skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's blatantly putting it. But yes, I agree that getting feedback directly from your customers is the best way to check if your business works or not.
Indeed. They attempted to recycle a garbage rocket after it had been used already.

This crash into the ocean thing. That happens on literally every single other rocket launch in history, it's not abnormal, it's just not usually filmed or even thought about much.
It is OK with Google Glass, just not all the time - gopros are mainly used by narcissistic adrenaline junkies who want to record themselves doing awesome stuff like jumping out of an airplane. Usually not when walking down the street having a coffee. That would be weird.
You don't understand gravity of situation. India has third highest population of AIDS patients. Around 2.1 million people are infected[1]. That is twice the population of Cyprus. Around 170k children and adults lost their lives in 2009 [2]. India has 32.7 % of its population below poverty line [3]. That's an income below $1.25 per day. If they can't pay for the drugs doesn't make them less deserving.

And as far as drug developments go, due to GPU computing and molecular dynamics and monte carlo simulation methods, the cost of developing drugs has gone significantly down [4][5]. For starters they take a molecular structure, add or replace a functional group, and run the simulation with a particular protein structure. Drug development costs are not that high now, compared to twenty years ago. Most of the money goes in marketing.

If Government of India thinks more about it's 2.1 million than bunch of corporate companies trying to siphon money from wherever they can, then YES, they are in the right direction.

1. http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c621
2. http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=in&v=37
3. http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/IND
4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16758486
5. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/9/71
Depends on the meaning of "should" there - if you mean according to the laws of capitalist society, then no, they shouldn't: they should be paid what it costs to feed and clothe them in all cases, and the rest (surplus value) should be used to expand production through capital investment (including productivity-enhancing machinery etc) or hiring on more people. (Skills and so on complicate the picture.)

If "should" means "in an ideal world", however, Marx and his followers would argue that the whole point is to enable people not to work so bloody hard anyway, so the question does not arise.
There are other platforms that support iOS, Android, Windows, etc. What makes this script so special?
I'm all against "obvious" patents, but suing to be free to produce a product because it "also doesn't demonstrate it's significantly more effective than already known compounds" is a contradiction in terms. If the other compounds were just as good, then you wouldn't be suing to be able to produce this new one.
And his reply on Twitter is that he knows nothing about it, but did admit that one of his companies registered the domain. Classic Karpeles move.
Maybe google should stop breaking calling functionality, then the rollouts would be faster? (there was a HN thread on that)
I generally just watch YouTube videos of conference talks. When somebody says something interesting i look what else they have done in the past. If somebody is at an above expert level at a complex tool, he or she often has a history of publications about that topic.

There are some channels [0,1], which post them. Tech companies often have developer channels, too. I find Google's to market their own products to much. Facebook tells quite interesting war stories.

Finding videos is not really the problem, because they are generally 30 to 60 minutes long. When you bookmark them or add them to your watch-later list, they quickly add up. I have about 200 of them waiting to be watched.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/Confreaks

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/MarakanaTechTV
What would Donald Knuth do? (2014)
Default Methods in Java 8
This is something really nice to see. Star gazing can be really relaxing.
Unfortunately most of the people have been inside the barn long enough to stop noticing the smell, if you know what I mean.
"the economy is doing well" is always accompanied by a silent "for me and mine". As is the the inverse.

We are frail and limited creatures and while we can comfortably encompass the notion of a tribe. The concept of nations and of common humanity are abstractions to most of us on the level of idols or ideals.

As rulers have known since time immemorial: nations must be whipped into existence with all the tools of propaganda and religion. It must be clear to citizens that there are fearsome punishments for traitors and dissidents. And simple symbols must, through ritual and repetition; be imbued with mystical powers commanding allegiance.

And the economy as an abstraction of the economic health of the citizens is a tool of propaganda and of class war. When the owned media celebrate the economy, they are often performing a triumphal flourish for the ownership class; while the working class is being mugged.

Thus has it always been. But that is starting to change. All affinity groups can make themselves heard these days. The tools of media creation are so common that most adults carry them on their person all day long in the wealthier parts of the world. And those who have dreamt that they were the rulers are frightened by this. They seek to enclose the internet commons and drive us back into the feedlots of broadcast style media where the owners of the means of media production are the only ones heard.

People of the Internet; now is your time. Talk to each other. Create your own measures for the health of the economy. Ask the big questions. Are people being housed and fed? Is public health and hygiene being maintained at an adequate level?
Is everyone you know free from the fear of starvation, homelessness and violence?
How about everyone who knows everyone you know?

