skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I'm no scientist but one part of the argument just kind of irks me:

[i]In other words, all the diatoms shown in the paper are from known species on Earth. That makes it somewhat less likely they are native to space. And by somewhat, I mean completely. Like, zero chance they are from space.[/i]

UNLESS, Panspermia is correct and all life on earth came from space, in which case it would be completely in the realm of possibility that life from space that landed on earth had already landed here before, in the distance past.
Stupid confession: I can't figure out how to use twitter. I have asked. And asked. I can't wrap my brain around it.

So I honestly have no idea what the point is.
There's also been some criticism about Riper's claims, that the simulation was completely unrealistic. That said, it's not very constructive to use simulations to prove points about war strategy, because simulations are pretty much always rigged to let one side win.
I agree about not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, however what prevents other Uber-like competitors from popping up to compete with the evil-Uber you describe?

How do you capture the market in taxi rides in an unregulated market? It isn't like a telecom where there is only so much physical infrastructure.
All I've taken from this page of comments is that HN users have no sense of humour.

Any attack on Vim or Emacs is blasphemy and must be resisted!! No, calm down.
Critical iPhone Vulnerability Exposed by Israeli Security Company
It would be hard to find someone to just give you away that sort of database since everyone collects and store data according to their needs. Looking at your blog posts, it seems that you know programming. Have you tried scraping the data from the respective stores?
An old story but a good one.

Reminds me of the documentary "The Fog of War".
Twitter solved the problem of dead-easy, publish-from-anywhere communication.

Restricting the length of a tweet solved the (perceived?) problem of having to say something meaningful in order to publish on the web. They removed many of the barriers to publishing and by virtue of getting a large user base solved the problem of reaching a large, captive audience for free.

More than anything, they solved the problem of there being no platform in existence that was adequately public, connected, and pointless enough to contain the terse, unsolicited musings of the modern human mind.
Giving and social interaction (of at least some kinds) are not immediately at risk. What's at risk is the participation of some large groups of people in trade. Ultimately the value of a person's labor depends on scarcity, just as the trade value of things or experiences do, and we've seen how lack of scarcity makes trade value crash. (The value of the Humble Bundle and Cory Doctorow's books depends on "giving" more than "trade", and the latter at all only due to information asymmetry.)

The storm coming is that when we have duplicable, cheap, general AI, the value of any act of production will plummet to the cost of copying a mind and running it. Actually, that's already the case, but the cost of producing a new mind is quite high, now. :)

When people talk about automating everything we now do (or can do), pro-automation people often say "well, comparative advantage means that there will always be something for humans to do to live", but comparative advantage depends on scarcity of productive agents. If copying and running an AI to solve a problem is cheaper than employing an already existing human, humans are in trouble, economically.

Dunno what to do about it, though.
Ask HN: Please don't upvote stories before reading the comments
Yesterday appeared a story about "bacterial fossils" in a meteorite (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5356483). It got 238 upvotes (still rising) and was #2 for 1 hour (still in the first page).

It would be a very interesting result IF it were confirmed to be true.

Most of the comments explain that the authors had a history of similar claims that were not confirmed, that the journal where it appears is not very credible and that the evidence is not unquestionable. These are very big red flags for a groundbreaking new like this. And many of the comments are written by well known members of this community.

From pg: (4 years ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=429881

Sometimes. If the headline sounds preposterous, I sometimes check the comments to see if it has been locally debunked before clicking on the link to the article.

I still read the article to have my own opinion. But, please, before upvoting an interesting the article, read the comments to see if there is any possibility that it is true.
Google's closure tools can compile JS into a single file, and can also target runtimes to remove redundant code.

I imagine you could get away with a single html and js file.

Images could be converted to binary too in theory, I think the Cappuccino guys got something like this going.

Also check out the packaged files you create for Chrome store.
"But the problem with most other companies is that they are not run like the way I would want to run them."

It might just be that companies need to run a certain way to, you know, keep running?
Didn't really get what you are doing while browsing the start page. Digging deeper helped though.
Not sure if you need a video, I think more people don't have the time to watch a video anyway.
Anyone else remember those Java rings?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire
A black car in US usage usually means a Lincoln Town car or similar, basically a non-stretch limo. Uber has several classes, including Hybrid (cheaper) and SUV (more expensive).
Seems to be blogspam. The original article is here: http://marketingland.com/wordpress-mullenweg-at-sxsw-bloggin...
Users hate dependencies just like developers hate having to juggle three or four different languages to target multiple platforms. That's why things like Unity are so popular: write once, run anywhere with minimal changes. And in this case I define minimal as not needing to rewrite the entire backend to port from Java to Objective C, then rewrite it in C#, then rewrite it in C/C++.

