skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Status of 3Taps?
Hi, Does anyone know the status of 3Taps?
I - and presumably anyone else who held a key to their API - got an email explaining that due to the Craigslist lawsuit ruling they would not be providing CRAIG data anymore BUT that they would not be fully quitting... shrinking their capacity and go on with their other (?) data sources? Is anyone still getting any data from them? I believe it has been several weeks since they have been making any data available to their subscribers....
Anyone having some ideas how how one can support Ecuador for their willingness to stand up for Assange?

I wonder how much pressure they have experienced from the US and EU over granting him asylum.
Learning a new skill or trade doesn't give you access to the "means of production", capital does. And inequality is as bad as it's ever been over the past 50 years. A few tech startup darlings doesn't change that.
My Nexus4 has a faster internet connection and more RAM than my parent's laptop, and it's almost a 3 year old phone. Most (75%+) smartphone users in the UK have devices that can easily cope with a 120kb javascript library. Your rule is wrong for western countries.
For what other endeavor of man are we required to address its consequences literally millions of years in the future?

Tu quoque fallacy.

Several. Just to be clear, I'm not simply holding nuclear to this standard.

Population, energy systems, resource utilisation, topsoil and water use, environmental contamination.

How long you want to consider "long term" is also an open question, though I'll note:

The modern computer age is roughly 50 years old.

The modern age of mass-industrialisation: electricity, automobiles, mass media, roughly a century old.

The Industrial Age itself, 200 years.

Western Civilisation, about 2,500 years.

Civilisation itself, and history, 6,000 years.

Anatomically modern man, about 200,000 years.

Divergence from common ancestors with chimps, 2 million.

Emergence of mammals, very roughly, 150mya.

Looking forward, there's perhaps 500m to 1 billion years in which life resembling that we know can survive on Earth.

Meantime, on the present "business as usual" track, there are numerous challenges which present on the timescale of years to decades -- shorter if you consider the prospect of nuclear annihilation (minutes to hours), somewhat longer for some more-abundant mineral resources. But numerous challenges seem likely to converge between 2020 and 2100 or so, with the implications of several of those including challenges to running long-lived complex systems with profound implications. Such as creating large quantities of nuclear waste and/or facilities which are not likely to be properly decommissioned and remediated. Hell, there's ample existing problems with this ranging from the former USSR/Russia, US, and elsewhere, with only modest amounts of political and economic disruption.

But I'd suggest that:

1. Avoiding making near-term circumstances more complex than they are (10-200 years or so).

2. Considering just what problems it is that nuclear power does and does not address, directly.

3. A view to a 200 year (industrialisation), 6,000 year (history), to 200k-1m year (evolutionary drift) would likely be somewhat useful to keep in considering pretty much all future paths and decisions.

Along with questions like "why are we here", in a thermodynamic/systems sense, and "what are the implications of this", for both us and the systems with which we interact.

Maximising throughput without limit strikes me as potentially problematic.

Something I'm putting a fair bit of thought into: https://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/wiki/FAQ
Dropbox Adds USB Security Key Support for 2-Factor Authentication
I had the Win10 preview on a spare laptop that I just use for Netflix and Pandora, and was planning on just upgrading it to full 10..... until all this came out. Wiped it and installed Xubuntu.

I did like Windows 10 though, but then they kinda ruined it
I wasn't commenting on the credibility of the article, I was commenting on your claim that it (the article's claims) are equivalent to what Spotlight does, which is bullshit.
I don't really enjoy debugging low-level code either, but I absolutely love developing it, reasoning about it and finding solution to problems at that level.

Knowing how to code low-level has radically changed how I code high-level as well because I now understand what the potential bottlenecks are on the hardware.

Come to think of it, I don't really enjoy debugging no matter what abstraction level I'm at! I prefer taking more time to think carefully about the problem and preventing bugs rather than spending that time chasing them. Which isn't always possible sadly.
I understand that, but the article is not credible in the slightest, and there have already been HTTPS/HTTP snooping done by multiple users that show no evidence of an active keylogger. It's annoying that an article like this makes it to the front page with a click bait title and everyone is going crazy about it because it fits the agenda for M$ bashing.
That's never what he was concerned about. What he was concerned about was Sweden convicting him, and then once they have him, extraditing to the US to be thrown in a deep dark hole for the rest of his life for espionage.
It might be closed source, but that does not equate to 'bad'. It doesn't contain too many smaller parts it is easy to analyze what the binary is doing. It does attempt to update, but this behavior can be blocked. Binary blobs do not have to be a black box, and it is trivial to open up Antilogger in OllyDBG and see what it is doing under the hood. It might sound like I'm fumbling around in the dark here, and I admit I am; but Antilogger is one of the first ten programs I install on a fresh Windows install.

