skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a quick read-through of the documents I can find on this, it seems most likely that the ownership issue won't be reached because it looks like much clearer jurisdictional and procedural issues that ICANN also raises are likely to be dispositive as to the validity of the writs of attachment at issue.
We really should have evolved by now to using a monetary system that doesn't revolve around debt.
It's not reasonable to expect that the holdouts should settle like the others - it was an option to put this requirement (to go with the majority) in the bond contract as it is often done; however for these bonds Argentina didn't do that. If you agree to not-X, then you can't say afterwards that X would be reasonable and demand X. Leaving out this requirement made the bonds more valuable, but it has a price - this one.

Argentina is capable of paying their debt right now - however, it would involve also paying those holdouts in full, and they're simply intentionally choosing to pay some debts but not others, despite having an agreement that those debts will have a priority - why shouldn't they be punished for that?

If someone pays back people they like, but doesn't pay those they dislike, that's not fair nor excusable - that's a default. This is not a fight about inability to pay as such, this is a fight about which creditors get their money first. And this is agreed by the courts now. Argentina is quite free and capable to pay the rest of their debts, but they won't have a veto to unfairly leave some creditors out, those creditors will be able to take their share of any payments made.
>city bus should be able to operate at or near optimum stoichiometric conditions at all times

Diesel motors operate quite differently than gasoline engines in this regard, actually. A diesel motor is only operating at the correct stoichiometric ratio at full throttle and is running lean for the rest of the time because there is no throttle plate to modulate air intake and power is only modulated by the quantity of fuel injected into the cylinders.
Time for programmers to grow a spine
Previous discussion, from six years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=314297

Some interesting comments, and much skepticism
I didn't realize how common that was outside of government. Thanks.
Not really -- it's an event that has been expected for a while. CDS dominoes usually start falling when a significant AND unexpected event happens ('black swan'). Argentina in default is moderately significant but not unexpected.

In other words, sudden changes in valuations cause a problem. Their government bond valuations have slowly approached zero therefore there's no sudden jump. The value of the CDSs does not change suddenly when Argentina is formally considered default if everybody has expected that outcome.
If workers work less (and they are not "zero marginal product workers"), then that's one pressure pushing production down. The hope of many proponents of BIG is that other pressures push production up, but I don't know that it is clear that those would dominate (though given the modest drop in hours worked in experiments with basic income, I don't think it's unlikely).

Also, I have some trouble squaring this claim with the notion that BIG is an "inflation generator" as opposed to the stabilizing JG. If BIG raises prices, eroding the value of BIG, that erosion should slow the rise of prices; sounds like negative feedback, which is often (not always!) characteristic of self stabilizing systems.
I'm in a similar boat - for work I mostly use MSSQL/.net.
For side projects I have been using Python/Flask which have not only been a blast to use but seem to be very flexible.
Hey, sorry the theming is giving you trouble :( This week we've been doing a refresh of several components, and I'd love to see if we could get something like this in there, too. Want to email me (in profile) and point me to the biggest frustration with that?
ICANN's new policies on long standing domains had flagged the site as being unverified.
I am curious about the choice of lithium-ion vs. something like lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery chemistry.

Obviously, there is a good reason for Tesla and Panasonic not to have chosen LFP, does anyone know why? I know the energy density is lower, but are there other reasons?
As a personal anecdote I can say that the last few times my home town have upgraded (or attempted to) their fleets of buses and light rail they have quite consistently ended up buying vehicles that cant cope with the harsher winter conditions (I believe the manufacturers were in southern Europe in both cases) and break down.

Add incompetence of local politicians and the far higher cost of renewing together and upgrading existing fleets is probably often a better move. Obviously it isn't an extreme long term solution though.
That's a busted myth. Just point the DNS entries for HN to the trash can, and redirect all IP traffic to the correct IP address to same trash can. You'd need a VPN.
Trucks would have automatedly replaceable batteries at truck stops. Swapping batteries will take much less time than refueling.
Thanks. Is this generally something that's written in to qualify for doing business with the state, or something that private investors look for?
I've worked at lots of places with really lame hiring and people just get stuff done. They also get stuff done with lots of bugs, which costs the company time and thus money. So inefficient hiring process does not mean your business folds, but it does mean your business may suffer.

And i'm not assuming any level of anything. If you learned spanish in Spain, you can't just go to Mexico or Venezuela or Argentina and pick up the local dialects, because there's different grammar and vocabulary and pronunciation you won't know until you run into it. Trying to write a paper in those countries after only using their dialect for a few weeks will land you with mistakes. I don't think this is a controversial thing to say. (And this is assuming you're picking up a very similar language; trying to go from Spanish to Portuguese would be nearly impossible in just a few weeks)
Horrible judgement in political leadership seems to be one major problem.
I don't hate PHP, I hate the fucktards who use it. (bye karma...)
Not being very familiar with the the topic, what would it cost to build a usable version of this? How massive would it be?

