skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have Zoom installed on my Ubuntu 16.04 and its also vulnerable.

https://jlleitschuh.org/zoom_vulnerability_poc/zoompwn_ifram...
The idea life emerged long before Earth, and may be widespread in the universe, is fairly old:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

I suspect that a formal, anonymous survey of astrobiologists would find that the idea is far more prevalent among experts than Ruvkin's estimate that "one per cent would buy into the idea of life spreading the way I’m sort of promoting it".

It's just risky to express, for cultural reasons, until there's tangible proof. Many scientists are temperamentally reluctant to speculate without conclusive evidence, especially given the penchant of the press to sensationalize any such theories. It'd raise difficult questions about our place in the universe, and possibly popular fears.

Thinking science had already settled on a consensus that simple life is everywhere might even paradoxically reduce funding for new missions to test the idea. After all, there have been tantalizing hints of life-processes on Mars going back to the Viking lander experiments of the 1970s – and yet we still can't seem to send a lab package that'd definitively answer the question! But the hope of figuring it out motivates new missions.

(As should be clear, I'm strongly in Ruvkin's camp – and regularly comment to that effect here on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gojomo%20panspermia&sort=byDat... )
It does, on Android.
They already require consent. You probably know that. Not sure what the joke is.
I agree that free speech and privacy is of utmost importance in a democratic society. But gun ownership? No. What value does a gun have for the general population, provided it can't be used for any other purpose besides killing people? When it comes to gun control, there simply is no tradeoff between freedom and security unless the right to kill people is a widely accepted right.
Yes, those lazy milennials with their instant grahams and their books of faces
I'll do that in a follow up post. To be honest, I wasn’t ready to release this yet, not in this form, so the info is very preliminary, as noted in the introduction: "Let me tell you a bit about Photon… From my previous post about Ascend, some folks noticed its existence and actually found the github repository. The repository is rather underwhelming, I thought to myself, devoid of any documentation of any sort, other than a very terse description: “Photon Micro GUI library”. I figured perhaps it’s good to post preliminary information about it, maybe starting with some history and basic architecture and design principles and code snippets. Just enough to give it a bit of justice that it deserves."

And then one of my Boost (https://www.boost.org/) peers twitted about it, and ended up being posted here.

It seems I have a lot of work to do...
I can easily afford $4000 per month on a mortgage for 30 years. I cannot afford a one-time cash payment of $1M to buy the same house, even though it's "way" less than the lifetime cost of the mortgage.
That's revenue, so not .. quite what he's taking home. Less cost of servers, then benefits which he's not getting from an employer, 401k matching, etc.

It adds up but yes .. the freedom is nice :)
Both of these permissions already require consent.
What about the day when you decide that Chrome is not the browser for you anymore?
Deer in Japan's Nara died with numerous plastic bags in stomach
https://pinboard.in/tour/

A highlight for me was the ability to tag bookmarks, search through them, and manage them with bulk editing abilities.
Yup you're right, my bad–I mixed up homoiconicity and hygienic macros–apparently like many before me!
If you enjoy repl.it, you might enjoy StackBlitz as well. I've had fun using StackBlitz to put together some prototypes of React apps.

I love repl.it too, of course! It's nice to have several great tools to choose from.
My favorite is "goto Considered Harmful".

Yes, it can be abused, but can so nearly every other programming construct. There are places where goto makes sense, such as error handling or breaking out of nested loops. I hate seeing a Boolean flag(s) being tracked for whether or not break out of nested loops. It's more typing and confuses the intent. Just goto the label following the nested loop.

Also, nearly any looping construct can be implented using a conditional goto, and if you go down to assembly, they almost universally are. Jumps are goto's by another name. I've seen exceptions used for control flow. Awful. It's about knowing the appropriate construct for the problem at hand.

I've seen do{...}while(false) used with conditional breaks to avoid use of goto in error handling and it's confusing as you're reading through an unfamiliar codebase to see abuse like that. As I'm reading through the code, I see the 'do' and I expect the code to loop, only to continue reading and find out it doesn't loop. Frustrating.
> So that means that biogenesis happened only once.

No, it just means that only one lineage did well enough in competition that we can find examples to study its biomarkers.

Or that there are factors we don't yet understand that favor similar biomarkers in independent lineages.

Or...luck.

> if biogenesis happened only once (for all of our bio examples), then it is either a rare event that just happened to occur very shortly after the planet cooled, or it happened sometime before Earth was hospitable for life and elsewhere in the universe.

Or biogenesis itself changed the environment in a way which made it no longer conducive to biogenesis.
I export my bookmarks and import them to Firefox, and possibly use Pinboard then?
If you have a OnePlus (which come more or less rooted) or a Samsung (Which has a lot of community support), you can probably root it pretty easily. But a lot of other phones lack the manufacturer's blessing or the community's support, leaving you SOL unless you can find an exploit yourself.