Regular electronics consumers are not going to buy a Thinkpad with FreeBSD on it, and then house the laptop in a Faraday cage to airgap it. It. Does. Not. Happen.
I'm saying that in production, your application will likely connect to a database on a remote machine, which may or not have the same version as the one you packaged and you use for local development.
Facebook Dumped Intern After He Pointed Out Messenger's Creepy Location Tracking
The one advantage of Geneva vs other Swiss cities if you are cost-conscious is you can commute across the border and live in France, where living costs diminish almost proportionally with commuting time.

Ferney is perhaps half Geneva rent, if you're willing to go all the way to the villages at the base of the mountain (20 minutes drive if your office is near the airport), you can get a 3-bedroom house for what gets you a rat-infested studio near Cornavin (been there done that, thought about the French house VERY hard). This is without mentioning things like cars or groceries which are a LOT cheaper especially since the peg was removed.

And of course you keep paying tax in Switzerland as a "frontalier" (25%, it's the highest canton...). And you can use GVA which is an EasyJet hub to jet around Europe on weekends on the cheap.

I believe some Germans do this with Zurich and Zug from Konstanz, although that is a bit more hardcore with a 45 minute drive without traffic. Konstanz is another frontalier city with good quality of life, ultra low costs (4 euro ostrich fillet steak delivered to your office! don't ask...) and plenty of culture and food options.

Mountains-wise I might be biased, but I've yet to meet anything that beats the biodiversity, food, low cost and incredible variety of options in Haute Savoie. Just stay away from the tourist hubs and start from the smaller village resorts. The Swiss side just feels more barren, more touristy (or friendlier to non-hikers, which are there in force) and definitely a lot more expensive.
zing!
I'd gamble it has more to do with the fact you have to overcome the resistance of 2 extra axles and mechanical differentials of the AWD forester that is making it appear to be a bit more difficult than the lazy v8 2WD Cobra.

With that said, check out where the engagement of your clutch is. I've had people complain about grabby clutches(stalling) only to find out the engagement point is almost at the top of the throw (Former Subaru tech)
TL;DR We will be following with a new CLI shortly shortly

more details commented here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10054332
> "What about sourcemaps? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

That's a dealbreaker. Especially when you are working with a larger more complicated code base.
Yes, ceteris paribus, all else equal, this is dilutive. Tesla is creating new shares to sell to the public. This is also considered a primary share offering. This stands in contrast to secondary offerings where no new shares are issued. Instead a company sells shares which they already own, like treasury stock.
I'm in the UK so no prisonplanet.com. We do however get RT here :)
Where I am doesn't put any stock into comments. Our commit messages are even worse.
Only in Enterprise you can fully disable "telemetry", but just in all the other versions expect most of this stuff to call home by default and send data to Microsoft. I wouldn't assume the opposite by default if I were you.
Robinhood definitely takes the cake for ease-of-use, but companies like Interactive Brokers offer very low commissions, and a much more comprehensive tool. May be worth checking out if you're a somewhat sophisticated investor.

As for your response to the short-term trading concerns. Transfer restrictions don't really matter here. I can still buy/sell stocks as much as I want. I don't have to cash out to my bank in order to trade SPY 10 times a day.
As I read this, the final days of the Little Flower came to mind:

Agonizing Death of St Therese of Lisieux:

http://jameslau88.com/agonizing_death_of_st_therese_of_lisie...

The two death-stories stand in stark relief to one another, but both made me ponderous to nearly the same extent and along nearly the same lines of thought.
Okay, but can’t I take 8 raw images and merge them into one image with 8 times higher dynamic range?
Make those assholes pay their parking tickets in NY and get the guy a room
That's comparing enterprised apples to open-sourced oranges.
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Oops, that is my server! I'll fix it today. What café are you in? We don't even know about this access point. Try chat.mesh
Personally, I kinda of tired of veterans thinking they would be great cops when their tour ends! I was told by a Cop friend that what matters is still how well you do on the written, physical tests, and the Psy. Evaluation. They do like some college, and civilian experience. Military experience is not seeked out like it was in the past.

Being a soldier and being a Cop are take different skill sets. I don't want to get into all the differances, and I don't want to argue with anyone, but I'll take a shy security guard, over a "gung ho" guy who wants to see some action? Our streets are not the streets of Iraq, or Afganistan.

I have the highest regard for any ex-military. I think you guys/ladies should get first shot at any federal job--including jobs that involve public safety.

I think most of you know by now that being veterans doesn't mean much to most civilian police departments in the hiring process. It should because you served your country, and need a job when you get home. Most of you are intelligent enough to realize civilian police departments should not be run like
military operations. I do cringe when I hear, usually ex-marines talk/think they will be shoe-ins when they get home and apply to the academy. (I hope you guys don't take this wrong way, but I think most you know what I'm getting at?).

