skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LORRI, the camera taking these photographs has a resolution of 4.9 µradians per pixel. From what I can put together, the iPhone 6 has a horizontal resolution of about 340 µradians per pixel. So a 70-pixel-across image of pluto from LORRI (about what we have here[1] taken about two days ago) would appear to be a single pixel on an iPhone 6.

It's possible that single pixel wouldn't show up at all since it's pretty dim all the way out there, but Apple has been working hard on their low-light image capture :)

And that's of course not accounting for radiation protection, a very carefully designed CCD and mounting so you can actually do science with the results, calibration after riding up on a rocket, sensitivity across 350nm to 850nm, etc.

[1] http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/view_obs.php?ima... (actually closer to 75-80 pixels across)
GG is about ethics in journalism.
Yishan Wong hypothesizing(?) on the Reddit saga
Skin too fragile to touch
yeah man, it's like being a teenager in the last century all over again, when you would call someone's house and have to speak to their parent or whoever picks up first!

It's 2015. Can't I just email a tree!
i am not an expert, but this is an elementary physics knowledge.
Many modern laws were influenced by philosophers. While the language of computer scientists and philosophers may appear to be gibberish, they often influence laws with side effects on humans who may not understand the source jargon. When the laws for Internet of Things (including but not limited to huggable trees) are written, hopefully there will be diverse philosophies at the table, including classics like liberty, speech and privacy.
I disagree, you can have nothing to write but still desire to read "free thoughts" of those who do have things to write. Not sure there's a parallel for privacy, if you assume self-interest.
This is a bad analogy(really, was there any good one at all?). It's clear that when you have nothing to write it means you have no reason to bother about freedom of press as a writer. But still, as a reader, you probably want to have access to what others write, so it more depends on other's abilities to write. But when we speak about privacy, the whole thing changes. If you have nothing to hide, it's hard to imagine why should you care about someone else's right to privacy.
Vint Cerf's Answer to Who Invented the Internet?
Step 2. Reinstall Chrome
SO should be modified to provide both a correct answer and a low latency answer, they aren't necessarily the same thing, nor should award points in a winner-take-all manner. The person who puts in a day should get rewarded, the person who edits for grammar and clarity should get rewarded. In effect, it is a group of people solving a problem where only one gets a payout. That is what is broken.
Love my QC25s, they're one of my favorite tech purchases ever. I prefer the sound to my Etymotics and AKG K270S. Can't believe I put off buying them for so long, I wear them everywhere, even working at home at midnight.

I wonder if Bose is doing something beyond noise-cancellation in the QC25s when you turn them on. It sounds similar to a BBE Sonic Maximizer, as if they've licensed the algorithm and tweaked it to the characteristics of the drivers in the QC25s (which sound lousy when the headphones are turned off).
I see it frequently in these discussions. And it affects public opinion & the crawl of culture. So in a perhaps roundabout and very-hard-to-measure way, the people unthinkingly repeating that sound byte (not so much putting that forth as the spearhead of their argument on this topic) are making the world a worse place.
Linguistic quibble: "Alumnae" is the nominative feminine plural of the noun "alumnus", and thus refers specifically to a female graduate of some institution of higher learning, &c. In 1860, there was no such thing as an alumna of West Point, a school which at that time had only alumni (which is the nominative masculine plural, and the correct usage in this case).
Rule 34? I'm sure someone has trained this on porn already? That'd make for some messed up images.
Markov chains would probably be a good start.

See reddit.com/r/subredditsimulator (not always safe for work)
I believe machine learning is the way to go. It might require quite a bit of coding and time, but in my humble opinion it is your best bet. Also,someone wrote some JS code a while ago that was posted on HN that would detected nudity on a given photo. I believe you could automatically tag NSFW if the script alerts for nudity. I will edit for link as soon as I find it.
Fuck Off, Google – Invisible Committee [pdf]
Build an authentication system out of JavaScript and mongodb
I suppose 'Dear Mr and Mrs Birch' since they have both male and female flowers?
> the majority of people are right eye dominant

interesting, I did not know that. Wikipedia states 33%left, 66% right, and the balance having no difference. This might be part of the evolution of vision in humans. The brain takes inputs from both eyes and compiles them into your vision field, maybe there is an evolutionary reason that a strong and weak pair produce better results.

