skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agreed mfoy_... I would hate to have my freedom of information curtailed by anybody, and do not wish it upon any individual or nation.

Yet still...a cottage in the hills. This gives me personal freedom, but it does not give me access to a whole society untouched by the other (arguably often negative) aspects of connectivity. If we accept that we are social beings, that we are not merely individuals, that society is in some ways adversely affected by connectivity, then it is still reasonable to long for a social place, a whole society, free of the internet?
I'm really confused. I searched for "water" and it tells me I have 842 results, but then only displays 15 of them and doesn't give me any kind of paging mechanism. What gives?

Edit: I get the intended scrolling mechanism when I page down in Firefox, but not in Chrome.
This is the heart and soul of quantitative investment management.
What is their business model? How do they pay for this bandwidth?
Nice reference. Maybe now more of the stuff I hear on the orbital mechanics podcast (http://www.theorbitalmechanics.com/) will make sense.
That's a broken expectation; pretty much no other "business" has an unsharded, all-to-all visible userbase large enough to get these effects. (I can only think of one: Youtube.)

The more direct comparison, to me, would be a city that has drug dealers and homeless people. Every city has them, because they live at the fringes of everything large enough to be called a "city." It's not a matter of choosing to live in some other city (not shopping at Best Buy, in your terminology); the only option for avoiding the pitfalls of city life is to avoid cities altogether.
You can practice CTF challenges at https://backdoor.sdslabs.co/ :)
verbal violence

WTF please get over yourself.
This. If you stay out of subreddits specifically devoted to that kind of stuff (plus a handful of others), you're not going to see it. I'm amazed at the extent to which people are willing to attack posts they have to go out of their way to see.

Reddit is going to lose far more people trying to police out non-PC stuff than they will ever gain from it. And when people move on they do so quickly and in large numbers.
Sorry, I didn't... because someone genuinely complains every time there's a big AWS dump. :-p
A comprehensive study of Huawei 3G router vulnerabilities
Linux kernel dev who asked Linus to stop verbal abuse quits over verbal abuse
It is an infinite scrolling page. The rest of the results show up after you scroll down.
Well, one might agree with you were they able to distinguish between paranoia and an actual problem. I highly suspect that your experiences with that drug weren't a result of a government mandate that you could not exclude yourself from. An adverse reaction to medication is exactly the kind of information that is needed to circumvent its use. Nobody is arguing against that.
Q&A with Sam Altman on YC Research
Only the first cycle. After that they're 0/10.
How Google Thinks About Hiring, Management and Culture
The biggest threat to automous weapons is the millitary organizations that want to keep manpower central. That's why drones were pioneered by the CIA and the Navy and not the US Air Force. They needed solutions, not pilots.
199MB here. I think Chrome defaults to 200MB, yeah.
The downside of testing all your autonomous vehicles in one little town is overfitting. It's easy to recognise the same darn freeway offramp that you've driven thousands of times, but your software needs to recognise every darn freeway offramp.
You seem to have asserted that this type of content regularly makes it to the front page, but in my experience that's not true at all.
I was there in may, Cuba was already connected. Its just another "look at how good America is making Cuba" article.

http://laredcubana.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/cuban-infrastructu...
I lead a team that develops a more advanced BI toolkit, that apart from supporting all typical BI scenarios, handles PPTX export very well (generating 50+ quarterly presentation for investors, etc.). If you're interested, drop us a line at www.binoclebi.com.
I was curious about this, so I went to the SMBC site. It says by Zach Weinersmith; not Weinberg. Also the CTO of Reddit is Marty Weiner. That's three different last names. I think you're a little confused!
I have a feeling that the land there ("In the arid plains of the southern New Mexico desert") is really cheap though.
> Only after a 1.0 release. 0.x implies that breaking changes are always possible

Oh, I didn't know that, it's unfortunate. IMO, just bump major version every time compat breaks. Otherwise projects end up mincing around forever trying to decide when the shiny 1.0 ribbon can be affixed.
Using Canary Releases and Early Life Support to Improve Production Releases
Why do you care about an imaginary number? FB (and many other large companies) heavily use this in production, and have to migrate their own apps. FB even goes farther and uses the master branch (well, synced every week or so). That's a far heavier endorsement than whatever side of a decimal a number falls on.
Why, categorically, should one be forcibly vaccinated in order to protect someone else? Sure, it's the civilized thing to do, but why is the justification to compel it?

