skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly the kind of thing that anti monopoly legislation prevents. So, my guess is those terms are not enforceable unless they have a specific end date. Also, TM is probably fairly lean and kicks back a lot of there margin to any of the major players.
(unrelated to crypto, but) that's how we got XMPP.

Back in '99, there was an IETF working group tasked with creating a chat protocol, with members from all the players at the time (AOL, Microsoft, IBM, Netscape, and a few more). I wasn't part of the wg, but I did follow it closely, and it was clear that some big players only cared about making their own product (as close as possible to) the standard (e.g. Microsoft), and the biggest player (AOL) was just actively sabotaging the process in order to prolong their advantage. Eventually, the group disbanded, and the mostly-working protocol at the time (Jabber -> XMPP) was adopted. It was a horrible ultra verbose under specified mess (and in some cases still is). But it was there, it was working, and it was open.
This can just as easily be turned around. Why do people who spout racism get to impose that standard of behavior and decorum on those who want to discuss video? Why does racist or sexist discussion trump relevant content in a content-specific forum?

You're right about the problem -- the problem at its root is that some people feel that having no standards that deprecate these off-topic discussions is equivalent to free speech which is equivalent to freedom, while others feel that some standards that keep people "polite" (for lack of a better word) and on-topic are useful to the discussion. You are not necessarily right about who created the problem. Why not say it's the people who want to be racist in the video forum who created the problem? Why don't they create their own community as you suggest? Because part of their desire is to spread their ideas -- they don't actually want to stay on-topic or primarily discuss video, they want to get a rise out of other people. It's engagement in bad faith, really.
Why would they do that? It makes sense to charge per gb. It gets people using them when they are small and its cheap to use S3/EC2 and then as they scale up its easier to just stick with AWS.
Just switched to DDG 3 weeks ago and can't see me going back. :-)

Where did the name for DuckDuckGo come from?
This is true. Admittedly, I should have worded my statement differently.

Yes, encryption makes mass surveillance more expensive. However, hacking everything, all at once, all the time is not a requium for successful masss surveillance in the face of strong encryption.

The bulk of communications are centralized somehow, either via their networking model or via common client software.

Take Skype for example. NSA/GCHQ would never give up their ability to conduct mass surveillance on that platform. If Microsoft refused to cooperate for whatever reason (unlikely), they'd simply compromise Skype's network and/or client application accordingly. Such an operation, while expensive, is a far cry from hacking every single Skype user individually.
The best way to do 'high' density IMO is 4-6 stories across most of the city, like Edinburgh or Barcelona. If everyone lives in an apartment there's no stigma.
Amazon is considering creating its own TV service
> Solar is still very expensive at around 10K$ an upwards in the US and considerably more expensive in Europe, solar is also not an option for the majority of residents in the big cities where electrical supply is usually a bigger issue.

It's $3.50/watt fully installed in the US currently. There is a 30% tax credit that expires at the end of 2016 (drops to 10%). That's a great deal for a system that will generate power (warrantied) for 25+ years. If you're in the city or someplace you can't get rooftop solar, you can usually purchase wind or solar specifically from your utility (depending on local utility regulations and laws).

> I'm personally not a big believer in residential solar, it can't be as efficient as dedicated solar installations and the cost overhead for so many small scale installations pretty much outweigh the benefits in the long run. I do however believe that many smaller communities should be powered with renewable energy where possible. It can allow you to build much bigger and more efficient installations of wind and solar, won't require you to convert it to high voltage in order to connect it back to the grid/transfer it along large distances and your energy storage is also much easier.

Renewables should be installed wherever feasible, whether on rooftops or at utility installations. We need every clean watt we can get.
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Perhaps it would, if that other name had been chosen from the start.

However, in this case, many projects will have existing code using the earlier conventions.

Moreover, there is a substantial volume of documentation and tutorial blog posts and conference videos and example code repos using those older conventions, all of which has just been invalidated. This isn't just a loss, it is all now actively harmful to new developers adopting React or those trying to update to a newer version, because it's actually misleading.

If a library you're thinking of using in production is as willing to break API compatibility as React is, even if the changes are mostly announced a little way in advance, you should think long and hard about the overheads and instability you're going to incur with a dependency on that library before you adopt it. Move fast and break stuff might work if you're Facebook and thus have both final control over the library in question and effectively unlimited resources to maintain your code base, but it doesn't work very well for the 99.999% of web development projects that don't have those resources available.

To be fair, the React project itself seems to be quite transparent about its development methods. It's not as if they're advertising the library as stable -- it's still clearly shown as a 0.x version, for example. However, a lot of people are jumping on the bandwagon anyway and just hoping for the best, and that's probably not a good idea.