Also... iphone?
Doesn't really cover situations where the computer is in a persons bedroom (common with eg: teenagers), and not powered off overnight.
Free eBook – Getting Started with Artificial Intelligence
Can you search through them only with the $25/year sub?
Revenue over time is basically a log graph. Some games are practically worthless a year after release (see: yearly AAA junk)

Indie markets work well with that model though. I've seen many indie games launch English-only and adding translations later on to sell to more users.
Really a union fought for my unlimited vacation? I'm not being facetious but this perk is something that IME is unique (or at least originated in) silicon valley startups. Unions fought for more vacation but empirically speaking the free market led to even more.

And before we have the detractors of unlimited vacation coming in. Several of my colleagues take month long vacations, some multiple times a year, withiut reproach. It is objectively superior to my mother's union job
That appeals court ruling is now being used in a case filed against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-to-face-lawsuit-over-bl...
Nintendo Shifts Some Switch Production from China to Vietnam
Is there an anti-trust case brewing that has motivated this move?
Wasn't there a movie about this?
While that is true, it was so frigging handy that it was well worth setting this up to get it to work.
If I were one of those tens of thousands of people, I would be buying this substance from a dodgy chemical synthesis person...
The Riot Games API: Transforms
latency?
This argument contradicts itself.

If air travel is essential to operate the economy itself, people will pay for it without subsidies, and cut down on non essentials, if need be.
>It's pretty much our only opportunity to see if life emerged twice in the same planetary system under similar conditions.

Well there's also Titan, Enceladus, and Europa right? Titan is by far the most exotic but it could serve as an example of what happens when life evolves under a radically different environment. It has some complex organic molecules there and a very interesting/varied geology and topology. Enceladus and Europa could exhibit very similar conditions to those of the deep sea on Earth as well, which could very well be where life originated. Also at one point even Earth could have became a "snowball" planet and still able to sustain life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth
Man that is some rich clickbait.... it's a real quote but their own story in the next paragraph says:

>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he wasn’t aware of the official’s comments but said there was no indication the incident posed a broader threat. “As for the reactor, there are no problems with that,” he said on a conference call.

Plenty of subs have gone down before, without a 'Planetary Catastrophe'.
Evolving the hearthstone meta with machine learning
Literally no one is against employees banding together. What most anti union people are against is laws mandating employers can only hire from one particular union. That is like a law that mandates one company as the sole provider of toilet paper.
If you do, please let me know :)
Don’t have too much to add, but there is a non-partner commenter on the parent that doesn’t seem too concerned by the articles content
Every Insanely Mystifying Paradox in Physics: A Complete List
That doesn't really explain why you need a 3d model, though. If there was no important vertical process, you could get away with not resolving it. However, vertical heat transport is the entire game since the lower atmosphere is opaque to heat.
“...and are really stylish...” classic! That thing is hideous in my humble opinion
Antibiotics don’t work on humans. They work on bacteria in humans. Your sentiment is generally correct for most other types of medical research, but antibiotics generally pass the human testing fairly easily, provided that they don’t also kill the human they’re tested on.
I loved Pinboard when I was using it, but my biggest pain point was the lack of a decent Android app. It was cumbersome to get websites from my phone's browser into Pinboard. I'd easily pay $2/month for a polished, modern Android Pinboard client.
If your intent is to sleep, it's likely no one will bother to wake you.
> Data is defined by behavior, even for "plain old" types.

This is the POV of the OOP-ist, but it is not necessary and it is limiting. It's actually the "debate" we are having, so asserting it isn't proving it!

Functional programming has a complete story for polymorphism so OOP does not win on that account contrary to what you're implying.

I do think we have common ground in shunning class inheritance which is useless and a complete disaster.

However even without inheritance it seems to be that "objects" are provably replaceable by functions. (E.g., promote the implicit `this` reference to a first-class reference provided as an explicit arg to functions.)

I see no reason why data can't have opaque parts so data encapsulation doesn't seem to be a unique OOP claim either.

So then if objects aren't necessary for polymorphism and data encapsulation, then what are they good for?
You ever see the Reptilian conspiracy theories? Some people actually believe that to be a possibility.

Do you have any evidence that a significant portion of people working in the field in the 1980s thought that Waterworld was realistic, or are you just pointing at some cranks that existed, and treating it as evidence of anything other than the existence of cranks?
I doubt MS "burrows" (I think you mean "buried") WinFS. There were likely many good lessons learned from that project about file systems, and there were a few useful outcomes that are present in the current NTFS.

You don't know, what you don't know until you try stuff. It's called research.
Carbon dating depends on the details of the biosphere. C14 is produced in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays, and then (once it's fixed into a tree) it decays with a half-life of 5700 years.