Constant thrust using only solar power and no propellants says to me that one could certainly shut the skeptics up by flying a microsatellite to Mars and back.
Yes. They are assigned and controlled by the ITU much like ccTLDs are assigned and controlled by ICANN. The same is true for radio and television prefixes.
One fact everyone seems to forget is that it takes approximately 6.5 Kwh of energy to refine one gal of gas. That is JUST refinement and not the energy to pump, store, etc.

My Volt drives around 22 -> 28 miles on that power.
They do get written; you just don't see them on the frontpage as often. The crowd selects familiar things, like fixating on the syntax of a language, or the emphasis on the act of constructing a program (rather than the long-term maintenance). HN and /r/programming are pretty much mouthpieces for pop culture programming. Reinventing the wheel is perceived as newsworthy. Now, there's nothing wrong with pop culture programming! The only problem is when you stop growing in abilities and understanding.

Personally, I tend to read:

* lobste.rs (like HN, but more tech and less startup BS)

* /r/haskell

* Lambda the Ultimate

At all three of these sites I am regularly confronted with material I do not easily understand, so I lurk and take in what I can.
It looks like an enviable system, at least from the outside.
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I really like this idea. It will be reallu useful for strangers (as I was as an intern last summer) as autorickshaws tend to refuse to put the meter so they can make you pay more.
A counterpoint: I found the folder structure logical and not particularly complicated to understand and traverse.
While the fact that everyone is different is true, I still think that it's also true that, with some effort, everyone can change their comfort level.
So what? They're getting a discount for taking on the risk that they won't be able to collect from Argentina at all, and for the fact that they will have to file a lawsuit in order to collect. It's more efficient for everybody if a hedge fund buys up a bunch of bonds and tries to collect on them in a single lawsuit, instead of individual investors suing to collect the money piecemeal.
Wow. My gut tells me something is wrong here, and that this is being mismeasured. However, this would be an enormous breakthrough if it pans out, even at the low levels NASA has seemingly confirmed.

We're very good at generating power in space; solar is basically infinite in the inner parts of our solar system, and we have a lot of experience with RTGs and other power generation mechanisms. If we can directly turn power into thrust without burning fuel in the process, this truly changes everything.

But as I said, I think this will end up not panning out for one of these reasons: 1) The microwaves bouncing around cause a small amount of material to be lost and be sent out of the device, causing the thrust. 2) The RF in play is throwing off detection (this, to me, seems most likely -- it could explain the thousandfold difference in detected thrust levels between the Chinese and US tests). 3) Some sort of effect that is linked to gravity. No idea what, though.

I really look forward to further testing.

Edit: Given that I'm terrible with the scale of small numbers, I decided to do some quick math. If you were to use that thrust of 50 micronewtons to drive the Voyager spacecraft (722kg) full out for one year from a starting velocity of 0m/s, you would end up at 0.0911259m/s at the end of the year. By comparison, Voyager is currently traveling at 17km/s.
He forgot `group-by` which is very useful.

(group-by :age [{:name "joe" :age 13 :sex \m}
{:name "sara" :age 13 :sex \f}
{:name "John" :age 20 :sex \m}])
=> {13 [{:age 13, :sex \m, :name "joe"} {:age 13, :sex \f, :name "sara"}],
20 [{:age 20, :sex \m, :name "John"}]}
Very impressive sounding work. If the Mill came out today, it would be the first time I considered buying a computer component just because I was interested in it.

If you can answer this, what is the bussiness plan for the Mill? Who do you expect to buy it when it comes out. Has any company expressed interest is using it?
I flagged this story, to point out to the moderators that the title should be changed to “Cool Clojure functions” (it is currently “20 cool Clojure functions”).
I received it just before I posted it here. It seems legitimate. If you check Google it's mentioned in quite a few Irish newspapers.
Any time you use someone else's framework you're going to look the same. Photography will make you a bettter, or worse, version of the same thing but you'll still look the same. Which is why my web dev company would never consider using such things.
There are some features that are supported, but there's a long way to go before V8 supports the whole standard.
Nah, the House of Lords are made up of extraordinary citizens, not just extraordinary judges. Very important difference.
>My understanding of this type of clause is not that it makes New York the arbitrator, but rather clarifies for whoever does arbitrate that New York laws should be used.

I agree, but it would make sense, then that since the New York legal system is the final interpreter of New York law, then that would be where lawsuits would go.
Stating the problem:

1.) You want to trust your USB device.
2.) You want to use your USB device on another non-trusted computers.
3.) Non-trusted computers can update your device's firmware behind your back.