(And yes, the "anti-vax" "movement" is disgusting - a fine example of the stupidity of crowds. Unfortunately, defending freedom often means defending scoundrels).

There's a similar argument around fire coverage. The common argument against a more libertarian approach to fire fighting is that if someone's house catches fire and is left to burn, then it will easily spread to neighbors, increasing their risk. And this the obvious physical reality, especially where things are dense.

But since those neighbors are the only concerned parties, then why (in principle) is that additional risk not theirs to bear and mitigate? It cannot cost any more than the neighbors splitting the cost of the fire protection on the unprotected building. Practically, the fire department would just pool that overhead across all customers.

Of course there is the issue of long term second-order effects - freeloading - since most likely if you didn't pay the fire department would still try to extinguish your house as quick as possible (possibly just busting it up a bit more in the process). But making coverage mandatory also ignores long term second-order effects when an organization does not have to be responsive to the people it serves (which is usually then handwaved away with the wisdom-of-crowds fallacy).

The root of the disagreement comes from different thinking about what society actually is. Is it a monolithic system we're all bound to and the only way to change it is top-down? Or is it the constructive result of the surplus that everyone is willing to bring to the table, implying that an individual should have the option to quit the game and take their ball - even if that individual then watches from the sideline or even returns to play but without their ball?

Both perspectives are needed, but every society is predisposed towards over-centralization - most people have a very hard time seeing anything besides their own perspective, so they falsely think their desires apply to everyone. Yet as demonstrated by the success of free markets, only decentralization can satisfy and incorporate minority viewpoints. When creative destruction is prevented from applying to structures within the society, then it will inevitably occur to the society as a whole.
For sure. Rendering JS apps server-side is pretty much mandatory from a performance perspective.
it should be an interesting talk; cumulus supports a linux distribution that has support for many odm switches; the idea being that you can get your software and your hardware from different parties, and pay closer to x86 hardware margins than to network switch margins.

It's also interesting because it's, well, it's linux, so in most cases, it's easier to script against than a network-appliance specific operating system.

(an odm switch with cumulus support is also affordable compared to even used hardware when you need 10g or better ports.)

Nolan is also a pretty smart guy; He did some development work on KVM; I bought (the assets of) tile networks from him when he wanted to switch to focusing on cumulus full time.
I think $10M can go pretty far in basic feasibility studies needed for the Transatomic reactor. You need a bunch of diffusion couple experiments and hydride stability studies. Lots of furnaces, fume hoods, and surrogate fission products. But you're right that when you get to major component qualification then yeah, $10M is nothing.
I'd believe that if the behavior of the administrators were consistent with that explanation.

Example, the ban you're talking about, communities which had the same idea, with different staff, that had existed before that one had, were also caught up in the ban. In other words, they were banned despite not breaking any stated rules.

Another example: A racist subreddit, not getting banned because of harassment, not for breaking rules, but because they were a frequent target of admin attention.

Another another example: Colluding with the governments of other non-US countries to censor content at those governments' request.

It's their website, they can run it as they please, but I wish Ohanian and Huffman would stop playing lip service to "free speech" and "open discussion" (something that up until recently, they did loudly and often) if that's not the goal they intend to live by. Actions speak a lot louder than words.
Yup, that's the trade-off.
Hibernate is 1000 times slower than sql query
http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/restore/id=43ca253f-8683-9...
I'm not so sure that /r/fatpeoplehate did anything worse than any other "funny pictures" subreddit. (For example, ones about "rednecks" or "ravers") I think just a lot of obese people got offended, and for some reason Ellen Pao felt for them.
Related noted. If you eat at Jack in the Box, you're eating quite a bit of Kangaroo meat. Their meat packing facilities are nauseating.
I've been working in Java EE environments. You can't have enough PayrollPeriodPerYearFactoryBuilders in your average application server with those folks...
Good move by Atlassian to expand beyond just software development. Another key area they are lacking are mobile products.

