skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm not sure that having a weapon in orbit would actually be any better than existing ICBMs

That's kind of the point too. Suborbital ballistic missiles can reach any point on Earth. Putting them in orbit wastes energy and requires significantly larger rockets for the same payloads. Not to mention stuff in orbit is impossible to hide.
Different countries treat their responsibilities to these treaties differently. History has shown that the united states, in particular, takes its responsibility to treaties very seriously, and would do it's utmost never to be in breach.

If they were considering placing nuclear missiles in orbit, they would almost certainly withdraw from the Outer Space Treaty first.

I'm wondering if there is any economic rationale for doing so - I would think that sub based missiles would be cheaper than placing them in orbit.
> The model (google's algo) should fit reality. Rather than forcing reality to fit the model.

Google's algorithms should reward behaviour that's best for Web users, and penalise behaviour that is worse for Web users.

That way, for people who want to game search engine rankings, they are pushed more towards techniques that benefit web users in the course of trying to benefit themselves.

The problem with models is that they are not accurate simulations of the real world. They have flaws and simplifications, and those give rise to people taking advantages of those flaws. All models and representations have flaws.
The problem is that the alternative to ads is a paywall.
Reminds me of the Atari Mindlink.

http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/mindlink...

It worked via your forehead muscles.

Weirdly, I did consumer research testing for this thing as a teenager. They showed us a video and then let us test it with River Raid (which was an Activision game, go figure). Then one of those group sessions where they interview you all with someone filming behind a two-way mirror. The Atari thing did kinda work. Sorta. Anyway, it was a fun consumer research thing to be paid for.
Seems silly to write what already exists in C. Just compile with Emscripten.
The HN community thanks you for this well thought out and high quality comment. You have clearly shown us some knowledgeable information for which we are truly grateful.

In all seriousness, comments such as this degrade the community and add no value. Please reconsider next time.
It is not true that the revised data showed the opposite of what Reinhard and Rogoff argues for. It just showed it to a much lesser degree. The New Yorker wrote a fair but critical analysis:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/04/th...
"quicker response than any ICBM"

From what I can see it would be a lot slower than most ICBMs as you have to wait until it's orbit passes over or is close to the thing you want to hit.

This article seems to have details of its orbit:

http://forden.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/2742/x37b-orbit-fo...
There's a place on HN for discussing both strictly the content and also issues related to the author don't you think? I mean, we have a beautiful tree UI, we may as well use it :)
Well its possible, but its certainly not easy. It asks you to merge your G+ account all the time and is generally just annoying.

I ended up creating 3 pages in g+ for my channel that I don't even use, when trying to avoid G+ Youtube integration.

Then I just gave up and merged them.
Then virtualise it - by the time it doesn't, someone will have Linux-style containers working in windows.
This craft was bought by a government bureaucracy, right? So it's just about possible that nobody knows.

"Absolutely, we in the 67th Orbital Wing operate the X-37B, but it's there to fly missions for the National Space Operations Office"

"The National Space Operations Office's mission is to develop operational capabilities in support of our country's strategic priorities, as implemented by the Near Space Command."

"NSPACECOM is proud to be providing this unique Earth-to-Orbit capability in support of front-line forces. The X-37B is currently deployed with the 67th Orbital Wing. You'd have to ask them for details of the current mission."
Russia's treaty obligation to respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine, etc... Indeed.

The problem with that theory is that being in a particular orbit locks you into a very limited choice of targets. The X-37B is unlikely to have much in the way of cross range capability, so any potential target would have to be within a narrow band of it's orbital track. Also suppose you want to hit a target and you just flew over it, you'll have to wait a full orbit before you can strike, which is likely to take a lot longer than launching an ICBM. It's even worse than that though because if your orbit is inclined to the equator (required if your target is not on the equator), the earth rotates under you so any target you fly over on this orbit will have moved and won't be under your orbital track on your next orbit. You might have to wait dozens of orbits before you fly over it again.

Unless you have hundreds of warheads in orbit, or are prepared to wait days between attacks, the orbital weapons platform concept is a non-starter.
If I was an admin there, I'd probably have made upgrading to some new software (that actually supports special characters etc. in titles, doesn't drop edit history off the end of the page into /dev/null, doesn't have the weirdest way of creating links I've seen, etc.) a key priority.
Well, history repeats itself. See the mobile phones for cellular networks (aka GSM). Made initially by Motorola, the technology spread all over the world and the US networks were actually lagging behind everyone else for quite a while.
Huh? Modern "Leftist conformity" involves placing homosexuality and heterosexuality in a scientifically and sociologically spurious equivalence. His piece on homosexuality is extremely far from leftist conformity.
I think the only advantage of having a weapon go into a fractional orbit (rather than being ballistic) is to sneak up on your enemy from an unexpected direction:

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

Having your weapon sitting in a entirely predictable permanent orbit rather defeats the purpose.
They do. It's like art. The protected term is dietitian.
My problem with this approach is most people don't/can't pull it off properly with the end result being mediocre/sub-standard in either case. It's like when iPhone competitors tried to compete by producing duo keyboard/touch screen phones. They just ended up loosing both ways.

