skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a product of it's time. And there were real reasons at the time for a number of those elements.

- The electoral college was mean to provide a bit of separation between the population and election to the Presidential office. Remember, in the 1790s, direct election of what was envisioned as a powerful post worried many. While it is largely a formality now, the electoral college provided a degree of separation to allow for cooler heads to prevent the spontaneous election of someone unfit. (Personal thought: If Trump somehow gets the nomination, I motion that this be the perfect test of that body's powers.)

- I'm not sure what one can take issue with regarding the amendment process. It's ensured that the document has remained flexible over the years, and was a mechanism created from the outset to fix flaws and limitations known even then. The inclusion of this process could be seen as a nod to the charges Mason and others brought that the new Constitution did not do enough to protect individual liberties. There was not enough broad support at the time to determine what they should be, and the US needed a better system quickly to replace the Articles of Confederation. The amendment process allowed them to move forward and tackle the issue at a later time.

- In Revolutionary times, communications were either in person, or by letter. British soldiers stationed in the cities roamed in public, making meetings to discuss the state of affairs dangerous and difficult. Speaking of anything relating to disobedience to the King and Government in England was an arrestable offensive, a little cause or warrent was needed. So the private home was the preferred location.

Well now imagine that a new directive has been passed, and now a police officer has been assigned to live with you. It's all in the context of providing housing, but he is watching, listening, and will report a disloyal word up to his superiors. It's 18th century persistent surveillance, and the colonists were outraged.

That amendment today seems silly, (it's rarely been directly contested in court) but it's immensely important to establishing a Right to Privacy because of it's intent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Amendment_to_the_United_...
The Dutch are better at marketing, it seems.
Strava users remain frustrated by switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap
Thanks for that. After looking at that comparison, I came across https://www.runabove.com/index.xml who provide a good deal.

Storage at 1c/GB/month, outgoing traffic at 1c/GB/month and no charge for incoming traffic. Data is replicated 3 times.
Apparently this technique calculates the exact pixel values from box filtering the "infinite" resolution polygons. I wonder if the same technique can be applied for circular or elliptical arcs.

What are the most common rasterizer algorithms currently in use by vectorgraphics software? I mean pdf readers, postscript renderers, font renderers, etc...
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Because the size of a byte isn't fixed. It is hardware dependent. There is no definitive standard defining what the size of a byte is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte
> if it is fair to punish people for bad attitude of ad networks

Site operators choose the ad networks they use, so yes, it is fair to 'punish' people for choosing to affiliate themselves with bad-actors.

> than another solution shall be proposed

Non-invasive analytics (i.e. a single company logging who visits its own site(s) using Piwik or OWA) are generally not blocked, and non-tracking ad networks needn't necessarily be blocked on privacy grounds.
The Dukes, 7 years of Russian cyperespionage [pdf]
One day there'll be a collection of React-Native view components which output HTML/DOM, and it will be a terrible, fantastic, horrible day.
If most of the comments here are about how this is pretty hostile and unfriendly, how is it on the front page? The Silent Brojority?
Maybe I should put it this way: US already reached its peak status, and it's very difficult to even find a way or area to "grow". In 1920s, although US became an economic super power, there were still plenty of room to grow in the area of international political system.
Could you please add it to the Firefox OS Marketplace here? https://marketplace.firefox.com/
Looks like this React Native showcase is built with Angular!
Full updated list is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_poin...
I'll put source code on github.
Meanwhile in another part of the world, a dazzling array of free software if available - just check repos like github et al. It might be a race, but it does not seem to head for the bottom. It has long since passed the apple-world in market penetration.

Money is only one of the motivators for writing software. It might be the prime motivator in the apple world (producers and consumers alike) but it by no means the only one.
>we should not dismiss the fact that the U.S. Constitution was modeled on a system that collapsed into civil war, and that it is inherently fragile.

I don't see this so much as a issue with the modeling of the Constition, but the larger unresolved question of slavery in the United States. They largely "kicked the can" with that question in the Constitution with the "Three-Fifths" rule, but I'd argue that the scene was set for a clash regardless.

I might go a step further and say that the Constitutions wasn't fragile, but because it established a strong Federal system, it set the stage for the conflict to come because the Southern states would now be accountable to Federal law, whereas slavery might have persisted under the Articles.

In my opinion, did it have a hand in the war to come? Yes. Was it the cause? Far from it. The war settled not only slavery, but any lingering questions of the supremacy of that document, and it's never been questioned since.
Efficiency up, turnover down: Sweden experiments with six-hour working day
I am just allergic to this "we are changing the world" speak, when all you offer is a Taxi service. They did not fly to Mars or anything. They offer a service where you can order a car to go from A to B. This is not a "mission", they just make money. They are not "reconnecting" anyone, I just have to go to places, you know, to do stuff.

