skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They use Hetzner for dedicated servers, slicehost for VPS, 2 colocation services, and AWS cloud.

For a relatively small site, why do they need so many different hosting providers?
"transform some of the energy from radioactive decay"

Not so simple. You need a hot source and a cold sink to transform energy. Where's your cold sink? This thing is intended to melt what's around it, and the outside of the probe is not that different in temperature from the inside.
Spire raises $25M Series A round to expand its satellite fleet
It really should be “an” not “the”. I would expect that most people outside of Australia (and unfortunately most within) are unlikely to know the correct terminology for the Australian court system.
There seem to be a lot of possibilities that would do in various positions.

If you could make the money feel distinctively different, while appearing the same, it would probably be enough to cause a receiver to pay sufficient attention to notice the minor differences.

Printing different denominations on each side of the bill would be sufficient for most stationary money.

For scenes with large amounts of free flowing money, you could print the notes backwards and flip the film.

I don't think there would be any single solution for all instances, but I think you could pick a form that would suit whichever scene you were currently shooting.
I gave a lightning presentation on this subject last month. A better solution is to put the private methods into (sub)modules. This makes them public to the file system and gives you the ability to tune what you make public via your module API. Ideal for testing purposes and good for module structure in my opinion. The slides can be found here: https://speakerdeck.com/qubyte/writing-testable-private-meth...
From Concorde to the iPhone, state intervention drives technological innovation
Vision-correcting display makes reading glasses so yesterday
yes -- hexiled is a great example of a quality game done right with very little (need for) marketing.

i'm cheering for you! go, man, go!
As an Australian, the suppression order forbids me from amending the above Wikipedia article to include a note to the suppression order (how meta):

"4.The prohibition on publication in order 1 applies throughout Australia."

If someone outside of Australia were to do this however...

Edit: 1 hour after I made this comment, nobody from outside of Australia seems to have updated the page :(
P.S. see option 3 in that presentation.
Imagine that you've got a markov model just like what this article suggests. Now imagine that in each round your markov model emits a state and then sends that state to a noise box which converts that state into some kind of sound.

As a simple model, say S1 leads to a rising C, S2 leads to a falling F, S3 leads to a stable Bb.

In a more complex model, this sound box is actually plays two or three sounds all at once. As a further complexity, many output sounds overlap between states.

If you're a scientist observing just the sounds being made then you're talking about an HMM (because the markov model is "hidden" behind the sound box). We model speech this way by assuming (sort of) that speech is composed of phonemes (each state) which might sort of overlap in their actual sound.

So a scientist using an HMM tries to reverse the process—listen to the sounds and figure out the phonemes that generated it by knowing something about how people make transitions between phonemes in, say, English words.
Yes. Signal for Android will be coming, apparently, and will integrate RedPhone and TextSecure capabilities. According to the original article, "Signal will be a unified private voice and text communication platform for iPhone, Android, and the browser. Later this summer, Signal for iPhone will be expanded to support text communication compatible with TextSecure for Android. Shortly after, both TextSecure and RedPhone for Android will be combined into a unified Signal app on Android as well. Simultaneously, browser extension development is already under way."
Sorry but you're vastly underestimating the power of marketing. "Yo" was basically an entirely marketing play, same with Flappy Bird, and their are several more examples. Candy Crush is by no means innovative, they polished an existing flash game that had been around for ages and marketed it correctly. Examples through counter examples; Bing will never succeed, simply because the brand has been devalued to a point that such migration is impossible. Amazon cannot make it in hardware no matter their innovation, because of how deeply invested people are with Apple/Google. I am sorry to say that in some respects; it is you with the blindspot.
Actually I believe that's exactly what the system does.
Twitter MAU quarterly reporting growth hack: switch from spam account removal to spam account hellban.
Bourbon has quite a few labeling restrictions for instance:
- Must be produced in the US.
- Must be 51% corn on the mash bill.
- Aged in new charred white oak barrels.

If it is straight bourbon it must be at least 2 years old. If it is less than 4 years old it must say how old it is. If it has an age statement on it, that must be the youngest bourbon in the blend.

I'm not sure, but I think interstate legislation requires that the distillery location be on the label as well. Anyone who knows what they are talking about can narrow down the distillery based just on this.
Stats on usage, users, etc. at http://blog.pinboard.in/
Although I'm not overweight, I had been trying for a long time to get myself to exercise, and finally started running a few years back, and I totally agree with the "this is not a temporary thing". Right now I basically run at least once a week but average about 3-4 times a week (it's only on terrible weeks that I get one run in, and I'm usually really antsy if I can't run more than once). That is basically non-negotiable, I will continue running regularly until I'm too old to.
This is nonsense, jury selections happen every single day around the world on cases that were thoroughly covered by the media. The selection processes is extremely strict in countries like Australia and makes sure the members are untainted.
So, there is a definitely a contract, regardless of sale. This much is 100% certain (no court has otherwise sold).
If the question is "can there be implied warranties on stuff given away for free", the answer is definitely "yes"

