skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You don't need hitchhiking if there's decent and affordable public transportation.

Did you read the article? Even glance at it? Or did you just come here to start riffing on America's car culture? FTA:

>In many countries, hitchhiking isn’t just accepted but encouraged. Some municipal governments in the Netherlands, for example, install “Liftplaats” signs in desirable hitchhiking locations. And in places like Moscow and many parts of Cuba, where car ownership is less common than in the U.S., sticking your hand out is just as likely to get you a ride in a private vehicle as a taxi.
On the other hand, there's every reason to believe the "Go [a]Way" prohibition on certain language features will leave Go 2 insufficiently attractive vs Go 1 to overcome the switching costs, dragging out any migration period. See also: Python 3.
> man, i'm a Russian.

Good for you, hope you didn't take it personally. It wasn't supposed to be an insult, it's just the way it is. That's my personal point of view, of an italian who has spent years in Russia and lived in Magadan, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Nojabersk, Irkutsk.

> yes. Tell this to millions of USSR soldiers who was squashed by German tanks and aviation until USSR was finally able to ramp up the production of comparable technology in comparable numbers.

This never happened. The USSR was never able to "ramp-up". They "made it" just moving whatever they could east and wait for winter. And thats where no german aviation/tank could keep up with the battle, isolated, without fuel, without supplies.

> The same way today - manned tanks and aviation is going the way of cavalry 80 years ago.

This is the point I heavily criticise. Our current technology isn't that great and we are VERY far from the point where an unmanned vehicle will keep up the fight with any manned one. No matter what. Drones are slow and laggy, GPS and network are unreliable, robots (in general) can't deal with harsh conditions - where the "human machine" actually shines showing the results of million of years in evolution. I guess ours are just different point of views.

> The drones will quickly become much better, much smarter and much cheaper. A one old "dinosaur" like F-15 or Su-27/35 (or even F-22) when faced simultaneously with 10-20 stealth drones able to go transonic or even supersonic with computer speed of reaction, able to continuously pull 10g+ without blood leaving the brain/retina/etc... and each firing an air-to-air missile almost simultaneously in choreographed attack pattern - should we make bets whether the pilot of the attacked plane would be able to execute all the necessary anti-missile maneuvers successfully ? :)

This sounds a lot like out of a movie.
Oh wow, this is very cool.
The bright spots are cool and all, but what's the deal with the lines across the surface? They remind me a bit of the lines you see from rocks moving across dry lakebeds. (http://geology.com/articles/racetrack-playa-sliding-rocks.sh...)
OK, then, if you insist on a point-by-point rebuttal:

- CT logs will play a role.

Requires CA cooperation, and therefore government cooperation because the largest CAs are owned by governments.

- Nuking egregiously bad CAs will play a role.

This can only be done for small (i.e. non government owned) CAs, or you create the perception that your browser does not work.

- The adoption of new cheap/free CAs like LetsEncrypt will play a role.

This solves a real problem, but a different problem than this.

- Certificate pinning and HPKP will play a role.

This only helps in two cases: sites I use often and widespread attacks. Widespread HTTPS MITM is detectable anyway.
That's an interesting narrative. It is however historically inaccurate. All throughout human history we have replaced tedious, dangerous and repetitive tasks through means other than human labor. Increased efficiency (let's set aside the definition for the moment) has only helped us.

Specifically why is this time different?
Yes, I was.

I hadn't thought of the aliens actually been indigenous to Ceres. It's an interesting idea. They would most likely have evolved in the water/ice layer, and be based on weird and exotic ice chemistry. That would make the city their equivalent of a lunar outpost, and it's quite plausible that they simply may not have noticed electromagnetic waves.

The chances of talking to them would probably be quite slim --- we would be appallingly alen to each other.
Google+ has quietly turned off its shared circles feature
This is a trend that's been around for some time. When I taught high school in Baltimore City Public Schools in 2008, my experience with data-driven education was decidedly negative. The mantra was basically the more data the better, and we collected data for its own sake. Not a whole lot of thought went into the validity of the data or its analysis. It added a tremendous amount of overhead and already insanely stressful job.

That's not to say that data couldn't be really useful. It would be great to basically get rid of age-based grade system and the track system (honors, regular, remedial) and simply let children move along in each subject as they demonstrate progress.