> I wonder if there are any statistics on the safety implications of switching to driving on the right.

I don't think there is any reasonable data for this. Driving in England and America likely can not be compared directly as the roads, driving test, culture and vehicle setup are different. Also, an individual who immigrates will likely be at higher risk for causing accidents as the entire system is foreign and they have been conditioned using a different one.
I think MS also paid people to actively answer questions there to increase C# penetration beyond internal corporate jobs. Great marketing strategy.
It's sad. Neither Hurd nor Mach reached the performance level of QNX. L4 finally did, although L4 now uses shared memory too much. (While it simplifies the kernel to do message passing via shared memory, it makes it easier for one process to mess up another. Queues in shared memory have to be managed very carefully.)

The real issues in microkernel performance are subtle. Message passing and CPU dispatching have to be well-integrated. Otherwise, when you pass a message from one process to another in a subroutine/service like way and get a response, you go to the end of the line for CPU time twice. A good test of a message passing system is to write a client/server which does some trivial computation on the server and then returns a reply. Benchmark it. Then repeat the benchmark with the system CPU-bound. If performance drops by orders of magnitude under load, the message passing / CPU dispatch relation has been botched.

On the security front, the "critique" says "programs are assumed to represent the interests of the user and, as such, are run with the user’s authority." This, of course, comes from the UNIX/Linux model and still gives us trouble. We still have trouble running something like Flash or a browser on a desktop without giving it far too much authority.

(Of course, if you do have a more granular authority model, apps ask for too much, as the mobile world has learned. Grumble of the week: Firefox on Android now demands access to my phone book. Not because the browser needs it, but because their ancillary products, Sync or Pocket, might.)
"Feminist news agencies".
You have an intuitive "expectation" of a certain image quality and data cadence. Your expectations, though, are based only on intuition from consumer electronics, wall outlets, and your living room. In other words, they are irrelevant.

You need to think about the fundamental physical limitations (mass, distance, power) and work backward from these constraints. That's how engineering works.

For example, the "bandwidth" of the iPhone you refer to would be zero. It's battery would be inoperable at 4 degrees Kelvin, and it has no directional antenna, and it would not know where to point it even if it did.
I can't comment about the framework since I don't speak Lua, but I want to congratulate the author for her work. Less than 1% of opensource contributors are women. Women are already under-represented in tech, but in opensource women are even more under-represented, so this is good to see.
Who pays for app-sec?
The chances of being in a car crash are substantially higher than being shot. Also car crashes are rarely intended.

It's not that I don't understand the perspective you put forward, especially in the US where there is already a high prevalence of gun ownership. I do however think the importance of the right to bear arms is way overstated. It's really easy (and dare I day, liberating) to live without a gun.
I find it very helpful to know if a news source has some kind of agenda. They may be more likely to use statements out of context or to suppress facts, biased towards one side of a dispute. I'm not saying that is the case here, but we are talking about the NYT vs a site I hadn't heard of until today.
Could you give a real example for $popular_software which is showing a dodgey ad?
Funny part was, I didn't even own a gun for the break in or when I found the dude breaking into my neighbors house. In fact, I was lucky enough that there happened to be a cop driving by right as I ran out the door to try to grab his plate number. In the case of the carjacking, that happened to my boss when he pulled over to render assistance to a man who crashed his motorcycle. Him just trying to be a good Samaritan at 3 in the afternoon on a Sunday. After the break in I bought a rifle, and after my boss nearly got carjacked I bought a pistol and am pursuing a concealed permit. I'm not going into with a John Wayne mentality, rather I have something of a Scout's Motto mentality. Be Prepared.
It's all about poverty. All the problems discussed here are due to poverty.
Kubernetes v1.0.0
I recommend

git config --global pull.ff only

instead, then you can use "git pull" without worries. Or,

git pull --ff-only
As I said in my original response: The cat is out of the bag.
Bulk Download Linked Content in GitHub Readmes
If you happen to do that before the end of November, please send me an email (it should be in my profile): I'd love to talk to you over coffee!
That's a really ignorant statement. The problem with the gun debate is that nobody wants to walk in another's shoes.

There are many people who live in areas where police response is nonexistent for many types of crime or response times are awful. Guns are a great equalizer for the weak.

