skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really a question about whether I trust other devs. It's more that these devs admitted to causing harm, and seem to think fooling their users is a good idea. Then when called out on it, they say, "people need to relax, just a joke bro, better be careful next time!" instead of just owning up to it and hopefully move on.

Installing firmware onto thousand dollar machines is stressful enough, they shouldn't be "taught" a lesson just because the developers thought they should.
Again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=81093 (7 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=949228 (5 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639569 (4 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748911 (2 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5861255 (2 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994880 (a year ago)
I'm a fan of bitlbee + ircii, but this seems neat too.
Now, @daghoidahl tweeted @alexdong and got an answer: https://twitter.com/alexdong/status/587768379840208896
PyPy (a JITed Python interpreter) is experimenting with STM to solve the issue:

http://morepypy.blogspot.de/2014/11/tornado-without-gil-on-p...
But it also has not been approved by any authority. It is just like sending waste to some shady dude few blocks away "to take care of it"
Posting from a new account, as this is apparently so controversial it will probably get me shadowbanned.

Seriously, just how humorless and gullible do you have to be to not understand that this was an April Fools' joke?

First, BSoDs are specific to Windows OSes. OK, fair enough, non-tech people might not know this. But...

"Take a photo of a calendar, focusing on today's date."

If after reading this line you still don't understand that this is a joke, I feel sorry for you.

The "rand() % 1000 == 13" probably causes the "BSoD" every time for the OP because the RNG is not properly seeded, which is the real problem here.

I don't condone this joke or the developers' response, but I'm not going to blame them for anything either. The negativity in this thread, however...
I don't know if the footage is at normal speed, it looks slightly slowed down to me, which would impart a sort of gloopy feel to the water. I wonder if speeding up the playback rate would increase the realism.

edit: OK, I downloaded it with youtube-dl and sped the playback rate up to 2.5x and the water looks more realistic with a faster rate.

edit2: I sped up the video and uploaded it back up to vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/124913873
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Define "know". Do we have it carved in tablets of stone from on high? No. Are we reasonably confident? Yes. There are already hotter things in the ocean (e.g. black smokers). What kind of effects are you worried about?
This one is abandoned by its author. And now starting to become useless, after twitter changed how they display retweets (if you add comments), basicly you get the comment and then a link to the tweet.

Rainbowstream looks good, works well as far as I tested, but leaves a bit to be desired in the way you interact with it. Being able to just type to tweet in ttytter was nice, with all commands starting with a slash - a bit like IRC.

Rainbowstream's "conversation" command is way too long. I use ttytter's /th command quite a lot, very short.
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Startups have a voice in the FCC
It takes more energy to send something to the moon than to send it escaping the earth.

Space elevator with a railgun at the top of it maybe makes sense.
"That they can profit in this way provides an important incentive - aside from the intrinsic value of the productive activity itself - for them to engage in socially useful productive activity."

That's just it. This is a business model built on threat of violence and coersion that provides additional incentives over and beyond what content creators would get without it. Just because a business model is able to collect money - extortion, say, or confidence games - does not mean the model itself is ethical. The argument that we need to keep the existing incentives in place is much like arguments made by any other entrenched interests who are getting the benefit of some societal system or government program and want to continue it because - to hear them tell it - the repeal would make the sky fall.

Even if it leads to ever increasing absurdity like the USA endlessly extending the age of copyright to prevent works from falling into public domain, or the software patent race and sunk costs in buying porfolios, leading to speculative legal fishing for money.

The history of SCIENCE, open source software, and freely available wiki sites show that people will contribute content and create great and useful collaborative works even in the absence of monetary compensation and business models that coerce people into paying. In fact, even the question of ego / attribution seems to be answered - people don't have to get "top billing" in a movie or be listed as a book's primary author in order to contribute. And the result is often better than a commercial enterprise, for a variety of reasons. It evolves with time, is accessible from more environments, and leads to more wealth creation in the long run around it. The internet protocol suite, linux, webkit, wikipedia, publicly accessible science, all of it.

The human motivations are very well explained here:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

It is somewhat ironic that anarcho capitalists decry government for using force and then ask for more of it to protect capitalism and property, in areas where a naturally occuring gift economy without coersion and which confers basic freedoms on all users has been shown to do better. This irony can be best seen in the way every anarcho capitalist switches from deontological arguments (what is moral in and of itself) that they use to criticize systems of government, to consequentialist (what the outcomes would be) as soon as the time comes to justify the use of force to maintain property and incentives of capitalism for something. "But think of all the great movies that wouldn't have been made because no one would have any incentive." Yeah, and think of all the crimes that would have been committed if no one would have government.
Sure, but if the raises are portrayed as a question of fairness (rather than simply as a business tool to retain and attract better employees), then implicitly they're saying that the salaries weren't fair before, no?
I've been using turses (https://github.com/dialelo/turses). no images, but works great.
I've had that happen to me a couple of times too. One of the most entertaining times was when someone refused to move from my window seat was because they wanted to "look out from the window". After I showed her my ticket stub, she just looked at me blankly. Then I explained to her that she is sitting in the wrong seat to which she replied that she doesn't understand.