From an API point of view, all of that is what's in a name.
Everything we know about cities suggests that, in fact, quality of life doesn't go down as more people crowd in — the opposite happens.

Written, no doubt, from a cozy brownstone in a high-rent district of New York City.
> The Powerwall is a rechargeable lithium-ion battery product manufactured by Tesla Motors for home use.

That's the very first line of the Wikipedia article...
FWIW, two (partially self-serving) suggestions:

1. Try set up a lab in Cambridge at some point down the road.

2. Pay particular attention to CS theory: it's (arguably) high-impact and very cost effective --you can practically fund an entire generation of researchers in a subfield for a fraction of the cost of, say, a major interdisciplinary initiative. See for instance what the Simons foundation is doing at Berkeley[1].

Best of luck with what you're doing. You can end up actually changing the world in this way.

[1] https://simons.berkeley.edu
Coupled with Debt. A very nasty mix indeed.
It may not be a lot in terms of research, but it's certainly a lot in terms of a voluntary personal donation to anything, however much money someone has.
No, they used stochastic to reduce risk and find patterns in the markets.

http://www.amazon.com/Against-Gods-Remarkable-Story-Risk/dp/...

You prefer the old fashion way?

Aren't startups gambling with other people's money? What's the success rate there? 1 in 100?
No, I don't believe that is an acceptable solution to the problem. Especially from Reddit's point of view, where they want users to stay and therefore generate revenue.
Well the parent comment doesn't say how many handicap spots were open. Giving Jobs the benefit of the doubt, he may have seen a pattern where there were always multiple spots available. And the spot locations don't come down from God either. They are decided (at least in the state where I live and have worked on this subject (a work parking lot)) in an arbitrary fashion in order to meet certain requirements. It's (once again where I am) a loose specification for placement. And you can always exceed the number required. For all we know Apple could have put in more spaces than required and Steve was simply taking advantage of that knowing that nothing would happen. And that he further didn't care about any fine he received assuming the Police even had normal access to that part of the parking lot when they were on patrol.

Edit: Further to my point it's easy to assume "arrogant big shot rich guy" just hearing a story like this.
To be honest, the freedom to fail alone would make a huge difference. On one hand there's a lot of freedom for intellectual growth in academia - in the last few months I've used deep learning, assembled hardware under a microscope, performed neurosurgery and genetic engineering (this is somewhat standard for my field). On the other hand, I make less than I did as a new cable guy, won't make more for 10 years, and every postdoc and phd student in my lab works 7 days / week standard. And if I fail, I will probably be done career-wise. LOTS of talented people leave because they see startups as the 'safer' bet - at least if your startup fails you're not doomed.
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Yes. Note both the article and the paper are from 1992.
(To be fair, the initial release was 0.3 and we skipped over 0.6 and 0.7. http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2013/12/19/react-v0.8.0...)
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Ask HN: Recommend me a programming language
I want a programming language that is:

- simple and can fit into ones head. something like Golang and unlike C++, Scala, Haskell etc.

- has Python/Ruby like syntax (no curly braces)

- is statically & strongly typed

- has basic type inference

- has a good garbage collection

- is fairly fast (something like golang, java)

- has generics

- supports basic functional programming constructs

- supports basic OO programming constructs

- has a great standard library

- does not depend on big and heavy runtimes like JVM, .NET etc.

- compiles fairly fast

- does not have any esoteric features like laziness, borrow checking

- uses exceptions for error-handling

Is there a programming language like this or am I simply asking too much?

Thanks,

A Desperate Programmer
afaik it means 'trees suck dicks' from french.
if you increase the ttl it goes on much further (27 hops in 162.252.204.0/22)
Neither of those were small when they started to show up on the frontpage. /r/fatpeoplehate was definitely growing very quickly in the six months leading up to it's demise.
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> Not everyone has Facebook's budget or resources to upgrade every 2 months.

Even if you're FB, dedicating the engineering time to upgrading/testing/deploying 15k+ components by making a breaking change would be madness.

Anecdotally, when the React team breaks something (rare) a lot of people internally start yelling, and it never makes it into the releases. FB makes for one-hell of an integration test environment.
Using anything beside a domain you own and control is a potential bad idea.
Who "adds two strings"? You're 1) converting the strings to ints 2) adding the ints.

The possibility of confusion is the part that is already complex.
In the US many cars already have a microphone for AAA type services, some cars will automatically dial home/911 if they've been in a car accident where the air bags have been deployed.

