skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on Nick Bostrom's fable about aging:

https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html

A couple of points:

(1) Unlike in the story, in real life aging is a natural process that almost all living creatures go through. It is not something that is externally imposed by a malovolent entity. So I would question the implication that not preventing aging is immoral.

(2) Death allows each new generation to take the lead and shape society according to its values. If aging was eliminated social conflicts might increase between the ideologies of each successive generation.

(3) Younger people could no longer just wait for the boss to retire or die to ascend to senior positions, they would have to overthrow the boss in order to advance in the organization.

(4) Even a low birth rate might lead to overpopulation if people don't die.

Aging and death are not necessarily bad things. There is a natural completion to the process. A sense of closure. Do your time, have your experiences, say good bye. Having the knowledge that we will die and that we will lose our youth makes us appreciate them more and gives us a sense of urgency.

Indeed, it is arguably mostly our primitive instincts that make us fear death and want to stick around in perpetuity. Is there something important that won't happen because any specific person dies?

Now, with all that said, if a cure for aging was really discovered I would be the first one in line!

NOTE 1: If the human life span remained the same, but people were able to be as healthy at age 80 as at age 20 that would be great and would pose very little social problems I think.

NOTE 2: Very interesting look at the mathematics of aging:
https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-...
It's not new at all. It's not economical for anyone to provide general engineering support for any JDK for all time. People aren't up in arms that JDK 1.1 isn't being supported.

Companies who won't shift of a JDK know this, that's why they pay for the privilege. They pay Oracle, or they pay someone to support an OpenJDK like Red Hat.
> I think IPv6 will happen when web sites can no longer get IPv4 addresses

With vhosts and the proliferation of CDNs, will this ever happen? If my site is behind CloudFront, I don't need any IPv4 addresses of my own

The only thing that IPv6 really solves for end-users is peer-to-peer. If video games, VoIP, etc have lower lag on IPv6 (due to not having to go though a mediating server) customers might demand it.
Try Netflix with Microsoft Edge and try to take a screenshot. Only subtitles will be visible.
... which they most probably will shut down next year. Remember Open Solaris? ...
That said, I've found the performance to be pretty good. Getting < .01sec response times on a node.js API server that caches data in RAM. I'd expect to see worse if Caddy were a bottleneck.
We fear death and we overvalue productivity. This is a cycle for never-ending anxiety -- the itch to always do something. We value productivity almost to the point where it is considered virtuous. We look at someone who is productive and think, "wow what a great person, must really have their life together".
IBM preferred to let Oracle buy Sun than invest into covering their offer.

Azul is trying to diversify their business as not everyone is willing to pay for their GC implementation. Not sure how well they would do as Java stewards.
Really awesome concept, super simple, I'm a big fan! I had a few bugs / ideas that might make it a bit more useful and portable.

* (Using the web page, not extension) when resizing the window the graphs disappear.

* If I login with the website rather than installing the extension, there's no way to get form the website to the extension. A button or hyperlink somewhere would be a nice way to then decide I want to use the extension, rather than having to search the chrome store.

* The dates display in a YY/MM/DD format which is a nice compromise between US / The rest of the world, but it took a moment for me to clock that was the format. Maybe you can detect the locale from the browser and format dates accordingly?

* It's awesome to see traffic spikes, but it'd be even better to be able to see the top page people are hitting, or have a button that I can click to link through to the main GA dashboard.

* Finally, it'd be awesome if this was bundled into a drop down extension with a little number displaying live site visitors. That way I can see it while browsing / working as well.
Yeah, I agree that this is an edge case (nothing that I run into on a daily base) and the ContinentLists example might not be the best in this context. Something like a Dashboard with dynamic widgets would probably be a more realistic case.
JS is poorly understood in comparison

This might be the most hilariously ridiculous true statement I've ever heard.
Well, and the page itself is just hideously unusable. 1/3 of the space is covered with noise begging me to leave the article I'm trying to read. The top 1/3 is 80% blank space that keeps popping up and going away as I scroll, making the simple act of scrolling through an article feel unpredictable, as I'm never sure if I'm even going to be able to see the entire animation they want me to look at. Overall the experience of reading this blog is claustrophobic and stress-inducing. I almost thought I was on Medium for a bit.
So that's why there is such a difference with the link about the escrow account [1]. Maybe the title should be edited on HN to reflect that, since the australian context is not obvious (not hidden, either, but I missed it at first)

