skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is more civil than banding together to take some of the variance out of life?

Letting people decide how to spend their own money. Private charity is "banding together to take some of the variance out of life". Like all of the government's authority, taxation flows from the end of a gun. You can be imprisoned and fined if you don't pay what you owe.

> What do you think the gov't does with it, burn it? 5 of the 6 startups I worked for wouldn't have happened without government assistance

Government investment in certain sectors can be good, such as for fundamental sciences. But in general, private investment does better with the same amount of money. Even when government programs are well designed at their birth, the world around them changes faster than politics and bureaucracy can keep up with.
See "The Submarine" http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

> "Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.
Xeon E3 vs E5, actually.
Is the Red of Fall Foliage a Warning for Insects?
I'm a software engineer, currently unemployed. I graduated from a smaller engineering school in the US in Math. Yeah, 15 weeks or so of probability and 15 weeks of statistics. Hardcore professors were a good way to learn. I almost want to do another program to see if other schools have the same type of sadistic professors.
Blinking Commits
There's literally no way to operate a CDN-like service from AWS; no matter what discount you get from Amazon, you're paying per-byte instead of 95th percentile billing and settlement-free peering.
Kevin Cook from Austin, TX
If they allow over the air updates, even encrypted, there's a big potential risk. Exactly how are the crypto keys generated and protected? An attack on the download signing server, rather than the car, offers an entry point.
Has Haskell really been a fad here for five years? It feels like just a year or two ...
Ask HN: A Request to fill out a survey
Hello All, Im not sure if it is allowed on here posting survey requests. If it is, could i kindly ask all programmers if they could fill out a survey im conducting for my MSc Research regarding how effective teaching methods are.

The link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18XL1NkWT2MP6_7_h6MVvfAiVarNUkPFul1f2CudF8gk/viewform

Many kind thanks
> A wafer cost isn't insignificant.

This [0] seems to indicate that in mid 2009, one could get a 300mm silicon wafer for -worst case- ~$120.

Likely usable wafer area: 90,000mm^2

Largest Intel i3 processor (Haswell) die area: 181mm^2

Max dies per wafer: 497

Silicon wafer cost per die:

* Assuming 0% defect rate: $0.24

* Assuming 50% defect rate: $0.48

* Assuming 99% defect rate: $30.00

Cheapest (Celeron) Haswell on sale at Newegg today: $44.99. Average i3 Haswell price: $140. [1]

Unless Reuters is misinformed, or wafer costs have exploded in the past six years[2], the cost of the wafer truly does appear to be insignificant, even if we assume that wholesale prices are 50% of retail prices.

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/07/21/shinetsu-idUSBNG50...

[1] https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/cpu/

[2] This seems unlikely, as memory and chip costs haven't exploded in the past six years.
I didn't say optimizing Erlang is irrelevant, just that for me a book about optimizing Erlang is less relevant than a book about writing distributed systems in Erlang.
Ethereum configuration tool
I don't think I've ever seen someone commit so much time and effort to making a game sound so boring.

We played this as an essentially neverending drinking game... Not a special session of the junior senate.
I have third party cookies off so it didn't work.
I'm a student at SCU and I'm excited to see these on campus; it's not a big enough campus to merit having it's own shuttle system, but it should be a perfect testbed for the platform.
Ask HN: Can I pay blog contributors to link my startup or post my content?
Hey HN :)

I am working on a customer service software (http://helprace.com) and we desperately need more exposure. I am looking for a freelancer who is a blog author or contributor that can give our link in a publication for a fee. I don't think quality authors will be on a place like fiverr. Where can I go? ODesk? Anyone have any luck with this?
Perhaps it's an ad for the book The Innovator's Dilemma? Or maybe for a textbook about creative destruction?

How is it that some guy in a garage (admittedly a well-funded garage) can disrupt an industry so readily?