As for the data not leaving the dashcam it won't at first because internet connectivity is still spotty and expensive, eventually it will probably stream it live to you insurer which will perform some analysis on it to see how you drive in order to define your premiums, so if you speed you get to pay more. It won't surprise me if insurers don't already have access to some telemetry from cars (e.g. the one which is downloaded during routine checkups) that can be used to extrapolate your driving behavior for example how often you break suddenly/emergency break, most modern cars come with accelerometers today to ensure that air-bags deploy properly even when the is hit from the rear or the side that data is probably stored in the control box.
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The photo they are using to illustrate this story, without any credit, is from the upcoming Guitar Hero Live (FreeStyleGames/Activision). No relationship with Pandora or TicketFly as far as I know.

The photo: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Guitar...
Absolutely! unfortunately it may take years before the majority of browsers use it. :(
Code to spam:

var $ci = $('.chat-input');
var str = "spammy string";
setInterval(function() {
$ci.value = str;
document.horse.whinny();
}, 50);
Ah.... because AWS built these as two separate user-facing services, with completely different API's and no way to use their common underlying foundation together.... go Amazon...
> But they care more about their ability to make breaking changes without the stench of a major version bump.

Source?
The active spam happening there right now is if anything a fabulous demonstration of just how terrible anonymous people on the internet tend to be, and how quickly potentially fun things can go to crap as a result.
I would really like to see some of the responses from successful applicants. I emailed a few of them, and unfortunately they said that the responses are destroyed after selecting the winners, perhaps one of the winners could try to recreate a few of their responses.
I think that poverty will tend to amplify and accelerate a lot of the negative effects of high-density living without conveying much of the benefit, so it's both.
A lot of the fees actually go directly to the venue, and not to Ticketmaster.
Ah, good to know! I would edit my comment with a correction if the option was still available.
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You can see this as hate speech against women or the community saying in it's own fucked up way "we don't care and you shouldn't announce these labels to us"

Generous interpretation
This is one of each phone, and one of the samples has no SIM installed. A 2h difference in battery life might also be best explained by a bad battery.

This needs much more replication before I'd be content that there's a real difference.
Excellent point. Advertisers don't act unilaterally to content based on morality they came up with themselves. Ultimately they are concerned with the perception of their brand by the same people who visit the website and experience the "offensive" content.

The people who are asking for the offensive content to remain on the site are not asking for "free speech" because Reddit isn't free. They're asked for "sponsored speech" -- they want the people who pay for the servers (directly) to sponsor their hate speech, or the hate speech of others.

If this is how Reddit would like to run things, it should become a non-profit and operate on donations. I'm a member of three websites that feature message boards and operate like this. No ads, no data tracking, all funded by donations. The rules vary in strictness among them.
I would think it's a matter of the same behaviors that get someone to having $5,000 quickly get them to $10,000.

The buckets aren't well sized there.
Sure. It's complicated. Heck, even just a passive laugh at a funny picture which is totally innocent and non-harmful in person, can become a crushing attack on a person when it goes viral and it's millions upon millions of people doing it.

But just because these issues are messy doesn't give us a license paper over their complexity with reductive founding-father-esque ideology. It's pretty clear to me that in aggregate freedom of speech on the internet is not suffering—people have unprecedented access to spread whatever thoughts they happen to have. Meanwhile an increasing number of people being hurt by internet bullying, harassment, and other anti-social behavior is growing by leaps and bounds in a way that society is not yet equipped to deal with.
How well does the keyboard work when it's that low on the device? I could see the thing rotating away from your hands and falling to the floor if you loosen your grip even a little bit.
"Not go to the subs that have such speech"

That's not a feasible solution because sooner or later, almost EVERY sub gets infected with that filth.
>> People are misinterpreting that as reddit being a "bastion of free speech" without fully understanding what free speech really is.

HN is an open forum, may I not comment on discussion between two other members?
At this point Perl 6 is new enough that the use cases is excels at may not be well defined.

If you want to learn something new, and not be hampered by a feature in some other language not being supported (at this point the main feature is that it basically has all the features of all the languages), then trying out Perl 6 may be worth while. If nothing else, you've prototyped your project, found out what programming paradigms make sense and work well for your use case, and can switch to another language that offers that which achieves some other unmet goal of yours.

