skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if a publisher defaults on a contract with me, I have a legal remedy. I sell or lease my property interest in a piece of creative work in return for some valuable consideration, usually money. If the publisher fails to deliver I can ask a court to enforce the terms of the contract. Is it ideal, no. But I certainly prefer it to the feudal model you propose returning to.

I predict a future of performing arts for writers as well. Roleplaying games show us that doing such thing is possible, and creative platforms for storytelling will allow artists to perform live experiences for an audience.

If I wanted to do live performance then I would have pursued a career in theater. The existence of other possibilities does not unilaterally justify the unilateral abolition of one economic mechanism (copyright) so as to privilege consumer interests over those of producers. Perhaps you don't enjoy reading novels or consuming stories with fixed narratives (rather than interactive games), but lots of people do enjoy that, and there is a distinct skill in the construction and development of such narratives.

Would you go to a farmer and say 'the food you grow should be free for the taking to anyone passing your field, after all the earth is bountiful and you can simply grow more food in the future so ownership of food is inherently meaningless. If you are just farming for the money, you could always go and work in a coal mine instead.'
> Parsers that work on simple input are easy. Parsers that get all the edge cases and diabolical input right are stupidly difficult.

Not to mention parsers which work on a vague and totally unspecified grammar - like "real world" HTTP and HTML parsers, which have to account for misbehaving clients and servers or malformed web pages (is this what you meant by 'diabolical input'?).
It's funny, if that thing were simply anodized, say, a diffuse white with some blue accents, I imagine it would look far less threatening than its current "Terminator" chrome appearance.
Gas stations and airline fuel charges have always been first to rise, last to fall. It is confusing when you see oil drop like it has then see the price across the street go up 5 cents tomorrow. Could it be fixed, yes, do they have much incentive to do it...no.
barely legible

That's exactly what I thought. Interesting that they're so hostile to non-JS people.

There's another trick that works on many sites, including this one. Keep JS disabled but do View/Page Style/No Style. IMO the site looks better that way than with JS enabled.

Edit: one other trick I use frequently in Firefox for sites with poor contrast. Preferences/Content/Colors/Override the colors .../Always. Kind of a hassle to traverse so many menus. I'm sure there are ways to make that easier to do, but I'm a muggle when it comes to this stuff.
TDD Case Study: Is Fast Better Than Perfect?
Very thought provoking answer! Thanks.

As memes house in agents with an energy budget, I think that shorter simpler memes have more chance to take hold and reproduce ("Make something people want").

Words in a sentence are like models in an ensemble. Simple words are more general and have a high bias and low variance ("Make stuff users want"). Highly complex words and sentences have a lower bias, but a higher variance. You need to average a lot of them to get a clear picture. That's why the sentences in scientific papers are usually so long, they need to gradually cancel out the noise.

> There is certainly some cultural variance that can be orthogonal to efficiency.

Yes, agreed! Though same with memes, certain words or symbols without any redundancy may have cultural value. You may gain energy by speaking a certain language to a certain degree of sophistication. You may have to invest energy to gain access to the information contained in symbols (or have agents "unzip" these for themselves).
Trump's corporate website hacked to thank Jon Stewart
Too Good to Be True: How to Spot a Fake iPhone
> Basically, this operating can block any zero-day attack, the founder says, thanks to the operating system randomizing all memory, which means that the hacker cannot target the computer memory and compromise the data stored on the drives.

Isn't this already a feature of modern OSes with Address Space Randomization?

Also, how does randomizing the location of each item in memory prevent a malicious executable from installing a malicious service that installs a malicious registry entry to prevent its own uninstall?
Now, if you would please strip your spacestation of all metalls and arrange for propulsion to counter the small drag of earths magnetosphere upon the system...

Or are the magnetic fields generated and the corresponding heat from induced eddys not so strong?
The sceptic in me wants to know more before feeling optimistic..

