skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have noticed the same in SF.

> What does it have to do with Uber?

If these are Uber drivers picking up/dropping off passengers, then it's Uber's problem, isn't it? Setting aside the contractor/employee dispute, these drivers are engaged in activity for which they'll get money from Uber, so it definitely is Uber's problem.

> A lot of drivers are doing that

Not in SF. I've lived here 10 years, and never saw this level of ineptitude. These days whenever I see a driver being an asshole, I immediately check to see if it's an uber driver; and 9/10 it is. I sometimes work in a cafe which is on a corner; and I've lost count of the number of times I've seen Uber drivers doing a U-turn at the stop sign, confusing other traffic.

> don't even get me started on taxi drivers in New York City

Irrelevant, since we're talking about SF.
>We should just abolish timezones, DST, and move to the International Fixed Calendar.

You may find these links interesting:

- "So you want to abolish time zones" (http://qntm.org/abolish)

- "You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform" (http://qntm.org/calendar)
The fundamental disconnect is this: Advertisers are willing to pay more for a split second of my attention when I'm casually browsing than I am to pay for all of the content I come across.

Of course, not all sites are created equal. I'm willing to pay for Netflix to get rid of ads in TV, I pay for Spotify so there are no ads in my music, and I pay for Kindle books, so no ads there either. But I also make a lot more money than the average person, and am a lot more invested in the media I consume than most people. Yet, even for me, a lot of the stuff I access online I'm accessing very casually, and would never pay a significant amount for. It's not that I don't care for it to exist, but I'm not invested in its existence enough to pull out my credit card.

Basically, ads everywhere are your tax for using the Internet.

If, theoretically, some micro-tipping system worked out, where you filled up your wallet with $x/month and it was drained each time you visited a site, my guess is people would be blown away at how expensive it was to brows the Internet.

To make such an ad-removal system work at scale ( to make ads "disappear"), you would either have to 1. Have every site with an opt-out ad system, or 2. have every site do that and lock people out who don't pay.

#1 will never happen, because Facebook knows it makes more from advertisers than you will pay. #2 will never happen because most people won't pay for content - only a few sites can get away with that, and just barely.
I also ditched Hulu over the ads. Their app kept crashing my Roku as well. Either one of those would have been enough reason. Who wants to pay someone to lob obnoxious ads at them?
The thing that software security people do that most normal people don't do is: browsing and accessing email in a virtual machine, not their actual machine.
Shouldn't a header called HTTPS end up in $_SERVER['HTTP_HTTPS'] and not 'HTTPS'?
I like your open-mindedness
Correct, but if this will reduce the 0-day / 1-day time then it's very useful if your server does anything important. The difference between responding to Shellshock in 15 mins vs 2 hours could be exploitation.
It was a 2006, so it was a while ago. Maybe they've improved a little, I would just make sure you due the "background check" on that model.
In order to take something akin to a photograph of a planet in another solar system, you'd need to build a network of telescopes with a diameter on the order of the size of Earth's distance from the sun. And in addition to being spread apart, they'd need to be pretty huge in order to capture enough photons from the target. (though of course there could be clever ways around this)

Here's a great explanation of the physics involved: http://www.askamathematician.com/2013/04/q-what-kind-of-tele....
Assuming you don't consider product placement to be a form of advertising. Their original series are full of obvious product placements.
> It's just that the ads are not wedged in between the middle of the book to interrupt the reading experience.

Absolutely, the annoyance-factor of some types of advertisement are within acceptable bounds. It also helps that those ads may very well be for things you're actually interested in; if you liked the book you just read, knowing what other books are available from the same author at the end actually helps you. This is in stark contrast to, for example, the ads at the end of articles on some pages that masquerade as other articles, but just take you to another page filled with more ads for things you have no interest in.
I don't understand this in the context of Wordpress and PHP. As a relic of the CGI spec, a header called "Foo" would be turned into an array index called "HTTP_FOO".

For a header called "HTTPS" to be turned into $_SERVER['HTTPS'] as opposed to $_SERVER['HTTP_HTTPS'] would require quite an impressive misconfiguration of the web server which also requires additional work compared to default settings (including possibly even patching PHP itself depending on SAPI).
> I tried on a friend’s site and it served fine in Chrome version 44.0.2403.89.

Their site must have an unused HTTPS version, then.
That was "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", which was full of paid product placements.
... and humans have a similarity index of 0.98 with chimps as well.
Not everything is commercial, and some content (wikipedia, open source software) is free and not ad-supported
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Is there any way at all for us to be able to see oceans/clouds/continents on such planets if we have a hundred billion dollars and built equipment specifically just to look at that one planet?

