skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main difference between running a country and a business is that quite possibly the common sense assumptions that work at one scale don't hold at the other.

Economics is often counter-intuitive - especially at a global scale. People extrapolate their intuitions from household economics to national level and beyond. There's no guarantee that any of our assumptions are still valid when you consider the entire world as one closed system.
The BE-3 engine is under consideration as a second stage engine.

They also are developing the BE-4 engine that ULA wants to use for their new Vulcan rocket.

The launcher didn't make it back because the hydraulic pressure was lost.

But this is great indeed as you said.
You can MITM the unencrypted page and cut that HTML tag out.
Doesn't have small villages.
I agree that for some it will seem strange; for many, though, it feels normal.

I love my books, but I lend books out pretty much at the drop of a hat because there's a joy in sharing. If somebody willfully destroyed one of my books and handed me back urine-soaked shreds, I would still feel violated. And if somebody then said, "Well duh, what do you expect lending out your books?" I would think that person an asshole. Because what I expect, what most people would expect, is what generally happens: the book gets returned with appreciation. One can always seize upon the rare bad outcome to sound smart in hindsight, but as far as I can see it's just kicking people when they're down.
For me, it's two things in particular:
1. Reliability - I have had so many issues with debugging especially C++ using GDB where GDB will get completely confused, whereas Visual Studio is able to do a decent job even on heavily optimized code. However, I understand that GDB has improved in this aspect.
2. User interface. Having the debugger also be a visual code editor is really nice. It's difficult to articulate just how nice it is to someone used to a command-line based interface. Being able to create analytic scripts is nice. With VS I've rarely felt the need, it's basic tools are good enough. They are terrible, don't get me wrong, but they are better than any interfaces available for GDB.
"Not cool when you think about the possibilities of influence the US Military could affect."

I think it's pretty cool.

Much of the influence of the government on Linux has been positive, though they are not as involved now, SELinux is a fine example. Emphasis on security benefits all nations.

Another possible example might be getting to more reliable network communications.
I want to point another thing: more and more ISPs are moving away network neutrality. Latest example: Verizon is injecting cookies into users request to be able track their activities and then sell gathered info to advertisers [1]
I don't have problems with 3-letter agencies doing what they have to do (though, I would prefer to have proper governance over data access procedures and SSL might help there too), but ISPs should not be altering your traffic. Especially if you pay for the service. SSL prevents cookies injection.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh
If I understand correctly, Mercator is the only conformal projection where north is always up, no matter where you zoom in. That makes it nice for online maps. If you relax the "north is up" requirement, there's tons of conformal projections that look nice: http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjConf/projC...

I really like the "classic Guyou" projection: http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjConf/Img/Z.... It mangles the ocean pretty badly, but the sizes and shapes of the landmasses are surprisingly realistic, and it's rectangular to boot.
I'll be honest, I never really gave a lot of thought to whether or not I'm a "map lover" until this HN topic appeared in my feed, but your comment hooked me in...

...so much for this morning's priorities. /sigh

If you're familiar with the Natural Earth data set, do you know if it is possible to apply a transformation so a map could be printed of the World using the Cahill or Waterman projection?

I can envision a striking large-scale art piece that started from a "butterfly" representation of the World.
>> Government censorship is happening if you want it or not. The main difference is now that there is a lot more collateral damage with SSL deployed.

Excellent. It means that it's a lot more out in the open and noticeable.

>> owever what triggered the whole article was that more and more websites become completely impossible to use in the absence of SSL even for anonymous data access.

Also good, making sure there's a lot of uninteresting stuff under encryption means that the interesting stuff stands out less.

Also makes it harder for ISPs to alter content or inject advertising. A good thing.
Birthday and Christmas cards from Grandma.
I was also confused about that. Just assumed he incremented expenses with each step, but I think you're right, since 10 euros for framing doesn't sound legit. At over thousand of material/services cost the whole thing appears to be even less sensible.
I have successfully purchased 2 shirts from them at the beginning of March and it did take until April for them to arrive, being only 2 states away from them. I had a very hard time getting any response from their custom support until right before the shirts arrived.

I did order 2 more shirts at the beginning of April and have yet to see those yet..and custom support is gone again.
Congratulations to the developers for the impressive list of improvements and fixes! Nim is becoming my first choice of programming language in a large number of situations.