If OS makers could settle on a cross-platform and mature language that apps could be written in, these types of cross-compilation frameworks wouldn't be necessary. When I'm on my Windows Phone, how often do I hear developers say they don't have the resources to port to WP, or when I'm on my Nexus 4 hear developers say they don't have the resources to port anywhere but iOS?
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How could you write this story and so stubbornly avoid the most obvious title in the world?!

Ach. Such a missed opportunity.
It's the age-old discussions of what we can and need to do about corporate monopolies.

Just look at what Honeywell tried to do to Nest. They had grown complacent doing what they always did, and suddenly they woke up to a new competitor with an enticing proposition.
Yeah I know what gofmt does, it's useful for code formatting and getting you 95% of the way there on api changes but in the slide presentation linked above he mostly just replaces method names and things of that nature.
The cost and benefits of being a bellman
Is it though? I mean Boston city aren't the one doing the suing here. It is the large private companies who are being beaten at their own game.

Plus as other posters said elsewhere, a lot of private taxi companies actually intentionally push for rules which protect their market. So they're essentially buying off local politicians who then pass rules so smaller business cannot join in for "public safety" or similar.
Basically, the low-tech commander "hacked" the wargame by using his forces effectively in unexpected ways. The USA invasion force cheated by bringing dead forces back to life (respawning?!) and forcing the enemy to do what they were "meant to".

If only it were that easy in real life.
Only if you assume that evolution hasn't affected earthbound diatoms in any way. That's a rather stronger assumption than "life comes from space".
I know how to program a crawler (did that for the Windows Store), but the Windows Store simply has a sitemap with links to all the apps. I couldn't something similar for the other stores.
It seems to solve a very similar problem to Angular UI's bootstrap project: http://angular-ui.github.com/bootstrap/
Pinterest Launches New Web Analytics Tool For Businesses
Robots roam wards of Scottish hospital
Your Car and Smartphone, Connected
The regulations are not there to protect consumers. They are there to protect the existing cab companies from competition. It is instructive to note that it is not the consumers who are suing Uber, it is the cab companies.
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I look for traces of Erlang in every story.
LinkedIn Endorsements can have more value
Average distance to the nearest road in the conterminous United States
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The same reason architects are forced to knock 10 stories off of every building constructed here. The Boston City government has no interest in overturning arcane zoning laws that force companies to provide it with concessions (or kickbacks) to get anything done. And this bad behavior is supported by myriad neighborhood groups from the wealthier areas of the city who want to preserve the city as a quaint little museum sitting on the front steps of their Beacon Hill and Back Bay brownstone mansions instead of letting the city grow. See: Shadow Laws.
> I'm all for declarative code but isn't stuffing javascript in html attributes something we learnt not to do about 10 years ago?

And why?
That's the problem with landing pages. They're always hard to design objectively when you've worked on the product for so long. I'll think of some optional wording for headings etc to better explain it.
Hey jedberg - any plans/timeline for open sourcing aminator? It sounds pretty cool...
Nevertheless we the people paid for the risk with none of the upside.
Sublime is generally great, but it desperately needs one fix before I'll ever really love it: make page up/down commutative.
The reason is that I simply don't want people that Google my name to find that blog, which my reflect negatively on my professional image.

I can be contacted at info@bootstrappingmybusiness.com and I can provide plenty of real life information (personal info, company website, blog, LinkedIn profile, references, etc.).

I see you have an email address in your HN profile. I'll write you there.
This indeed a huge help, this is now updated.

I'm pretty sure there is also a whole bunch of other (less famous) commands that would and should be added.
Cab companies and local government have had a good thing going. The cab companies pay the government big fees and in return the government keeps out competition, forcing consumers to have to pay above market rates. Uber threatens this model and this is why they are having legal problems.
English boxer Curtis Woodhouse turns up on the doorstep of his Twitter troll
Learn to code. Or don't.
That's like the episode of South Park where the cure for AIDS is massive piles of cash.
If you're on a Mac, it's:

sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 173.194.55.0/24 in

sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 206.111.0.0/16 in
onClick will be evaluated within the global scope, ng-click is evaluated within the scope of the controller. That's a pretty substantial difference.

Your HTML has to be hooked up to your controller somehow, I personally prefer angular's declarative approach rather than a big messy init method.
There are no ads on the site, just a summary and a link to the original. How is this blogspam?
I read "The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and Gumption was the thing that stuck with me the most as well. I'm glad you picked up on the same point I did. I think Gumption is just the act of applied inspiration. Much the same how 37 Signals says "Inspiration is perishable", for me; Gumption is the day to day. It is taking the inspiration and the clarity and acting on it.
Parallel compression and content-aware deduplication of a file or stream
The government-granted "monopoly" here has forced medallion prices so high that of course the companies would sue to protect the investment their drivers make (which they subsidize). They're like a union in that sense. Each medallion is a huge investment because certain neighborhood groups have fought for decades to "preserve" Boston by never increasing the number of medallions. And yes, because of the investment it has become self-perpetuating, with taxi companies protecting their own interests by not being in favor of increasing the number of medallions either.