Or would the star near it just haze everything too much?

Is it impossible to observe a planet in more detail like that without travelling next to it?
Yup and this sounds like a massive security hole in PHP if you can change $_SERVER elements like 'REMOTE_ADDR' with headers.
As an aside, there is an episode of the Cosmos reboot that talked about Photometry at a mile-high level. I had never heard of it before, but it is supremely interesting.
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Couldn't you generate data from within their data centres? 60Gb/s should be quite feasible. :)
> In the cases that I can't escape ads by paying, I tend to move away from the content with ads.

This is why I don't listen to the radio or watch "normal" TV anymore. I purchase music, subscribe to streaming services, and use Netflix.
From the details (in an image, some in fine print on the image) on the offer: that's if you migrate at least 1PB into Google Cloud Nearline in the first 3 months, and maintain at least 1PB in Google Clound Nearline for at least 12 months.

And its only 1 month free at that level of commitment; anything more than 1 month requires a migration commitment to more than the 1PB.

EDIT: At the time this comment was written, the thread title referred to the 100PB free for up to 6 months offer, not the fact that Nearline was now in GA. While the content of the comment is still true, the title that is being clarified by the comment is no longer present. (Similar things seem to be true of a number of the other top level comments.)
It depends on the web server and runtime environment in use. WooCommerce for example examines both of those variables, as either or both might be set.
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Just because you pay for content on a site, and are shown no ads on that site, doesn't mean that site can't make money from ads on your presence.

Isn't the value for online ads in following you around, and showing you targeted ads all over the place?

Why couldn't a site just sell the fact of your presence and use on a site to advertisers, including your habits while on the site? You could still be shown targeted ads elsewhere, and probably never connect it with your use of the original site.
True. We know our current offset from UTC (or legacy 'GMT'). I always use the real offset at that time. Thus, I just inform my clock saying UTC-3 (or UTC-2 when we are in daylight savings time).
Very nice. We've been looking into this but the "beta" status kept us away.

So the bigger news here is Google Nearline Storage graduating to general availability.
Then why didn't they just define it so that objects with an "undefinable surface" have an ESI of 0?
Interesting. Definately seems like there is something wrong with the data.
They still employ around 70 people in that department, see for example these 2014 slides: http://www.fjum-wien.at/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/FactCh...
This is true. I'm hoping the "browse in a VM" thing catches on with the public, even if it's for the "I want to hide my browser history from my significant other" sort of reasons.
Well the problem with this seems to be that it's sort of taking the internet as a whole, of course I wont get completely rid of advertisements but I'd like to get rid of advertisement at least in the services I care about, in this in particular I am willing to pay.
It's faster to snail mail it to the datacenter since while the data transfer method's latency is higher, the throughput is much larger.
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No ads on Netflix unless you count the header on the page giving you a notification that new content is available, the carousel that rotates through new/interesting content, or the suggestion of other things you might be interested in after finishing a movie/series while the credits roll. No external ads, no commercials while you watch, just unintrusive elements that serve to help both the user and Netflix.
I'm a bit surprised that using a virtual machine was mentioned nowhere in the paper.

Edit: I'm also surprised that we have such a large proportion of this discussion talking about something (using VMs) that is mentioned nowhere in the paper the thread is supposedly about. Perhaps if we were also discussing the (apparently) surprising fact that it was not mentioned it would make sense (to me, anyway).
Time Series Data Is Now Patented :(
The earth similarity index for venus is 0.44, and for mars is 0.70
What Unit test could have cought that ? Is this a Bug at all ?

Chrome doesn't do anything wrong, but somehow the fix still has to be done inside Chrome.

Interesting how it all starts looking like one giant app, were a small change in one part leads to failures in completely unpredictable places.
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It's an LWN subscriber link; it's supposed to work without a subscription. A few other comments mention hitting that as well, though; odd.
Perhaps it was before my time but why do ISPs still feel the need to offer email/ftp?

It's the earliest, sickest most repugnant form of vendor-lock-in on the internet. It preys on the least tech-savvy folk. Try switching ISPs [0] and holding onto your account.

[0] http://viewfinderdesign.co.uk/archive/382/reasons-not-to-use...
Interesting explanation thanks !

However, I think you made a mistake (probably a typo but I think it's worth noting it to avoid confusion of other readers) in that sentence:
“However, if there isn't enough control material in the core that the proportion of FAST neutrons is enough to make the reactor critical”.

Prompt neutron (short time between fission and neutron emission) should not be mistaken with fast neutron (high kinetic energy, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_temperature)
Obviously they can't change a physical book.