Maybe I am just bitter...
In another comment femto113 points out that provided there's enough credit card fares drivers can keep all of the cash they receive, with Uber taking their cut via the credit card transactions. (However, it looks like Uber's cut is 20%, so it doesn't look like there's enough to make this balance out completely.)
This hits on the problem with "Effective Altruism" — it is exactly the bad form of utilitarian thinking.

It seems purely about reallocating some wealth from the rich to the poor. That's nice, but it's only treating the symptoms and ignoring many other factors that influence human flourishing, such as an individual's ability to improve their own circumstances (instead of waiting for a generous benefactor to give them some cash). Surely addressing poverty involves systemic changes, not just charity. And besides, charity can also have a negative utility, feeding feelings of inferiority in the receiver and leading to resentment.
Data is send serially over a fiber or copper line, bit by bit, not per byte. Also because bytes can be compressed, bits cannot, so giving the throughput in bits-per-second is an absolute value.
The Dukes: 7 years of Russian cyber-espionage
Malware links Russians to 7-year global cyberspy campaign
Could you please say more about "permissionless content creation".
Distributed content creation and management is a concept I have been intrigued with for 10 years. Not sure if those are the same thing or not.
Ultimately, that's exactly what we (the users) want - in particular, becayse cookies are per-domain only, this prevents any and all cross-domain tracking.
I don't mind most ads, but I'd happily pay just to block EU cookie warnings (with a good UX).
China, U.S. Reach Agreement on Los Angeles to Las Vegas Bullet-Train Project
Apple EBooks: Supreme Court Asked to Hear Price-Fixing Case
Reminds me of reddit, and their fake users to start it off.

The thing is that the internet is so biased towards incumbents, you need to cheat a little to get the initial pull.
old svn user?
uBlock didn't fix it for me. Also, because the second overlay was huge, I couldn't close it down so I closed the tab instead...
Yeah. I think it tries to be scientifically formulated, like "we believe it to be and the data suggests it, but until now it's not sufficient data". Otherwise I can't explain it either.
There's an auction happening for each client request?
Very likely. You may be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language ("The results suggest that language first evolved around 350,000-150,000 years ago, which is around the time when modern Homo sapiens evolved") an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity ("Howiesons Poort, Blombos, and other South African archaeological sites, for example, show evidence of marine resource acquisition, trade, and abstract ornamentation at least by 80,000 years ago.")
I agree. I once worked for a large software company that had a lead dev who relished calling people out and belittling them in front of the other devs. Long story short, turnover rate was quite high for that business unit.
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Cuba's Mysterious 'Numbers Station' Is Still on the Air
Bytes can be compressed in sequence not in singularity (just as bits). I mean why don't we measure storage in bits and not bytes? Just seems unnecessarily confusing.
It costs money to join the Apple Developer Program so it's probably in peoples' minds to at least recoup that.
One of the factors that influences human flourishing is the prevalence of malaria nearby. If you get malaria and die, your ability to improve your own circumstances falls to 0.

"People now have access to bed nets which make them less likely to get malaria and die" seems like it would count as a systemic change.
Even if the only reason is historical: why not, what advantage would bytes per second have?
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"Pathological Altruism"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873246884045785455...
Hacker News is full of bully lurkers? I personally despise those who ridicule instead of working with a dev who does not happen to grasp the error of his or her ways.
Using Hibernate Second Level Cache with TayzGrid
> You can't adblock the Google.

Why not? Even if they start serving their ads via google.com, you can still block them on by URL-matching, or same-origin filters...
I had to kill Safari and reload pages a few times before it started working. Once it did, though, the speed difference was the most obvious thing about it.
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People select lawyers today the same way they did in 1915
Having to deal with different types of enemy at the same time gets interesting, things start to get tricky around level 7-8.
But you can just implement them(the early versions) on any old server with a nice database installed if you want to. And you can do that in a weekend.

And yes of course you will want to take a step back and change almost everything about it if you want it to scale to more orders of magnitude.
Relative sea levels can change because the land is rising as well as sea levels dropping - post glacial rebound means that areas that were heavily glaciated can actually be lifting at quite a rate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound

e.g. Here in Scotland you just have to look at a shoreline to see that relative sea levels have dropped quite a bit even though sea levels have risen. When I was a kid I can remember my father talking about legends of Vikings sailing round Roseisle in Moray - which is quite high and dry now.
Thanks to the launch of iOS 9 :) Funny to see the big bump after 19:00
How long does it take to transfer a gigabyte file? Sure we can do the math but why (considering the average person)? Maybe there should be a common core revolution in engineering :-)
Awesome game! Congratulations to the developers!
The browser share graph shows Safari is second only to Chrome globally. The page has a new item saying 'Safari accounted for over half of US mobile and tablet usage in March', so I don't understand your "relatively tiny market share" point.
Not because he is suggesting curl. But because he is suggesting curling without TLS.
Yeah. I know. You could try heuristics and trick the user into pressing y or z early. Then you'll know what they probably have.

