skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extending Einstein's spooky action for use in quantum networks
No, I'm complaining because they're pretending the first stage landing is "half" of the mission. It's not. The fact that it didn't work is almost meaningless, whereas a failure of the resupply mission would be a disaster.
White House says net neutrality legislation not needed
Optimizing Information Transfer for a Quantum Internet
> Google Webmaster Tools is currently warning me that we have over 100 404s on various URLs, because those pages simply got removed completely.

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

> Actually most of those 100 are the same few pages

You could redirect them all to the canonical location for those pages.
"Centrally controlled" is not the same thing as one guy who has a very large stake.

Bitcoin, by definition, is not "centrally controlled." It doesn't matter how many coins any entity controls, there's nothing that it could do to actually break the system or remove the inherent value of bitcoin. The fact that there are thousands and thousands of miners and nodes around the world protecting the ledger (the blockchain) is what makes bitcoin so groundbreaking.
Yes, I lived there, too. I lived in the Rocky Mountains for several years, and my comments are just as true of the suburbs of Denver (say, Boulder) or Salt Lake City (Provo/Orem) as they are of the coasts.

Of course, if you get far enough from a large city and low enough density, you'll get fewer and fewer people walking around, almost by definition, but then that's not where most American suburbanites live.
A Guide to Java Class Reloading
Is Vietnam’s startup ecosystem facing a crisis?
It was self-hosted. The only real hosting service ever on the darknet was Freedom Hosting, and its operator got busted (for having customers who hosted CP.)
Yes, for anyone interested: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement
> Important to note: because JavaScript itself is always backwards-compatible (1JS), any code that runs on Node will run on iojs, but not necessarily vice versa.

Though I'd imagine this will not hold true with addons, seeing as there are vastly different versions of the V8 engine.
> There's a phrase at one of Chicago's hackerspaces

Pumping Station One [+]

[+] http://pumpingstationone.org/
There is a real alternative solution, and it has the virtue of being exceptionally simple: do nothing. The DNS doesn't need to be secured, just like raw IP isn't, nor every individual BGP4 update.

DANE (using DNS as an alternative to TLS CAs) is the primary real-world use case for DNSSEC.

No site in the world is secured purely using ECC DNSSEC, because the roots and TLDs rely on RSA. Moreover: find the most popular site that uses ECC DNSSEC and report back what it is. (It'll be tricky, because very few of the most popular sites use DNSSEC at all). And, of course, the ECC variants DNSSEC uses are already outmoded. Which is why I was careful to refer to modern deterministic Edwards-curve signature schemes. Also: did you really look at the links in that post and think it lacked even "minimal research"?

I don't see any other arguments in this response, but you can call me out if I missed any.
I feel if companies want to operate globally then consumers so be able operate globally.
It sounds like the content got removed completely, so there should not be a URL (either old or new) for that content.

It's true that they should have used 301s or rel=canonical or something in the past, but that also sounds like the least of their past problems, if I'm reading the parent comment right. Right now, I don't think they'd be much better off with 301s to a single URI that 410s instead of just directly serving 404s for everything, even though the 301 to a 410 is more right in some abstract sense.
It obviously is vulnerable.
"It refers to lower wages, which might be one."

It might, but I don't see why. As some people are more able to opt out of the workforce, you're reducing the supply of labor. Meanwhile, you're making some individuals more capable of realizing their needs as demand. It would hugely surprise me if lower supply and increased demand meant a lower price. Which is not to say I couldn't be surprised.

"Basic income is a decent idea at first glance, but holy crap it could become a complex mess pretty quick if it's not done right. It could create some pretty perverse incentives for either individual or companies to maximize their gain."

Note that we already have a welfare system with a bunch of layers of complexity to try and coddle various behaviour out of people. A system with one simple formula and no discontinuities is likely to be substantially less weird.
I wonder how many of your neighbours feel the same as you. I wonder, if after seeing your kids play in the front yard, how many would respond in kind, letting their kids outside to play with yours, assuming that if one parent was willing then they wouldn't feel so guilty about it.