By talking to each other; we render those who would arrogate to themselves the title of rulers, irrelevant.
Well, since it should mostly be used as a firewall, having a little restriction of which hardware you can use isn't a big deal.
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@dandare I wanted more of list people/groups working on the concept
Poor software quality is also expensive. I would like to see a study about the balance points and how to achieve them.
Apparently new browsers offer more features than older ones like IE. And in this time and age, open-source software, applications, etc are gaining the upperhand of things. And end-users regarless of the security risks, still prefer to use them.
Any newer TCP is more aggressive than Reno.

Reno is very slow, that's why everyone tries to find a new algorithm that is far more aggressive in order to utilize the bandwidth and still be fair towards other TCP algorithms. Since TCP is the benchmark of all other congestion control algorithms if you are fair to Reno/NewReno TCP you should be fair to other aggressive TCPs as well, presumably.
I own a Glass, and I have to disagree, the camera was a very large improvement over using your phone. Hands free use and no lag between wanting to take a picture and taking a picture (winking to take a pic) make a huge difference in utility. I got some great photos that I couldn't have gotten otherwise while traveling with it.

Too bad it didn't have many other uses, and made being out in public kind of awkward.

The press made a big deal of the camera creeping people out, but in practice, the reaction was much more curiosity and interest than fear. I think the press just wanted something to write about, and in the absence of revolutionary abilities and interesting use cases, they wrote about its perceived flaws and did a bit of fear mongering.
I use this holy trinity in most of my scripts:

set -o nounset # set -u

set -o errexit # set -e

set -o pipefail # I'm not sure this has a short form.

I use the long forms for the option names because they're self documenting.

If anyone has more suggestions, I'm all ears.
Yes! The whole compilation madness must stop. Machine code is good enough for everyone. And if you still need to code in a high-level language, assembly is what you should look at.
I think its fair that they do considering what they have to risk to extract the oil from these Artic reservoirs.
It's really sad that there is a possibility for people who are convicted of non-violent, victimless crimes to spend their whole lives in prison.
> and will receive a sentence that will amount to life in prison

Does this contain an attempt to have someone killed? Or is it just running an online marketplace? If it's the latter I can't see how the sentence could be so harsh. Tax evasion tops.
Yeah if you have time to manually guess the filenames on half a million files. Great.
"Needed"? The rocket has maneuverability without them, sure. Just as your car has maneuverability without power steering, and your car has braking capability without ABS. But the grid fins increase the maneuverability a great deal at low cost, which is why they are used. They make it far more likely that the rocket can successfully hit a landing spot during a re-entry. So even though they add some weight and add some cost and add some complexity to the system they still increase the chances of recovering the multi-million dollar rocket hardware, which is a big win.

And the hydraulic fluid running out affects the impact velocity because the terminal trajectory of the rocket was controlled based on the assumption of having the grid fins working. When they stopped working they put the vehicle in a situation that was no longer controllable given the remaining capabilities of the rocket. If the power steering goes out on your car in the middle of a turn that's much worse than if you didn't have power steering at all, and could result in a crash.
They fell into trap of "product/service that seems to be wanted by a very large amount of people a little bit", instead of making it for a niche market where small amount of people need that item very much. PG was right, even the smartest people make these mistakes.
Who wont be? We all need to be vigilant but we also need to be extra cautious.
Absolutely.

University ideals, versus the real world.
Is there anything that can be done to avoid incidents such as this? We cant really afford to put the lives of these people in danger, much more than what they had signed up for.
Krita is not an Photoshop surrogat ... it's not even a surrogat for Gimp.
I found it odd how the article took issue with React, as it is arguably one of the most simple -- yet powerful -- UI libraries available.
Neither version I owned had this.
I totally agree with davismwf. This diagram is not enough to provide specific and concrete answers.
Interestingly the rhetoric around oil has currently been around jobs because of the fall in oil prices making the North Sea / Brent oil unsustainable. Interestingly when I checked the price of Brent is about the same as it was about 6 years ago but it seems the cost of production has risen substantially in that time. So, while jobs might be at risk in Scotland it was only a matter of time anyway.
Whoa, today is the first time I've heard about Krita. Visually, seems very powerful, original, and a much more interesting PS replacement than Gimp is.

Gotta download and try it out!
The AR mode of Flightradar24 is brilliant - hold your phone up and it overlays the details of a flight on the camera view.
This is trolling.
I'm not going to cry over glass, I just hope it hasn't doomed similar products.

I'm affected by prosapagnosia; When I first heard of glass the possibility that it could be used to provide facial recognition to aid my own shitty facial recognition seemed wonderful.

But then I read that google wouldn't allow facial recognition anyway. Until I read that I was prepared to get in as soon as possible.
Would like to stay on topic as much as possible here but with regards to the crowdfunding I offered them a variety of gifts they could have back and was very systematic about who I approached for support.
So, this isn't any regular conference. This is a conference filled with mostly Swedish politicians, some in government/office and a lot of different Swedish agency officials. Then there's of course some foreign dignitaries, as well as press and a few select normal persons.

