skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When he was released, the North Koreans also sent over MRI scan data they'd taken of his brain. By all accounts he was missing substantial brain tissue, which is consistent with loss of blood to the brain. It's not known what caused that. There wasn't any apparent damage to his neck or skull. The North Koreans claim botulism did it, which certainly isn't impossible but neither is there any evidence for it. He may also have been waterboarded incompetently, causing him to nearly drown for real. That would explain the lack of apparent skull or neck injuries, and also the brain damage.

> "Why would you state he had been tortured without any proof?"

Proof? Proofs are for mathematics. In the real world we always deal with uncertainties. Is it certain that the North Koreans torture prisoners? No. But is it a likely enough possibility that we shouldn't bite our tongues and not comment on that likelihood? Of course. There is a lot of evidence for North Korea torturing people in the past, and there isn't a lot of reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.
It was a few years ago that the default search engine for Firefox was Yahoo. I would think that Google would be happy to see Firefox fighting back at them. You don't have a monopoly if Firefox is going strong.
tldr: Simple/small thrusters getting within order of magnitude of performance of bigger/more complicated.

Introduction:

> “Electrodeless” RF thrusters are distinct from Hall effect thrusters, gridded ion engines, and gridded RF thrusters ... in that they do not use grids, anodes, cathodes, or high voltages to accelerate the propellant, greatly simplifying the thruster architecture. Their electrical and mechanical simplicity allows for electrodeless RF thrusters to be designed for the production requirements of the next generation of large satellite constellations.

> Despite their promise, electrodeless RF thrusters have not gained wide acceptance due to their sub-par measured performance compared to state of the art Hall effect and gridded ion systems.

> The Phase Four RFT approaches the concept of electrodeless RF plasma acceleration by acknowledging that the primary technological advantage of RF lies in the minaturazation of RF power electronics by the wireless power industry.

Discussion:

> To the authors’ knowledge, the specific impulse and thrust efficiency levels measured in the Phase Four RFT presented here represent the highest performance electrodeless thruster results ever demonstrated, by a significant margin. Specifically, the electrodeless RFT-X engine produced specific impulse on par with state of the art low power Hall effect thrusters, within 50% the thrust output at the same power level [17, 18]. This is as opposed to previous electrodeless thrusters that could not achieve the same order of magnitude thrust and/or specific impulse as their traditional Hall effect and gridded ion counterparts.

> The performance improvement highlights improved understanding of the thruster ion acceleration and energy transfer mechanisms, which are captured in proprietary unified design rules that extend across thruster variants.
He demos it working on several popular sites.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and please stop using HN for nationalistic flamewar? Or any flamewar. We ban accounts that do this. I don't want to ban you, because you've posted good comments too. But users here need to follow the site guidelines and be using HN as intended.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If screws snap from shear, you used the wrong fastener. A bigger screw isn't the right solution. It costs more, makes a bigger hole, and doesn't work as well as the right fastener.

Screws are generally harder steel so that the threads can cut into the substrate. That makes them brittle. Try bending a screw; it won't bend. It will snap.

There are engineered screws designed for high shear strength which I use quite often. They're much more expensive, but I find them worthwhile.

Nails are made of softer, tougher steel. If you try to bend one, it will bend. It won't break.

Conversely, from the video linked, you can see that even a basic screw will handle several times more tension loading than a barbed nail.
No example images or demo site?
They could take a Mac Pro and just chop it in half to create the product so many people want.

1 MPX module. 6 DIMM slots. 700 watt power supply. One 10Gb Ethernet port. Supports up to 12 cores.

Shrink the case somewhat in two dimensions and call it the Mac Pro Mini.

How hard can this possibly be you have all the parts right there...
> If you have a weaker lock, you have greater risk.