I did relent because the flight attendant asked me nicely if I mind just taking the middle seat. It was the first time I got a window seat that wasn't over the wing!
> you might detonate a dirty bomb in the atmosphere

Which would put less radioactive material up there than coal power plants already do as a matter of course.
Bingo.

I have a blog. No ycombinatorer has any idea who I am or whether I'm trustworthy, so a verification from a CA that I am who I claim I am isn't particularly helpful to either of us if I link here.

Since you don't know who I am to begin with, presumably you wouldn't trust me with any greater information than you would give to a phisher, since even with a CA-signed certificate I might have nefarious purposes. But with encryption you would at least know that whoever you are in fact communicating with actually sent the message you received and not something else.

It's genuinely puzzling to me that so many people obtusely claim there's no value there.
etsy will go bankrupt in 2 years... etsy insider here. Dont be fooled by their quick rich scheme before the exit.
> You don't measure failure rate by number built divided by number crashed.

Sure, you measure by number of launches divided by number crashed - or some similar measure that includes how much utility you get out of it. But the Shuttle does very poorly on any such measure.
This is my biggest issue with Netflix, even when you're in a country they offer the service in you can't browse their library as an unpaid member.

Also it seems ridiculous to me that I found the browsing experience in a physical blockbuster store easier to use than Netflix!
But it's not, is it? Unless there can be some proof of the said backdoor.

I don't get how a person - even though he is the Executive Director - moving on can co-relate to a "backdoor" in a project that puts all its code online and does deterministic builds.
That sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure what those things translate into. Take something that's reasonably intelligent - a wolf for instance. How, for most of its evolutionary history, would being able to recognise complex environmental patterns, as a human would, have made it successful enough to offset the energy cost of doing so? What part of the energy of the system accessible with their abilities are they missing?
Though it's my understanding that they could have just booted into DOS and performed list on the BIOS? (To get the compiled binary)
that show is so boring it does not come even close to the 1995 Hackers movie.
I think it's viable. There are no other forces acting on you. Set up the solar sail at 45 degrees "against" your orbit. You will slowly but inevitably spiral into the sun without burning any fuel.
Choose Business Structure for Your Restaurant
Like all other businesses, a restaurant business too needs a legal structure so that it can operate in a hassle-free manner and can pay the appropriate taxes. Your funding source greatly determines the initial legal structure of your food business whether you are going to taking financial assistance from investors, a bank or into your own savings account.

See more at: http://www.headwayfinance.com/blog/4-types-of-business-structures-that-you-can-choose-for-your-restaurant-business/
I don't know...

I've been looking through the comments to see if anyone else noticed the fact that the experiment was not a randomized control setup. They've let self-selection bias creep into the results, so I'm wondering how much we can infer from them?
Yet another article that misses the point of "goto considered harmful."

The way "goto" is used in modern C (named breaks and defined function escape routes) is perfectly acceptable. Newer languages include these features in the language, in much the same way that C encoded structured "goto"s as "while" loops and "if" statements.

Dijkstra was complaining about unstructured programming compared to structured programming.
You could say that turning down or throwing away money is purchasing the experience of turning down or throwing away money, but I think that is stretching the definition somewhat.

Buying tends to usually involve an exchange of items of value with another entity, rather than not exchanging anything or dumping gold in the sea.

By your definition, it would seem I purchase my sleep by not working while unconscious, which is obviously ridiculous.

Just because you can look at something as a financial loss, whether it is something of value being destroyed or an opportunity to profit not taken, does not automagically mean that something was therefore purchased.
Please, if you have to paste something, at least don't paste the absolutely ludicrous Pando article, which has been debunked many many times. It does nothing but say that Tor is compromised just because it was funded by the government.
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> Couldn't we just go to Neptune and stop our orbital velocity from there where it's only 5kms?

Yes. This is a bi-elliptic transfer, it's a standard technique, and another thread claims it would save about 40% of the required dV.

> How about exiting planetary orbits retrograde? It seems like larger planets would have escape velocities that are larger than their orbital velocity. Why couldn't our space barge leave Jupiter's orbit on a trajectory that would intersect with the sun?