But, unfortunately, we're stuck educational policy culture constantly on the search for silver-bullet solutions. "Data" is just the latest iteration of a great idea, perverted by a need to shoehorn it into a system that refuses to truly adapt.
Intel's Itanium line had the following hardware support for loops:

* Register rotation [1]: referenced registers inside the loop are cycled on each iteration

* Branch prediction [2]: with a dedicated loop count register, the CPU can tell with complete certainty when not to take the jump to the beginning (no mispredictions at the exit)

[1] http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~rvinyard/itanium/register_rotation.h...

[2] http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~rvinyard/itanium/branching.htm
Ask HN: Why are there so few law startups?
One could probably find a bunch through a Google search but I couldn't name a startup in the law space off the top of my head. I also don't remember ever seeing one making headlines on HN.

With all the enormous fees and the insane amount of paperwork I'd think it's a space that's screaming for new ideas but from an outside perspective it doesn't seem like there has been much innovation since MS Word... Has anyone got some insight?
Heh, I'm very familiar with DNS and the RFCs. I was questioning the wording of the statement. "A name and all the names below it that are not delegated to someone else is collectively called a zone". The names in the com zone are delegated to someone else, hence the NS records. Just murky wording to me, but maybe I'm reading it wrong.
looks like it's back, but chromes dns caching is getting in the way. Do an incognito session and you'll see it back.
I spent last summer at Recurse Center and it was the most fun I've ever had programming. The team deeply understands how to create an atmosphere in which you can try things that would feel impossible on your own. After I left, I tried working from coffee shops again, and the difference was crushing. It suddenly felt terribly wrong to be surrounded by dozens of people, not one of whom understood what I was working on or cared. Yet outside of RC this has been my default mode of work and the reason why I've often felt like doing something else.

The one thing I felt lacking at RC was a greater sense of challenge: the emphasis was on personal development more than pushing the limits of the field itself. Building a research lab means that, with luck, RC can become a place where the world's best programmers will want to come to do their most interesting work - and all the better, in an open atmosphere where you can show people what you're building. I'm excited to see where this goes.
Totally agreed. I was wrong to resist them :)
Usually the parallax effect can get annoying but this one is done very nice, I liked the comic-book style visuals in between.
Rapidash: Faster Front End Development
Here's one possible implementation of valueOf:

import numpy as np

def valueOf(*v):
return sum( v * np.power(10,range(len(v)))[::-1] )

> valueOf( 2,3,4 ) # => 234

Also, in python 2.7, I don't think you can put a named variable proceeding a wildcard? At least, that doesn't work for me, so I left it out.
Or just REP.
Sure. Just in this case variant 2 is very unlikely. I'd say getting sources after buying one or two Elbrus-based servers would be a success for a company not affilated with government.

Company I work for once tried to get linux kernel sources for an embedded system produced by another russian company. We got just honest "we have our proprietary module in our linux tree, so we won't be giving you any sources. Still, we are nice enough to recompile it for you with options you need." Ugh...
The article is good, however probably there is some issue here: "so quorum operations are not CAP-available (at least temporarily, until the database sets up additional replicas on the minority side)."

Availability is an eventual property, so technically speaking if the minority partition within a non-infinite amount of time always recovers and is able to provide a reply for our query, it is Available from the POV of CAP. However this requires the DB to be always able to create new replicas in the minority side and eventually reply to the query, and I'm not sure this is the case in Dynamo-alike systems when there is a single-node partition.
That would be so wild! It would be wild for this to be a ridiculous footnote of science history also. I would love to know that things we're contemplating today are ridiculous tomorrow. It'd be wild if high school kids in 2200 talk about the "Matrix theory" of the universe the way our high school kids talk about the humorism of the body or the aether.
Game theory as a subject is something I wish was taught as standard curiculum. It contains so many answers to so many deep and vexing questions and problems of our age, and it holds the promise of so many more. It is among the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century.
The matter at hand here was pull requests and the implied notion that those didn't happen in the Java EE universe, which I proved (again) was not true.

Instead of just acknowledging that in whatever way you're just evading the issue (again) and switching to another topic.

But to reply this new topic, TCK has been a thorn in the JCP process indeed. Not every spec has a closed TCK. CDI and Bean Validation have open ones, based on Arquillian, with an open source (OSI) license, and an associated issue tracker where everyone can open issues against it.

Now funny thing here is that CDI is rapidly becoming the underpinning of everything in Java EE. It's the core of Java EE's core.

For some other specs like JSF the TCK is unfortunately closed, but the RI (Mojarra) has such an extensive set of effective TCK tests that I wonder if there's anything at all in the TCK that's not covered by the RI tests.