The overblown prohibition push over the years has empowered the more extreme gun advocates and created the potential for more problems.
> "Feminist blogs and News Agencies"

Is what I said. I don't understand what you are implying though.
That clears up my confusion - it was a bit shocking to me that someone who is commenting on the news could be unaware that Clinton actually did operate a private email server nearly four months after it was major news.
I think part of the problem of scientific reporting is that journalists deliberately look for sensationalist material, and how journalists discuss science is little different from how Bill O'Reilly might react if he just found an exclusive clip of Hillary Clinton getting drunk and saying stupid things. Bill O'Reilly and his team would probably be thinking about how this might be worth a month of material.

The other part of the problem is that scientific writing is meant for scientific audiences, an audience which is expected to be aware of an ecology of evidence and professional debate occurring around studies. If we don't want pathological journalism, where a journalist finds a single piece of evidence and spins whatever narrative they want from it, then we need a journalist who is authoritative enough to represent a whole field and its diversity of opinions, like Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Would you trust Neil to be honest with you?
You cannot call a reported news story an 'editorial' because the facts it chooses to present are somehow inconvenient to your agenda. Contra repeated claims that this piece was transformed by addition of "opinions", it seems to be composed entirely of verifiable facts.
Google CEO (at the time) Eric Schmidt:

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...

Senator Trent Lott:

"What are people worried about? What is the problem?" asked Lott, a former majority leader. "Are you doing something you're not supposed to?"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/15/bellsouth.nsa/

Senator Lindsay Graham

"I don’t think you're talking to the terrorists. I know you're not. I know I'm not, so we don't have anything to worry about..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/lindsey-graham-nsa_...
You're making an extremely uncharitable reading, especially give the author. The article specifically acknowledges that there are other ways of increasing performance, which is exactly what CPU manufacturers have been concentrating on for the last decade. And where they're getting that extra performance from (e.g more cores or extra IPC through larger cache, better branch prediction, extending the ISA, etc) you're going to need more transistors.

The real point of the article is what happens to the hardware ecosystem once the density scaling stops. Not the exact mechanism by which node advances have been translating to improved performance.
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Why not just feather some or all of the windmills when the supply exceeds the demand? Those adjustments should be possible in a matter of minutes. In the USA I have often driven through wind farms where only a fraction of the windmills are actually turning.
That your belief that there are entire news agencies corrupted by feminism is revealing.
For those, do we have detailed information about the actual notes that were played, or just the text of the hymns?
Goldman Sachs could be sued for helping hide debts when Greece joined euro
Woah! The author, Sabine Hossenfelder... I subscribed to her on YouTube because she writes some awesome songs. Didn't know about her blog.
Check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUE9E1MxY2I
I wouldn't be surprised if the counterfeit headphones sounded better. That's how bad beats is.
I am trying to figure out what's happened here and having a lot of trouble. This is the first I heard about the shutdown of some hate subreddits. But how did that play into this? What I know:

1) victoria (and reddit management) shuts down 5 subreddits.
2) victoria is fired (maybe because she refused to move to sf and was otherwise insubordinate).
3) reddit erupts with support for victoria and hate for ellen.
4) ellen resigns.

what's the connection of 1 to 2-4? what else is missing?
You're right about the petition. Mea culpa; it was just moved.

What's your source re the salary negotiation policy? Numerous news stories said it was Pao's decision.

The move to SF was often brought up again in discussions over the past couple weeks. Contra the misogyny argument, there's anger at reddit that pre-dates Pao.

Regarding the Altman quote and Pao's statement that "it made sense to bring someone in that shared the same view", I can see your interpretation, though I disagree.

Regarding Victoria's firing: yes, the NYT mentioned it, but without explaining why it angered the mods so much.
That sounds a bit odd. If you're standing up to the government, why would the laws matter to you. Or is it a bit like "Here's a gun, if we ever go too bad, shoot us". Which in turn raises the question why has no-one massacred Wall Street yet.
The detailed diagrams, code samples, and demos are greatly appreciated. I think it shows that you put a lot of work into this. Thanks!

However, Shazam corporate doesn't seem very nice:

http://www.royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/07/patent-infringement/

With such a nice write-up, you probably already know this. :/
LÖVE might be a fun place to start: https://love2d.org/

(Also, I can't believe I didn't get the Sailor Moon reference...)