It could. That's a gravity assist, and it's the only practical way to go just about anywhere with current technology (all our interplanetary probes do that).

(There are arguments against using either with nuclear waste, but I don't think the page is seriously talking about that)

If you're interested in this stuff, definitely play Kerbal Space Program.
> If you ran Go as a single thread, you would also run into similar issues.

Yes, if you hobbled yourself, you would be hobbled.

The inability to do concurrency properly is not a feature, it's a missing feature. The whole point of node was to be a node.
Tor, not TOR.
No. It's only chicken and egg because we needlessly conflated two very distinct problems a few decades ago.

Problem 1: isolate the communication between myself and whatever other party is actually sending me a message. Easily solved by encryption. (You're being MITM'd? That sucks. But you have now at least isolated the communication to you and the attacker. The problem domain just shrunk quite a bit.)

Problem 2: verify that the other party is who she claims to be. Not easy to solve but a completely separate problem from Problem 1.

We could solve Problem 1 tomorrow (modulo the time it takes to upgrade every browser/mail client/etc.) by simply encrypting all traffic, period, and not doing any authentication whatsoever. We would then be exactly where we are right now in terms of having a PKI system with all of its advantages and faults, but we would then have the amazing bonus feature of preventing all passive attacks, period.
> It's surprising that Node.js is still outpacing Go in popularity in spite of all this slander.

From the perspective of a JVM/.NET/C++ developer I find surprising that Node.js got adopted at all in the server space.
I dislike the implication that any April Fools joke can be funny.
The truth about all flow and especially turbulence is that it is not hard to make it look convincing to the human eye. Capturing the motion on various length scales and presenting it in a plausible way is not all that computationally intensive (the algorithms to make them can still of course be challenging). Making simulations that are numerically correct, however, is incredibly computational intensive (in addition to being algorithmically complex). This is why CFD is still run on massive clusters for transient simulations. There is also a whole field in itself for "sub-grid" turbulence models that allow for the spatial resolution of a simulation to remain coarser than the Kolmogorov microscales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_microscales). (As a side note, Kolmogorov was a true polymath/genius in areas outside information theory and complexity theory.) Cutting edge basic research on turbulence will perform calculations at such scales (direct numerical simulation). Suffice it to say, most graphics work does not waste too many cycles on physical accuracy. Hard to know for sure, but since the video has words "cinema" and "rendering" in the description as opposed to "simulation", it is probably just realistic enough to pass muster in terms of human perception. Also accurately simulating the formation of foam requires a two-phase simulation of both gas and liquid as well as considering cohesive forces.
Great piece. In fact, this is another big topic. I can't image a bank switching technology in a such easy way for components that maybe are critical.

A technology switch can have multiple sides, sometimes the success is way beyond expectations and the current implementation doesn't fit the real requirements, making the switch looking more to a success rather than a failure. On the opposite it's very common to have the exact same problem you described, new trending technology picked, hit the limit, switch to and old more robust solution, this is definitely a failure and is something managers don't like.

I faced a similar problem with Mongo 2 years ago, had the same switch to PostgreSQL.
I can't see how it would be that cumbersome, calculators are lightweight, widely available and easily fit in a pocket.

The thing about CEO pay rising after the information was made public was because it became a metric used by traders, so it started making financial sense to raise the CEO pay as it was thought to raise the company share price by more than the wage increase.

Of course this only works until someone matches your raise, then you have to raise again to keep the signaling going to the market and then the returns from this strategy rapidly diminish.

Now if the ratio was also public, then that would also become a market signal, but if you are a trader trying to gauge the health of a company then it should work in the favour of the employees, as if you are comparing two competing companies and trying to decide which one to bet on, if the CEO pay is the same and they are making similar profits, then the one with a smaller ratio will look like a much better bet.

edit - also, given that publicising CEO compensation can increase CEO compensation, why do you think that publicising employee compensation would reduce employee compensation?
It's almost like every notable april fool's joke in history.

There's always the guys that will say that lighting a bunch of tires on top of a mountain to fake a volcano eruption was irresponsible, but then again, these are the things we talk about decades later.
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hn chat time!

https://niltalk.com/r/bfT9W, hn-923732
Where you see failure, I see natural evolution. You don't know how/where/when your application will fail, so it's pointless to try to prevent it.

People uses Node, Rails or whatever because it's easier to develop with. Then you understand your problem and optimize them away from your core.

