skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its interesting to abstract out the contentious electric car and just try to find consumer or even professional analogies, looking at just physical bulk and practical and safety issues.

Swapping giant dangerous things in and out of very expensive life critical safety issues by and for semi-trained to completely untrained consumers at random times and places.

There is nothing like it in all of commerce that I'm aware of. The closest analogy I can think of is renting a u-haul trailer for a car, and that is totally survivable both for an individual customer and as a sustainable business model, but not fast, convenient, attractive, cheap, appealing. And a uhaul trailer is enormously simpler than hundred of kilowatt level electrical wiring and lithium batteries that explode when mistreated and weigh enough to kill someone if dropped, so its far too simple an analogy.

There being nothing like it in current commerce means its probably doomed because you'd have to roll out something totally new in the world of logistics at the same time as rolling out something new in the world of automobiles. And you can't "cheat" and roll out electric cars first because people will get used to and not mind home charging making it a very hard sell to switch to inferior cars and batteries that can very expensively and difficultly be swapped.

The only real hope I can think of for that business model is massive advancement in control semiconductors such that you can make a "raid array of batteries" so a lunch box battery can haul your car to the nearest charger when necessary, essentially the electric car equivalent of a gas can.
Its easy to aggregeate transactions in order to hide most of the detail.
In terms of tech activity, London is much closer to New York than New York is to Silicon Valley. Their dominant industry is finance not tech.

By number of 'unicorns':

69 Silicon Valley
16 New York City
10 London
9 Beijing
8 Boston

http://tech.co/top-global-startup-scenes-vc-firm-2015-08
I am a big big fan of http://www.gravizo.com/ as well. It's amazing.
Keep in mind also that I think he has access to more documents than we have. He made this statement a while back[1]:

I am reviewing some of the documents Snowden has
provided to the Guardian. Because of the delicate
nature of this, I cannot comment on what I have seen.

[1]http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519336/bruce-schneier-n...
Yes there is, the fare is regulated - no matter the demand, the area of the source or destination, or how drunk the passenger is.

Uber does heavy demand-based price adjusting, and well, fuck that. Better have the assurance of always paying 20€ for my trip home, than the variability of an Uber with 10-50€.
Last try was in maybe ~2012.

I learned from a collegue that if the hard drive implements barriers incorrectly, this can cause easy XFS corruptions. Maybe this was the reason, especially SSD firmwares are very complex these days...
I dont know about this. I've used uber in multiple cities in the US and taken cabs in multiple cities across the EU, and the uber experience beats cabs hands down. Everything is more convenient - some cities you can only get cabs in certain areas, or its really hard to find a cab, or some cab drivers are very unfriendly, and if you dont know the city the ability to specify a destination on the map is great. Not to mention the price is usually cheaper, but even if it was the same price I'd still say hands down uber wins in terms of customer experience.
The status quo seems to more or less think of itself as meritocratic, too.
> Zapf died earlier this year, by the way.

Somehow, I missed that news.

Damn, the world of typography lost two of its biggest visionaries this summer alone.

I always preferred Zapf's fonts to Frutiger's by a wide margin (I always favor serif fonts over sans serifs), but they were both brilliant men, and typography won't be the same without either.
This is useful for trading settlements between the banks. A lot of what investment banks (as opposed to commercial banks) do is trading OTC securities. BlockChain reduces the amount of paper work needed to manage these securities.
His point regards IE6 is that even for several following generations of MSIE substantively similar concerns exist.

IE6 is a bad low standard. But it remains a target which in accommodating it also addresses many other low-capability browsers.

I don't use IE6 myself (though had, some years back on Linux, to access work-related and Intranet sites on occasion). Currently my main beef is that my, yes, ancient, Android 2.2 browser is utterly normed on many sites. Including no font downloads, so no text at all, on far too many websites. Wired and Medium among many others. Obscuring sidebars elsewhere.

Really annoying.

TBL's original HTML docs remain quite accessible however.
Agreeable or not, understanding reality is needed to know what, if any, problems need solving.

If you assume the problem is racism, while in reality it's income, your earnest efforts to combat racism will be do nothing (at best) to solve it.
> having proper distributed service management

Which is more or less what CoreOS's `fleet` already does on top of systemd. They used a different protocol for remote communications (etcd, ie. HTTP+JSON) vs. local, which I guess can be a sensible choice as requirements are quite different.
California Becomes First State to Pay for Inmate's Transgender Surgery
I don't usually say this, because it's usually trite, but correlation is not causality.
I've read Volume 1 of "Decline and Fall" twice: once when assigned it in college, and afterward on my own from love. I'm eager to make the time to read the other two volumes, as lucky Jason Epstein did. It is hard to overpraise the gorgeous prose, the mordant wit, the sheer intelligence, and the stunning ambition of the work. It is close to unique in English literature.

