skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am convinced that people are dramatically underestimating the explosive progress that is going on in basic life science right now. Our ability to understand and manipulate biology is accelerating tremendously.

There is always a lag between the science and the applications, but I expect to live to see revolutions in medicine and biological engineering.
Uncrewed SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes After Launch
Before getting into the software industry, being paid in stock seemed like a no-brainer, because I looked at tech salaries and thought that you people were all making, at a baseline, well above what it costs to live a comfortable existence, so why wouldn't you play the odds a bit and try for a valuable payout when your stock options mature? Then I got a tech job and realized that, no, most people in tech are still just making ends meet due to the insane cost of living that descends like a dark cloud anywhere a thriving tech scene springs up.
Out of curiosity...

What it the NTP server is running openBSD? =P

(not sure if this question makes sense... Anyway, it seems some OS has to worry about leap seconds...)
Thank you for that. That's the stance that I naturally gravitate to, but one I have been doubting lately. Your comment is encouraging.

This might not be the most effective way to steer your resources towards common good, but there's this persnickety failure scenario where a man in need may receive material support but still lack a human connection and a sense of belonging.

Of course, you're still literally trading off human lives for a warm fuzzy feeling of personal involvement.

I'm looking forward to Peter Singer's upcoming Coursera lectures on effective altruism, I want to see him develop this position with rigor. Meanwhile http://www.givewell.org/ has a good analysis.
Hosts files only work for redirecting known bad actors down the memory hole. A noscript style blocker is needed to catch malicious js from new sources not tracked in a hosts database.
Americans are more aggressive in strategy - which includes outsourcing. It also makes them more prone to being aggressively stupid and aggressively short-sighted.

But hey, profits.
Usually they call those RUD, or "rapid unplanned disassembly." ;)

I imagine this was literally an overpressure event, where perhaps something occurred with the 2nd stage tank mixers. (The explosion occurred close to MECO.)
I would think that waveform capture on the electric grid would be impacted when doing timeseries data logging and use in subsequent analysis. Frequently these will be relative time snapshots or using a different time basis so not sure if they are actually impacted.

The only time people would care that I'm aware of would be if the grid drooped at that exact time and one was trying to do analysis around that. Otherwise they are just doing things real time as they happen and time tracking is not necessarily involved except for logging.

Anyway I frequently run into timeseries trending clients that cannot handle displaying daylight saving time transitions correctly let alone hope that they handle leap seconds correctly.
"> Is it possible you are thinking superficially and not considering the longer term ramifications of actions?

No."

Manifestly a wrong answer. Examples of correct answers would be "I don't believe so", "I doubt it", "It doesn't appear likely from my perspective".

"Impact" and "Fuck You" and "Post is Interesting" aside, I still ask... what comprises the common good? If you really think about this you may find the answer is not as easy or as certain as you appear to believe.
Or someone you don't like: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rodstewart188864....
"but those people are banned because there is a risk of violence"

No, they're banned because their speech is so unpopular amongst a small but violent group of the population, that the Govt. would rather they weren't allowed to speak there.

That's a freedom of speech issue, not a border control issue.

If the Govt. were functioning properly, it would uphold its duty to protect unpopular speech by preventing (or at least attempting to prevent) violence directed at them. Instead, they just close their doors.
Did you start learning to read at 7, or had you already had some training?
>> "That's all we can say with confidence right now. Will have more to say following a thorough fault tree analysis."

You're supposed to do the fault tree analysis before you build the rocket Elon. The safety critical systems on your car have these done. Or perhaps they never did one for over pressure because it seems implausible for the pressure to increase.
Again, a lot of words with definitions that intelligent people can disagree on. This is why there are so many different operating systems... and implementations of echo.c. So to answer your original question more directly : yes, there are many instances of the standard command-line tools available on other UNIXen being substantially better than the GNU userspace tools. In my opinion. You may disagree, but who is to say?
Taiwan dust explosion injures 500 vs. Mythbusters Creamer Powder Explosion
A dust explosion is the rapid combustion of fine particles suspended in the air. Dust explosions can occur where dispersed powdered combustible material is present in high enough concentrations in the atmosphere.