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ireland-expects-apple-back-...
But if you route all traffic for a specific domain through your own web server, surely you could complete the Letsencrypt verification steps as well. They just check for a specific file on the remote web server, right?
Same as Hans Reiser: "I am smart".
[pdf] What's inside AWS Lambda?
ZetScript Programming Language
You probably want to checkout https://docs.snapcraft.io/build-snaps/node for delivery of applications built with node
Microsoft working on Windows 10 Lean edition for devices with less storage
A MicroInteraction JavaScript Library
My question is about the existing implementation of signed WHOIS records, which kuschku seems to be stating exist for some TLD already.
Interesting, but as it's implemented as a VPN, it looks like it can not co-exist with other VPNs.
Struct Types for Java are here
it would be strange, but not impossible and certainly suspect practice. You could proxy through your own vpn and then log the requests and take a look at what it's doing...
Previously (not comprehensive):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12719563

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9452606

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11152761

Related: https://caddyserver.com/blog/caddy-0_11-telemetry.html
I'm using my own domain anyway. When your last name is your domain, it gets impossible to impersonate you with any free service. And as it's only 1 Euro, it's also cheap and easy.
Rather than asking how he thought he’d get away, I would ask: why the fuck would anyone think it’s okay to kill someone? (excluding self-defense scenarios)
> send it to you in the standard way

What standard is that exactly?
I can't respond to this without revealing my personal information. A neighbour paid 900K for a house similar to ours, and we pay less than 1666/month.
My understanding of their license page is different.

"If your company uses official Caddy binaries internally, in production, or distributes Caddy, a commercial license is required."

"If I build Caddy from source, which license applies?"
"The source code is Apache 2.0 licensed."

https://caddyserver.com/products/licenses
>It's not new at all. It's not economical for anyone to provide general engineering support for any JDK for all time. People aren't up in arms that JDK 1.1 isn't being supported.

It's new for Java.

We don't care, for the purposes of the discussion, if it has been how things are since forever at SomeOtherProductOrLanguage.

We're not taking about the relative novelty of this release model (or its merits), but about how things are different now for Java releases.
It’s certainly a good Supreme Court case. EFF/ACLU should be able to cover this case.

Google’s distributing more content than archive.is.
Mentioning that certain publications block archiving is not irrelevant.
Then somehow get a completely incomprehensible error about Visual Studio executables.
Well, consider the reverse. A 0.05 p-value might mean anything, but what about a 0.5 p-value?

No simple test is going to tell you a hypothesis is definitely correct, but if you can weed out the probably-garbage hypotheses, you can focus on evaluating the remainder more critically.
There aren’t open source versions?
iTerm2 adds GPU-based Metal renderer in version 3.1.6
How does this square with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16918480 ?
For decades, America has embraced a civic nationalism over a European-style ethnic nationalism. This is that certain notions of freedom and responsibility, not blood and soil, were the real ties that bind.

A sense of community can transcend religion and race, and this is what we should strive for.
Two months ago, after a smartphone induced rage (my ear touching the screen caused deezer to start playing a song during a phone call) I bought a nokia 3310 and ditched the smart phone. Best decision ever.

Now I noticed how everybody else is constantly watching their smartphone: sometimes they pull it out of the bag but they don't know why, they just browse up and down through the apps until they tap on a random one, just to close it few seconds later.
I can't help but think that perhaps there is something in brain structure and genetics which creates one class of people focused primarily on people and another class focused primarily on ideas. I couldn't agree more that there are things more interesting than people, but obviously the author wants to sell us on the opposite notion.
It definitely feels less sluggish now.
The whole source is Apache-licensed, so there are no restrictions if you build & integrate it yourself.

The restrictive personal license applies to the official binaries.
There are some drafts, and some NICs that have custom WHOIS solutions over custom authenticated protocols that don’t integrate with the normal WHOIS functionality.

But the larger issue is that there is no global integrated WHOIS system – e.g. to view a WHOIS record for a .de currently you need to solve a captcha and provide a valid reason (and can’t do it automated).
Could someone add here a note in the title that it applies to JavaScript on V8 engine?
I thought this was something related to caching actual executable code in all languages.
"...should live with the notion that Google...

I don't think we can start from this premise anymore. This premise is precisely what is under question.

The laissez faire framing of this premise is: (1) users can use whatever services they want. (2) services have terms and conditions (3) don't like it, don't "sign it."

The frame that is taking shape (eg, GDPR, Zuck's parliamentary question time grilling) is different. Terms & Conditions are not a contract. Take it or leave it propositions are not OK (especially not for monoplies). They're a disingenuous game that does not represent an agreement in any way. Your actual agreement with customers is dictated by law and custom, and these are going to be updated.

South Park paradied this concept with the human centipod. It sounds simpler than it is, because our legal systems are ancient and ridiculous. Our legal systems can't, for example, just say "don't spy on everyone." It must define spying in minute detail, while trying to avoid loopholes and bycatch. This is why laws are so complicated.

But regardless... terms and conditions have reached well into the "reduced to absurdity" point.
So just start measuring in bits of SRAM per unit of volume?
> How is it baiting when it perfectly summarizes the whole news, with no misguidance, no unbased speculations?

