skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your first point is correct: the relationship between black holes and the initial state of the universe is not clear. Whether or not there was a primordial singularity or something else is an open question.

With regard to the question "If not black holes, then what?", this is a problem. There is a strict upper limit on neutron stars of about 1.4 solar masses. Beyond this, gravity is stronger than the repulsive core of the strong nuclear force, and the star should collapse. If the process described in this paper is what actually occurs, the star will shed mass due to Hawking radiation while collapsing. The end-state of that process must be either a neutron star (which can't have more than 1.4 solar masses) or something else. There doesn't seem to be any "something else" in the offing, which makes that million-solar-mass thing in the centre of our galaxy deeply mysterious.

A new theory that makes an old "settled" phenomenon mysterious is not all that uncommon in the sciences, so it's reasonable to take a wait-and-see attitude toward this idea, but I'm not enormously hopeful that it'll pan out very well in the long run.
launching is the easy part.
getting part to sign up is hard.
> Surely you would do the processing for target
> extraction on the radar's side of that link,
> and send much less frequent samples from the
> estimated track over the slow link?

That's the obvious thing to try, and it works well in ideal conditions when there are only large targets, and no clutter. Lots of people track at the radar head and only send what they believe to be the stuff that matters.

We work in contexts where there can be personal water-craft in areas of moderate clutter, and plot extractors have a very poor record and even worse reputation for finding the real targets that are most at risk of being run down by vessels.

We transmit the actual radar video so the operators can put the Mark I eyeball on the image. Customers like that, and we regularly out-perform our competitors at getting customers to find and identify small targets at risk.
Talk about burying a lead; Yonemoto is demonstrating that the open source model can be applied to other areas of knowledge and industry. They're merely using Cancer as a focal point.

I look forward to a future where one project to cure an ailment is forked, because the project leaders were impeding progress.
> Related to that, does anyone else know if upgrading bash will require a restart of other services kind of like upgrading openssl requires restarting things?

I don't think it will, for a couple of reasons. OpenSSL is integrated into other services as a library, while bash would be called as an external application. I also noticed that once I upgraded bash, the proof of concept stopped working in a terminal I opened prior to the upgrade.
Seems like it would work for the reverse case as well: if you want to sit around for a while between courses or at the end of the meal, you can.
Let's not wait 5 years then crowdfund it like TrueCrypt ;)
What feelings are driving Starbucks to be Loved?
Generate 8 random bytes, shove them in an unsigned 64-bit int, then divide that number by 2^64 - 1. I assume that's what any function which returns a random value between 0.0 and 1.0 is actually doing.
There's an RFC on TLS with raw public keys that you should probably check out: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-oob-pubkey-02.
Who's going to set them, the government?

Copyright is not a natural right. It was made up from whole cloth a relatively short time ago. The only rights the producer has are explicitly granted to them by the government. Therefore, yes, price controls are a valid point to raise. I'm not in favor of them, but I can't argue against them on indignant moral grounds.

I think this can of worms was opened when the DMCA extended copyright in directions no one had ever contemplated before. The content producers pulled all kinds of new "rights" out of their asses, such as the right to have the government act as their own private police force to back up their own private encryption and protection mechanisms, and the legislators cheerfully signed them into law. It should have been obvious to the legislators that this was equivalent to a perpetual copyright grant, but if it was, nobody cared. When the DMCA was passed, copyright became a one-sided affair. Any notion of a bargain with society involving limited rights granted for limited times flew out the window.

Is it surprising that this leaves consumers feeling "entitled," as people keep saying in this thread?
BlackBerry goes for qwerty keyboard, again, with Passport smartphone
I will freely admit I know very little about the pharmaceutical world, but my (perhaps dumb) question is what scope is there to disrupt these typical costs.

For example it used to be that space programs cost billions, yet India has just put a Mars orbital in place for $74m.
I am old enough to remember when it was the received wisdom that people believed an e-commerce website would cost $1m, yet many startups launch their first site with less then 0.1% of that.

How much of that $1bn-$2bn typical cost is open to similar levels of disruption?
OP meant operator in the IRC world. That's what I thought it meant in forums until a few years back.
I recently moved in a new neighborhood and I think it was Direct TV that sent me one addressed to "Our New Neighbor." At first I was like, well this is awesome, I must have at least one nice neighbor. Opening it was followed by a "dirty fuckers" sighed under my breath.

They have since did it a second time, but I will not be fooled again.
This service isn't for you. I can see a market for seemingly fresh healthy ingredients for a well portioned meal shipped to the customer's doorstep to be cooked up in 10 minutes on demand during the week.