This is what happened this weekend in Taiwan:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/28/asia/taiwan-water-park-explosion/

For a comparison see what happens with a right mixture of otherwise benign creamer powder and air:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRw4ZRqmxOc
Almost definitely not. Vitamin D deficiency is fairly common today, even with good food sources like fortified dairy products and eggs. The ancient Greeks didn't have fortified dairy and the chicken hadn't been domesticated yet, so the only readily available food source of vitamin D was liver. Luckily, the body can produce vitamin D; half an hour of naked sun exposure is more than sufficient to meet your daily requirements.
Wow... That is definitely alarming and should be reported...

Edit:

I reported it on the same thread since it's still active.

Edit: Someone else reported it, it seems.
> In a few years we've gone from /etc/init.d/sshd restart to service sshd restart to systemctl start sshd.

Aw man, I just got used to the second one!
Yes, but there's been no real singificant growth in the sector in the last ~2 years. See: DDD, SSYS, XONE, etc... All three companies are struggling very hard when the future was so bright. Yes, there are other companies, but these are the market leaders.
It may be more likely that we live to see the rise of Grey Goo.
I hope we can get this monthly topic added to the "whoishiring" posting routine. Or perhaps this will surface where other's have had success finding matches, provided it doesn't get crushed by the Monday news cycle.
Ever since my first year at uni, my reading has been transformed. The lectures forced me to read highly mathematical and algorithmic books, some of which took multiple hours per page if you want to comprehend everything. Now, my reading has slowed down drastically (10-100 times slower) but when I'm done with reading something, I understand it well enough to explain all the key concepts to someone else. Another thing is that I somehow memorize where things are, that is, when I remember some passage, I know where to look in the book almost down to the page (this doesn't work for PDFs which is one of the reasons why I avoid them). But I've lost the ability to read for pleasure, I used to be able to finish a novel in an evening.
But the US labor force is increasingly composed of African Americans (average IQ of 86) and Hispanics (90) [1], versus Chinese labor force consisting of Han Chinese (average IQ 106). Thus it still has no competitive advantage.

1.http://www.rlynn.co.uk/
> "you basically can't trust NoScript to protect you from browser vulnerabilities"

You make it sound like NoScript should not be trusted. In reality, nothing is secure but NoScript is one of the better security options (perhaps best?) for helping to prevent a specific set of attacks that use js to enable.

A flaw was found - and promptly fixed. You are (inadvertently I believe) leading people to drop NoScript and possibly go with something else. Another less mature security tool will have its own share of flaws - likely months or years until they will reach relatively similar ground as NoScript.
Press conference said that range safety didn't command the FTS (flight termination system) and there is no data (yet) that FTS enabled, but that's doesn't mean the on-board FTS didn't activate itself. It certainly looked like a controlled explosion...

Comment from Reddit that may be useful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3bejxp/spacex_crs7_h...
How about just sending the iodine and let them iodize their existing salt supplies?
Shipping salt is less effective than adding iodine to salt that's already being shipped. Paying someone to make these connections is expensive, but directly lowers costs over just shipping iodized salt. In the end you might average spending 50:50 on manpower vs materials but get 10x value in iodized salt shipped vs cost of said salt.

http://www.saltinstitute.org/news-articles/iodized-salt/
I'm sorry, if you're serious, this is the most entitled and egotistical suggestion I've ever read in my life, it's kind of shocking. The best way to spend $20K charitably is to bill oneself $200/hr and spend 100 hours sharing one's massive brain with homeless people by giving them... a talking? (While, again, billing $200/hour for it.)

Then spend that well-earned money on hookers and blow? You've made a difference?

