skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, and those 60 hours could run out anytime from now

edit: voltages dropping right now
https://twitter.com/FrancescoTop/status/533401941163114496

edit: looks like its going dark right now.
https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/533403569660379136

edit: link still up but expecting to lose it any time. Getting science data in https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/533406632278261760

edit: there's a chance the shift in position about 20 mins ago might help with solar recharge. Also there is chance of better solar around Christmas when the comet orientation towards the sun is different.
Absolutely. Duracells haven't been allowed in my house for three or four years now. Stay far, far away from these pieces of crap.
Rosetta blog: Philae still talking http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/15/philae-still-talking...
First hour of lander communication http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/15/first-hour-of-lander...
Rackspace Critical Maintenance – Cloud Servers Infrastructure
Many of the improvements Facebook has brought into PHP eco-system is because the code base is so big, that it is worthwhile to invest so much money into research about PHP native code generation that re-write the whole stuff.

I get your point, but there are many languages that offer the rapid iteration of dynamic languages, while offering native code.

And monkey patching just doesn't scale across teams.
So... don't apply any OpenSSL patches? :)
Mechanically stronger too! (it would be mostly under tension)
Is it useful now? I don't see much in the way of benefit over a .50 cal, and a lot of drawbacks.
> When P&G released its earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2015

Is the 2015 a typo, or has the financial industry operated in this quarter-ahead method for awhile?
>But I guess if you didn't count @mentions in the limit you'd find people adding lots of people to a conversation in a spammy way. I'm not really sure how to fix that.

Simple: cap the number of @mentions in a tweet at 5, or at 120 characters total.

Same for #tags — limit those to 5 or a total number of characters.
I've been looking around and can't find anything that matches this description...yet. Google Dev used to have a map showing where events would be hosted, but they have since removed the map https://developers.google.com/events/ which I think was a huge mistake from an interface design POV.

UPDATE: just found the map of Google Dev events http://devfest.gdg.events/
Why are four satellites needed for positioning, wouldn't three do the trick?
Yet somehow it did. When you're comcast, it's easier to punish for months on end and muscle $$$ when you already have $$$ to delay consequences via lawyers and politicians. It's not like anyone is going to jail or being shot, so there's no real credible instant threat here to prevent them from acting in their current monopoly form.
Theo Jansen’s wind-powered sculptures
A bit off topic here, but I just wanted to say that it's really cool to see some government employees on HN, and replying and adding value too.

I sometimes fall into the perspective that HN is mostly a community of startup and tech sector people, so it's good to be reminded that there's a wider community here.
Oh, it's definitely stabilized. Otherwise they wouldn't even bother. The real question is how long you have to keep it on a target before you can move to the next, i.e. if you can set a speedboat on fire in 200 milliseconds (seems unlikely) it might be useful in a swarm attack. But if you need to dwell on each target five minutes it's a different story.
Oh, That Shirt. I thought that was just some feminists divorced from reality who got busy complaining. Meanwhile, during the livecast, when the go/no-go decisions took place the night before the comet landing, you could see one woman engineer and two or three men engineers on duty in the control room, and they all interacted with each other as if they were peers.

I'm blessed to be ignorant about sexism in Silicon Valley, but in Darmstadt it looks that as a woman you are just fine.
A tweet from @elakdawalla to a similar question a few hours ago:

Technology to build and use Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators in Europe has not been developed, largely for political reasons

https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/533256200088211456
Well, it was until you pulled back the curtain.
Incorrect, women aren't as weak as you think they are. He worked with many awesome women to make this mission happen BTW.

More likely this type of overreaction and hysteria will keep free thinking individuals out of science.
The whole point is that that would be ineffective with immediate cloud backup. Presumably you've already seen them by the time they destroy the glasses.
I found this article badly written. The author seems to confuse the two different types of AI that different people in his article are talking about.

Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk are talking about a hypothetical evil or amoral AI with super human intelligence when they label ai an existential threat to us.

The author is not talking about such a hypothetical ai and seems do dismiss the possibility of such an ai ever existing without so much as a second thought.

He seems to skirt around the problem in the first few paragraphs, and as I understand it his argument finally comes down to this:

"People should stop worrying about mythic or religious ai, because it's bad for the economy and the AI field itself.".

