skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming Heavens Above [1] is right this satellite will have a maximum magnitude of 4 which is really faint. There are over 500 brighter stars in the night sky [2].

If this is supposed to be an ad for Rocket Lab(I suppose it is, after all we already have ISS orbiting over us) they could do a lot better.

[1] http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=43168 (set your location in the top right corner)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude

edit: spelling
Isn't this mostly nomenclature?

That is, mercurial bookmarks are like git branches, yes?

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-me... says:

"Branching with bookmarks is very close to the way git usually handles branching. Mercurial bookmarks are like git refs: named pointers to changesets that move on commit. The biggest difference is that git refs are transferred when pushing/pulling and Mercurial bookmarks are not."
https://xkcd.com/1747/
I've been toying with a conceptual project that would propose to build a large-ish structure (monolith) on the moon which would serve multiple long term goals.

1. Be large enough and positioned strategically to cast a shadow or project an image onto the surface of the moon large enough to be seen with the eye (or minimal telescopic aid). The image would be a clear indication to any intelligent beings that another intelligent being had placed it there intentionally and, with enough resolution, communicate wavelength and modulation information for #2.

2. Be a solar-powered radio transceiver sending signals to earth on the specified wavelength which repeatedly communicate information about the monolith and additional frequencies to send codes and receive more data to access deeper, denser information. These additional frequencies and codes would be used to unlock designs for rockets, telemetry, etc. necessary for intelligent and resourceful beings to travel from earth to the monolith location on the moon.

3. On the outside of the monolith would be carved further information on how to access the deepest storage of the monolith and decode the digital information within.

4. The inside of the monolith would contain the densest data storage containing the sum total of human knowledge, as well as cryogenically frozen embryos and genetic information for various species of Earth from our time period (including us, of course) and data on how they could possibly be unfrozen, replicated and/or brought back to life.

Assuming what I've outlined is possible, this project would leverage our best shared satellite (the moon) to create a shared experience (the monolith projection) and also serve as a time capsule that could outlive us should any of the many existential threats posing our species come to pass before we establish ourselves in space. Call it the ultimate hedge.

Given the stability of the moons surface, nothing short of a close impact would disturb this monument to humanity and our shared knowledge. And should our surviving descendants, a future evolved intelligent species, or a visitor from another star come to find Earth, they would also potentially find our legacy, and give us the faintest chance at being restored.

Anyone think I have a chance at raising a few 10s of billion with on kickstarter? Or else got a personal line to Elon?

PS - Yes, 2001 was an inspiration and I have definitely been envisioning the 1:4:9 design when thinking about this.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26690210 - doses of 1885, 2802 and 6235 IU per day are required for normal weight, overweight and obese individuals respectively to achieve natural 25(OH)D concentrations (defined as 58 to 171 nmol/L)
Json is a serialization format. gRPC is both a serialization format and a DDL (data definition language).

That means that you are storing your schema, which also happens to contain interoperability features.

...and the serialization format is more efficient.
It is not from a bitcoin giveaway for sure. I guess I just played with it, too bad I can not see the transaction history.
That's very nice, for all companies that are not part of the SV ecosystem this will be a major asset.
mm and MM are very common ways express "million" in finance.
M, mm, MM all mean the same thing.
That is my intuition, yeah, but that makes me pretty worried about hammering hot keys and the like with regards to Cluster.

I also don't mind running Kafka, though, so I may not be the target audience.
Versioning your API is one huge benefit and better done using proto/rpc. If you change your Json schema, have fun propagating that change to all clients without fear. Or hope you've built special infra to do that.

Also "just more efficient" is a funny way to characterize the performance difference between just data bytes vs data + structure bytes (read: the gap is large). You gain in transmission and you gain during deserialization / parsing.

Here is an example.

{"My key":"my value"} has n=21 characters. When you parse you must scan the whole 21 characters O(n), every time, just to read the thing.

If you instead store this in fixed size bytes, where you have some fixed # of bytes that tell you "my value starts at address 0x43", then you can skip to just the values you care about. You don't need brackets or quotes. And you can use other nifty tricks to compress the binary representation further for savings on the wire.
Aaaand this is why code-as-law is a shit idea.
Hundreds Register for New Facebook Website – News – The Harvard Crimson
LOL using the Manchester bombing as reason. First terrorist incidents are so rare you might as well argue that you need your phone in case of a plane crash.

Secondly, these events have security, crowd control, management, etc, all with their own phones. Emergency services doesn't need a thousand simultaneous calls. In a genuine mass emergency there is a lot more important needs for network access than providing people the opportunity Instagram/Facebook about their experience.

If friends and family have to wait a little while longer to hear from you in an extremely rare emergency, that's a small price to pay for the large benefit. You can't fully experience a concert or show when you are distracted by your or someone else phones.