Supraconducting magnets allready exist in Magnetic Resonance Tomography and the idea of a cookoff in space after a micro asteroid impact...
Oh man, do we have a lot in common. I happen to spend a lot of time in the Gulf at the moment. Recycling is new, and the divide between Westerners long since acclimdated from their own environs and the stark opposite is amusing.

Here, fully industrialized recycling has caught on, but white man's guilt is a special problem, as people like you and I only help to fill facilities overflowing with recyclables that cannot ship-and-sell locally, regionally, or globally.

http://dohanews.co/qatar-dumps-400-tons-waste-daily-landfill...

The stigma from childhood in the US stays bad enough for me, I sometimes avoid tossing things and leave in the car 1-2 days just to recycle it at a rare recycling facility in my housing complex.

Oh, and ironically no one in desert recycles glass. Intentional?
Hacking a Universal Assembler
OP here: The main reason for this experiment is to easily get hashes over the phone without using NATO alphabet.

It doesn't sound much, but you only realise how much of a pain it is, is when you have to do it once a month.
My former employer has an expanding fiber network in Minneapolis: http://fiber.usinternet.com/
Automatics commonly work on recoil, sometimes on gas pressure. Without a bullet, recoil is less (see Newton's laws) and so is gas pressure (there's no temporary plug in the barrel). Most semi-auto pistols will not operate with blanks unless modified in a way that would make them incompatible with regular ammo.
Because outside of rural areas guns and permits are extremely hard to come by, so the cops don't need to presume a threatening person has a high likelihood of having a gun.
You have to ask yourself: are they going down because of increased supply, or because of decreased demand?

Increased supply should be good for economy as the increased supply of raw mats cause increased production of higher grade goods.

Decreased demand on the other hand indicates that something is wrong. People are not buying anymore. Can't they afford it any longer? Or or they decreasing production due to anticipated lower demand for their higher grade goods?
There's no market in Coinbase stock. They haven't done an IPO, and it's not likely that they will. It's a Bitcoin company, after all.

Meanwhile, more info about the Mt. Gox collapse is coming out now that Mark Karpeles has been arrested and is in interrogation.[1] "The police are also investigating whether Karpeles consolidated customer and corporate funds in a bank account held by the company and embezzled around ¥1.1 billion, funneling funds to an account of an affiliate company and for personal use."

[1] http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/04/national/crime-l...
few designers would be foolish enough to pirate a font and use it publicly

Really? What about your local "mom & pop" design shops doing signage work for small businesses and ads for regional magazines? Are the type foundries that dedicated to tracking down pirates?
How do you differentiate yourselves from FreightOS?
But what do you mean by "online signing" ?
You picked gofmt because go fans can't get over their amazement that a code formatting tool exists.

Did you all write your code in notepad before?
From the comments:

One of the failures of teaching a balanced history is to ignore what was going on in Asia in the run up to the war. Perhaps because of our cultural biases, we focus so heavily on the atrocities of the Nazi's and entirely ignore the murders, rape, torture, etc of the Chinese, Indonesian, Philippines, Burmese, and other countries by the Japanese. When we do talk about their atrocities, we focus primarily on those committed against Caucasians prisoners of wars.

