skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not yet met an analysis that would explain why a huge governmental body to politically rule the entire Europe would be a good thing. Historically, realms that have been patched together from previously autonomous bodies have not done too well (I would appreciate counter examples).

Most successful large systems grow organically and with time or are forced into a unified whole by a huge effort at control. And the effort needed seems to me to grow at exponentially as the total system size increases.

Trade agreements can govern the interaction between autonomous bodies - they affect the policies but are more of a service interface and a set of constraints than a complete operating system.
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Well, that's all pretty reasonable. Science has its fair share of oddballs and bureaucrats too.

I have to trust in the scientific process though. It's done pretty good so far, and I think that if there were serious flaws in the fundamental conclusions of climate science, one of the many good scientists out there would've pointed them out. (I'm using some weasel words here because I'd wager there are some disagreements among scientists in the field and I bet someone's going to come along and tell me so. But I doubt those disagreements would change statements like, "the planet is getting warmer", "humans are a significant contributing factor", "this is going to affect what we are accustomed to as 'normal' weather", and, "the west is going to get drier".)
StartSSL at least have a human in the loop for your initial identity validation. They got in touch with me because I'd put a work address in instead of my home address, and they worked it out and sent me a very human-like email asking me to correct it.
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According to the Isaacson biography, Steve Jobs used to cry in business meetings.
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I'm honestly not all that surprised because we're still doing education the same way as we did over 1000 years ago. Of course news tools aren't going to help with archaic platforms.
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Advanced payments are very common in the industry. It's why spacex has the cash on hand to put $150M+ in solar city bonds.
Thats really not how it works. Content providers like that ideal but it's incorrect. It never has operated that way.

I pay for a connection and a device. I don't pay for an advertising subsidy. If you choose to use advertising as a capital model for your business in a market so easily destroyed by technology then that by definition is a shitty business model due to the massive risk of a technological shift destroying your only income. Not only that, the consumers merely tolerate your model, not engage it. It is a plague upon them most of the time.

The only way this model works is if you provide a device which consumes advertising. That in itself is being eroded as well due to the number of services which offer utility without advertising even on the advertiser's territory.

Content isn't worth much on its own which is the problem. Authors rarely get paid anything significant from publishing; same with content driven advertising. I don't see how you're going to milk it in a decaying market.

The web will shrink, content will have to stand alone and be free of advertising ties and you'll have to put some cash down for services. Back to 1995 again.

I fully expect these dying markets to throw a few turds yet however. That will merely bury them deeper.
Humanity is suffering from a collective ADD epidemic under the spell of computers and internet and children are getting the worst of it. Computers are the last thing that kids under 12 need in a classroom. Teach them something that involves quiet focus, like 19th century cursive writing.
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I've decided to start doing that (banking at least, not yet primary email), since remembering many high-security passwords is hard, and my bank has 2FA anyway. A keylogger could easily get at all of my passwords anyway, so that doesn't make the threat any worse.
This! I use OneNote, but I hate that "click and type anywhere" feature. I'd like to have something like Markdown, but with easy tables and embedded images.
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Said search website was probably google. If that's the case they don't have to sell it, they just use it to target ads from their own network. If you search something on Google it will follow you like the plague.
That data pretty well exists, though it could always be improved. There are charts you can find that give the annual water usage per tree for different varieties of trees.

But, as much as I'm a complete raving lunatic fan of data-driven politics, there's still politics involved. The data doesn't really tell you what to do, which was jcranmer's point, and mine. At best it just tells you what not to do.
It might be software-based; the clbuttic mistake. My favourite clbuttic error was "consbreastutional"...
As a counter-example: Germany as a country has a very short history - "pan-germanism" was a movement to unify all German-speaking countries, which included quite a bit of Poland, Austria and Switzerland. There were 39 states in the first German Bund ~1870, there were way more states in the preceding Holy Roman Empire (that one included what's now the Netherlands, Belgium, parts of Italy etc.). These were merged into the Empire, which turned shortly into the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, West and East Germany, and is now the Bundesrepublik.

