skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Europe wants their own launchers anyway as the access to US launches is still a hazardous endeavour for critical payloads. And the recent moves of the US international politics are not going in the right direction.

As long as there is no reciprocity in the full access to the markets, we will live a semi-closed gardens. If the markets open, it won't take long for the European companies to develop a reusable launcher capability. The technology and the knowledge exists already, but there is no political or financial incentive to do that right now.
>That "cache server" is an example of feature-creep towards centralization.

That's a tiresome slippery slope argument. "Better not install that proxy server or soon everyone will host all of their content on it instead of on their own servers!"

ToR is decentralized, it has servers. Bitorrent is decentralized, it has servers. Etc etc.
TIL my shiny new Dutch passport gets me into Iran (British one did not). That’s pretty cool.
I am not convinced that git is easy... I believe it's very powerful if you put the time into learning it, but anything with 50,000 separate guides on the internet must be somewhat unintuitive, right?
They no longer even own the LA Times, so hopefully it will change.
Lagos: Hope and Warning
"As a mother..."
Not quite. There are exceptions: I got to keep my British citizenship because my wife is Dutch.
You have a point, in a more relax comment, how much learning is enough? As personal opinion just reading the documentation of your tool of choice can lead to vast amount of knowledge, default params, recommended practices, all of that is included in a well documented project, but how much should I dig into the rabbit's hole when using node?.
The part that doesn't scale is not delivery (which can be parallelized independently among nodes), it is the custodial directory function -the tracking, location, identification and availability of high quality seeds and hosts. This is the function that will start out optimistically decentralized by hobbyists and enthusiasts and eventually succumb to opportunistic centralization as anything close to serious scale begins to kick in.

YouTube as a service has very different performance expectations than something like bittorrent. for one thing the directory function is built in and not externalized to another set of directory services, which are notoriously unreliable in the case of BitTorrent anyway.

And unlike BitTorrent or Mastodon I don't only want to know where I can find a given file, I want to know where I can find it delivered immediately, consistently, smoothly, without hesitation, in a variety of cross encoded formats I'm almost certain to have supported on my device, and with some sort of consensus mechanism to establish a better than chance confidence that the file I start streaming is the file I expected to stream and not something else with the same filename.
> One person committing voter ID fraud can feasibly vote a handful of times.

Yeah, and scaling voter fraud up in many if not all states is _extremely_ hard. You need at least:

- a priori knowledge of who is registered but will not vote at each voting location; even one double-vote could blow your operation

- a large number of people who are willing to actually cast the fraudulent ballots

- logistics to shuttle your malicious voters between voting locations to cast their multiple ballots, without raising suspicion.
Huh I thought there was that huge fixation on just "disengagements" or whatever a year back.
Ask HN: Should founder / CEO be the Chairman of the board?
Basically the subj. We are setting up the board for the startup and are wondering if we should work to get the founder-CEO to be the chairman. Investors want to have outside director to be the chairman and we, frankly, are not sure if this is worth negotiating over or is that just some kind of formality.
Heres an MP3 of the Kara Swisher interview that is mentioned.

https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/episodes/1454f1b6-4...
They don't remain exactly the same. The answers to this (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/641809/what-specifi...) question provide some interesting starting-points.
Do you use a framework?
Do you do everything server side with Go or do you have a JS library on the front-end?
Also for the production of English long bows for hundreds, possibly thousands, of years.

They carefully included heartwood for the front and sapwood for the rear of the bow. That gave the bow the most strength and benefits of a modern laminate bow in a single piece of wood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
I was going to say "definitely" but then I had the idea that they could be using some kind of crazy encapsulating proxy on localhost and then still using secure transport to go across the real network... but yeah no... no one should be running k8s on real servers without (fully-validated) TLS.
can't be true, unless there is some special matrix multiplication rule - afaik, standard matrix multiplication is associative
Beautiful. Apparently, I was not paying attention.
You're a very fortunate person. Count your blessings.
Good luck! It's one of the easier european ones. Three years should you happen to find yourself with an Irish spouse btw.
To quote Louis Rossmann, "Apple should have their discrete GPU license revoked". That was when he was repairing heat related GPU damage on like 2012 MBPs.
The post that I have read complains about an extreme and sudden change in Google's pricing structure and then goes on to compare alternatives for most of post, all of which are non-free.

They also say "Of course, we always knew that as we grew larger, there would be cost to using Google Maps."
Waymo have driven 5 billion in simulation. I think simulation is going to be the major change that automous vehicles can bring.

Assuming simulation is proven to be good enough for training cars, then having the ability to simulate crashes so that cars can respond in an optimal way is going to make a massive difference.
One for me, one for the bank.