Pick one and do the best design/implementation you can pull off. One design/implementation is hard enough and unless you don't plan to do any real hustling (like getting out of the office and do some face-to-face marketing and lead generation), SEO shouldn't be that high on your list anyway. Good if SEO works for you but it's not the end of the world if it doesn't.
Async control flow in JS using Generators and ES6 syntax
What an elegant solution to malaria problem. My only fear is that mosquitoes will adapt to this minor change.
We were getting a google-shaped web from the moment SEO started optimising for Google rankings.
Then HTTPSB is not the right extension for you.
Kinetic weapons would work better on an airless planet or for space combat.
All in one the most powerful php infrastructure
Then again, maybe the alternative methods of funding won't emerge and AdBlock will destroy the web as we know it.
It appears to me that Google has a long term ambition to become the sole means of navigating the Internet. Inter-site links are fundamental to topic-related navigation, as the Internet was originally intended. It appears that Google is trying to depreciate inter-site linking in general, and skilled PR misdirection on the topic by a Google employee doesn't reassure.

One has to wonder to what extent the entire phenomenon of link spamming sites might be a Hegelian Dialectic tactic by Google - ie a manufactured problem, intended to prompt a 'solution' that is in fact more beneficial to Google's unstated intent. Are we really to believe that there's no algorithmic solution to mitigating the link-spamming nuisance?

Another dimension of this same ambition, is the movement to obfuscate URLs in browser address bars. Traditionally, Web users could copy, save and manipulate links directly as another means of navigating the Internet and maintaining their own records of Web places. As browsers progress further in the direction of eliminating direct user visibility of true URLs, this navigational method becomes less available. The Google-promoted alternative? Just search via Google!

As for why Google would want to do this, the obvious answer would be the usual 'money and power'. If Google succeeds in virtually eliminating all navigational alternatives to Google-searching, they then own the Net. For instance, if they wanted to make any given web site disappear, they could simply de-index it. That's a politically very dangerous power. Even if Google has no political agenda now (a debatable point), given such power they'd be guaranteed to become political. Power corrupts, etc.

We've been through this before, with a gold ring and a volcano. It's generally a bad idea to create 'one thing to rule them all', and Google is no exception.
The overuse of the word hipster, has really begun to irk me. Live in a city? Drink coffee? Wear jeans? Hipster.
Hm this is an interesting thought but I'm having trouble parsing it. Isn't there a contradiction there? If you generate grants and papers, you can find a job, but then you should tackle stuff that doesn't produce any results for awhile and doesn't get grants?

Long term I am curious about going back to academia, and finances aren't a big issue. But being forced to do short term work is a dealbreaker. I have done some original research outside of academia (mostly in the form of source code, some semi-published), and I'm curious about thoughts on how to "work the system".

EDIT: I looked at what an adjunct professor actually is, and it sounds sorta horrible? You don't even get benefits? I assumed low pay, but at least with benefits, but apparently that's not the case. What do you get out of it, other than a title? Access to facilities? Since I am in software I don't really need facilities....

Or do you get students to do work for your pet project? I imagine the good ones would want to work for a "real" professor.
I have been thinking about fully anonymous currencies in the past, which, not a big surprise, lead me to NIZK proofs. I was stopped there by the lack of resources on the topic. Your simple explanation (the link above) was really helpful. Thanks fro writing that down!

That being said, the biggest problem of the system seems to be that if it is compromised, someone can make ludicrious amount of money (2^64 units or such) out of nothing. Which has, in turn, potential to drive the price of the currency towards zero. Even worse, you don't know, at any given point, whether the system was already compromised or not. Thus, no emergency measures (such as the one made when bitcoin chain was forked) can be applied.

Any ideas how to fight the problem?
They have a business to run, but you have a life to live. If something catastrophic happened in the business and it were to shut down, would they continue to pay you at their own expense? Because that's what they're asking you to do—give their business your effort at great personal expense, in the form of your mental health. If you can stay on and muddle on as best you can to collect a paycheck, and you're up to it, great—as you said, you could use the money. But if your sanity requires taking a step back and assessing your life, then you should do that. You are going to have a long career—while your father's death will of course be one of the most impactful things you'll have to come to terms with, this job, whether you leave it or stay on, will be no more than a footnote to this chapter of your life.