While the ethical aspects of using nuclear devices is important, it is also important to recognize that imperial Japan was arguably the most brutal and sadistic colonial expansions of the 20th century. Japan has done an excellent job of whitewashing their history. The US talks openly about the use of nuclear weapons. Japan is in a state of denial about their regime. Even the Rape of Nanking gets barely a sentence in their high school history books.
Executing shell commands via http server (written in Go)
It could also be indicative of future market moves in other markets too, even if these moves are not crises. The large moves in commodities has been anomalously _uncorrelated_ with equity markets, though historically over long enough windows the two move together. This raises the question of whether this trend has broken or if one (commodities markets or equities) will budge in the direction of the other soon. My crystal ball is too smudgy to know this myself...
Fundamentally I believe non-consensual violence is the result of suffering. I think isolating violent people and protecting yourself is much better than meting out arbitrary punishments. Consider that someone willing to punch a nurse in the chest over a turkey sandwich very likely has some kind of mental health issues. If the assault is actually a problem on the level of a crime, then call the police.
That's good, you can get into tightly confined spaces, and also less risk of damage to neighboring cars. But I am most likely to use your service if my car is totally empty, so that would be more like 17 gallons for my vehicle. I hope your truck has a lot of 5 gallon tanks.
I assume the purpose is for a driver to just pull into the garage and have the charger hook up automatically, so a two-rail system would probably not be able to deal with the car being parked at a slight angle and not completely perpendicular to the plug.
> For the record, I think what you're calling a 'tick' is a virtue.

Very kind of you to say. The automatic way I point the question at anybody who crosses my path may say otherwise.

I have noted that in personal argumentation, in the US and Japan, that the word is not often not used as a tool for inquiry. I've seen it wielded more as an accusation or bludgeon, and it may be this dual-use that make people sensitive to the word itself.

The child's response to any answer with a "why?", is truly a really excellent algorithm for getting to the bottom of things.
One of the problems is that it exposed DNS zone information, and one of the reason it did that was it was designed to require signing only once and after that the private key didn't have to be used again until the zone info changes.
There was an interesting Ask Historians thread about Nagasaki recently and the jist of it was that the decision to drop the second bomb wasn't made at the highest levels, or rather that it was hazily delegated much earlier and the call was made by local command. And because of local decisions, the moving up of the Nagasaki/Kokuro bombing by several days due to weather, makes it much harder to justify.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3c6xai/why_d...
https://youtu.be/0bZ2u5UnApA
No, it will just have its own vulnerabilities instead.
Much better in this regard than Haskell, though. Being impure and eager makes the most die-hard academics go for Haskell instead.
Due to our banking model in the West when times are "good" it's actually making life worse for our kids as the primary outcome is land price inflation which makes people fell richer but is not for most monetizable.
Why Every API Needs a Dashboard
I haven’t heard of any observed adverse effects. Most likely, the vast majority of resources is devoted to learning Language rather than any specific syntax or vocabulary; multiple languages may even help in this process.
I'm guessing it's because the charging cable is fairly thick, making bending it arbitrarily fairly difficult. This design will make sure that the cable isn't too strained while integrating it as one piece.

You can definitely solve the problem using a traditional arm though -- so maybe it's just for the cool factor for now.
$40-$80k is basically nothing to an airline like American. This kind of penny pinching is what kills your reputation in the long run and saves effectively nothing.
Why does decreased demand indicate that something is wrong? Maybe people don't want those particular goods anymore.
Sorry, I'm discussing the nomenclature: "shoot to wound". It sounds like something someone would do as torture. Why shoot to wound someone? To what end? Just to cause them pain?

However, there would seem to be something worth considering in a "shoot to disable" policy, as opposed to a "shoot to kill" policy.
There is nothing stopping you from doing online signing with DNSSEC. FWIW, DNSSEC is on it's third major iteration, 2/3rds of the TLDs have deployed it, and major DNS service providers are getting into the act.
There are several armed criminal gangs in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_United_Kingdom
Is this also true of Jupiter's moons?
I think so but I haven't dug into it enough to say for certain. So I would defer to anyone else who's dug into it :)
There are no mysteries
>Also, why aren't they already psychopaths for eating pork (a very intelligent animal) when fowl and beans will provide them the needed nutrients?