I can cook a microwave burrito or a ramen package if I chose to much quicker and considerably cheaper than you can get a burrito or chinese takeout. This doesn't mean taquerias are a ridiculous concept.
No, all sorts of other network-facing systems can be vulnerable. Anything that ends up shelling out might pass some environment variables causing the problem. These things pop up in surprising places.
Monetary Awards Can Work
The application of a causally consistent model for hash table operations is brilliant; treating CPUs and memory as a "traditional" distributed system is brilliant.

I know I said it twice already, but: brilliant.

Reading your dissertation now.
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The beginning of the universe and black holes have in common the singularity if you think about it naively. Besides that there is not much of a connection. And I think most physicist don't believe there are real singularities in black holes or at the beginning of the universe but quantum mechanics, quantization of space and time or something else kicks in and prevents the singularity.

And there is no(t much) doubt that very massive dark objects are out there, we can observe them indirectly. So even if the classical black hole creation process turns out to be not possible, there are still objects out there that a very much like classical black holes.
I haven't even updated my 5S as I need 5GB on a 16GB device for an OTA update. Is it even worth the update at this point? I really don't care much for HealthKit or any new messaging features.
You should make Rick Astley postcards, and send them back to them the same way.
I have no insight on internal culture, but Apple does have formal QA teams. I'd be surprised if they weren't testing.

People underestimate how hard it can be to catch problems that only manifest on a particular network setup, etc., even with a formal test team.
Try any of the *BSD OSes.
This is why I love astrophysics (and the scientific method). When you find something conclusive (assuming the paper is accurate), and it causes you to re-think what you thought you knew about the universe, it suddenly becomes larger than you ever believed possible. I hope this paper is true - since it solves the information paradox.
Mine on the other hand has been great. All throughout the betas it sucked (reboots constantly), but since the GM it's been rock solid for me. Only issue is that custom keyboards sometimes switch to the built-in keyboard and I have to result the custom one but everything else is good.
Paying Down Technical Debt
Typically industrial compound leads are developed in closed, siloed situations, because if you disclose you jeopardize your patent status. Of course, "open sourcing" doesn't guaranteed development in non-siloed environments either (you could just fail to 'git push' on a mistake branch), but it does somewhat eliminate the incentives to do so. Perhaps the wording ("it will be easier to build on the work to make improved drugs or drug combinations") on my attempt to analogize that is bad for being unspecific. Do you have a suggestion on how I might change that on the page to better reflect this concept?
Bitlicense Creep
Buzzword abuse: The anatomy of a DevOps Engineer
Eh, the early betas for 8 were pretty brutal, but I think that the release version of 8 has been much more stable than the release version of 7.
Or quizzically anti-intellectual bent. Le sigh.

If the author had spent as much time actually telling us what these people do and what's interesting about it, as he spent flopping on the floor weeping "I'm not worthy!" about their intelligence, it might've been an interesting read.

Sadly, it wasn't.
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If I understand correctly, this is the point of not modifying the existing data. Current processes will continue to work, as you aren't changing them. New processes will rely on new data (from possibly new stores) such that they shouldn't change what is current.

I could be misreading, of course.
The Future of IT Infrastructure: Hybrid and On-Demand
Is this page completely broken for anyone else? (Safari 7.1 on OS X, no extensions)

http://i.imgur.com/pY0dH4N.jpg
What happens next: Sea levels rise to enormous levels, anarchy, and human beings become extinct.

Don't sweat the small stuff.
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Startups and Searching for Secrets
Thank you; you just made my day.
It a) takes time, and b) means current code can not possibly work. Worse, it c) means canceling a rollout is now a complicated process, due to b.
Have you skipped Mavericks or something?
The Java community is so large that these are important communities in themselves. But they're still subsets. Someone writing a portable Java library isn't going to want to call into native code or rely on specific hardware. Changing the language itself affects everyone.
How does the world look like after systemd?
We are discussing this topic in the IRC channel #cstar on Freenode and on http://the-world-after-systemd.ungleich.ch/
>Last year my account grew ~30%, it's increased 16.1% so far this year

Everyone looks smart during a bull run-up. That same SPY allocation would have been crushed in 2008-2009. On average, you'll get average results.

The CAGR of SPY for the past 100 or so years is about 6.5%, inflation adjusted. Good, but not 30% good.
So is it more like an option initially? What size startups are they/what type of product do they offer?

One other thought I had was that Saas-type startups could use a service creating mobile apps, which they can then later move in-house.
I'm with you. I don't do iOS development at all, but I will literally sit there and go through the entire code of every iOS control submission to Hacker News just to see how they accomplish what they do. I cannot believe how much code it takes to do something I feel you can accomplish easily in javascript.

Kudos to all the iOS developers out there. I don't know how you guys manage to do it, but I'm sure glad you do and are willing to share your code with the rest of us.
Bottom line for me - this feature is on by default. This should be an option. Deleting the data from the device should be available and it's not. Regardless of if the data was encrypted or not it's existence creates the potential for privacy violations. It's not far fetched to assume that your insurance company will inevitably ask you to share this info before issuing a policy. Isn't this blatant lack of concern for privacy why we're all here? I'm scared about the lack of our concern.
"Free" does not mean "Free if you give us your email address."
> Copyright is not a natural right. It was made up from whole cloth a relatively short time ago.

