skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "releasing the documents would hamper the department's ability to conduct operations and endanger the lives of New Yorkers."

Then apparently the lives of New Yorkers are protected by security through obscurity, with absolutely no evidence of efficacy and absolutely no auditable evaluation of safety.

I'm thinking that a strong education in science should be a requirement for anyone who touches these programs with a ten foot pole.
No RPC? Disappointing. There are so few choices C and C++ programmers with regard to battle-tested, easy (read: code generation for decode and dispatch), language-agnostic RPC.
I'm not entirely convinced that population "graying" is as bad as it's made out to be. If the society needs work to be done, it will pay for the work to be done. The people most screwed will be non-working old people who thought that they were retired, but face high inflation due to a lack of young workers, and who can't easily get back into the workforce. That's not a good thing, but that itself is unlikely to damage the global economy.

From a US perspective and a member of the 2nd in a series of Screwed Generations (Millennials, after Xers) I'm actually OK with this. No one wants Weimar inflation, but wage-driven inflation is often a good thing. Besides, the reason why Japanese young people aren't having sex is because they can't start their careers. The Japanese economy has been fucked for 25 years and the situation for education young people over there is far worse than in the US. We can't buy houses, but many of them can't even get stable jobs. I'm not an expert on Japan at all, but an increased demand for the work that young people can provide seems to be exactly what that economy needs.

In other words, the "sexual apathy" was caused by Japan's lost quarter-century and, while Japan's economic state (and especially its debt) is a threat to the global economy, I don't buy the headline because I think the sexual apathy is, quite obviously, a symptom of Japan's economic problems and not a cause.

On the age pyramid, I do wonder if societies should get rid of the concept of "retirement" (as an entitlement or expectation) wholesale and replace it with a basic income... and I think we should also oppose the need for retirement by more aggressively enforcing anti-ageism policies in the workplace so that people in their 60s and 70s who are able to work and want to do so, can. (I may move to something less remunerative or even unpaid, but I plan on remaining active until I die.) Much of "retirement", sadly, is involuntary and I'd like to see that change... but with a Japan-style age pyramid, one might think that societies would be less ageist against the capable older people. When there is a labor surplus, society peels off the young and the old (by forcing the young into unpaid schooling and internships for longer, and becoming ageist against the old as in Hollywood and, more recently, the Valley). When there's a shortage, those attitudes change pretty quickly.

In sum, I'd argue that the "sexual apathy" is a symptom of a bad economy. It would be a danger if one believed it to be causative of a positive-feedback loop, but I don't think that's so. When there are jobless young people, the economic signal is that the society has a surplus of young people... and the producers of 30-years-younger-people (out of self-preservation) hold back. Over the decades, we can expect that (unless there is a collapse of demand in labor, which I find unlikely) to increase wages and eventually normalize. It's shitty for a generation of people who don't get to start adulthood until their eggs and tadpoles are stale, but it does stabilize.
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Drama vs documentary.
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[video] the speech that was prepared if the moon landing failed
I don't get this last one:

> People living near an Aberdeenshire building site in 2006 were mystified when a sign apologising for the inconvenience was written in Welsh as well as English.

Is it sarcasm? That seems perfectly reasonable to me.
I'm about four years younger than you, and perversely, I think the anti-intellectualism of startup culture (which was more pronounced three years ago than now) actually ended up doing a lot of Computer Science majors my age a favor. They ran away from academia and their lives are certainly better for it, even if they had to eventually re-learn the value of theoretical thought in programming.
If I was a hosting company and needed a 2 day outage, I'd probably just shut down my business and offer to cover some expenses for users to migrate whilst apologizing profusely.
Seems to be way too trivial for a library: http://play.golang.org/p/U0URukpeO3

Although I like the idea of having some kind of API to spread the work across multiple machines, since channels are slow anyway.
From what i can see by following the cited sources in the graphic (and then following the sources they cited) it's seems that the graphic is a big flocking hyperbole.
They compare the average house hold water usages in Israel to the average P/P usage in the PA.
They also make the graphic look like the vast majority of the water is coming from the western aquifer which currently is less than 300 MCM per year.
The abstraction rates that they specified also ignore the actual destination of the water, as they ignore both the fact that Israel pumps water directly to the water system run by the PA and that 60-70% of the Arab residents of the west bank are connected to the Israeli water system and not the one which is run by the PA.

While Israel does control nearly 100% of the access to that aquifer and uses it as a political bargaining chip for various agreements and negotiations with the Palestinians it doesn't seem to employ a policy that prevents individuals from access to water.