It wasn't translated, but in the Swedish press release - they note that "Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och beredskap", the Swedish equivalent of FEMA in the US - had at least one official agency staffer connecting to their agency e-mail server over this insecure/open network.

That said, most conference attendees are at the conference in their official capacity, ie. at work.
"Some people think it's an irresponsible PR stunt by Google, others that Microsoft would just put off fixes forever if Google didn't do this."

... and yet others think that both of those statements are true :)
Hovering a rocket under controlled conditions and actually recovering a rocket stage that was used operationally are fairly different. It seems as though they've put most of the pieces together in terms of proving they can reuse the first stages, but they haven't actually done that operationally, and there are still many doubters (even in this very thread). Actually bringing the first stage back is one step closer to proving they can reuse the stages, which would be a tremendous step forward in spaceflight.

Similarly, Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 proved fairly conclusively that NASA could land humans on the moon, but it was actually doing so on Apollo 11 that was so incredibly important.
What I would like for Google to do is instead of publishing the details of the bug, after the deadline they would publish vague summary of vulnerability, so people would know it exists, but not quite able to exploit it right away. That would both inform people about danger and put pressure on MS, but without puting so much risk onto systems.
and you don't have a web presence yourself, just a skype account?
In the US, conspiracy to distribute narcotics can carry up to life in prison. The sentence is based on the amount and type of drugs involved in the conspiracy - there is actually a table [1] that determines the offense level (which is then used with another table to determine the sentence [2]). In this case, because of the sheer volume of drugs sold via SR, if found guilty on the drug charges alone (he also faces several others) he would be guaranteed a multi-decade sentence.

Specifically, he's looking at a base offense level of 38, plus 2 points for distribution "through mass-marketing by means of an interactive computer service," for an offense level of 40. If he has no criminal history at all, that puts him in the 292-365 months (~25-30 years) in prison range on the drug charges alone. If he also gets the 2 point enhancement for making "a credible threat to use violence, or directed the use of violence" as has been alleged, then he would automatically be looking at 30 years to life since his offense level would be 42.

[1] http://www.ussc.gov/guidelines-manual/2013/2013-2d11 (see "drug quantity table")

[2] http://www.ussc.gov/guidelines-manual/2013/2013-5asentab
Can VCs and angels get the T-shirts and stickers, and the early investors get stock?
Is anyone willing to pay for it? Is there any non-trivial code that's been deployed that has been bug free?

I mean, supposedly NASA paid $1,000 per line of code and still got 0.11 defects per 1,000 lines. By that metric, windows would cost $40 billion to develop, but it would still have 4,400 defects in it.
Why Is Google Debuting Its New Modular Smartphone in Puerto Rico?
wow who moved your chease I have seen obvious penalty's on major properties (global 500 publisher) that had no message in GWT.
I have observed that ,any people feel that directories “need” to have a slash appended to them. They are afraid of ever doing, e.g. “cd /foo/bar” and will always do “cd /foo/bar/”. I”m guessing they feel like it would be some sort of type error, like treating a directory like a file or something.

This behavior is especially common with regards to URLs; there are many flamewars about whether URLs “need” a trailing slash or not.
Indeed, it looks like the rocket hit the barge at a 45 degree angle. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/555978908554625025
Missing points:

- I, as a user, have mean to circumvent or mitigate CA issues (using certificate patrol as one possibility, certificate pinning as another,...)

- There is no user work around for the DNSSEC vulnerabilities

Furthermore, I'd guess that the majority of CA attacks are nation-state attacks so that both boil down to the same. I don't know of any criminal attacks (such as attacks on online banking) on the CA's. Conclusion: I, as a user, don't gain anything from DNSSEC.
not any more back in the day (several years ago) it used to take time for google to index a site
Why I write horrible code (And so can you)
Call me a conspiracy theorist all you want but you can't just go there and build a system that is a potential threat to the USD world reserve currency and to the power of the FED.
I agree that the camera has a serious social impact and it was one of the cause for this initial failure.

Unfortunately, I think we will also get used to this.
Never used it before, on first glance it reminds me of Manga Studio (which I love). Anyone ever use both and can offer a comparison?
Google roughly supports one version of their product on 2 OSs.

Microsoft supports all versions of all their products for 10years+ after release, integrated with a combination of all other products they have shipped in that same time-frame.

Needless to say, Microsoft needs to do more QA on their bug-fixes before they can safely release it to all customers without the risk of causing new issues.

It's easy for Google to be big in the mouth when they don't bother to support their existing customers properly.

