skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> would I reasonably be able to take legal action against them if they deny me the service for what turns out to be a frivolous DMCA claim?

The point of the DMCA Safe Harbour provision is that the OSP is protected if they don't involve themselves and just proxy claims assuming their are in good faith/correct. So no. You may have a claim if the OSP does not restore service after a counter-notice with no followup legal action from the claimant but they're allowed 10-14 business days for that one so you may be out for 3 weeks without any recourse, but OSPs can also rely on their TOS to make that moot and even ignore the counter-notice altogether.

You probably won't even have a claim against the originally alleged copyright owner: the notice of copyright infringement only requires "good faith belief" under no penalty of perjury.
I live just outside Boston and it worked for me (although it did consider my deck as part of my roof, which grossly inflated the estimate). Technically, they say "greater Boston area", so perhaps they don't actually include Boston itself.
If the readers at first didn't recognize it's satire, this shows how good it is written, and how close to the truth it is.
Thank you for the thoughtful responses! I am still getting my head around some of this, so I love hearing solutions I have not thought of.

"common groups of users encrypt data for each other with each others keys"

I agree, but I think this can quickly lead to massive multiplication of data without careful cryptographic gymnastics. It puts more pressure on the application devs to do it right or more pressure on the network in terms of data if you don't.

"Sure you can still leak your private key like you can leak an SSH key today."

If I leak an SSH key, I can revoke it and only data that attackers have already grabbed is out. In the described paradigm, everything is already out to everyone. It is all or nothing. That might not be a difference from a theoretical point of view, but in practice it is.

MaidSafe is very interesting, thank you! It seems like more of a shared cloud, which is halfway between present cloud computing and the completely distributed utopia described in the article. It solves pretty much all of these issues, with the cost of being a less-centralized network rather than a fully distributed network. Awesome work, I hope they succeed!
The civil war claim is pretty weak. There was no refrigeration in those days (at least in the field). The soldier's provided nutrition mostly came from hardtack and salted pork/bacon/beef. They also had stuff like dried peas and beans. At some point the union soldiers had some access to condensed milk.

The soldiers bought stuff (or were preyed upon) by various camp followers selling more stuff.

Generally speaking, the South had a weak supply chain, so they were more often to go without. I think that fact spoke more to the eventual Union victory.... industrial economies can absorb more punishment than a agrarian slave economy.
My analysis is that there are two classes of random people, while your analysis has only one. Class 1 is "random person coming across a page" and class 2 is "random person who cam across a page and expressed interest in possibly working on the problem." Both can become a member of the desired goal, that is, someone who contributes concrete help.

Experience says that both categories are low. Perhaps there's a 1:10,000 change for a member of class 1, and a 1:500 chance for a member in class 2.

If I do as you suggest, I might raise that to 10:10,000 and 10:500.

However, my belief is that directed email has a higher stickiness, because of the reasons I mentioned earlier. I believe those statistics become 1:10,000 (ie, unchanged) and 15:500, respectively.

If you work the math out, you'll see that it's overall better to send the directed email.

Another option is to do both, which you'll see is what I did for the question that was asked. Your complaint is that I should haven't sent additional information in private mail, which is odd given that HN's own guidelines suggest that there are HN-related questions that are inappropriate to post and should instead be done by email.

You have also stated that I do not "consider the possibility of a random person coming across something and finding it interesting". This simply isn't true, as you can tell from the analysis above, and from the two pages I linked to two pages where I have posted information meant for random strangers to hopefully identify.

You've come across like you are irritated for being left out of the conversation. I've suggested a few topics I could discuss, but how can I say more when you haven't expressed any specific interest about the problem (either on SMILES or short word compression). When writing, it's good to have a target audience in mind. Should I assume a basic understanding of arithmetic compression, or start from the basics? Do I need to explain state machines? And so on.

My above analysis left out the work factor. Rather than write 40 different essays, each aimed for a different set of strangers (chemist background, CS background, math background, web dev background), etc. and with at best a 1:100 chance of success, it's a better use of my time to just work on the code. I believe I could do what I want in about 2 months.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10072883
One would turn to twister.net.co, which addresses the "next" features discussed in this article, rather than pump dot io.
Jeff Bezos Responds to New York Times Amazon Story
Textio Spell Checks for Gender Bias
Ask HN: What do You do at the Weekends?
Is it 'productive' in terms of work, or do you make sure to relax?
Other than the "buy now" aspect, this doesn't seem any better for calculating solar savings than http://pvwatts.nrel.gov/ I used PVwatts when sizing my home system in Denver and thought it did a great job.
Well if you can get that from reality -- that's your "$1b" -- if you can get what you want, that is the key, is it not? :)

Who doesn't want success may be a more apt way of putting it. Or even, who __wants__ to be frustrated and __not__ get what they want?
Agree -- if Facebook had an "export my friend list to Excel" button, then plenty of non-programmers could perform this task using existing tools.