I suppose we just don't live in that kind of world anymore. I used to play the suburbs with other kids, we were rarely in the backyard, going around on the cul-de-sac and the windy roads of suburbia. By the time I was about 10 or 11 I had biked across the entire city.

My daughter is 3, we live in the city, but there are kids. The roads are busier and the neighbourhood more crowded with more cars now. I'm not sure if I'll have the same attitude. Funnily as grandparents even my parents seem much more reluctant, and worried about my daughter than they were about us.
I'm perfectly serious. Perhaps I misread the comment I am replying to.

Flat out 'more money to fix the problem' should never make things slower. Worst case you can ignore the money.

Even if it's too late to add people for project X, you should be able to use the money for something to improve productivity on project X+3.

If I'm wrong about something please explain.
Story time.

Back in ~2005 when I was still very new to Linux I had this old Dell that I put Gentoo on. It was a 900MHz Intel Coppermine with a minuscule amount of memory, so things compiled very slow. Being the wise Linux guru that I was back then, I decided that I would emerge (compile) all of X, fluxbox, OpenOffice, and probably 1 or 2 other things.

I didn't have distcc set up. It compiled for days.

One thing I really did enjoy was watching the cryptic messages crawl by, and one that always mystified me was during the configure stages:

checking for gawk... gawk

It seemed like a total nonsense word. To this day I still have fond memories every time someone mentions (g)awk.
No, I think the "issue" is that Apple doesn't talk to the media, while Microsoft immediately complained to some big tech sites about it, which then wrote the story from Microsoft's point of view.
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Overcast’s 2014 sales numbers
> I will assume the last part is just a generic statement and is not directed towards me.

It's most definitely directed at you.

> You are a Java dev I presume?

C#/C++. Though I've worked with java before amongst others.

> As for app-level locking, I am talking about sacrificing performance, not safety.

You are sacrificing both. Only idiots truly depend on app-level locking.

> We just make sure that some piece of code runs exactly once.

Amateur hour...

> Since the need for this is very rare and the places are not performance critical, we can live with that. So no, we have no need for additional transactional guarantees on DB level.

So it's a useless pointless trivial application...
How communism turned Cuba into an island of hackers and DIY engineers
The total number of iPhones is not really relevant to the discussion, the number of iPhone models is. Testing a fix on an enumerable number of iPhone models in the wild (lets say iPhone 4, 4s, 5, 5c, 5s, 6, 6+) is nowhere near the complexity of testing Windows against the variety of devices that it would need to be validated against.
Here's the decision (pdf): http://freepdfhosting.com/985d1c013c.pdf

It relies on section 3(d) of the The Patents Act, 1970 (as amended up to Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005) [1]:

> What are not inventions. —The following are not inventions within the meaning of this Act,—
(d) the mere discovery of a new form of a known substance which does not result in the enhancement of the known efficacy of that substance or the mere discovery of any new property or new use for a known substance or of the mere use of a known process, machine or apparatus unless such known process results in a new product or employs at least one new reactant.

Explanation. —
For the purposes of this clause, salts, esters, ethers, polymorphs, metabolites, pure form, particle size, isomers, mixtures of isomers, complexes, combinations and other derivatives of known substance shall be considered to be the same substance, unless they differ significantly in properties with regard to efficacy;

This is the same section that was opposed to Novartis in 2013 [2]

1: http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=295102

2: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-04-01/news...
Government funding of start-ups is a bad idea for everyone. It is like using the taxed money of successful entrepreneurs to fund doomed to fail entrepreneurs. It might make more sense for the government to give similar tax incentives to say employees, VCs and founders on the potential windfall they might make from their success.

