skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not bite the bullet and go electric only?

They can be really fast, money is not a problem and it's where we need inovation the most.
I, at least, want to see fast cars. I don't care about any of the green stuff. It's a sport.
Unfortunately not a review. Just an opinion-editorial discussing loosely related bunch of hyperbole from the author who used an Oculus Rift a few months ago for apparently a few minutes.
Fed Study Offers Expanded View of  U.S. Noncash Payment Trends
I think this issue is causing real identity problems for many in the Republican party. As noted above, the libertarian wing is clearly against surveillance. However, IMO some of the most fundamental tenants of conservatism are anti-authoritarian, leaving pro-surveillance conservatives on the wrong side of the aisle in many respects.

It is absolutely astonishing to me that so many conservatives defend mass surveillance. As for the laws being established under Bush, I don't actually see that as a factor in many people's minds. I find that many conservatives hardly consider Bush to be an exemplary Republican and thus aren't ashamed to criticize his presidency. Many of his policies were so contradictory to the core conservative philosophy (education reform, surveillance, Patriot Act).

Of the conservatives in my area, I'm hearing everything from people who care a lot all the way to people who have no idea there were leaks. Which, it is important to note, is what makes this issue so strange. From what I can tell, the same has happened in the Democratic party. Crazy!
There is a lot going on here. All I can say is that I'm not sure El Bulli is a good example of the human touch being lost. The amount of manpower that went into their meals was insane. I'm sure Adria said something about functioning like machines, but in the event that meant huge amounts of practice, crazy attention to detail, tons of trial and error, endless painstaking documentation, etc. Hard work, but creative work. Watch "Cooking in Progress" if you're interested in the details (a bit dry in my opinion).
"Since our sysadmin was not getting paid, he refused to perform this, essentially holding the site hostage for a while."

You don't pay the man and you expect him to do work for you, and then you blame him for holding the site hostage?

Sorry, what?
Sundays typically are more accepting of this kind of content. I also posted a link to the article in Cell as a comment with the submission.

shrug

It's really just timing though.
Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIA_Formula_E_Championship
Checked Baggage Fees - The Grinch That Broke Travel Search (And How To Fix It)
Duo Coffee Brewer: the best of both French press and pourover
Hm. I suppose if each node connects to a large number of DNS servers scattered around the internet, that would help a lot.
Tip of my hat to Godsmurf and Tal. Clanbase had a nice run and I had the privilege to attend several of their LAN events. Thanks for everything.
Will the iPhone 5s's currently on China Mobile be able to utilize the new high speeds once this occurs, or will they need a new special China Mobile iPhone to use the 3g/4g? If that were the case I would expect a large portion of people who already have iPhones to be upgrading very early.
You shouldn't have any issues changing your default shell via chsh. SHELL is, by default, set to /bin/sh by cron—you can also define this yourself.

http://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/manual/html_node/Crontab-f...
Indeed. All that stuff they've done in the past is just rubbish on modern vehicles. Who needs more that 2 valves per cyclinder anyway or disc brakes or...
Way ahead of you: Formula E (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIA_Formula_E_Championship)
2014-15 will be the inaugural season
Why do you call it "software engineering"? Do they try to follow SEMAT? SWEBOK? If not then they probably are just software hackers and do not deserve to be called software engineers. A real software engineer is someone who follows rigourous engineering processes, does not reinvent the wheel and who does their work by applying the lessons of those who have gone before. It requires mental discipline to do this, in particular because you have to resist the urge to reinvent the wheel.

Reinventing the wheel is great fun. Without constraints you can appear to be amazingly productive. But it is all a fantasy because without constraints and a rigorous process you are probably piling up technical debt faster than anything else.
That one still seems to depend on Flash for audio output.
They are still going to be ridiculously fast cars.
Thanks for the feedback, martey.

You make some good points about the wording in the "Terms of Service" and "Privacy Policy" and those will be looked at. I must disagree with you about the Tweet, though (ever use Mailchimp?).

Do you have any feedback on Zip's back-end?
If you read in the arguments he is willing to comply with the pen register but the FBI argues that the SSL keys are required for this to function. Based upon my understanding this would mean that the pen register would use the keys and essentially pull a MITM attack on all traffic or the FBI just really doesn't understand that the mail wasn't encrypted once it hit the server and if their pen register functioned after the SSL termination they could get what they wanted without the keys.
That's an interesting question, but I think it could be less helpful for scientific progress than you might imagine. It could even be a hindrance. As Max Planck put it, "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." Extending scientific careers could effectively slow the rate of Kuhnian revolution.
RSA Response to Media Claims Regarding NSA Relationship
The Nespresso story brings up an important point, especially for everybody in Silicon Valley.

Analog.