Psychopathy is when injury/harm is caused intentionally. Most people just don't recognize what they are doing (in many situations they think it is acceptable to cause injuries to or to harm even fellow humans whom they value more than animals, and just 100 years ago it was ok to perform dissections on live animals without anesthesia). From my personal experience - it dawns slowly on you. I was a happy pork eater in the past. And at some point, when i really saw the intelligence of the animals (an amazing feeling by the way) - i have to credit my cat here, being among the most intelligent creatures i've met he taught me to see the intelligence of others - i backed off the mammals meat at least.
Just keep your mouth closed and it won't notice there's a socket to plug into. Once you start talking though, it may keep applying greater and greater force in a valiant attempt to insert the charger...
Ideally you would want some kind of sci-fi weapon that shoots out some sort of impenetrable web/blanket that wraps around the criminal, holding them until you can safely handle them at a later point.
That sounds a bit too close to Russian roulette. What happens in the case where you really need to incapacitate rather than warn? But, no you have a blank in there.

This has a likelihood of being a nice idea which in practice makes things worse.

On the other hand, in Germany, dogs are used more widely to stop people who don't need the orders to halt.
I invested a little into Tesla stock just because I like the company. Its been funny to me that pretty much any news, good or bad, makes the stock fall.

New prototype robotic charging arm? stock down ~8%
The tyranny of the self driving self driving car refueling bot.
Do yourself a favor and check out Julia before settling for R.
Thanks, I'll go with the book you're recommending.
That's the right question to ask. As far as I can tell, the answer is: both - depending on the comnodity. For oil, it is mainly increased supply. For steel, coal, copper and co. it is probably rather a lack of demand.
Brazil is running into big problems too: http://www.businessinsider.com/brazil-indicators-look-like-2...
Suddenly this feels like running a Windows PC just before Blaster came out. Are we going to have an explosion of anti-virus and firewall and other security apps in the coming years?
Parent-Founders
Firstly, an economic and societal system of patronage is completely different from an economic and societal system of expert services, so you're right to point out that it is absurd to think that the two are the same, so I agree with you on that point.

I would hope that most people are striving to put themselves in a position where they can invest their savings in to equities and real estate because everyone needs to prepare for a future where their ability to labor to produce capital might not be enough to support the basic necessities of life.

It might not be immediately obvious, but home ownership and 401ks are pretty much based on the idea that people will be able to keep living based off of work that they did years ago.

Copyright is based on similar principles but for those people who produce intellectual works. They can't take advantage of home ownership or financial investments if they didn't have any capital to begin with. It's an interface between ideas and markets.

We're not just talking about music here, we're talking about any and all ideas and how we as a lawful and orderly society decide to deal with opportunity costs.

We can have the government pay for it blindly through blanket taxation, or we can have private individuals pay for it driven by various personal motivations, and in fact we can invent complex financial instruments to structure the incentives. We've used governments as executive enforcement to police marketplaces to try and create level playing fields.

What's really interesting is how services like Spotify are showing how natural it is for consumer software to honor complex royalty contracts and (in a rather inefficient and tragically opaque manner) route money to rights-holders through an opt-in service.

That is to say, we don't need people burning books, smashing printing presses or prosecuting individuals for circumventing digital rights management controls in order to create ways for capital to flow from consumer to creator.

Royalty systems and direct licenses are the building blocks of these financial instruments and the main reason why we don't have a futures market for digital is because we've never bothered to track these things or put them on modern digital exchanges. Tracking copyright registration and transfers is a total mess right now.
Thanks, but note that it wasn't created by a member of the Big 3 ;<(. I cannot wait to be able to order fuel Uber-like on my phone and have it fill the tank. Detroit needs this now as it would practically eliminate car jacking.
Hey, free electricity at least.
Unveils?? This looks way too bad to be anything more than a sloppy prototype.
Are you kidding me? We've had Truckasaurus for decades. I mean how is this not impressive? http://youtu.be/r1KsTWegnOs
The reusable holdout: Preserving validity in adaptive data analysis
And 4% less than: real estate!
a/k/a fascism
It seems like you have re-discovered why segmenting the lunar image and shifting it backwards in time, to align the three color planes, was not done. They don't have the information to fill in the resulting gap, because it was occluded. In a very real sense, they have nothing to put in those pixels.