Before you write a line of code, make a clear decision as to whether it's a learning experience or a business venture. Plan your project based on the goal you've chosen. If it's a learning experience, consciously avoid doing anything that doesn't push you to learn something new. If it's a business venture, consciously avoid doing anything unless you believe it has the highest RoI.

Some purely recreational projects do turn into viable businesses, but far more projects have failed due to indecision and yak shaving. If you're building a business, you don't gain anything by experimenting with a new stack. If you're learning React, you don't gain anything by writing a bunch of CSS and marketing copy. Don't be afraid to step away from the keyboard and ask yourself "Is this a good use of my time?".
Just the fact that I browse exclusively in private mode from Australia, don't accept third party cookies, apparently have Ghostery installed and use Safari vX.Y is enough to narrow down my identity to about one person give or take.

The information collected in this program is more than enough to identify me personally, and probably enough to start making some kind of psychological profile to help them predict how to convince me to vote for Donald Trump (or in my case, a Liberal Party member).
I haven't done an official count (comments plus the site) but a very strong showing for full stack Rails or Django, and when people do stick in a front end it is usually React or Vue.
> while also being significantly better for the environment

That's probably true on a per mile basis, but it's actually expected to be net worse for the environment because it will enable car access for a large percentage of the population who are currently homebound due to either being disabled or not being able to afford a car.

That said, because they don't need street parking, in the long run it may enable more bike lanes and bike usage.
His definition of "serverless" seems to be broader than FaaS [1]:

> YB: So you're not saying that by 2019, everything should be on cloud functions?

> NR: I think almost nothing will be on cloud functions. I think cloud functions are a useful tool, but by no means a way to build meaningful applications.

> NR: I'm happy to be persuaded otherwise by someone, but I just don't see that as being a good way to build apps. At least unless there is lots of evolution and lots of tooling, and basically came to look like something quite different.

> NR: I would say, my advice, which everyone is free to ignore, is App Engine. I'd say look at App Engine first.

> YB: App Engine?

> NR: I'm not keen on function as a service. I think that's actually, I've quoted Deepak Singh, who's the product manager for the Elastic Container Service at AWS, where he said something like, "Lambda or cloud functions, in general, were like Perl." Like what Perl was back in the day. It's a great way to solve a particular problem, or glue stuff together. But again, not the way to build big apps.

[1] https://stackshare.io/posts/evolution-of-new-york-times-tech...
Thanks! I hadn't come across that before.

I think I quite like Dr Minsky: "Dr. Hyman Minsky, who noted that bankers, traders, and other financiers periodically played the role of arsonists, setting the entire economy ablaze".
Eh I couldn't rebase to save my life but basic git is fairly easy to grok and useful.
To me, the very existence of a self driving vehicle is an amazing technical achievement against a really hard challenge. I suppose that explains why the math makes sense. 25,000 aggregate miles/day for a fleet of 600 vehicles is below 42 miles/day/vehicle. Each vehicle is providing a level of service below 2 miles per hour. Again, as a geek I think it's amazing but not convinced it is going to scale to the point that will justify those governors pushing public policy changes that impact the general public...at least for now.
Thank you for answering. Any chances on number 2, especially color themes?
"Disengagements" are a measure of how close we are to a self driving car. I.e. one that doesn't need a human sitting in the drivers seat to handle these disengagements, not a measure of safety.
The first time I was going to present my work in my graduate group, I asked a senior postdoc for advice. I showed him my slides and he said, "But what's your story?" I didn't understand, so he clarified: "you're not going in there to present a bunch of raw data. You're going in a with a story- a narrative- about how the world works, and show some data that supports that narrative. It's your job to make up that story- you can crib from others if you want- and it's your job to tell the story so other people believe you. A successful scientist is one where many people believe their story is true."

After I got over the initial shock I realized this is how nearly all successful scientists work. One of the best things about science is that it's a collection of stories, which happen to be the ones we've not been able to show are untrue yet. Nothing is absolute truth (well, unless you're a superintelligent perfect brain), but some stories are less untrue than others.
How many attempts at decentralized social networks have failed? All of them.

Practically every social network has failed in some way or another , decentralised or not. Very few of them have failed due to the tech though - tech seems to be the easy part in comparison to building a large enough audience to keep the network active.
https://www.livescience.com/32616-how-were-the-egyptian-pyra...

> Estimates given by various archaeologists for the size of the workforce at Giza tend to hover around 10,000 people for all three pyramids. These people were well-fed; in a study published in 2013, Richard Redding, the chief research officer at AERA, and colleagues found that enough cattle, sheep and goats were slaughtered every day to produce 4,000 pounds of meat, on average, to feed the pyramid builders. The finding was detailed in the book "Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the ICAZ Working Group 'Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas'" (Peeters Publishing, 2013). Redding used the animal bone remains found at Giza, and the nutritional requirements for a person doing hard labor, to make the discovery.