My deepest condolences on your loss. We lost three members of my family in just over 18 months, and I know how difficult it can be to process.
Dutch journalism startup Blendle wants to create an iTunes for newspapers
Having done some small experiments with EEG I'm wary of these consumer devices (have seen 'performance improving' gaming gear too), mostly work with muscles etc. This doesn't claim EEG that I can see though so... who knows? (EDIT: just saw EEG details, if they can get a clean signal without using conductive gel fair play to them, I would love to hear how because that is an achievement!)

As an aside a friend once described capitalism as 'viral' in that everything can be looked at through its eyes, packaged and sold, and that's why it can be so hard to change, even radical movements to disrupt it are packaged and sold, think Che Guevara t-shirts. It's fascinating to see.
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If I had to guess, and of course, I do have to guess, my bet is
the X-37 has something to do with the DARPA Phoenix program.

http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/04/02a.aspx
Or cooperation? This is a vehicle. Most news involving Space X are about launchers. Also:

It’s versatile, and has worked well enough that Boeing is contracted to create the next model, the X-37C. It will be at least 65% larger and have the ability to carry up to six astronauts, while operating unmanned.

Space X reusable rockets and this reusable vehicle seems a good fit.
I like what Blendle is trying when it comes to micropayments and newspaper articles. I've heard quite a few people talk about how they'd use it, and it's only just open to the public.

The most fascinating thing about Blendle to me is that most mainstream papers seem to be giving it a try. It not just niche publications.
No, Jebediah is stuck on Duna with half a fuel tank. Had he practiced landing in the simulator, I wouldn't have to mount a rescue operation now. I think I'll leave him there for a couple of years for good measure.
I would argue that it is in everyone's interest to care about these sort of things. Not only is interesting, it's also important to understand how and why it happens.
You could always use Java applets. These would solve a number of the problems you describe, but introduce a whole new set of problems.
I first had problems with it too. You have to disable matrix filtering on all sites.
The drones under discussion are not a consumer technology, how can you expect them to be as widespread as consumer items like automobiles or cellphones, unless you're looking at toy RC 'drones' like the Parrot AR Drone?

The proper way to map drone proliferation is to count how many countries have them as part of their security forces and what type are being used. Last I counted over 80 countries possess at least one model of drone in their security forces and another 23 at least have active armed drone programs underway. How is that not widespread?

That's without even discussing the dozens of countries building their own military drones, armed and unarmed. There's a tendency to believe that this technology is contained for the moment within US companies, but that has never been the case.
Not the case. I do speak to a lot of the smaller merchants who email as I feel for them.

They still don't really understand the web, and they hired someone who appeared professional to them (and probably cold called them). Only after a while do they realise they're paying a lot of money for something unquantifiable and with no guarantee of hitting the front-page of Google, and so they end that relationship (in fear, as they're told that whatever placement they now have may be in jeopardy).

So starts the merry-go-round, where the smaller merchants constantly jump from one bad SEO company to another. Each one creating mess, whilst claiming they'll clean up the mess before.

I do feel for the smaller merchants. Their business is being eaten by the internet, and they're missing out and have ambition but are being fleeced by sharks every step of the way.
Is it not possible to have a discussion about interesting discussion about technology without speculators crapping all over it? :-/
I have no idea how this thing could go into orbit. Anybody there who can enlighten me?
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That's only a problem as long as ad funded versions exist. Get rid of the ad funded versions and it's no longer a problem, as the non-ad-funded versions will no longer have to compete with them.

Plus, many useful services will still have free versions, and then provided paid upgrades.

Plus, many useful services will stop being centralised, distributed, free, peer to peer versions will be created that cost nothing to host, and they will be popular, because there are no ad-funded versions to compete.
Possibly. I had pretty good form with the whole off-the-knee kick-off to shoulder position. The muscle damage could have happened at any place throughout the movement. The massive weight and lack of range of motion definitely caused it.

In any case, large amounts of weight, and the tiniest deviation from form, lift-off, etc, will cause such hardship later in life that with some exercises, it's just not worth it to do small rep sets with heavy weight. The gains don't equate to the risk.
Go from C to Go [video]
I think it would be worse than an ICMB. Not only is it easier to maintain systems on the ground - though that could be what's being tested - but it takes a lot of energy to change an orbital plane and it takes time to make an orbit.

Considering just the last, an orbit in LEO takes about 90 minutes. Even if the target is close to the plane's orbital trajectory, that's an average of about 45 minutes to target. An ICBM takes about 30 minutes. So I can't think of any real advantage for an orbital nuclear weapon over even a small ICBM fleet.
And the router is good - in Europe at least, where Openstreetmap data is excellent !
The web is already full of stuff that is free and is not ad-funded. There are already many services that have free versions with paid advanced versions.