In that sort of case, the only question is one of "damages", not of "validity of claim"
I agree that the prob will have to be nuclear powered. What I find risky is to put it on a spaceship.
Yeah, I wrote this game Orb (http://joeblau.com/orb./) In 3 days for iOS and Android. I didn't put any money into marketing it, but I did promote it. I made my game to test the effectiveness of the Apple Store vs the Play Store vs the Amazon store for an app with minimal publishing. I've definitely learned a lot which I'll probably blog about soon.
Nice! I was looking for an idea to play with Go. Will use this as inspiration, and maybe borrow some of the front-end.
Well given that it's distillery location is on the label I'm a little confused about what the story is.
A third of consumers with credit files had debts in collections last year
Feedback on social network I created
Hi,
I just created a social network connecting musicians, producers, and recording engineers entitled TuneOrg. You can visit and join the site at www.tuneorg.com. I'm looking for some good feedback from the community. Thanks!
Having worked at a startup that failed to find a customer base in the consumer world for the NLP software that analyzed social media, I'm not surprised the only application turns out to be defense industry.

There doesn't seem to be many uses for that type of NLP other than surveillance and brand monitoring.
Usually, but not always with fast moving momentum stocks like TWTR. The initial movement is triggered by algorithms that try and figure out if the earnings report was good or not. I remember an absolutely wild Facebook swing after an earnings statement that went from huge up to down the next day (once it was mentioned on the conference call that teen usage was down).

There are going to be a ton of sellers tomorrow (if I had any shares I sure would), it will be interesting to watch. You know that some of the bears who got squeezed this afternoon are going to double down and be back on the hunt tomorrow.
> It’s asking so-called “solvers” to build on TSA’s existing PreCheck program..

They expect to add a process to a failed process and expect a different result? Ultimately they'll add one more machine, one single line that feeds into the scanners, and more promotion of the Nexus program... and in five years, another $15k for another idea that changes nothing.
> I'm also not sure I buy the assertion that all code you would want to test is code you would want to export publicly. Do you have any reasoning to support that idea?

All code you would want to test (or, even, to have exist) is either code that is in publicly exported functions or code whose pathways can all be exercised via interaction with the publicly exported interfaces, since code pathways that are neither in publicly exported functions nor reachable through publicly exported functions is dead code.

If its not testable via the public interface, it shouldn't exist.
That being said their are also examples of what you say working, but I have spoke to many people who have worked on AAA titles on mobile which have spent millions on R&D, with the best possible designers and developers, only to have a game like flappy bird outdo them. This is not only about being innovative, in fact it's sometime not, but rather having a anti-attitude to what the current market is in order to differentiate. Making an app for kids? Ask kids what they want, having a holier than though approach is only going to kick yourself in the face.
Netflix Signs Peering Deal With AT&T to Reduce Buffering
The Evolving Personal Computer
Suppose you were right and it really was about jury impartiality. Why invoke national security? Quote from the article:

> The super-injunction invokes “national security” grounds to prevent reporting about the case, by anyone, in order to “prevent damage to Australia's international relations”
Same for me. Tried safari and chrome.
You can see comment order reshuffling in the seeming absence of votes so you can be pretty sure there's not exponential decay, which would preserve order.
I can't remember where I read (might have been on here) that there is a taboo in botany against publishing results about plant intelligence because some guy wrote this book and tinhats started taking it seriously:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Life-Plants-Fascinating/dp/...

also related:
http://conspiracyofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/hubb...
To be fair, that was intentional – the juxtaposition of all the accolades makes the main character seem extra alone and sad.
Typical "smear by association" (without any link whatsoever) from the left: "It is ironic that it took Tony Abbott to bring the worst of 'Asian Values' to Australia."
I've always though it was a bit weird that Palantir is a "Luminary Level ($10k+)" supporter of the EFF.

https://www.eff.org/thanks
You can always go for some far dated put options... Anything after the next earnings report will work if it's a fluke quarter from the World Cup.
Hapless recruiter searching for LAMP developer; hires electrician
The funny thing about World Cup is that it happens every four years. Two for Olympics. World series, Stanley Cup and Super Bowl are every year. The bottom line is that people like twitter once they interact with it for any reason (like any of the above.) Once they are in they find a reason to stay. As more people around the world get mobile devices that can interact with Twitter, more people will start using Twitter (and Google and FB, etc.)
Oatley electronics sells a much less elegant electric bike kit ( you supply the bike and, I presume, the battery ) for considerably less money.