No, really, I'm serious. It really is about analog. For years and years, everyone who has had any experience with technology has been striving to create perfection and flawless beauty in every sense of the words. Digital is the best way to do this – it's calculated, cold, and mathematical. It's predictable and reassuring. But humans aren't digital. Our hands tremble; they don't stay steady like a robot's mechanical arm. Our brains aren't perfect: they often forget things we want to remember, and remember things we want to forget. Our walking isn't straight. Many of us have less-than-flawless health and vision. We're not completely symmetrical, and look pretty ugly without clothing.

In other words, humans are imperfect.

But, perfection, while it is the antithesis to imperfection, is paradoxically horrible for humans. Our brains are wired to expect change and differentiation from the routine. We like good surprises, and monotony gets dull. Unlike a computer, our neurons are always firing and active rather than passive, so we hate passivity.

So, isn't perfection just the antithesis of everything that makes the world beautiful? A lovely red leaf hanging on a tree long after the winter solstice. The knotted wood on a piano. The fingerprints on a record. Isn't perfection what takes the life out of life?

As we continue to automate, we really, seriously need to ask ourselves a question: will we accept convenience for mediocrity?

Sadly, consumer choices and corporate brainwashing have shown in the past that we will.

And that won't change in the future. Enjoy your handmade coffee now, because it will get rarer and rarer in the future. And with every imperfect barista replaced with a perfect machine, we'll lose a little bit of what makes humans...

...humans.
I would expect even good restaurants to have just okay coffee, not as good as the average cafe, unless we're talking an excellent breakfast place. In the US, people have coffee with breakfast and with dessert. So a dinner restaurant isn't going to serve a lot of cups of coffee -- just to a subset of people who choose to have dessert.

And although good coffee is always welcome, you don't really need a great coffee with dessert, just a decent one. You want something to perk your senses up a bit after the meal and to provide heat and bitterness to balance out the sweet, probably cold dessert. Nobody's going to be focusing on the coffee, just the dessert. And people don't expect to pay more than a few bucks for a cup of coffee, even at a nice place.

So there's really not much profit in stocking great coffee, installing top-of-the-line coffee machines, and training your staff how to make it. Making espresso is relatively time-consuming, too, as is grinding the beans and cleaning everything (working as a barista is like 90% cleaning). So you buy something that sounds impressive enough to list on the menu for as cheap as you can get it, you grind up enough ahead of time to get you through the night, you put it in a big industrial-sized drip machine with an insulated carafe, and you forget about it.
the article does a terrible job with facts but I would have thought the carrier would be equipped with dosimeters for the crew?

Would it have been standard operating procedure for them to don the dosimeters given the understanding of the events unfolding in the area?
Alright, maybe I'm more excited specifically for engineering then. I'm an engineer, really, not a scientist, and I'm always blown away by some of the old stalwarts in my field.
I learned that on UNIX System V machines such as Solaris, killall ignores parameters and just tries to kill everything [1]. Maybe it's better to use pkill on GNU/Linux instead.

1: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5166/killall-1m/inde...
This works wonderfully. It starts really fast (like below one second on Chrome in Macbook pro), creating new documents and searching seems to work for more complex field types. I like.

It's been a while I had to play (hah) with ElasticSearch, but I've been wanting to use it more. This kind of environment could work wonders, since exploring ES with mere curl can be daunting.

Though, to be really productive I'd need to install our custom analyzer, since Finnish is not really one of Lucene's strengths. Licensing requirements therein require using this inside our own cluster... :(

Can't wait the open source version!

EDIT: One minor nitpick: the toolbar at the upper right corner drops down on top of the panes and obscuring content there if browser window is too narrow. I'd rather it dropped below tab bar thus moving panes a bit downward.
As far as the law goes, there should always be disclaimers that metaphors and analogies are sometimes useful but only get you so far. Especially when it comes to technology, they almost never hold water and look silly years down the line when the technology is better understood by the general population. I don't have the necessary education or knowledge to make a better analogy so for that I apologize.

EDIT: Oh, I am a lawyer. I was just noting that in law school (and internet law especially) you have to be wary of judges/parties using analogies in their arguments b/c they are almost always imperfect in one way or another
Matasano is known crypto company, why would they volonterouly spend their working time fixing telegram for you? Hire them formfew days to see them in action.
On the other hand, you now have something that could easily be turned into a regex for detecting spam.
It was a beautiful time.
Is it really about green? I thought it was more about enforcing cars that cost less to maintain throughout the course of a season. They have been heading that way for a long time, restricting teams to a set number of engines and gear boxes per season.
Can somebody explain how these 1.6L V6 engines have far more power than my 3.0L V6 car, and as much as many V10 and V12 super cars? All I can figure from the article is the high RPM and the turbo.
Unless you are on the level of Richard Branson, in which case you should immediately start purchasing a fleet of huge pink dirigibles.
And the fact that the engine development freeze has been lifted (for a few years anyway) is equally exciting.
I read this a "Coinbase is no more - we are sorry" and panicked for a second.
The majority also use unbranded/local/clone Android handsets (including ones that look like iPhones).
In a (more) perfect world, the NSA would put considerable resources towards stopping this activity as opposed to spying on their own citizens and allies. A guy can dream...
3 parties in that statement.

