skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read a novel that featured this, I am wracking my brains to remember the title/author. It featured a generation ship that switched to a .com mode as it approached the star to be colonized and a race of bat people who were the putative colonization targets.

I am not making this up, but I may have dreamt it!
By abstracting to the extent that the author has it should be simple to add other syntaxes to the library (e.g. rST -> HTML)
The section in dispute is 47 US Code 333,

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/333

This is law passed by congress.
We are working on T160K https://t160k.org/ which is crowdfunding sustainable and meaningful development in Africa by focussing on arts and culture. Another goal of the project is to promote a positive and vibrant image of African culture through our campaigns and messaging. One of our projects that initially got me excited about the idea is the Timbuktu Libraries in Exile https://t160k.org/campaign/libraries-in-exile/
Fun! I've been working on a similar free software project to unfold generic STL files for laser cutting: https://github.com/osresearch/papercraft

The problem is that most models on thingiverse produce designs that are very, very difficult to fold up. Even low-poly things (like the Stanford Bunny) are almost impossible.
I don't quite understand. If a video is playing at 41fps, then your eye can sample each frame twice, with a difference of one microtremor to increase resolution. But if a video is playing at 83fps, you only get one sample per frame with no added benefit from the microtremor. The article states the opposite: that the latter framerate allows for a higher perceived resolution. Can anyone explain?
> (obviously you can have codepoint U+FFFD, if you set errors='replace' when decoding)

Which is totally fine because U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER is a totally valid character.
I've used craigalerts.org for months for things like this.
The idea here from a public relations viewpoint is to reveal a small crime to conceal a large one.

Individuals will be described to have violated the NSA's strict internal rules and snooped on their cheating spouse or whatever. One, two, three incidents. Look, we've come clean!

Not mentioned will be the wholesale storage of every communication of every American, which the NSA does not deem to be surveillance until they specifically search on your name while knowing you are an American.

This is pretty much the exact same playbook as we observed with Abu Ghraib. Rape rooms run by the government are NOT illegal; that's official US government rape, and covered by memos saying it is legal, so everything is fine. And if over 100 people are killed by U.S. official torture and rape, that too is just fine.

But if overenthusiastic PFCs make prisoners lay on top of each other and give a thumbs-up, that's an error that needs to be disclosed and heavily punished.

The idea in each case is to make the unobservant member of the public think that all the abuses have been disclosed, and they are minor, and the individuals responsible have been punished.
nginx' configuration format leaves a lot to be desired, as evidenced by the (former, hopefully) widespread use of exploitable php calls.

There are also if directives in there, but they don't really work they way you think. You really need a deep understanding of its parsing rules in order to do anything remotely complicated with it. It's certainly possible to do better.

(Please don't mention Apache here and its steaming pile of faux-xml. Existence of worse does not make better.)
DateCheckup.com – Schedule fake calls and messages to rescue you during a date
Google Inbox Tracker
Excellent. Metric Create Space in Seattle has a nice one of Seattle on the wall when you come in; looking for a picture of it I see they were making another recently.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/metrixcreate/15050413303/
Notes on Concurrent Ring Buffer Queue Mechanics
Thank you for the comments.

The configuration file format is YAML, and the directives can be seen by running `h2o --help` (the output of version 0.9.0 is: https://gist.github.com/kazuho/f15b79211ea76f1bf6e5).

Unfortunately they are not compatible with that of Nginx. I do not think it is possible to take such approach considering the differences in the internals of both servers.
This article seems a bit hyperbolic.

Yes, the Silicon Valley branch has shut down, but MSR's main office in Washington is still open and doing great research. It's probably the best industrial lab that's still running.

I also have interned at PARC (no longer "Xerox PARC", but still kicking). I was given remarkable freedom both by my direct supervisor and the division manager.

Down the road, HP labs was still going (though a few of their staff had migrated to PARC). Likewise, IBM and Bell Labs still are going.

And Google seems to be really spinning up their research. I won't comment on specifics in a public forum, but I've noticed signals that they're taking basic research seriously. (They used to be very short term, product oriented)
Also Devergy: http://www.devergy.com

Building solar micro grids for remote villages in Tanzinia and Ghana. Amazing team and vision.
This was mostly for pleasure or K-12 assignments. The sort of questions that were very fact based.

"Do snakes poop?"

"How far away is Mars?"

That sort of thing.
If you consider the declining birth rates of modern nations as the standard of living goes up, then it stands to reason that once a civilization reaches the point where it might be able to engage in large scale space exploration, the population that can do so has become relatively stable.

So you simply never (or rarely) get exponential cosmic expansion. There might be a few billions of that race roaming the stars, but their numbers do not increase.
A quick google gave me https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-10/msg00073.html, so at least somebody thought of it over 7 years ago.

