skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out bohm's idea on the issue:

Bohm’s basic assumption is that “elementary particles are actually systems of extremely complicated internal structure, acting essentially as amplifiers of information contained in a quantum wave.” As a consequence, he has evolved a new and controversial theory of the universe. A new model of reality that Bohm calls the “Implicate Order.”

The theory of the Implicate Order contains an ultra-holistic cosmic view; it connects everything with everything else. In principle, any individual element could reveal “detailed information about every other element in the universe.” The central underlying theme of Bohm’s theory is the “unbroken wholeness of the totality of existence as an undivided flowing movement without borders.”

http://www.scienceandnonduality.com/david-bohm-implicate-ord...

http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/david-bohm-and-the-hologr...
Am I the only one that thinks Segoe fonts from MS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segoe) would look much better than this for the original use (Apple Watch)?
That's the one! Cheers!
I use Linux but there are similar problems, I usually will paste text like that into sublime to remove all the special formatting, then re-copy paste it. I also found this stack overflow post, which mentions a program (puretext) that maps win+v to do a text only paste: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/122404/how-to-copy-and-pa...
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All the time, in my case.

Today I got the order of parameters to a callback wrong ("error" was the last rather than the first parameter). The documentation didn't say anything about parameters, it only said that the callback would be called with a result. I had to look into the source code to discover the details. I am not sure if Flow would be able to catch this kind of bug but if so, it would certainly save me a lot of time.
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>"We don't need more complex provisioning tools. We have plenty of provisioning tools."

Absolutely.

Thankfully, the Docker team seems in agreement with this based statements about avoiding making Dockerfiles "too clever" and the response to various proposals.

As you point out, most of the "issues" here are really misconceptions.

I expect it's a tough balance for any new(er) project. Maximizing exposure and adoption, but avoiding negative perceptions from being applied in ways aren't optimal.
Developers tricks to increase mobile app usage
I'm asking teachers nothing, actually. Just wondering and asking the parent post's author...

And frankly, I've no idea what ought to be done about it.

What I do know is this much: in broad strokes, the US went from a household with a pop at work mum at home 50 years ago, to a pop and mum at work or single parent at work nowadays. In other words, it turned into a society where parents don't have the material time to parent their own children. Who should do so in their place?
It'd be nice to achieve both... you wouldn't get some of the silly errors documented elsewhere in the thread.

Admittedly, that's way more ambitious than anything anyone's actually implemented, ever...
Yes! That's the one.

A bit closer to home could be along the Norwegian coast. Some of the roads along the fjords are supposed to be amazing as well.
Thanks, I just restarted it and it took a while (5 minutes or so), but after that, it appears fine.
Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee
If you want 99.999% uptime, use Azure TrafficManager and set up failover loadbalancing to different datacenters.

We have failover loadbalancing running between multiple datacenters, no issue here!

edit : 99.99%
Indeed. Also, under British law, a contract is not enforcible if the person who accepted a signature knows that the contract's preconditions weren't met - for example, if you sign a safety waiver which says "I declare I have not been drinking" and you clearly have, the waiver is void and the fairground are up for damages if you hurt yourself on their ride.
The complaint was specifically about building a fully static version, i think. I have no idea how to do that, but i imagine it's not as simple as ./configure && make.
The question I have is, what's the easiest way to strip this 🅹🆄🅽🅺 out of unicode strings submitted by web users? With a nod to Cunningham's Law, surely the right answer is a regular expression?
This is the old abysmal Schreiner book. I don't know why this is re-posted from time to time. Better look here:
http://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/10/21/ (discussion here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2mndod/c_object... )
Walmart scammed into selling PS4 for $90
Will there be a time when a majority look at how we have stigmatized and prevented marijuana use so vocally and with such dire criminal consequences when it could have been used to help in the proper channels?

I strongly believe a lot of science is not done on marijuana because of the vocal critics or the fear of vocal critics. Just in the US, certain people can be pretty vindictive when it comes to their causes.
See my comment about "The Now Habit". TNH gives insight into the mechanisms that make one reluctant to reviewing the scary buckets.
The Effort Effect (2007)
I am a native speaker, and this is also how i read it. I don't see a way to parse "i think i might devote some time into it" that makes this a negative comment.
Is it really gratuitous? Don't we want to show that some behaviors (like not reading the content) aren't welcome? Spelling that out rather than the mystery of a downvote is useful.
I suspect part of the reasoning for going to the moon rather than elsewhere is exactly to avoid a Beagle-like fiasco. This should be a relatively safe bet to relaunch the sector.

I wonder how much of this initiative is a reaction to recent success at ESA. To the layman, ESA seems politically dominated by continental interests; and a couple of bigwigs seemed to take a swipe at "countries going alone" during Phileas celebrations.
"Helvetica is neutral, timeless and easy to read."