1) the people writing this, who did all the hard work

2) the system admin, hired by party 3 -

3) the people that should do the paying.

1 Has the right to whine at the expense of 3 not paying 2. To me, in that statement, that's what they're doing. They aren't saying 2 is the guilty party, just saying that the method is not one they appreciate, since the people suffering from party 2's actions are party 1.
Can you be more specific about what you currently use coding for? Web development is different than embedded systems, for example
This is much more true in Europe than in the United States. Many trendy restaurants in the US are actually getting less automatic by doing pour over coffee at the table or otherwise in view of the diners.
I don't see an issue. The capsule coffee should be just as good and if its a time saver then why wouldn't a business use them.

Personally I don't use a capsule machine because I don't want my coffee choices limited by manufacturer. Also, instead of 25c per cup, capsules are 80-90c per cup.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=370709.0
Insanely high RPM (18k+), crazy turbos, innovative valves, super high compression ratios. Plus each motor only had to last maybe 1000 miles, and they get essentially rebuilt every time they run.
The real curse of India is the hindu caste system. Here in India it's something like "you shall not name it, or say it". Everyone knows it's the real cause, but no one says it or worse tries to generalise and hide it in other words. For every single Devayani, or K.R.Narayanan (who was made the president of India), there are lakhs and lakhs of untold unspeakable cruelty and suffering and that is the true ratio.

International readers would get the real picture of India if they skim through local hindi newspapers (especially states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar) using Google translator everyday to know about the real India and the real hindu caste system, instead of relying on sugar-coated and watered-down reality and wonderland being churned by cunning authors or Bollywood.

Here the issue is simple. It's a matter of protocols and rights. It was about nations. But even the cunning author (like the other snakes in India) brought in the hindu caste factor, perhaps for a good reason. You know the kind of sly hint to the upper caste NRIs that she's not one of us, so lie low for now and pretend to be good in the eyes of the US.

The low castes (untouchables) are making headway in India not due to any empathy of the hindu caste system and hinduism but due to their becoming aware of the sheer strength of their numbers and the power of organisation. So much so that even karma and dharma have been flushed down the latrines, and people have begun to realise and make their own destiny and bright future. And the best part is that, hinduism no more has the balls to assert or speak about its true philosophy and values but is forced to hide itself in the "progressive" sheep cloth.
Apple signs iPhone deal with China Mobile
Attempting to narrow the definition of "brick" past the point of an RMA already being necessary is ludicrous.
How Your Data Are Being Deeply Mined
Usually you already need a good pitch to have intercourse.
As a man in my 20s, I welcome the challenge. What's fair or not fair about it? I'd be thrilled to work in a world with more competent people around.
you keep that kind of session on the disk
This quote summed it up for me:

> Agile processes are optimised for constructing technical systems conceived and built by programmers, but poorly suited to building socio-technical systems that seek an integration between humans and technology—a model that requires software engineers to embrace a wider range of disciplines and skills as equals, and adopt a more comprehensive vision of what it means to successfully build software. Failing to make this transition is very likely a death sentence for the Agile movement.
Compression ratio and operating RPM mostly.

Compression ratio (the 'squish' in an engine's 'suck,squish,bang,blow' cycle) is >~14:1. Dynamic compression (once you factor in the compression of air caused by the turbo) is much higher. This is largely due to running a higher octane fuel which keeps preignition at bay. Your typical road car has around a 9:1 compression ratio.

Secondly, peak operating RPM is triple the average road car. Horsepower is '(torque * RPM) / 5252'. With the engine spinning at nearly 21,000 RPM, the neglible torque from the small displacement starts to add up. Again, your average road car sees about 6,500 RPM.

Lastly, for comparison, the best road cars rarely see over 120hp/liter in normally aspirated form. And 250hp/liter on 93 octane is about the limit on well tuned turbo cars.

This is largely simplified, as quite a bit of engineering is needed to get even above road car values.
Then you don't have a motor racing formula, just a spending contest.

If you look at the technical regulations in F1, they have two main aims - ensuring driver and spectator safety, and controlling costs to maintain competitive racing.

Most of the current technical regulations are just special cases of your rule 2. Moveable aerodynamic devices are banned to prevent sudden loss of mid-corner traction (causing the car to violently roll off into the grandstands). Many of the dimensional restrictions are there to prevent the use of ground effect, for similar reasons. Wheel tethers reduce the chance of a wheel flying off and killing a spectator (something that has happened in several motorsport formulae). Restrictions on fuel composition prevent teams from using explosive fuels or oxidizers. Limits on wing sizes and aspect ratios restrict downforce, to ensure that the drivers aren't subject to intolerable g-forces.