Culturally these parts were quite different, most often dominated by Prussia vs. the rest [1]. But Prussia has been forgotten by now, which makes me hopeful that you can have a large country with people who are thought to be "culturally incompatible". Some German-speaking areas that were included in the first German Bund aren't German speaking anymore since the Second World War. Sudeten-Germans and other German minorities were kicked out after Hitler lost.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Germanism

[1] My favorite book about this is "Diary of a Man in Despair", it's written by a Prussian who pretended to be a Bavarian who keeps on criticizing Prussians
I think the story here is it's first use in a sexual context. As you say, John le Fucker's name is probably just a corruption of another word.
Surely you would at least need access to a relevant email address on that domain? How would you bypass that?
and a unit of anti gravity.
> You enjoy the fruits of space experimentation on the ISS every day.

What has manned (!) space flight ever done for us?
Edit: should be sorted.

Original: working on a standard DPI Mac, but it still looks fine - see http://imgur.com/WRWYzBx. Trying to figure it out now...
I'm with Buffoon on this one.

Trying to convince somebody they want to buy something by bombarding them with ads on every web page is shitty. I don't want to be exposed to it. I don't want my kids exposed to it.

Then to build your content business on top of the shitty advertising industry that seems kind of a bad idea.

I think if people want your content they will pay. Publishers just need to bundle it the right way.

And I've said it a few times here on HN, but if we as a society think news and current affairs is important, we shouldn't trust it to commercial organisations driven by profit, we need independent, publicly funded news like Australia's ABC.
I would have thought under the current funding systems having an "Uber" in contracted future sales would have limited its value.

After all you've got to expand before making money. Or so the current thinking appears to go.
As per the guidelines, please keep discussions civil on HN and please don't complain about being downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Historically, realms that have been patched together from previously autonomous bodies have not done too well (I would appreciate counter examples).

At least Germany, Spain, Italy, France have evolved from a myriad of city states, duchy, great fief, that have been unified, conquered, inherited, etc to form a bigger central power.

European separatist movement are usually basing their claims on these previous historical divisions (Catalonia, Brittany, Scotland...)
You know how expensive books were 1000 years ago?

With cheap books it's much easier to pick up a random subject on your own.
I do DNS Hijacking on my own network for known trackers and ad networks. On my mobile devices i have an active connection home to filter the data. It kinda works... Im now looking at building the DNS filter into an app that i can load on a raspPI or a old laptop to handle all blocking and integration with addBlock lists.
Oh, just getting current market prices from the neighbouring towns can be invaluable for the farmers to decide where and when to sell their goods.

Mobile phones without internet already work well for that.
I agree.

My daughter has just hit secondary school in the UK. She was disappointed to find that they rarely touch a computer.

What they did do is on day one of science drop her a proper lab notebook and start talking about the scientific method and proper experimental recording, in mathematics they started talking about propositional logic and in RE they talked about logical reason. They're also not allowed to read eBooks; only paper ones.

I'm shitting myself with joy if I'm honest that they didn't stick them in front of a Flash game like they did in primary school and assume that was the end game for technology in education. They learned close to nothing and we had to do all the educating.
> Nobody said protecting your IP rights must be easy.

Shouldn't it be at least easy enough to make the hilders' situation somewhat more symmetric with the scale of infringement that happens on the Internet? How is an industry of a few hundred thousand people (of which only hundreds probably man the DMCA stations, so to speak) supposed to cope with infringement by hundreds of millions of people?
Not exactly. I mean, you're not really wrong, but you underestimate the severity of the current conditions. Here's one of my favorite articles on that: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/science/californias-histor... (also: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ingram-california...)

The trend right now is drier than anything else in the last thousand years. If this were merely another instance of the 1980's drought, we'd all be coping more or less OK. But, it's drier than that and we've added a lot of population since then and, as you point out, no additional water storage.
This is true. I would still use it -- except that python is an even nicer language to work with and via numpy and scipy lots of those library are nicely wrapped.
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Yeah, I wanted to try Relay for a small project a month ago, but getting started seems really time consuming, and the documentation was pretty poor, with just a contrived sample. The architecture seems great, I hope they improve the doc now that it's out of the tech preview.
Historically, realms that have been patched together from previously autonomous bodies have not done too well (I would appreciate counter examples).

The Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Byzantine Empire, British Empire and the USA spring to mind. All large states/empires are a patchwork of previously autonomous bodies, in fact most nation states are also formed in the same way, though of course they later usually manufacture tradition/history in an attempt to seem unique and indivisible.
It is great. I use it across my iOS devices. It also comes with free cloud storage.
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Thanks for the write up!
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Often cooked with ham. I mean it's basically an improved omelette...
For thesu not restricted to Python, the ImageMagick convert tool is probably the quickest way to get something like this working.
Is there any possibility of peer2peer voting/vetting for certificate genuity?
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Thanks, this is the real answer I was looking for and not the hand waving about trusting everyone up above. That sounds like a good solution to me.
I misread the post, sorry :|
Perhaps it was an early example of a movable typo :)
No, I disagree.
GraphQL is definitely a query language,
since it allows to specify pieces of data to be extracted from a whole data set.

Compared to SQL,
this is done using an unusual manner,
giving a shape of the data we want around some seed,
but the approach is both expressive and efficient.
In light of this query principle,
it is perhaps unfortunate that GraphQL use a different syntax for the query and the response.
To this regard, freebase's MQL is more pure
(http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/MQL).

About graph, I think the term applies too.
Indeed, a GraphQL defines a subgraph to be extracted from a whole graph,
even if the tree shape of the response forces to resort to ids to tie the loop.

Compared to a graph traversal query language like Gremlin
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlin_%28programming_languag...),
I find the pattern approach of GraphQL simpler to grasp;
and even easier to implement efficiently in a distributed setting.
I implemented years ago a distributed graph database for Yahoo!;
and the query language, based on shapes to be extracted around seeds,
was a key design choice for an efficient architecture and short query delays.
This is awesome. No messing around, straight to the point. Let's see if they meet the "2-3 days" timeframe for an offer!
Totally tangential, but I'm genuinely curious where you live if you've only needed to pay for transportation twice a year. (Assuming you are counting car and bike maintenance and car fuel in that comment?)
Same thing for Sweden, but I guess most modern countries are a result of unification of lesser city states/countries
For all the people cheering on ad blockers: do you not realize that the _only_ result of wide-spread ad blocking is to drive smaller ad networks out of business and make Google into a monopoly?

This is not a win for privacy or security on the Internet. Google is an order of magnitude worse offender compared to the small-time ad networks.

And no, you cannot ad block Google. Good luck trying to block google.com cookies and access to *.google.com.
Any one else getting a 'Secure Connection Failed' error at https://helloworld.letsencrypt.org/ in FF after adding the root certificate?
Which would be fine it more banks used a two tier approach to bank operations. Checking the balance? Username and password should suffice. Making a transaction? SMS token or matrix card or RSA key, all seem fine.
I now choose to believe that your mother is responsible for Content Blocking Extensions on iOS. Please thank her for us.
> In other words, even the most important and widely respected newspaper in the world is nowhere close to being healthily monetized, especially not by the small number of people who pay for it.

It's not true that people won't pay for "content". People subscribe to Netflix, and still go to the theaters in droves (despite "piracy"). People buy games. And it's not even true that there's a problem with written content: people still buy books.

People won't pay for news, which isn't the same thing as "content" in general.

The reason people won't pay for news is because news have no inherent value.

Reading the news is a way of passing time; it's more like glazing at trees and leaves in the wind (but much less enjoyable).
Yeh, that's one of the key things - a United States of Europe is a goal driven by politicians and bureaucrats who are forever grabbing more power for themselves.

Some of goals - trade zone, free movement of people etc., may make sense but a European wide army?

Europe is a region of huge diversity, it doesn't need to be a single political entity.
No, I haven't looked at systemd source code. Does it have gotos hidden in macros, too? There are many practices that used to be common that we have learned should not be common. Hopefully a new project doesn't repeat the mistakes of the past.

From earlier this year, NASA's 10 rules for safety critical systems [1]:

Rule 1: Restrict all code to very simple control flow constructs.
Do not use GOTO statements, setjmp or longjmp constructs, or
direct or indirect recursion.

