skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although wikipedia isn't tremendously reliable :

"In the case of the system mentioned in the 2003 USAF report above, a 6.1 m × 0.3 m tungsten cylinder impacting at Mach 10 has a kinetic energy equivalent to approximately 11.5 tons of TNT (or 7.2 tons of dynamite). The mass of such a cylinder is itself greater than 9 tons, so it is clear that the practical applications of such a system are limited to those situations where its other characteristics provide a decisive advantage - a conventional bomb/warhead of similar weight to the tungsten rod, delivered by conventional means, provides similar destructive capability and is a far more practical method. Some other sources suggest a speed of 36,000 ft/s (11,000 m/s),[8] which for the aforementioned rod would amount to a kinetic energy equivalent to 120 tons of TNT or 0.12 kt. With 6-8 satellites on a given orbit, a target could be hit within 12–15 minutes from any given time, less than half the time taken by an ICBM and without the warning. Such a system could also be equipped with sensors to detect incoming anti-ballistic missile-type threats and relatively light protective measures to use against them (e.g. Hit-To-Kill Missiles or megawatt-class chemical laser)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment

It's not the idea to have one single bombardment weapon, but many in an orbit. That's what makes it a quick reaction. A single unit could likely be a testing platform for such a system.
Assuming both that it works and that one wants to do a prodigious amount of enterprise sales, this is probably something which is actually easier to sell to comparatively rich countries rather than comparatively non-rich countries. Illinois and much of the Midwest has substantial annual expenditures on mosquito abatement, partially through habitat destruction and partly through periodically spraying after e.g. substantial rainfall or when residents get particularly bothered. A single truck roll to e.g. a park pond costs them several hundred dollars. They might repeat that several times in the season. 1,000 of these devices at $10 apiece and $25 per deployment (I know that sounds high, but government work, what can I say) costs "rounding error."

Potential problems: There is the perpetual issue with all government work, which is that one can't ever propose doing it too efficiently, lest one discover that there exists a margin at which the government is happy to inflict more mosquito bites as long as it allows it to continue awarding easy, well-paying jobs to favored constituents.

Anyhow, I assume that after you start ordering these in lots of 100k you can get it closer to the pennies-per-household-protected figure that it has to reach to be achievable for the largest fraction of folks worrying about malaria.
Funny, the hashes all start with 0xBADA55... :)
I'm not sure if that would happen. It's a natural adaptation to only breed in still water. If mosquitos evolved from that, we would have much bigger problems than just malaria.
Just tried it out. Doesn't let me walk along main roads (in the UK), which produces some very strange walking routes :/

It looks nice, but still needs some polish before it's usable for me.
> Java/C++/ and many other languages are just now beginning their slow, but inevitable evolution into becoming a dialect of ML (which IMHO is a sort of admission of the ML/functional family superiority).

You can't be serious. The fact that they are borrowing some features from functional languages is in no way an indication that they're going to turn into an ML dialect. They will remain imperative languages, with all that entails (mutability, inheritance, etc) for the foreseeable future. Hell, even Scala isn't an "ML dialect".
I agree, the goal of Snapsearch is to allow the possibility of going full steam ahead with heavy javascript, and not having to worry about trying to make it all compatible with non-js clients like search engines. It's all about reducing the workload in making single page apps.
The $300 satellite
far range space combat perhaps, otherwise the launch should be pretty detectable as the propulsion would need to be provided by the launcher, rather than the mechanics of the orbit (unless , perhaps, a slingshot maneuver was used to propel the mass through the enemy via an indirect route)
The victim site looks at where these newly created back links are coming from, and then reports them to the Google disavow tool and disavow the lot of them. That is the mechanism for dealing with the intent of those links.