I read the tutorial and I am sort of struggling to see what benefit this would give someone who was already an Excel power-user.
It looks like it's only tuned for residences (and maybe small apartment buildings) as you can only set the max electricity bill at $500 per month. I'm sure the city hall's bill is much higher.
If you just paved over Edwards AFB with PV panels you'd have 50% of US electric energy demand, and that's assuming a relatively modest 6kWh per day per square meter.
If they launch a hosted version they could call it "Eve Online"
> You probably won't even have a claim against the originally alleged copyright owner: the notice of copyright infringement only requires "good faith belief" under no penalty of perjury.

That you don't have a specific DMCA-derived or declaration-under-penalty-of-perjury-derived cause of action doesn't mean you don't have a standard defamation-based cause of action.
so why did your YC interview not work out?
Solar lead gen (and this is a very fancy form of lead gen) is a reasonable size business within greater lead gen industry, but I doubt this will be noted for the revenue potential in any of Alphabet earnings calls.
Most SV people are running Mac.
Boot2kubernetes: single node kubernetes in one command
Can you explain more, or even share your project? It sounds quite interesting.
Curious... do you get paid for on call week/weekend? Other AMZN'ers free to answer as well.
Tesla's still going up. Despite negative signals!!
The point is it's not so easy to leave in that situation.
Really slick but would be great if there was a browser compatibility listed somewhere.
Why is jamii's reply to this dead? It is very informative and on-topic.
@jamii: For some odd reason you seem to be hell-banned. I couldn't find anything in your comment history to suggest why though :s

@mej10: Turn on showdead if you want to see jamii's response to your question.
I'm guessing you left the average monthly electric bill slider at the $125/month position. You'd have to adjust the to what it actually is for City Hall, which I'd think is a lot more than $125/month.
It's "easier." I just logged into PvWatts, knowing practically nothing about solar, and I'm confused at Step 2. There's a billion variables that it wants me to fill out instead of trying to calculate them for me for optimal results.
> also, counting calories works. anyone that has actually done it can tell you that.

We have years of experience to show that across a population simple calorie counting does not work.
One of the tunable parameters is the "size of your electric bill", which defaults to $150/month and maxes at $500/month -- far too low for a city hall, I should think. This is the limiting factor here, not the size of the roof. At $500/month, the recommended installation size is 765 square feet, but the total roof size is 50,171 sq feet. Only a small fraction of the roof area is being used.

This has clearly been designed for residences and not larger buildings.
Don't Follow Your Passions
Seems to be quite popular right now. I really like the idea and the execution seems very solid from a UI standpoint. Best of luck. I will keep my eye on this to see where things go.
Being the best of a bunch of bad options doesn't make CMake a good tool. I don't know the quality of Meson, but CMake leaves much to be desired.
I've been trying to explain the JS event loop to a couple of our interns recently and this is an amazing illustration of the basics and the not-so-basics. Thanks!
Print you on the T-shirt
Ask HN: Golang or .Net? if you were about to build back end for your startup
I know golang is getting a lot of hype (with nice features) and it is growing fast but I fear the pros of using golang in a startup might be as obvious as using a much more mature languages like c# in a well supported .net framework and azure eco-system? in particular (I assume) it is much easier to find .Net developers when you need to grow the team?

if we can, lets please assume we know c# as well as golang (and other languages will not be considered). thanks
Money is a Neurotransmitter
I've been thinking of how to decentralise the web as-is since 2011, the current development branch for this perspective on it is here: https://github.com/LukeB42/Uroko/tree/development

It's basically a collaborative caching proxy.

One process is a proxy that can also coordinate multiple users editing the same page and a subprocess acts as a DHT node.

You can use a raft-like log of hashes of pubkey,content and the previous hash to keep a history of edits in the network.

the hard part is this: How do you trust the validity of a singular node having a url you're requesting?

It entails a rating system, and then it becomes the byzantine generals problem where the overlay network should be able to tolerate up to a third of its malicious nodes saying they're all trustworthy.

Feedback/any help would be much appreciated.
Americans have long had an interest / obsession with King Tut. Here's a silly little thing Steve Martin did about him circa 1979: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Hr9VPnMNc
Hrmm, I don't know, the Google one seems more accurate in the details. It correctly shows my house as being plunged in darkness pretty much all day long (it's near the bottom of a slot canyon) whereas the site you linked above gives some quite rosy and unrealistic projections.
Wow. This is something that I had pondering over the past. A major frustration I notices with people using excel is Data-Entry coupled with horizontal scrolling. I was sketching a app with cells that are like MongoDB like collections and computations that can defined elsewhere.