If everyone used ad-block, it would change the web. In some ways for the better, in some ways for the worse. It wouldn't destroy it.
A "Wimpy" Dwarf Fossil Galaxy Reveals New Facts About Early Universe
The mentioned paper, "Segue 1: An Unevolved Fossil Galaxy from the Early
Universe" published in the "Astrophysical Journal" is here:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.6116
Also in the UK: http://cycle.travel/map (disclaimer - my site)
600 users in 3 weeks? I'm hoping to attain that in 3 months -_-.
So ... good I think.
Keep Your Single-page Application Codebase Separate
Use N distinct ZK proof systems in parallel. This requires having multiple distinct systems which are sufficiently efficient. Getting one is currently hard enough, but in the long run it might be a good way to achieve adequate security.
Sorry, I didn't word that very clearly - yes it's a liability, but it's a liability that's fairly independent of the levitation mechanism. I think it's more clear to say "That's the whole point of evacuated tube transport, to make an artificial...". Whether you use wheels or maglev or air bearings is a separate issue.
Hyperloop doesn't turn the atmospheric drag into an asset - it just uses a particular method of overcoming the large liability.
Because of how it overcomes it, it might be able to get away with a higher blockage ratio, but to say that with any real confidence you need to specify the vacuum level in the high-vac example you're comparing it to. And then do a bunch of compressible flow math that I've not yet seen for a high-vac ETT. This paper (http://jmt.swjtu.edu.cn/EN/abstract/abstract8587.shtml) looks at the incompressible flow case... but that's kind of missing the point I think.
Another example: even with standard browser settings and without that kind of plugin, I often get the annoying "we use cookies" warning mandated by European regulations, on the same website.
Apparently, the encapsulation cell seen in the article is of the Atlas V rocket which puts it into orbit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V
Ruby 2.1.2 is released
If you are sufficiently caring or savvy to use Adblock and the like, then you aren't the target audience anyway.
I will happilly pay for the service, as much, as advertisers earn on me. Sounds fair, and I doubt it will be a large sum, based on how often I click on ad's.
Soylent should be able to get industrial quantity discounts. a poor person is paying retail. And urban retail is no-where near wholesale (rent/overheads).

Soylent is economic in the sense mentioned in the article--low time spent shopping and no waste.

The scalability limitation on soy-lent is that most people will not be able to eat "something that tastes like cake batter" for 90 meals in a row (one month). There is plenty of evidence for this.

So, until they find a way to deal with "palatability" (its more than just variety), the ultimate upside potential will be limited.

But there are plenty of people making money off off of niche and novelty consumption specialty retail.
By 2038 I don't think this will matter
From the discussion I've seen here Soylent seems to have hit on a market for 'efficiency of prep and consumption'. I've seen a lot of people comment to the effect they don't want to think about food, they don't care to enjoy what they eat, they just want it to be a solved problem requiring no thought. Beside the health impact of single-source nutrition or the possible savings I would actually like to see if this feeling has any measurable truth to it. It 'feels' like I maybe spend time on food I could be spending on other things, but is this an opportunity to reclaim valuable time or would I just use the extra time to browse HN or some other browsing?
>Often, the solutions the policy makers are so apt to try just happen to be short-term band-aids, or kick-the-can-down-the-road ways to postpone the hard stuff, or ways to save face and let the next guy be caught holding the bag.

Actually it is worse than this. The policy makers all know what needs to be done, but it is against the interests of the powerful. So instead of doing what is right for the bottom 99.9% they do what is right for the top 0.1%.

The policy makers have actually learned a great deal on how to siphon off the proceeds of improved production towards the top 0.1% and have now got it down to an art form. They have even managed to convince us that they don't know what they are doing - rather than listening to what they say, follow the money.
To anyone who suffers regular harassment like this, I recommend purchasing a singing bowl[1]. It's like a cross between a bowl, a bell and a large gong; when they call, place the phone receiver inside the bowl and strike the bowl repeatedly. Do this a couple times and chances are they won't call again.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_bowl
You mean the botched SGML clone sent over RPC clicked together in NextStep?
Creating a rogue CA certificate (2004)
Android developer looking to join a startup
Hi,

My name is Al and I'm an Android developer looking to join a new and exciting startup. Any interesting projects out there?
I can't think of an ad-based internet service that is promoting the progress of the species. Most of them, like Facebook, would be better if they weren't trying to sell ads.
Predicting code use in advance is hard. Linux was a casual side project not meant to be taken seriously; Javascript was hacked together in a few weeks.
"By 2000 I don't think this will matter."

- 1978
> Have the grace to just accept that you're wrong and admit that you have no fucking clue what you're talking about

Why are you being a jackass to him? What is your justification for saying he has "no fucking clue" ?

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> I might as well be yelling at the wind.

That's pretty much what happens when you make vapid statements like "The US government is broken" on an internet forum largely peopled by folks who have absolutely no idea how the government works except as a proto-police state.

If you want to be heard, say something worth listening to.
What's the point of a secret nuclear deterent? Surely it can only deter if everyone knows you've got it.