Also, http://www.ciselant.de/projects/gcc_printf/gcc_printf.html#p... shows gcc did something in this area 9 years ago.

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/libc-hacker/2001-08/msg00003.html indicates gcc had printf optimizations in 2001.

I expect there are older examples.

qrintf seems to be 'just' a more aggressive version of this.

I guess being more aggressive makes sense in applications that do a lot of simple string formatting.
What does that have to do with the content of the article? Do you feel that the degree someone has is the sole qualifier of what a person may comment on?

If so, what is your degree in? And why do you feel that your degree gives you the qualifications necessary to comment on this article?
This is essentially the problem that I have with the Drake equation. It encourages--whether that's the intent or not--taking a reasonably known and very, very large number (number of stars) and multiplying it by probabilities/percentages, some of which (we think) we know with at least order of magnitude accuracy. But others we have absolutely no idea. And saying some of those events (such as the evolution of intelligence as we understand the term) has a 1 in a billion probability of occurring SOUNDS like a worst case for-the-purposes-of-argument plug-in. But it's really not.
> Not only are they collecting information on millions of innocent Americans, but now it appears that they are not properly securing that data.

I cannot tell whether you're being paid for by these folk, or just plain politically naive, or suffer from induced helplessness.

Your argument of "outrage" has levels built into it.

L1: collect information

L2: of innocent

L3: americans

L4: properly securing data

L1+L2+L3+L4 => boiling your blood.

For one, why do you even care about L4? Who cares if they secure data properly, they are already doing L1+L2+L3

Why do you care that it is Americans? Would it be better if they focused only on non-Americans, would you have cared less? They are already doing L1+L2.

What is the reason you are hanged up on "innocent"? What does that even mean? Who and how do you determine if someone is innocent? Are you that devoid of critical thinking that you fail to see the rhetoric of "innocents" legitimizes whatever is to be done to those deemed not innocent? They are already doing L1.

They are doing L1. That by itself should have boiled your blood without any regard for L2+L3+L4, which are false arguments inserted into the debate in order to legitimize the actual assault on human rights under the disguise of "better security" by the same agencies that always turn these kind of tricks time and time again.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8217286
It seems to me that a warrant canary being updated after public notice is the most definitive proof we have that Silent Circle hasn't been served with an NSL.

If the NSL had the ability to force an update, the canary would have been updated before anyone noticed it was a problem. If the NSL didn't have the ability to force an update, the canary would still remain un-updated.
The WAP accounts for high improbability by positing a multiverse, but (at least as I understand it) it doesn't predict high improbability, even if there is a multiverse.

Also, in a multiverse scenario, the improbable thing might not be the formation of life, but the fine-tuning of the laws of physics which allows the formation of life. In which case life might be relatively common.
Contributors are highly welcome, obviously!

For myself, developing H2O is part of my job at DeNA (one of the largest smartphone game providers in Japan).
Whoops, I got the signature of CAS slightly wrong. In any case, I already understood the pattern and understand why it is OK. However, as I said, it is the exception that a data race is OK, which is why Rust disallows them by default (it does not disallow them completely).
This: http://what3words.com/about

is another very clever effort aimed at solving the same problem
Really neat, and I love the town of Frisco.

I'm curious what this is being used for. We have a condo nearby, and we're around there all the time. If this is on display or something, I'd probably go see it.
The problem here is the assumption we need scientific progress to do this. We don't.

We have the technology today to launch satellites into solar-orbits which would be capable of beaming power back to Earth. It would be clean, efficient and non-disasterous to the biosphere.

With any amount of space-borne industry, the costs would also plummet and get cheaper with every additional satellite. Once you can harness the energy of an entire star, there's almost no reason not to achieve it.
Socket API is a bottleneck now, right?
So, next step: roll your own http-friendly tcp stack on top of netmap/dpdk and get 10x performance increase over nginx.
Yes, but project is called CommonMark, so it's markdown only.
This is one explanation, but for me fails two tests. The first (pointed out below) is that it is heliocentric - it's about us.

The second is that it avoids freedom of will and consciousness in the sense of self perception. It assumes that I am a zombie, and I deny that. I concede that others may be zombies, although I think that they aren't. My actions either navigate me from state to state or create new states. Physics does not account for this; physics is incomplete.

I'll leave occams razor on the shaving table, as it's a heuristic and I don't like it for logic - but infinite infinities fails occams too.
Sorry for the confusion.