This technology makes the "no phones" policy work. I don't have to be made to feel like an a-hole calling for an usher to deal with phone users, or worry about them or their friends harassing or assaulting me for doing it. It makes the experience better for everyone.

A few weeks ago Joe Rogan spoke about how he's now using Yondr at all of his shows, because despite how expensive it is for him, it has significantly improved the show dynamics for his entire audience.
I find it telling that you don't have 'walk' as an option. Are you in the US? Where I live 15% of people walk to work.
With a startup, you can setup KPIs. The author of this piece mentions growth as the main one and to focus on that. How was the author able to measure his growth as a photographer?
Well there was an app named "NameTag" back in 2014 that promised to find pictures online from a potential match [1], and some russian dude was matching pictures of strangers in the Moscow metropolitan train with online available pictures (I cannot find the article anymore unfortunately)

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/nametag-facial-recognition-app-checks...
Some obscure C features
If you're paying editors under-the-table to create a page for SEO purposes (what the article advocates), it kinda sounds like it should be deleted...
There's also snowflakedb which was in the news today after getting a pile of funding. Though it seems to be cloud-only, not something you can run yourself.
> Do they really want only a limited ability to access encrypted data? Again, I don't know.

These arguments were all hashed out in the 1990's CALEA discussions. Assertions were made to "Trust Us", only limited use of the automated phone tapping requirements are envisioned.

A few years later the CALEA technical requirements for tapping capacity were published.

If I recall correctly (these are old bits), the capacity for the number of concurrent taps the FBI required for Manhattan was approximately the number of simultaneous off-hook phone lines expected for that size population. In other words, "capture it all".

That's how "limited use" tends to go.
Who is on the "final lap" here?
I am pretty happy with my Lumens. I got them during the initial airdrop and then later I got more. I followed on and off what is happening and Stellar really looks promising to me. Transactions go very quickly, api is decent and fairly easy to work with.

As far as Coinbase, I don't think they are very good in handling things, BitcoinCash didn't go well. It would make sense for them to support Stellar, but who knows what they are planning to do. It would make sense to support a bunch of other as well.
Given the high cost of healthcare in the US, the lack of affordable housing and other constraints, no, this is not merely an issue of lack of personal restraint.
Easy to Make Pre-Workout Snacks
It's not survivorship bias because no one claimed that all Roman concrete was better than all modern concrete.

The point is that the vast majority of modern concrete, especially using rebar, will last decades compared to some Roman concrete, which has lasted millenia.
Choosing the Right Tech Stack for Your Mobile App
> It was almost as if Hiroaki had never existed.

Bullshit. When I die, if all that is remembered of me are the things in my apartment, then it doesn't really matter if I was alone at the time or who cleans it up.

I'm willing to bet he made a lasting impression on somebody. Friends, coworkers, etc. If not, then having kids or someone living with him wouldn't have mattered.

I definitely get the feeling the message of this article is "make sure you have kids so you don't die alone and forgotten", which is stupid for several reasons.
If I thought that every single person who leaves a job leaves because of their manager, I would have said "ten out of ten times" or "always." But what I actually said was "seven out of ten times." :)
Im watching the blackjack game for 9 years, year on year more people are winning and making big bucks.
This game is clever because nobody can cheat.

Even time I think I should play another hand, some new technology gets invented that makes more money for the players in the game.

Even some of the scammy non-blackjack games that people keep making, which act like blackjack (and the players also keep making money).

But there is no way i will ever take part in blackjack because gambling is wrong and stupid.
Ask HN: How Would a Bitcoin Futures Contract Expiration Affect Current Price?
When the 1st Bitcoin Futures contract expired on 17th Jan, the blogs and media called it a "Win for the Bears" and there was a widespread sell off. https://cointelegraph.com/news/first-bitcoin-futures-contract-expires-at-10900-win-for-bears

The next one, the CME Bitcoin Futures, expires tomorrow.

I'm seeing a lot of trading charts, and all kinds of analysis on tradingview.com, reddit and other places, but am having a hard time understanding anything.

My question is, how does a futures contract expiration affect the current price of the security (bitcoin in this case) on the day of expiration.

When the 1st contract expired, bitcoin was at $10,900 whereas the contract was sold initially in Dec for almost $17,000.

Right now, bitcoin (BTC) has been mostly stagnant for the last 2 days, trading between $10,000 and $11,500. Given that this price range is well below the $17,000 Dec price, what would it mean for Bitcoin / BTC tomorrow? Will it go down, or up, and if so, why? Why would it (once again) be a "win for the bears"? [I do know what a Bear and Bull is].