Did I mention the mordant wit? Someone once described Decline and Fall as "the funniest serious book in English." I would agree. Hypocrites are the favorite target of Gibbon's irony, which is why the book scandalized all of Europe: The ranks of the bishops and other ecclesiastics in early Christianity did not lack for cynical hypocrites, ripe for the mocking as only Gibbon, deadpan, could do. The zingers are often stashed away in the footnotes, something that David Foster Wallace must have noticed.

Not least, the guy pretty much invented modern evidence-based historiography, in which primary sources are weighed and compared. And he followed his reasoning wherever it led him. To me Gibbon represents the best of the Enlightenment.
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> How is sex, race etc required to evaluate guilt or innocent?

It's pretty relevant to evaluating whether a particular piece of evidence (whether a video or photograph, a witness description, etc.) implicates the guilt or innocence of the particular person charged with the crime. Which is, after all, the whole job of the jury.

> What you suggest in your last paragraph is pretty much what I had in mind. Facts would be gathered and then anonymized before being used for sentencing.

What I discuss in the last paragraph is something that can only happen after the jury has found the facts in a process in which the jury, judge, and lawyers knew who the victims and accused were.
US productivity is among the highest on earth.

Alabama's GDP per capita, is higher than Italy.

US economic growth is routinely far beyond that of Europe. UK, Germany, France, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Russia, Austria, Poland - haven't net grown their economies since 2007.

US unemployment is almost half that of the EU (and is half that of the Eurozone).

Life expectancy is on par with the EU, and is higher than Europe as a whole. Russia - by far Europe's biggest country - only has a life expectancy of 70 years.

You would invest into start-ups, because the few that succeed produce vast returns, and even among the failures the ecosystem as a whole produces massive knock-on benefits that spur innovation and overall economic growth.
Or even better, Bitcoin already solves the problem and the Blockchain is already running.

What is GS going to contribute?
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Some of Gibson's 80s writing is almost prophecy, like New Rose Hotel

>Set in the near future, huge megacorporations control and dominate entire economies. Their wealth and competitive advantage reside in the human capital of their employees and the intellectual property they produce. Corporations jealously guard their most valuable employees and go to great expense to keep them safe and happily productive. There is little point in traditional corporate espionage as new products are developed at a lightning pace; there is no time to capitalize on the intelligence acquired from a rival firm, it will be obsolete before it can be used. Companies now hire extraction agents to steal each other's top productive employees.
Part of the interesting thing about Bitcoin specifically is that the incentive to participate and contribute to verification is itself baked into the protocol. This also enables distributedness. Is there some idea of how this will work in a more limited setting? What incentive will Charlie's bank have to validate a transaction between Alice's bank and Bob's bank?
Perhaps you could begin by identifying which of the various statements I made you found disagreeable. If you can't be bothered to make even a minimal effort, why should I care what you think?
And this camera do not allows you to use two really popular professional techniques when working in crowed monuments: stacking and timelapse.
Sneakers[1] > Track Down/Takedown[2] > Hackers[3] > Sword Fish[4]

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/

[3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/

[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/
Eh. Sneakers' central plot point was a magic box that could crack all encryption. It was otherwise a great movie, and many of the physical "facility hacking" scenes were quite fun, but the magic box that breaks all ciphers was more than improbable. Maybe you could say it was a quantum computer :).
I see the value of this idea but I also see a very dark side.

> Neither their sex, nor race, nor anything is disclose.

Who decides what is contained by 'anything'? That process will become corrupt and only serve power. I don't think justice will be served by withholding information.
> variability of an Uber

You know when booking the trip what the cost is, it's not a mystery.

> the fare is regulated - no matter the demand, the area of the source or destination

Does Germany not have supply problems caused by this policy?

I know it's impossible to get a cab in Toronto on New Year's, whether you're coming home from a party or your wife is going into labour. I'd personally rather know for sure there is a ride available if I need it than be stranded by the side of the road because nobody is allowed to take my money.
Dealing with Bad Apples (2008)
> The status quo seems to more or less think of itself as meritocratic, too.

Those successful in the status quo at any point in time are inclined to perceive, or at least portray, that status quo as meritocratic.

This probably shouldn't be surprising.
Banks don’t even process those large transactions directly – they just use the Giro system, meaning each bank tracks how much money they have in debt to every other bank, and every month, they actually send that money over. So these inter-bank transactions won’t actually contain stuff like personal transfers.
It depends. Many of those systems are still IR without crypto. Some teenager was in the news a few years ago for reversing the IR signaling protocol of a nearby railroad (!!) and operating track switches at will.
>Bitcoin is no more pseudononymous than if I generate some random PGP keys with fake names and start signing and sending messages with them.