Although, people have called making a generalised CRUD software, nearly impossible task, but I bet that, in that domain lies a room for an innovative conceptualisation of the problem. Maybe, in the next decade, we can see software with which people don't have to look for freelancers just to build a Data-Entry App. Good luck, Chris!
Well a Wordpress production site is a rare and precious thing to find on Github. There are some that exist, but then even if I do find it:

1.) Password will be changed

2.) Possible honeypot

3.) Boring site is boring. No need to hack it. Not popular enough

Same goes for other databases on there. An enormous amount of cruft to wade through to get anything remotely juicy/interesting. And the same heuristics apply above: is it really so great that I logged into a boring MYSQL database that is probably being monitored and has nothing interesting in there in the first place?
Luck is not an excuse for not doing something
Weird article title. I was hoping to read an article about the constraints of building tall roller coasters (and hard limits, if any). This is just a review of 4 tall roller coasters, not even the steepest ones[0]. TBD if we can build one with a 500 foot drop.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_roller_coaster_ranking...
> What is the responsibility of the ISP to its subscribers in that case?

Largely, to fulfill whatever is in their terms of service, though so long as they follow the counternotice procedures in the DMCA -- which require you first to file a counternotice -- they have no liability to you for removing content in response to a facially valid (even if substantively completely false) DMCA claim, even if they would otherwise under general principles of law or your terms of service (that's why the DMCA notice/counternotice provisions are called "Safe Harbor" provisions -- they provide a shield from existing copyright liability and liability to the user whose hosted content is removed, provided, in the first case, that the notice provisions are adhered to, and, in the second, that the content was removed in response to a DMCA notice and the counternotice provisions are adhered to.)
Bioavailability is rather complicated: for any given nutrient it can be enhanced by the presence of certain other nutrients but diminished by others.

Your comment also ignores phytonutrients* (which includes flavonoids and some anti-oxidants) and the effects of diet on gut flora, both of which topics we are just beginning to understand.

This is why, until we really understand the nitty-gritty of all of the hundreds (thousands?) of chemicals contained in food and how they interact, the best recommendations involve eating a variety of foods, both fresh and cooked.

* http://extension.psu.edu/health/news/2012/the-importance-of-...
Maybe that's because they are trying to target 'non-programmers', so scale probably is not an issue for them. But that may hurt them if they want 'serious' programmers to take note.

For me, I want to try it out because there are a million little things I would like to do just for myself, not at web scale...
The argument is:

a. Since there are not many women in these professions, young girls and women don't aspire to them.
b. A decent amount of women enter the STEM fields but fall out of them because they feel unwelcome, discriminated against, etc.
c. The discouragement starts early too. Our culture is very gendered and girls get pushed towards pink and fashion and boys towards soldiers and tech in general.

Here are some examples of things that make women feel unwelcome. It's pretty depressing. http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents

I don't disagree with you re: the current STEM ratios and I do think it's a hot button issue because tech fields are lucrative (and of course because articles that piss people off get more clicks). You don't see women complaining about the construction, trucker, fisherperson, etc. jobs that are predominantly male nor do they ask for more men in nursing and education to have more gender balance there.

So tl;dr: fix the STEM pipeline starting at age 6 or so and treat the women that are here with some common decency.
under Solar City's finance model (and possibly others) payments on solar panels are less than buying the same amount of electricity off the grid. That includes maintenance on the panels for 30 years.

This is assuming you get adequate sunlight, which we do here in Denver.
Ads are okay. Classy print ads are classy. 5 quid is way too much. Regardless of how the product is seen internally, 5 quid for what is perceived by the customer as a commodity ( a newspaper ) is too much.
Unfortunately, no. The closest one is the Tree Style Tabs extension for Firefox.
Do you have a source on if the LinuxONE Emprorer is actually a z13 underneath? It wouldn't be surprised if the Emperor and Rockhopper are just re-branded z13s and z114s.

If true, here's your specs for the z13:

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=SP...
They use 20 years and in the past I have heard that the average time for home ownership is typically 7 years. I don't know the true figure today (wasn't able to find it when I just searched) but for most people a 20 year payback is way to long and I would imagine this certainly contributed to lack of adoption of solar in addition to other factors obviously.

Edit: Note this: https://www.google.com/get/sunroof/faq/#financial-considerat...
Its also why, IBM has seen decreasing revenue for 13 straight quarters
This whole notion of "HR isn't your friend" is nonsensical. No department at the company is your friend. You stop performing at your job, you will probably be fired--or promoted.

Even your real friends won't be your friends for very long if their own self-interests are always in contention against your own.