When government puts up such program, the people whose expertise in convincing government agents would end up getting such money. Convincing a VC and convincing a government agent are pretty much orthogonal because VCs are generally directly responsible for that money.
Ah, I think it's a UI problem. Open up your friend's name. In the bottom left corner is a little green chat icon, which signifies that you're sending a Hangouts message. Tap that and you should see the option to send a text to the associated phone number.

It's not necessarily intuitive unless you know to look for it, and it might not work if your Google Contacts are incomplete (as in, you don't associate your Hangouts friend with his phone number). But it works really well for me.
Fintech City Tour Goes to China to Find Disrupters Getting Banking Licenses
The Statistical Crisis in Science
Depending on one's interpretation of common carrier, it's the same as the difference between "delivering email from user a to user b" and "conspiring with terrorists"
Continental shelf is approx 10% of the sea-surface area.
In my experience, the only kind of PHP (or any) app where you can change just one line and walk away is a well written one. It's the poorly written ones where you have to change dozens or hundreds of lines, and run away screaming. But point taken.
He could possibly know just from watching BTC flow through Gox.
And if we're talking about a true 0-day being exploited in the wild? Microsoft is still unable to get a patch out in less than 90 days time? That's flat unacceptable. They need to be more responsive than that.
If India wants to break patents in order to make drugs available to low income citizens that's one thing (in this case Gilead was already offering a cheap generic), to say the patent on Sovaldi is not innovative is a bit ridiulous.
According to Wikipedia:

Sofosbuvir costs US$84,000 for 12 weeks of treatment used for genotypes 1 and 2 (about US$1,000 per pill) [...] health care costs in California could increase by US$18–29 billion per year because of this medication
The article explains it better instead of simply saying it's not innovative. It's worth reading these 2 paragraphs:

"India believes that the patent standards are so low that companies can get patents for inventions very easily," Amin said in an interview. The patent office's examiner ruled Gilead's patent claim "lacks novelty and inventive step," as Bloomberg News noted, and also doesn't demonstrate it's significantly more effective than already known compounds. Amin explains that the controller general's decision holds that "there are a number of earlier compound structures that are very close to what Gilead is trying to get a patent for."

But Sovaldi is a breakthrough drug. Shouldn't that be worth something? "It's important to recognize that what the patent office deals with is whether something is new in science," Amin said. "The decision says there are a number of earlier compound structures that are very close to what Gilead is trying to get a patent for. It's a scientific decision and has nothing to do with the utility of the drug." Gilead didn't offer comment on Wednesday.
Then again, 90 days contains 2.5 of their fix cycles. If the vulnerability really is serious, and they can't fix it in that time line, they should exit the business.
Sure, File->Open invokes the system dialog. Not C-x C-f. Not automatic filename history, or tags table traversal, or perusal of the M-x grep results buffer, and so on. Emacs is a generic runtime environment and needs generic file access.
Horrible life lesson. Saved by my own laziness.
Gilead argued that 1) its compound is not a mere "new form" of a substance known in the prior art, and 2) even if it were, it differs significantly since it is less toxic and more active than other similar compounds.

But the Patent Office says that "efficacy" here means therapeutic efficacy, and it would need to be proven by a clinical trial.
The only thing I can think of that could have helped them prolong their agony is to join with the iFixits or iCrackeds of the world --back in the early 2000s maybe had they been the 'geeksquad' then again, maybe not. But they didn't even try...
I'm actually a bit miffed because I bought the first two books of the Orthogonal series from BaenEBooks [ http://www.baenebooks.com/s-164-greg-egan.aspx ], then discovered that due to problems with Night Shade Books, I couldn't get "The Arrows of Time" as an ebook too.

Unfortunately, other ebook vendors like Google Play are not selling a DRM-free version of that book.
What are you whining about? Why would anyone desire for a company to be sued and have them win?
? Nobody is running redhat on their android phone.
Glass actually offloads most of the work to your phone, rather than fitting all that hardware inside the frame.
You're absolutely right!

In my experience, we've had more bad than good with URL changes.