I don't think gotos are inherently bad, but I choose to heed the advice of people with more experience than me. (I do think that hiding gotos in macros is inherently bad, though.)

[1] http://sdtimes.com/nasas-10-rules-developing-safety-critical...
> Historically, realms that have been patched together from previously autonomous bodies have not done too well (I would appreciate counter examples).

Spain
Big thanks for clarifying!
But it seems I'm not the main target audience because I do not want to use Lastpass for all my passwords (personal preference) and I also do not want to force coworkers to use browser plugins just for exchanging passwords once in a while.
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> you cannot ad block Google

Why not? It may be difficult to stop google from tracking you, but if you don't ever see the consequences (as you're blocking their ads), it doesn't much matter does it?
Just because you mention testosterone doesn't make your explanation scientific. Given that the article in question brings up that men not crying is a relatively recent thing, and seems to be largely cultural, assuming that it must be caused by testosterone (rather than just socialisation) seems unwarranted (and, given that it disagrees with observation, unscientific).
I've used StartSSL for my last three customer projects, only because they offer cheap wildcard certs. I for one cannot wait to never have to use them again:

* validation taking up to six weeks, with recurring ridiculous demands for documentation, such as energy provider bills etc

* very unpleasant interface

* nightmarish authentication scheme with client-side certs. Try signing on with Chrome on one box, then exporting the cert to Firefox on another for example

* the client-side cert expires. When it does, there is no way to get back into your account. Support says 'just make a new one'

* there doesn't seem to be a mechanism for designating a technical contact, and I've been admonished by them several times for having the gall of taking over the process for my customers
Hey, author here. The comparison of Evernote to Google Docs was primarily on an enterprise/business level. While you're right, and the products aren't completely similar, Google has done well with market penetration for Google Apps for Business (at least as far as companies who aren't running a Microsoft stack). Even if Evernote is in many ways "better" than Google Docs for a particular purpose, if you have Google Apps paid for, it's "good enough" for most uses (especially sharing/collaboration). So it's equivalent in some senses, but certainly not all.
Applying real-life ideas about what is protected to a eugenicist utopia really makes sense to you?
I wonder if this is because Stanford students have better access to other sources of funding and thus less of a need to apply for first-step seed money.
I really would not care if any of your sites had EV. And I don't care that HN does not have EV. But I may care whether the place I am going to spend money does have one.
Nobody I know wants United States of Europe. The European Union is completely undemocratic at it's core, our national leaders have made sure that the electorate has minimal powers and influence over their supranational policing. Sovereignty of the people conflicts with the sovereignty of nations.
nice concept!
> With cheap books it's much easier to pick up a random subject on your own.

This is moving toward the correct approach; however, the topic of the article alludes toward elementary/high school. I strongly doubt the majority of youngsters would take this initiative if their parents just dropped off a bunch of books in their rooms, this is the one thing that the current education system does teach a good amount of students to do.
Ideas do matter, there are a lot of useless ideas. Good ideas _alone_ don't matter if you can't execute.

Either way it's helpful to know what field OP wants to work in, especially when trying to find a cofounder.
Oh please. Overdramatic much?

Blackboard might have a poor UX, but it at least serves a useful function. Can you say the same for the web 2.0 companies that only exist to spy on you and sell your info to advertisers?

If you have evidence of actual corruption, then let's hear it. You can and should get someone to prosecute if the evidence you have is real. Otherwise maybe you should stop making false accusations. This isn't slashdot.
GraphQL – A data query language and runtime
was there ever non-native app worth a reward?
Similar to this is the "cupertino" effect: there's a number of examples in the first few minutes of this episode of RadioLab (and a few more scattered throughout):

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91721-oops/

IT's when a legitimate word is mistakenly auto-corrected or switched out by a filter - apparently named after the word "co-operation" being mistakenly corrected to be "Cupertino". One of the examples given is a christian website which bowedlerised* the word "Gay" to "Homosexual" and posted an article about talking the 100m sprinter "Tyson Homosexual"