Still, opening up the TCKs is another battle worth fighting.
Still pretty sure that the probability that you get rich enough to get into space is higher, than the probability that you be luckily selected by NASA.

Assume that 1M$ is what you will need to get into space. It takes some flair and some favorable conditions, but I think that ~0.1 to 1% of the population can get 1M$. Much less than 0.1% of the population is selected by NASA to go to space.
> I've had a similar one, imagining an alternate cold war with the divergent point being the mid 60's Mariner probe visit to Mars revealed canals, cities, vegetation, and a shallow ocean.

Reminds me a bit of the awesome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_%281998_video_game%2...
ScaleFT Wants to Make Managing Public Clouds Safer, Raises $800K Seed Round
Santa Clara County Officials Pull the Plug on Stingray Cellphone Tracking Tech
You seem very focused on what you can't do with it rather than focusing on what you can do with it. I've found, in practice, that you learn to adapt to not having that level of expressiveness and start thinking through problems the Go way. And I've come around to the viewpoint that expressiveness is also a liability of a language in addition to being a feature. Sharing code in a team becomes so much easier when using Go compared to other, more expressive, languages. And I've even come around to liking it for my personal projects too after returning to code I hadn't seen in months and immediately grokking it.

Maybe it's just my advancing age (for a programmer), but I find myself gravitating towards the "It's not finished when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to remove" mentality when it comes to programming languages. I find that I'm only willing to tolerate new language features when they introduce benefits that go beyond expressiveness.
Lifetimes aren't regions.

4 years when it is a recapitulation of existing technology and hasn't had time to push anything forward and we already have PLs with similar facilities? That's a product-oriented rather than research-oriented direction whether you think it's too fast or not. For comparison, Haskell dates to the early 90s, based on non-strict FP languages from the 80s. ML itself started in the 70s. Much of what makes Haskell nice today happened because it had a decade to gestate without the demands of industry coming first. Applicative wasn't discovered until 2008. Those discoveries are a big part of why I happily use Haskell for work today.

This is emphatically not a value judgment, I will likely not use Rust in anger so I'm not your customer anyway at least WRT the programming language. Representations of linear types embeddable in dependently typed languages (such as Brady is figuring out in Idris) will probably be the next step.

In my ideal universe, there's a language for people to experiment with theoretical models and practical applications of linear typing such as Idris provides for DTPLs. This is particularly appealing as it could enable programmers to define their own linearly typed models for the compiler to enforce.
UN: Eco-Farming Feeds the World (2011)
April 16, 2014....
Atari Breakout on Google Images
How do you not get eaten by other cells
This article has interesting implications for the current attempts to revive community policing, which promotes the idea of police getting more involved and integrated into the communities in which they work, with the hope that they become more trusted and aware of the social landscape in which they are operating.

By integrating themselves with the community, they would necessarily fall under the influences of some of the community's norms, and perhaps be better tuned, and also more accountable, to it's norms of righteousness.

That may work in many cases, but the article seems to assume that most individuals in any community will promote righteousness in the community's interest.

What happens if the community lacks the social norms to enforce righteousness, especially with respect to the property rights and justification of violence? What happens when the "community" is hardly a community at all, but, due to its socioeconomic circumstances, is a place where suspicions of neighbors and incentives to cheat the community are pervasive?

Whose job is it to establish the norms of righteousness where they are lacking, or significantly degraded?
You do realize this is in nowhere pretending to be near as effective as a novel written even by the most okayish of writers right?
I'm at work so can't help further - but "transform: translateX()" should be used instead of positioning relatively to the left/right for movement. It will make it a lot more smooth. Unfortunately it moves your "strips" over the static background image and breaks the effect. Adding a repeat-x; to them didn't'fix that problem.

I'm sure it's fixable but I can't think of how offhand, and as mentioned... at work. But that should be a good starting point for you. :)

Always good to just ship it! I half-figured it was on a to-do list given the nature of the project.
Not if N=1 ;)

(A constant amount is of course independent of N anyway!)
True. I guess the problem I had was that it quoted Elon but not the employee. So it was lacking context in that manner.
Show HN: A pure JavaScript implementation of IndexedDB that passes all the W3C tests
Thanks.

Interesting this wasn't caught by the submission..
I've hitchhiked on account of missing buses before...
Standards are the Present
Large CAs, including Symantec, are already cooperating with CT. CAs will enroll in CT because if they don't, they won't be able to sell higher-value products (like the EV bar) to their users.