From what I understand, a Futures contract is bought or sold to hedge against risks for the underlying asset. Ex: Buying corn futures to hedge against corn price fluctuations. In case of bitcoin though, there is no underlying asset, right?
Thousand is M.
Modern humans left Africa much earlier
If the early bird people run the world, isn't that proof enough that it is good to be an early bird?
M stands for 'thousand':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals
This is bs... an extension of people leaving their facebook logged in and complaining that it was "hacked" or claiming someone using a game shark "hacked" the game.
Maybe as "toy sets" of magnets; it seems there's a ton of back and forth.

That said, you can get spherical rare-earth magnets here:

https://www.kjmagnetics.com/products.asp?cat=12

...though a set of such won't be cheap, depending on the size of the magnets wanted.
Self-important self-promoter versus wikipedia aspie. I think we've seen this film before.
Hopefully they will give a public post mortem report with lessons learned.
Actually, MM in Roman numerals is 2,000, not a million.
They dropped Bitcoin because transaction fees are really high, and the bitcoin core team has no intention of solving the problem.

Maybe in 18 months, when the mythical lightning network gets released they will add it back. But not now.
I’d be curious as to the details of this program.

The post is mostly focused on the “why”.

Duration, inaugural class start date, size of program, YC resources committed to program, cost in terms of cap table, criteria for eligibility, etc
correct. that would be 'gold speculation' which I believe is a gentleman's way of saying gambling.
Mary Ellen Dugan Chief Marketing Officer of WP Engine says there is a shift already occurring from personalization to predictive personalization. https://latechnews.org/digital-trends-2018-infographic/ . Check out her info-graphic.
I’m not sure this person was actually a troll. The author really isn’t that notable and the tips she gives are odious casting further doubt on the need for this particular article.
Yeah that seems to be baked into the HTML, then they run something client side (when the JS finally loads, took forever) to actually go and check.
Context is important. You should read about why those two (completely unrelated) things came about when they did.

For example, there was a period of history where it was much safer to drink beer all day instead of water. Without context, that sounds like a really bad idea.
As with most arguments of this nature it sounds OK-ish until it gets concrete. There is no way to scale the cost of cracking encryption to future computing capability. It's like saying "A terabyte! Consumers will never be able to store a terabyte!"

Widespread cracking of 10 year old encryption would be a security disaster, which is why cryptographers think in terms of astronomical numbers, not earthly scales.

Lastly, why, given their track record, are you willing to take US law enforcement at their word? Do they deserve that consideration? Like any potentially deadly tool, law enforcement has to be approached with caution.
sure. just really bad ones. like the DAO.
Must be intermittent. I'm able to stream on my laptop and phone no problem here.
Burning Down the Castle: 5 years of kernel maintainership [video]
The conclusion left me feeling like I missed something. Like I missed the words mouthed by a hostage right before they said how wonderful their captors are.
wow i had no idea they did this! this was one of the reasons Basecamp felt able to move over. Now, if you haven't done it already, you can't. It's all medium.com's content.
It turns out there are people who literally believe that having multiple people in a room is 'productive' even when there is no agenda, no goal and no fucking point to doing so. So that kind of person sees 'being at the office at the same time as other people' as a goal in itself.
Your selfish benefit hurts everyones experience. So they aren't "considerable", and you have a choice not to go to events with Yondr. People at events without Yondr have to deal with mobile phones making everyones experience worse, and there is little they can do about it.
I recommend the classic "Getting Things Done When You’re Only a Grunt" ´https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/25/getting-things-don...
I recently saw a preview of a Pixar movie before the public release, and their solution was to make us put our phones in an extremely crinkly bag that would make noise if we tried to open it to surreptitiously video the screen. But we could still access them in an emergency. It wouldn't work at a loud concert, of course.
Hah. I'm not sure it would matter that much to me if I were the only person who saw the flaws. Comp, work-life balance, interesting problems, and a minimum of local bullshit are what matter to me. My coworkers' attitude toward the company, be it positive or negative, or dysfunctions in another organization ten thousand people away from me, are much less influential on my well-being. That's just my take, obviously everyone else is entitled to their own priorities and I wouldn't look down on anyone for caring about the stance of the company as a whole. It's just not me.
Is it just me, or is the NME site completely broken?
It does seem like it's always Wyden though. Wish we had a few more like him.
My feeling is that Redis itself is good enough for job queues so that there is not a huge pressure to improve it with Disque.

I actually implemented yet another job framework[0] for fun in Python with Redis and it was a pleasure. Lua, pub/sub and atomic operations really go a long way!

[0] https://github.com/NicolasLM/spinach
Seems a bit of an odd design choice (especially since it would keep saying everything is fine when it fails).
If you don't want these "features", then the easiest option is to delete .xpi files under "/usr/lib/firefox/browser/features/" directory. That's much easier than patching Chromium source code.
The company is also a shareholder and can pay out dividends or buy back stock to increase the price. One pays you directly, and the other increases your stake by diluting the pool of outstanding shares. Both are direct results of actions taken by the corporation, and both create something new: cash and equity, respectively.
If you can handle the minimum amount to open an account(10K) Interactive Brokers is awesome, Commissions are usually just a $1 in and out. If your under 25 then it's 3K to open an account.
What is the "human experience"?
My thoughts exactly. The overall attitude of the article seems to be, "Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia where the content is determined by the community, but since I perceive this not to be the case it is time to play dirty."

