skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of interesting things that can be built in microgravity that can't be built on Earth. But getting raw materials up to orbit is really expensive. If you're willing to wait for Holman transfers then it can be much cheaper to bring raw materials to Earth (or lunar) orbit from elsewhere in the solar system than from the Earth's surface.

So in the medium term I expect human settlement of the solar system in much the same way you've got human settlement of the Gulf of Mexico or North Sea due to all people living on the drilling platforms.

And in the long term I wouldn't be surprised if technology makes living on other planets much easier or non-human people end up settling outside of Earth.
You drawed all that? It is beautiful.
Ask HN: Suggestions for IPTABLES for VPS?
Can anyone suggest a good solid set of iptable rules for a vps that allows ssh, http, https, access to postgresql on local host, access to redis on localhost, and any other important security rule that is a good to have? I logged into my vps this morning to find that ufw was not running. There is some outstanding bug that I could not resolve. My only solution was to go straight to iptables. when searching for a good default set of rules, there is no clear solution.
Show HN: AppCanary – Keep vulnerable software off your servers
I think you are actually right, it was done via Iron Mountain. I wasn't directly involved with the process, only was aware of it.
D-: D-: D-:

This article is still disconcerting, though, at the skimmability in the wild. TINFOIL! TINFOIL!
The UI bit is a red herring. The question is the developers' motivation and what actions they encourage a user to take. Design of the UI may be one piece of evidence of that motivation among others.
You don't need anything big; it's just a matter of saving an hash of the file, then occasionally rehashing the files and comparing. If it's different, fetch the file from another location and update the local copy.

I use git annex, which has this built-in; just run "git annex repair" and it'll verify & fix any damaged files.
no it does not. if we fubar earth, we certainly cant survive on a sufficient level on another planet.
Hey everyone!

appCanary monitors the software on your servers and notifies you when you have to take action. In a previous life, we spent a lot of time worrying about what needs to be updated where and so we built this.

We currently let you know about Ruby vulns deployed on any linux, and vulnerable packages if you run Ubuntu. Support for Docker and other vuln sources is just around the corner.

We'd love to hear your feedback!
Interesting idea.

It's too late to remove the dividing lines on earth

Too late implies it was possible before but isn't now. Why's that?
Thus, Mars.
Plug: If you're learning Korean and have questions or just want to chat with other people in Korean and are familiar with IRC, #korean and #learnkorean on snoonet (irc.snoonet.org) always have people around who are also learning and/or willing to help others.
Chrysler's Monster Muscle Car Thinks Before It Goes Ballistic
The Outer Space Treaty prevents people/governments from owning land outside of Earth but it gives organizations the right to keep others out of places they are currently using, which comes to much the same thing. Now, the Moon Treaty does what you want but that was never ratified by anybody with a serious space program.
I doubt you were actually consistently paying $30-100 per month on new music. The average consumer spends roughly $60 a year on recorded music.

Now, instead of building 'equity' in a music collection that you own, you'll be renting your music at $10/mo for eternity. Which do you think will end up costing more in the long run?
ES6 in Depth: Classes
Old skool java app, but fun nonetheless.
Whenever my imagination starts to run wild with the possibility of a huge announcement of this variety, I always like to remember what Terence McKenna said about this: "if aliens were to land on the front lawn of the white house tomorrow, it would not change the fact that the weirdest thing in the universe is DMT."
Microsoft+patches+vulnerability+found+in+Hacking+Team+files
I guess you get back to senior/lead/"irreplaceable"/etc..
I agree with what you say.

But again you're missing what I was saying with my original comment - namely that wind turbines seem to be far too often built where it makes political sense, not necessarily where it actually makes sense.

As is far too often the case for renewable energy, it seems.
I don't understand;

1) What's the 'top words' which appears when you search for a site? I just get a bunch of profanities (for basically any show, even those which are PG-13). Is this meant to be the top words found in the show's subtitles (it's not) or the most searched for words (in which case why am I'm being shown that). Further searches seem to show some work (e.g. Homeland, or Game of thrones)

2) Expanding the 'top words' gives (apparently) a top 100, except many words appear more than once - in my 'top words' for 'The Simpsons', 'MOM' appears 7 times.

3) What are the 'Top topics'? Again, examining The Simpsons, the top topics are, 'Case/investigation', 'noisey', and 'spooky'.

4) Browser 'back' doesn't work from top topics or top words

Edit: Having read the 'about' I'm feeling far less critical, given this is part of a Big Data course project. Initially, I wondered if the prevalence of profanities in speech (generally) are causing a weird biasing effect (i.e. a single word being said repeatedly) but given there shouldn't be any 'fuck's in The Simpsons/Modern Family/Friends my guess is something may be off on the back-end?
Apple Music ingests music that you 'match' to the service, and only gives you back DRM-infected copies if you download them back.
"Failed" is probably a strong word. Seems like it didn't meet Wall Street's expectations, but to say the product failed seems overblown.