Ebooks are a different story. Eventually (5 years) you will see ebooks include products mentioned in the body of the text. These products will change from one reading to another depending on revenue and contract with the advertiser.

Now, obviously, this depends on the platform used to present the ebook, but I am quite sure this will find its way into Kindle and iBooks.
The fact that the offer at its minimum level (which is only free for 1 month, its an "up to 6 months" free deal) requires a commitment to maintain at least 1PB in the system for 12 months (which means you are on the hook for paying for it for the non-free portion of that commitment period), is probably a constraint on sending in junk data just for fun.

As is the fact that you have to migrate the data from non-Google servers -- either your own or some other cloud provider -- to qualify, since you're going to pay for the sending the data, junk or otherwise, you are dumping into it.
By all accounts NASA's getting ready to announce they've found an earth-like planet and you guys are like "yeah but I'm sure it won't compare the experience of taking my favorite drug." That's a sad and closed-minded way of looking at things.

It reminds me of Jon Stewart's character in Half Baked who thought everything was better "on weeeeed!" If your drug of choice prevents you from enjoying other experiences, like staring in wonder at the mysteries of the universe, that's like being in an abusive relationship.

There's no good reason the existence of a drug should prevent you from enjoying an announcement like this. There's definitely no good reason to assume that in this 16 billion year old universe which you've been part of for a negligible amount of time, which you've physically experienced only a negligible amount of, that you've already found the weirdest or most interesting thing ever.
Sorry I think the link got messed up http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
What do you think about using a cluster of VMs on a normal PC as an alternative? Did you look into that?
You can't upload this data from one place, but if you have lots of installations of something, each of which is independently generating a lot of data, it's feasible.
Sounds more like a language issue.

$_SERVER is an array containing information such as headers, paths, and script locations.

You may or may not find any of the following elements in $_SERVER.
'HTTPS'
Set to a non-empty value if the script was queried through the HTTPS protocol.

https://secure.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.p...
"Sneaky"...

Maddox reviews "I Robot" http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=i_robot
Those little aluminium pillars are brilliant. You can see my (real PC) cluster here that I built using bare motherboards and pillars:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/caseless-virtualizatio...
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One of the current running gags in Germany :) Simply make a reference to that airport and something that will never work and you are good to go.

Edit: one of my favorite articles on that topic (German) http://www.der-postillon.com/2012/08/neue-zeitform-futur-iii...
>A complete programmer is like a complete painter

Yeah, but it doesn't mean that one can draw classic marine art if company needs manga. If the customer wants classic Windows app and you are interested in mobile or web or VR or whatever - you have a problem. Of course, you can create those C++ or Delphi apps at work then go home and spend your spare time creating the coolest webapp ever, but it's extremely hard and unefficient.
Have you actually taken (non-endogenous) DMT and witnessed said alien intelligences with your own eyes?
> You're not going to make any headway here, this is a very pro-nuclear crowd.

One hopes that "pro-nuclear" people (or pro-anything people) are still capable of being intellectually honest and admitting the existence of evidence on both sides of an issue -- despite having concluded that one side is the better one.

Not that HN is a paragon of virtue in this regard, but it's certainly better than most internet forums.
I'm not sure what fossil fuels and nuclear weapons have to do with this but 1075 years isn't a very long time. There may not be intelligent life on the planet yet.
I've gone through the same transformation but I think you aren't appreciating the larger picture. Having the ability to specify both compile time and runtime invariants are both useful features. Java is good at expressing invariants around datatypes that looks like hardware data storage but it is so restrictive around interfaces that it is easy to paint yourself in a corner. Since Java was the mainstream typed language, people saw what could be done in languages like Python without such enforced rails, that many people decided the expressiveness was worth the tradeoff. I think Java 8 is much better about the tradeoff, but ultimately I think we haven't invented the system for expressing invariants in a language that makes the best tradeoffs between expressiveness and flexibility.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9934948.
I guess I must be missing something -- why would you ever want the client to specify auth mechanisms to the server at all?
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I have written to LinkedIn before about a claimed "employee" (a person who has never been in my state, ever) and LinkedIn appears to have removed the fake information. Some fakers just try to see what they can get away with.
This is exactly the reason why you pay for newspapers and magazines. Newspapers and magazines make ~90% of their revenue from advertisements. (Or at least they did before the internet killed their business model) If they made the newspaper free, it would increase their distribution by an order of magnitude or so, and since advertisers pay rates based on readership, you would think that would also increase their revenue a similar order of magnitude.

But it doesn't work that way -- paying readers are worth a lot more than users who didn't pay for the newspaper / magazine.
"This content is not available in your area due to rights restrictions."
> Reactors are supposed to be operated with enough margin that this won't ever happen (which isn't that difficult), but it sounds like they were deliberately operating right on the limit, which scares me.