Honestly... words fail me.
Agreed
Important to note that by default even in incognito window all sessions in that window (at least in chrome) are persisted. For example closing and opening tabs will resume last session) so this exploit may still work if you have Facebook open in the same incognito browser
I've used plugins that further guaranteed a new session between tabs in incognito
I'm familiar with these instruments and with the custom.

It is not sufficient to discount them for business risk or interest rate risk or any of the other common risks; they must also be discounted for concentration. Unless you were born into a large trust fund or have already accumulated vast wealth (and expect to work for only a short time more), the discounted present value of your expected future salary is going to be your largest asset. That asset is substantially dependent on the business and market fortunes of your employer; therefore, any further exposure to those fortunes represents additional excess concentration. Even if your downside exposure is limited, as it is with RSUs and options, that exposure must be devalued if it represents excess concentration. For most people, the proper devaluation is going to be 100%. You already have too much exposure to your employer. You want to lay off that exposure any way you can (as the author understands), not add more by accepting equity in lieu of cash.

It's simply not correct that demanding cash is not an option. It's a business negotiation; anything is an option. You may not get all, or even any, of what you want, but categorically refusing to ask for it is seldom a winning strategy.
The other interpretation is that instead of reinventing the wheel purely for tar, it's all been factored out into a standardised library anything can use for generic archiving tasks.

e.g. instead of:

440K gtar
151K gcpio
144K unzip

Base has:

655K libarchive.so.6
57K bsdtar
37K bsdcpio
20K unzip

34K bigger, much wider format support, and directly usable by other tools like pkg and ar, as well as third party apps like tarsnap and cmake.
Source?

Because I'm calling bullshit on those figures, IQ tests are notoriously unreliable across cultural and societal boundaries.

Hell even across economic boundaries within the same society.
Yes. Such jobs exists but are harder to get.

First reason they are harder to get is that only a small portion of companies allows remote work.

Second reason is that out of those that allow remote work, even less allow remote work from other countries due to more complicated tax reporting and other employment issues.

How to get such job? The best (but not easy) way is to be exceptional enough that companies will want to hire you despite additional complexities.

Other than that, start with https://www.google.com/search?q=remote+jobs

Find companies that are known to allow remote work and target them by learning the skills that they value.

Many such companies have open-source projects so you can make yourself known by doing meaningful contributions - I'm sure that would help a lot when applying for a job.
It's only 20 grand. As I tried to mention below, aim higher. You've got the nerds running around in the weeds here on HN.

This other story on HN is not gaining any traction but it's interesting because a 33 year old Malayasian billionaire is financing using Watson to assist with cancer treatment.

"http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/06/27/watsons...

"Jho Low, the 33-year-old billionaire who is bankrolling the $50 million MD Anderson project with Watson, said the effort grew out of his grandfather’s treatment for leukemia in Malaysia. Low said that he felt fortunate to be able to connect his grandfather’s doctors remotely with MD Anderson specialists to devise the best treatment plan. He believes everyone, rich or poor, should have the same access to that kind of expertise."
If you read 'Watson' as 'whatever changing mix of machine learning techniques IBM throws at a particular domain', these PR stories make more sense.
Because even the social environments that don't resemble schools are created by, operated by, and comprised of people who learned how to interact socially in the school environment. This means that many of the subtle conventions that underly the more visible dynamics will be intuitive to someone with a school background, and inaccessible to someone without it. The issue is exacerbated by the fact that the school environment is unnatural and irrational, and so its customs will never follow from common sense.

Also, not sharing a huge formative experience with the rest of the population makes it harder to empathize with them.
I think this is one of the mechanisms behind detoxifying fasts. Severe caloric restriction for an extended period (I'm guessing at least 3 days) results in major changes in your gut flora, some of which may persist upon resumption of a normal diet.
We definitely had less science taught to us, particularly physics. I'm a bit more informed about stained glass window making, bee keeping etc.
My thought would be that an ideal combo would be a Steiner school until age 10-12 ish. After that I have no idea. The state system just seems to run continual exams, tests and assessments. To put this in perspective, I had sat probably 2 real exams before finishing school.
Rand Paul hosts #HackForRand
Pretty interesting what Rand Paul is doing in terms of involving tech in his campaign.