After a few cases like this, a long list of multiple disavowed domains/networks/fingerprints, where are these negative links going to come from? This anti-SEO tactic you outline can only be used a handful of times before it becomes useless.
This is a well known issue with canine dentition. The issue might be lack of textural variety, lack of hardness in partciular, but with humans the lack of variety is likely to be as disturbing as anything. The military I'm sure has plenty of data on this--and MREs are duly variegated.
By pure chance I just spoke to the guys who made it at Maker Faire. Very cool project.

They told me they have the full system running with zero binary-only blobs. I think that alone can be quite a selling point nowadays...
I don't believe this is true for Google Adsense since it's CPC (cost per click), not per view.
I would like an opt-in "subscription service". I pay x$ per month and a program automatically divides that and donates to the various sites that I've used. There would also be some way to customize it to make sure that certain sites gets more money, and others less. In turn, maybe the websites register my donations via cookies and then cools down on the ads.
Haven't there been a few of these on Indiegogo?
Twitter handles available from /usr/share/dict/words
Not sure how a Chrome-only plugin is supposed to help with Firefox memory consumption.
Ask HN: Youtube still RC4-only, any way to fix it?
I have disabled RC4 in Firefox (now that it supports TLS1.2) to see what would break.
Youtube videos broke completely with the HTML5 player and HTTPS-everywhere plugin.

Apparently googlevideo.com can ONLY be accessed via RC4, see for yourself:

openssl s_client -connect 'r4---sn-
gqn-unge.googlevideo.com':443

So for now my options are: turn off HTTPS on youtube, or turn on RC4 again.

Where should I report this problem to get it fixed?
+1 for the simplicity of the workflow. I got it running within a few minutes.
If only generating papers and getting grants made it easy to get a job in science - most of the lament in this story is that even being a great and productive scientist won't get you a job these days.

In regards what you get out adjunct professorship is access to the academic environment, things like lab space, shared equipment, intelligent people to talk to (students and postdocs mostly). Sure you aren't paid, but if you are independently wealthy it is not an issue.

Yes students will work with and adjunct professor - actual in some cases it is better as the adjunct actually has more time to train student.
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Simpler solution: stick a tiny bit of soap in the water. Not much at all. Doesn't hurt aquatic life but breaks the surface tension which kills the mosquito rafts dead as they sink straight away.

Source: I live next to a sewage farm.
Show HN: Basic Twitter App with Sheetsee.js
Ghostery: A Web tracking blocker that actually helps the ad industry
Google Talk for work (and occasionally for personal use when I want to chat with old friends. FB chat also comes in handy here)

Whatsapp for regular day to day communication for personal use.

Very rarely, Skype. This is mostly for taking video calls from coworkers/freelance clients who haven't started using Hangouts video yet.
If we're at headache: the website gives me one.
As far as I can work out there have been solutions for the too busy problem since around the invention of the restaurant, and another set since the microwave (the "TV dinner" was a US invention).
There is also this addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/about-addons-...) which has a somewhat nicer interface.
That's where the Google disavow links tool comes in: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main?p...

A model is only as good as the information in it. In this case providing details of these spammy links helps you, and every other site targeted through the same sites/networks/fingerprints.

Consider it a reverse no-follow mechanism.
What's really amazing is that in 50 years, the same will hopefully be true for things we take for granted today.
That has some intriguing possibilities - all I need to do is find five or more government departments and persuade each of them they are working for the other - and the project is the effect on UK citizens of being given a billion dollars (I of course am the first test subject, direct deposit on my please)
The Novena laptop is a neat niche product, but I don't see it taking off, even in a future version. For almost any task one wishes to accomplish, it's better to build specialized hardware that interfaces with a standard laptop than to build a custom laptop. I think a peripheral would have sold better.
Put some Mosquitofish[1] into your pond. It should clean the pond up pretty quickly. It is also provide a pleasant environment as well, watching the fish rather than some box creating bubbles.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquitofish
Fine, we'll go back to the 1996 internet with far fewer ads.