http://secure.oatleyelectronics.com//product_info.php?cPath=...
Amazon Calls for Hachette to Cut E-Book Prices
Mozjpeg's gain come partly from using progressive JPEG encoding, which is
also available in libjpeg-turbo.
See the post http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/About/Mozjpeg from libjpeg-turbo's author.
And actually, the photo_3.jpg picture in the blog-post is progressive jpeg.
So the command line for a fair comparison should probably be:
jpegtran -outfile out.jpg -optimise -copy none -progressive in.jpg
so, you're going to tell us that "yo" isn't the very definition of hitting the app lottery?

edit: and i believe you're conflating "marketing" with "coverage for hitting the lottery".
Conway's Multiplayer Game of Life
That's a really great idea!
You mean like a 3$ gate latch?
Are you comfortable sharing any details on your side project? Stuff like this interests me.
I love how we have nine (state and territory) 'Supreme' courts, all of which are outranked by the one (national) 'High' court. Someone didn't get their semantics right, back in the day.
Victoria has done it before. The a series of the TV show Underbelly was banned temporally. The show depicted a true story of a crime that was still going through the court system. Australian Juries are not supposed to know anything about a case before it goes to court. If the story was on a very popular TV show before proceedings it becomes harder to ensure this.
Well, the mountains and other geologic features are still there, just the political boundaries have changed, and features may have been renamed.
If only Apple had gone full skeuomorphic on this, the fraud would have been exposed sooner.
Erm. If it's melting the rock around it, then the rock is your cold sink. By the time the temperature of the rock catches up with the probe, it's already molten anyway.
> So, there is a definitely a contract, regardless of sale.

How? Where is the mutual consideration? WTFPL looks like a gratuitous license, rather than a contract.

> If the question is "can there be implied warranties on stuff given away for free", the answer is definitely "yes"

The usual implied warranties of concern are implied warranty of merchantability and implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose; the former only applies when a good is sold, and even then only when it is sold by a merchant in the class of goods to which it belongs. And the latter applies again only with a sale, and only when the buyer relies on the seller's selection of the good for a purpose identified by the buyer, or at least known by the seller before selling the product to the buyer.
Are you saying you don't think Bitmessage is not decentralized or that you don't think the word should ever be used?
why cant we dispose our nuclear waste in this way?
This is an old post, but may provide some insight...

https://blog.pinboard.in/2012/05/a_cloud_of_my_own/

I'm sure there's a HN discussion from back then also.

Edit: Lots more on the topic...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ablog.pinboard.in+server
I am not talking about the current state of patent law in the US. I am talking about the patentability of software in general. Not as the US implements it, but as it could ever be implemented, by anyone.
At one point the FBI accidentally seized his servers. He's pretty paranoid about redundancy and multi-site online data storage after that.

https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/06/faq_about_the_recent_fbi_ra...
Any way to send vlc to chromecast?

Edit: This is great, btw. Thanks, fomojola!
Paper:

http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/Evol...
Previously: https://blog.bolt.co/2014/07/28/dear-instagram

And our discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8096936
5 stone?
The leaked order doesn't mention fair-trial concerns, and explicitly claims a rather different motivation:

5. The purpose of these orders is to prevent damage to Australia's international relations that may be caused by the publication of material that may damage the reputations of specified individuals who are not the subject of charges in these proceedings.

(Off-the-cuff speculation: an Australian may be charged with either taking bribes from, or offering bribes to, someone high-up in another government. In which case, Australia wants to prosecute the Australian in question, but doesn't want to call out the important foreign official on the other side of the transaction.)
I run admin + staging stuff and my own email on the dedicated servers. The Hetzner box has some offsite backups, too. I want something that won't die at the same time as the website.

I use two colos for redundancy. One is in Sacramento, and it mitigates the earthquake risk of the one in Fremont.

The AWS costs consists of stuff I'm too lazy to go find and delete. Everyone has an unused EC2 instance or S3 bucket somewhere; that's what keeps Amazon in the black.
And Northwest Territories is the richest province per capita, at least according to Wikipedia. (Though with ~40,000 people it won't make for a big overall economy.)
It's not connecting to a centralized server.

The UI launches a local pybitmessage node in the background which uses tor to connect to the Bitmessage network.
Encryptr – A free, open source password manager and e-wallet
Seems high to me too (I use DNSMadeEasy). But I'm too lazy to shop around for alternatives right now. The current setup Just Works™ and is not a big proportion of my costs.
Court hierarchy in Australia is:
1. High Court of Australia
2. Federal Court of Australia
3. State Supreme Courts
4. Magistrates / Local Courts

This means there are two courts of appeal above the Victorian Supreme Court where this order was made. This is not about prejudicing the jury as these sorts of cases are usually decided by a judge with no jury in Australia.
I am much less worried about contract distilling at MGP than I am about the recent trend of obscuring the age statement on previously well aged products. Both VOB and Ancient Ancient Age have recently removed their age statements. In the case of VOB those cheeky bastards left the big "6" on the bottle label, but removed the words "aged" and "years". Pretty skeezy bait and switch.

