skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't recall ever seeing a runway shutdown abd inoperable for months on end due to "road work".

I’m guessing you haven’t flown through Phoenix recently? They have had a runway closed for repaving (might be reopened now) since early January.

Runways are generally concrete rather than asphalt and there are plenty of concrete highways. It tends to be a louder and less comfortable surface to drive on and when repairs do need to happen, they’re more disruptive than a simple asphalt resurfacing. I’m sure there are other reasons to prefer asphalt, but I’m not a civil engineer.
In a past life as a lab tech for sterile environments, we used Spor-klenz, mostly a diluted combination of glacial acetic acid (pure distilled vinegar) and sodium hypochlorite (concentrated bleach), to kill statistically approaching anything on a surface you need sterilized. Upon application, they form chlorine gas, notorious as a chemical warfare agent in WWI. It must be used in a ventilated area, and with a respirator for any kind of prolonged exposure. Use of this combination of chemicals in an unventilated area without protective gear is sternly cautioned, as it will quickly cause lasting injury to your lungs.

It's not uncommon for commercial cleaning products to contain these ingredients, as well as other potentially hazardous combinations of chemicals, and there isn't enough awareness of the very serious consequences to their misuse.
> "rich" people in vast amounts of debt aren't rich, they're broke.

not necessarily. if you have a lot of debt, but you hold the title to capital goods that produce income, then you can be very wealthy.

> Rich people are owed money. They have money to spare so they lend it out for interest, see?

indeed, there are rich lendors and rich debtors. that doesn't mean a person who owns factories who has issued a lot of bonds is broke. far from it.

> people who live paycheck to paycheck, minus a few exceptions, do so because their cost of living equals their salary.

cost of living for many people is variable. if you are incentivized to spend your money before it depreciates, that changes the calculus on many decisions, such as how much to spend on housing.

> Your concern for the "poor savers" is touching albeit misguided.

how is it misguided?
Why would anyone ever do this from within the US? I guess I assumed all scammers would be on international VoIP.
> I'm not talking about the reversibility of a theory.

You asserted that there was something wrong in principle with many-to-one dynamics. I pointed out that we have consistent irreversible theories that are considered in-principle acceptable theories, and in particular are strictly preferred over one-to-one theories in their respective domains.

> You can conjecture that our current reality could have been arrived at from two different paths. What you cannot do is assert the truth of a theory which selects one path in favor of the other, because the existence of any information which would make that determination would contradict that these both histories led to the same present.

Just because two different pasts would have led to identical presents does not mean we don't have criteria (such as simplicity) to favor one past over another. Indeed, all of science is based on this. Ultimately all we can use to check our theories are our observations, and the actual microscopic state of the universe is vastly under-determined from these observations alone. Assumptions about simplicity and regularity must be deployed.

As an extreme example: it's logically possible a cheesecake materialized in the center of the sun 1 second ago. (You can either think of this as a thermodynamic fluke, or as a new proposed fundamental theory where the standard model of physics is temporarily suspended 13.8 billion years after the big bang and exactly 1 cheesecake appears in the center of each star.) The cheesecake would be instantly destroyed, and it would not influence my observations, and thus there are two possible pasts (cheesecake vs. no cheesecake) which give the same present state and observations and we cannot categorically rule one out. Nevertheless, we assign astronomically low probability to the cheesecake past.
Agreed, although I think apple has it right in thinking that AR (i.e. overlaying digital information over the real world) is more compelling.

Absolutely not something that mozilla should be focussing on though.
Not quite office sounds, but Coffitivity nicely captures coffee shop murmur:
https://coffitivity.com
The problem with flat design is the human optical perception is the product of literally hundreds of millions of years of evolution, and it is designed for a three dimensional world.

Flat design the latest example of a utopianistic drive that started in the 20th century by some intellectuals to make a world that fits robots, not human beings. Other examples are modern classical music and modern architecture. Modern classical music never caught on because it simply doesn't fit the human auditory system. Ditto modern architecture,though it has persisted partly for business reasons, and has been greatly modified to make it more humane.
Many of them have been relocated to San Clemente and the residents are not stoked http://www.ocregister.com/2018/02/28/too-early-to-weigh-impa...
“Crypto Heater” heats your room while mining etherium
I think you could use black body radiators on the other 5 sides to bleed the heat from the side facing the sun.
“Save that money to pay good talent more”