That sounds like a very anonymous way of distributing messages. Bitcoin's anonymity is more like having an unregistered bank account whereas BB (before bitcoin) all bank accounts were registered in one way or another. You don't even need an 'account' to accept a payment, u just need a magic number, though there is arguably not a difference. I feel like you're talking about network layer anonymity and everyone else is trying to talk more basic protocol.
Given that Nixon sabotaged Vietnam peace talks in order to get elected, it hardly seems reasonable to talk about that war as something he got unfortunately stuck with.
"We emphasized the use of psychedelic colors that the world of hacking was a mind-expanding experience for the kids."

Awesome quote. Computers/programming/"hacking" were definitely a mind-expanding experience for me as a teen. While "grown ups" saw a boring beige box, the machine felt alive with limitless possibilities to me.
The definition of a monopoly is not capturing 100% of the market.
> Long ago in college I met some libertarians handing out literature.

Dude, those were librarians.
Well, that’s not necessarily true. Uber can offer chauffeur services at any price, but as soon as they pick people off of the streets, it becomes a taxi service, which has the maximum fare limitation. Well, at least according to what I could find about the rules and regulations in Kiel.
> The Puerto Rico Legislature amended Act 136 of 2014 through House Bill 2191 in December, and a 2% tax on person-to-person exchanges is now levied

Anyone more knowledgeable know why they tax it in the first place?
There are almost never supply problems, but this is to make sure taxi companies don't scam people as it's usual in southern europe.
I too have a lot of complex feelings about Stack Overflow. I appreciate it as a resource, but I also worry about what it incentivizes and why and how it incentivizes them. Your example is great: why is it that complicated questions with complicated answers you cannot just link to existing, well written how to article. Some of my best resources have come from such links that could only be appended as comments to the question, so they don't benefit from as much Rep gain as an answer, nor can they be marked as the "accepted" answer, when often they are the best answer...

It's a particular concern given they are exploring a "Documentation" site designed for such long form answers and presumably there will be more answers on the main page of the form "see this example of this Documentation page" and it will be interesting to see if some of the Rep systems and moderation policies adjust with that. On the flipside the Documentation site as proposed still encourages people to (re)create content that could exist elsewhere for Rep points and maybe to the detriment of useful community sites or existing documentation sites. Some of that will be wait and see as they move forward into the project, of course.

Finally, in a slightly different direction, as a somewhat unsuccessful game designer in a past life, I spent a lot of time thinking about point systems and incentive systems, and it's hard not to evaluate Stack Overflow's Rep through some of those filters. From those respects, Stack Overflow Rep is not bad, but sometimes concerning, largely in part from a reactionary position on myself that the "gamification" of the world is largely a bad thing, incentivizing in people sometimes the worst OCD tendencies and disincentivizing thoughtfulness or creativity. Stack Overflow Rep is definitely OCD incentivizing.

I had interviewers ask me about my Stack Overflow Rep, and for one thing its not hard to find, and for second thing many of my points are actually elsewhere in the Exchange network, which can be fun to explain. But it's also easy for me to worry what in fact they are really asking about if they are interested in such an arbitrary metric, as well known and "extensive" as it may be... (Particularly in a world of employers that forbid social media participation entirely, which would include things like Stack Overflow.)
Help us beta test a version of Haskell's cabal that fixes “dependency hell”
Yes it does, but that skew is very small. Only a few percentage points...as cited above.

It would be a mischaracterization to imply one is extremely low, while the other is much higher. They are both, comparably, very low.
This is the Mother All Demos... Congrats to the team, this is amazingly done!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
That's simply not possible. And I don't mean it's impractical, I mean that the laws of mathematics won't allow it.

Legal support is a finite resource. There are only so many lawyers (thank god!) and of those that exist, some lawyers are better than others. It's simply not possible to give everyone the exact same quality of representation, short of ensuring that everyone has zero.

This is just one example of what the price system does in the market. The whole point is that resources are scarce, and the means of indicating how important a resource is for some purpose, is by voting with your money. And it's turtles all the way down: what gives you that money to indicate the importance of the scarce resource, is that you're providing some scarce resource to other people, who are paying you, and they are doing the same, and so on...
That's why I dropped out of law school. I went to a large-ish legal conference and realized how utterly hopeless the odds were, and decided to cut my losses. I'm not proud of it but my mental health is too fragile for me to function effectively under those conditions, which makes me worse than useless as an advocate for anyone else.
Very true for low-level system libraries, but applications should really not waste energy on trying to be OOM-safe: it's hard to understand which actions are safe when you no longer can allocate memory (releasing resources often requires allocating memory temporarily), and it just adds complexity which basically will never get tested, thus getting broken quickly and gaining nothing over just crashing on a NULL dereference.