I think this is only true in limited circumstances. Someone went to the storage facility with the intention of stealing, and had the opportunity to window shop for the weakest looking lock.
I don't quite get the "running on credits w/ no payment history" and "ruined our business" combo. How can they run a business and never pay?
I've used it for years and never had this.
So, you're telling me it's finally time to market this plug & play home email server idea?
I agree, the incident report was well done. The combination of factors that led to the issue was described in clear detail, and I was glad to see a concrete plan to improve various aspects to avoid future cases like this. It certainly helped to regain trust.
The graph shows that as HN traffic has grown, traffic swings have become even larger. This means that the majority of HN growth has been strongly in one-time zone. Another observation is that traffic swings have very sharp peaks which means HN ranking algorithms need to be extraordinarily robust to not depend on the availability of huge traffic. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case as you can see stories that get ranked on top are pretty much random. I think we would be shocked to see qualities of stories that got ranked on the bottom of these daily traffic cycles. I'd say HN is a very nice challenging research problem for collaborative filtering with highly fluctuating traffic.
Redis labs doesn’t run on all regions / cloud providers sadly. I’ve asked (begged) them to support GCE in Europe for a while now... even not all AWS regions are supported as far as I’m aware.
offlineimap does this, write to Maildir then have mutt use this.
I agree. Not everyone uses social media as a popularity contest. No reason why academic uses of it would need to be like that.

And trying to reach a wide audience is not the same as engaging in a shallow popularity contest.
The paper may be written by a crazy guy, but it's not a conspiracy theory unless there's a threat of real harm and abject paranoia of danger.

So the paper may be a crackpot hypothesis, but if it's there to present a bogus idea, but isn't designed to foment anxiety of a secret enemy, there's nothing related to conspiracies.

Paranormal magical thinking may specify fictious alien races, some good and some bad, and present conflict among made up aliens, with some of them being evil villains, but then it's just supernatural musticism with a science fiction angle, and not conspiracy theories.

Even if it pushed an idea that the movie They Live was based on fact, it wouldn't be a conspiracy theory until drawing the major focus on connections to real world events, and hijacking the readers focus to recruit believers of a fear oriented narrative.

If that's not the case, it wouldn't be particularly correct to categorize the ramblings of some freak as conspiracy theories. So get your terminology straightened out.
I have received this advice from several well respected lawyers and read the law myself.
I was just on an A380 Business class flight.

I can tell you there is a "saloon" on this thing, because at 37000 feet I stood in my Qatar PJ's with two other guys and drank cocktails in the bar.

surreal experience for me...
I think the claim that Earth is going to turn into Venus or Arrakis is absurd - I haven't heard anyone argue that, but I have heard the claim that it will cause a mass extinction on a geologic scale that could affect humans and our 'pets' as well.

I don't know if it is accurate and based on good science, but I believe that the argument revolves around the timescale that the change is occurring compared to natural climate shifts: that the temperature is increasing so fast there is not enough time for plants and animals to evolve, or even for ecosystems to gradually migrate their locales.
For example, one reason you can't simply replace farms with land in, say, the Canadian shield is the lack of good topsoil. According to [1] it takes at least 100 years to form an inch of topsoil in wet, hot climates, and the process is much slower in cold or dry climates. Thus if we render our existing farmland unfit for our existing crops in timescales measured in tens of years, we would have to rely on manually bringing a literal continent's worth of soil north - whatever process was at work during the Cretaceous cannot be relied on to solve this particular problem.

[1] https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/wa/soils/?c...
If you know the store you can usually tell. Low quality end caps don’t sell and end up as dumping grounds for stuff that needs to go.
Cloud/Hosting providers have startup programs that give you credit in the hope that you will stick around.
Gun violence has sharply declined in California's Bay Area. What happened?
Many (all?) of the cloud providers offer credits to startups (credits as in free $ to spend on their services). So if they hadn’t burned through that, there would be no payment yet. (The startup I work at got $20k in credits and didn’t pay a dime for the first year)
Did anyone notice DO leaked customer financials in this post? If I were a startup running on credit, I definitely wouldn't want to advertise that. WTF?
About this:

“The poorest households in the US spend 9% of their income on lottery tickets, showing that you can't legislate people out of misusing their funds.”

