behind German lines into a devastatingly powerful asset of the USSR.

• Ordered the ME-262, by far the worlds fastest fighter, to be launched with bomb mounts that slowed it substantially so it could only be used as fighter bomber, while Germany was being bombed relentlessly and had lost command of it's own skies.

• Wasting huge amounts of resources on wonder-weapons such as the V1, V2, that had almost no impact on the Allies war efforts.

• Also includes the Maus and Tiger Tanks, which sucked resources away from building more of their best tank, the Panther.
I believe it is fermented cabbage.
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> Most open source software is written by programmers who are full-time employed by companies which directly consume the software, at the explicit or implicit blessing of their employers. It is not charity work, any more than they charitably file taxes.

There are perhaps 1000 OSS projects that make up the software you use on a daily basis. Many of these have core developers or maintainers who are hired by a company to write or maintain that software for them to consume.

But there are literally millions more open source projects, almost entirely developed by hobbyists.

Github alone has 24 million developers, with 67 million repos (25 million of which are public), and 1.5 million organizations, in 200 countries. The top languages used there are JS, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, C++, CSS, C#, Go, and C. (Github, btw, is not the only repository of open source code)

Most open source software is most definitely not written by one kind of dev. But there _is_ an underlying motivator behind almost all open source: "I need this code." As long as there is someone who needs it passionately enough to take it upon themselves to craft and produce it, without regard to commercial gain, it will stay alive. Open Source is basically woodworking, and our computers are the chisels and saws.
A standard medical ID bracelet is probably a better way to handle this for anyone out there that has a DNR signed.
While I think this is sad, it’s been clear where the wind is blowing for quite some time.

Lots of equivalent publications (PC format, Amiga format, etc) called it quits long ago. Surely it must be more than a decade ago?

Amazing how a magazine for a “free” culture somehow managed to postpone the inevitable(?) closure for so long really.
That's pre Bitcoin inflation. Its probably valued over a billion USD now, assuming they kept a decent chunk of the BTC in BTC.
Then part of the process becomes quantifying what additional data is needed and determining how to generate or otherwise gather that data
I think he means this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder
Ask HN: Don't paginate Who's Hiring thread
Can we turn off pagination on the Who's Hiring post? It makes search much less useful. The search tool linked from the post only searches a single page.
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There are lots of people that would like to live in places that they cannot.

> Let me keep the option of living in a single family home.

This is the basic demand that effectively all of the current residents of everywhere are making.

Why not let me have the option of living in dense urban housing? If not your city or your neighborhood, then which one?

Currently, pretty much every city and every neighborhood is vetoing any increase in density anywhere. Political conflict is inevitable!
But why do we get those domain names if there (supposedly) is an existing wildcard certificate?
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It's related to anti-discrimination / "psychology-test" laws. If there is any sort of "test" given as a condition of employment, it must be relevant, standardized, non-biased, reviewed by specialists and approved, etc.

http://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Test1...

The value and definition of "IQ" is widely disputed and generally seen as of limited relevance to the actual work and performance of that work (uncorrelated). Look it up and do some research if you're interested, this is just a quick showing of _why_ tests may be considered bad.
Subject to change at any time of course. I used to enjoy the occasional article from WSJ, now I just get annoyed when I see one of their headlines because I know I can't read the article.
While there are problems with the way statistics are used by scientists and others, the elephant in room is the incentive system. p-hacking and the like result from the need to get “exciting and publishable” results on a consistent basis or effectively be fired (the simple path is no “sexy” results -> no “high quality” papers -> no grant funding -> no job).

A possible solution that I have not seen proposed (this is mostly likely my ignorance) is for journals to only accept/reject research proposals, not finished papers. The journal would publish the resulting paper no matter the outcome of the research.
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You are aware, I assume, that the Winklevoss twins were awarded $65 million for "their" idea?
You forget how big space is.
Australia just switched on the world's biggest battery
A UBI is supposed to only cover basic needs, most basic goods compete heavily on price so if the market as a whole raised their prices to take advantage of the increased available funds that would open up a space for a smaller company to capture more of the market by keeping their prices low.

The biggest risk for exploitation of UBI is in housing, but that is already a problem even without UBI.

On another note a $5k per month UBI would be excessive, I personally prefer starting with a $1k per month UBI and slowly ramping up to $2k then inflation adjusting from there.
You may not know this but a primary purpose of Mensa is to help "smart" people find other "smart" people to socialize with. In that sense it succeeds (I'm a member).
Afaik the standard setup of Debian and Ubuntu is to install UnattendedUpgrades with automatic periodic installation of security updates. These aren't supposed to come with functional changes beyond patching security bugs, but there's no theoretical reason a security-patch couldn't bootstrap netbsd and change the entire os. It's code that runs as root.

To be clear: I think this is a great default configuration, and it's been a long time coming - but it's just not true afaik that Debian/Ubuntu won't auto-update at all in the default configuration.

[ed: Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

"As of Debian 9 (Stretch) both the unattended-upgrades and apt-listchanges packages are installed by default and upgrades are enabled with the GNOME desktop."]
What is a phone call, if not "a conversation that self-destructs after it's done"?

Not commenting on how the law (which was written before "apps" existed) treats it, but on the true nature of a phone call vs. a messaging app.
Because it has the distinct possibility of replacing a large segment of the current banking complex?
This sounds impossible. And I don't mean "really hard and will take a long time" impossible but "actually this literally cannot be done" impossible.