> Redding also found that animals were brought in from sites on the Nile Delta and kept in a corral until they were slaughtered and fed to the workers.

> The workers' meat-rich diet may have been an inducement for people to work on the pyramids, Redding said. "They probably got a much better diet than they got in their village," Redding told Live Science in 2013.

More: https://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-h...

Still more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-...

> Dieter Wildung, a former director of Berlin's Egyptian Museum, said it is "common knowledge in serious Egyptology" that the pyramid builders were not slaves. "The myth of the slaves building pyramids is only the stuff of tabloids and Hollywood," Wildung said. "The world simply could not believe the pyramids were build without oppression and forced labour, but out of loyalty to the pharaohs."

> Hawass said the builders came from poor families from the north and the south, and were respected for their work – so much so that those who died during construction were bestowed the honour of being buried in the tombs near the sacred pyramids of their pharaohs.

> Their proximity to the pyramids and the manner of burial in preparation for the afterlife backs this theory, Hawass said. "No way would they have been buried so honourably if they were slaves."

Kind of annoyed I can't find a single university website which says this using a quick google, but I guess most scholars don't make a big deal about common knowledge.
Animation with CPPNs
Exactly. It'll never happen, so why waste time and energy on a fantasy when there's a solution in front of you that isn't perfect but has a good chance of working and making things better?
ride sharing isn't exactly very profitable at the moment. I don't think the revenue would offset the additional engineering/product costs of just running the rideshare service, much less the cost of testing.
I would hope that such a device would be wiped and/or factory reset before being auctioned off. However I've worked in IT long enough to know how all too often, that doesn't happen.

That said, I believe any claim that there was evidence of this machine having been tampered with or compromised should be viewed with some skepticism unless we can see said evidence side by side with a known-good machine. How is one to evaluate it otherwise if there's nothing to compare it to? Any thing dredged out of that machine's guts could genuinely seem suspicious, but how are we to know such wasn't simply the vendor's incompetence -- especially with as much incompetence in the design of these machines as has been brought to light so far?
Can't speak for the parent but for one thing I don't recall reading about Google messing with 600,000 users’ emotions without their knowledge.
And I think that is the place it will happen first. At least outside America where most roads are far too complicated for driverless cars.

Motorways, on the other hand are relatively simple. And we have service stations that driverless lorries could drive themselves to, to be picked up by human drivers for the final leg. And there's an obvious commercial need. And there's an obvious safety need (who hasn't seen a swerving lorry?)
So, you would like to just get rid of cars? Do you have any idea the level of human suffering that would cause? If you're not proposing something as silly as eliminating them entirely, then you should want to make them more efficient.
And the part I don't buy is that this is the case. I don't buy that Uber can't afford to treat their employees like people, and if they actually can't, then they need to go out of business so companies that can are able to grow.
Also you can read offline after a refresh. Biggest feature for me
AV itself is much less effective than many people believe. That's true in general, and this case is no exception. The conclusion of TFA:

"Interestingly enough, we have also observed that most AV's also failed in detecting the dropper campaigns (sometimes for years), meaning that some awareness needs to be raised on the topic,"
There's an option for a third best passport for dual-citizens on the best passports page:
http://multinational.io/best_passport
Vomit can be a big problem, and on top of that there can be a difficult tightrope to walk of knowing when someone needs to go to a hospital instead of going home.
"Amazon Web Services reported sales on Thursday of $5.44 billion (for Q1 2018)" [1]

So there is your upper bound.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/26/aws-earnings-q1-2018.html
It is a great idea indeed, but note:

- The Gripen fighter jets (designed and built in Sweden) listing no less than 17 (!) current and confirmed future customers here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen#Operational.... The list of nations considering buying those jets is even longer.

- You are either incredibly well informed or not informed at all about the quality of Israeli ICBMs, but since they are ordering submarines capable of launching ICBMs and are capable of launching satellites into orbit, the general state of Israeli ballistic capability is definitely high enough to deliver warheads anywhere on the planet.

- Allegedly, the latest generation of German submarines is good enough to penetrate the defenses of a US navy carrier group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_212_submarine#Operations). They are in service with both the German and Italian navies with four more ordered by the Norwegians.

Quality helps with generating demand but it is not enough, especially when selling to governments. If you don't believe this, please consider if SpaceX had still gotten the NSA launch contracts if SpaceX had been a Chinese or Russian company.
How and Why to Classify Problems in User Interviews
The headline is horrible.