The author never questions the fact that it might be possible that super human AI can exist and that it's therefore very good to be afraid and/or cautions when researching AI, and that it might be very beneficial for humans to quit AI certain research altogether.
What if words were emotions. IA
Recently I was chatting, trying to learn English, with a bot, from pandora bots. That was my first experience with bots. I don't know how but in a certain way I got a little sad for the bot, and I told him that words are emotions. If he were capable of conquering expressions and words the emotions would be there. Strange as it may sound, words are like a mirror than enhance and shapes emotions. I wonder if, not having natural emotions, a machine could feels emotions by constructing a world where words are emotions.
Is it even possible to use Airbnb without all of Facebook, Google and Linkedin accounts?
You have a better physics background than me, but it seems like the Philae mission would be particularly concerned with weight because of the velocity it had to achieve. Considering it took 10 years to reach its destination, maybe the shielding required for an RTG would be prohibitively heavy.

Maybe the overhead in increased costs due to limited availability of PU238 and additional launch preparations/safety were better spent elsewhere.

I figure the ESA made the best decision for the mission, though, and were well aware of the tradeoffs involved, don't you?
But we're specifically talking about not hobbling other browsers not supporting them - you (or whoever) said that there are still support costs even when a browser isn't being "supported" (ie enabled to operate with a site at a suitable level).
Thanks for your input. Animated effects like hover on definitely on my todo list. And it's already possible to customize styling and tick intervals, although I haven't documented that yet (still setting up documentation that goes beyond the example site and README).

I hadn't thought of an API for customizable min-max ranges. It was something I figured people would do to their data prior to putting it in the chart, but bears considering.
You don't need a driver's license to get a social security card. I didn't have a DL back when I got my SSC, I only needed proof of legal residence (student/work visa in my case) and employment (offer letter).

IIRC, I didn't need a SSC for the DL either, but it's been a while, so I'm not too sure on that.
the world we're increasingly living at. "I'd not know "- "What to wear? You'll come up with something."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tH...
Many companies have fiscal years that don't match the calendar year. The government goes Oct to Sept. The company I work for goes July to June.
Kasa: a super-easy, interactive IDE for smart home app development
Fiscal year != calendar year. It seems like P&G's fiscal Q1 = Q3 of the previous calendar year.
With trigonometry, Some key ideas that I like are:

sin, cos and tan refer to right-angle triangles (RAT) - it seems amazing that so much math can be based on the simple idea that we start with a triangle where one of the angles = 90 degrees;

sin, cos and tan are the ratios of two of the sides of a RAT: for example, cos(60) = 0.5 says that the ratio of the two arms of the 60 degree angle of the RAT is always 1:2. Saying it again: if you have a RAT with one angle = 60 degrees (the other angles are 30 & 90 degrees), one arm of the 60 degree angle = 1 unit and the other arm will be twice as long, that is 2 units (this second arm is the hypotenuse, the longest side, of the triangle).

The key idea is that sin, cos and tan are RATIOS. (The word similarity of RAT, an abbreviation I devised for this comment, and RATios has only just struck me.)

The ancient Egyptians were faced with a dilemma: the annual floods of the Nile destroyed the boundary markers of the farmers, so they had to come up with a means of surveying the land. The solution: the right-angle triangle.
You're not the only one. If you prefer the Mercurial interface, I highly recommend trying out hg-git. It's an extension that does transparent bi-directional conversion between git and mercurial. I've been using it for the past 3 years to interact with GitHub and colleagues in different companies and I have yet to run into significant problems.

There are some minor nits: occasionally I manually need to forward the "master" tag to the latest revision to push it to git and since git doesn't log file moves you can run into "broken" history for a file, where Mercurial doesn't know a file was moved. But in day-to-day use I don't really have any issues.
Lunascript was very different from JavaScript, partly because it had automatic support for our reactivity system. As a result it compiled to JavaScript that looked nothing like the original code (even the control flow was different). Reading this code was very difficult.
I think they missed a trick if the goal was to reduce boilerplate; which I'm all for, I'm very much moving away from C# to F# for this reason (and a few others).

Why this:

public int X { get; }
public int Y { get; } = 5;

And not this:

public int X get;
public int Y get = 5;

The braces serve absolutely no purpose anymore, the semi-colon doesn't serve as a separator between statements. So why leave them?
The first satellite gives you a sphere (a shell really)

The second satellite gives you a circle of intersection between the spheres.

The third satellite gives you two points where three spheres intersect. One of these is usually in space so it's discarded.

The fourth one lets you correct for timing errors in the reciever. A microsecond uncertainty corresponds to around 300m (i.e. c * 1µs).

You could get coarse information with three satellites, for instance if you already know your altitude, but four+ is preferable.
Agree but then doesn't that make it all relative?