Not according to typographers. :)

http://gizmodo.com/designers-explain-why-apples-new-os-x-typ...
Oh its 99.9% from Microsoft see http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/ which means they get 9h a year to hit the SLA see http://uptime.is/
Still cheaper than 13 years of Middle-Eastern wars.
Would it be possible to use the new third party keyboard API in iOS8 to have a regular styled keyboard that types in an upside down fashion? This would allow the user to continue having the same input experience, but translate the output experience? Once confirmed this is possible, you could take OP's idea and apply as well.
Ever seen this: http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ ?
Depends on the language... but, the "correct" answer is support unicode and welcome yourself into a world of pain.
I’ve never been a fan of this sort of thing. The Unicode characters in these font blocks are not letters for making words; at least the double‐struck, fraktur, bold, italic, and bold italics are semantically for use in mathematical equations.

This can have some strange effects if you try to use them like letters. Example: What’s the lowercase transform of 𝑼? 𝑼! Not 𝒖.
The Cost of Creating Collisions Using SHA-1
A Rare Look Inside North Korea
Don't you think that the reason your click doesn't denote agreement is because of how we have evolved and adjusted over time? The process of agreeing to terms and conditions has become subconscious. Although I agree that the contract between Apple and the buyer is essentially worthless, it has only become worthless because of how consumer habits have evolved therefore essentially making our clicks non-consensual.

I can only state the problem as it's not my place or area or expertise to state the solution but here's my opinion; buyer/seller contracts aren't standardised and therefore when people sign a contract they are not reading through it either because of:

1. Laziness
2. Evolution/Habit

Therefore we need to somehow make it so there isn't asymmetric information between the buyer/seller. This has to accomodate for the habits that have evolved through our evolution and somehow be more explicit to our newly formed habits. A shit suggestion would be: Standardise contracts for certain procedures e.g. getting a hotel room should have a standardised contract but then should have very short appendices that indicate any customisations that the hotel has made. As I said, it's a bad suggestion but i'm sure someone else can and should solve the problem.

Although one question we should ask ourselves... should we re-invent the wheel for outlying situations like this one? Doubt it.

Sorry for typing so much, got bored.
It seems like there are a ton of "mentors" on that site. How do you get noticed?
> I have no idea why you think my post history is "anti-woman"

You have never, ever, taken the side of a woman in any HN discussion.

Whatever the situation you will always find some way to criticise the woman, even if it requires you to distort facts and construct wierd hypotheticals.
Huh, how comes they claim "We believe in privacy" and then use a closed-source product instead of the Apache-licensed Dalvik?

"There are no back doors or anything third parties could use for monitoring your activity. Together with the open source community, we’re continuing to strengthen our privacy capabilities at every opportunity."
Well, the original reasoning behind Han unification was the (horrendously impractical) idea of storing all of Unicode in 16 bits. Most of these characters were added later; you can tell because their codepoints are greater than U+FFFF.
> In general yes. But don't forget there was CVE-2013-5750 with Django's PBKDF2 implementation

CVE-2013-5750 is a Symfony vulnerability, the Django one is CVE-2013-1443.

And of course it was fixed by limiting passwords to 4096 bytes, not 18.

An easy alternative (which has to be applied if you're using bcrypt since it's limited ~50 bytes of input) is applying length reduction through a regular cryptographic hash before applying the KDF[0]. Of course the cryptographic hash might still be DOS'd, but they tend to have a throughput of 100~300MB/s on commodity hardware so that's less likely.

[0] HMAC actually does that internally: if the key (password) is bigger than BLOCKSIZE — 64B for hmac-md5 and hmac-sha1, it will pass it through the hash function once then pad it to BLOCKSIZE before doing its thing.

The pkbdf2 DOS is because PBKDF2-HMAC calls HMAC once per round, so (on passwords longer than BLOCKSIZE) it performs length reduction once per round, and the total input data for length reduction alone is thus rounds * pw_length.

Given pbkdf2 tends to have round counts in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands these days, the amount of data going through the hash function literally increases by several orders of magnitude… and for nothing since it's the exact same operation each round.

Thus running e.g. SHA-384 on a password before handing it off to a KDF is probably a good idea in any case
It should be mentioned that this returns a blank title on the android app.
> I wonder how many customers Azure just lost do to their unexpected 2 day fiasco

Amazon had a number of EBS fiascoes and survived just fine. I'd expect Azure to do the same.
You can use “Adobe Blank”[1] and CSS @font-face{unicode-range:} to hide them.

[1]: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/adobe-blank
They are selling 99.99% availability over a monthtly cycle for their Storage service.
99.95% connectivity for their Virtual Machine service.