I hope to see version 1.0 soon. Keep up the good work!
Why did you ruin my day? I had things to do!!!
Not at all. Plenty of people were "inflaming" that controversy with no motive at all other than thinking Secret legitimately horrible. For it to be the same in spirit, the writer has to actually have the same spirit, a mendacious one. That is so far undemonstrated here.
Or this one:
http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/maps/wall-map...
When I was 9, we ran away from Kuwait because a friend of my father saw the Iraqi tanks move in and called him using a radio phone.

We put random stuff in the back of one of the toyota pickups that were used as runabout in the construction site, drove to the harbor, and my dad traded the car for an empty container on a cargo ship.

We lived in the container for 2 or 3 days until the ship got to Egypt, to which we disembarked, and we managed to get family to buy us plane tickets to Italy - bit of a feat pre-internet, I remember that for some reason, buying a plane ticket remotely could be arranged, but not a ferry ticket which is why we flew home rather than sail there via Sicily.

We get to my grandparents' house in Italy, and only then they explain to me what was going on.

That's the closest I ever have been to a war zone, and would like to keep it that way.
Think that part of it is that only one process or thread can run at any given time in node. So, if you have a complicated multiplayer server, subroutines will start getting blocked.
HA and clustering. MSSQL makes this dead easy. Point and click (and it'll display the script for you to learn/reuse) and you're done. Async, sync, HA (with automatic fail over), mirroring, several types of replication - and it just works and is easy. If PG ever ships with an out-of-the-box shared nothing system, yee haw! Maybe they could package up DRDB and heartbeat into one easy script and monitoring system or something.

I hate how MSSQL has gone back on their word to let customers benefit from CPU enhancements. They mocked Oracle for charging by type and core... And now they do the same.

Also, multiple result sets was a sorely missed feature when porting stuff to PG. But record types made up for it.

Of course now, the dominating factor for a lot of people is "Will a hosting provider (Azure, AWS, Google) just run this for me, automatically giving me perfect backups and restore and HA?" SQL Azure, as I understand, not only does backups, but allows you to restore to arbitrary points in time. Sure it's just keeping txlogs, but that sounds hot when sold like that. For many cases, I can see ditching the privacy issues of "cloud" to get those features with zero capex or management overhead.
Not nearly as risky as using a payday loan.

If you have someone you could borrow $500 from you are not the target market for this app.
Actually they're okay with it. I checked with them about how to do this and they recommended a single account instead. When I said I needed to keep my corporate and personal accounts separate for policy reasons, they were fine with it.
> Are you saying the cost of encryption is affordable for everybody because it is for Google?

On top of that, it assumes everybody has the latest processors. In reality, people don't upgrade their computers every year.

Worse, it's people with older computers who need to eke out every bit of performance their processors offer. Like, sure, I can afford to burn CPU cycles because I have a Haswell i7, but someone with an old Core 2 can't, and they're the ones who will have to burn CPU on encryption, and I don't need to because my powerful CPU has AES-NI.
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Although I'm no hater of the good old USA, this is a little self-congratulatory. You're certainly technological leaders in most fields for the understandable reasons of wealth, size and necessity (military driving cutting-edge research in order to maintain position as the dominant world superpower). But I'm afraid the 'unprecedented human happiness' you cite is only readily available to an elite few.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/23/swiss-reign-sup...
>You can verify authenticity through signatures -- no need to encrypt the full body for that.

If NYT or Yahoo Finance has a javascript widget to let a reader pick a stock symbol, and dynamically choose start and end points of stock performance, what "body of text" is relevant to compute a "signature"? What if the NYT has an option to dynamically translate their stories into other languages, or rotate different related stories on a sidebar? Are servers constantly regenerating thousands of signatures for all unforseen combinations of dynamic text? And how do these multiple signatures continuously travel from the server to the browser? Presumably it would be an encrypted channel because cleartext signatures would be vulnerable to tampering. Would a browser then have twin-channels (2 ports) open for the NYT page? One channel is encrypted for the signatures and the other channel is the cleartext? Why would this scheme be "better"? You still have encryption somewhere.
I'm one of committers of Apache Zeppelin (incubating). Zeppelin is inspired by iPython notebook and many other amazing softwares that has notebook interface.

I know iPython notebook has long history and large community, i really like it. Zeppelin is young, new project compare to iPython notebook.

Zeppelin and iPython notebook, they are opensource. iPython notebook is lead by IPython Development Team. Zeppelin is under Apache Software Foundation and it is being developed in Apache way, from copyrights, development process, decision making process to community development.