I note HN seems to be doing just fine without them.
Yes, this could be really interesting. Microsoft's Xbox One has Twitch integration, while Google refuses to make a YouTube app for Windows phone. I could imagine Microsoft looking for alternative streaming services.
I don't think the point is whether Soylent will replace food entirely (even though the creator thinks so) or it will 'undermine and erode the food traditions of developing cultures'. Rather to me it seems to be the commodification of (absolute) nutrition which has never been done before. Much like the japanese who have commodified sex and relationships (see cuddle cafes, boyfriends for hire), people can now pay just for complete nutrition without having to buy food, and would do so if the cost saving to them is more valuable to them than the enjoyment derived from the meal.

Obviously this is circumstantial but I can see it being a hit for entrepreneurs or the generic yuppie who has no time for a long lunch/needs to save for that mortgage.
The thing is that this report is that it is being discussed, that doesn't mean it will complete, and if it doesn't then this would lower Variety's "accuracy" %, even if they were entirely accurate about the discussion going on.
Same - I installed HTTPSB as a dec tool, but ended up liking how much control it gives back to me about what is loaded on my pages. There was an initial period of frustration as I had to unblock the bare minimum required to make youtube/gmail/vimeo/facebook work as expected, and after that it's smooth sailing. ADP is gone, and I feel like I get my pages quicker and cleaner.
> Adblock and similar programs constitutes defection in game theory terms

Some would say that the following are also defections in the same terms though:

* Pop-up/-over advertising that gets in the way
* Pop-under advertising
* Auto-playing video that drains noticeable bandwidth and CPU power (and therefore battery) when mobile
* Auto-playing audio, usually at some horrendous volume
* Tracking us and storing derived data about our lives in quite some detail without our permission
* Collecting free information, wrapping adverts around it, and working hard to make sure the ad wrapped version comes up top in search results above the non-encumbered version (please don't try defend this in the general case with the word "curating")

Free services paid for by the above are only free is you consider the above and related matters to not be costs (which presumably you don't, which is fair enough).

I don't actually run adblock/noscript/what-ever, for performance reasons and because of the inconvenience of false positives and such: I just avoid sites that irritate me with the non-tracking-related stuff (to the point of having some blacklisted in my local DNS settings) and accept that no matter what I do I'm going to be followed by Google, Facebook, and their less reputable compatriots.
Beam Me up Some Cash (1999)
There is a simpler explanation - Not getting over-shadowed by Elon Musk.

The success of SpaceX and all the private / not-in-military-industrial-complex companies is a direct threat to the budgets and livelihoods of those in the military-industrial complex.

This is a demonstration of "whatever they can do, we can do better"
> So then what's the difference between disavows and having the links removed? Getting the links removed costs far more time & money. And it gives Google a data mining stream of feedback they can leverage to dish out further penalties.

That's a good thing right? Pushing sources of bad links down through the basement, effectively nuking the source/network from the link graph.

You know Google's ranking system is based on information, and adding more information leads to better results for the Web user.
How much delta-v would a package the size of this plane still pack after getting into orbit? In other words, could a plane this size still appreciably change it's orbit post-launch?
That's not simpler, because the soap will disperse eventually so it would need to be continually replenished. The apparent attraction of this device is you set it up once and it keeps working for years without further maintenance.
New ‘Anti-Social’ Network Will Help You Avoiding People You Don’t Like
Thanks for the tip on rlwrap, that looks really useful!
I think that's this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcnH_TOqi3I

Not the most pleasant thing to watch over breakfast.
>Or, Google could know something about my eating habits, and start off with the restaurants that might actually interest me. That's a more useful result. But to get there, Google had to know some things about me.

Sounds like massive privacy invasion to me. If I feel like Mexican, I'll search "mexican restaurants in FooExampleCity". If I feel like Italian, same deal there. If I'm open to anything, I'll just type "restaurants in FooExamplecity". I do not want to search "restaurants" and have google profile my food tastes and steal my location.
The "bad intentions" being presumably to make a web framework out of C strings, where every string operation is a potential security hole?

