skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about when your users start storing their passwords in a password manager app? Which is on both their smartphone and their laptop? (And it's possibly only encrypted when they are logged out - i.e. hardly ever)

The point being that users are already turning something-you-know into something-you-have by using a password manager.

EDIT I'm not saying that password managers are a bad thing.
Both-side diagonal parking is an abomination. All it takes to block a road are two guys with long VW Sprinter vans and a regular dumpster truck can't maneuver through the hole.

Witnessed this once, the honking in front of my window went for ten minutes and I had to call the cops - total time needed over half an hour.
I really think the only failure of kickstarter is that many backers don't understand the risk they're buying into.

R&D always costs more than production, so wouldn't backers in theory pay more than market value to be first and part of the creation cycle?
What about sibling gay marriage? No risk of genetically damaged offspring.
I don't think the issues are that closely related.

You don't have to be married to have sex, and practicing pedophilia is already illegal.

Pedophilia is categorically different from homosexuality. Children don't generally seek out sexual relationships with adults, making it intrinsically one-sided, and it involves other inherent asymmetries of experience and personal liberty. It's illegal for much the same reason that children can't sign legally binding contracts with adults. (Which also, by the way, makes pedo-marriages illegal as marriage is a contract.)

The zoophilia thing is kind of a red herring for its sheer bizarreness. I mean it does exist, but so do people want to have sex with cheese. Do we deny rights to a huge number of voluntary loving relationships because of bizarre edge cases that occur in minute fractions of the population?

Slippery slope arguments are not always invalid, but they only apply when the slope is actually slippery.

This isn't "moral anarchy." It's a debate between two theories of morality: religious-traditionalist vs. utilitarian-humanist. Both are theories in that they take coherent positions. Neither position is anarchy. If you want to debate, why not debate the real metaphysical and epistemological issues instead of these surface proxy ones?
This is absolutely correct, thank you!
Is it not possible that the peak load is more than 3x the average load? With your own hardware you have to be provisioned for peak load 100% of the time.
Really mesmerizing! I've actually been watching Hypermasher from time to time since it was also submitted here [1]. I like the improvements that you've made, the interface is certainly nicer, and your codebase appears to be more concise. Hypermasher could run without Flash (barring the music), but Hyperlax refuses to start without it, however that's just a nitpick (though you might be surprised at the number of people who have flash disabled by default these days.)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8309848
GitHub has rainbow flag icon
And it utterly fails anyone in a wheelchair, pushing a pram, lugging a heavy suitcase etc.
Falcon 9 first stage it too heavy to catch mid air, and using parachute isn't viable trade off because the required parachutes will be too heavy.
Hey, who is your market with this? From my POV developers doing testing have quite mature toolsets to do automated integration tests I.e selenium.

So what other types of people would find it useful?

Off the top of my head:

1. Tech Companies that have a testing/uat team that are not developers. For e.g i worked on a contract where testing was handed over from dev to a testing team which was largely manual.

2. Companies that purchase software, that have their own internal testing process which is still manual. For e.g when some projects i worked on we would do our testing then the client would do their testing which was all manual. These are business users with out any programming skills.

3. What about other people doing repetive things? Capturing data, saving data, extracting data?
Did you just call black people "savage" and "animals"?
First, don't put words in my mouth. That's not my answer.

Second, that's it? Nothing more? Consensual, non-coercive between, say, a 70-year-old and a 9-year-old is fine?
PS: These safety parts looked almost as old as the elevator, so if they weren't a part of the original design, I would guess they were added a long time ago...

EDIT: I actually found a mention of regulation from 1982 stating that the sliding upper parts are mandatory both on the cabin and on the "door frame" and moving them must stop the elevator. The hinged floorboards on cabins and floors are also mandatory, but there is no mention that they should also stop the elevator.
See [1] (in Czech) for pictures.

[1] http://paternoster.archii.cz/bezpecnost.html
I'm applying an awful lot of assumptions?

Yes. Your assumption of the particular launch vehicle for one. Your assumption of a particular kind of aircraft for another.

When I asked what would recover the thing, you said it could be done with a helicopter.

It is clearly your assumption about "it" being the Falcon 9 1st stage. Also, the general principle of recovery by aircraft doesn't necessarily mean it has to be a helicopter.
Awesome FOSS Apps
CIA nigger? Yer fucked.
A motorbike is mandated to have lights and cops enforce this, in contrast to bikes where most cops tend to let Darwinian evolution happen.
> Nobody in 1789 would have said that gay marriage is a fundamental right.

That's one of those assertions that relies on present-day society always believing they are more socially advanced than earlier ages, and that society moves forward monotonically in lock step around the world.

In fact, modern American society is a lot more prudish about same-sex unions of various types than earlier societies in Rome, Greece, and China at various times. It's very likely that one could find contemporaries of the authors of our Constitution, in comparable circumstances of economic and cultural development, who thought same sex unions are perfectly OK.