The interesting part is that often a "URL cleanup" would result in a quick "boost" in traffic/rankings, but would continually slump, often even unrecoverable after reverting.
We arguably are in the middle of a major extinction event. It's just happening so slowly (as measured on human timescales) we don't notice it happening.

We have entered the Anthropocene era, marked by humanity's impact on the planet. Fully 38% of the arable land is now farmland of one stripe or another. We've more than doubled the nitrogen production rate. Oceanic biomass has plummeted precipitously. Development is wiping out native species; biodiversity is falling (however a countervailing argument says that the spread of invasive species may counterbalance the loss of native species).
Ask HN: Screencasts of skilled developers?
Tutorials and docs are fantastic and definitely important, but I think watching highly skilled/experienced software developers doing what they do might fill in a lot of missing pieces for anyone who is no longer a beginner and not yet at the very top of their craft (that's probably most people who get paid to write code)

For example, Gary Bernhardt's Destroy All Software screencasts are really helpful for me, I learn a ton just watching how he uses is tools https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts

What other screencasts/videos are like this? Programming language and tools don't matter to me, in fact I think more variation would be better - to see how different tools are used.
I think this gets released after every cold spell on the east coast. I'm pretty sure I can correlate the actic vortex to various friendly reminders these climate people need to get paid.
what is urbit?
I think that, as with standards, the problem isn't no replacement but too many: see Pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc), Lout (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout), its (not yet existing) successor Nonpareil (http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/~jeff/nonpareil), Skribilo (http://www.nongnu.org/skribilo), and Pantoline (which I can't find with a quick Google search), for example. The problem is that TeX has so much inertia, and such an eco-system behind it, that getting significant investment in any one of them is likely to be difficult to impossible.

I think compilation to TeX is probably always going to be less successful than compilation from TeX—that is, taking the same code and (slightly) improving the processing. See the pdfTeX (http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex) and LuaTeX (http://www.luatex.org) projects.

As a remedy to too much ambition even when trying to build directly on TeX, see the fate of LaTeX3 (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/953/why-is-latex3-tak...).
Photographs of China's 'Cancer Villages'
I'm disappointed this article doesn't mention the effect this will have on future pharmaceutical investment. Companies spend billions researching and testing drugs for safety and effectiveness. Companies capable of developing successful drugs need an adequate period in which to recoup their investment and earn enough to fund new drug research. If companies know they won't have meaningful ownership over medicines they develop, they won't spend the huge amounts of capital necessary to develop them. When countries like India let competitors produce generics of American drugs, they are stealing the fruits of other people's labor. That isn't to say this theft isn't justified; generics will save the lives of those who can't afford the original. But those lives would have been lost all the same if no such drug had been developed in the first place. Stealing drugs will certainly help India in the short run, but it will slow the advance of medicine in the long run, for Indians and everyone else.
DANE is not DNSSEC, and was not and is not the motivation behind it. That thought is incorrect.

As for algorithms, you're insulting DNSSEC as it's been implemented, not as a protocol. DNSSEC reserves purposely up to 255 slots for algorithms, and has added them as it's evolved. But claiming it depends on RSA and doesn't support modern eliptical curve schemes is at worst wholly false, at best half false depending on the definition of modern.
That looks like it works until your MANIFEST file ends up with a space character in one of the file names.

For GNU xargs I like adding -d\\n which handles everything except files with an embedded newline. Those are much rarer than files with a space, though.

Sadly, OS X xargs (probably BSD based) doesn't have that option, so I have an alias to do the same thing:

alias xargsn="tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0"
I think it's much more complex than that. Here was my first experience observing someone using Google Glass in the field, in a SF coffeehouse:

>See attractive woman.

>See bespeckled gentleman apparently leering grotesquely at the attractive woman.

>Realize he has Google Glasses on. OK, he might just be checking the weather. Perhaps in order to use this, you have to stare off into space, with your mouth hanging open like the creepmaster.