The whole point is all that stuff costs much less than any meaningful pay raise.
What a time to be alive, seriously.
The return of the King is one of the best movies of the last 20+ years. Whine about the Hobbit all you want, but LOTR is the greatest trilogy ever made and Peter Jackson is a legend.
That's pretty cool - so you can just render DRMed video to a texture and record that texture to get around the new DRM stuff?
RootStealer
Programm to detect when linux user opens terminal with root and inject intrusive commands in terminal with X11 lib https://github.com/CoolerVoid/rootstealer
My family owns a decent sized commercial millwork shop, which is a little different from furniture mass production, and the title of this post made the actual content look ridiculously silly. Cool demonstration for a home brew project, but a long long long way to go before any sort of threat to furniture builders like IKEA. Why that project received a grant when everything about that demo is available in any furniture manufacturer, beats me. We have a broad variety of crazy CNC machinery for production of architectural wood products, all 100% custom. We don’t bother with IKEA tables because everything else is far more profitable combined with that we don’t have a viable path to selling 1,000,0000 cheap tables to be an IKEA
Generating artwork with Haskell
It's not like it was dismissed out of hand because it was < 1U. They had a chance to demonstrate sufficient reflection (presumably equivalent to 1U) and weren't able to do so. (Their radar reflectors were not effective over the full range of applicable frequencies.)
How to create Cash from Debt
Interesting to see this pop up here! I'm the author, and work for a research institute looking to learn from examples like this one to build a more resilient and democratized economy in the US. While Emilia-Romagna isn't perfect, one really interesting thing it shows is that you can build a high growth, integrated industrial ecosystem using cooperative capital, with the appropriate policy supports and federation structures. In some ways it is more interesting than Mondragon (the other big proof of concept for at-scale worker cooperatives) because it is far less monolithic.

Anyway, if you are interested, check out more of our work at https://thenextsystem.org and https://democracycollaborative.org
Killed by a Machine: The Therac-25 (2015)
Grab Close to Deal for Uber’s SE Asia Business
id prefer to keep profit motives well away from things like the prison system.
I didn't see this mentioned in the article but the issue is not just the fees but the fact that a "credit freeze" only last for 90 days which means you need to reapply the freeze every 3 months. This is a game of attrition and over time consumers are less and less likely to re-up their freeze.
I feel compelled to point out that I specifically said I do not want UTC. :) I simply hate the daylight savings time switch so much that I’d choose standardization on UTC over it. I’d much, much prefer constant standard or daylight time (with time zones) over UTC though.
Maybe? Only one way to find out really.
One could perhaps build a large flat reflector to shield it from the sun's rays and angle it in such a way to not reflect sunlight or radar signals back to earth-based receivers. But I don't know the extent of space radar systems, maybe there are transmitters and receivers spread around widely enough that that would not work.
I don't think they're too concerned with throughput. The idea was just some level of connectivity to retrieve basic information from areas that currently have none. The communication would literally be limited to what the satellite could store in onboard memory.
You might need them to reverse or refund the transaction with some payment gateways. Or if you are going to settle the funds at a time after authorization when shipping
You might be thinking of a "fraud alert", which is different than a "credit freeze" => https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2017/09/fraud-alert-or-cre...
Unfortunately, the mindset is 'everyone else is doing it'. I'm not sure where I stand on legally requiring helmets, but man I would not ride one in the company of cars without one.
What on earth is high pH water? Water has a pH. If something has a high pH it's not water.
Everyone's talking about the FCC and whether the launch should have been allowed; what I'm curious about is how the Swarm people thought they could get away with this. They obviously know that the satellites will be tracked; did they really think the FCC would just say, "Oh, well, since you already did it, I guess it's ok..." It doesn't make any sense.
I highly recommend you actually read some Einstein; if not his published papers then at least his notes on developing special and general relativity.
Bach is the 'ultimate composer' in the same sense that Pleistocene Ogg is the ultimate tool-maker, Robert Goddard the ultimate rocket-maker.

Bach did many wondrous things, added a lot to the vocabulary, staked a viable claim on a couple of mother lodes. But this sort of argument (though eternally engaged in) is futile. While classical is a favorite of many (including me), music has moved far, far onward.
So it’s finally come to this, HN...
Yes, it's called a MFN clause ("most favored nation") and is a standard deal term the channels negotiate with the hotels. They accept it because they have no choice.

Hotels play all sorts of games with this, including throwing in free stuff if you book direct ("it's the same rate") and doing "non-advertised" rates through loyalty and reward programs.

If you can't book directly with the hotel, it's very likely they don't have technology sophisticated enough to do a direct booking. You'd be surprised how bad hotel tech is. And the thing is, none of the independents want to spend anything to improve the situation. It's honestly madness.
Wow, I hadn't heard this. I am curious how you stumbled upon this fact?
The 50 MB limit on S3 is on the .zip/.jar upload but you can have up to 250MB if it fits inside a 50MB zip file [1].

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/limits.html
I have no idea what italy does. However, special tax structures, protected denominations, and excessive regulation are basically par-for-the-course for corporations in any country.