JIRA Board for iOS addresses some of those needs: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jira-board-kanban-scrum-agil...
Not a wargames expert, but you could argue the threat of the machine gun kept people in trenches, which of course shaped the war and made artillery a cornerstone.

Kind of like how the queen in chess may not take many pieces. She is easily the most powerful piece, and as a result a very credible threat. As a result she can be used to project threats rather than taking pieces.
Agreed. It reads like a loving puff piece designed to make investors happy. I don't understand the claim that reddit is a "bastion of free speech" while saying misogynists and racists are nothing but violent, vile trolls. What exactly do they think free speech IS? It means supporting speech you don't agree with!
Yea of course, it was just back of the napkin calculations to come up with an upper bound for the amount lost every year. Still staggering even if it was a quarter of that.
MIT Unveils ‘MicroMaster’s,’ Students Get Half Their Degree from MOOCs
As long as the people hired in are more hands-on and not the Sheldon Cooper types then it's a wonderful idea, especially that the good stuff will be made free for everyone. It's also quite endearing that you are putting so much of your own money into the idea.
SPICE looks to me to be extremely similar to Google BigQuery. I'm very curious about how it differs.
> Slightly non-spherical gravitational fields don't matter too much unless you're doing a lot of orbits.

Actually the effects of non spherical gravity is one or two orders of magnitude greater than the influence of all the other bodies in the solar system combined for low earth orbit satellite operations. It has a huge effect, causing a rotation of the orbital plane several degrees per day (up to 10 or so).

The effect isn't as great for lunar or interplanetary trajectories, though.
Hiring designers for a specific skill?
Really? Where/how exactly did you read that in the article? All I could find that is slightly related to your comment is this:

"Although some U.S. companies, including Google, seem eager to help Cuba build up its Internet capabilities, the government still hasn't tipped its hand on how much help it wants from the United States."

I'm pretty sure Cubans don't care who's setting things up as long as they get connected at last. To me the article seems to focus on the OMG-I-AM-ONLINE aspect of things, reporting people trying to make video calls for the first time and such. That's special and that's about technology enabling people, not much about politics at this point IMHO.
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It is hard to accept and hard to condemn. I find it to be tolerable.

The end result benefits me slightly, yet the means does not entirely justify it.

If I lived in the tropics, I'm not certain how I would feel if I returned home to find that a band of rogues had broken into my house, installed new insecticidal bed nets in all bedrooms, and locked up after themselves on their way out, without touching anything else. On the one hand, hey, free bed nets. On the other hand, no one bothered to ask my permission. Or knock.

But then maybe I hear about a terrifying disease currently spreading via the saliva of the oogeyboogeyfly, who will chew through untreated bednets, or insecticidal nets older than 6 months, to bite sleeping people, and only new ones treated with skellingtol will work to stop them.

In that case, there was

- an overriding concern for public safety, from an actual threat
- some urgency, such that voluntary compliance might be too slow
- a risk that some might not take effective preventative measures
- no malicious intent toward me, specifically

The target of the action was actually the oogeyboogeyfly, which I was unknowingly providing with a safe platform for spreading disease. So it comes down to the old Star Trek 3 dilemma: if you could save a thousand lives by letting just one person die, would it be ethical to do it? Would it still be ethical if that one person wasn't you?
I have ~1k games in Dota 2 and have run across less than a dozen ragers in voice. A quick report+mute and they're taken care of. Usually getting a chat ban in the process.

If anything it makes the game better when people start using voice. I've had games that I've given up on and people started using voice to ask for things like shared unit control for dominated creeps to stack ancients and actually communicate where they're going instead of trying to guess what's going on in four silent teammates' minds.

OTOH, I had one game on EU W where two Russians were talking (nicely) to each other and some British guy comes in and just says "I can't stand Russians. Good bye." and leaves.

And I've had my fair share of LAN cafe players with an open mic blaring music and their friends conversations. Mute and move on.