"Steamroller surges"? Really? Has the author seen a surging steamroller? That's not what steamrollers do. It's hard to stop a steamroller, yes, but its moves aren't sudden. It doesn't suddenly accelerate. You can see the steamroller a mile coming. It starts slowly and goes slowly.

And as you noted, you don't usually resist steamrollers. That's a silly thing to do.

Reminds me of the singing octopus from Orwell's examples of how not to write:[1]

> The sole aim of a metaphor is to call up a visual image. When these images clash — as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot — it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.

[1]http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...
Not OP, but a resource commonly suggested is "Cracking the Coding interview"
The politicians have a hard time to get the first vote done. I doubt there will be a third.

Looking at the state of Brexit, it's due time to think it over, give people a chance a to remedy a grave mistake. Or go all the way, at any cost? With a 52%/48% vote? Really?
If you are interested in exoplanets, I recommend Adam Frank's book "Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth". He discusses the history of the Fermi Paradox, the Drake Equation, and how what we know about exoplanets can inform us about Earth's history and future.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0393609014
The fact that Google chose to build QUIC on top of UDP rather than on top of IP directly shows that not even Google think it's possible to introduce any new Layer 4 protocol.
Hey! Thanks for the response. If you don't mind, I have some questions and comments after reading through your feedback.

> We suspect that [the majority of users who use Takeout don't do it to leave Google] will be true for DTP, users will want to try out a new service, or user a complementary service, instead of a replacement.

Interesting, thanks. I think this sort of worldview makes sense from a certain perspective.

> 2) Users should absolutely be able to delete their data once they copy it.

This is an aspirational statement and not a requirement of DTP, so it's problematic from a public perception standpoint to make the claim that DTP provides the user with more control of their data when the control very much remains at the mercy of the data controller. Indeed, this project directly facilitates the opportunity for more data controllers to obtain copies of the subject's data.

> If they aren't interested in their data being used via DTP, that is absolutely their choice.

Can you clarify whether you are saying that the DTP Project will honor takedown requests from parties targeted by DTP tooling?

> Google should build adapters for Google, and Microsoft should build adapters for Microsoft.

Can you explain the business drivers that incentivize these companies to provide parity between their import and export capabilities? Does the DTP Project require parity between these capabilities?
A great WASM benchmark: http://iswebassemblyfastyet.com/
Sociologist finds success, mistakes capitalism for socialism
I think he meant sadistic purely in the context of woodworking, not in the context of military.
Yup, a mistake done in the 80s with Ariane 5 architecture, that we are still paying. Smaller scale means slower changes and this is being partially addressed with Ariane 6 and Vega C.

Similar issue with the use of solid propulsion, mainly used to also keep it in line with military needs.
If you code a system with 3D rotations coded as Euler angles, you can align two axises and lose a degree of freedom. This is gimbal lock.

Using unit quaternions (aka versors) to code the rotation instead, you cannot lose a degree of freedom. 4x4 matrices also solve this problem, but quaternions are more mathematically efficient. They also give very smooth interpolation for computer-assisted animations.

Also related to spinors in quantum physics and exists as a subalgebra of some conformal geometric algebras.
Why not make pro football players wear standardized shoes during a game? The issue with customized shoes I see is wealthier teams will have better equipment.
Australia is probably the best second passport for EU citizens, since that makes you eligible for E-3 visa to the US as well as the APEC card to China and Russia.
MI Man Files Suit After Waiting 3 Years for a Hearing to Get His Seized Car Back
I am concerned that federated service is being presented as distributed.
Email is federated and it is precisely the reason why nobody is hosting their mail server and using Gmail instead.
There is a process where you put in a space (number of dimensions) and a metric (Euclidean, for example) and produce a Clifford algebra. This is also sometimes called “geometric algebra”, although there are a lot of sensationalist posts using this name on the internet.

This Clifford algebra has an odd and even part, and the even part is an algebra in its own right, and is very useful for representing “rotations” in the space.

With the Euclidean metric, with one input dimension, the even Clifford algebra is just the reals. With two dimensions, you get the complex numbers. With three, the quaternions. However, since a Clifford algebra is always associative, you don’t get the octonions in this way.

Finally, if you put in four dimensions and the minkowski metric, the even Clifford algebra construction gives you a lovely algebra representing spatial rotations in three of the dimensions, and “boosts” along the time direction - exactly what you need to do calculations in special relativity.
Definitely are way more intricacies to the cli than I'll ever learn, but 99.7% (estimated) of my git usage is running the same 4-5 commands all day, which I have aliased to convenient acronyms. Don't even have to think about it.

The other stuff is there if you need it though.
Most people have a hobby. The kind of people who hang out on HN are the kind of people who'll obsessively learn everything there is to know about their hobby.