All legal rights are made up from whole cloth and consist only of what is granted by the government, the only difference between is how old the original conception and most recent revision are. Many are based on some conception of natural rights (including at least some conceptions of copyright, which are grounded in the concept of the ownership of one's own labor.)

"Natural rights" are a quasi-religious set of value statements, not facts (or even fact claims.) A statement that something is or is not a natural right is not a claim about the situation that exists in the external universe, it is a statement about one's personal values.
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So then, what's the path out of this totalitarianism?

Or should we just leave?
Can you not just plug into iTunes and install it through that? I believe that's how I did it and it didn't need 5GB free then. I think there's a lot more than just messaging and HealthKit. Keyboards are a huge update. Extensions, which are already available in lots of apps, are going to make your device a lot more useful. Most of the big things were for developers so you will see the biggest things in apps, not the OS IMO. Another reason I would update is that it won't take long before a lot of devs drop iOS 7 support. There are tons of new APIs in iOS 8, coupled with the fact that it'll probably hit over 80% install base in a couple of months that it's best for the small devs to just drop older OS support. It happened with iOS 7.
The development of this app, and the technical know-how gained is really something positive. However, doesn't it worry anyone how the Stock Market seems to be reduced to a mobile game? It`s not even about adding value to the market, but just piggy backing on this humongous money machine for the sake of individual gain... Please correct me if my perspective is missing some 'optimism'.
Apple withdraws iOS 8 update just hours after release
Consider people who have spent their life around people who are dying from X. They might be highly motivated to come up with a solution where the result is its own reward - the elimination of X.
Open an issue on GitHub?
I see what you're saying.. I dropped the "free" from the title.
Maybe I'm daft, but the growing and shrinking explained looks like how you'd do it for any hash table, is that not how a normal one works? Do normal hash tables "freeze the world" to change tables or something?

Looks to me like an "RCU grace period" (not sure what this is, sleep maybe?) is introduced to allow concurrent threads time to "finish reads" in between pointer changes.
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Check out the 'minimum viable kitchen' http://priceonomics.com/cookware/
Why must it be either-or? The web is another medium for the journalism. There's no reason to assume performance was of greater importance than our core mission. The point of that slide is to explain why this redesign had a performance goal at all. Perhaps the slides don't explain this point well, but I think you're reading too much into it.
To everyone sure this will fail because of the amount of money required, ask yourself this: if you told your mom, and your neighbor, and your mailman, and your boss about the Occulus Rift, or Pebble, or The Peachy Printer, or Zach Braff's latest movie, and the opportunity to help make those products a reality by preordering them/donating money to them, do you really think any sizable portion of those people would be interested enough to donate? Of course not.

Most successful Kickstarter and IndieGoGo campaigns have an extremely narrow market, the early adopters of technology. Cancer casts a wider net by several orders of magnitude. There's no reason to think that, with a good viral marketing campaign, something like this couldn't raise several orders of magnitude more money than the most successful crowdfunding campaigns so far.
Patrick has not ruled out using systemd. But if that does happen, I will personally write a tool to drop-in replace all of systemd and return the original sysvinit functionality, and make it work for every distro.
Will our politicians be brave enough to let driverless cars kill people?
Hopefully it will be added to the standard C library so it will be everywhere - eg Microsoft, Apple, etc.
A lightweight, flexible, and tasty collection of reusable UI components for AngularJS, like grandma used to make.
For now it's implemented the table directive and range filter.
>Maturity: it certainly feels rushed that in less than four years systemd went from nothing to the default init system in most Linux distributions (if I'm not mistaken). For something so basic and important you'd think a good amount of testing and bugfixing should happen before that

Maturity should not be confused with age. There is certainly positive correlation between the two, but it's not necessarily that strong. A piece of software that has been around for four years and been used by everybody will be more mature than software that has been around for ten but was only used by a small community.

There is also a chicken-and-egg problem here: software needs get widely adopted _before_ it can become mature.
The question boils down to a real-world application of which is a bigger fallacy, the appeal to authority or the appeal to majority. Well, I don't think there is a good answer to that. But let's get serious here. I'm asking for 50k to do one experiment. Microsoft just paid one billion for minecraft.
From what I understand, public money does not go to individual drug research, but goes towards more basic and foundational research. Drugs are built on top of the foundational knowledge, but the patents for those drugs do not then cover the foundational knowledge.

For example, if public research discovers what triggers cancer cells to multiply, drug companies will scramble to make drugs to prevent it. But the drug company cannot just patent the knowledge about the trigger. If a second drug company finds a second way to prevent the trigger, they can make it, no problem.