So if a chair is made of wood with a C14 fraction that's 1/4 of the atmospheric fraction, you can say it's 11400 years old (as a first-order approximation -- the actual science calibrates out a lot of things.)

But it's not clear that the presence of life would affect the C14 ratio in the upper atmosphere. The fraction should be where the production rate (proportional to the cosmic ray flux and percentage of nitrogen) matches the decay rate (1/5700 / year)
Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19448491

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17252585
This seems to be a fairly obvious finding, doesn’t it? Any change in business practices that gives you a competitive advantage gives you, well, a competitive advantage!

The study seems to say: if your company automates jobs away, you’ll actually create jobs in the long run because you’ll be able to take over competitors’ market share! But I don’t think those jobs are of the same type as the ones eliminated - probably trading manual labor for strategy/marketing/engineering, which is not much consolation to current manual workers at your firm.

Also, the study neglects to mention industry-wide effects. Maybe one tech-savvy company can grow its headcount even after automating a bunch of jobs away, but given the heavy headcount losses sustained by competitors, will it still be a net increase in the industry? I would suspect not.
I think there's a half way between both because the command line is a REPL, even the awful windows one. I think that's a better starting point than a web based IDE (I don't think repl.it is actual a REPL) because you can naturally expand to more tools, have access to your own files, etc. If you start out that way then setting things like core.editor become natural extensions of what they've already learned and not some magic incantation to get started.
I wonder why rich people have such a high urge to fly small airplanes. It seems to expose you to a lot of risk, which you could easily avoid (I’ve lived a considerable number of years without facing a single situation where I was likely to fly an airplane).
First, you rid yourself of the Google Overlord that is tracking any and all input from its user — You! On a more serious note, Pinboard can be incorporated into so many different services, even his competitors. Do you use Instapaper? Pinboard will sync everything you saved so you don’t have to worry about losing it after reading it. Same with Pocket. Or it’ll automatically grab embedded links from Twitter posts you “liked.” He makes it easy for you in import all of your Google bookmarks if you export them to HTML.

His API is a modified version of Delicious.

You have a built in Notes path that can also store (x) amount of notes.

Your account is as public or private you want it to be. You can make all bookmarks and user page private by default, or you can alter which tags you want to be public, etc. Best of all, nobody is tracking you. You can be an invisible user with a backlog of bookmarks spanning years and you will always have access to them.

Quick disclaimer: I’ve been using Pinboard since 2013-2014, before the new subscription model, and am fortunate enough to have paid an onetime-fee.
Not necessarily; you can't cast Netflix to home hub.
No variable (fast) speed playback on the FireTV app? :(
How is that a contrary view. That guy seems very happy with the Ubuntu and X1 combo. Though he does spend a long time obsessing about the battery, after his initial take was "yup, it's good enough for me".
Not sure about the need for the list, but I can envision being there.
> The ribbon has always been collapsible / "auto-hidable" to just a menu bar

Sadly, this is no longer true in Outlook, at least in the version recently pushed to my work computer. The only two options now are the "simplified ribbon" and the classic ribbon (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-the-simplified-...). You can no longer hide the ribbon completely. I assume other Office applications will soon follow suit.
In which ways is it inaccurate?
The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-Transcendent Experience in Space Flight [pdf]
It's not exactly the default assumption though. Historically the default is that life was magicked into existence or came here from a previous world or some other creation story. The current abiogenisis story of molecules->proteins->cells->Life is relatively recent.

The other thing is that because we have a fairly... ?linear record of evolution: if life did originate somewhere else it got to Earth in something like prokaryotic single cell form 3.5 billion years ago. Which means we can't use the idea of panspermia to tell us anything. It's neither predictive or explanatory. It tells us nothing of how or where life did originate or how life got started on Earth or what or where we should look for or expect in the rest of the Universe.

The current theory suggests life could pop up extremely quickly, which itself already implies life is likely to exist in the rest of universe on some level so panspermia doesn't even mean anything with regards to how likely life is anywhere else.
> evidence of continuance was weak

That's a funny way of saying that we had interviews from the general that ordered the destruction of the program that all WMD had been destroyed after the Iran-Iraq war.[1]

I'd add that counter-evidence of continuance was strong if you're going to include that at all.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9509/iraq_defector/kamel_transcript...
On the bright side, as Apple continues to pervert the formerly most used *nix laptop, we may see a surge of interest in Linux.

