skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really want the New Horizons probe to whiz past Pluto and find a giant "WE WUZ HERE" scrawled across the surface.
> (And replace apple symbol with olive too)

And rename themselves 'Olivetti"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti
So, it sounds like you don't get a lot of face-time with folks that work in enterprise, or SMB development. You know, places with at least an hour-long commute both ways, where the defacto lunch is something from the local wings joint.

Or, you know, where the folks are so buried in loan and student debt that are effectively below the poverty line, but they just get to claim a nicer cell. They're no more free than your blue-collar folks.
Academia has used this model for a long time. Endowed chairs are a good example. Universities like faculty members that can attract quality students, quality faculty, and most importantly lots of grand money.
Couldn't find any super recent numbers, but as of 2012, US companies were sitting on $2.2 Trillion

http://fortune.com/2012/06/06/new-study-says-2-trillion-corp...
BTW, since the article doesn't mention it, the C in CNAME stands for canonical.
The site does a poor job explaining what it actually is. How exactly does it replace the keys to my apartment?
At exactly 8:30, to be precise.
Qt, LibreOffice, OpenStack, Linux itself, WebKit, GStreamer, Wayland just to name a few have both paid and freetime contributions (often from the same people too).

Neil works for Collabora, we contribute to quite a few projects in our paid time. ;)
Blue sky on Mars
governments are fickle, especially the US. all it takes is 1 administration change (up every 4 years) and that deal is over.

I for one, if I was an elected official would not let it stand. Allowing a select group of large corporations to evade taxes and have a huge advantage over all other companies? no thanks.
Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser
Let's hope so. It's so blatantly unconstitutional I don't know how it ever got greenlit in the first place.
time to go long on bitcoin!
That we permit corporations (particularly public ones) to accumulate such massive cash reserves seems absurd. Perhaps we should consider an 'idleness' tax on overly large corporate cash reserves to ensure that the money is put to work.
I wouldn't say "completely fictitious". Since the downside protection almost never (never?) comes into play at this stage, the investor's upside is indeed locked to the valuation.
It's stated on official site [1] that it's based on Linux 2.6.33, and it looks like kernel and userspace are compiled for Elbrus ISA and run natively, without x86 emulation.

There are no links to sources on their site, and they don't provide datasheets. To request sources under GPL you need to get binaries first. I live in Russia, and I've never seen Elbrus in real use anywhere. It's not marketed or sold to general public. I think target market is government's security agencies. Of course they get sources anyway for audit and have no incentive to publish them.

[1] (russian) http://www.mcst.ru/os_elbrus
[Illustration] Blown Away
First I've heard of this, are these spots within the visible spectrum?
It is put to work. Apple doesn't have some private Fort Knox in California, all that money is tied up in a variety of financial instruments.
When my 4 year old asks me when she will be allowed to drive, I tell her she won't have to, and that she'll just tell her watch to call a car for her, the same way she sees me talking to my smartwatch now.
That doesn't seem to follow. Insuring a manual driver wouldn't carry any more risk than it does today (on the contrary, there may even be fewer payouts due to other drivers being replaced with safer autonomous counterparts).
I assume/hope that the big idea for part 2 is that this setup allows for efficiently pruning impossible sub solutions and will result in an optimal algorithm.

Why would you write an algorithm in C++ if the runtime will be bad?
Keurig takes steps towards abandoning coffee-pod DRM
Electric Universe Theory has non-mainstream coherent and sensible explanations for these type of phenomena. Any HN users well versed in it's explanations? Been reading up on it lately and I'd like to discuss.
There are better GUI tools for such purposes.
I always thought that Kim Stanley Robinson's "meta nationals" from the Red Mars series seemed too probable to really be science fiction.
I imagine buses would be much cheaper and more prevalent when you don't have to pay for a driver.
Let the Chagos Islanders return home
Show HN: I made a simple Python/Flask clone of IMDb
I'm pretty sure I've seen Google's car being tested up in Tahoe, so the answer is some. (The areas around Tahoe's ski resorts get quite a lot of snow and ice too, so it's certainly a good place for this sort of testing.)
In blockchain, Yes.
Traits as defined in scala can actually have state and data.
Inflation is meant to serve that goal.
Obama LIED when he said U.S. pulled off bin Laden raid without help
pg head scratcher:

