skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully mankind will have invented fusion power or at least perfected solar/wind/whatever alternative power source they will invent in the coming decades, up to the point where the whole civilization is carbon-neutral, or the insanities of 2130s will be a little... insane.

Let's hope the good guys at NASA can convince politicians and pundits in the near future.
A lot of the people shown on the site seem pretty young and possibly inexperienced. Are you letting just anyone be an "expert"?
Everybody knows that guy that spent his whole life working, then got to 62/65/whatever age you and I might get to retire, then sat in a chair watching TV and died of a heart-attack a year later.

A lot of people don't have enough to fill their lives with after they get done working. God help you if you don't have family, friends, interests, or some higher purpose to sustain you outside of work. For all the talk of work-life balance, I worry about this - work seems to be expanding to take up an even bigger chunk of our lives all the time.

Oh well, with my family history, I won't have to worry about living to retirement age, and without some major changes to demographics or policy, Social Security won't either.
so do you drop the idea of partitions completely because you have shown its structure proves a soft, reasonable, upperbound?

implying overworking

what do you replace it with?

what problem was 'use the same number of partitions as consumers' trying to fix?
This looks cool.

FYI notifications is misspelled as "notificaitons" in the paragraph under "I don't believe in messaging. Email is better".
Still worth it.
Considering how some politicians want to raise the eligibility age for social security and medicare, this might be more accurate than they think.
Thanks. Dividera et Impera. This is the whole idea behind modularity. Solve the network-abstraction problem the best way you can. Then solve the programming language problem the best you can. Do we need a "network programming language"? Maybe, but general purpose programming languages are better for other things, and they too should be able to talk to the network "layer". I probably missed a lot on the article, it was so long to read.

Of course if you have new concepts they need a name of their own. But that only applies if all the new concepts really are new. If they are the same old concepts, use the same old commonly understood name. If they are somewhat different, use a derived name, like "Big Potatoes". They are LIKE potatoes, but they are really big. If they are totally different, try to invent a name that EXPLAINS THEM BY COMBINING the names of previously existing concepts. How many people program in "BrainFuck" and get paid for it? There must be a reason that there are not so many professional brainfuck programmers around. Nevertheless I applaud this project for thinking outside the box, if that is possible they have done it.
I like how your rhetoric removes all agency from the conference organizers, like they had no choice but to do what that horrible PC crowd wanted.
The definition of "retirement" is subjective, but what I've observed is that the quality of retirement and of work has a large influence.

First, I know retirees who start smoking and drinking because they don't want to outlive their money. It's an awful thought, but most people can't get back into career jobs, especially not in their 70s, after some time out. If you don't have enough savings (this will be a common problem for our generation) to set up an annuity, and realize that you're at risk of outliving your money, why put so much effort into staying healthy?

Second, I think that retirement is often involuntary. Retirement doesn't exist because society is nice and loves older people. It exists because at some point, people get too old to get jobs. You can't force companies to hire 70-year-olds, so you end up needing a national retirement policy.

The market actually sets the age at which people can work in capability-appropriate jobs-- with the band widening in times of high demand and shrinking when demand is low-- and some combination of public and private funds (in the US, often private and parental in the "before working age" case) schools people until they're at the minimum age, and provides "retirement" for those who've outlived the maximum age.

I find it rather obvious that working is health-positive while having to work is health-negative. I'd guess that the involuntary retirements contribute to a large amount of retirement's health penalty. At that point, it's not a finish line but an irreversible loss of options, and that's just damn depressing.
or if you keep it, how do you measure the optimal partition count?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8149162
I got as far as the first mention of Hoon, and then I thought to myself, "Oh fuck, didn't I read this a year or two ago?" It's all downhill from there.
I imagine this has implications for the debate where certain people think backdoors and censorship will stop covert communication among criminals or terrorists. Now, we can add to our list of replies, "Hows that working out for Cuba?"
In most places it is completely legal. Street hailing is different than dispatch hailing in most jurisdictions.

In others jurisdictions it is gray territory and some govs err on the side of the taxis. But I don't really know of many jurisdictions were it is outright illegal.
It's safe to assume I have a standard Linux system. I have an Ubiquiti EdgeRouter now, and a few regular x86_64 always-on systems behind it I can proxy traffic through if necessary.
Wouldn't it be fantastic if there were a coup in the CIA/NSA/GCHQ, etc. of all tech people who just started deleting data on a massive scale surreptitiously. When the dept. heads were like, "WTF happened to the numbers on all the porn viewers...they just kinda shrugged their shoulders and said...'dunno..guess people got bored with porn'"...