Check out http://moonscript.org/ too (CoffeeScript for Lua).
I find the Google play policy on books weird.

I can download all the apps i like for free, but to grab a free book i suddenly either need a gift card or a credit card.
This isn't ad hominem, it's directly related to the topic at hand (ethics, motivations in journalism). Ad hominem doesn't mean the mistakes of the past can't be mentioned, it means that character flaws can't.
I really like lua, and have been using openresty(nginx+lua) apart from lua inside openwrt environments. Will try this when I need anything resembling MVC.
We should do this in Seattle. There are lots of great trees here that I wish I could write to.
Perhaps they have something in mind to replace unsafe? Project Valhalla seems to address a lot of the reasons why people use unsafe.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jvmls2014taylorrose-2... (Page 40)

There is also PackedObject from IBM. It's an experimental feature in their J9 JVM and it allows improved serialization and I/O of Java objects by allowing direct access to native/off heap data.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/ajax/dow...

With the introduction of Valhalla, PackedObject and other technologies I think we'll see the performance gap decrease quite a bit.
Searching for firefox on Google always returned a paid ad for a download of Firefox with 10 separate bundleware offers included.
What I'm seeing is a news piece citing sources I can independently verify.

This is really damning:
http://newsdiffs.org/diff/934341/934454/www.nytimes.com/2015...

Did "gamergaters" (whatever that means...) set up newsdiffs too? Oh wait, googling it brings me to a git repository created in 2012, years before "gamergate" was a word on the internet.

So, I click that link, and I see exactly what the article talks about. A neutral piece on a CEO stepping down completely rewritten to push for a "look at how they're mistreating that poor female CEO" agenda. A solid article, turned into opinion mediatrash.

And you're making an ad hominem argument about the website because of who created it.

Quick sidenote (and if this gets me downvoted, have the decency to reply; blind downvotes with no discussion breed censorship)... As someone who is pro- women in tech, pro- women in general, pro- minorities, and even as an activist at times, I am finding it really fucking hard these days to be pro feminism when the agenda consists of lying to people to get into the spotlight.

I can't ever support a cause where this crap happens all the time. Where the facts aren't good enough to push the agenda.

Are there really not enough stories of opressed women that you have to find Ellen Pao, a CEO (which already almost nobody can relate to) in the middle of extremely controversial fraudulent lawsuits, that is accused of being out of touch with its own userbase? And people try to make readers relate to her?

There's so much shit to be outraged at in the world. Why fabricate?

Edit: Yep. Downvoted without discussion. Brilliant. We're really encouraging debates here...
I think we mostly agree. I'm willing to concede that the piece is "biased" --- I don't know if it is, because I think misogyny is in fact the most important attribute of the Pao story, but that alone forces me to accept that reasonable people could believe the piece wasn't perfectly balanced.

So when you say:

I'm not saying that anything in the article is false. Nor do I think it's an opinion piece – it absolutely falls on the "objective news" side of the spectrum. It could even be perfectly cromulent as a standalone article — just not as the lead story on the reddit drama.

I think that leaves us in a place without much interesting debate. You think the lede of the latest piece is "spin"; I think it's pretty self-evidently the right lede for the piece.

But this is a very far cry from the debate "TechRaptor" and this thread are suggesting we have!
> I'm not at all aware of the details of this but I would like to learn - is this common knowledge?

Yes, see the 3rd FAQ of the announcement post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/remov...

> I disagree. srs is infamous for brigading, and this behavior can be easily observed. So, if brigading is grounds for banning, then srs should be banned. If brigading is just one aspect of a complicated formula, then provide some background.

See the 2nd FAQ

> the statement that reddit is not intended to be a place for free speech,

Where did you read that? From the post above, they're trying to carefully balance offsite harassment & free speech and acknowledge that this is hard. Incidentally note that they said it's a change to their management policy, not "haha gotcha we were never free speech". Not that you have or should expect free speech on reddit anyway etc.
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Why the Apple Watch is flopping
The hate for Ellen Pao on Reddit seemed to start with her gender discrimination lawsuit. Also what monetization?
Shouldn't this also block Chrome updates since they have been known to download malware that allows Google to override your microphone settings?
> it is not standard practice at the NYT to note rewrites between quick takes and final versions. ... they should acknowledge that it happens constantly.

I thought this was the point of the article?