Meaning--war is vastly different than basically revenue collection, and dealing with the public! Yes--most departments are still training officers in a military fashion, but that's been changing. Hopefully, it will change quicker? The more progressive departments are changing training procedures as I write this, at least that's what I heard. One of the biggest reasons, I was told was the proliferation of lawsuits that are being levied against aggressive, illegial police tactics, and cameras are Everywhere. The days of coverups/"Blue code of Honor" are over, for the most part. My friend said they are over. I haven't seen much of a change yet.
What is with these privacy violations? Lenovo just got caught out installing a BIOS root kit on a wide range of laptops [0], now Microsoft is phoning home?

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053419
Architecting for Failure – Disaster Recovery of MySQL / MariaDB Galera Cluster
All this does is just keep information from the general public, and enable the present asymmetry we see at play between the State (might as well throw in corporate contractors and NGO's) and the public.

The "Chinese" certainly don't have too hard of time getting good info (OPM hack, etc), at least going by the way you hear the cries of fire in the crowded theatre of what passes for journalism and news.
That's not my point. It was implied that the High Court decision somehow validated the charges against Assange, while all they did was confirm that, yes, the UK do have laws against rape.
Why was that thread "flagged"? What does that mean?
So you're saying that if I take something that belongs to another person, but I believe that I should have it, no crime has been committed?

That sounds like an interesting theory on Crime and Punishment.

Edit: If you feel I've misunderstood the parent comment, please provide a better explanation.
Who are not the capitalists? The North Koreans, the Mozambiqueans, The Cubans, and you?
Unfortunately the aforementioned backpedaling--the new router--only allows Angular 2 components to live side-by-side with Angular 1 components. If you want any Angular 2 features you still have to rewrite that component.
Didn't know about iftop; thanks for the suggestion.
I don't see how that is a however, my point was that there is some threshold below which an investor is basically irrelevant when it comes to control of the company, not something about whether there are large holders of shares. As a small investor, this usefully informs reasoning, because you are not buying control of the company, you are giving control over your investment to the people who do have meaningful amounts of stock.

(For instance, when Google IPO'd, they made sure that everybody buying stock in the IPO was irrelevant to control of the company by issuing a different class of shares to the founders/insiders)
> just because they've become more open with their software

Visual Studio Community Edition is unsuitable for any medium sized company.

dotNET's openness does not extend to the actually interesting parts (WPF, WinForms).

The new openness is purely a communication effort; they take care to communicate their openness without changing anything.

It's disconcerting to see that they need developers more than developers need them.
With Tesla loosing $4,000 per car[1], and they are on track to produce 50,000 cars this year, you knew they had to raise money sooner or later.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/10/tesla-burns-cash-loses-more-t...
[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-05/tesla-fall...
Hmm. I've been doing this for years on my server. Why is this needed if you know how to code? I don't understand.

On top of that, they want you to pay to use their "cloud service"?
I don't understand how unpaid internships that involve any form of work (that is to say, anything beyond observing the company) is legal. A company is asking you to do something (what others would call work). Just because you have a Masters degree doesn't make bringing coffee to people not work.

The reason is obvious though: loopholes in minimum wage laws to please industries based around underpaying interns.

A friend of mine did his final internship in a code house that was based entirely on intern work. One head guy was getting contracts, and pulling in local students to do the coding, and cycling the students out after 3 months (right before the French legal limit on unpaid internships). Quite a mess
So how do secondary offerings work, practically speaking? They've named the amount they want to raise, not a number of shares. So do they wait until trading closes one day, issue how many shares they need to to make that work out to $500M and then sell it to people who've "registered" to purchase $X of it? And then when the market starts the next day there's just an extra $500M in market cap but all the shares trade similarly?
The page is blank for me. Firefox 37, use ABE.
The new battles over free speech are fierce, but who is censoring whom?
It's not reinventing computing it's expanding its platform -- a popular, vendor neutral, abstraction over all kinds of hardware and operating systems that allows secure emphereal usage of software applications -- to allow complex and performant applications without compromising on it's core design principles.
Fidelity and its ilk have some serious advantages - but Robinhood makes it so easy and almost gamifies it. I use both - Robinhood for play, Fidelity for long-term stuff - and I found myself using Robinhood more when I had an iPhone.
Any decent OEM can currently buy Tesla with spare change. It's criminally undervaluated.
The Amish around here use these going up and down the roads all the time. Never thought it was weird - though I do wonder why they don't use bikes?
New tool that helps businesses/aspiring Internet stars build an online following
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8735937
Robinhood finally releases their Android app to all on the US app store.
Alphabet Real-Time Stock Price
>updates hadn't installed automatically because Windows Update was too busy advertising Windows 10

That does not make much sense, if any.