I don't think this way of handling thing will ever change.
You can use also use conv<TAB> which is a bit shorter.
Why do we need to reshape online learning - Wyser Lab
The reference is to Crockford not liking typing. Here is one link backing that up:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/MgzNU...
Yep. Things like while loops, break statements and if-else statements containing blocks are basically structured constructs over goto. Goto is the basic building block, it is not "entirely redundant", it is entirely foundational. It's just too low-level for everyday usage.
I get some German text mingled with English on the landing page.

The email form has at least two German phrases:

"E-Mail-Addresse"

and

"Welches Smartphone-Betriebssystem verwendest Du?"

Apart from that, it looks interesting and I'd be tempted to give it a go.

Is the beta currently running?
I've been an iOS developer for about 5 years, and I do all my UI in code (one exception: the watch app we have is using storyboards). Storyboards are fine but I find them slow once they get to a certain size, which for any non trivial app, I always hit

I try to keep view controllers clean by having view subclasses which manage layout, and I use auto layout as much as possible

Saying that though, its not the standard, and Apple push storyboards more and more every year, so I would guess I'm in the minority
He feels that there are so many great opportunities out there, but his is going to take some time to decide which one to focus on. The timing just felt right.
The quickest thing to do would be go work for a company in the Bay Area.

You can do this from Europe without too much trouble, since a lot of good companies are waking up to the idea of remote teams. I, for instance, split my time between France and England, work for a company in the US, and bill out at a rate that would make sense were I fighting to live in the San Francisco housing market.

The second option, which you can also do without leaving home, is to start your own software product company. You'll start out with a huge salary cut (to zero), which you can hopefully mitigate by doing your buildout during nights and weekends while keeping your current gig. But the upside is unlimited.
I won't let you police what words I use, I had no idea of the history (ESL). If there is a objective source I might reconsider.

You missed my point about the negativity. It makes me not wanting to do anything, that's the problem.
Because apparently it is not cool stuff that works instead of shinny toys.
> If you had to do your day to day development in C, what would you do to make yourself more productive?

I wish I could come up with the idea of writing a scripting language in C during my spare time.
I've definitely noticed a massively increased tolerance for opiates, but not an increase in pain sensitivity.
If you install nightly builds on a production system you deserve to get bitten.
Disposing of the room does remove it and kick everyone out, indeed. And then the link is invalid. Neat. According for the privacy page, it's all living in RAM only, so in theory there is no logging (https://niltalk.com/pages/privacy). Guess we can check the code and see for ourselves, of course.
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No, just the opposite. Given any position and velocity relative to the Sun (or the Earth), an object in that position at that velocity is in an "orbit" that will be a conic section of some sort. Most of them are ellipses i.e. stable. The only way to not be in a stable orbit is to go fast enough that it becomes a parabola or hyperbola - a flyby - or slow enough that the ellipse becomes so narrow that it's just a straight line (or rather, narrow enough that it hits the thing you're orbiting).

When you throw a ball it flies in a parabola, right? But actually that parabola is just one end of a very long, narrow ellipse, with the Earth's centre as one of the foci. If you could "turn on noclip"[1] and allow the ball to fall through the Earth, it would already be in a stable orbit.

(If you want to get a better intuition for this kind of thing, play Kerbal Space Program)

[1] And if the Earth were a point mass located at its centre, which it isn't. And ignoring air resistance.
looks like the room got deleted. hn chat time over!
it's possible that Internet-- won't reduce prevent getting people proper Internet service, but when making major societal decisions, I think we deserve a higher standard than the possibility of not fucking things up for the next few hundred years.

You never have more than the possibility of not fucking things up. When you're arguing against allowing people from subscribing to a service, I think they deserve a better standard than "I know better than you what is good for you".

As I've pointed out, there have been many mediums of communication, that have been installed for many years before the Internet appeared, yet they didn't stop it from taking hold rather rapidly. I don't see why you shouldn't have to explain why you think this time is different, besides "well, it might be!"

I do note that in the US internet market, the reason most people's ISP is their old telco or cable company is that poor regulation let the old oligopoly players rebuild their oligopolies for a new medium through undercutting real competition. That now looks impossible to dislodge, which is why we need net neutrality regulation in the first place. So it seems plausible to me that letting quick hits of easy money determine who gets to see what on the Internet could establish long-term patterns that permanently undermine net neutrality.

"Let" is not the right word. Regulation in the US was designed to build and sustain those oligopoly players. I see no reason to assume that "easy money" alone will provoke the same effect; the ISPs in my country all have plenty of money, and many offer zero rating or the equivalent, and yet we still have an healthy market.
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Is this open-source?

If it is could you post a link to a public repo. Thanks :)