No matter how you look at it, if there weren't medallion limits in the first place there would be healthy competition right now. There are many natural monopolies. Hackneyed carriages (their official name here) are not one of them.
How come? Can you explain your point a bit further?
Wikipedia claims those estimates are obsolete, and the new ones are an order of magnitude smaller:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate#Reservoir_si...

In which case the largest fossil-fuel resource is coal.
The capital costs of retrofitting a ground source are prohibitive though, so 'just use a heat pump' isn't useful advice for millions of people that live in regions where the air gets cold enough to limit the effectiveness of a heat pump.
I will say TexPad is an amazing editor (as long as you don't need to do any unicode). Like verity I've been using it for many many years, and I have yet to find a replacement that I enjoy as much.

When I switched to Linux, I tried to learn all kinds of emacs and vi, and never enjoyed them as much. LightTable seems like it will finally answer my prayers, however.
Well, it doesn't give the original attackers any knowledge they don't already have.

Any other malicious parties might find it useful.
Most of my passwords are in a file called ring. I never write them out fully, but have mnemonics to help me remember. So many sites and if you want to have more than a few passwords, it really is unmanageable.
I get Van Riper's point, but at the same time he was given an impossibly powerful position -- a military force with the sole objective of military victory without any underlying political objective.

If this were a real war, with an underlying political situation, and Red sank an Blue aircraft carrier and killed 20,000 sailors in a day in a preemptive strike, Blue would respond with rules of engagement that would redefine the term "atrocity". This wouldn't make for a useful military exercise, and I don't think anyone wants to see the US military practicing simulated genocide just to maintain realism.
The thought process that led Canonical to create Mir
Aomori Group | Panasonic See Profit Turnaround.
I don't think there is a lot of doubt that panspermia can work. There is nothing preventing it in principle, and the scenario becomes more probable the more we learn about extremophiles.

But, it's another thing to simply assert that life on Earth originated elsewhere. If anything, it's probably us who are spewing bio matter all over the solar system. There is simply no compelling evidence to suggest otherwise. We see all kinds of bio-like formations in space rocks, but they're always "fossilized" in a sense that they most likely arose from abiotic processes. This is not the first time dubious crystal formations have been declared as of biological origin.

We also discovered a lot of unexpectedly complex organic molecules floating around in outer space, so it's definitely possible to find familiar chemicals without a biosphere around to produce them.

It can be somewhat difficult to distinguish scientists who are expressing valid thoughts about panspermia from quacks who are pushing a philosophical agenda. In this case though there was not even a little bit of doubt that the data didn't agree with their conclusions.
Lobbying to pass off regulation is the ultimate form of capitalism.
No...

Because even if life on earth came from a far far away galaxy (Millions of years ago) the way they would evolve would dependend on the environment and I bet earth is not 100% equal to any other planet on every single variable that also is close enough for a contamination to happen.

It would be ok to find one or two specimens that maybe "look" close to earth ones , but a whole bunch of them is somewhat impossible.
My Very Own Protocol Droid
They blew up because it became the first mainstream way to contact celebrities. They are staying where they are because it's a great service.
I do not like theese backgrounds, some of them really hurt my eyes.

I prefer these http://subtlepatterns.com/ ...I know they are just png, but works and look better.
Youtube TV
I suspect Java would make at least some of us steer clear. Thinking as purely a user, Subsonic looks great. As a developer that wants to hack around on the code handling my music library for fun, I personally wouldn't want the aggravation as I really can't stand Java.
I've heard this story before and don't necessarily doubt it, but it does seem a bit romantic. Fits too easily in with everyone's favorite criticism of the military. Does anyone have a version not based on Riper's account?
How to Get Off the Bottom - Once and For All
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/03/how-to-get-off-of-bottom-once-and-for-all/
I also regularly have over 100 tabs open and I find your suggestion that my workflow is wrong is insulting.

Maybe you don't need to have 100 tabs open.
Maybe you lack imagination to see scenario where having that many tabs open.

It is also possible that you are aware of some great/better way to solve similar scenarios than me, but I guess you are keeping it a secret, since I regularly evaluate new plugins and extensions, and also search google for tips and tricks, how to do it better. (And to date haven't found a way)

Sure I could work with less tabs. Hell Everything could be done with only 1 tab in 1 window (and I used to in the 90s), but it's not as efficient as what I do now.