But yeah - just asking is better and I'm really happy that you did
This leads to the question "How can we get rid of social anxiety?":

Other human beings are a subset of your environment. So you may ask "How can I improve my perception of my environment?". This is (only) 1 of the many benefits of the experience you live through when you ingest the substance LSD: Handled the right way, you can experience the most awe inspiring moment of your life, you can not just see beauty, but live it, be immersed by it and be a part of it. You're likely to ask yourself over and over "why was this hidden from me all those years?". You can literally feel your entire environment in a very positive, magic and vibrant way (hint: find yourself an isolated place in nature that you like and listen to your favorite music). And part of this feeling is very likely to stay with you, after the experience. It may be subtle, but a very subtle positive change in the way you feel and perceive your environment can change your thoughts dramatically and therefor your general behavior. You can become very positive.

This is why it's completely wrong for humanity to keep this substance illegal. This substance can lead to a whole new appreciation for our Planet, the Universe and for the human beings around us.

(Of course, "follow the money" seems to apply here as well, when I think how this molecule seems to be able to replace heavy side-effect ridden anti-depressant therapies which are of course one gigantic cash cow for the pharma industry.)

Note: It is absolutely mandatory to educate oneself about the substance as much as possible beforehand and to prepare one's experience by respecting all the rules that apply (and: there are a couple of medical conditions which make the substance very risky for you, should you suffer from one of them knowingly or unknowingly).
In other news, fire is hot...
I don't think a large government has tried yet; this would create an interesting incentive for one to do so. See Operation Bernhard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bernhard with "on the internet" appended to it.
Totally forgot about those, thanks for the reminder
I'm sure the chinese government is genuinely concerned about foreign powers spying on their citizens, just as the US is concerned about the same thing. I don't think the fact that they both spy on their own citizens, as well as foreign citizens, makes that less relevant.

As for GFW, yeah it's evil, but I don't see how that means that the chinese government is not concerned with others spying on them.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I hate all this spying with a passion. Just saying that the motives are the same for everyone here.
The reason is racism and propaganda. You really couldn't figure that one out?
Something does seem funky. The website looked like this in 1997: http://web.archive.org/web/19970418234503id_/http://www.bath... [This page is 3,780 bytes.]

In fact, you can find the server stats from back then: http://web.archive.org/web/19970822145424/http://www.bath.ac...

This says that it transferred "3 599 Mbytes" and there were "728 506" requests. Interpreting "3 599" as 3.599 gives 4.94 bytes per request, which is absurd. It must be 3.6 GB, making each response just under 5 kB. This seems much more reasonable.

So the number on that page should probably be interpreted as 63 GB, which is reasonable if we assume the site became more popular later in the year, as the original source suggests (3.6 GB*12 = 43.2 GB, and the stats are from May).

Also notice the following year (1998) says 126 MBytes and in 1999, 197 GB. That's an order of magnitude jump!
I stand partially corrected.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/protection-for-th...

So you are right in many cases. But not all. The other example I was thinking of is regarding a house purchase. In England an offer to buy a house is not binding until contracts have been exchanged and a deposit paid and even then the deposit (usually 10%) is what your bound to. In Scotland however merely saying that you will buy someone else's house can supposedly bind you to the purchase.

IANAL
> It will be interesting to see if the US Government, who wants backdoors, will condemn China for wanting backdoors.

Where have you been for the last 10 years? The US regularly condemns China for backdoors in their equipment, they even do it with a straight face after the Snowden revelations.
I would be surprised if, practically speaking, 8bits <> 1 byte for 99.99% of all general applications. My feeling is that the .01% can do the math so the other 99.99% don't have to.
I don't know.

In the Heinlein novel Orphans of the Sky, the protagonist is taught to recite the Holy Scriptures of Newtonian Physics, but the literal meaning is confused by religious re-interpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphans_of_the_Sky
Why the future of food comes in a cardboard box
It also loads several external resources, from various sources, including Google Analytics, any one of which could (albeit probably won't) intentionally or accidentally expose your private data to a third party.

So Steve's advice is still prudent, even though "it does everything in the browser."
UK spy boss warns of technology terror risk
> Should I kill someone if it is the best way to decrease child mortality rates in Africa?

I'd be very surprised if the EA movement has a consensus opinion on this question.

> Should we all quit our jobs to solve friendly AI?