Likely reactors are run with enough margin these days because of the lessons learned at places like this - it was an experimental reactor, the goal of which is to learn stuff.
My main argument against paying for web content is that people who care about ads probably don't want to see them at all. What's the use to pay for a few sites but others don't offer a pay model and still molest and track you? A better model would be to pay the ad networks which in turn give money to the website operators (similar to those music flats) but I think that's unlikely to happen.
I'm disappointed by the negativity expressed in some of the top comments in this thread. This is an exciting discovery, and the most popular comments here are basically "humanity is destroying its own planet, if this place was anything like earth, the inhabitants there would have already destroyed their planet."
Finnish entrepreneurs get the short end of the stick when it comes to pensions
Well as most people point out, while advertisers want to get to people with "buying power" not everyone selling content to such people is willing to be a shill for them.

Or put another way, there are plenty of content creators who would create entirely advertising free experiences for their content consumers if they could make a living doing that.

What I find more interesting is that there is advertising that I like/seek out, for example back in the day Byte magazine had advertisers who by their nature of establishing a relationship with BYTE were much less likely to be frauds and they sold things that readers were interested in (parts, computers, boards, Etc.) But there was an interesting level of annoyingness they stayed below.

I pay for the Economist and read it on my iPad. The experience is largely advertising free, and the ads it does have do not annoy me. This could change of course, but then I would probably stop subscribing. It was less clear cut with the NYTimes which I subscribed too and it still had annoying ads, I complained a couple of times, and then eventually stopped subscribing.

And then there are the ads themselves. Something that is clearly a problem is ad "networks" can have a lot of crap in them, and those are both annoying and sometimes borderline fraudulent (or actually illegal in the case of the Canadian pharmacy ads). That the networks replaced a staff of sales people who were trying to sell businesses ad space on a month to month, week to week, or day to day basis makes for a very expensive proposition for a content provider. And yet it makes for a better experience for their reader if they express an editorial sentiment over the advertising content as well. (which print magazines have always done) The first startup I joined was doing a magazine about Golf on the web in 1995. That startup was very interested in ads that reflected the mission of the web site and were not "crazy". It made for a better user experience.
Do security experts place less emphasis on virus scans because they do their browsing on OS for which virus scanning is less important?

EDIT
This question is partly motivated by wondering if a Linux browsing user should be running a virus scanner?
But then the environments violate that specification if they set this variable off a random HTTP header?
I'd say it's more like a courtesy than a fundamental requirement. Obviously Chrome has overstepped the mark here, but you can't just perpetually support entrenched bugs otherwise you end up with a browser like internet explorer.
How much space a site like imgur needs?
Then he said, she came from the country, he saw? To which she answered in the affirmative.

‘By Parliamentary, this morning. I came forty mile by Parliamentary this morning, and I’m going back the same forty mile this afternoon. I walked nine mile to the station this morning, and if I find nobody on the road to give me a lift, I shall walk the nine mile back to-night. That’s pretty well, sir, at my age!’ said the chatty old woman, her eye brightening with exultation.

Dickens - Hard Times
Too many submissions?
I noticed that there is an entire new batch of submissions every 20 minutes. What will happen if the site becomes so popular that it happens every 5 minutes, or worse? How many of these submissions are automated? I think automated submissions could be problematic. It seems like we're flooded with content
I know how to sound out Cyrillic. I know very little Russian... usually not enough to tell if the language is Russian or some other Slavic language.

But I can still read. You see cognates every 10 or 15 words.

I read this link for 10 minutes, and I was wondering why it was spelled "golrum" since the Rattlesnake makes an R sound at the beginning of a triplet. Shouldn't he have used the empty "O" character on the second one?

Wish I could find something like this for Greek.
Can we settle for containers instead?

For example, running Chrome in a Docker container. Why not? Drawbacks? Security risks? Feasibility?

I understand that users download things but personally I can't recall doing that in recent memory, other than things like news/tech spec PDFs for later review. Moving downloaded files out of the browser's container would involve a fair bit of ceremony (physically selecting files/folders and dragging them out of the browsers "Download" folder and onto the host's file system, disallowing saving files outside of that folder, and so forth) but it doesn't seem that bad.

What do most users do with a browser other than open the thing, browse websites, and download files for later?
Fortunately, this reactor was moderated by water, so after the incident, all the water was gone and the nuclear reaction stopped by itself. I don't want to imagine what would have happened if the moderator was Graphite instead :/
"There may not be intelligent life on the planet yet"

Sounds pretty similar.