Speaking of being big in the mouth: Did you know that Google isn't back-porting security fixes to older versions of Android either (only 2 last minor releases)? I guess supporting more than 40% of your user base is too much work.</sarcasm>

Guess which side my sympathy is leaning to in this case.
The non-negotiable part is that there should be tests, regardless of when they were written. Those tests will be the record of truth for future development. They are proof that the proper specification was implemented, regardless of methodology.

I really disagree with this. Asides from the fact that tests can't prove the absence of bugs, it's very easy to write a test suite that avoids the unhandled edge-cases; most people do without thinking about it. Your test suite is the tool you have created to search for bugs and should be written in that adversarial mindset rather than as a certification that you actually did your job.
compcert, sel4, etc.
It doesn't really have a depth buffer - only enough for a single scanline at a time.
How does having duplicate content on your domain give you a spamming penty?

And for a site thats been a round for a while only having 100 404's is low - most site owners are v bad at tidying up old defunct urls and using script kiddie platforms like joomla and magento dont help.
The Krita website is running a tad slow https://krita.org/download/krita-desktop/ however download is possible if you are patient.

Looks like a very interesting tool for creating art/comics.
Formal verification can prove the absence of bugs.
While I think Krita looks really great what I've found is that artist and designers are some of the most entrenched software users around. The sentiment "you'll want to use Photoshop, because it's the industry standard" is tough to beat. I know some that use Manga Studio, but never without Photoshop to double-check the results.
I think you linked to the wrong video.
as the Drifters said "Monney Honney"
Docker Best Practices
> With DNSSEC, only the USA can, and other governments can only create TLS certs for a small and distinct subset of website domains. That's better.

I fail to see how that is better.
I'd think about going if Einstürzende Neubauten perform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB8mucNRvyw
It looks nice, never seen it before but I'll try to find the time to have a play with it.

Photoshop, like other well established tools, is nearly impossible to replace. There are whole industries born with it in their hands, and you'd have to pry it from their cold dead bodies.

I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with PS. It does so much more than I could ever imagine, with features I will never know about.

For web development it's a bit suboptimal, but it's still the standard. It's not streamlined - we have pages with standard headers etc, I know there's some support for embedding PS files in other PS files but it's not the promoted way of working. It allows people create graphics that are unsuitable for the web / hard to unpick into layers that you can use (better css support has made things better but I spent over a decade trying to get suitable flat images out of PS files).

These days, no longer working with designers in an agency, I just do everything straight to html/css so that it works without jumping through any hoops.
I sometimes think pedophiles are as much persecuted and hated today as homosexuals were 500 years ago.

When science can't explain things, it's up to society to be the judge. Never pretty.
Discovered Krita a while a ago. The brush parameter system is excellent. You can really go nuts with all the settings. Defaults are good too.
That's what people said about Quark XPress, but failing to have a smooth transition to MacOSX doomed them. It didn't even have to be a very smooth one, since Adobe took forever to ship the ancestor of creative suite.
One of the annoying aspects of coverage of SpaceX's attempts, although fortunately it's fairly rare, is the desire to make fun of "eggheads" when they "fail" because it makes people feel superior.

Nevertheless, this work is one of the most important things going on in human civilization right now. That may seem like a bit of hyperbole, but go back and look at things like the invention of the transistor or the internet. Nobody perceived fully how impactful either of those things would be though they've transformed the lives of billions and spawned trillions of dollars in economic activity. If reusing rockets becomes feasible, and there's every reason to believe it will be, then it will lower the costs of spaceflight by one to two orders of magnitude right off the bat. And that will vastly accelerate our investment, colonization, and exploration of space and kickstart a positive feedback loop of growth in activities in space (from infrastructure like GPS and commsats to human presence) spurring investment in improving space and launch systems which then increases activity levels (due to increasing capabilities and lower costs) which then spurs improvements, and so on. Ultimately culminating in mankind becoming not just a multi-planet species but a space faring civilization no longer confined to either the Earth or even this Solar System. And all of that will have grown from the tiny kernel of spaceflight activities in the present, with SpaceX's activities being particularly relevant for that future.
Non-violent? Sure. Victimless? Debatable.
I don't think that's accurate. The defense has only identified one other person investigated by the police, which doesn't make for much of a "shotgun". I think the defense is probably doing one of or both of the following:

(1) The defense is trying to impeach the testimony of the aforementioned DHS agent. The unstated implication is that if the agent changes his opinion about the identity of DPR, then his opinions aren't very reliable and shouldn't be taken seriously by the jury.

(2) If the underlying reasons for this DHS agent's belief that Karpeles was DPR are still valid, then the defense could use those reasons to show reasonable doubt as to the true identity of DPR. Basically, "if the DHS agent doubted that DPR was Ulbricht, then it's reasonable you doubt that too!"
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