She then goes on to advise that you conceal your activities and have your biased associates shill for your position (which is presented in contrast to 'sockpuppeting,' but is effectively very similar in my view).
The problem is or tools and languages for expressing thought to a computer are terrible. And we're terrible at developing better ones, and we're terrible at evaluating their fitness, and we're terrible at adopting better ones once they come along.

It's a limitation of or brains. The cost of re-learning how to think is too damn high.

The solution space of ways to solve programs with computers is highly dimensional. We are climbing a local minima and we're not gonna be sitting anything different part of space any time soon.

What's even worse is we can't even iterate quickly because it takes us so long to evaluate large changes, and the costs of making small changes are too high to be worth it.

We're still using Algol syntax 50 years later! It isn't better, it isn't well constructed. It arcane, and unnecessary - but the tech costs of moving away from it are to high. Someone could fix improve Algol syntax in a few days max and every Algol derived language (c/c++/java/js/c#/...) would benefit. But nobody in hell is gonna update every algol derived compiler ever written and update all the code ever written to match. It'd be ludacrious!

But here, exactly the type of incremental improvement you'd make in a development cycle if it were a library being written now, is impossible to make because of change costs. Think of rapid prototyping and small iterative improvements - this is exactly the opposite.

When the engineering overhead to fix a bug is minimal ( "I'll code it in 10, run through automated tests and CI, then deploy") you fix every small bug you see. When the overhead is huge ("10 mins to code. But it'll reset our multiweek manual test pass, and force us to not physically ship until next product cycle") you don't bother and code rots.

That's the problem, and that's where we are.
That's for Salvatore to decide, but the version is just an arbitrary choice. Assuming that Disque is coming as a Redis module, it may be even supported by v4.0. OTOH, I believe that implementing Disque will have implications on the Modules API, so these would have to be backported to a v4.2 (or alike) if it is decided so. In any case, this shouldn't have an impact on the Disque roadmap significantly IMHO.
Not a no-op, it wraps the awaited value in `Promise.resolve()`:

async function foo() {
const a = await {then(resolve) { resolve(123); }};
console.log(a);
}
foo();
This is happening all too often these days. Right when I was about to watch a Fuller House episode.
I have no words ... But thanks for the tip!
6 second digital marketing ads are trending up and becoming a part of any marketing and advertising budget. t-mobile had great success with their world series 6 second ad spots. https://latechnews.org/six-second-marketing-ads/
I thought about that. Making the "COME FROM" redirect a deliberate, explicit user action might help. ("Google.com is down. h4x0rz.ru claims to be its successor. Go here? [Yes] [No]".)
BGPCoin – Cryptocurrency for ISPs to settle exchange fees
Life is what you negotiate :)

Taking $970mm seemed like a good deal given the level of risk. So from an expected value perspective it was a fair trade. Twitch has grown much since then, but you can't have regrets when it comes to trades.
Are Wikipedia links dofollow?
> Come to think of it, that sounds pretty familiar.

I've never used Instagram much, but that sounds like one aspect of that network I've read about. Everyone curates their profile to make their lives seem more fun and more interesting than they really are, often with a materialist angle. The real you looks inadequate compared to these false lives, leaving many feeling insecure about themselves. Then you have professional "influencers" with hyper-curated profiles that depict a fantastically fun and fashionable life. They make money by shilling products that subtly promise to let you join in on that lifestyle, if you only buy.
Yup! Don't engage in the acquisition process unless you want to commit to it -- it will suck out all your time.
What the hell have I just read?

No, from what I can see in this article, you are the troll, trying to make your name/business appear/stay on Wikipedia without accepting the Wikipedia rules. The list of things to do to make sure "your page" isn't deleted is just outrageous.

If you think you're in position to have an article on Wikipedia about you, stay away from that article. Unless it's factually wrong, you're the last person to have anything to say about it. It's as simple as that.

BTW - seems like this is the wiki page she's talking about: http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Amy_Osmond_Cook
It's a source of constant complaints, massive costs and is totally bloody stupid, assuming you're talking about the NSW/QLD border.
i use octopress for exactly this (based off of Jekyll). It's a great way to publish, very simple, cheap, but still has some nice bells & whistles
I hadn't thought of that. I have noticed the Mercator projection leading people to think that Canada is larger than Africa, though...
I have had that experience for years. It can be quite disheartening to see
the sun set while you are on your way home.

Try watching the sun set from work, then glancing at the clock and seeing that you won't leave for another hour