Zeppelin is focusing on providing analytical environment on top of Hadoop eco-system. I'm not sure about iPython's direction, but i don't think it's the same to Zeppelin.

I see many projects that has notebook interface. Not only iPython and Zeppelin, but also Databricks Cloud, Spark Notebook, Beaker and many others.
I'm sure they all have their own advantages. Hope see all softwares are beloved by users.

Cheers
They probably will look at the average of your hours across several months. Trial and error. Should be interesting.
Gopher would be less perverse.
I agree, except for:

There are many, many examples of recent innovations that were absolutely necessary. The advent of mobile applications for newspapers truly changed the game.

...Twitter... — these are innovations that truly changed the media world.

Nope.

Mobile applications for newspapers aren't innovative. It's a generic type of application that happens to run on a widely available platform - which, in of itself, is not innovative either.

Twitter is not innovative either, because its impact is not related to the product itself, but its widespread adoption. The actual application is relatively basic, the infrastructure backing it aside. Now, one could retort that it's a "media innovation", not a technical one. But then the term becomes diluted, as just about anything widely used becomes an "innovation" in that it almost logically changes how something is done to that end. It becomes a truism.

Basically, if it can be boiled down to "Something... but on a computer", then it's most likely not innovative.

For actual examples of technical innovations, see this David A. Wheeler essay: http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html.
"I said we do not need to encrypt everything"

... as justified by many arguments from ignorance, like "I don't think everyone ...", and "There is no technical reason..." over and over. Even one counterexample for those (some helpfully supplied in comments hereabouts) makes the arguments invalid.
> When you want a piece of information be authentic, chances are high that the information is also of private nature.

That's not true at all. For instance that we fetch web fonts via SSL is just because there is no other way to verify the identity of the webfont otherwise. There is nothing inherently private about a web font.

The same applies to Python packages on PyPI etc.
Yes, and I named several occasions when one lets strangers into one's place without supervision, as well as two where strangers come in on their own. Life is risk, which is why we should react with compassion rather than mockery when somebody's dice come up snake eyes.

The startup comparison is not silly, because my point is not about houses. It's about after-the-fact commentators finding occasions to kick people when they're down.
> If you're in a position and have the motivation to passively eavesdrop, you probably have the hardware to actively eavesdrop as well.

Targeted, yes. Wholesale, no. When I said pay attention I was referring to the fact that in a post-Snowden world the fact that people do this is not even secret any more.

Edit:
I'm new to HN and don't know why the reply button is missing, but I think you and I have different definition of the word "wholesale". But in any case it's beside the point, since if someone sniffs all Atlantic cables they can see exactly what I do on US servers, while they will only see hostnames and some side channels if it's all SSL.

They will not MITM all SSL connections with a forged cert, just to create a dossier on every living human to be retrieved later if they become "interesting". They will if it's HTTP and you can do it passively.
They say they aren't loans, but credits. It's not clear that you actually become indebted to them.
Java is widespread. Whether it's important or not depends on the project. It's not so much that Java has a steep learning curve, it's that Java has the Java way of doing things (namely, object-oriented programming taken to the extreme) and you are required to do things that way. It's less flexible than Python in the way you can write your code. You have to have a firm grasp of object-oriented programming to do anything in Java. There's a lot of theory you have to learn just to get started, which in Python can just be brushed aside until you're ready to tackle it.

And with Java, you're probably going to need a heavyweight IDE instead of just being able to use a plain text editor or a REPL or other interactive environment (which Java doesn't have).
Very common. My assumption is that frontend wears the pants in these companies and tells backend just to provide barebones with (many times partial) content and structural ULs for menus and related stories.
The cost (e.g. for obtaining and updating certificates) would be the same. You might save some CPU cycles, but only if the content is completely static.
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I lived in Saipan for a few months, part of the CNMI. A couple decades ago they attempted assigning road names and addresses, but what you find is that almost no one uses them. They don't have a postal delivery infrastructure, so those who can afford it get private company PO Boxes (the official PO boxes are extremely limited).

To me it seems like the real challenge is funding and setting up a postal infrastructure. Creating 'addresses' of any scheme would emerge organically out of necessity from that.
Another gesture you'd never know you could do - double tap with two fingers will zoom out in google maps (e.g., the inverse of double tap with one finger). I think this works on both Android and iOS.
An interesting read.