So how can you handle firmware upgrades on your USB without trusting computers? One way to do this is to have an firmware update approval mechanism directly on the device.

For keyboards the mechanism could be the following:

- The computer initiates a firmware update.
- The keyboard leds start to blink
- You have to enter your keyboard's UUID (which is on the bottom)

Now you only have to make sure that you don't lend your keyboard to someone that you don't trust.
Using php-5.5 with php-fpm and nginx, can confirm.

There are some gotchas that you will trip over along the way, but after that it's nothing but smooth sailing.
Although unrelated, the title reminded me of a certain Improbability Drive..."Not again..."
Formula 1 was changed recently to encourage development of high efficiency automotive technology. That change has apparently already started to pay off.
Abusing console.log to remove debug code
Which is impossible, because any economic activity that takes some time to come to fruition is already a sort of debt. If you can't use a currency to increase the "money" supply, other forms of credit and investment emerge, and you get the same problems.
Ask HN: Where to go for help in a hardware or networking setup?
I have a project that's pretty much a one man shop on the dev. side (and I'm that man). Whilst I can take care of the software setup, over the past year or so we occasionally get complaints about failing to transmit data over the network, and I don't know where to begin to troubleshoot it beyond saying "Try again, it'll work this time".<p>Is there anywhere I can go to find a freelance specialist in this area, just to at least sit down and see if I haven't made any elementary errors.
Out of curiosity, what country are you talking about?
I am one of those that grew up in the 'burbs (30 years). Evac'ed to NYC and now I have pretty much the opposite reaction: 1 week in the suburbs is nice but afterwards it bores me to tears. And if I do need my occasional outdoors fix (which I definitely do), I can hop on a northbound train or rent a car and drive an hour up. Not trying to diminish your points, because I really like your perspective, just speaking from mine.

The last time I went home, the suburbs actually gave me a melancholy feeling. Having grown up in perpetually-sunny SoCal, the never changing weather actually gave me a sense of stillness and stagnation, as if nothing ever changes (good in some ways, bad in others). The northeast's jarring seasons combined with NYC's ambitious culture, on the other hand, seems to inspire action and progress - life is moving on with or without you. Purely a personal perception, I understand.

Though, on the flip side, when it's time for me to settle down and raise a family, I highly suspect I would want to return to the suburbs for that. Raising a child in NYC seems insane. Though to be fair, NYC does have its shares of suburbs in the outer boroughs.
> Rackspace is a tarnished brand for me.

I have dozen of servers with them (both cloud and hardware) and in terms of support and network they are pretty good.

If you used them back in the day, give it another shot. Totally different picture now.

> But I'm drawing a blank because it's a competitive market.

I don't think there is much competition when it comes to hosting mission critical applications.

Typical options are AWS or Rackspace. If you require any sort of dedicated hardware Rackspace is the only solid choice.

I tried putting stuff on DO last month for another start-up and so far their NY-EAST went down more than any of our cloud instances within Rackspace.
The Value of the Hustle: How We Saved $25,000 by Thinking Outside the Box
Looks like ICANN are shutting down websites that don't have enough identifying information in their registration details!
Either Inman has changed his registration details or someone else has. This is designed to protect against the latter. It's only been like this since this afternoon BST. I'm sure it'll be back very shortly.
PHP Gets A Formal Specification
I have written firmware for USB devices. These attacks are a genuine threat, because a USB device can pretend to be whatever it has to be to get the OS to load an exploitable driver, and then the exploited system can infect other USB devices by rewriting their firmware.
Fotopedia is shutting down
First of all, I think the title has been chosen to click-bait the reader. Second, maybe the real problem is that USB was never designed to be the main way to physically share data, or not even to be used with external storage? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe people should start exchanging data on media that are designed to store data, like a memory card, but maybe this medium can also be compromised.
Wow is that really icann messing with dns routing?

theoatmeal.com uses DNS1.NAME-SERVICES.COM which is enom I think.

Maybe enom reported something incorrectly to icann, in fact I have to believe enom is at fault here somewhere because I cannot imagine icann pulling a whois on millions of domains.

querying DNS1.NAME-SERVICES.COM for theoatmeal leads right back to enom

Unfortunately he has multiple sites on one ip so they cannot be reached directly http://oatvip.gpdatacenter.com/

If you know what you are doing, you can send a HTTP_HOST of theoatmeal.com directly to that ip

I don't think he is home right now, he is at w00tstock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6K_IQjkUbo&t=1m30s
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Are there comparable Open Source initiatives?
That's really helpful and insightful. I had specifically avoided mentioning dataflow analysis, I still think a lot of progress could be made with that approach. Essentially modify the interpreter to run every branch, both the true and false clauses of if, and note what strings have what value at that point of execution.

in your final example, you can replace the map with a big case switch of all known functions and an error clause.