I'm not aware that anyone has ever said we should do this. (If you have an example, feel free to share.) The closest I can come is something like "most people should donate as much money as they can to the cause of AI risk". That might itself be an exaggeration, and it's a fringe position within EA.
... I'm not sure how "it was a product of it's time" is an appropriate rebuttal to "bits of it are stale". I'm genuinely puzzled that you think I need a history lesson, given I characterised parts of it as stale, which I would have thought inherently included the concept "it was a product of it's time" - that things that were once fresh and relevant are no longer so.
The US became the sole super power after WW2.

Soviet Russia from 1946-1990 was never a super power, it was in fact weaker in every objective respect than Russia has been the last ten years. Most of the image of it being a super power was propaganda that turned out to be completely false - namely that they had a powerful economy and global military projection ability. Nearly all of their economic output figures were fraudulent. That fraud became apparent with the collapse. This was a country that for 40 years couldn't even keep its grocery stores stocked properly.

On a subjective basis, for about 20 years the USSR seemed powerful, but only when compared militarily to Western Europe, Japan and China which had all been decimated. Compared to the US they were not.

By 1960-1965 West Germany's economy was already bigger than the USSR. By 1965, the US economy (possessing ~50% of all global manufacturing) was at least five times larger than the USSR economy.

From 1950-1990, the USSR's economy was highly isolated, low on innovation and weak, susceptible to constant threats of famine and shock (to say nothing of the things Stalin did domestically). You could see that both in their technology and products. The US post WW2 was a global export monster, highly connected, with a very inventive economy, to go with the global reserve currency. The US achieved by 1970 a median household income of about $45,000 (in 2014 dollars) - something nations are only beginning to catch up to now. Needless to say, the USSR median household income was a small fraction of that.

After WW2 the US had a truly global military position. It had North and South America almost exclusively as its sphere of influence. It had military bases in Japan and Germany. It had a system of global alliances spanning from Canada to the UK to France to Germany to Australia to Japan. The USSR had nothing even remotely like that, their few actual allies were weak and fragile.
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That's not true of Google. At least, not on any of the teams I've worked on. I use a Git wrapper around Piper.
Great points

> And one of the problems is that if a legitimate business pays FB to promote one of their posts

The same applies to non-paid content. Facebook will only expose your content to a portion of your users, obviously the more fake users you have the fewer real people you'll reach. Engagement levels have shown to decrease when adding fake users in previous experiments.
There has always been terrorism - living in the UK in the 70's and 80's we were constantly aware - but 9/11 was an order of magnitude larger than anything that happened before. I would suggest that would be what increased the sensitivity.
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DE-CIX Frankfurt: 4.5 Terabit per second peak traffic
I can't do the exact math for that without looking up up a bunch of stuff.

I don't how much I need to subtract for the multiple headers and other overhead, how fast the transfer rate gets to the maximum, how many packages get lost, what other factors of the congestion control algorithms might impact my transfer etc
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I'm probably getting Blockr (http://blockr-app.com/ , .99€) just for the option to block the idiotic cookie warning overlays brought by the "cookie law". The rest of the options looks tempting too, specially social buttons blocker.

Btw, if someone's interested in the same cookie warning blocking using uBlock/ABP, here's a cool list: https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list
> What are they going to do?

Blackmail you into doing something illegal, including, but not limited to, stealing trade secrets from your employer to be shared with state-backed companies. The reach of foreign countries doesn't stop at their borders.
If $8 billion is 1 Uber, then a microUber is $8 thousand. It's nice to have, but hardly filthy rich.
> At the end of the day, the journalist asks: "How do you plan to make progress if, after 90 years of quantum theory, you still don't know what it means?

Maybe not asking for lay-person descriptions would gain more consistency. Also, it says "A Group of Physicists" which is remarkably vague - physics is a vast field, and picking random scientists doesn't guarantee actually finding someone who has more than a basic grasp (not a criticism of the individual scientists).
A karaoke truck kind of sounds like a good idea. Shame it's fake.
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And an hour later, it's $0.99. I don't have any money left in my account so I'm just going to wait until there is a free one.
MI5 chief calls for more up-to-date surveillance powers
Any books that teach (introductory) QM from the pilot wave perspective?
I would like to add that if they would punish the businesses, this could of course be abused: if I have to pay $50 to have my competitor have serious spam issues with Facebook, possibly resulting in a penalty, that is some serious damage I could do.
Do many people use BlaBlaCar in the UK? Given the very high train prices, they should. Yet the search doesn't seem to accommodate pickups along a route. If you search Oxford to London, you get several results. But if you search High Wycombe to London, you get none. The former route will undoubtedly overlap the latter - why not offer pickups? It would presumably expand the pool of available trips considerably.
It's a race to the bottom, folks, if your only barometer is money.