If they had wanted to do it, they could have. The ephemeris (i.e., basic imaging geometry relating to the location of Earth, Moon, and camera) will be very well-known. That bread-and-butter image processing is no problem.

The historical context here is that NASA centers, prominently JPL, were among the inventors of what became digital image processing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_image_processing#Histo...).
Astronomers Discover Ring-Like Structure 5.6B Light-Years Across
No it isn't! The discussion here is about taking away the only asset that non-super-capitalists who work in the arts have, and that's the saleable property interest in the work we create.
As far as gas stations go - they make most of their money by lagging behind the fall in oil prices. They make an extremely small profit most of the time and a larger profit when oil prices fall.

Gas stations usually operate with the gas almost as a loss leader for the attached convenience store.
The gas robo snake was retired after it caused a massive fire.
This is disgusting. London is traditionally the home of money laundering. Sigh. New money has no sense of history.
Indian police “investigating” a crime by stripping and beating 10-year old kids
Remember one of the reasons police officers are 'militarized' these days are events like the North Hollywood shootout, where cops didn't have body armor and used small-caliber revolvers. They were simply out-gunned by two bank robbers with assault rifles and 11 police officers and 7 civilians ended up getting shot.
Interesting. The way to go as a parent then is to to live somewhere cheap away from the city where 524 a week goes further, and make sure you have a job just before giving birth.
Signing DNS records using a machine connected to the internet, instead of passing the zone files to an air-gapped signing machine over a sneakernet. Eventually, you run into the issue of updating the "offline" machine and many places just have an "online" machine that gets the zone files through a highly restricted interface.
Wonder how many klocs are underneath that `profile.email.interactions()` method?
Medium Articles as Podcasts (Concept)
Not to mention Florida, Nevada, and Arizona had a housing supply glut where you will likely never see one in Vancouver in your lifetime.
Tesla's #1 goal seems to be "show people fun" then "be practical" is a few more numbers down the list of how to promote the brand. (Though, we all agree that "in seconds battery swap" was a scam, right? They just did it to meet regulatory guidelines temporarily by playing an on-stage magic trick.)

Tesla is like if Apple showed all their designs as they are developed (then 95% trashed) instead of waiting 3 years to show only magic finished products.

that wouldn't be backwards compatible

The MO of Tesla so far has been "BACKPORT ALL THE THINGS!" They don't seem to be fans of creating new-model-only features when they can engineer even a complicated solution for all existing models.
This needs international media attention.
Are you talking about zone enumeration? That's covered in the article.
Whats this? Stack exchange?
It's easier to supply power than mass in space, and mass shielding is the alternative.

Solar is problematic on Earth but is actually quite good in space. Lots of reliable energy right there, especially if you're not in Earth orbit (where the shadow occasionally gets you).
Median house for a detached house in the "poor" east side is $1.28 million, $2.9 million in the traditionally more desirable west side. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/vancouvers...

Vancouver is actually one of the poorest large cities in Canada. Average income in Vancouver proper in 2009 was $43,911. https://www.biv.com/article/2014/9/trick-or-treating-planner...

All this means that Vancouver is the 2nd most unaffordable housing market in the world (after Hong Kong) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/only-ho....

Accordingly a housing is already so inflated that a 10% drop means nothing. Even a 20% drop wouldn't make things affordable.
GoPro HERO4 Black Hands-On Review at Walt Disney World
Another interesting Go deployment. However, although not about that article, I think HN readers might like this post by the same team on how they do code reviews:

http://blog.fogcreek.com/increase-defect-detection-with-our-...

I discovered it while reading the parent article. I think it's a good checklist that will contribute to resiliency better than a language choice. Of course, adding a language with strong type and memory safety to such a good development process will certainly drive quality up from there. Efficiency, too, as recent article indicate.
Do you think this is actually a viable solution given how easy it is for somebody to obtain a firearm in the US?