The culture of F1 is based around a belief that there is no such thing as the spirit of the law, only the letter. Devious loopholes are applauded for their ingenuity and characterise most development in the modern sport. On the other hand, many people in the sport remember the dark days, when driver fatalities were just part of the sport. Teams and drivers understand that in the absence of regulation, the Nash equilibrium inevitably entails dead drivers and dead spectators.

The F1 rulebook isn't an external imposition on the sport, it is a document that is designed by mutual agreement between Bernie, FOTA, the FIA and the GPDA. Every word of it has been hard fought and represents the least-worst compromise between those various interests.

Unrestricted racing is a trope that is often raised by outsiders to motorsport, but the reality is that without the technical regulations, there is no racing at all, just a contest to see who can spend the most, with a mortuary full of charred and mangled drivers as collateral damage.
"After all, he says, Cuban’s email address is an 'open secret' in the tech world."

So what is it?
No need to be sarky. Okay, well, good to see F1 directly optimizing towards something of real value, rather than relying on incidental outcomes.
You answered your own question.

Even without exotic engineering highly-boosted turbocharged 2.0L street-car I4s can put out upwards of 500 horsepower at 7-8000 RPM. Formula One builders take things to the next level by building more advanced rotating parts and using pneumatic valve springs to allow the engine to spin all the way up to 15,000RPM with an almost linear increase in horsepower as they travel up the powerband.
maybe i'm being a downer, but i feel like the latency of an HTTP request defeats the purpose of using redis in 99% of use cases.
Could this announcement have had any influence on the allegations about evasi0n's decision to "rush their jailbreak" or however you read that drama https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6951647
I can't recall the source (probably a special on the Science channel or somesuch), but I heard that if we "cured" aging and no one died from getting old, that the average lifespan would be between 1.5k and 2.5k years where one would die of an accident or disease. I'd take my chances with that :)
> I dream one day of running my own successful tech business.

why dream? just do that now. if you fail, do programming again.
BSD vs GPL was already mentioned. Perhaps now we can discuss how DRM only hurts paying customers of protected content? Oh, you bought access to some licensed content? Great! Thank you. As a reward we will now severely limit how you consume the good or service.
Teach programming to young folks; you may thing is the same but you get to have more and different social interactions with new people and to share their fresh view on programming might be something good for you too.
God picked me for His temple because I am the best programmer on Earth. I wrote all 130,000 lines of code.

God says...
I_planned_that BBC liberal furious gambling you_know_a_better_God
hilarious break_some_woopass_on_you just_lovely You_fix_it
programming Icarus nope merry_christmas why_didn'_you_tell_me
Venus eh it_was_nothing I_hate_when_that_happens Tomorrow
no_you_cant now_you_tell_me
Why not start a company? If you're good at programming and have been doing it for 15 years, you've probably got some financial stability. Your family may need to lower its expenses a little, but thats the price you pay to do what you enjoy.
You would likely need a phone that supports TD-SCDMA - which I dont think the iPhone has done.
I find it sort of ironic for this sort of thing to show up on a computer programming site, because our world has long since discovered that automating itself becomes a skill. Even if we hypothesize a world in which the top-level restaurants are fully automated behind the scenes, it will still be master chefs that come up with the new programs, new foods, new ways of doing things, and commanding dizzying new heights of pricing in the process.

The absolute worst case scenario is that the culinary world becomes like the visual arts or fashion worlds; the materials and general skills are broadly available, but there shall ever be an upper end of the art from which to sneer down at the plebians, even if it only in style and fashions, and by that I mean raw styles and fashions. The clothing fashion world shows this most clearly, in that creating knockoffs of today's fashions isn't even that technically challenging, and yet there is still a "high class" fashion world for those who care to participate in.

The instinctive human drive to differentiate is what creates that, the upper class attitude is what creates that, the incidental details of how one particular field happens to signal is hardly relevant, the actual details are themselves nearly infinitely malleable.

The programming world is so many levels deep into automation of automation of automation that we've nearly forgotten the promises that one day we'd be automated out of existence. But the promises were made, and they failed, because we merely upped our expectations and advanced to the next level. Perhaps someday there won't be a "next level" for us to rise to, but that is a world so different from ours we can no longer predict what it is like.

The culinary world will adapt. There will be much moaning, must wringing of hands, and a hell of a lot of signaling words flying around about how wonderful hand crafted artisan food is (even if for some reason, every day, fewer people act to consume it), even as there is ever and always still an elite, which will probably consist of mostly the same people anyhow.
My IKEA standing desk