In America, it is routine for large companies to negotiate tax deals with local governments. Many American companies pay no local tax at all. Local authorities do this as a 'gift' to make companies stay. It's wrong everywhere, but it has nothing to do with co-ops.
Would you like to bet on it? I've got $100 that says his sentence will be reduced by at least 50%.
Two years ago (maybe three?), they closed one of the runways at the local international airport for the better part of a year for repairs (and partial replacement).

That particular runway was poured in the late 50s or early 60s, and last had major work in the 90s. So it happens, just not on the every-two-or-three-years schedule that it does for roads (or yearly, depending on where you are).

The obvious difference, at least around here, is that runways are made of concrete - lots of it, each batch truckload tested as it is poured (slump tests, anyway), while roads are made from asphalt, as little of it as the DoT will allow, and as far as I can tell, zero quality control testing.
Is there an article or blog post somewhere about what Facebook's deployment process is like? It must be a massive operation.
yeah i was going to say because when i signed up to robinhood and gave them my arm, leg, hands, feet and more (bank account number, picture of my license, etc) they sent me an email telling me I needed to remove the freeze on my credit report.

Ummm no those freezes are there to stay and gives me some piece of mind!
It's kind of the way with all capital intensive industries - airlines, car and steel manufacturing and the like. People put in capital till the profits are gone.
The only way to solve a problem is to first create a problem.

1. How do do social skills influence happiness?

Answer: The potential to influence could be mathematically described as 1 + 1 = 2. Happiness, on the other hand, adds up to a single solitary state of mind: 1 + 0 = 1. Potential relies on variables.
Happy to see them succeed with two caveats: I really wish people using the scooters would (1) not ride on the sidewalks and (2) be more considerate of where they leave the scooters. I've had them left in front of my apartment driveway, blocking the way. I've seen them left in the middle of the sidewalk and on random lawns. I really wish they had partnered with the city to create places where people should leave them.
POST-MORTEM: FEMINIST ADVICE MELTDOWN
Thank you for that!

LifeViewer and Golly have a lot of great ideas in them, and a huge library of rules, patterns, and configurations. I'd love to have access to the source code for LifeViewer, so I can integrate my own cellular automata rules, editing tools and visualizations with it.

Here's a great video of Will Wright and Brian Eno discussing generative systems and demonstrating cellular automata with Mirek's Cellebration to Brian Eno's generative music, at a talk at the Long Now Foundation,:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqzVSvqXJYg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirek%27s_Cellebration
Why You Need to Understand Preferences, Dilution, for VC-Backed Companies (2017)
The casual-ness of those workers just chucking baby chicks into shoots weirds me out quite a bit. Like, I'm sure they're fine, but it's just so weird.
I'm one of the founders of Ceres Solver; let me know if you need any help.
The Many Lives of Pauli Murray (2017)
Ditto, no drug related subreddit I know of doesn't explicitly ban dealing.
I really want to build a VR-based GUI for a Very Serious Program I'm writing in my free time. It's not a game.

So whether there are or aren't, there's clearly potential. It doesn't seem right to dismiss it just because it hasn't taken off yet - it's extremely early days.
Yes you are right. I conflated the two. That said given the the whole system is known to be compromised one should be able to put a fraud alert on their credit file for longer than 90 days. Or maybe even a permanent fraud alert.

It seems like they could be complimentary since a creditor needs to call you to get approval before extending credit in your name. With both of these even if your credit was unlocked the credit issuer would still be required to get your verbal approval.
Yeah, my sense was that Santa Monica simply wanted to get the company's attention so they could cooperate. Now that their talking, it seems like they've backed off a bit.

Still want the cops to warn or ticket the folks who ride on the sidewalk though.
Random question I've never found a place to ask before. Is there a formal language or method for specifying information like this, where I could map out different pieces of data and reason about how the pieces of data flow through a system, to prove mathematically that two (or n) pieces of data are never available in the same place?
Facebook’s data-collecting VPN company has found a way to collect even more data
> Why not? What about the (currently in use) github user names such as `hacker` or `virus`?

Not sure, but I wouldn't be shocked if they are at risk themselves, those aren't exactly great either. I'm also not GitHub, nor do I care if they end up getting in trouble for those names either.

> The whole point of the account was to publish things that I didn't deem worthy of my other accounts.

Then you shouldn't really be concerned what is or isn't your GitHub username then.

> Having a terrible name was kind of the point.

And thus "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" ended up being the result. QED.
The FCC does appear to be vastly overstepping their bounds here. Nothing in their charter gives them the right to legislate the minimum size of satellites. Can we terminate them as well?
Price is correlated to power usage. There's an odd sort of feedback loop where a rising bitcoin price causes more mining which raises the price of bitcoin and so on exponentially.

You may ask why not just walk away and let bitcoin return to zero but there are a large number of people in the mining industry and similar with incentives to promote and prop it up.
I'm only being partially facetious to say that the greatest themes in music are Beethoven's Ode to Joy, the theme from Bach's chaconne for solo violin, and the piccolo trumpet part from Penny Lane. (which was itself inspired by Bach's Brandenburg concerto #2)
Time zones are valuable. They let me easily convert to local time which gives me a pretty good immediate intuitive feel (modulo differences in customs) for the types of activities appropriate to that time of day.