(Actually I think this is hilarious, as an oldschool C programmer myself, but not for practical purposes)
Yes, exactly this!

The best thing I could be doing is spending at least 8h per week less in front of the computer, not optimising the rest of my time so I can be on it even more!
People who have posted the original video, if you are reading this, please fix the speaker's name in the youtube video title. His name is Russ Cox, not Rob Cox. It pains me to see wrong names, it almost feels to me like miscrediting :P
So, what other extensions can we ditch now?

I really like the UX of SDC; are Disconnect or DoNotTrackMe just clutter, or adding value still?
I suspect the problem with deploying this on a large scale to fight Malaria for example, is that mosquito breeding areas are often very large areas, and change in location due to environmental changes. This device is probably a good fit for stopping mosquitos breeding in the pond outside your house, but for stopping malaria you need to cover a very large area.
isn't there a legal issue here - in any contract there is consideration - but if consideration is anonymous who can enforce a contract?
I think JSmat would be a more appropriate name. Java libraries usually start with J so Jmat leads to confusion.
While this is an awesome extension, it is annoying living in the EU to continually see "This site uses cookies, click 'accept' to acknowledge and continue to the site" every time I visit a site that has had its cookies cleared, since the acknowledgement is stored in a cookie that is subsequently cleared when the tab is closed.
For me, ML is not characterized by immutability and lack of inheritance, but rather by: first-class functions (C++, Java, Scala), type inference (partially in C++, C#, Scala), and algebraic datatypes and pattern matching (only Scala so far). The rest is just noise/sugar. So, by that measure, most languages are on their way to becoming ML.
I'd take more risk. Instead of safely working for others, I'd put more effort into my own ideas and try to bring those to market.
Don't forget that, at the time, transorbital lobotomy was the best treatment available for certain patients, and did actually help people. It was crude and dangerous by modern standards, but it wasn't just superstitious barbarism.
Amazing. I read something a long time ago where someone suggested building an amplifier into your phone's mic on a switch so you can shout at spammers, but this idea is a lot more simple.
>Watch them throw caution and credit concerns to the wind

Banks are under very close scrutiny right now and will be for many years to come. I doubt very much that the next bubble will get inflated exactly where the last one popped.
The GitHub repo is a bit more readable: https://github.com/bevacqua/css
It's a bit of hyperbole, sure, but I think there's some truth in it. For many of these, the progress is pretty slow - starting with simple type inference, lambdas. OCaml has imperative/OO features but it is still an ML language. As other languages adopt many of the ML features they will retain their roots of course. But I'd like to think they'll accumulate all of the good parts of an ML language (pattern matching, better inference). It's possible that my belief that ML languages are far superior to popular languages could be influencing my outlook. But even after many years of programming in terrible languages like Java it's clear within a week of programming in OCaml/ML that so many problems that require "architecting" in Java/ObjC/C++ are just trivial chains of functions and pattern matching in OCaml. How could the FP paradigm (ML in particular) not prevail? I can't imagine a world where it doesn't.
Often they just open a payment gateway and ask the victim for money. Sometimes they install banking malware instead/as well.
I don't see how this has anything at all to do with the mission profile for any current or projected SpaceX endeavors.

SpaceX is building launch and deployment vehicles. While I have no doubt that this plane could deploy satellites, it doesn't take 500 days to do that. There are clearly other goals.
That's what I liked about Opera's content blocker. There was no black list to start with. But if you encountered a site with annoying ads, you could just block it yourself without much hassle. If the ad wasn't intrusive, you could just leave it there.
dear downvoter: I am happy to counter each and every argument you may have, in case you should have any.

Otherwise forget the PR and dig deeper than usual.

ps: Actually, this MIT piece is like the CERN web pieces, run by the PR department of said institutions.