For example let's take someone that is a local judge. She/he is "high achieving" enough to go to law school and be elected or appointed a judge. But they want their child to become a federal judge. Or perhaps the judge went to Temple Law but wants his child to go to Penn Law.

Maybe the local judge (or small businessman) is only "small potatoes" (in their mind) because of something that prevented them from ever "going farther" with their career. Or a health problem or a family obligation. And so on. So they would like to see their child to become, say "a big business person running a major corporation" instead of just a small local merchant or someone with a warehouse in the local industrial park.

I happen to know of a person that is a district attorney in a major city on the east coast. Their mother tried and failed to win a local political office. She was an attorney. Father owned a chain of stores in malls. Both parents were very high achieving (live in the best neighborhood in the suburbs) but by all metrics 2 of 3 three children have done much better. And there is no doubt (from person knowledge) they live vicariously through these children.
> Net Neutrality wouldn't prevent these kind of peering battles.

That depends on the specific shape of the rules.

> Comcast had the Netflix slow down and it's currently legally required to follow net neutrality.

Comcast is currently legally required to follow one version of Open Internet rules -- a version that is weaker than many net neutrality advocates preferred.
I launched Ziggles.com, a comparison shopping engine for books in 1999 from my dorm room at UCLA. It was written in Perl, and had as much style as Craigslist does. The scraper was one big jumble of regular expressions, but it worked well. There are much better tools out there for scraping, thankfully.
I have FBSD 10.x running in VM and production, and I'd agree it's probably best to install the OS first before trying to add applications. In my experience following this policy leaves fewer ways for things to get screwed up.

Re: the ports collection, as a former Gentoo/Funtoo user I felt as you describe. But I think the current FBSD package system is better. Unless there's a special use case, it's generally quite satisfactory and a whole lot easier to download and install apps using the "pkg" utility, rather than messing with ports at all.

IMO the FBSD developers have been doing a terrific job of making the OS better without making it tons harder to administer. There's still a learning curve for sure (e.g., ZFS) but it's not insurmountable.
Family of missing S.F. tech worker: Body found near Alcatraz is his
To be fair, last time they did split local and long distance.
This has always seemed a little strange to me. Why is having a camera bad? I walk around with a camera attached to my face all day, just like everyone else. I don't see how having an electric camera is that different. Sure, I guess I can show a picture rather than explain it, and offer proof instead of my word, but neither of these differences seem substantial enough to explain the animosity I've seen.
But at the same time, this guy is bound to get other people interested in science that may not have been before. He's a freaking inked up metal fan.[1] I don't think every person needs to make "more women in STEM" their life's mission. It is something that needs to be done. But what about a mission of "more [other people] in STEM" for a few of them.

[1] http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/11/13/dr-matt-taylor-dude-put...
Nice. The article said that the range is classified, but the reports says about it:

"""
Department of Defense (DOD) development work on high-energy military lasers, which has been
underway for decades, has reached the point where lasers capable of countering certain surface
and air targets at ranges of about a mile could be made ready for installation on Navy surface
ships over the next few years. More powerful shipboard lasers, which could become ready for
installation in subsequent years, could provide Navy surface ships with an ability to counter a
wider range of surface and air targets at ranges of up to about 10 miles.
"""

A mile? 10 miles? Freaking sweet.
1. It does drastically decrease searchability, even if they are in separate areas
2. It's a direct name clash with the Python community's Capistrano alternative Fabric[1], which seems pretty relevant
3. Does it really matter who uses the name 'best'?

[1]: http://www.fabfile.org/

(Note: can't see the original comment so I'm not sure if I'm duplicating anything stated there)
Hi guys,

I've been working on this for a few months. It would be great to get some feedback as to whether people would be interested in helping out with testing or development..

Essentially, I want to create a very seamless, interactive IDE, making it effortless to develop intelligent smart home apps.

Thanks!
I've read that in general space agencies are very hesitant to launch anything into space with a nuclear generator out of fear that if the rocket exploded on the way up it could scatter radioactive material across our atmosphere.
In a press conference earlier today that very same question was put to the team. The answer was that due to a variety of (largely political) reasons there's been almost no development of RTGs within Europe at all.
Anyone else think of popcorn and Real Genius when they read the title?
No talk on why the harpoons didn't hold it down when it initially "landed" ?

Also, if the batteries die, can't they just wait a few days until the ~1.5hrs/day of sunlight charges them enough to do something useful again?
This is the first I've heard of this, but it hardly seems like the UK press made him do it. The lady asked a question about his achievement and he responded talking about his shirt.