Today he hosted a hackathon. Perhaps the first politician hosted hackathon? [0]

Thinking to how this might have come to be, it appears their CTO worked for Bell and Sun writing Unix kernels. [1]

The winners can be seen here, sounds like they made a donation app. [2]

[0]: http://randpaul.com/hackforrand

[1]: https://twitter.com/RonnieSchnell

[2]: https://twitter.com/AnthonyNBCNews/status/615309843113455616
I read yesterday that the leap second was handled by repeating the last second of the day. So you would see 59 seconds for two seconds but never 60 seconds. I guess different systems and time standards may handle it differently.
> What about delivery? Without a delivery mechanism to those who need it this would be a well meaning but not very useful.

It doesn't, which is why it's a really bad idea, there exist charities that can deliver it already just give them the money. Even if you could get it to people they possibly won't use it without the complex knowledge of local issues.

Similar - http://www.luckyironfish.com/
Shouldn't `ntp`, over a short period of time, simply lengthen the actual amount of wall clock time per 'second' exposed to the kernel/userland? So there should never be a huge delta of 1s, nor should time ever go in reverse.
Because every reasonable Internet user believes they're allowed to do that, whereas when you get access to a passwordless VNC server, it's so newsworthy that it immediately gets voted onto the front page of Hacker News.
Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom
> There's no lack of research projects where a donation is statistically identical to setting the money on fire.

Very very true.
That sounds like a better idea. I've seen a couple claims that higher vitamin-D levels go with lower weight, e.g. https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/releases/2014/04/vitamin-d...
Also fantastic, the hub command: https://github.com/github/hub/blob/master/README.md
100 hours is nowhere near enough time to meaningfully change someone's life. You'll spend that long just gaining their trust -- and why should they follow your advice, anyway?

This doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, but it's a much bigger investment than 100 hours.
There are ways to introduce a paid layer of services above and beyond the basic product without needing to lock away features of the software itself as you said, though. Things like cloud-based services that cost you money to offer. I'm working on this now for one of my projects that has quite a bit of debt in my name for the first several years of hosting when it was more expensive for hosting and bandwidth.

While donations may be preferable, one unfortunate thing is that while donations and advertising on your hosted site can add up and can pay for hosting and a few niceties in some cases, they often don't bring in enough to support even a single developer. Or pay off back debt in my case.

Many open source projects wind up abandoned due to the developer(s)' inability to make ends meet from the work they are doing. Real life responsibilities... job, college debt, family, etc... tend to pull in the other direction. Many open source and freeware apps in the Windows world are turning to less-preferable means of supporting themselves such as bundleware. In the mobile world, they're trying their hand with more intrusive in-app advertising and in-app purchases.
No, you've misread the story. They fixed the stale entry that allowed this guy to pay $10 to whitelist all his Javascript. But any flaw in any of the thousands of Javascript files on all the other default-whitelisted CDNs will also allow attackers to evade NoScript. The CDNs won't be evil. The authors of those Javascript files won't be evil. But attackers will mine them for flaws they can use to evade NoScript, and those flaws will be easy to find (especially compared to reliable browser vulnerabilities).

No, NoScript does not protect against JS browser vulnerabilities.
If you're a young personal at the start of your career, then I agree it could easily make more sense to invest it in yourself (e.g. education, trying out a startup, graduate school).
The privacy paradox: The privacy benefits of privacy threats [pdf]
If you want a more conventional syntax, I'd suggest trying with a recursive-descent/precedence-climbing parser.
And neither is reddit's. I'm sure /r/programming, /r/mylittlepony and /r/NeutralPolitics, just to take a few examples, would find it very amusing if they see people accusing them of being 'incubators of hate'.
Five Signs Your Boss Doesn't Deserve You
That blog post is correct tho?
Samsung invents new tech that doubles your smartphone's battery life
I've seen plenty of links (including this one) to passwordless HTTP servers on the front page.