We can all just hope that whiskey gets less popular and the prices come back down to sane levels.
That is not correct; see my comment upthread.
> Facebook is printing immense profits now. It wasn't that long ago a lot of people were proclaiming that could never happen. That's not to say Twitter will do the same, but it's entirely plausibly they can reach a modestly profitable ad-based business model off a couple billion dollar sales basis (which it seems they will be able to reach).

I'm not sure I would say immense, but they are certainly making profit. Facebook makes a little more than half the profit of HP (which many HN users may have forgotten still exists).

What is immense is its valuation of 80 times earnings even while the product is literally running out of humans left to be new users (let alone humans who have money).
From the article: - The court made this order to:

"- prevent damage to Australia's international relations that may be caused by the publication of material that may damage the reputations of specified individuals who are not the subject of charges in these proceedings.
These orders are made on the grounds that they are:

- necessary to prevent a real and substantial risk of prejudice to the proper administration of justice that cannot be prevented by other reasonably available means; and

- necessary to prevent prejudice to the interests of the Commonwealth in relation to national security. "

The court would be very careful about making such orders and Australia has one of the strongest separations between the courts and the government. This means that the decision is likely to be made for fair administration of justice rather than for political reasons.
150 books so you saved $70/150, or less than 50 cents per book? Is that a good amount?
This should serve as a reminder to developers, GET requests should only be returning information, not writing information.

With an IMG tag it's trivial to get any user to execute any GET request the attacker wants, and that was critical in this exploit for binding a specified token to a users account.
And there are labels that have been revised but don't have any connection to their previous recipe, blend or age.
Cool, this is the best description of the business model that I've read so far. White-Listing doesn't nearly sound like what you described.

* The Mafia like protection racket scheme
the whole point of the ban is to ensure an untainted jury

Not at all.

It's done to "protect Australia's international reputation":

The purpose of these orders is to prevent damage to Australia's international relations that may be caused by the publication of material that may damage the reputations of specific individuals who are not the subject of charges in these proceedings

The order doesn't even mention jury selection.
Digital Ocean, sometimes Linode

Linux kernel

Ubuntu for Servers

Probably quite a bit of glibc

Postgres

Redis

Ansible

Nginx

Sidekiq

Puma

Ruby

Rails

ERb

SCSS

JavaScript

React.js

Web browsers

CSS

HTML
"Well, I think we'll merge humans and robots before having advanced AI robots."

That seems like extremely wishful thinking to me.

Anecdotally, it looks like progress in making machines do human like things is progressing much more quickly than reverse engineering the human brain.
'Milestone' for child malaria vaccine
>5000 most common words

>secure

Well that's quite a contradiction.

Is it really that difficult for an English speaker to think of 4 independent, unrelated words that are at least 6 letters long each? It seems like that'd be much easier, faster, simpler, and more secure than any website like this.

Not to mention that choosing a password a website has given you over plaintext (no HTTPS) is a terrible idea for a wide variety of other reasons...

I don't mind websites like these as experiments, but there is no warning or indication on the page to not actually use the passphrases generated as real passwords. Someone may actually use one of these passwords for real.
Microsoft Debuts a Windows Rival to Raspberry Pi
A smear? Tony Abbott is the idiot who

A) dissolved the Climate Commission, because he thinks climate change is a hoax

B) is destroying the Great Barrier Reef by removing the carbon tax

C) appointed a climate change denier Dick Warburton to review the alternative energy funding

D) directly cutting $435m from renewable energy agency, while removing the mining taxes

E) asked UNESCO to remove 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian forest from its World Heritage List

The guy is the classic right wing moron who only cares about a short term profit ala drill-drill-drill and doesn't give a shit if the environment or the whole plant goes to shit because of it.
Haha sorry about that Frank! Thanks for writing this though, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I guess title and timing made a difference :)
A lot of these problems aren't so much 'computer problems' but poor administration.

Schools decided they needed to lock things down so much slowed down the laptops. If a child is looking at things they shouldn't in class they should be disciplined by the teacher, not having software do the teachers job that they can google how to get around. get a fucking proxy for one. if they're that concerned, whitelist sites (however that would be a major major pain in the ass).

some minor expenditure on setting up a standard image and a school network supporting PXE rebuilds would at least solve some of these issues. (got a virus? hit f12 to rebuild. little johnny lost his work? little johnny just learnt the value of backing up his data.).

getting a decent router and having administration of a approved mac list (yes they can be spoofed but it's a hurdle that most ipad using parents/etc wouldn't do). or just changing the password every term goddamit.

they also bought cheap, bad notebooks, why are they not surprised that the lifecycle is short?

frustrating reading things like this but it's not surprising.