P.S.
I also find it odd that they've decided to use the WHO recommended numbers instead of quoting the ones from the UN water report which although isn't a fluff peace for Israel does states that a large disparity between the water usage on both sides is oddly due lower usage of showers and lavatories especially in the more nomadic parts of the west bank than is due to lack of access to water.
Based on the UN water report the average water usage per person in the Ramallah is 141 liters, so in a city where they got multiple showers and toilets per apartment and houses with pools the water usage seems to be very simmilar to Tel Aviv...
Doing a rollout for a Fortune 100 company pretty soon and they built in an outage of a few hours. And it's literally because they won't spring for 1 extra server running apache even with 6 months lead time.
Ouch, that does not sound good. I don't use their email service. I signed up to get the 1 terrabyte of OneDrive storage per member of my household, and almost as an afterthought then started using OneNote, Word, and Excel.
Germany isn't perfect either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport

> Originally planned to open in 2010, Berlin Brandenburg Airport has encountered a series of delays due to poor construction planning, management, execution and corruption.[2][3][4] As of January 2014, planners had not set a new opening date, but say it will not be before 2015.[5] Since the unfinished construction and corrective work is estimated to take 18 months, an opening prior to late 2016 is unlikely.[6] Remarks made in August 2014, by airport CEO Hartmut Mehdorn point toward 2017 or 2018.[7] Mehdorn announced no opening date as expected 14 October 2014, so a special commission established by the Brandenburg Parliament will retain oversight of the project.[8][9][10]Current estimates suggest that the airport will open in 2018 or 2019, at the latest.[11][12][13][14][15]
A Levitating Bluetooth Speaker: Mars – It Feels Like Magic
Have you tried any of the MessagePack RPC implementations? I haven't but I'm curious.
Funny, this tunnel is in the 100-200 million euro range. Could have a positive social impact. Yet they make compromises and ruin it's value. Raising it 3,5m into the air to save some money? Can it really be called underground then?

The elbphilharmonie is at 800 million now. It will mostly make money for private hands (public private partnership) and will leave hamburg in dept for decades. Welcome to a CDU town.
Entanglement Makes Quantum Particles Measurably Heavier
Aberdeenshire is in Scotland. The explanation will almost certainly be that the site fencing was on hire, and no-one bothered taking off the old signs.
Aberdeenshire is in Scotland.
Thanks for clarifying. I checked the FAQ and there was a question about Windows support, but not mobile platforms.

For others who are interested, there are instructions here for building Rust for Android and iOS, see "Platforms":

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Docs
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Willing to relocate: Yes (VISA required)

Technologies: Python, Django, PHP, HTML/CSS/Bootstrap, SQL, Restful API, Heroku, Git, S3, Selenium + exited to learn new stacks.

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And it's broken in http://ga.achivi.com/metaBoard too. `Sign Up For Beta`
The little book about OS development (2012) [pdf]
Oh yes back when rally cars where nuts I saw a group B car on a transition stage driving slowly though a town on the Welsh borders.

OMG that crackling sound was just sex on 4 wheels.
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What texting does to the spine
The primary loop (that contains all the fuel salt and fission products) is inside a can so if we get a leak in the primary loop the salt will be contained inside the can. The can drains to the fuel dump tank (FDT). Both the can and FDT get passively cooled by the membrane and all entrance pipes come in from above so there is no weakness at the bottom.

These in turn are inside a silo, which is inside the silo hall. All total there are four barriers to break through before we get radioactive release.

Further, the fission products are combined with fluoride upon forming (when you fission UF4 the uranium is split into two fission products and the F4 is available for recombining with the fission products). Most of the fission products like to stay in the salt so even if the salt gets spilled the fission products won't wander farther than the salt spill.
Aberdeenshire is in Scotland. Which isn't bilingual welsh/english.
You used different words to describe the same flow. More importantly, I'm talking about the _features_ that need to be isomorphic, not necc. every little step. I think we can presume that any server knows how to "receive a request".
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There's a difference between "secrecy" and "security", and when people complain about how releasing some information would hamper / endanger lives, they mean that some amount of secrecy is involved in protecting stuff.

Computer nerds often don't understand Kerckhoffs's law this way. The security of a system should not be dependent on obscurity, but some amount of security will depend on secrecy, i.e. your private key / password.

So for example, the list of all confidential informants is kept secret. The release of that list of informants would "hamper the department's ability to conduct operations and endanger the lives of New Yorkers", in addition to endangering the lives of the informants themselves. Does that mean that it is dependent on "obscurity", or, secrecy? Yes, but that is the way it always is. There will be some information that if disclosed could result in bad things happening. "Education in science" won't help with this basic fact about the universe.

Of course, whether or not these vans genuinely represent information that should be kept secret, who knows. Often people believe that too much information should be kept secret, and when you're talking about information in a free society, we probably should accept some danger over granting someone power, but that seems to be a minority opinion...
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Or something like CBOR or JSONB?
Thanks for following up. No worries, I'm sure the HN posts generate a lot of interest. I found something, but good luck. It seems like you guys are doing some great work.
Probably most people would have thought of it.