You’ve explained why it’s urgent that we outlaw lottery tickets. For most of USA history Protestant and Catholic leaders were unified in their opposition to all forms of gambling, and so lottery tickets were unthinkable for most of USA history. And every progressive activist that I know personally would like to see an end to lottery tickets and other forms of de facto regressive taxation. Lottery tickets, like other forms of gambling, tend to undermine habits of thrift and sobriety.

I agree with your implied analogy — ICOs are like lottery tickets. That’s why they should be banned.
Why Pfizer didn’t report that its arthritis medication might prevent Alzheimer’s
I am most impressed that they are able to model the sun's surface activity well enough to see a match; and that effects from the interior are tiny enough that tides can overcome them.
Because Google isn't using standard protocol handlers?

How about if a friend sends you an address in imessage and you click it?
every sufficiently big company will eventually want to move into payment/banking. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Car manufacturers, supermarkets, airplane manufacturers, etc.

It's the dream of every MBA to skim on top of transactions instead of directly producing value.
>Anyone can sell securities to any investor

can being the operative word. There is a very significant market for investments where "sophisticated" – er – Accredited Investors get access to purchase securities that are not available to the public.

Frustration from people who want to but cannot access this market is real and arguably valid, a balancing act between preventing fraud and granting access which is tipped a bit too far towards not necessarily preventing fraud but restricting access for the benefit of a few. (on the other hand before you go public there is a benefit to only having investors that really know what they are doing, the rabble of small time less knowledgable investors can be a business risk before your company is ready for the public)

What I am saying is that the people spouting nonsense come from a place where there is truth, but so many people know so little about it that good discussions are hard to come by.
Dozen of Tech Titans Made a Pilgrimage to Brunello Cucinelli’s Italian Village
DO is claimed to be "third-largest hosting company in the world in terms of web-facing computers", so that should give you an idea of how many customers they have.
It is. Most people don't have a 20% project though. It means less time to work on the things that might get you promoted.

But you can have one of you want one.
+1. Steam is pretty damned good, and as a business they are killing it. As an entrepreneur I applaud them for the pivot. This isn't just hats - they provide access to TONS of games we would otherwise never see.
Location: Coeur d'Alene, ID / Spokane, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Linux, Rust, Python, Django, Shell, Golang, Lisp, C, SQL, DBs, ETL, AWS, Git, abstraction, data structs, algorithms, formats

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oS5CRjfVg9-zRFO5CVCmgUI1eY...

Email: hire.derick@pm.me
If you want to do cryptocurrency mining on DO that is actually okay with us. Some of the other respondents are correct the behavior we were looking for was really around fraudulent accounts being created and performing cryptocurrency mining. This is why the trigger that flagged this account was using payment history as a key factor in the triggering.
I believe the purpose of these checks is for when people's outdated wordpress install or whatever gets compromised by script kiddies. Generally, the scripts install crypto miners to mine for the hacker until your account gets shut down, running you up a huge bill in the process.
Well as an end user, I do trust Apple. I want to put this in the hands of a for profit company that has the reach and know how to make this viable right now, not in some far distant future where adoption is low. While I like the idea, in practical terms the goal is:

1. Make a login system that is private, secure and easy

2. Have it be widely adopted right now

3. Have it work forever, seamlessly

A for profit company with the reach of Apple is the perfect solution for all three points.
OT: what does it take to design a font? I've always wanted to make my own. Is it a reasonable thing to do for an average person with an okay design taste, if I'm willing to put in the work?
Have found the most soothing voice on YouTube
> That means the L1 (and probably L2) caches are flushed every time you read or write to them on ARM systems. (x86 has stricter guarantees and almost "natively" implements SeqCst, so you won't have as many flushes on x86). The cache must be flushed on EVERY operation declared SeqCst. Its absurdly slow, the absolute slowest memory model you can have.