As a person who loves Apple products, I'm waiting for the 2nd generation, mostly because I think that's where Apple really tends to shine. The first gen is solid but obviously first-generation; 2nd generation seems to be where they figure out what's most important to customers and really tighten the screws there.
the tick has to stay attached for 24 hours in the first place. If you let a tick stay on you for 24 hours, you have a lot of other issues beyond Lyme.
Unless humans really squander their inheritance of the Earth and its biosphere, the extinction of anatomically modern humans will occur long, long before Earth becomes uninhabitable.
You need to build an EATNC / SATNC and then you can connect that to a RTX.

There is a group buy going on for EATNC kits for 85 euros on a Slovene forum: https://s5tech.net/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=1814&start=0
"$1b+ in sales" == "has failed"? Christ, I hope everything I do fails so well.
Bug spray. Tick checks. High socks. You'll be fine.
Could you elaborate on what is so weird on that molecule?
Oral seks nedir?
> "Colonize" isn't the right word. ...Perhaps it makes sense to put a very small number of people on the moon for purely scientific or commercial reasons

A small number of people residing there for scientific and commercial reasons is exactly what a colony is.
Taxi Mogul, Filing Bankruptcy, Sees Uber-Citibank Plot
Grew up in Snowdonia, North Wales. Nature made me feel both privileged and insignificant at the same time. It truly is amazing that there is so much variety and depth to nature. There is so much life in there, you just need to open your eyes and ears. I highly recommend the area as a traveling destination.
It's not the moon itself, it's the molten core of Earth that generates the magentosphere that protects our atmosphere. A larger planet is likelier to have a molten core.
Apple increasing R&D spending by $1.5B
The Hierarchy of Agile
Why have you singled out wind and renewable energy to be affected by politics? I think the current nuclear plans in the UK, the fracking support, and the anti-wind hysteria all have very strong political aspects. The IMF recently suggested fossil fuel is heavily subsidized since it's pollution is externalized.

I don't see anything about wind power that makes it particularly susceptible to politics, in fact the decentralized nature of wind and solar seems to make it a bit less likely for one entity to be given monopoloy rights and therefore be able to kickback large sums to politicians and lobbyists.
AddThis+for+Firefox+-+Welcome
Not having a nearby park makes one feel depressed. But so does commuting an hour a day to work. The best thing would be living in a city or walkable town with tons of transit and tons of nearby parks.
It's a psychedelic type substance similar to LSD.
What he meant is that the weirdest things you can ever experience is you on acid.
I didn't know how to code and I didn't know where to fish so I made this App
Two years younger.

Same experience here, specially because some of my friends were active in the Demoscene.

However my parents though I was better off with a 386SX (looking to the present they were right), so I had to go to their places to play with their systems.

No system has kind of captured the same spirit.
exactly my thoughts.

i think the effort and money would be better invested in earth itself: affordable renewable enery sources pose one of the greatest challenges of our time. in my opinion all money poured into mars missions is a waste and should be used to make progress in other fields.

as for asteroids: a) the mars is as likely to be struck by an asteroid as earth and b) its imho a better idea to build defenses to prevent that.
I agree. However, non-standard conforming software should continue to use the X- prefix, like if these proxies used a "X-HTTPS" indicating it is a non-standard header, this would be a non-issue.
Agree with niix - Been working with AngularJS for the last 9 months and I like it a lot - I like the "MVC" ish style; theres a ton of 3rd party directives, samples, tutorials, etc...

I don't like that AngularJS 2 is almost a complete re-write - i think it's going to severely fragment the community - it really should be called something else (this is only from what I read about it - haven't tried it myself)

In the last couple weeks I've been playing with React and I really don't care for the whole html mixed into the js thing - looks sloppy (IMO).

Try them out, see what you like and go from there.
Becoming a self-taught programmer in six months
why do you give a fuck?
Show HN: Random SVG Generator
You can just imagine the circumstances that led up to that being made. I suppose there is a market for weatherproof server racks nowadays with all these pesky kids and their gosh-darn cellphones at camps.

The dataloo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/CCCamp_2...
During my tenure at GE, quite a few years ago, there was an intense company-wide drive to patent practically anything at all. We were given incentives to do so, of course. We were told that GE only uses patents defensively, i.e. for negotiations other companies. The incentives got many employees to patent industry-wide practices, or trivially simple stuff, or really convoluted methods that no one in their right minds will use anyway.

I haven't followed GE's track record closely after I got out, but I think they still live by that guideline. In any case, GE is not a software company, and it's unlikely they'd want to (or can) go after software companies on the basis of patents such as this one.