The men of 1789 who wrote the Constitution wrote a document they aspired to. Pretty obviously in the case of slavery, but in many other ways.

They explicitly said they could not enumerate rights. If you think otherwise, I'd like to know what you think of the following:

If someone invented a brain accelerator that imparted god-like intelligence, would you have a right to use it, or would the government grant such a right?

If someone cured old age, would you have a right to access that cure? Or would government have a say in this novel, unprecedented thing?

If someone invented an unbreakable code, would you have a right to what amounts to an uncrackable safe for your "documents and effects?"

If someone invented a personal spaceship, would you have a right to go to space, assuming you could do it without endangering others?
This week: Unicode 8, loads of fixes, preparing for shaped arrays
I'm fully aware of that, but it's irrelevant to the claim that the poster suspects "that religious marriage existed long before nation states" being disputed with "the evidence shows that the English legal tradition considered marriage a civil institution long before the churches tried to claim it".

The simple fact is marriage easily predates all the English (pre or not) legal traditions. English (pre or not) traditions at best drew on the earlier concepts and practice of marriage.

Crack a world history book open sometime. Or just use google.
Summary of the 4 dissents on same-sex marriage decision
From the article:

"The law does include limited exemptions, however. Forensic laboratories can ask workers for their DNA to check that employees' genetic material does not contaminate the genetic samples that they analyse."
A logarithmic graph scales by gain/loss per dollar, which is often more illuminating than the gain/loss per share.

E.g. a $10 share going up to $20 is much better for investors than a $110 share going up to $120, even if the absolute gain is the same.
I Write unittests
CoffeeScript for one man show projects.

what? why? we are a team of 8 working with it and it's great.
Also love what Hubspot did w/ Sidekick.
I like to try two impractical tasks (impractical in the sense that they might not be possible, which is fine).

1. Access some data in the highest level component from one of the lowest level components

2. Access some data in one of the lowest level components from one of the highest level components

In a lot of cases, good architecture will prevent one or both of these from being possible, but identifying how data flows through the app seems to be a good way to understand the general architecture, limitations and strengths of most apps. These two tasks give concrete starting points for tracing the data flow.
Build and run the project locally

Then I write unittests
So what happens if my front door is on the border line of two squares?
Pardon my ignorance. When it comes to wanting to kill/scare people as the cartels do what is the difference between an AR15 vs. an M16? Either way you point it at me I'm going to shit myself and do what you say.
Now you seem to be arguing about the integrity of the entire fields of psychology and sociology? When I say those "who know more than I do," I am simply deferring to scientists that have studied observable phenomenon and concluded certain things. Science is an ever-evolving field: if scientific consensus was reached that gay marriages, say, encouraged criminal behavior as an adult, then I would reconsider my beliefs.

You are right that we don't get to stop the "civil rights train" (S.B.: what a horrible phrase) when one of us individually gets what we want, but we also don't get to stop the "science train" from telling us cold hard facts about life. (Get over it: gay people can love and raise kids just as well as a heterosexual couple. [1])

What "plenty more people" do you have in mind? Then, tell me how those cases aren't covered by my discussion of consent and we might get somewhere. Those "other people's" freedom to express their desires ends where the harm of another begins.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_parenting#Consensus
Regressive disclosure: designing complex interfaces by reducing choice
Rackspace is on the high end as far as price. You can find DCs for much much less (multiple times less).
ExSQLence.com
I hope you can upload some video!
That's incredibly light! It couldn't be done with an existing helicopter, but it could be done with an airplane.

Do you really think designing and building a new helicopter with twice the payload capacity of anything built will be a more cost-effective plan?

Specifically for the Falcon 9, no. For the record, I think SpaceX knows what it's doing, and if they've concluded landing the 1st stage is the best way to go, it probably is. But it's fun to think about spacecraft recovery and huge machines. (Unless you're being piled on by tons of emotional HN commenters who imagine you holding strawman positions and speaking in imagined tones.)
In 2008 the high court ordered Lyttle to pay almost £300,000 to Hackney council to pay for repairs, but he died in 2009, leaving the council with a £400,000 repair bill.

Following his death, the property become even more dilapidated – to the point where the council had to fill in the tunnels with concrete to prevent subsidence. When they did so they found Lyttle had stashed four wrecked Renault cars, a boat, several baths and fridges and numerous TV sets under his home. They are still there, encased in the concrete used to shore up the property.