"Yes, investors with preferred stock usually get their money back first. Sometimes they get a multiple, but that's considered overreaching nowadays and the more promising startups never have to agree to that.
I suppose that is implicitly a target valuation in a sense. But no one views it as a target, because it only matters if things go badly."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6896833
I disagree. The best thing we, as individuals, can do for future society is to guide and nurture our kids. If you don't have that responsibility (you don't have kids), by all means go all out. If you do have kids, take care of them first. I actually feel very bad for Elon's kids. Money and accomplishment isn't everything. Hopefully, they at least have a good mom. BTW, you can still accomplish other great things while doing this, but you certainly can't work 23 hour days.
I imagine that reckless driving laws will still be in effect in that scenario, so that will likely deter the behavior, unless it is sociopathic in motivation.
Introducing - Scale Access – SSH keys done right
I don't understand this statement. For example, the vast majority of the 'com' zone are NS records for subdomains, and that is considered part of the com. zone.

The NS records themselves are within 'com' so they are part of the 'com' zone. It is the NS record itself that forms the delegation. The article elsewhere makes a mention of "someone else" but of course you can delegate to yourself. What makes a delegation is an NS record. What makes a zone is really an SOA record (and the corresponding sibling authoritative NS records in that zone).

FWIW, RFC 1034 and 1035 are very readable.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1034

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035

Aside, I always found it somewhat interesting that the DNS RFCs go into the implementation details of BIND. It's not really relevant to the operation of a other DNS implementations what the syntax of a zone file should be. Or how replication (AXFR) should be handled. The SOA record itself contains information that only BIND even cares about.
Passcard is a decentralized, blockchain-based identity system.

The idea is to give you back control of your online identity, which you currently do not own (you either rent or borrow it from companies like Facebook and Twitter). With the blockchain, you can actually own your digital identity.

Onename will (hopefully), remain a "default" but not essential intermediary.

Passcard will hopefully replace login systems like Facebook Login, Twitter Login, etc.

Info: I do not work for Onename, I am not paid by them, but I collaborate with them because I believe in the importance of decentralization and they are helping with that.
Nice. It'd be interesting to see the comparative performance of the three libraries under test, e.g. time to results and possibly memory usage.
Apple philosophically isn't interested in making money. That's a byproduct. How does this further Apple's goals of making better products? Does Greece have infrastructure to invest in, like lithium or silicon?

> Unless Apple starts building cars -- or perhaps spaceships -- it will keep accumulating cash.

Yeah, I think both of those are more likely than bailing out Greece.
Sounds like woo.
"Tensor networks provide a mathematical tool capable of doing just that. In this view, space-time arises out of a series of interlinked nodes in a complex network, with individual morsels of quantum information fitted together like Legos. Entanglement is the glue that holds the network together. If we want to understand space-time, we must first think geometrically about entanglement, since that is how information is encoded between the immense number of interacting nodes in the system."

Wouldn't it be wild if this led to the realization that the universe is just a big blob of computronium and that we just happen to be some emergent behavior in it?
What exactly is he he leading? It's not like there's a technology department of the US governement. There's a couple hundred.
I hitchhiked up and down the west coast and Mexico in the 1990s, after hitch-hiking had already been vilified in the media. For a large, white male like myself, it was relatively safe, because most of the danger in hitch-hiking encounters actually flows from the hiker to the driver. So if you are the hiker, and you know you're safe, then a lot of the risk has been removed. (For female hitch-hikers, it's another story.)

There were several periods when hitchhiking was widely accepted, and they usually coincided with large groups of otherwise respectable people having to hit the road. The Depression was one of those times. Post-war periods, when soldiers are returning home, have been others.

These days car ownership is so common that you have to be young and crazy, desperately poor, or criminal to hitch hike, and drivers know that.

It's still surprising how many drivers will pick you up. There's a lot of lonely people looking for conversation on the road.
Or maybe, we will find some prothean ruins on Ceres and Pluto is a mass relay... ;)
Does it have to be 16 bytes? I could imagine code opting in to compressed pointers (with alignment/heap restrictions). And you'd only need enough vtable bits to cover all unique types right? But imagining is easier than implementing of course. It would require recompiling all code to use the same pointer style, but whenever unwind-free Rust exists, we'll already need different compilation options for everything anyways, right?

Though the added complexity could offset the 16-to-8 byte size reduction.
Actually, a large part of a spaceship capable of traveling near c would be comprised of ice, as a shield from relativistic particles.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/craft.html
That wouldn't be terribly useful to us. I'd rather it work in the other direction - translating technical knowledge into something the president can use to shape better policy.