The patent system is broken, and GE is just another company, in a long list, that is abusing it for some reason. But so far, GE has given me little reason to believe they'll come after me for infringing on these kinds of patents.
Melinda Gates:Facebook Engineers Have Solved One of Education's Biggest Problems
Failure and success isn't binary. It's not an overnight bestseller, but it's had some sales, customers are very satisfied, and app developers are laying the foundations for an ecosystem.

The future could be very bright.
I remember ext2 being introduced. :)
I think a lot of this has to do with flawed expectations. I've owned the first iPhone right after it was released, same with the iPad, and now with the watch. iPhone and iPad had initial issues, software flaws, lacking features, but all of them were still a pleasure to use and worked as advertised.

I feel that many people see today's iPhone and compare it to the watch, but the original iPhone with iPhone OS 1.0 had only 2G, no GPS, no app store, a miserable camera, couldn't record videos, no copy & paste, and a lot of flaws that I'm probably forgetting right now.

But just like the other devices, the watch will start small and expand from here. You could say the current incarnation is only the shape of things to come.

I use the watch for three core features: As a remote for phone apps and functionality in the phone, as a time keeping device, and for fitness measurement (where it replaced my fitbit). The watch is a great device for these three features, but it's not a phone replacement, and it won't be for a long time I suppose.
Product Hunt for Apple Music Playlists
The header is 9 days old, and now Chrome is sending it by default: https://github.com/w3c/webappsec/commit/eeac3922418bfa6cb254...

Header bloat, ~28 extra bytes per request from every Chrome user in the world.

The whole idea of the header is odd, it should be something the server could send to the client, if needed, not something the client should announce support for.

Crazy indeed.
The Amiga was a huge leap forward once ARexx became popular. It was an easy to use scripting language that allowed you to receive events and instruct the OS and applications to run commands and functions. After the release of AmigaOS 2 it became a standard feature of applications to support ARexx. It allowed you to extract a lot more functionality from your applications and was approachable for hobbyists that weren't ready to become systems programmers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARexx
Amiga was like Tesla (the car) is now.

Not that it was (is) blazing fast and technologically advanced in comparison to other models but the fact that it seems to have come from a whole another plane of technology.

Surely it helps to have multiple special-purpose chips onboard as it helps to have dense battery pack worth of 500km baked into the chassis. But that's not the thing.

What a 32-bit pre-emptively multitasking operating system with modern library stacks and system services for building user interfaces and applications was to old machines where you poked memory addresses directly to draw something on the screen is quite akin to what an internet-connected fully electrically powered and from-the-ground-up architected smart&mobile device-on-wheels is to clunkers primarily designed to host an oily, fire-burning engine and an appropriate steel drivetrain, with a passenger cabin retrofitted wherever there's space left from the mechanical components.

You could write high-level code and put that space ship spinning on the screen, and still have it rotate more smoothly than in any of the machines from preceding era—where no operating system or user interface was messing in the way. That was like having the cake and eating it too. And yet you could switch to "insane mode" by suspending the operating system and commanding the special chips directly, and do things people couldn't even imagine on 8-bit machines (and for the most part, on 16-bit machines too).

Amiga had elements so modern that it almost lasted till the end of the 90's, except for cpu power and marketshare. Considering it was born in the early 80's when 8-bit cpus could beep and produce blocks of color on the screen and died (for all practical purposes) in the internet era, that's one long stretch of time where it made the difference.
That's exciting news. How far is this planet? Does 0.98 mean high probability of water being there?
ext34 as in ext3/4. Nobody would assume it was the 34th edition.
The Korean script is fantastic, yes, one of the few designed to effectively promote popular literacy. But you're only going to learn to read Korean in 15 minutes if you already speak Korean ;) Otherwise, you'll have to learn to speak Korean (at least, learn the phonology of Korean) as you learn to read it, which will take more than 15 minutes.
The World's Deepest Sleepers
Monopoly, monopsony, oligopoly, etc., are all forms of market organization. This is textbook.

[Update]
Here we go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_organization#Market...
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9908665
He says it in a few different ways in his lectures, but he believed that the psychedelic experience is so strange and full of content that, even if aliens landed on the White House lawn and it made the biggest story in the history of news, it's still not as astonishing as human neurochemistry.

I'm not sure I agree, but I think it's good to keep this perspective in mind any time we find ourselves tempted to think of something as 'the biggest thing ever.'
How is this link even on the front page? There's no sauce for anything in the title unless OP works for NASA...
Thank you for that link. I am not expert on statistical methods - is the reference to the F-stat in the link meant to indicate that the p-value was only 7%?
I always thought venus was technically in the habitable zone but just has issues with runaway greenhouse. Is that incorrect?
Playlist Hunt is a curation of the best new playlists for Apple Music. Discover the latest playlists, songs, and albums, that everyone's talking about.

Everybody can share their own playlists and vote for your favourite!
Here's Proof That Most of Your Meetings Are a Waste of Time
Using mutability.