Because the implication is that this is a surprise, a novelty -- that it's "new" and hence News -- meaning that something changed and that it was a motivated change.

Which isn't true. Every enterprise software company publishes policies about how much support it will give its products well into the future. I work for Pivotal, we have a general support/lifetime policy and aim to give explicit guidance for every single release we publish of everything we produce.

That folks outside the enterprise universe are learning now what Oracle outlined years ago doesn't make it an evil scheme on Oracle's part. It just means we move in different circles from enterprise buyers, who have different problems and motivations.

I honestly can't believe I'm defending Oracle. Seriously, I never thought I'd see the day.
Hurt it harder. The oil industry deserves to be ruined with absolute malice.
Not comprehensive by any means, but some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13357026
The story of reverse engineering a Girard design
Ride-hailing service Careem lost 14M users’ data
So we've come full circle, back to the Windows 98 days. Amazing.
The author released content for public consumption. While author has copyright, it’s not legal to revoke usage rights years after the fact. Not a lawyer, but think it’s related to usage rights under a copyright.

Imagine an author giving you a copy of the book and then 15 years later coming to your home library and asking for it back.

It’s cool to not post publicly or to restrict access. But releasing and then yanking doesn’t make sense.
>> I feel the US is the closest example in the modern world to capitalism unchecked - with both the pros and cons that entails.

Please enlighten me which parts of the 'pros of capitalism' I'm missing out on as a non-US citizen, because I definitely don't see many, if any at all.
I work in a bank. They keep it so cold inside in the summer that employees are forced to have space heaters in their offices to keep from shivering all day. All in hopes that a customer who comes in from the outside heat will feel comfortable for the less than 5 minutes that they are inside.

The amount of waste is unreal and disgusting. I was laughed at the other day by a coworker because I commented on how much energy we waste by doing this. He said, "But you don't have to pay for it. Who cares?"

That about sums up the attitude here in Texas.
I'd noticed ...
> It's like knowing you have these traps to avoid, but if you just keep one very close, that's the only one you need to consider

Love that roundup of this technique. Coincidentally enough my dad also used this same aid to quit smoking. I saw some slight sense but never enough to unpack it myself.
Since they are not publicly used, these sound like bait for routing redirection attacks. It is a security issue for everyone involved.
In most instances, the Java-based applications you run are licensed separately by a company other than Oracle (for example, games you play on your PC are likely developed by a gaming company)," the firm announced in a statement.

"These applications may run on the Java platform and be dependent on Oracle Java SE 8 updates beyond 2020. Accordingly, Oracle recommends you contact your application provider for details on how they plan to continue to provide application support to you."

To me this reads like they will intentionally "update" the user's Oracle JRE such that it will fail to run applications by non-paying "business developers".

If true I suspect the end-user runtimes will check jar's to see if it is signed by the "business developer", and if there is a certificate signed by Oracle confirming the "business developer".

The developer can not prevent the user from upgrading their Oracle JRE's.

This should have no bearing on users using OpenJDK's JRE, but it may have bearing on FOSS developers if a substantial fragment of their users are running Oracle's JRE, depending on the interpretation of "business developer".
Oracle did this for 7 and I believe 6 as well. Java 8's time ran out, it was as simple as that.
Stop calling people you don't understand racists. These rednecks hate all people who refuse to fit into their culture. They'll hate white NY or CA transplants just as much as they hate Mexicans.

Unfortunately actual racism is picking up steam with these folks.
Ask HN: Does anyone use Fedora Server in production?
The general impression I get is that Fedora is really only used on desktop and RHEL or CentOS is used on the server (in terms of the "equivalent"). Where Ubuntu for example is effectively the same distro on desktop as it is on server. So my question is, does anyone actually use Fedora on servers in a production environment? Or is it too bleeding edge?
Google Play Music to sunset at the end of 2018; replaced by YouTube Remix
"They called for a life sentence, which in Denmark averages around 16 years and is very rarely handed down for the murder of a single person."

What does this mean exactly? That people usually get paroled after 16 years? Or does it mean that the average sentence is 16 years when life is requested?
There could be a google maps for this, like there is https://www.google.com/moon/
Google’s Plan to Fix Email Is Deeply Flawed
He is clearly a psychopath. So to you and me, it's impossible to understand but my best guess is that he would feel something similar to what we might feel "killing" a character in a video game: no compassion, just a curious interest.
If they have good batteries and enough nuclear power, charging vehicles will take care of extra electricity produced during nights.