Why isn't this product from Kodak? (Huh, who are they?) Why isn't this product from Sony or Canon or etc etc etc?
I hope one day my desk will make it to HN frontpage ;-)
By then I am sure it will be just as tidy as Haruki's desk
> The government isn't entitled to 80% of what _any_ person earns, just a portion of what the _richest_ earn.

Astounding double standards. Some numbers: if Ted makes $100,000/yr and Jim earns $1,000,000/yr and both are taxed at 30%, Jim is already paying $270,000 _more_ in taxes every year. Even at the same tax rate. Crank Jim's rate to 90% and we are looking at an $870,000/yr difference! Through what greed can we morally justify such insatiable lust for the money other's have earned?

Furthermore, the capital gains argument is rife with unintended consequences. It, quite literally, disincentives the wealthiest folks from innovating and earning money through economically productive means. Instead, we send the message "if you insist on earning money by working like the rest of us, we are going to take 80% of it. But, if you want to rest on the laurels of your investments and be otherwise unproductive, by all means. The choice is yours."

It terrifies me that this mindset is the majority opinion these days.
You're missing out, to be honest. Moving to Go 1.5 is painless and the latency wins are huge.
> XAPI server-side is coded in OCaml; don't ask how I know that.

Everyone that follows Mirage should know that. ;)

I remember Anil saying something about it in one of his talks, if I am not mistaken.
Or tens of millions of immigrants, "documented" or otherwise.
I agree that the status-quo is terrible. Here in the UK the welfare state has gone out of control.

No one is arguing for people to be homeless and its not the fault of the working class.

It lies squarely on the fault of the govt.

I notice houses falling apart at the same time 23 year old are on welfare.

I am sympathic towards disabled people but a lot of disabled people could help run shops and participate in white collar work.

Heck - There is a massive demand for teaching english to Africans and Chinese.

My point is there is no shortage of work.

Right now not only are a huge percentage of adults on welfare due to demographics reasons - average age is higher.

But adults with perfectly good education are also on welfare. How is that possible ?

It shows a massive loss of potential in society.

And its going to get worse as more people enter old age and are unable to work for any job.

I think a lot of people in the west are completely oblivious to the fact that so much labour is needed to produce their clothes, iphones, fossil fuels, coffee, . .

Just because you cannot see it doesn't mean some person in rural china is not picking tea for you.

And because of deflation ppl complain that its "too expensive to hire in canada/england/US"

The fact is the world price point has shifted and money supply hasn't been keeping up.

Almost everything is cheaper due to the force of the globalization economy. Not politically but economically.

This should have resulted an aggressive move towards a more unified form of global governance, but there wasn't enough political will. Imagine when a english major graduates in the States they get to travel to africa to teach thousand of kids english.

Or labour moving to Europe to transform the infrastructure and install solar panels.

Or a concession amoung europeans and africans to solarize the sahara and provide clean energy for europe and africa.

The only country that is able to do this ( limited form ) is china in 2015. But I hope more countries can work to solve the big problems of humanity.
Living Off the Grid Under the Sun
> Why doesn't Google use Erlang? And if they don't use Erlang, why isn't there some sort of cluster management stuff built into Go?

Because it requires a higher skill level than Go, which isn't what Google is after. Check Rob Pike's talk about it.
It's certainly time to do this. But "Available for preorder?" That doesn't work for B2B manufactured products. They need real funding.
They write the right stuff - Software projects at NASA
Do you mean to say that silicon wafers with higher guaranteed purity are not more expensive than those with lower guaranteed purity? I'm seriously asking; I don't know.

To speak to the rest of your comment:

mozumder made an incorrect argument and backed it up with a dangerously misleading analogy. I attacked the analogy by demonstrating its inappropriateness.