That's of course, a lot of work. I'd guess it's just not worth it.
PHP the language and the development environment around it is quite capable, however the unwashed masses of "developers" and the plethora of code spewed forth from them would cause you to avoid PHP like the plague.
Winners of Raspberry Pi Photography award contest 2014
With dark mode in Yosemite I've got a feeling devs will need to either do a dark and light version of menu bar icons or go all color. Currently my menu bar is useless in dark mode as I can't see any icons.
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I can see both sides here. What surprised me is not that a judge has decided, but that a US judge has decided. It looks like an American judge decided in an American corporation's favour, and against a poorer country, to hell with the damage it will do the world's economy.

On the other hand, if the US doesn't uphold the law, then the world economy would be damaged because lending would become more unpredictable.

As it stands, though, it's easy to portray this as the US bullying Argentina in the interests of a small group of rich American citizens who behave like loan sharks. It just seems like it would be better to have an international body of law under which all international lending takes place, and when there is a dispute, a judge is chosen from an independent third party. Is there any serious effort to make that happen? I have no idea.
It'd be interesting to see, but it's going to be a LONG time before even 10% of the vehicles on the road are electric.
I think pushing the mainstream launches back would be a wise decision. They've just begun their hard knock education in designing for longevity and reliability with the earliest examples of the Model S passing the 2 year mark.

Traditional auto manufacturers have decades of experience driving the continual refinement of their designs. These efforts have resulted a general expectation among consumers of unfailing reliability and service life measured in decades. The issues they're experiencing with drive units are troubling but acceptable for most owners who know they bought a bleeding-edge testbed for future technology. My concern is one of time, things move relatively slow in the world of automotive engineering and these issues show Tesla has a lot to learn and a lot to change once they've discovered the points of failure. That kind of time doesn't fit with their expected release schedule and owners won't accept the kinds of failure rates experienced in the Model S in a mass market car.
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I wonder what the most common use case is for this? It's rare that I'm in front of my computer, there's music, and I have no way of determining what it is.

The mobile version makes -more- sense to me.
This is one of these things which is just a few percent less crazy than it sounds.

The issue is that special relativity isn't quite compatible with quantum gravity, see

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

What it comes down to is that quantum gravity has a length scale and a time scale, both of which are unthinkably tiny. However, special relativity says there is nothing special about any particular space or time interval because if somebody was going fast enough, an interval that looks like a planck interval to most people could get expanded or shrunk to something big like a kilometer or an hour.

But following that line of reasoning is problematic if there is no special reference frame, since for all I know I already am going incredibly fast relative to some imaginary observer.

Doubly-special relativity manages to preserve the invariance of the speed of light under ordinary conditions but also preserve the invariance of plankian quantities under extreme conditions. Related theories also bring in the idea of a special reference frame which means you might be able to "push" against the vacuum.

The main trouble jiving that with these experiments is that the energy scale at which DSS effects come into play is huge, way out in grand unification country, so it's hard to believe it could be probed by these experiments.
JOOQ Tip of the Day: Reuse Bind Values
It does have a fully statically and strictly-typed mode, though, and regardless of its strictness, it makes PHP fully static in strict mode, to my understanding.
Given that it has so far been detected as working by two independent organisations that tried very hard to get the test right, some new science has clearly been done here. We don't yet have clear evidence that it's a new propulsion technology, as it's possible that what has been discovered is an entirely new mechanism for confounding measurement instruments, but that does not lessen the scientific value of this discovery.

There is new knowledge here. Perhaps new physics. I slightly wish I was a physicist so that I could go and find out.
People on laptops in coffee shops?

Students?
It would alter our understanding of physics, so it would be both scientific and technological. From what I understand it would move our understanding of everything even further from classical Newtonian physics and deeper into the relativity/quantum dichotomy realm. This thing could only have a relativistic macroscopic explanation and a quantum mechanical microscopic one. Classically it's impossible.

One immediate consequence of a massless drive is that interstellar flight becomes far more "thinkable." It's not like we could build a starship tomorrow, but if this worked and if you could build a power plant (fusion?) capable of running a big one long enough, you could practically accelerate to meaningful fractions of the speed of light. Hell... I wonder if fission would be sufficient if you no longer had to take propellant? All that propellant mass could be plutonium instead, and you "burn" it slowly and jettison the spent fuel to progressively reduce your mass and increase your acceleration.

Side note: if this keeps getting confirmed, the Fermi paradox becomes even more paradoxical. "They should be here." The impracticality of interstellar flight disappears as an excuse. If this effect is possible, something is clearly wrong. Either life itself is edge-of-impossibility improbable and most of the cosmos is sterile, we are the most advanced/complex life in the galaxy, or they are here and they're not communicating with us, or something even weirder.
That's something I'm working on by adding function references. Not sure if it'll be accepted.