The problems with DNSSEC seem so obvious to me, and, obviously, I have problems taking pro-DNSSEC arguments seriously. I'm curious though; you sound plenty smart. What is it about DNSSEC that you actually like?
It's been about 20 years since I lived in Colorado, but it was very common when I was in college, not only along the mountain/ski routes but even along the front range. I remember hitching from Colorado Springs to Ft. Collins and back multiple times.
Please don't feed trolls. A comment like this only takes the thread further off topic.
I've always been partial to "robocar". It has a nice tinge of dystopia to it.
Its the rate for the Job what does a graduate certificate matter the UK isn't as fixated as some country's on credentials.
It looks kind of like the InstaRepl in LightTable.
Would there be a hit? C++ has to do this:

object pointer -> load vtable -> load function pointer

while a compressed fat pointer would be like:

fat pointer -> shift to extract vtable index -> shift to make into a global table offset -> load global table base from a global variable -> load function pointer

Two loads in both cases, but in the compressed case the first one will almost always be cached; more code bloat, but not that much, and you save a bit of memory in the objects themselves.
Mainstream science has coherent and sensible explanations for these type of phenomena, namely "ice has high albedo", that don't require a bunch of woo.
There are companies that provide legals docs to startups as a service. These are generally a bad idea to use. For example, I used a popular one a few years ago and got a general, 2-page document. I went to a real lawyer and got a 50-page document that served me well later, when my company needed to liquidate.

One of the problems is that the cost of having a bad legal team (or no legal team) is astronomical. It's far higher than just paying the "high fees".

What kinds of areas would you want to innovate specifically?
Where Is Silicon Valley? (PDF, 2014)
Well, here is a sample size of two. As young adults my sister and myself used to frequently hitch hike on the exact same roads that noted serial killer Fred West used to pick up hitch hikers. We would be hitch hiking independently or with friends, yet not once were we brutally murdered.

Really this hitch hiking thing is like a social network that has gone wrong, to no longer have 'network effects'.
> Not if N=1 ;)

> (A constant amount is of course independent of N anyway!)

When using O notation, we're doing asymptotic analysis and n can be arbitrarily large. If you have an arbitrarily large pointer, you cannot store the pointer in a constant number of bits. If your pointer is 64-bits long, you're cannot handle n > 2^64. That is why I said you need O(log n) rather than O(1).
Ask HN: How to interpret PyPI download numbers?
For Python packages, 100k per month is clearly better than 0. In the middle of the long tail (1k to 5k per month), what's driving these downloads -- organic users or machine mirroring? Is there a monthly download number below which you red flag a package for adoption?
One that I remember coming across is https://www.shakelaw.com/

Cant give insight as to why that industry seems particularly more quiet than others in terms of disruptive business models however
Sure "only allowed to examine each ball once" should be "only allowed to examine each bucket once"? Otherwise you have to keep track of which balls you've looked at already after swapping. Also, I can't figure out how to do it that way :)
Blacklisting is an okay option, but as you said, it's tough to do so just going by your memory. In fact there are actually thousands of free, public domains, which you will likely want to blacklist. Here's a good list (2013):

https://gist.github.com/tbrianjones/5992856

P.S. Maybe someone should make an API to verify if a domain is free/public or not :)
Then you won't get the chance to be the buyer. If the business is doing well, owners will want you to pay for it and won't accept your integration risk. If the company is struggling, they won't give up their preferences.
From the HN guidelines: "Resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Downvotes of substantive comments often get corrected by other users before the paint dries. But complaints about downvotes remain forever off-topic.
You might not care, RMS might not care, but please don't assume that "no one else cares". I don't know you, and I don't know RMS, but he doesn't seem like the most emotionally intelligent person, perhaps you aren't either. Nothing wrong with that, you are who you are.

Some people are capable of responding very strongly to the emotions of others. I'm not saying they're better than you, just that they're different to you, and that they exist :)
May be the underlying ice melting and refreezing like on Europa ...

http://i.space.com/images/i/000/029/810/i02/europa-thick-ice...

... due to occasional asteroid strike?
Seems like the key insight into solving problem 1 is constructing the unconditional jump operation.

From what I remember of my Cambridge interview, the questions they asked weren't anywhere near as interesting as these.
Isn't this just because hitchhiking have been replaced by much more car sharing and networks of people pooling and ridesharing?

Hell I wonder if it actually went up but we just changed the definition.
That first case ("sites I use often") seems like a pretty big win. I want my browser crying holy murder if my bank or webmail cert suddenly changes.