Perhaps he should have said "Using SSL is like using antibiotics. If everyone is using it all the time, the attackers just find ways around it that are impossible to defend against and you're screwed."

Not sure I get the analogy about having gates on the subway are bad when people need to use the subway in an emergency. Like, if you have a stab wound and are taking the subway to the hospital, its better not to have to fumble around for change in your pocket and line up for a ticket? Seems like there are actually very few or no emergencies where someone needs to ride the subway for free.

Also, I'm no SSL expert, but even if the certificate is expired and the user acknowledges the error, isn't the communication still encrypted? They don't lose the encryption just because of an expired certificate do they? I honestly don't know, but I just assumed that's how it worked.

The one thing I agree with is that the trust model for SSL is opaque to most users. I have no idea who my browsers trust by default, and I have no idea who those guys trust, and even if there is a 3rd degree of trust beyond that, and so ultimately there are thousands of people around the world who could spin up an SSL certificate that my browser would trust without question. Strange system.
Thanks a lot.

So, I'm guessing I should opt for AWS right off the bat ? (vs, say a normal VPS like DO?)
> ... as justified by many arguments from ignorance, like "I don't think everyone ...", and "There is no technical reason..." over and over. Even one counterexample for those (some helpfully supplied in comments hereabouts) makes the arguments invalid.

I gave one very practical example of encryption being applied to file transfers without a technical reason why that has to be. The same applies to the majority of resources fetched from CDNs. The only reason we use SSL for that is because there is no other method that browsers currently support for guaranteeing the integrity of the loaded information.
The watermark is per screen, so you just have to crop off the watermarks (and account for the cropping as you set the view for each screenshot).
Both TSQL and pgsql miss stuff. But yesterday I wanted to turn a (customerid, key, value) table into a JSON object, one per customer. Simple one liners in other systems, but a mess in TSQL, requiring "FOR XML PATH" hackery. There's also an unsupported/deprecated/undocumented trick of updating a var inside a select (select @a = @a + column).
Is there a ballpark of how much each flight will cost per person?
Pretty good list - I did take some issue with 2. Charge based on the value, not time.

In a small local market (where referrals and transparency are key), charging clients different rates for similar services can present an issue.
"Why jump to 'alternative to capitalism'?"

Because this whole thread started with the assertion that "The capitalist economy is broken for youth today", so the assumption is that fixes are to move away from capitalism.

"If the state built homes until there were enough for everyone"

You can probably skip that step, and just rewrite the rules for adverse possession. America currently has more vacant homes than there are homeless people. In fact, if we wanted, we could give six vacant homes to each homeless person, let them pick the one they like the best, and give back the other five. It absolves the taxpayer obligation to maintain the homes (which isn't really being met anyway), puts the homeless in homes, and doesn't really have too much in the way of perverse incentives, but for the invariability that we might temporarily grow the homeless population for those looking for free homes.

I don't know how that fixes wage slavery in any meaningful way though, as having a home doesn't positively correlate to having a job. The problem of poverty right now is lack of full time employment. There's not really any fix for wage slavery that is predicated on capitalism, if capitalism is to have any actual meaning, anyway. I mean, there's minimum wage, but while it's easy to acknowledge that there's no direct correlation between minimum wage and unemployment, OECD companies with the highest minimum wages tend to have the highest rates of unemployment. Unemployment very positively correlates with poverty, house or not.

There's an argument to be made that if housing were free, that the minimum wage could be abolished, but that doesn't sound like something you'd support.
> SQL Azure, as I understand, not only does backups, but allows you to restore to arbitrary points in time.

It does, but they take about hour to hour. Restore takes about that much time. Changing performance level of DB takes similar time.

I'm not sure hot quick Amazon or Google is, but I know lot of ops guys who are sorely disappointed by Azure slowness.
FBI Slammed on Capitol Hill for 'Stupid' Ideas About Encryption
Apple Doesn't Follow Its Own Guidelines on How to Write “Apple Watch”
>I don't think I am exaggerating when I say that VS has the best debugger across all languages/platforms.

Have you used any of the debuggers one finds in Smalltalk environments, out of interest?

EDIT: typo
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A 44.1Khz .wav file has no frequencies outside the audible range.
Do you have any benchmarks to support that claim? I have Windows 8 and 10 systems which take minutes to reboot on an SSD which beg to differ.