The site was sold with planning permission for the derelict structure

It sold for 1m.
That helped, but definitely would have expected it to just be in the UI and not require an unfamiliar keyboard shortcut.
I guess "I will accept inconvenience to maintain my privacy" is now outside the Overton Window? (Or at least outside Goldman Sachs' worldview, or Conor Fitzgerald's.)
wow, this is like the best starwars posters generator in the whole galaxy
One of the interesting thing is how severe disagreements are between the supreme court judges[1]. You might think these judges are debating with cold logical arguments and finally either understand other person's argument or be able to convince others of theirs. Instead what we are seeing is judges literally and personally attacking other judges in same panel and accusing them to derail the very constitution and democracy they are expected to protect. Can they make any ore serious accusations? It's also very interesting that judge votes were highly predictable based on their political leanings and which administration appointed them. This just boggled my mind. First, why we should allow any person strongly conforming to any political ideology as a supreme court judge? Why a political leader who almost always have represented as head of certain political ideology be able to even appoint a supreme court judge?

1. http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/marriage-same-...
Maybe millenials have figured out that happiness doesn't lie in having more stuff?
Please consider deleting your comment. Imagine if those kids find out they're on Hacker News, and find this. It's not very interesting to your fellow commenters either.
California Attorney General Reverses Policy on Locked Data
I didn't say the founders' intent should be venerated, or even necessarily taken into account. But you made a claim about their intent ("It was not intended to mean that each person gets to have a gun") and I was responding to that.

People can (and do) argue about the founders' intent, and people can and do argue about the consequences of controlling weapons, or failing to do so. But two things are inarguable: 1) the plain text of the amendment, notwithstanding the explanatory preamble, says that "the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", period, end of story. And 2) the currently operative Supreme Court ruling supports #1.

The real problem with this debate is that both sides are hypocritical. The liberals argue that the 2nd amendment doesn't mean what it plainly says, while conservatives argue that it does mean what it says while tacitly conceding that some limits on personal weaponry (like nukes or ground-to-air missiles) are nonetheless necessary and reasonable. The only real disagreement is over where to draw the line. But until everyone agrees that that's what the argument is really about we're not likely to make any progress.
I might be missing it, but is there a link anywhere to the individual playlists on Soundcloud? Would love little links on the music tab to go straight to the playlist vs. just the individual song from clicking the link at the bottom right.

The playlist is great but I don't always want the video running to listen to it.
It never occurred to me before to ask, but aren't Emscripten asm.js programs vulnerable to the same exploits C programs are? e.g. I could exploit a buffer overflow in some trusted js code to get some sensitive information from the site. If that's the case, would emcc with SafeStack mitigate that?
This is a very interesting marketing (unmarketing?) strategy. I'm in a similar spot as Crew were when they posted that project, I even remember seeing it on hn at the time.

Andrew recently posted an interview [1] with the founder of betalist.com, which was also born out of desperation and as a side project. Marc talks about his betalist experiment and the impact it had [2].

I would love to see other examples and write-ups about this. Was it accidental or strategic? I'm the sole developer of our product right now, but we're also struggling with marketing at the moment. How much does it make sense for me to put the effort into such side projects?

[1] http://mixergy.com/interviews/marc-kohlbrugge-betalist/
[2] https://medium.com/beta-list/how-i-tricked-techcrunch-into-w...
You don't have to use them with just classes: https://github.com/wycats/javascript-decorators
Every single child has a mother and a father. If that's not a prime universal truth, I don't know what is.

Men and women have been found by psychologists in every culture and tradition to differ in aggression and general activity level, types of cognitive strength, and sensory sensitivity. The differences between man and woman are obvious to all but the most ideologically blinded deconstructionists.
I love Scala, but compile times (even for tiny projects) are really annoying.
Now just think about how something like the recent government hack[1] would play out on a wider scale.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/24/hackers-sto...
Pocket Casts drives double-digit growth with material design and wearables
Zynga bet on being able to build out their own datacenter cheaper than what it cost them on AWS. They took this experiment very far and ultimately couldn't beat AWS. There're a lot of hidden costs when you consider AWS-level datacenter management vs. the type of comparisons you might be used to looking at simple dedicated hardware vs. AWS offerings.

Random Google result about this: http://readwrite.com/2015/05/12/zynga-data-center-amazon-aws...
Forget the English, marriage has been along longer than even the Anglo-Saxons in general.
This is an incredibly stupid takeaway. Facebook can hire the best software engineers and computer scientists in the world, so of course they hire such people and these people build stuff at Facebook.

That doesn't mean other people can't use Haskell to build web applications.
BitBucket pushes showing rainbow Atlassian logo
https://jumpcloud.com/blog/sharing-google-authenticator-secr...
If you are interested in setting up 2FA for SSH, we have a great step-by-step guide for multi-machine deployments. Alternatively, you can sign up for JumpCloud to automatically implement this, and manage other key aspects of your infrastructure.
Are you sure the power savings for mobile base stations are worth building chips for?