HTTP and HTTPS (both version 1 and 2) are supported for downstream connections (i.e. connection bet. H2O and web browsers).
Only plain-text HTTP/1 is supported for upstream connections (connection bet. H2O and web application servers).
> suddenly sets look like sets

This really puzzle me. I was an extra in LOTR 3, and was on some of these sets. They _don't_ look like sets. The Weta people put insane energy and time into making them look and feel realistic: dirt on the floors, dirt on the costumes, peeling paint, heavy chain mail (even though it's electroplated plastic, it's still heavy!)... the list could go on and on and on.
I'm confused how you could consider this situation to be a "windfall" for these agencies in any sense? A windfall is a positive thing, the surveillance story is a negative for them surely?
That's a beautiful article and as apt an illustration of the proverb not seeing the wood for the trees as I've ever read.
Pretty much the scientific experiment I've been waiting for: we set up some exotic state of matter, and then spot modulated and structured signals coming out of it.
Teens and Functional Programming (2013)
Christmas Tree in 140 chars of Ruby
Frighteningly book sellers are also trashing a lot of books they are unable to sell at a profit. So when the laws change the books may not exist to be maintained.
It would be nice to have a breakdown of the trade offs that this data structure involves in terms of insertion time and storage space.
Well ... not buying toyota is easy. Giving up US citizenship is hard. The USG have the bargaining power.
Another one to keep an eye on might be the new httpd in OpenBSD. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/...

I'm not seeing that there is yet a portable version however.
I appreciate that, we argued to death on the League internals about the focus of the package:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/thephpleague/cJECuC5...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/thephpleague/YBSnpS6...
I just popped off a branch of my production Rails 4.1.8 app (Can't quite do 4.2 yet), and upgraded it 2 Ruby 2.2. I ran 271 spec against it 5 times before the upgrade and 16 times after. I should have done more before :(

For 2.1.5

AVG: 18.02

MEDIAN: 18.11

MIN: 16.26

MAX: 19.6

For 2.2

AVG: 18.162~

MEDIAN: 15.23

MIN: 14.44 <- nice

MAX: 47.03 <- first run, wut?

It looks better, but I haven't profiled the app on Passenger yet to see how well it plays with the whole app.
I agree with this post, and I think a lot of other HN readers would as well if they saw the context of Struth's work. I did a quick Google images search and found a few of his other works:

http://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall13/173/wp-content/uploads/20...

http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/...

http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/...

Comparing these to the Paradise series, all exhibit the a similar sense of visual complexity, as discussed by VieElm. However, these photographs are not necessarily of "mundane objects" -- city skylines are commonly photographed. This leads me to believe that Struth's interest is in the visual appeal rather than an interest in "the obvious."

Despite this, I liked the article. Well written and thought-provoking.
Every history sees through a limited historiographical lens and centers certain questions. If we set out to answer questions like "why did Britain industrialize first?" then a deterministic model of technological progress(the "Sid Meier's Civilization" view of history) does not suffice for our history, and we end up with complex stories that weave together geography, politics, and social factors.
Looks like your submission went didn't meet with readers' attention, while the later one did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8791056 Happened to me, too :/
Netflix should work in Firefox, though you need Microsoft's Silverlight plugin. Mozilla is actively working on EME (aka HTML5 video DRM) for 2015.
Wouldn't the most likely place for it to start be around halfway between us and the most distant observable stars in whatever direction it starts, then? And then we'd see the sphere of dimming stars increasing in size, while still seeing things behind, in front, or to the sides of the sphere?
Traits: Composable Units of Behavior (2002) [pdf]
I don't see why a "Great Filter" is needed to justify there being no other highly evolved lifeforms - all it needs is for there to need to be a reasonably large number of key evolutionary steps and environmental conditions with a sufficiently low probability. Multiply those and you end up with some pretty tiny chances of observing life as we know it.
Is Hinchcliffe's rule true?
It is certainly profitable for a type 1 civilization to move to a type 2 civilization as long as energy consumption and population continue to naturally grow as has happened so far here. Same thing for type 2 to 3. Also, I think that decisions about space travel are not purely for economic reasons and probably in almost any advanced species there is a large amount of the population willing to pay something to explore.
Don't attempt this quiz unless you want to feel utterly ignorant.
Phone with 2 screens from YOTA
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/1/181626-the-rise-and-fal...

For those of us who don't want to have to read the mobile version.
One of the problems with compiling print/scanf is that a lot of the overhead comes from locale handling, which is a runtime variable. Parsing is fairly negligible for short format strings.
I think it's a good assumption. If there are systems out there marginally different from our own, and the cost to send a "new civilization builder" doesn't completely exhaust Earth, how can it not be profitable?
Even if there are no servers in the US, are any of the principals or employees US citizens? If so, then they're as immune as they have the resources to fight off an assertion by the USG that they're not.

Think of Microsoft's current fight over giving up email from one of their Irish servers. Microsoft has the resources to fight this off, and that's the only reason they're still fighting and not complying. Someone small would have to fold or go to jail.

If you're small, it doesn't matter if the law is on your side if the USG overwhelms you before the question even gets a hearing.
Why use AJAX when WebSockets is available?
The part that we can see is so much smaller than what is out there that you'd have to resort to very leaky analogies to try to get the point across.