It's not a sin, just something to avoid when not strictly necessary.

http://jspha.com/posts/mutable_algorithms_in_immutable_langu...

http://jspha.com/posts/mutable_algorithms_in_immutable_langu...

http://jspha.com/posts/mutable_algorithms_in_immutable_langu...
I highly doubt that. we have zero experience with space travel so far. you can't estimate the costs here as there is some serious research necessary to build something that justifies the investment with a high enough chance of success.

55billion for the ship alone might be feasible but you have to add the infrastructure and r&d costs too.

and for what? to doom your children to a life indoors, a morale hazard nowhere discussed so far!

edit: typo
Devops  we've been here before, we will be back again
Stories of Bigotry from Ta-Nehisi Coates's Non-Black Readers
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9903739
Margins matter, remember of PS3 which was sold at cost and even with losses since Sony was looking at profits from game sales.
If there is life on that planet, I wonder if it would be similar enough to host infectious diseases. I know the Apollo team was quarantined when they got back from the moon. As someone living on a continent that has undergone one apocalypse, I hope we have a similar procedure to prevent the spread of spacepox.
Do those ads only appear if the submitter enables it? Youtube has some ads by default. Either way I don't really care just curious.
That Wikipedia page doesn't appear to be updated very often. Here (http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/dat...) is a better list. KOI-4878.01 has been listed as a 0.98 since January 2015. The new may be that it is only now confirmed; but there are other confirmed KOIs with fairly close values of 0.93 and 0.91 already.
Google's white paper is at https://cloud.google.com/files/GoogleCloudStorageNearline.pd...

Apparently "Nearline" comes from "nearly online" because the waiting period until the first byte from storage arrives is on the order of seconds, not hours (like for Amazon Glacier).
And the price (not taking into account retrieval costs, etc...) of 1 cent per gigagbyte-month is the same as Glacier's.

However, I wasn't able to find any durability figures like Glacier's 99.999999999%. Anyone know what's up with that?
Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm the only person who feels like these single board computers that use ARM SoCs designed for mobile devices have insufficient interconnect capability. The networking that these devices have always seems like an afterthought. For example a lot of these SoCs have the nic hanging off an internal USB port, which is a fairly convoluted way to go about things.

I really wish there were single board RPi / ODROID like devices available that sported support for a really performant and efficient interconnect fabric... like RapidI/O or something similar.
I wouldn't be so quick to say the two are identical. It's different for everyone obviously but they are very different psychedelic experiences for most. DMT is VERY powerful when administered correctly.

Regardless this is a bit off topic.
Framaroot: rooter votre smartphone et tablette sous android en un seul clic
Chinese economy concerns wipe $40bn off value of Apple
Debunking the 7 biggest myths about hacking
This was still a fantastic little primer - in the tech field, I think we all know a few people that know katakana and hiragana well enough to impress their friends by mentally sounding out an english cognate - "hey friends, this is a pharmacy up here" - the first 1% looks like magic to the rest of us.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9935198
It's thought that the collision resulted in a larger metal core, increasing the strength of our magnetosphere and thus our protection from ionized solar particles. As well, the moon slows our rotation and evens out the procession of our axis, which results in milder seasonal climate changes.

The moon also caused tides which increased the environmental pressures on water-based life forms living in tidal pools to evolve to live amphibiously.
What is time series and how it is used for Big Data?
Well, what has a value of zero?
Pearson in talks to sell the FT Group
I have a metal wallet. Why? Because some idiot decided that making student IDs have NFC was a good idea. Which, among other things, can be used to open doors after-hours, and buy things.

(And yes, it is idiotic. It replaces a magnetic strip scan (which, by the way, these cards have - which means that it's strictly less secure now, as it still has the problems with magnetic strip and the problems with NFC) with a plunk the card on the scanner - which doesn't save much of any time. And in the process means that your card isn't secure even if you have it on you at all times and use only trusted readers. Larger attack surface.)

They are trivially susceptible to relay attacks, among other things. (Plunk a relay near the target, and a relay near the thing to open, where each one sends any data it picks up to the other one, which re-broadcasts it.)

Note: any NFC card is susceptible to this sort of blind relay attack. As is any buttonless key fob (like the ones on some cars).

Theoretically, you can prevent this by means of speed-of-light limitations, or by requiring user interaction (like pressing a button on the card itself, for instance. Although even that could be abused). But in practice, they are too cheap to build that sort of circuitry in. As usual.
Ask HN: When is the best time to go Open Source?
I'm interested to know from the community what seems like the best time in the software life cycle to release something as open source i.e at version 0.1 beta vs 2.0

The benefits of early are flexibility in design and low hanging fruits for those who want to contribute but releasing later likely means more momentum and interest to even sustain itself. This is obviously a short list for example purposes.

Thoughts?
The number is 9 including the driver.