You wouldn't make that same comparison with regular expressions(tool) and a text document(data) would you?
As in, the tool is not part and parcel of the data.

XPath(and JSONPath) are powerful tools for programatically pulling data from complex data structures.
This is a neat idea for getting some PR for your startup. We've had trouble pushing releases to the right sources, hope this could solve that.
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I haven't, although it's really nice that they chose to adopt the Thrift IDL. From a cursory glance however, it doesn't look like the code generator produces any dispatch code. Atm you're still going to need to write a tonne of boilerplate.
HPN looks interesting, but the objections to it here[1] give me pause.

bbcp,[2] which was mentioned in the original article, also looks promising. Particularly because it actually uses ssh, unlike pigz and nc.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4710061

[2] - http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~abh/bbcp/
The challenge with metallurgy for MSRE was two fold. First was the neutron interaction with nickle forming helium that migrated to the grain boundaries. We avoid this problem altogether by having a single fluid design with a protective shield of B4C absorbing neutrons before they hit the wall.

The second problem was with tellerium penetrating the Hastalloy and weakening it at the grain boundaries. This isn't a problem with stainless steel.

The stainless steel planned is SS316 which is available from multiple sources.

The primary loop does not have insulation surrounding it but it does have a 1m thick graphite reflector to bounce most of the neutrons back to the core then a layer of B4C to absorb the rest before they get to the vessel.

The MSRE was shutdown decades ago and recently had its fuel salt removed. The vessel and piping are still in Oak Ridge inside its concrete silo.
At the altitude the ISS and CRS-5 fly, a sunrise happens every ~90 minutes :)
If someone is shooting ionizing radiation at me, on purpose, without my permission, I want to know about it. Especially since I am helping pay for it.

If it was me doing it to them, it'd be assault.
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Ask HN: What should change about the development for embedded devices?
The Internet of Things is upon us and I think that it is still pretty troublesome to develop for embedded systems - difficult deploys, updates, debugging, testing, ...
I would like to know, what do you hate the most about the development for embedded systems and what should change?

I am a PhD student and my project will be targeted at designing a software platform for the embedded devices that should lift some of the pains away and provide an open software ecosystem for deploying apps to embedded devices (a kind of an app store).
Thanks for any feedback!
In fact it is an old test reactor from the 1950ies.

What they have done, though, which is still very cool, is use thorium instead of uranium in a conventional nuclear reactor.
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Yes. Although there are a lot of sources of ionizing radiation being shot at you, and it generally works out. I'd be worried more about the fourth amendment.
> it'd be assault

Terrorism is the trendy thing.
I have not looked into this much yet, but I think comparing it to Dropbox etc. like many are in here is silly. There is a huge amount of use cases where people work with large amounts of shared data in lan environments over nfs and such. This is very much tied to location and becomes a bit tricky to make offline, remote, conflict proof. Something like git can support distributed workflows in work groups, but it only works with light weight data and needs pretty educated users. I think programmes under appreciate how horrible it still is to work together with others using computers.
i recently evaluated msgpack-rpc and thrift for a small side project. surprisingly it turned out that msgpack was not only much faster but also way easier to use (for lots of small messages).

i got around 300k msgs/s throughtput with msgpack-d-rpc
Backstory:

You probably don't care about this much if you don't pay attention the market for security services.

WhiteHat is a well-known VC-funded enterprise appsec company. They sell a SAAS web security scanner. Their founder and now CEO is Jeremiah Grossman, a pretty well-known web security guy.

A year or so ago? WhiteHat released "Aviator", a "secure browser". Aviator, as it turns out, is rebranded Chromium. Chromium is an open-source project, of course. Aviator is (at the time) not.

Fast forward a year. The Aviator browser product has fizzled, like most new products do. WhiteHat executes the "open source the project and make like that's an outcome we are happy about" play, using language which --- corroborated a bit by this post --- signals that the project has been abandoned.

Several hours later, Google star vulnerability researcher Tavis Ormandy tweets(!) an embarrassing drive-by RCE in Aviator.

Hours after that, Justin Schuh from the Chromium security team posts what can best be described as thermonuclear schadenfreude† to his Google+ feed (if you're not a vulnerability researcher, you should know that there are major points for style awarded to a meaningful critique of the branding code in a target).

In response to all this, Robert Hanson (a very well-known web security guy employed by WhiteHat) writes what I would call an ill-advised and transparently prickly response on WhiteHat's blog††, suggesting that WhiteHat has been victimized by their underdog status.

I like some of the people involved with WhiteHat, Hanson among them, but I think Aviator was a very bad idea and I am --- if I am honest, and it's a bit painful to admit this --- kind of happy it failed in the market. For full disclosure purposes I also have to admit thinking very highly of Justin Schuh and being basically in cortisol-redlining mortal terror of Tavis Ormandy.