Replace porn with '*' and now we're really cooking...
In my head I pronounce it as "snake snake" which I think is OK for specialized operators like that. But on the whole I prefer to use Smalltalk keyword-syntax for more understandable method names. I think binary operators make sense for commonly used operations which are FREQUENTLY used. If they are not, better to use English. #*$!:-)
Yes—but the language needs to change.

Initially our plan was to vet each advisor before allowing them to offer sessions. That said, we didn’t want to be the arbiters of who has good feedback to share.

So, we opened up the option to be an advisor, to everyone. And what we’re seeing, in doing so, is sort of interesting. Seems like some of the folks I thought wouldn’t get any requests for sessions are. (So, probably good that we don’t get in the way of these folks.)

That said, this approach means that we need to update the descriptions used on the site—because the term expert is not always accurate, and can be difficult to quantify. In the weeks to come, this word will be removed from the site.
So 9 out of 10 customers are satisfied with free trial with auto-ships, then?
Not sure why you are getting downvoted.

Houston's lack of zoning laws (there are HOAs, mind) has certainly created its own set of problems. A friend of mine once described it as less of a city and more of a vast collection of suburbs connected by strip malls - and that isn't entirely unfair.

Whether you view it as "horrible sprawl" or "affordable housing" sort of depends on where you sit, I guess.
Yes. The A7 came out after anything I've read on the subject, so it may be more difficult. But really all this means is they need to get the copy without destroying the phone and have some way to put it back. The point isn't to brute force the data somehow, but rather to protect it from being destroyed while the wheels of justice crush you.

I've always thought the way to deal with this is to use a OTP scheme. If you have a one time pad that's as large as your data set (assuming we're talking about some reasonably small number of critical documents here), you could generate the cyphertext from your key and then generate another key that translates your cyphertext into something innocuous - grocery lists or whatever.

There's no way the court could prove the key you gave them isn't the right key.
If I find myself being convinced by the argument, does that mean I should adopt Epistemic learned helplessness in response or not adopt Epistemic learned helplessness in response?

I'm partly being facetious, but it would be interesting to try to use a non-argumentative approach to persuade to use one, I'm just not exactly sure what that would look like.

As a kid I remember being told "brush your teeth in circles, it's better" and thinking "I'm sure something else will be recommended in ten years so I'm just going to go back and forth horizontally like I want to" and sure enough circles clean more plaque but push your gums up so downward flicks were recommended. Maybe a dentist can weigh in on current tooth brushing practice... That said, was I better off with my inferior method? That's kind of the crux of it. If we're blown about by every plausible theory, is that better than being blown about by nothing? It seems like this is a nested Bayesian decision problem that needs to incorporate switching costs, which I'd guess for some things are trivial and for other things are quite large.
I will forever mourn and be angered by Mozilla giving up on Persona so easily.
Would you like me to send you an invite?
> The characters of this article are so carefully constructed to evade this question that I have to assume malice.

Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman are real people who are, so far as I know, pretty much as the article describes:

http://www.givinggladly.com/

http://www.jefftk.com/
I suppose I should have said "Scheme is, and always has been, widely considered a Lisp."

Do you need more "proof" of this than Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language... ?
I don't know if the right answer is to be generally more open to changing your mind.

There are far too many things to be worried about: the danger of AI, religion, the environment, other political views, the results of scientific papers in dozens of fields... epistemic learned helplessness is a defence against wasting literally all of your time taking every argument seriously.

At the end, the author notes that we should be glad for the specialists who are well-versed in certain subjects enough to actually be able to evaluate and experiment on outlandish theories and unusual study results.

Maybe we need to emphasize more specialization? Or is it working alright already?
These seem very similar to the "lids" that are put over freeways in affluent areas around Seattle. They're basically parks; there's little wildlife in urban regions.
I can't +1 one this comment enough.

Both have track records in office and the choice can't be more clear. I'm shocked that anyone is supporting Peskin after his term of obstructionism. Esp. in contrast to what Christinsen has accomplished in her recent term.
2012, 2013, 2014
> If you remove a key, what's preventing the server from not admitting that?

Can you point me to somewhere I can read about Keybase's solution to this problem?
By 'sleazy' I mean this: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-taxi-medallion-king/i...