Such accomplishments are rarely if ever obtained by a single lab, or institution for that matter. They are rather embodiments of the spirit of the times, the effort of many of a given era implemented with the technology then available (see Otlet). The only question is, who gets to win the (often propaganda) fight for the claim and who gets to write history.
Nvidia inside: Hands on with Audi, Lamborghini, and Tesla
Seems like the perfect device for visiting foreign satellites and making changes.
> Today with our busy life's cooking something simple takes an hour to complete. Soylent is ready to go in an instant.

How slow do you have to be at cooking for something simple to take you an hour of your time?

I can prepare a slow-cooked stew in well under 15 minutes, head out for the day and come back to a house that smells wonderful and 5-10 meals worth of food. It won't cost me 50-100 dollars either.
I think Flattr is probably what you're describing (https://flattr.com/)

Description:

Whenever you read, watch and listen to content you want to support, you simply flattr it. Remember that you can flattr as many times you want during a month, as you never will exceed your chosen budget.

At the end of each month, we divide your budget into as many pieces as you made flattrs. For example 25 flattrs will divide your budget into 25 pieces. With a 10 euro budget, each piece is 40 cents.
suppose you were not physically well enough to work, and wanted to quit. then it would be ridiculous to "force" you to work.

this is the same.

> "normally, one must stay on for a month after giving notice"

it is not a normal circumstance.

do you have sick leave? can you exhaust that first?
You can see this as a kind of progression of the supplement industry, one where the delivery stands a better chance of matching the promise: For example, Coca-Cola and Milo both marketed themselves as a form of "medicine" or "health food" early on, and then only later reworked their image as they became more evidently unhealthful to the public. And bodybuilding supplements have their own extremely checkered history[0]. Over time the categories of supplements with actual nutritional value have stuck it out in the market as they've proven themselves.

So I see Soylent as another step forward - the necessary food processing to make these kinds of sophisticated supplement blends has gotten cheaper and more widely available with time, enabling more experiments.

So the news for the future looks promising. It'll probably get cheaper. The nutritional value is likely to go upwards in future versions as more data is uncovered. And if it shows signs of success then there will be competing alternatives, for sure.

[0] http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sex_news_sports_...
Just to check - I have long assumed that real "value/wealth" was created through more efficient use of energy / discovery new sources energy (chimney / coal)

Is that the jevons / Rickover etc argument?
Same question than the one asked some months ago [1]:

> Why should someone use your service instead of existing ones? What is your added-value compared for example to seo4ajax.com?

It loooks like the innovation is just to use Firefox instead of PhantomJS. Maybe I am wrong.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6781843
It launches on a DeltaV rocket, so I'm sure the launch system delivers it to the intended orbit, and from there, I'm sure it does orbital transfers into wherever it needs to go for whatever it is that it needs to do.
Depends. 600 users paying $20 a month? Great, there are people who would kill for that. 600 users to whom you display ads? Meh...
I wonder what those things will be in 50 years .. its truly a fascinating mind exercise. I can think of a few things for this list - but alas I believe even mentioning these things in the current environment just means you're going to get flamed for 'not agreeing with what everyone already knows' ..
I am adding this comment to my clip board. It will save me having to use it everywhere. £*() polluting the comment stream again.
Decapitation strike. ICBMs are pretty easy to detect. Little tactical warheads being deorbited, not so much.

There is very little you could practically do to defend against such a thing. Even if you could reliably know every time the host vehicle was going to pass overhead (unlikely) and send the relevant leaders to bunkers (impractical), that's no use -- that little warhead could have been released at any time with just enough extra fuel to go into a slightly different orbit, leaving you with no idea when a strike might happen.
I am sure there are many direct project goals - but one overriding meta-goal is to not stand there looking dumb whilst Elon eats your lunch in the minds of the politicians at least.
Interesting quotes:

"A PayPal user might, for example, use her PDA to beam her share of a lunch tab to a colleague with an infrared-equipped PDA."

"There are about three to four million PDAs in circulation that can make use of the PayPal software."