SeqCst is definitely the slowest memory model to use, but the bit about flushing caches doesn't sound right. SeqCst on a processor with a relaxed memory consistency model usually 'just' requires core-local operations on the load/store buffers - usually draining the buffers (but that is not strictly necessary). It isn't necessary to flush caches to enforce consistency if the memory system has coherent caches.

Fences for sequential consistency are certainly heavy on ARM and it will show up as poor performance, I'd be very surprised if any aarch64 processor flushed any cache on LDAR/STLR.

I'd appreciate a correction if I've misunderstood or if there are modern ARM processors that do flush L1 on LDAR/STLR/DMB ISH.
Digital Ocean: allow me to do some extended verification so you know exactly who I am and reduce your risk. In exchange, there is no automated locking, rather we are contacted and have 24 hours to mitigate the issue.

Requirements:

* 1 year continuous ontime payments at $250+/mo usage

* automatic billing is set up

* billing limits are set up and have been reviewed within the last year

* copy of our business insurance and license

* u2f on all accounts

Fair?
> Because I started this project in 2011, though, with Python 2, you will need Python 2.* to use my blogging engine. I plan to port it to Python 3 soon. Use with versions other than 2.* at your own risk.

7 months until PY2 goes EOL...
Nope, Lyme is real and can really mess people up. I wonder if we (and the doctors) are just getting better at diagnosing/more aware of it. I'd say I've known quite a few people that have gotten lyme, some with worse outcomes than others, but that might be selection bias cuz I know lots of "outdoorsy" people, and I'm getting older. The other part is, have we gotten rid of lots of natural predators of ticks?
Because HL3 would suck. First person shooters today are very different than what first person shooters were when HL2 was released. It's Quake vs Overwatch. So Valve is between a rock and a hard place; do they make HL3 in the modern style and alienate all their original fans? Or do they make HL3 in the dated style and risk a flop because the market for that dated style has only gotten smaller over the past decade and new players aren't interested in it? That's why HL3 would suck. No matter which path they take, and no matter how expertly they make it, it will almost certainly be something that leaves a TON of people dissatisfied.

So it's better for Valve to not make it. They'd rather HL3 be an urban legend than a disappointment. That's better for their image as experts in their craft.
They we're running on DO account credit so they may have been using the service for a while but haven't needed to pay for the service yet.
I certainly did read it :)
I was very worried about that specific detail and we reached out to the customer before posting this postmortem to expressly get his permission to share those details. If he had said no, we would have worked around the detail but not be able to explain as clearly what went wrong. He gave us his permission to share the information.
Their payment history was with DO credits according to the post.
You're right. Brainfade.

So, even with protocol overhead from all the stack layers chewing up maybe an order of magnitude, that'd still leave 10GBps.

So .. I guess it's still possible, if impractical, to outperform a good PCIe SSD with the latest network interface.
What is a "business license"?
You're right, doh. See above.
If community patches are licensed under MIT or BSD, all CockroachDB has to do is include those license texts in their proprietary distribution, which is the only requirement by both licenses. Proprietary derivative works are allowed under MIT and BSD.
Chrooting loses global configuration files and libraries and tools that you have installed. This has a similar effect, is not as strong, but is simpler.
Superficial explanation, talks about google services which google cloud customers don't care. What about their customers websites and services that went off for 4h?
What about the impact on southamerica, eu, and other markets outside us?
Unfortunately you need to run a DAT gateway on your local machine for the add-on to work.
Exist.io App Review– Bio-Hack AndTrack Your Whole Life Automatically
Nothing in the statement from Digital Ocean indicates that they won't kill your account or shutdown your systems - that's not the sort of cloud host any company can afford to use.

Cloud providers that kill accounts - or SAY they kill accounts, must be dropped and not used.