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/

9 hours of downtime means they are down to at most 98.75% for this cycle.
Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
The same thread was started 2 years ago with a follow up last year. I think it's time for a refresh and updates from those who answered before.
Previous threads:
Last Year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467603
Year Before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487
wow, indeed, very nasty reviews.
The Hotel is up for sale:

http://www.propertysales.com/Listing/Burlington-Road-West-Bl...
I have a Jolla phone. I ordered one during the pre-order period after my N9 suicide-dived out of my backpack and had an unlucky meeting with the floor.

Similar state as the N9: nice interface, some good UI ideas, semi-open Linux based OS, minimal applications available and not many features in the basic ones included with the OS. Battery life is similar to my N9, about 5-6 days – I'm not a phone junkie; I use the calendar, alarm and music player (about 1 hour of music per day), and email/browser in case of emergency; WLAN internet only, no automatic remote checking, no non-Jolla applications installed (so far).

I like the phone; it's stable and the basic functionality is there and that's all I really use. I prefer open-source and as free as possible systems, and I've been able to import/export data from the N9 and Jolla and make minor changes using their terminal applications as you can just access them as any other Linux system.

If you are a mainstream user wanting to install lots of mainstreams apps, are a spec junkie or want to have the latest and greatest gadget, Jolla probably shouldn't be your first choice. But if you like open-source and the freedom to actually do things with the system, I feel it is a good choice.

Plus, it's not another iOS or Android device... It's good there are alternative options.
I do feel that Unicode is slowly jumping the shark.
Rust developer tools – status and strategy
There have been many discussions in this area recently. Certainly, the worrisome trend of using containers as 'lightweight VMs' (with nearly all the same attack surfaces as regular VMs) suggests the current container-craze is kind of unlikely to change things: your analysis is correct... there's useless fat there on many layers. The question is how do we get rid of it?

You discuss changing the entire design process and electing to use compilers or languages that are capable of shaving off disused codepaths automatically. The problem with this idea is that declaring what is disused is difficult in a conventionally hacked-together-from-components unix-style system. The option to hack stuff together is precisely what makes it a lovely platform for getting things done, and it's hard to retrain most developers/admins on to a greenfield platform (for an example of this approach see, eg. the Erlang or Clojure communities).

I have taken a different yet similar approach in my thinking[1] where one assumption is that behavioural profiling of a codebase from a very high (eg. OS, network) level should be generally applicable to any codebase, allow sidestepping the need to retrain developers, and yet still be able to whittle away much of this fat (though far from all of it). Things like grsec implement learning modes which allow this to be done at the system call level, network profiling is easy as is filesystem monitoring, etc.

When you step back and think about this junk, the sad fact is that the NSA was publicly releasing the kernel-level implementation for this stuff nearly 20 years ago ... and have likely been doing this for even longer. The academic community tries to provide mechanisms for provable correctness but the world's time-sapped developers just chug along the same old tired path.

What we really need, I feel, is automated help that doesn't require a difficult to achieve cognitive paradigm shift for current generation programmers.

[1] http://stani.sh/walter/pfcts/original/
According to https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-azure, they didn't reach 99.99%.
Driverless trucks make mining ‘safer’ for Rio Tinto
0.001% of 365 days is 8.76 hours. So yeah, shot for the year; but of course they'll do some "hollywood timekeeping" (or just ignore the matter altogether) and keep advertising...
Unless i'm understanding you wrong... Trip Advisor has democratised hotels and yeh people had freedom of speech but not widely accessible freedom of speech. Without Trip Advisor it would be much harder to find someone's opinion on a specific hotel.

Maybe consumers should be democratised too? Shall we assess the quality of a consumer? Do they piss up the hotel walls or do they tidy up before they leave?
sounds like every apple product.
Introducing the $19 Photon (a wifi-enabled microcontroller)
Here is one idea. When you force people to change there password you interrupt their workflow. Person X wants to do thing Y but first they must change their password. Now they are annoyed and are still wanting to do thing Y so they try to do the simplest thing possible. This will probably be using the same password again, and when that (hopefully) doesn't work they will choose a another common password all so they don't have to spend more time thinking about it. Now with what the university has done the person is only slightly annoyed and the workflow is not interrupted, this means the person has time to think up a good password with out time pressure on them so they are more likely to come up with good passwords.
As I wrote in my reply to mkohlmyr, methinks the bigger problem is that parents no longer have the material time to parent their own kids.

Who should step in to fill the gap? Gangs? Militarized cops? Someone else?

It seems to me that teachers and educators spend the most time with kids apart from parents (or one would hope), and are the least bad candidates to second parents in parenting kids.
Thats exactly what i meant. I'm wary of things that people shout from the rooftop about, so some criticism is necessary to evaluate it better. If those things are the main problems, I think it might worth my time.
You can say YES, and:

- we'll start with a 2-week discovery phase, at $225/hour, in which we work with you to see how all the details would work etc.