† https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JustinSchuh/posts/69qw9wZVH8z

†† https://blog.whitehatsec.com/aviator-open-source-day-1/
> a terrible buffering algorithm

The main difference now it that hpn tweaks the tcp window to function better on high-latency links.

> It's able to consistently fill 1G ethernet links.

Between two stock Debian sid laptops:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=4096 | ssh <otherhost> dd of=/dev/null
8388608+0 records in
8388608+0 records out
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 37.0848 s, 116 MB/s

That's 90% of the theoretical bandwith, right?

If you're really transferring huge file files across fat WAN links, why not use GridFTP like the supercomputing centers use? They transfer TB daily.

I wouldn't mess with patching openssh, especially with patches for old versions of openssh.
> xz + scp will still be faster than this

That's not the case if the data you're sending is already compressed. But you're right that it's not a fair comparison. scp/ssh also has integrated compression with "-C".
You get no more than you pay for. You don't always get what you pay for.
I do care about men and I agree that those are problems that need to be fixed, but they're outside the scope of feminism. (Although one could argue that if certain flavors of feminism succeeded they would become much less lopsidedly male problems because a side effect would be that women would represent a higher percent of war casualties and job fatalities, but I'm not sure anyone would call that in itself progress.) Feminism isn't about fixing all the things that are wrong with the world, it's about fixing the problems that hold women back, which btw are not just about things like c-level board positions.

Women are less likely to get proper followup care after heart attacks, for instance, even though they experience them nearly as frequently as men. Sexual assault and rape still affect women at such a higher rate than men it's staggering. Women are also far more likely than men to experience crippling depression (how much of that is due to biological vs cultural factors is unknown), although men tend to be more successful at committing suicide. And the growing restrictions on abortion access WILL cause women's deaths just as they did before Roe v Wade.

There are other movements that address other problems with the world (pacifism, labor rights, and more). Being a feminist doesn't preclude also believing or participating in those movements. But just as sex trafficking is outside the scope of labor rights, improving safety precautions for dangerous jobs is outside the scope of feminism. Does that make sense?
Show HN: Whois on .fr domains contains secret message
Doing a WHOIS on any .fr domain has a secret message.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B66JD-uIQAADx7V.png
Note that this affects not just bitcoin, but also every altcoin. Bitcoin I'm less worried about, but tracking down altcoins to patch all of them is nearly impossible
Well, I'm not sure the argument applies if you are dealing with fools. Sharp criticism and dismissal is not an unexpected response.

Another common trait of the 'troll' to which I refer is that they often have some lame excuse for not getting their contribution to the project in good order on time- yet they are perfectly willing to stand in harsh judgement of others. The most startling cases I observed were as a faculty member. Professors couldn't be bothered completing their department work on time- but accepted nothing late from students.

The pattern seems to be that these folks are not good at finishing. Big ideas? Sure. But the devil is in the details, and they tend to shoot down others in the details, while if they had to climb the same path they would have never made it themselves.

I don't know much about psychology, but if there is a false arrogance bred from insecurity, then that's what I think I am trying to relate.
I suggest not comparing secrecy and security directly. I suggest the real misunderstandings are the difference between secrecy and privacy, between vulnerability and security.
I know they're talking of WordPress.com, but hearing "WordPress" and "sophisticated" amuses me.
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scp's beauty is in its ubiquity. That host over there that I want to copy to? I need no extra configuration there because sshd is already running.

I agree that scp is dog slow and it can be pretty frustrating. As others have mentioned, cranking down the cipher provides a modest improvement. Ad-hoc netcat based solutions like this one are the way to go if you need throughput and not security.
Finally time comes to have a look at it.
Of course there are, because there are infinite forms of data. And to say that there is always one best way to interpret data, well, I don't even know where to begin with such a naive declaration.
The design choices have been specifically made to allow for a short development cycle and rapid deployment. There is no need to enrich thorium as virtually all thorium in the world is Th232.
In the UK it is already much more expensive to have a gas guzzling car both through tax on fuel on yearly tax on the car (which is based on emissions). I think it does lead to people buying more efficient cars. But it seems unlikely that it will lead to the adoption of zero emission vehicles any time soon.

Far too much emphasis is put on CO2; something that has a very intangible effect on people every days lives. Pollution is still seen as an abstract problem that people can fuel endless bikeshed arguments.

Yet everyone knows that exhaust is toxic and poisonous. If you lock yourself it in a garage with the engine running on a 1 Litre Aygo will kill you just as much as a 4 litre turbo charged Ferrari.

Old fashioned fossil fuel engines cause serious health problems and need to be eliminated. They are legacy technology that should be as unfashionable as owning an old feature phone. Taxation does not change peoples perceptions.
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