The worst thing that should be possible is for your account to be suspended.

AWS, if there is a billing issue, prevents you making changes to your infrastructure via the console until the billing issue is sorted out - this is good and reasonable.

""Peer review of account terminations. For any account appealing a lock, two agents will be required to review the submission prior to issuing a final deny.""

- I can imagine how this plays out:

(service agent 1 turns to next service agent along) 'This looks like a bad account - I think I should shut it down, what do you think buddy?'

(service agent 2) - 'Yep I trust you, shut it down.'
That's why you have taxes to destroy money and control inflation.

There are good reasons why budgets should be close to balanced most of the time.
I'm not sure I understand why running on credit would be an issue for a startup? That said, I hope they asked the user before posting this info.
The tick load on deer in the Upper Midwest of the US has gone up, and the number of deer is up too compared to 40 years ago. Winter ticks are actually killing moose in both the Upper Midwest and New England, and different species of ticks are being found in the Upper Midwest than used to be found (like Lone Star tick).
* Google also owns the Android platform and the YouTube platform.

* Apple owns the iOS and MacOS platforms.

* Microsoft owns the Windows platform.

It seems to be a very common pattern. I remember being convinced on the matter by an Economist article on European tech: https://www.economist.com/britain/2011/08/06/start-me-up
Bees can link symbols to numbers, study finds
Creating an AI Sociopolitical Decision Support System
I use them to set max line length and maybe indentation style (though perhaps I should look more into EditorConfig [0]).

[0] https://editorconfig.org/
I had been expecting a short blip of an update denying anything of consequence (a twitter post promised a status update, but well, you know...) but this transparency significantly exceeds expectations. Nicely done DO.

You may want to explain service credits in some light detail though, for those that are unfamiliar with them.
Various businesses in the usa require licensure to operate. These are often done at state or even federal levels. Not every business has one, but even an EIN provides them more information about who's paying for the service.
I've been on the Beta channel for the last few years. I can't remember the last time it crashed. It's just not a thing with Firefox these days. But then, they do push out new betas every few days so I end up restarting the browser quite often. Either way, stability is fine even with the Betas. I'm pretty sure there are quite many beta users so by the time a release comes out of beta, it has already survived many weeks of testing in the field by gazillions of real users abusing it on all kinds of platform and hardware combinations.

So, stable should be perfectly fine for day to day use if you feel less adventurous. It's basically the release intended for world+dog. The only people actually using ESR probably are enterprises that for whatever reason actually care about which version of Firefox they are using and third party software integrators that just don't want to deal with major changes every minor release. Tor browser is a good example.

I'll click the update button after clicking reply. It seems I missed a few updates. Zero issues that I noticed with this one: 68.0b4.
Supposedly Brave wants to add it: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/949kac/when_...
Seems like pay-per-click would work without third-party cookies? The redirect is first-party.
Yahoo Mail is perhaps better for privacy? Even if they strive to be just as evil as Google, they are probably not nearly as competent.

In addition, Verizon, Yahoo's overlord, is probably run by "old school" telecom management that doesn't fully appreciate the financial goldmine of data mining.
using HTML rather than plain text was the real win. HTTP vs Gopher wasn't anything anyone cared about compared to the ease of use of Hypertext links.

And then came inline images, and it was all over.

I'm all for plain HTML, no CSS, no JS, but going back to plain text is a big step backwards.
> Epic is that they don't have any goodwill

none, except Unreal Tournament legacy and one of the best 3d engines on the market for the last 20 years.
Found the paid google PR!
The funny thing is when you consider applying this very cool stylesheet to a regular web site or app the result would be a complete mess mostly, because those places are often div soup, rather than neat semantic minimal HTML.
Key takeaway for me: DigitalOcean might still kill your account at any time, revoking your access to your data.

Refusing service is fine, but holding my data hostage and refusing access to it is not, so I am making a note to not consider DO for any kind of hosting.