Once our government loses its technical ignorance, we won't have to use Hanlon's Razor to excuse them.
our space junk is stuck orbiting the Earth.
Social Media and Bullshit [pdf]
> Apple philosophically isn't interested in making money.

I'm pretty sure their board is interested in making money.
The issue is the granularity of regulation in that the details and legality of airbnb is decided not on a national or state level but by the municipal authorities, from a regulation standpoint it's totally unmanageable and unenforceable. Your average airbnb host isn't subject to the same hygiene or safety certifications let alone business and tourism taxes. I cannot imagine there to be a million Airbnb rooms that are compliant with all relevant by-laws.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the hotel industry has in the past actively fought against normalising the laws that affect them because I bet... They exploit them too.
VOPHER – Acquire vim-plugins the gopher-way
All methodologies have the goal of working software. Where they differ is in how they try to get there.

Agile came about because people started saying "hey, this process we have for creating working software isn't actually creating working software. Maybe we should try another process."
When someone sells you something, and you pay them money for it, why does it bother you if they don't spend the money? How would you feel if the government told you, in this awful economy, that you had too much money sitting around and should try investing it in something risky or they would take it away from you?
Java's interfaces are getting default implementations now, aren't they?
It's possible they don't really skyrocket. However, right now insurance rates are not at all cheap. It's not at all uncommon to have to pay $100+/month on insurance, per driver. For most families, there aren't many things they're willing to spend $1,000+/year on. When it's no longer a necessity, I would suspect that even if prices don't go up, because the marginal cost of driving yourself will have increased (cost to drive - cost of next best alternative, i.e. autonomous driving), most people will choose not to self-insure. Just like in some cities, the marginal cost of car ownership is so large (even if it's only a few thousand dollars more than in a suburb) that it makes more sense to rely on public transit.
So, don't work there. We're talking about really smart people that can get jobs wherever else if they don't like the culture at Tesla. All the replies on my comment share the same issue that for them seeing the birth of their child is more important than being a part of Tesla. That's fine. Don't work at Tesla. That's why I wouldn't work there either. I wouldn't work in the army either, which has the same setbacks when you're on a deployment. Elon Musk consistently delivers on actually changing the world, so yeah, he's allowed to have rules to work with him.

Also, to the people that downvoted: it's really disheartening to see you'd rather downvote out of existence than have a dialogue with a contrasting opinion. Enjoy your echo chamber.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here. I think what you consider 'pretentious jargon' really depends on what kinds of languages you've used and the way you think about them. I think calling enums unions would have been a very big mistake, as they would mislead C programmers. Even you say that they're 'quite close', but they're not the same thing.
I never have too much to say beyond "cool" for these sorts of things. So a few comments to help improve the site is the best I can do.

A little too much motion going on in the background with just enough jitter to give me a headache. It might be better if it could be made buttery smooth or perhaps slower scrolling to try and reduce the jitter? I like the effect you were going for though! It's the smoothness of the animation that causes the problem for me.

"Did you mean?" would be very helpful for searches. I typed "Pupl Fiction" on accident. Movies with more complicated names or tricky-to-spell words might be difficult to search.
Constant SaaS Disruption Is Overhyped
You realize that if a package isn't in the repository (or is in the repo, but not the right version), the alternative is that the user compiles it from source, right? Now the user has all sorts of software scattered over his system, with no way to manage, update and uninstall them. How is that situation any better than using PPAs?
I think the Hedonic Treadmill affects developers very severely, and in large part because of Developer Culture.

If all you do is code and sleep, then your notion of 'stress' is entirely tied up in what it's like to be sitting in front of the monitor.

While that can truly be very stressful, it always seems like the people who don't get as upset at work run, or hike, or swim, or are musicians on the weekend.

For a long time I thought that meant "If you're put together well enough you have energy left on the weekends." but eventually I decided if I waited until I was put together then I'd be infirm at an early age, so I just started doing things.

Now I think it's the people who have extracurricular activities that are more put together than the other way around. They have a more diverse definition for the word 'adversity' and things don't bother them as much.
i used to read a forum that was about hitchhiking and train riding experiences. Ive hitchhiked a few times, never across great distances though... would still love to hitch a train cross country though.
>The retraction post has only been viewed one-fiftieth of the times the original post was viewed.