In my most recent post, I have attacked his argument with an analysis of what appear to be the actual costs of the thing he's talking about.
Id say yes, it is entirely psycological, it should be doable now.
Assange beats sex abuse rap as deadline expires
This is very strange. Amazon is in the pay per view streaming video business itself.[1] Netflix is outsourcing their entire business to a direct competitor. At what point will Amazon decide that they don't need Netflix?

Or perhaps there's an acquisition or merger coming.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Prime-Instant-Video/b?node=2676882011
Germans are so scared of surveillance they microwave their ID cards
This SO question covers this question quite well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3912089/why-no-generics-i...

Beside the accepted answer, there are also some other useful answers included.
Agreed, but I think quite of these bugs are very much the result of Apple not really caring enough. They have their focus, and sadly for many of us, it appears to be iOS over mac, and the iOS approach to files over a filesystem.

I don't think this is a new thing. The Finder is terrible, and has been for a long time. iPhoto hasn't been great for me either, nor iTunes.

But if I look at how most of the less-geeky users (and I suppose the majority of Apple users) around me use their macs, I kind of get it. They don't use iPhoto, iTunes and Finder the way I do, so they don't generally have issues or miss features that I do miss.

For the most part I can live with this situation, because the upside is that Apple's focus (and resulting neglect of other things) can lead to really great things. I love iOS and even though I have and would happily use an Android device, I am still willing to pay a premium for an Apple device. A lot of the most common use-cases, for me at least, are still superior within the Apple ecosystem. I'm enough of a 'common user' most of the time to accept the horrible experience whenever I step out of this role.

For now, Apple feels a bit like those (new?) companies/startups that send you packages of ingredients with recipes once a week so you can cook a few quite good (but relatively pricy) meals throughout the week with little fuss. The experience is good, the result is healthy and fresh even though it feels a bit... extravagant/excessive sometimes. But for people like me who don't want prepackaged meals, but who also don't like cooking from scratch all the time (especially not just for myself), it's a good solution.

The problem Apple is facing right now is that for whatever reason too much of the stuff they do focus on, and too much of their essential functionality, has been slipping, and if the continue on this track, they'll turn into McDonalds. And I don't go to McDonalds, because it's both unhealthy and strangely expensive. I'd just go back to cooking from scratch.
Could you share a bit more about this nginx proxy setup for static assets? Basically mimicking production env?
For driving near Paris, Waze is incredibly effective. I think it is caused by the mass effect: Paris is a permanent traffic jam and many people are using waze. In less crowded area, data access is not reliable. As a result waze behaves badly, worse than a ordinary GPS with traffic information.
Make something people want. on YC's homepage
The statement at the bottom of the YC's homepage should be at the top
At the much lower end (below BlackMagic), a Canon 5D mark III equipped with Magic Lantern (by thudson of ThunderStrike / ThunderStrike 2 fame) is an exceptional 35mm platform for cash-poor movie makers.

See [0] under "Why not just buy a video camera?", although IIRC the $25K price for the RED is circa 2009, and it's much cheaper now.

[0] http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Lantern_Firmware_Wi...
On a tangent, @mg on Medium suggested the idea of iMessage as a platform[1]. No one responded on HN[2] when I linked it though, so I don't think it has much traction.

[1] https://medium.com/@mg/there-s-a-chat-for-that-apple-s-bigge...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9765818
There's a subtle difference. With the physical key you can't do anything remotely, with a copy of the proposed crypto key you can.

Remote control over your breaks/steering is a pretty scary scenario. Someone having your physical keys mostly means they can steal your car.
That's an 'operational' view. Continuation were brought by people with a mathematical / functional background where it's cleaner to view the world as functions between domains/types. That's what I think is the reason behind the convoluted explanations. You have to be into lambda calculus where there's no stack pointer, only lambdas, to express everything, be it conditionals, lists or `return`.

I tend to like the 'everything is a function' approach, it's clean and general, everything is explicit and can be decoupled or abstracted away.

ps: when introduced to the concept in college, I too left the class thinking that's just 'IP'. But somehow it didn't make me appreciate the possibilities. But maybe I'm just dumb :)
"The closing of Netflix’s last data center has been seven years in the making."