Elementary OS is based on Ubuntu and has an OSX-like aesthetic and simplicity that might appeal to newcomers wanting to switch.
Will throw a shout out to bps.space, a channel about one guys quest to make a business out of model rockets. I don't think I've actually learned that much about rocketry but the videos are awesome.
I know localhost is supported by Lets Encrypt but not sure about local lan network. One possible workaround is ssh forwarding. Create a tunnel. But I have not tried it myself.
An engineer's version of the tightly crafted allusory phrasing book authors love.
The earlier discussion is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20387298.
Google and Amazon were fighting each other and eventually started to negotiate. Amazon would not sell Chromecasts on their platform and Google would not allow Amazon Fire devices to access YouTube.
... everything else people use GPUs for?

There are other use cases :).
And no guarantee about its durability even if it works out.
Oh I’m not disputing it’s good for a single developer along with the freedom.

It’s just that these projects always get talked up as huge successful life changing products (like Bingo Card Creator and appointment reminders etc) and then have really small revenue numbers attached to them.

Don’t get me wrong, kudos to the developers for building something people love and that give them the lifestyle they want.

I just think these projects are often overhyped to seem more than what they actually are: lifestyle projects.
Funny enough, after Ross Perot the reform party's next presidential nominee was Donald Trump, who ran on a Perot-esque platform and was the first major presidential nominee to support gay marriage
I think that's what I read. Water vapor amplifies the green house effect of increased CO4 and CH4. And figuring out the exact forcing constant is complicated by weather patterns and cloud cover.

One of the other things that scares me is weather is chaotic. Patterns repeat year over year. But global warming could cause those patterns to change. Possibly permanently as far as human civilization goes.
Say startup company develops drug A that will compete with big pharma drug B which is making billions a year, and envisions it to make 7 billion in the next 5 years. An internal analysis from big pharma calculate drug A could wipe out half of that =2.5 billion. Big pharma buys out the startup for a billion, close them down indefinitely. Couldn’t that happen?
It seems odd that there's no way to track this, seems a trivial thing for steam to add.

Even something as simple as a checksum of the game key needing to match the last digit of your steam id would solve the problem, and would be trivial for humble/steam to implement. Every time someone requests a key from their bundle, the bundler just had to find a remaining key that matches.

Edit: I originally speculated that perhaps it wasn't in Steam's interest to support this, but thinking about it, they're losing their cut of these dodgy sales.
Are they using the same models that also predict colder winters, hotter summers, and more droughts?

I feel like everyones making different assumptions when building their climate models, so you end up with a model that show more intense A & B but not C, and than another model showing more intense A & C but no change in B, and a third mentions only a change in B and something about D, but by the time it makes it to the general populace the only thing anyone sees is that climate change is causing A, B, C, D, E, and F. Not to their fault, but with complex models like climate, a small change can butterfly wildly.
I think, and someone correct me if i’m wrong, that the $25/yr sub is mostly to enable archiving, which gives you full-text search through all of your bookmarks.

You can search by tag or URL on a standard account.
If you were one of those tens of thousands of people dying of a resistant bacterial strain you'd likely be in intensive care... =)

For the chronic resistant infections, I'm not sure how many people would be willing to roll the dice.
But Mars also has an atmosphere (although thin) of CO2 exposed to cosmic rays, no? So we could determine if there is some sort of CO2->methane cycle by seeing if there is any appreciable amount of C14 in the methane we find on Mars?

Apologies if that's a stupid question, I'm out of my element here
If there was anything keeping on the internet, it is the fact that I may some day get to read that post.

Hopefully some day deep into my retirement.
I mean, I'd live with it if the keyboard weren't utter shit and if there weren't reliability issues (keyboard and displays failing, unregulated power through the USB ports). I don't like the soldered RAM and storage, the glued on battery, but I still bought a (refurb) 2015 MBP last year. But as long as each revision of the MBP continues to have additional flaws with little benefit, I'll continue to consider alternatives. With this trend my next laptop will not be an Apple one.

And, for the record, I don't like the flashygizmotouchbarthing, but if they had kept a hard power and escape button it wouldn't have been a deal breaker. I don't use vi all that much, but I do use the escape key to navigate dialog boxes and web sites.
Ah, thought for a moment you have relatives there or something. Was born nearby (Iași) and have good friends/college mates from Botoșani.

Ever thought about leveraging your skills/instincts/fame for much bigger impact other than through politics ;) ;) ? I'm in Seattle tired of big corp, cooking up with other ex-pat Romanians a service to disrupt the traditional ad model while preserving privacy and data ownership. Email is in my profile if at all interested.
Not at all, I have bought a few bundles, I've no interest in playing all the games, just a subset of them.

That subset is going to be different for most purchasers.
I wish I knew I was supposed to take a screenshot of it - it certainly wasn't a case of mis-remembering. In fact, there was no remembering to be had considering the website was loaded at the time of my posting.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Especially not generational flamewar, which is particularly contentless.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This, or the Disney streaming service coming soon, could've had something to do with it.