Win-win
Amazon is releasing a new Alexa gadget specifically geared toward kids
Except WHOIS is (likely) going away next month (at least in RIPE) due to GDPR.
Would love some recommendations of things I can find on Youtube. I listen to Youtube Red often while working. Anything I can get there would be great. Thanks!
Of all the provinces, why Beijing?
This episode of BBC's The Sky at Night is a superb peek behind the scenes of the Rosetta mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvGdoya8g4k
Those licences are only for the binaries. The source is Apache licenced and can be used for commercial purposes for free.
The number seems to come from Wikipedia[1]:

Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment serve an average of 16 years, more for cases considered to be particularly grave. The only example in modern times of an individual serving significantly more than 16 years in prison is Palle Sørensen, who served 33 years for a quadruple police murder.

So I guess it's a parole, then (which cannot happen until 12 years into the sentence).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Denmark
I've used it primarily for manaing logged in user info.
It's one of the few bits that is useful globally.
Who is fixing security bugs in old openjdk releases?
>On the other hand, this probably allowed the US to become the superpower it is.

Corellation != causation.

I'd say the exhaustion of Europe in WWI and WWII (which the US only participated with its military, whereas the European citizenry had much more direct costs across the whole population (occupation, bombings, ethnic cleansing, brain drain, etc), the post-war influx of European scientists (half of the scientific developments in post-WWII US are from Jewish, German, and other immigrants), the collapse of European colonialism, and an internal 300+ million strong market to try stuff in, plus a strong military to force its market interests globally, were more of a factor in that.

Case in point, China is becoming "the superpower it is" without following the same model as the US of "unchecked capitalism", if anything the opposite.

>I feel the US is the closest example in the modern world to capitalism unchecked - with both the pros and cons that entails.

What pros? If anything, unchecked capitalism tends to also destroy the free market and democracy -- as unchecked capitalists gain political and social power over their puny fellow citizens and lesser businesses.
I didn't think horse was even legal, I've never seen it on sale in UK.

Totally legal though:

http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summ...
>They called for a life sentence, which in Denmark averages around 16 years and is very rarely handed down for the murder of a single person.

So he will not be imprisoned for life, as is rare (unheard of?) in Scandinavian countries.
The first one. Life sentence is open-ended which means he could in principle remain in prison for the rest of his life. But usually they are pardoned before this, so the 16 years is the average sentence in reality. But this does not mean he can expect to be pardonned after 16 years - this very much depends on the individual case.
What other runtime offers free LTS? Does Python? Does Node? Go? Erlang? Haskell? How is it getting fleeced to be able to buy (instead of get for free) something that others don't offer at all?
Well, they did it with Open Solaris.

You never know with these people..
I usually don't engage in this sort of trivial nationalism. But I just have to inject that your retelling of this story omits the fact that Irish banks were obviously first in line to go belly-up.

It is true that those banks had various lenders in Germany/France/wherever, and that the consequences of an all-out collapse of the Irish economy would have had negative effects in those countries as well.

But presenting it as some sort of altruistic sacrifice to allow them to rescue Ireland from a potato-based future is just adding moral bankruptcy to the other.
> * The scientific method is such that Science is never wrong. It's god-esque.*

You've misunderstood my point. The scientific method is such that 'Science' is always wrong. It's a method to continually try to become less wrong about how the world works.

I don't even know what you're referring to when you capitalise 'science' the way you have been. It's not like there's a single entity called 'Science' that issues proclamations.
Wouldn’t it work to have the government run an auction-style website where the self-assessed property values are kept hidden, but people can submit a bid to buy a piece of property. If that bid is greater than or equal to the property’s assessed value, the property owner is given the option to increase their valuation to just above the bid price. If the property owner instead decides to sell, the bidder is obligated to go through with the deal (perhaps at the assessed value rather than the bid price).
It is not going away, it never was, never will.

DENIC has been compliant with the GDPR for months already, and its WHOIS database is still running – you just can’t expose all fields of the WHOIS to any unauthenticated viewer.
You already do get a lower level of feedback from the noise of the electic motor. It doesn't make much noise but it does change in pitch as you go faster. Plus you have the speedometer and the colour of the dashboard changes colour I think as you speed up.
Aion launches first public blockchain network
I guess it would be paying $1000 for a $50 medical procedure, because the unchecked health industry wants to make a profit, and can just ramp prices, enforce its dictums, and pay politicians uncheckedly.
Would you do something truly immoral, because "rule of law"? An example: Every new born child with Apgar score below 8 should be killed. Would you really do it? Would you stick to the rule of law?

> Snowden violated a government secrecy oath that he signed, which is a crime and this fact is printed rather boldly on the contract.

He broke the contract, but you can make a case that the contract was in violation of constitution.
Rematch is just an abstraction on top of Redux so it shouldn't be an issue.

You should be able to refactor Rematch to Redux without much issue if necessary.
I'd wager your v4 goes through a CGN (carrier grade nat) which is very high grade until it breaks.