Does that sound like a drop in the bucket?
Bitcoin: what exactly is money?
Anyone else having trouble reading the slides in Chrome? I'm getting "Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document." in the console. Works fine in Firefox though.
OP said he had to post bail, because he had to go to work. He was going to leave in one week, the same amount of time we would be in jail waiting for his arraignment. Since he was leaving anyway they could not fire him.

It would thus be in his financial best interest to sit out the time until the arraignment. The only one who benefits from him getting out would be his old company. I am assuming he had something important to do there, like documenting what he did or training his replacement. Thus, I feel like they should have paid for his bail.
Ask HN: What problem does Actifio solve?
Sure, if they worked on the original image.

But that doesn't happen - when you're encoding, the DCT isn't actually run on the image but on the output of previous compression steps (prediction) which are based on the last encoded block. So there's a dependency on every pixel of the image to the upper left of you.

And when you're decoding, it just never ends up worth it to read the whole bitstream so you have a whole frame of motion vectors to do it at once. The whole data locality thing.
Because you made a claim that the "allegations surfaced in August" and that it was related to things that happened before and was "awfully convenient". But there appears to be no sinster motives to the timings.
Total loser move to post this with no context.

Warning for anyone who hasn't clicked the link yet: This will log you out of a bunch of services ranging from AOL to YouTube.
From my understanding this is a simple decision: do not focus on something that isn't your core business. Amazon is doing it well, Microsoft is, the cloud is becoming more competitive every day, and they're big enough not to use the public pricing, so it's even more economical for them.

In addition to this, they only need a few "machines" (https://openconnect.netflix.com/hardware/) to have full ISP-local caches of Netflix; why bother with a full datacenter ?
Never thought I'd see something related to Cerebral Palsy here! Fantastic work, team!
Interesting that the average user is less than 50%. I got two wrong and still felt like an idiot.
ok now i need a spam filter for git log - everything is flashing like "look at my nice changes here!" :)
> "are matters of evidence which would be highly relevant at trial. But it is not for this court to asses whether the allegations may fail." (Section 125)

Yes, Assange hasn't been tried. The courts want to try him, but he's avoiding them. Yes, that High Court judgement is not a trial, but Assanges challenge to the Swedish extradition request. Which was upheld, and found to be valid and legal under UK law.

> he should be demanding that Assange is actually charged with a crime

He has been charged.
Would it be possible to get them in different sizes? I have about a full size difference between my feet.
I too would like to see more options.

Regqrding the "transparency" initiative, wouldn't it also make sense to let the buyer choose the shoemaker? (on which criteria, I have no idea, but my hunch is that they're not interchangeable, they must have some specialties or specific skills, etc.)
Many individual billionaires in the US donate more money to charities in one year than most americans will earn in their entire lives. Think about that for a moment. And this is in addition to the top 10% of americans already paying 68% of all the taxes.

Your inclusion of Mr. Carnegie's quote is quaint. He was freely entitled to his own ideas. The beauty of freedom is that those who disagree are empowered to amass and donate their money as they personally see fit. It is neither the job, nor the right, of the populace to spend the money earned by any individual, regardless of their level of success.
Of course, you can also use other escape codes to make your commits colored (e.g. [92m for green), underlined ([4m), etc.
Of course you _can_ pay them.

You competitors probably know about this page though: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713?hl=en

If you're doing this _just_ for SEO, be careful - and if you're _not_ doing it for SEO, make sure that's obvious if anyone ever reports you to Google.
The article we are discussing says nothing about a keylogger.
Comet's firework
Because most subways run on legacy infrastructure that would be difficult to upgrade/replace. RF repeaters for emergency remote control for example would need to be installed, certified and thoroughly tested.