>We could look back in 5 years and see the majority using Bing (via the Start Menu), Cortana, IE, OneDrive, and syncing all their devices through MS servers and cringe

And you aren't cringing at Google Now/Google Drive/Chrome? Why?
Also the banks, who are deeply socialist, many of them have (had) to rely on state support.
I can believe it, although I can also believe it not working very well with pre-HD cameras and 2000s machine vision. Presumably it's part of the ""ring of steel""?
and shrinking :) We have some fun related work planned to continue the shrink.

One thing to note, often we must trade-off bytes for supporting older features. As those go away, we shrink. But moving forward the plan it to have more of a pay-as-you-go model. Utilizing ember-cli to do the r.js optimize esq step, to strip unused portions etc.

Nothing ground breaking, its tried tested and true in many other ecosystems. But when it lands it will provide nice value for our ember apps.
You're right. I didn't mean to say sourcemaps are useless. For now, they were a trade-off. It'd be interesting to see if they can be added using M4.
Again, they're not losing $4000 per car in the sense that their cost to produce one car is $4000 more than what they're selling for. (Meaning if they sold 50k more cars, they'd lose $200M)

They had significant CapEx and so their revenues - costs worked out to an amount that was $4000 for every car they did sell. Had they sold more, their net loss would have been less, not more.
It's not misleading since questioning him is exactly what they wanted to do, what they had to do first according to their own laws and what they should have done. Sweden might also like to arrest him, but as we know he did not like to be arrested and it seems Ecuador did not like it either.

There was a fairly high-profile money laundering case in the conservative party in Germany at the end of the 90's. It involved a German arms trader who lived in Canada. They wanted to question him and, had he been in Germany, he would presumably have been arrested. Alas, he was in Canada. So they made the effort to travel and question him there, if I remember correctly. (But eventually he was extradited.)
Did Google Just Invalidate PG's “Change Your Name” Essay?
* "Change Your Name"
http://paulgraham.com/name.html

* "Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .Xyz Will End .Com Dominance"
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/alphabet-rewrites-the-domain-name-game/

What Google has done is make alternative TLD's like .xyz (or .guru, .app, .camp, etc) completely acceptable. This trend will continue - more and more startups and large companies will adopt alternative TLDs. It is simply economics; the supply of available .COM names is shrinking while the cost is increasing, and there is a huge supply of alternative domains (here are a few: https://support.google.com/domains/answer/6010092?hl=en). We are already seeing this with the popularity of .IO and .LY with startups.

PG says having a .COM "signals strength". To whom exactly? In a year or two while alternative TLDs become even more common, a .COM will appear no more authoritative or official than an .XYZ.

I'm a big fan of PG. I think, however, he is wrong with this advice. Interested in hearing more thoughts on this.
Title changed from "Beginning of the End for Oversaturated Images"
If you're trying to make an ad-hominem attack here, the argument about labor productivity and wages I'm presenting is straight out of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Would you group him alongside Kim Jong-un and Fidel Castro?

To answer your question. No one is a capitalist, really. Everyone makes compromises between socialism and capitalism, including the high priests of capitalism like banks and corporations sucking on the teat of the taxpayer.
I think Tesla is somewhere between Apple and Amazon/Ebay/Paypal. Trying to sell a desirable Apple-like product but at Amazon-like margins to try get wider uptake which is important for this type of product where critical mass is required for it to succeed.
Trying to install on mac. got this Error

Error: No available formula for gitfs

Help me please
Has Tinder Really Sparked a Dating Apocalypse?
yes the crony capitalists, the fascists...
Here's an interesting piece by NPR on license plate scanning: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/05/27/409...

To quote:

>> "I think it's helpful for people to understand that their fears that they're being tracked or that they are somehow having their privacy violated by tracking their personal pursuits over time is not even something we have the capabilities of doing. And we have no interest in that."
One of the problems with unpaid internships is the system favors the wealthy: if you can't afford (via "[your] family and [your] own funds") to buy your way in, you won't get "first-hand knowledge about how the international system works".

From the article: "I am from a developing country," says Sabine, "and I know of many people from my university who would have loved this opportunity but could probably not afford to do it."

Populism aside; 1%-er arguments aside—from an organizational perspective, you're missing out on talent who can't pay.

(From the other side, I laughed a hiring manager off the phone in college who told me their internship [in Manhattan] was unpaid. You may be selecting for "passion", but the best* talent knows their worth.)

(* Not saying I'm the best, but I had other options, as will anyone reasonable.)
Cool hack!

M4 gives me flashbacks to nightmares trying to deal with sendmail and configure scripts.

Why did this horrible language become so popular? Why has it not been replaced?