I don't know the numbers, but suppose for example that there are 100,000 base stations that currently use 100 watts each doing the DSP. That's 10,000,000 watts total, costing about $10M/yr at $0.12 / kWh utility rates. If you can save 80% and capture 1/3 of the savings for the first 2 years (typical of efficiency improvement sales), you make $5.3M. If it costs $15M to design the chips, that's a bad business.

To have a good business doing energy-efficient chips, you'd need to target applications burning a billion watts from the grid, so you can make a fraction of a billion dollars.

The mobile device market values energy efficiency much higher than $0.12 / kWh. That might be a better domain to target.
I didn't meant external networking.
Connect two datacenters, see what costs come up.
Connect machines inside your datacenter, etc..
Your maintenance cost will raise.
AWS is cheap. Whatever you did, you operated on a really slow scale where money didn't mattered. Or you completely forgot a lot in your calculation.

Oh and here is a Link from Zynga:
http://readwrite.com/2015/05/12/zynga-data-center-amazon-aws...
My next examples would be Gilt, etc. You can't run elastic in your own datacenter.

From your article:

> https://blog.serverdensity.com/saving-500k-per-month-buying-...

> Dell R415 with x2 processors each with 8 cores, 32GB RAM, a 500GB SATA system drive and a 400GB SSD

This one made me laugh...
Was that something? You might as well have asked "What's for dinner?" of a system that would reply "I don't know food."
Just curious why have you chosen "professionals in the oil and gas, energy, and finance industries"?
> You realize that there are legal scholars already positing their legality right now, right?

Of course. On my list of social causes worth spending time and energy on, polygamy ranks pretty low. If it's near and dear to your heart I wish you the best of luck.
Isn't ag a better option these days?
To Osine and Anesi, if you read this:

1) Awesome job, keep going!

2) You'll find some naysayers, nitpickers and other critics here: Your heroes, including Gates, Zuckerberg, and Musk, all had to deal with them too, before they were legends (and still do to some extent). You can't avoid them; they are drawn to risk-taking and [EDIT: innovation] like ants to a picnic. Just ignore them, their criticisms are just wind in your face as you move forward. They wish their projects made the front page of Hacker News!

3) We'd love to hear from you; feel free to leave a comment!
>Neither birth control nor gender reassignment surgery promote poor mental or physical health.

I'd argue this study [0] shows that gender reassignment surgeries increase risk of suicide compared to transexuals pre-surgery with a strong confidence rate. Whether this is due to the surgery or due to increased harassment for their transexuality post-surgery is to be debated (doesn't seem to be mentioned)

There are further studies that show that reassignment does not typically improve one's self-image or happiness. In fact, the countless amount of data has led me to not go through with GR as it seems both expensive and studies show it doesn't really help one become happier with themselves: it can make it worse.

Note that the study was conducted in Sweden - the social stigma is far less than here in America.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21364939

[0..] Alternative source to study: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
The first thing I do is try to get a handle on the libraries it pulls in (maybe spend a day just going through the high-level readme material for each one). That will usually tell me where to start looking for the entry points where I might want to start modifying things. After that, I give myself a series of small functionality changes to implement, kind of like capturing a bunch of little flags. After doing that for a bit I usually have a decent idea of how things work, and it's easier to go forward, at which point I can dig into the relevant parts of the codebase with more confidence.

The first few mods are inevitably disgusting hacks, so don't pick anything you want to keep for your first couple of goals. It is pretty easy to go back and do them right once you've got your head around the rest of the project if you do end up wanting to keep them though.

I've used this method on some decently large C++ and javascript projects (around 100k-200k lines) and it works pretty well for me. I don't learn very well by just reading the code, but doing the little mods seems to make it stick.
... says someone that has clearly never used a Zip drive.
> Oh, did you know you can do the same thing at other providers for cheaper? :|

https://www.stormondemand.com/servers/baremetal.html
32/64GB - $0.75/hr

https://www.linode.com/pricing
20/64GB - $.96/hr and bandwidth

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
16/64GB - $1/hr + bandwidth costs @ [varies]

Even if you take your premise at face value, AWS is literally the most expensive option.

Personally, I've never seen a real world use case where you dropped below 33% capacity. In practice, you can get hourly billing for cheaper than AWS anyway with providers large enough to meet most customers needs.
The idea is usually that the project team either has already done the R&D and they're just raising money for the production run, or that they're going to do the R&D for free because they're going to own the business and make a profit on every sale after the backers get the initial production run.

Both wildly naive it seems, but I suspect that's how people imagine it. The demo videos usually show a "done-ish" product and downplay how much more needs to be done to actually ship it. And they always talk about how strong their team is and how it's totally doable even though it's not done yet.

The wifi lightbulb people come to mind. Total smoke and mirrors demo video and it took a major multinational getting involved to actually ship the product. That's the Belkin WeMo.
Are we supposing religious monkeys now? It wouldn't surprise me if earlier hominids were religious as well, but to call any other possibility "quite ridiculous" is really overstepping.