Full article: (heavily discussed on HN a couple weeks ago)
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-taxi-medallion-king/

Sleazy business operators are those who take advantage of employees, who do things like allocate risk from the highest earners to the lowest. In taxis, this is commonly done by charging a fixed rate for a limited asset (medallion/cab) used in a highly variable business. Individual drivers then carry the risk rather than the millionaire. Legal, but sleazy.
Trying to correct all the misunderstandings in this discussion would be a little soul crushing; but just picking this one comment as it seems well-intentioned and doesn't go anywhere near anything NDA-covered ;)

> break stuff, but be ready to be penalized

I've seen things break a few times, and the attitude is always "how do we fix this" and then "how do we fix the system to prevent this type of error in the future", never "whose fault is this"

> occasional hack

They seem to happen fairly often

> nights

They're mostly days, since a large number of people have families to go back to; some people stay late with beer and pizza and friends, because that's the kind of thing they enjoy doing, but it's an optional extra. (Technically the hack day is optional too -- if you're not interested, you can carry on as normal)

> when there is an upcoming release

Hacks aren't about video-game-industry style deadline crunches - quite the opposite; a hack day is when you pause your regular work (barring emergencies, ofc) in order to explore and experiment with things you're interested in but wouldn't normally work on.

> in the near-term

Releases are always near (like, multiple times per day).
Yeah I agree that abuse of "sharing" as a term is silly. I'm no longer a software designer. I'm a "Software Design Knowledge Sharer".
You give him any code. Its not like he is going to use it.
If there is a pattern like ChuckMcM's where its +1 then give then give that one. Of course in all probability this scenario will never happen and the xkcd wrench is used instead.
Perhaps in the future it will be less expensive to drill tunnels! Looking at how rapidly automation is advancing, it is highly likely.

But due to the currently high cost of construction projects, there is a lot of infrastructure that must be augmented rather than replaced.
I think it's fair to say that America has become a corporation.
Yeah, I think you'll need to be more clear about that. Or maybe have an "experts" section for those that are truly experts.
It sucks that it has come to this. I am afraid to do certain types of searches. The other day, I wanted to learn more about "Azan" -- the Muslim morning call to prayer that is often broadcast over loudspeakers from a mosque. I find the topic interesting and started poking around, but it landed me on several websites that made me start to feel uncomfortable that I was going to incite some trigger. I'm betting most people in my neighborhood aren't searching for this information, and I don't really want to be flagged. Pre-Snowden, I wouldn't have given it a second thought and thought it ridiculously paranoid. Now, I am very careful how I use the computer when it is connected to the wider network...and I think this is really sad and Orwellian.
I don't necessarily mind it as a "feature"; however, the problem is that most, if not all, credit card customers don't know and/or understand this "feature". When you have your credit card stolen, call your bank, and they reissue you a new card with new number, you would assume that the bank would not send an update for those types of new cards. If it was simply sending a new card (in which case the number rarely changes) then I can understand sending the update.
A medallion is not and never was the only way to be a "taxi."

Yes, there is little difference between street hailing and dispatch these days. But the law never guaranteed them immunity from dispatch innovation.

No one was scammed. But you can still feel sorry for the guy.

If there is one thing to learn - DIVERSIFY YOUR INVESTMENTS!
We had e2e encryption in the past, but we decided to make one click install of your own server or may be just key infrastructure to make everything cool.
I disagree. I believe there strategy is not,

> Asking what GPG-loving techies and HN readers think about usability

Although, many of us do UX or appreciate and can accurately review it, they want the GPG-loving techies to evaluate their security and software. This isn't exactly a social network, you can't move fast and break stuff, and just push flaming builds and iterate. This has to launch to the public with bulletproof security. This is because in 3 years they want "Log in with Keybase.io" on every website instead of "Log in with Facebook" and they want secondary authentication for twitter and facebook to leverage their keys. So they have to convince people and those companies they have security pretty well figured out.

I understand where you are coming from and I would like it if they rolled out quickly. They could maybe even do it tomorrow, I don't actually know but so far it seems to work well. However, the public isn't really clamoring for this anyway, because they don't even know what it is. I was even surprised how old keys were. You can see elon musks e@x.com key from the early 90's on the MIT keyserver and some are much older than that. Not even everone on HN has keys I bet, so the public isn't as anxious as you or I might be ;). I hope they release soon though.
Amazon for a long time (maybe even today) used IRC for 1:N communication. I personally like IRC over anything else, but I am probably just too old... :)
Definitely. The copy change has already been set in the Sketch docs. We just need to find some time to make all of these little changes. (So many things to fix!)
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Electricity is a VERY big deal. Simply having light at night is huge.

Now: add in washing machines and refrigeration.

There were two history professors recently who attempted to live with their family like it was the late 1800's. The wife broke down because all she ever did was cook and wash. If I remember correctly, the husband didn't do much better as his physical "job" left him completely exhausted every day.