>Second-guess whether he was really using the glasses or just filming the woman.

It isn't just that one knows there's a camera, it that using the thing mucks deeply with humans' instinctual reaction in reading people's eyes and faces. It's the ambiguity around the camera and the undermining of one's instinctual reactions to eye-contact. A shoecam is a shoecam. Something mounted near your eyeballs is entirely different.

There's also the aspect that may of us already spend 50-75% of our lives looking at screens. Most people know 'that guy' who can't go out for breakfast without checking his feeds between bites of huevos ranchero. IMO, "it make anti-social activities even easier" was never a very good sell (perhaps outside the googleplex.)
I never quite understood why people take pride in what they reject unless it is turning down bribery, refusing to relapse, etc.

It's a shame really, you rejected Harvard but did not go too far away from the place with the attitude.
Agreed, I had to zoom in to figure out what I was looking at. The woman on a tricycle is also pretty good, I thought she was crouching at first glance.
Agreed. I got Google glass for the hangout feature. A few months after I got it, they removed the feature entirely. That feature was one way it was different than a Go-pro - and they took out! The explanation was crazy - "not many users use it". Seriously? I've been burned so many times on Google hardware, I'm not going to fall for it again.
The article seems to have been updated pretty heavily. We might have been looking at different versions.

Here's the complete change log:
https://github.com/stribika/stribika.github.io/commits/maste...
Wondering if evolution could have stopped at monkeys is like wondering if there's a button that can reset the ecosystem with one press. Evolution will keep selecting for organisms which is able to collect the most negative entropy and dissipate it all - if not humans then it would have been something else that would cause a huge pollution event.

Earth once did not have much oxygen - Oxygen was in fact toxic to most life forms in Earth's early days. One life form produced oxygen as a byproduct. It spread all over the planet, produced a lot of oxygen, and caused what we call an extinction event.
The DS was designed to be backwards compatible with the GBA, so rather than leave that required hardware to waste, the GBA's CPU was employed as a sound and IO controller, and the GBA's 2D video hardware was mildly enhanced to suit the DS. For the same reason, both the GBA and the DS provided access to the Game Boy's PSG audio channels, and many games (moreso for the GBA) used them alongside their "native" audio hardware for "free" square waves and noise.

The DS's 3D hardware is kinda strange. It only supports point sampling/nearest-neighbor filtering, like a PlayStation, and has an SIMD-like "geometry engine" not unlike it, for calculating matrix transformations and basic vertex lighting, but it unlike the PlayStation, it has a depth buffer, making it significantly easier to program. It has hardware support for cel/"toon" shading, edge/outline rendering, and anti-aliasing, yet only 2048 polygons can be drawn per frame, due to the very limited vertex RAM. It's kinda strange that they'd implement such features on hardware clearly hampered by more pressing issues, but then again, cel-shading with outlines really helps for readability on the low res 256x192 screens.

It's a very interesting combination of primitive and semi-sophisticated elements, being Nintendo's last completely original video hardware before they switched to an off-the-shelf chip with the 3DS. Hilariously underpowered compared to its contemporary, the PSP, that it thoroughly trounced in the marketplace anyway.
If THAT's your favorite pizza in NYC, of all places, ... well, you need to sample the local wares more. Or you have no idea what "pizza" means.
"... I also read about the many extinction events in the planets history and how things came back from each one, different than before. It is always possible that humans will be the cause of the next major extinction even..."

This is a description of the Holocene period. An informal term also used is the Anthropocene period. [1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
Node + JS, not Node.js
It should be noted as a point on this specific bug that, since wasn't fixed in the EXTRA time allotted and subsequently disclosed, this is a good thing. Impersonation is something that Windows Administrators can readily disable and manipulate via Group Policies and Active Directory. There's not a one-fix-for-all disable in this case, because impersonation is used in very nuanced ways. That being said, every organization can quickly and with a little effort tighten up their impersonation rights.