Perhaps he genuinely felt bad about what he (probably unthinkingly) chose to wear, the possible message it sends, and wanted to address it?
Nvidia launches a game streaming service
Xen is a Linux Foundation project, I believe, so it's not like it's particularly dead.
In Earth-based GNSS systems, it's for clock synchronization. You've got 4 unknowns (x,y,z,delta t) and 4 signals; if you only had 3 signals, you couldn't solve the system of equations.
Harpoons didn't fire. They kept identical harpoons in vacuum here on earth, and after 10 years, they didn't work. I guess that component just didn't survive the journey.

re: batteries: I gather the 1.5hrs a day would never be sufficient to get enough for a wake-up. Some hope that shift in position earlier today may help. Also some hope that comets orientation to sun will change (likely around Christmas)
It feels like both you and the previous responder are predicating that there can only be one AI. If there is only one AI then yes, they don't love/hate or care about people and will likely have the resources to use them for their own means.

But, and I am looking for math, science or something more than Sci-fi, that can can show us that there will likely only be one AI, ever. If not wouldn't the AI's also try to manipulate and exploit each other for individual gains?

Perhaps I just don't understand AI well enough but I have yet to see any reasonable evidence that points to only one AI entity evolving on earth. If there are more than one AI then is in unreasonable to think that people may still be able to think thoughts or come up with (emotional and irrational ideas) that the AI could not come up with that give it a competitive advantage over the other AI's? Thereby leading to a more symbiotic relationship between humanity and the AI's.
It was a reaction to an article yesterday on The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/7213819/your-bowling-shir...)

So sadly, it was the US press that made this happen.
> You say this intriguing thing: "The segways would be for intra-area transportation, the driverless cars for inter-area."

Yeah, this is the root of our disagreement. As I see it, the reason this doesn't happen now is a matter of convenience. As things stand now, there's the friction of transitioning from car to segway. In a fully automated world, I see that friction largely disappearing. You get out of the car, it goes away. The segway is waiting for you. It delivers you and goes away itself. There's very little friction.

It's true this only makes sense in certain kinds of living situations. Suburbs seem unlikely to go this way (though there was a brief trend last decade to more pedestrian-y suburban town center development). But for urban areas, this kind of development increases what people like about urban living, and decreases what they don't like. I don't think people know they want it, but I also don't think it's something they've been given much to consider. When they have, like 3rd St. Promenade in Santa Monica, it's been hugely popular. Segways would allow you to scale that up considerably, and expand it beyond retail and entertainment, possibly to an entire city center.

We're in agreement about the future of passenger rail. It looks bleak decades down the line. Interestingly, Mayor Garcetti of Los Angeles said much the same just a few months ago. He wondered in public if it made much sense to keep building massive rail projects given that automated cars were coming.

http://laist.com/2014/09/30/mayor_garcetti_wants_to_turn_wes... "How do you spend billions of dollars on fixed rail when we might not own cars in this city in a decade or a decade and a half?"
The one in the middle is 24", the two on the sides are each 22".

I do not limit line length intentionally, but it's quite rare that a line of code would go over 70 characters or so, and that's good enough for me.
One thing to be careful with these models is that you're moving the burden of maintaining libraries to the application code.

So instead of updating packages and what not, you rely on the developer to update the libraries and reship.

Sure its not far from today's model if the dev has to ship the whole container, but it also makes it even harder. How do you know if you have lib x or z when it's sometimes just dropped among a bunch of files? I think it's much worse. it hides the problem and makes it difficult to detect.

I'm suspecting kernels will slowly converge toward plan9-like functionality instead. It makes more sense. It's faster, more efficient, simpler.

The main barrier so far has been portability - but with more and more apps being written on very portable languages (python, Go, C#, ...) its becoming easier.
That is awesome. I learned fortran early and it was one of the first languages I learned. So much of the first programs I wrote were about controlling something or calculating some result.
As a web developer, people like you always make me wonder why I try. Yes, some sites abuse javascript for terrible purposes, but as CSS becomes more powerful, are you going to start blocking that too?

Complaining that a site doesn't work because you purposely disabled part of the code is akin to complaining your car doesn't work because you pulled the alternator.
Well, lasers are multi-purpose, and their device covers nicely small boats, UAVs, anti-ship missiles and other types of projectiles at the same time. Also shots are dirt cheap ([0] says cents to a dollar) and well suited for warships that have abundant electricity anyways.

[0] - http://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/R41526.pdf