The upper limit to how much larger the universe is compared to the observable (and not the currently observed) universe is somewhere around the 10^20 to 10^25 times larger. Those are hard numbers to grasp but large enough that the chances of an event 'x' taking place outside of the observed universe are larger than inside it.
I had the same thought and agree with what you wrote. But when you think about this set of evolutionary steps you still end up with the same scenarios: you are rare, you are first, you are fucked. So in that regard, you can subsume all of these steps into a filter.
You make some good points, but your argument would be stronger and better received if you left out the personal insults.
Wow. When did Silverlight become available for Linux? I knew it was available for Android, Mac, and Windows. But, last time I looked it wasn't available for Linux. Which is why I've been using Chrome for Netflix, as it has HTML5 video DRM (I guess; I just followed instructions online months ago and it worked and I haven't changed it since).

But, I see that Microsoft does provide a download for Linux and FreeBSD and even Solaris! Oh, wait, it's a redirect to Moonlight. I didn't think it worked with Netflix, but if I find myself with some free time I might play with it.
I always like to see projects reducing centralization of code hosting.

However, my initial reaction to the UI is that it almost feels like a ripoff of GitHub, since many UI elements are very close in layout and design - down to the same large icon on the left of the author's name (legally copied from GitHub via octicons, but still).
It would have been easier to extract the contour data from a DEM. I get the impression those are widely available for the US. Since it's a laser cutter doing most of the work, you could have a lot better resolution in the vertical dimension for little additional effort. Architects (and architecture students) make this kind of thing a lot, and having layers this thick in a presentation model just wouldn't make the grade, based on my experience...
Probably in a few years some of this will percolate to some high court as human right issue.

There was right of privacy mentioned in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Thank you very much for the answer!

To clarify for my mind:

Can I than use H2O to connect to a web-browser via HTTPS and H2O is routing the same request upstream via HTTP to a web application server? (that of course would suffice for me).
Ah yes, the good old set A, which contains all elements who are members of set A.
I think it's more that the low hanging fruit has been plucked than that there is a 'fall' of industrial research labs. Just like with technology in the early 20th century there was a golden age where advances were relatively quick and dramatic because the fields were brand new. Once the field matures it takes more effort to get up to speed on what has already been learned and evolutionary progress rather than revolutionary takes over.

And so far we seem to be doing pretty good with that level of progress. Any faster than this and I'm not sure we'd be able to properly integrate technology into our culture and society before it had become obsolete already.

Just look at for instance the succession of audio recording and distribution methods to get an idea of that: the gramophone record lasted for many decades, CDs succeeded them and lasted for a couple of decades, digital formats are dying out about as fast as they are being created (with the exception of mp3).

At some point you're going to have problems of interoperability simply because of the speed of progress (we're seeing something quite close to that on the browser front right now).
e.g. http://potatopress.com.au/blog/laser-cut-land-model/
Huh, hadn't heard of hot/cold struct splitting before. This paper seems to indicate it has a nontrivial effect even in Java code: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/trishulc/paper...
At most of the companies I've been in the U.S. the difference in pay between senior coders and middle management was slight to non-existent but if you look at Accenture's Indian salaries associate manager makes 50% more then team lead, and makes almost triple what a senior software engineer makes.

While this phenomenon exists in the U.S. it seems to me it is an order of magnitude smaller then it is in India.
do you mean permanent as in i meditate once, have the benefits - how long do they last? or do you mean if i make a daily practice do the benefits stay?
pretty certain (at least for me) meditating is like the gym, you lose your gains once you stop going. just like most things in life you need a little bit every day to keep it in your life. (I can't just eat breakfast once either and be full)
having a practice keeps the ebbs and flows in a place where you are acutely aware of it. seeing this stuff being scientifically analyzed is great.
My feeling is that PP works better. I think this because the gas displaces all the oxygen, where pumping the air out only removes some of it.

Best idea is to try a can for yourself.
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The project looks great, but it's ironic that it uses github.com to host itself [1].

The only message "not eating your own dog food" sends is this: "we're not doing it for ourselves, we're doing it for those who might find it interesting", which in turn sends a strong warning about the lifespan of the project.

[1] - https://github.com/gogits/gogs
Would be great if you could find the citation, because this seems like the best explanation so far. There are only about 54 stars which at some point had a distance of less than 17 light years (that we know of): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars_and_brown... . Assuming that some stellar source of energy is required for life we can already remove 9 stars from that list because they only consist of brown dwarfs. Doing the math with the conservative estimates in the blog post, this puts the chance of detecting signs of life at a pretty low percentage. Assuming that 22% of these stars have at least one planet with earth like conditions and a 1% chance that some form of life develops on these planets, we arrive at the low chance of 46x0.22x0.01, ie. ~10% of finding any life in our vicinity.