Edit: major spelling errors.
How smartphones can help stop food waste
Extracting and burning for energy is leaking.
AngularJS is very interesting, simple and powerful, but can anyone give some insights of how to properly use it for just a part of the website? I don't want to have JS only webapp, but to serve full server-generated pages. Or maybe it's wrong tool for the job?
I disagree. It was still an interesting story and the resulting discussion was both interesting and educational.

Suppressing that kind of discussion would make HN a less valuable place, not more valuable.
Isn't this exactly the same concept (if not implementation) as that of the yubikey (http://www.yubico.com/) In fact, google supports yubikey for google mail login. I use mine with Lastpass password vault. Once you have the browser plugin it makes it so easy login and generate secure passwords.
its really awesome
Works well when you control the patch/upgrade deployment. Not so good when you don't. And not so good when it stops your customer doing what they want to do.
This is the advice that everybody gives me, but for some reason this is not working for me.

I'm not uncomfortable in networking and meeting people. It's a skill I have learned with time and I'm pretty outgoing. I know many people and through some event I organize and conferences I've been, I've gathered a good network. I've been involved in a lot of activities locally and I'm quite known.

Still, clients fail to materialize through all these connections. Given that this advice keeps popping up all the time, there must be something I'm doing wrong. I have to find what that is.
You can have a general law against monopolies (or near monopolies), e.g. if a company gets 80% of the market share, then the company is regulated. You don't need to proactively use regulation to prevent that from happening, because the chances are that the regulation is not necessary and factually speaking decreases competition.
If you're interested in the topic of ET life, I'd recommend Paul Davies book "The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence".
Half-Boats
I'll say it since no one else wants to:

"ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL"
I've read that many of the operations Red "performed" worked only by fiat. Motorcycle messengers delivered messages without fail and instantaneously, cruise missiles were mounted on boats which in real life would be arguably too small to support them, etc.
Except this wasn't even a space rock..
Yes. A large enough controversy could also threaten to devalue Bitcoin drastically. No one wants to store assets in a currency which could potentially lose the faith of all of its merchants, vendors when it forks and no one can agree on which fork is the 'correct' one. It's in everyone's best interest to do whatever it takes to get back to a single long blockchain.
Do you think it's possible that the few major cab companies are also very much in favor of laws limiting cabs? Perhaps in favor enough to help keep certain people in office?
If you're not afraid, you're doing it wrong.

1) The more sprawling and disparate the data sources, the more deranged the schemas, the more money to be had making sense of it.

2) Enterprise consultancies are ripe for disruption. There exist exactly zero satistifed customers of these companies.
Processing text is a great way to learn any programming language but I would think there's more interesting and varied practice found through web scraping, not to mention it's a whole lot easier
You should check out Rob Walling's "Start Small, Stay Small" if you haven't already:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YH9MMI/?tag=dedasys-20

It's a guide to "startups" for the rest of us, where "startup" is something small and bootstrapped that, however, makes money pretty early on, and probably will never grow that large.

For me, that book really hit a nerve: I too spent time at a Big Startup, and while I enjoyed the ride... I decided that it's not for me.
When I upvote something I'm just giving my approval for the content being on the front page, it doesn't mean I believe or agree with what is written. I missed that submission but if I had seen it and the comments were good, that would be a reason I would upvote it. Even if I agreed that the article was bogus.

P.S. I just upvoted this even though I disagree with you ;)
I'm reminded of Homer Simpson confessing during an AA meeting that he was so desperate for a drink he ate the dirt under the bleachers at the football stadium.

C'mon world, enough with the fossil fuels.
In a well configured environment, "history" isn't going to be terribly useful -- admins should be using their own accounts and using sudo to execute commands as root.

In this sort of environment you want to look at your pam logs (/var/log/auth.log on debian-like distros, and iirc, /var/log/secure on RH-like). This gives you not only a list of what was run, but who ran it and when.
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I agree with you both. True - OP has a good point that it's worth getting the "community vibe" on a discussion/article to form a solid opinion of the subject. But also agree with you that interesting stories are worth sharing - regardless of how controversial they may be.
Hacker News is a user curated news site, not a forum.
A good watch before The Gatekeepers, both on its on terms and as on of the inspirations for the The Gatekeepers' director Dror Moreh.
Sometimes I want to upvote not the article, but the discussion. The button doesn't let you show that nuance.
In some cases, a wrong story is still worth the read, even if just for the comments on HN.

Btw., your link gives HTTP 404.
Looking forward to updates on this. Your position sounds pretty close to mine (iOS developer, expat, northern europe) except I require sponsorship to work so haven't been able to try my hand at full time freelance work.

good luck
Science -- The greatest religion of them all.