See the experience of the D-Bus (which tries hard to be OOM-safe) on this topic: http://blog.ometer.com/2008/02/04/out-of-memory-handling-d-b...
Brilliant, looking forward!
How Not to Be Afraid of PPC Optimization with One Basic Formula
I use this single basic formula to optimize any kind of PPC/Paid media campaign. I explain exactly how..
Schneier didn't discuss what is IMO the biggest reason for NSA not to report vulnerabilities: it's "pissing into the wind", it's futile. When 10 vulnerabilities are reported and fixed, 11 new ones are quickly found. The vulnerabilities are overwhelming us.

Back around the year 2000 Microsoft was being beaten up for all the vulnerabilities in their software. So in 2002 Bill Gates announced "Trustworthy Computing".[1][2]

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced a
major strategy shift across all its products,
including its flagship Windows software,
to emphasize security and privacy over new
capabilities.

In 2014 Microsoft finally threw in the last towel, folding the group they formed into other units. They gave up. Microsoft lost not because they were incompetent, but because the problem is too big to attack in a conventional manner.

I don't know what the answer is, but we need to approach things very differently. To quote Dr. Peter Venkman: "the usual stuff isn't working".

[1] http://www.foxnews.com/story/2002/01/16/bill-gates-announces...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing
please don't just downvote without comment.

I downvoted because your proclaimed anti-liberal bias damages your credibility and is the mark of an immature arguer. Without going into your actual argument, you cripple your own credibility considerably by pasting a great big author-bias warning on it like that. If an argument will stand, it doesn't need its author pre-emptively saying that perceived opponents won't accept it because of their bias, and in the US today "liberal" and "conservative" have lost all meaning and become marks of lazy (non-)thinking and tribal attitudes. You can do better; you're just not trying.
Is Reddit full today? Is there any reason at all that leftist nonsense from The Atlantic keeps appearing on HN when it has no relevance to technology? White people are all racists and non-white people are all perfect people. We get it already. Oh and rich people are all bad and poor people are all good. Utter lies and nonsense.
I basically want three things: (1) easily searchable/browsable organization, preferably in a tree format; (2) decent rich text features; (3) clean syncing between Windows, OSX, and Android.

rtf+Dropbox would fulfill 2 and 3 (with the right Android app choices, anyway), but 1 is somewhat dubious. Previously I've tried Treepad/Jreepad, which is absolutely perfect for 1 but fails the other two; TiddlyWiki, which mostly manages 1 and 2 but requires a lot of manual markup, and (since it's all in a single file) would have problems with 3 if one copy got out of sync; and Evernote, which mostly manages 2 with a few hiccups, does 3 in theory if you don't mind frequent inexplicable conflict warnings and occasional outright data loss, and seems to be trying to break 1 more with each new version.

I'm hoping to have time to look into OneNote today and see how it measures up.
It took more than 5 years of complaining by millions of users.

http://www.fsf.org/facebook/mark-zuckerberg-is-time-magazine...
Sneakers is not only the best hacker movie (not that there are a lot to choose from), but its themes are eerily prescient -- secrecy, encryption, mass surveillance, control over information.

I haven't revisited it since Snowden happened, but I really ought to.
Seeing this at 11 is honestly what made me interested in computers and pushed me towards my current career, so seeing that it is 20 years old is sort of a shock.

I can also certainly can relate to the portion of the audience that found phreaking much more interesting than hacking and the fact that the phreaking scene is all but dead is pretty sad.
Cool. So in a way its Immutable read only HBase (with guaranteed data locality no memstore overhead and compactions overhead). Cool. Nice solution. I wonder this can be patched back to HBase - as a "read only mode" ?
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currencies_of_the_European_Uni...
I'm sorry, I don't follow. What do you mean?
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A traditional monthly check in.
If you had said this comment 5 years ago, I would agree. I think you should take a look into today's Java development environment. It's world class, and light-years ahead of anything else out there.
I'm still waiting for Guffman
But they got the implications of it right. "There isn't a government in the world that wouldn't kill us all to get their hands on this." That is absolutely true. Whether or not such a device exists, or could possibly exist, is irrelevant.
For exactly the reason you stated the rate of black-on-white murder is much higher than the reverse.
It's written by two Nobel Prize winners, so there must be something to it. But to me that sounds like common sense.
Trello's New Business Class – Centralized Integration Platform
Already posted here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223054
But what is a "fact"? A whole lot of stuff comes down to he said/she said, or people interpreting complex interplay of factors differently. I'm not sure how often it occurs that "facts" in a criminal trial are uncontested.

Especially when we're talking about witness testimony, the jury needs to see the witness to determine whether they believe them.
Seems like another kitchen sink library to me... Demos are impressive, but when is someone going to write a JS viz library in a more declarative fashion like outlined in Grammar of Graphics? They all seem overly imperative (draw this pixel, then that pixel) or rigid, non-composable functions taking huge configuration JSON blobs.
Very cool. Would love to see this for class diagrams.