Maybe I'm just not aware of direct public funding to drug companies.
This gets into the mild ambiguity of the word... anyone who has been convicted of a crime is by definition a criminal [1]

Calling them a criminal does not necessarily invoke [2]

[1] a person charged with and convicted of crime

[2] a person who commits crimes for a living
I'd be more interested, why you moved from Mongo to Postgres.
That's a nice exploit. It's worth noting that this is only breaching Angular's defense in depth though: input values should never make it to things evaluated against $scope; that's roughly equivalent of calling eval() on user input.

AngularJS tries to protect developers against the worst, but it's the second layer of a defense in depth - this should never happen in the first place in a well written app.
I know the 30% return was an anomaly, but the 10 year returns on one of my funds is still in the ~10% range (even accounting for the recession), so I'm not really worried about it. It's better than a savings account, that's for sure.
Something like this.
http://codepen.io/jx2150/pen/DBmjz/
Doesn't surprise me.

The thing is, with real POS integration (which most companies don't have) -- you could do all of this from the customer's phone rather than a stupid piece of hardware at the table.
You think people are learning well from MOOCs in their current form?

Yes. I am, for example.

Online classes aren't physical classes. Physical classes don't have 5% retention rates because people have to show up for them, so they're more likely to go next time. Being in a group makes people want to continue being in it. But with online classes, there's no such hook, and so people skip out.

Also, it seems mistaken for stats on retention rates to include everyone who originally signed up. They should measure the retention rate for people who made it halfway through the course. I'd bet that they'll see a much higher rate, because if someone hasn't left halfway through the course, they're unlikely to leave just because they suddenly feel like it. And if that's true, then it's evidence that people in that situation take MOOCs as seriously as their normal classes.
Im pretty sure Poettering is working hard on Kinect integration as we speak.
iPhone 'Bendgate' Is Apple's Mea Culpa
Sorry to nitpick, but "cache evacuation" really ought to be "cache eviction." (But at least I'm not complaining about the back button not working).
Pretty cool. Some kind of clustering solution for points that are near each other would be nice.
Bash vulnerability CVE-2014-6271 patched
Very close to the Contra code, not quite though.
For those who upgraded, no need to do a restore. You can just option-click "Update" and downgrade the OS back to 8.0.0.

Instructions: https://gist.github.com/locriani/f0f5f4f71a28945c3750
Working nonstop at my computer has always made eating 3 meals a day tough for me[1]. Even with OrderAhead and DoorDash, nearby restaurants get played out fast.

I first tried Gobble when I saw a trial card over at Zombie Runner on California Ave. Back then, Gobble delivered fully cooked dinners at 7pm on weekday nights. I used Gobble about 3 nights a week for a few months. Dinner went from something I had to figure out, to the highlight of my evening. We'd get to eat something new and delicious a few times a week without playing out local restaurants or the handful of dishes that we'd normally cook. Gobble actually improved my relationship with my girlfriend.

At the time, my primary complaint was that I had to reheat the food and eat out of a takeout container.

About a month ago, Gobble switched to delivering these meal kits. Having just met Ooshma in person, I (naturally) gave her a really hard time about this. Cooking takes too long and I have other things to do.

There were fewer choices than before, I needed to wash a pan (sometimes two, if pasta was involved), and I needed to actually get off my computer to help make dinner happen.

That was 15 meals ago.

I still think about the first Gobble dinner kit I made in back August. I actually woke up the next morning thinking about how good perfectly the fresh mozzarella balanced the spicy kick of the chili flakes.

Dinner-Kits Gobble is the best Gobble yet. Now I actually eat dinner like a real person. Sometimes dinner takes a little longer than 10 minutes to prepare, end to end, and sometimes it needs more than one pan, but it ends up tasting so good that I feel stupid complaining about either of those things.

Out of 15 meals, about 8 of them have been wish-there-were-more-leftovers-amazing about 5 of them were good enough order again, and a couple were just ok. All of them were worth way more than the $12 and ~10 minutes of effort.

I have never had a problem with Gobble that a message to Ooshma didn't fix.

Yesterday I got an email from Gobble with 3 invites for 100% free boxes. I've got two left. I think you still need to sign up to use it, but I'm pretty sure you can cancel immediately. If you want one of the invites, first come, first served.

[1] Unless a double espresso and a nice piece of bread counts as a meal.
I used to think that something like this wasn't possible. I always assumed that if you were in constant pain or something you would somehow grow used to it over time in the same way that being subjected to cold temperatures raises the bodies resistance to cold temperatures.

Another example would be drugs and chemical receptors in the brain. Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't it be the same as with drugs, the more pain you get the more neurotransmitters are being used and the more are required to make a stronger response? Shouldn't you then technically feel less pain over time if it's constant?