Mind you. I screw things up. Just did it with a meeting the other day. But with electronic calendaring it’s not too bad.

Added: when traveling, time zones let me change my watch once and I immediately more or less know time appropriate activities that more or less correspond to what I’m used to at home.
The vive fatigue is due to the non solid headmount. A PSVR style headmount like the Revive makes it infinitely less fatiguing as it no longer is supported by your face, instead it's held up by your spine and the deep muscles of the neck and upper back.
So is this the end of the attempt to make Servo into a fully web compatible competitor to go up against/replace Gecko, et al? Was that ever the goal, really? It seemed like Servo was a "let's see if we can do it" and now it's changed into a "what's the point of putting all this effort into making one more 2D web renderer when we can be at the forefront of 3D web renderers?"

Not passing judgement on anything with the above statement. Just trying to make sense of it all.
Comparing VR today, in a world where portable devices dominate, to VR even a decade ago, in a world where cell phones were only just starting to be commonplace, seems really useless.

The world is an extremely different place. This is, in my opinion, still very early days - by which I mean that we are still in an exploratory phase.

We've never been closer to having the technology necessary for it to take off - resolution was always one huge blocker, portability, weight, 'culture' in terms of computing being something everyone has access to, GPU power, battery, etc.
Your concern is 100% valid but I think what we're headed for in urban areas is something like a free-for-all until the adoption of non-vehicular transportation gets so high that streets are bifurcated: cars over here, everything else, over here. It's going to be messy, but if Uber has proved anything it's that laws will change to accommodate revolutionary utility.
I think analogy breaks down.

There's probably not any light at the transition between the liquid and metal layers of hydrogen, the liquid layer is thousands of kilometers thick (the deepest ocean is ~11 km). And it's sort of hot. Not stove top pan hot, 10x hotter than that.

Oh and the pressure is a couple million times Earth surface pressure.
I don't think they're intentionally rigging the system. I just think they have no particular motivation to make roads last longer, so they don't bother.

(If a longer-lasting road had a much higher cost, then it'd clearly not be their issue at all, but the solution in the article sounds like it'd cost about the same.)
>the German police raided the two men's homes, arrested them, and seized their computers with their hard drives unencrypted.

Wow, that's some bad opsec.
I’d beg to differ. Even in the silicon forest, I frequently come across firms with entirely dedicated Appsec and Infosec departments. Most dev shops out here have them and I’d be comfortable extrapolating that to SV and old money NY/CHI/LA and Austin based on my consulting experience.

All of this is, of course, anecdotal but it’s a tad more than a blanket refutation.
Good catch. I think I know what’s going on and what needs to get fixed. Thanks!
Unfortunately, that cat's been out of the bag for decades.
What game?
{{citation needed}}
Related article from 2014:

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/grace-hopper-letterman/
Same here. Should have mentioned that both freezing and unfreezing ended up needing to be done over the phone.
Good one. But honestly, what kind of answer are you honestly seeking here?
A secure token is provided by the credit card processor that the vendor can safely store and reuse after the first successful transaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenization_(data_security)
The guy who probably designed it writes "its prolific resource consumption and poor computational scalability is buying something even more valuable: social scalability."

Not quite sure about that one myself. You can motivate a lot of people to do something social pretty well with fiat currency.
The responses to this comment really elicit a lot about the average age of the typical HN reader.
It’s the opposite. DST shifts sunlight one hour by the local clock later in the day.
We've been using AWS Lambda function to asynchronously render PDFs, transform data or execute on different pipeline triggers with success for a few years now. The horizontal scaling that avoids having a pressured queue during high-traffic spikes is pretty nice.

Another case we've had success with is transforming and relaying webhooks from different services (relaying events into Datadog for services that don't have a native integrations) or acting on occasional webhooks that don't happen too often (creating a default set of labels on a new Github repo).

If you're doing anything asynchronously, it's pretty nice. Be aware that the amount of memory you allocate to your functions is directly proportional to the CPU amount (and price) you're given. There's also the caveat that invocations perform _at least once_ but not necessarily once. A few months ago we saw a significant increase in repeat lamdaba invocations/retries even when the original execution was successful.
And Vivaldi reminds you what it's like to be a child again.
Yeah it's usually easier to get a full time job if you can focus full time on job hunting. Being able to start 'immediately' also gives you an edge over other applicants.
According to the company's documentation it is basically (hah!) a pH 11-12.5 solution of sodium hydroxide, aka lye: http://phurwater.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/MSDS-Cleaner...

You can call this water insomuch that it contains water (kind of like wine)
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