I wish I could find the link, but my Google-fu is failing.
More a department.
No cynics, burnouts, or losers
So instead we hope that the results of a popularity contest are experts in crafting 'proper legislation'? No, representatives are theoretically there to guard against majority tyranny - it has nothing to do with building the most efficient legislation generating machine. This design is reflected in the whole checks and balances thing. I do agree with you about it being a horrible idea though, maybe we should reconsider the wisdom in granting some small portion of our freedom to every other voter. 42% of Americans believe in ghosts... let that sink in.
Well traditional PGP key-management software expects exactly one key per identity, so using per-device PGP keys would establish each device as a separate identity. This is not what you want. I'm not an expert, but I'm sure there are other good reasons.
They clarify that PGP support will continue to function as is at the bottom of the article.
Antagonizing the tech worker
I don't think Clojure is a Lisp. iT's just another Lisp inspired language.

Again, zero code of the past fifty+ years of Lisp runs in Clojure. iT is fully incompatible with any Lisp dialect. It shares zero lines of code.

Don't believe what people tell you, think yourself. if you had a language, which uses { and }, would you call it a C, if it is 100% incompatible to any line of C written out there?

For some reason some people think any random incompatible language with parentheses is a Lisp. That's because they use some completely unspecific definition of Lisp, which is based on vague features, but which has no practical consequences.
Yeah, I can't see Google ever either open sourcing Hangouts, or making it possible to federate it. Google's opinion seems to be that everything that is a service or protocol should be a Google API.
NASA to Announce Mars Mystery Solved
You aren't wrong. Frankly I'm not sure anything I said is reasonably possible or how to make it happen.
Yes and what is strange is it isn't faceted like the F-117, which Lockheed was making during the same era. As far as I can recall Ben Rich said that he had stumbled on a paper by a Russian scientist regarding how to defeat radar using various angles. But their limited computation capability led Lockheed to create a faceted design instead of a round one. One has to wonder why Boeing didn't do that.
Was it just guess work? Or was it some information-sharing between the two groups and Boeing simply took a different, yet better approach?

Northrop's Tacit Blue might have been the influencer for both programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Tacit_Blue
Street hails work when my phone battery dies.
>Shouldn't there be propositions for denser zoning, land reclamation, or other measures that would increase the SF housing stock?

What, and hurt profit margins?
Arguments you can make as a startup CTO against filing for software patents
wow, please put a link to https://keybase.io on your blog header.
Bedbugs are one of the big ones that I have heard reported where landlords had to pump a lot of money in. The risk obviously goes up linearly with the number of unique visitors. A very genuine problem when one tenant of a multi-unit decides to do AirBnB.

As for detached dwellings? If you're hosting out of country people, how do I, as your neighbor, prosecute them if they damage my property (bust a fence, hit my car, swim in my pool)?

I can keep going, but our current laws were set up with the recognition that transiency does represent a risk. Clearly people DO recognize this as a risk or it wouldn't be explicitly banned by so many HOA agreements.
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I would take Sam's final words of advice one step farther - don't claim you are changing the world just because you are changing one business industry. There is more to the world than that.
Korea’s Path from Poverty to Philanthropy (2010)
Not in sales, but:

Author expects interviewees to "tell you what you want to hear", recommends requiring their W-2, admits that companies oversell themselves too, but doesn't appear to offer the interviewees the same insight into company data, expecting them instead to "probe for related information and same truths 20 different ways".

Maybe I'm just a bit cynical (or not familiar with how sales works), but it seems that this is a mechanism to give an interviewer more cards.

That said, it is an article from an interviewer's perspective, so I suppose that's a bit expected.
I see a lot of comments suggesting that medallion owners should be compensated. But the government is not morally obligated to compensate people whose investments lose money due to changes in regulation. And it would be prohibitively expensive to do so, because it is a one-sided affair. No one who made money investing in medallions when they went up in price was arguing "when we bought medallions, we thought that the number of available medallions would increase with demand, resulting in a stable price. Instead, prices shot up, so we feel we should pay back the government some money because their unexpected policy change benefitted us".

The government might sometimes compensate people, but that would depend on many factors such as
1) To what extent the person was unable to avoid the risk, and to what extent they willingly bet on the price of the medallion, and
2) Whether the government did all in its power to keep policies predictable, given the unpredictable nature of technological change.
This guy sounds absolutely insufferable.
IMO, it depends on your background. If you have a lot of functional programming experience in languages similar to Erlang, I'll say just go ahead with Erlang.

If you come from a more traditional language background, such as C, C++, c#, java, scala, ruby, python, js and others, especially ruby since elixir is very ruby-ish, Elixir is more approachable and I'll suggest that you go with it.
Spy-cam rhinos to take on poachers with devices hidden in their horns
Banks: Card Breach at Hilton Hotel Properties
That's not actually correct. The process of charging back on a debit card is very similar to charging back on a credit card.