Given that drivers aren't a big cost centre for subway operations in comparison to maintenance etc. the cost/benefit doesn't make sense.
I wrote about why the Blockchain is important too

https://blog.safello.com/index.php/2015/07/29/bitcoin-enterp...
Arguably, Digital Ocean is more like a regular hosting provider with better onboarding. Plenty of hosters offer comparable infrastructure for the same price (you can even get something dedicated).

They're also far cheaper than AWS, where you pay a premium for the elasticity and access to the ecosystem. If there's anything to compare AWS with, it would be Google Cloud Platform, Azure and maybe Rackspace.
> Why not also mandate the use of drugs that promote good behavior, by law?

Because the state can police your body and not your soul, and psychoactive drugs may interfere with the autonomous choice of the individual's rational, wilful faculty. It's okay to restrain the individual's capacity for action, if that action causes harm, and not to restrain their choice to choose that action. It's okay to encourage the individual to do something, and punish if it goes undone, if that something works for the individual or others. It’s okay to make some information illegal to disseminate, when doing so would cause harm, and it is not okay to force people to think or forget something, because someone’s mind is their unassailable temple, their own kingdom, entirely their own domain. So mandatory administration of psychoactives is unlawful invasion of foreign soil, it’s rape of the domain of the mind, which is a temple of autonomy.

The only place where an invasion on foreign soil is not a rape of a place's autonomy is if the foreign soil is unable to administer its own affairs ( with respect to the current social context ) and unable to effects its own autonomy and is falling into chaos threatening to destabilise itself and neighbours. People with mental illness who are risks to themselves or others are such. So it's not okay to force people to take psychoactives, unless they actually work for the person or others -- and when this does work, then it happens, and in some places, psychiatric intervention is required by law. The state can cause you to take psychoactives, in other words.

Forcing entire populations to take drugs that promote good behaviour ( ie, the common good )? Well that population would have to be pretty far gone ( say, if there was a major climate event, and widespread vigilantism, looting and violence, it would be okay to crop-spray aerosolized pacifiers to protect people & infrastructure ). And yet, in peacetime, well there’s less utility, and, anyway, don’t we already have that ? It’s called culture. The thing about culture is, you can think your way out of it, you can unplug. The thing about mass administration of psychoactives is they may interfere with the autonomous choice of your rational, wilful faculty. In other words, they may be the mental equivalent, of physical force.
I am a user -- congrats, and please don't start limiting your service to Altium users! :-P
Because Visual Studio is an order of magnitude better than all else.
Those are tricky though. What if someone doesn't have readily shareable code? I'd argue that if you really deconstruct how you would be evaluating a persons' code, you can probably get the same information by thoughtful questions.
I actually quite like the idea of control codes in commit messages for internal teams where you can implement rules.

It could be useful for highlighting risky commits in red or other visual markers.

Would play merry hell with almost every other way of viewing commits though :D
Note that it's vinyl on his shelves, not books. Safe to say nearly all of it is jazz. Nice loudspeaker in the corner too. When you love music you play it loud so you can be more immersed in it rather than have something merely in the background.
Isn't PR in essence paying for links? Something that a freelancer or agency would do. Correct me if I'm wrong
For me this is something I want to have fixed by really good common user defined CSS - I am fed up with wanting to read 500 words of text, downloading 2MB and having it shrink to 10pts in a slice of five lines between the adverts

I just want the HTML, laid out like instapaper, at 15pts or above.

/surprising rant
That really depends on a type of workloads and requirements you have. But basically you (your team) have to be smart about how AWS or any other cloud provider is used. No cloud buzzword alone will help you avoid cost, availability issues etc otherwise.
As for the "perks" i.e. discounts talk to AWS account rep.
God thanks bicycles, horses and hot air balloons don't have wireless yet.
nope, fine for me.
I think this post just changed my position on censorship :p
Debug Mail – Easy to use mail server
Hacker hack the rifel
by hijacking the bullet