So, I guess that's a possible use case. Prototyping where you aren't sure what language features would be really useful and provide benefit later. Channels? Threads? Async? Promises? Lazy lists? Operator overloading? Roles? Grammars?
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> Python(2, of course)

Sorry to veer off topic a bit, but as a Python-lover-but-outsider I've long been mystified by the almost proud unwillingness of the community to embrace Python 3. It seems like a better language to me. What am I missing?
He got 40M from selling Loopt? Didn't Loopt raise 40M? How does Sam have 10M lying around?
Most of the commercial value of art is in its scarcity, regardless of its reproducibility. Even without Star Trek replicators, I've seen replica paintings made in Russia and China which I could not distinguish from the original if both were placed side by side in front of me. However, even the best replicas only go for tens of thousands of dollars, while the originals can fetch hundreds of millions.
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> We think research institutions can be better than they are today.

I hope you'll expand on this. Is there something that YCR can do that academic research can't do? You might have more impact if you use that money to influence US and EU gov't to invest more in basic research. A 1% increase in annual gov't funding will be vastly larger than YCR's total budget.

The Gates Foundation is tackling difficult health issues that aren't profitable for companies and neglected by poor governments. They've found an underserved gap. What's the gap that YCR is uniquely suited to tackle?
Seriously, a library that goes out of its way to provide useful deprecation warnings and always keeping deprecated behavior for a version, with versions coming out once in three months, and released with codemods automating the transition for you, cares a little about compatibility?

Yes, any library that breaks code written according to documented good practices less than six months earlier only cares a little about compatibility. Everything else you mentioned may be true, but it's also mostly irrelevant.

This isn't necessarily a criticism of the React team. As I mentioned in another post, it's not as if they're advertising more compatibility than this and then not living up to what they claimed. The problem is some people having unrealistic expectations and reading more into the high profile of React than they should.

But mere months between fundamental breaking changes in published interfaces isn't a good level of stability and longevity for most production projects, and for any of those projects that don't have realistic plans and resources available for maintaining the integration regularly, React isn't ready yet.
Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)
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The character of a city changes as it attracts more people, even if it does not get more dense.

For example, there are not more cars per linear lane mile on the streets of New York than there are on the streets of DC. In fact, DC has worse traffic than New York by any measure, despite being far less dense. (It's full of public spaces, and buildings are limited to no more than 13 floors.)

As a city starts to become more attractive to people, either density or property values will go up. When property values go up, poor and middle class residents are forced out, either by property taxes, or by landlords who want to sell instead of rent.

These people then need someplace to live, and the higher property values are soaring, the farther away they will have to move. These folks may have actually preferred increased density to moving away, BTW.

But of course they still work in the city (that's why they lived there in the first place), and now have a huge commute. Thus even though density has not gone up appreciably, traffic and use of public transportation still go up, harming quality of life. DC is largely a commuter city and the traffic is truly awful, despite the low density. LA is another city that is not particularly dense but the traffic is awful.
Their broadcast method rate limits you to 1 message every 500ms. It also looks like they're actively changing it to cut every message to 500 chars now too.

Some kind of infinite backoff based on how quickly you're trying to send messages would probably slow the spam down and make room for human pace messaging to occur.
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Yeah, I'm working on the search algorithm, sorry for that
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is everything on morguefile public domain?
Even anonymous-online-presence doesn't protect you from those people though.

If you're a woman online trying to hide your gender from bigots/sexists/perverts, you have to make sure you don't say anything that'll give you away. You can't talk about being pregnant or morning sickness or any kind of events in your life that are female exclusive... or near exclusive. And online videogames that have realtime audio/visual with other players? Those features are pretty much off limit since your appearance/voice will most likely reveal your gender... most of the time.

If you're a minority online trying to hide your identity from bigots/racists, you have to avoid talking too much about your family history or parts of your childhood growing up because usually those contain events that'll give strong hints to your nationality. For example, if I wanted to hide the fact that my family is from Nigeria... I can't talk about my trips to visit my family in Nigeria. I can't talk about the fact that my wedding was in Nigeria since I know what most people would assume and/or ask once they learned that fact. I can't tell you how/where I first saw my wife. I probably can't tell you some of my favorite meals. Sure, on some sites like HN that's mostly tech focused I can probably go a pretty long time without anyone figuring out I'm black. But sites that aren't tech focused, sites that are more... i dunno... human focused, with topics all about life in general, not bringing up my background will be harder if I want to partake in conversation.

Historically discriminated-against sectors of our society shouldn't have to double-think every statement they make online or offline to keep some part of their identity a secret. If we go that route, then the those sectors are on constant defense and the bigots are on constant offense... and eventually, bigots win because their biases will only grow. This is equiv to the military's "Don't-ask-don't-tell" position on Homosexuality. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_ask,_don't_tell ...at best, it's a temporary "solution"(BIG quotes here) but it did not solve the problem at all.