- once implemented, we charge an annual license of $XX,XXX, and we're available for consulting for $225/hour.
The OnePlus One Review
come on! give them some slack.. they probably aren't very experienced at managing their linux servers! ;)
On the note of bullshit contracts...

We are about to shell out ~£15k to a recruiter who sent us the CV of someone (completely cold, without the person's consent, or us having any relationship with them) we hired via another recruiter, but a year down the line are pressing a claim, as in their contract, receiving an email from them is deemed acceptance.

This is apparently perfectly legal in the UK, and I'm considering starting a business which simply sends spam, with T's and C's in each email which state that by receiving the email you have agreed to become a paying customer, and to pay any fees we demand for "the service", which is receiving the email, which allows you to know that your email is working. The intent of course not being to be another scammer, but to get the law changed.
I'm curious if you could expand on why it's not worth looking like a real business. Wouldn't a professional website, and business cards be useful for networking?
Glad you put "correct" in scare quotes, because that "correct" answer is certainly not correct.
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No, the question is what to do when you need to rotate them. Because that need will arise somewhere, globally, if we were to run the secure web on trust-on-first-use.

It's not interesting why someone hypothetically did get their root keys compromised, it's interesting how the proposed system would cope with it.

(Downvoting the question is not really a web scale way to build a global trust system.)
Comparing https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-azure with https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-aws tells a different story.
Buying something to shut it down, might work for internet business which large Internet MegaCorps wish to shut down if they are working on something similar in house.

But a country wide railway line, or a underground cable network and things like that don't just get shut down to suppress competition.
Amazing Space Facts You Should Know About Planets
Of course. It will be no different than the way we look at the idea of the Earth being flat today.
>I strongly believe a lot of science is not done on marijuana because of the vocal critics or the fear of vocal critics.

That appears to be changing for the better. The most important thing is to somehow make sure that non-physicians and non-scientists such as the DEA are removed from the decision making process (of what gets studied, and of drug scheduling).

>Just in the US, certain people can be pretty vindictive when it comes to their causes.

I hope that it isn't vindictiveness. I've always assumed that it is either an inability to sympathize, or an indifference to other peoples' suffering; also, ignorance.
Why the whole plot of Interstellar doesn't make any sense (spoilers)
HOW could Cooper travel to space and send himself NASA coordinates if he DOESN'T KNOW the coordinates yet?

Where's the entrance to that loop? Where does it starts?

He can't go to space without the coordinates.
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He can't send himself the coordinates if he won't travel to space.

See this image:
http://content.screencast.com/users/Tim.M/folders/Jing/media/63fa31da-1720-4858-b0ec-fabac349ec93/00000333.png

Am I the only one, thinking that there's a huge problem with this "time loop"?
Actually what most of those clauses are about is stating that only the contractual clauses that are inconsistent with the law are to be ignored, as opposed the entire contract being considered void.
I won't use Uber (I live in Paris), because of what they did with Lyft, because some executive harassing a woman (story of yesterday on hn), because of this story as well. There are a lot of competitors who do not have their hands that dirty. I'm using Chauffeur Price here, never had to complain.
Reality call: ANY and ALL Cloud services, be it Google, Azure, AWS etc, will be down for hours at some point every few years.
That is a very limited system without real polymorphism.
Each of Amazon's high profile failures did have many people formulating previously non-existent escape plans though, and there are now several alternatives in this space that can offer the same scale.

It's obviously not going to destroy anyone's business, but there is a lot more competition than there used to be.
I probably won't use it (I'm not a tablet person and my iPad hasn't been touched for months now) yet I pledged for one unit as I think it's important to support such independent efforts in our "bipolar" mobile world.
Except most people use monthly periods for their SLAs
Complaining about a "culture of liability" makes no sense in this context. The legal system doesn't create liability for posting a bad review--it just enforces the voluntary contract you made with someone agreeing to that restriction.

What you're actually asking for is the legal system to intervene and invalidate certain types involuntary agreements. Which I would agree with. What we live in is in fact a culture of excessive insulation from legal liability! 99% of all those "contracts designed not to be read" that the parent poster complains of, those TOS you have to agree to just to use hardware you paid for, those are designed to make you to sign away rights you have under tort law.
Seems like a good thread to ask, hope this isn't too OT.

I'm a CSE major about to graduate with about 18 months in the industry, mainly using JS/Java/Python. I've recently wanted to start getting into low level programming and wasn't sure where to start. I wanted to start with C and move up to C++ eventually, would it be worthwhile to start with ASM? Also does anyone know of any good resources for learning modern C? Is k&r still relevant?