HR is fulfills a specific sets of roles for the company and they exist to look out for the best interest of the company, the same way pretty much any other department operates.

Even executives have to operate in such a manner or be in breach of their fiduciary duties.

If your work environment is toxic, find a better environment---if you have that luxury as some do not. If you think the problem isn't pervasive, try to change it with the help of HR--clearly it's in the companies best interest not to have toxic work environments.
The thing is, it's easy to say something is hard. Programming is definitely hard!

The question is: Is it hard essentially, or is it hard accidentally? That is, can you remove unnecessary complexity from programming and suddenly it'll become easy?

That was the proposition behind first LightTable, and then Eve as originally conceived. But neither of them really found a satisfying answer, a way to say "hey, for making your web app or whatever, if you throw away your existing stuff and use this tool/process, now it's super-easy."

That implies heavily that a lot of the complexity and difficulty is essential. Not all of it -- things will get easier and better over time, as they have over the last ten years -- but enough so that blowing it all up and starting from scratch isn't likely to lead to wins.
Big Brother Narco: Cartels Are Building Their Own CCTV Networks
Even though typing normal text is faster, noting by hand doesn't use as much brain resources so it's possible to listen and note at the same time. Keying occupies abstract mind to the point you cannot process words with the same depth of understanding. Thinking / designing is also MUCH easier in front of a plank page than in front of screen & keyboard.

Therefore I am working on an app for note taking:

A bit like if google docs had a baby with OneNote

- vector graphics/drawings created by freehand / writing
http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934

http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e

- unlimited* levels of zoom
http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34...

- draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web
http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab
And you end up with Moriarty taking over the ship? ;-)
• Native UI toolkit used for window chrome (toolbar, etc) - no HTML/XUL/etc, it's gotta be real

• Good OS integration

• Prioritization of power efficiency over performance

• Built in request-based ad blocking like that found in iOS 9/El Capitan Safari

• Tabs in a list on the side of the window

• Per tab processes

• In-browser video playback handled by embedded mpv

• General focus on being a vehicle for viewing websites rather than trying to be an application platform
It's a good question, and I'm not sure we have a good answer. We did show that we had built a product that people want, use and even love, but I don't we think did a good job of showing that we were building a $10B business.
This is a curious objection to level against other people doing professional work (which you aren't obligated to consume) for free. Is your life in any way worse because React exists or this dev decided to write some very nice color pickers? If so, doesn't whatever the objection is generalize to "all human activity which doesn't directly benefit me?"
His metric is valid data point.... However I am curious how often his team of direct reports, and their reports, and so on down the chain, work on their laptop on the weekend.
https://www.google.com/get/sunroof/about/
Obviously my first thought was "Yeah, but we don't know anything about the leg or the militarized prosthetic on the other one.
Different ability to exert willpower is part of natural human variation. Don't assume your personal experience makes for an accurate baseline.

However, I would not count being able to will yourself into believing things as a good thing!
Yes but vertical axis windmills take more ground space and make even more noise than their horizontal-axis counterparts.
To freemium or not to freemium
I've been battling the question of freemium for a while and want to hear people's thoughts on this model.

Our project has been freemium for a while, but we are considering making it paid for only.

The way I see it, freemium works only if the product itself has lots of inherent shareability and social network effects. Our product does not because it focuses on individuals and is a private personal platform which users use by themselves, and produces content that users do not want to share, ie it's private stuff.

We figured that going to a paid model would reduce the number of sign ups, however many would still be prepared to pay a small fee for use.

What are your experiences of freemium and would love to hear stories where it worked for you and why, and those where freemium didn't work at all.
Is this in response to something?
Generate a unique ID for the message. Once the page has loaded using the unique ID, pull message from database, display and remove appropriate database entry.

If the page is reloaded the message will no longer exist in the database and throw an error.
"Cadmium" is not, in fact, made with real Cadmus.
Both interviews I did with Amazon were pretty poor. I am a little upset by their advocacy and use of visa workers, as though there are no American engineers capable of doing the work. Facebook and other tech giants are guilty of this too.
Seems also very similar to http://www.mapdwell.com/en
I think they mean that a majority of these are instances where someone installed WP to play with it and these are the testing files rather than an actual website they are using. When I installed WP recently, I know I just used a dummy password for testing.
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This story is obviously a bit ridiculous nowadays, since no one that can afford an ESS is buying a single site. In fact, most can't due to legal regulations about having data redundancy. These regulations typically lead to having a secondary site across town and a tertiary site across the country.
Cool project, does it support RTL languages like Arabic or Hebrew?
Really excited about this work and interested to see where it goes. Reading this:

"even many of them expressed wanting to automate processes or bring a bunch of different types of information together"

...makes me wonder: are we just talking about a better ITTT type of thing?