Suggestion: Make Facebook campaign of everybody who shared the picture, and by court order have the woman make a promoted Facebook post linking to the article exonerating him. Is it possible to make a campaign like that? It should be.
This just keeps getting better and better. Can't wait to find out what they end up with. I'm still betting on exposed water ice but would totally love it if this was the bright shiny core of a nickel/iron meteorite.
IndieGoGo: Record All LambdaConf 2015 Talks
Design question: why is the "☰" (hotdog / hamburger button) migrating into desktop versions of websites?
I know they are doing it on purpose although it doesn't seem like a good algorithm to me. (Also I never had any ads on my blog).
Dart Developer Summit videos now available
While a nice idea, it would set a bad example, since Greece's main problem is that all large companies (including the Greek Orthodox Church) and rich people pay next to no tax.
F# has landed in OpenBSD
> These days ...you have to be young and crazy, desperately poor, or criminal to hitch hike, and drivers know that.

That depends entirely where you live. Move to a ski or rock climbing town and you'll find hundreds of people hitching every day.

I did it for years, and now I have a car, I pickup everyone I see.
> To request sources under GPL you need to get binaries first.

This is a common misconception, at least as far as GPLv2 goes. If you're distributing commercially then you have two choices:

1) Include the source when you distribute the binaries (GPLv2 3(a))
2) Offer the source code on demand to any third party (GPLv2 3(b))

Of course, Elbrus may be distributing under the first of these, but if it's the second then there's no need to obtain binaries in order to make a request for source.
It doesn't help that, for example, a lot of behavior that was once considered quite normal is shrilly decried.

Boys walking around after dark are assumed to be hoodlums. Awkward flirting is under the constant threat of sexual harassment accusations. Fisticuffs are unthinkable.

I'm not sure this is actually a good thing.
> Do you recommend Spring 2013 for a reason?

There were discussions on preferring Spring 2013 to 2015 here:
https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell/pull/72
https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell/issues/40
No practical purpose. Probably done to make the page look "cool" and clean, at the expense of actual usability and proper navigation.
The Great 'Beyond': Contemplating Life, Sex and Elevators in Space
Seriously, how do you not hear what you're saying? Women object to being asked for sex in exchange for funding because they shouldn't have to do that in order to get funding. Let's game out what you're saying here:

* Some women are willing to sleep with VCs in order to get funding, while others aren't

* This creates a situation where women who do not sleep with VCs are at a competitive disadvantage

* This may be great for VCs (in a super-creepy way), but it is not good for women. Suddenly they are forced to sleep with everyone they want to ask for funding, just to defend against the threat of other women who might do it.

* Meanwhile, if they aren't willing to do that, then they get raised eyebrows and suggestive questions from cofounders and early investors, suggesting that if they really cared about the company, they would use whatever competitive advantage they had, wink wink.

* The women who did sleep with VCs and got funding would face questions for the rest of their career. They only got funded because they were hot, right? Edit: in fact, even the women who were not willing to sleep with VCs would probably face the same questions, and often do even now.

All of this has the effect of reducing women to sex objects and removing their power over their own bodies. This is not some hypothetical scenario, it is largely what the world looked like for women prior to the 1970s, and they are right to guard against its return.
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Hillis writes some interesting stuff along those lines here: http://worrydream.com/refs/Hillis%20-%20The%20Connection%20M...
One of the registrars is http://namecoin.info/, which says "Decentralize all the things" in the banner. Wow, nice memes, really inspires confidence.
Having read several court cases, I can say I have never seen the court trying to answer the question about how much the average victim would spend on repairs. Its not a question easily answered or find evidence for, and the court do not have the ability to send out a survey.

What I do normally see is the court looking for guidelines regarding damages, and here the relevant question would be what a average person would have to pay in order to remove the malware and restore damages. A laywer could present rates of reputable repair shops has charge clients, and the defense lawyer could argue that the update helped reduce the time a professional would take.
This isn't the point, though. Even if people are afraid data may turn against them, they will never take the risk to use it.
It sure would be nice if they could come up with something that provided developers an opportunity to develop best of breed experiences based on the type of device, screen, pixel resolution, etc.

But, then they did. The Universal App template project provides for making separate UI layers for your applications. If your applications don't make use of screen space, blame developers. The OS and tooling support optimized experiences. There are fewer "opinions" than with 8.

Decent Continuum experiences seem intended to make developers stretch, not users.
(Disclaimer: I work at Google but not on self driving cars. My opinion, not my employer's, follows)

What about the reduced individual and societal costs (in insurance, medical, lost productivity, psychological trauma) that come with a 10x reduction in driving fatalities?

People might see the value of a 10x (or even smaller) reduction if it is expressed in those terms.