A reasonable person would assume that a server with no password, intentionally has no password.
In this case, cash is still more expensive because they have to have the cash, and they have to have it now. It costs almost nothing to issue the tiny percentage of stock you'd receive, and they don't have to worry about actually paying anything for a while, if ever.
Is helping people always about efficiency? It comes back to the give a man a fish vs. teach a man to fish concept.
The tipping nonsense
Bit Good Privacy
An excellent JSON to CSV converter
Point taken, but I could make the reverse point: "if you really want to talk yourself out of speaking to that scary-looking man on your block, spend some money with the Gates Foundation instead!"

I think it's fine to spend money on charities and other social causes, but my point is that many don't have the courage to face the problems they can solve without money. I think that's the best answer to Paul Buchheit's original question.

I think it's sad that the author of this blog post, and other commenters here, truly believe that by running some numbers they can prove how much their money is changing the world.

Changing the life of one person in a community can change that whole community. The world is not made of numbers, it's made of people. You have the best chance of making a big change in the world, if you focus on helping the people who live right next to you.
SpaceX rocket blows up on launch, again
What? How is that better than saving 10 lives from malaria or curing 100s of people of blindness who suffer from trachoma?
That's true it's another effect, but I doubt it means hybrid cars win e.g. it seems you could have a greater impact by speeding up the development of hybrid cars just by giving the $20,000 in cash directly to Toyota.
> No, NoScript does not protect against JS browser vulnerabilities.

Of course it does, it's just not perfect.
I don't think you can resell airline tickets unfortunately. Otherwise there would be companies buying up tickets months in advance, and then reselling them closer to the flight for a nice profit.
Putting my 2 cents in - I think this is a really cool idea. While I'm not actively looking for a co-founder I'd love to read a regular post and see if I could lend a hand to a new project.
Starting Is Hard
Higher productivity equals lower wages. The busting of Unions, among a lot of other things, has kept wages stagnant at best over the past decade or so.
What was insecure about the backticks operator? (that doesn't exist anymore in Python3 anyways)
I suspect that if it was easy to accidentally make Grey Goo evolution already would have done it. Or more accurately, evolution already did, and we are the Grey Goo's descendants.
When everyone is screaming "disaster!" watch the price of gold and bitcoin for that matter.

Both are being pretty stable right now.

Clearly big guys are not buying this BS and this game is going to get played safe for a while for now not matter what news outlets are wanting crowd to believe.

Non-event for people who know.
Three thoughts.

First: Vixie is in the middle of this amplification stuff because he's one of the Internet's foremost lobbyists for the most convenient amplifier of all (DNS->DNSSEC). So maybe he's just, like: "I'm tired of responding to people's claims that DNSSEC is going to make DDoS earlier and instead would prefer to rewrite the terms of the debate so that the presumption is everyone was supposed to have this rate-limiting band-aid all along".

Second: Don't overthink it. He's got a slot in ACM Queue, so maybe he just wanted to fill some column inches. "Free associate: what am I thinking about right now."

Third: This is all pretty silly. Even if you got global deployment of address verification AND every stateless protocol was rate-limited, it would still be trivial for attackers to launch vicious, debilitating DDoS attacks.
Redesigning Our Identity (Tech Samurais) – Part 1
How Elephant Poop Is Helping Nab Ivory Poachers
This is how I know you're sea-lioning me:

You don't understand that "common good" is impossible to define. This is one of the most basic discoveries of utilitarian ethical theories. It is sensible to ask what someone means if they use the term "common good" within the context of a proposal, but there is no general meaning of common good. There absolutely can't be.