I really do wish we could mute the mic and not chat and vice-versa.
The price of something is determined by how much people are willing to pay for it, not the marginal cost. We don't pay people based on the marginal cost to keep them alive.
You have a 2M slice (money) and an 8M slice (pre valuation). The 2 is therefore 20%. I guess "relative" is a bit of an imprecise term. Tried to keep the formulas out of it to make it more approachable, but I'll see if I can be more precise. Thanks!
Show HN: Restful.js 0.9.1 is out. Fixes npm issue on 0.9.0
I love DDG's bangs and instant answers. Do you have any statistics on their usage? Like counts of how many times a bang or an instant answer was used?

And will Dax play a bigger role in the future, in branding to give more personality? It wasn't easy finding the name of the duck I see daily. (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=name+of+the+duckduckgo+duck)
The entire premise of TLS suffers from the massiveness of the problem it's trying to solve.

There are billions of users running 100's of varieties of web browsers with varying levels of support and backward compatibility requirements trying to connect to millions of "secure" websites using a third party trust scheme involving 100's of certificate authorities across a profoundly untrusted network.

The litany of attacks listed in djb's preso covers only the pure crypto based vulnerabilities. He doesn't even go into the fundamentally broken model of HTTP->HTTPS transition, the problem of any cert authority's ability to create absolutely any certificate without any central control, the social problem of browser users not really understanding the complex error messages and vagaries of the browser UI's indicating various levels of trust, the complexities of cert and key management for small and mid sized site operators and so on and so forth.

Browser vendors' reaction to every problem seems to be to add yet another flag or HTTP header in the protocol negotiation phase and yet another acronym for site operators and users to get used to. I for one am not optimistic that we'll ever get to the level of "boring security" (not just boring crypto) that djb would like.
How about "We’re not doing this with the goal of helping existing YC’s startups succeed". If this solves some big problem, and there are no new YC startups that come out of it, would indeed be unimaginative.
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I searched for "computer", and I had to scroll down a surprisingly long way to get to anything that wasn't an apple product. I guess photographers are all mac users.
The Amazon exec who introduced the Snowball during the keynote also called it included a "Kindle".
Both only reading or only writing is really simple, compared to when simultaneous high load on both reads and writes are needed, especially if at the same time as things are flushed to disk in a way that doesn't lose accepted data on power down.

That doesn't mean most people can't do well on relational databases as most people simply doesn't need both at the same time.
It sucks.

http://librestock.com/search/?query=laughing+woman+eating+sa...
All the innovation at AWS is amazing. If they every stop charging by the Gigabyte for bandwidth and move to a flat model then I would be tempted to switch to them for all my sites.
>That's a broken expectation; pretty much no other "business" has an unsharded, all-to-all visible userbase large enough to get these effects.

Telling your userbase that they shouldn't expect what they expect is rarely a successful strategy. Again, what does Reddit's unique position as an all-visible userbase have to do with the actual experience of the user? We can make excuses and explanations for why Reddit is the way it is, but that doesn't ultimately address the fact that Reddit, despite being massively popular now, also hosts content so horribly offensive that it risks alienating both common users and advertisers.

Your city analogy doesn't quite fit. People who live in a city are often 'stuck' there for far more important reasons (money, family, culture) than the reasons people stick to a website. And we know it's easy for a website with a massive userbase to collapse, because we've seen it many times over the years.
"but not in Chrome."

Sounds like you need to switch to a high performance browser.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10342407
Tren Griffin's Thoughts on Twitter Moments
Joyce from Stellar.org here! We are also putting together another presentation on off-validator storage in XDR within Stellar-Core that was briefly mentioned in the post. Graydon is working on it now.
Is there any chance that you guys could implement a feature like your major competitor's "scholar" search for searching academic articles?
>For example - a Jew's right to avoid pork and shellfish is respected but the right for an evangelical Christian to avoid people they see as ultimate sinners who could soil them and send them to hell for eternity is completely disregarded and not tolerated at all.

The right for evangelican Christians to avoid people they see as sinners is respected just as much as the right for Jews to avoid pork and shellfish is; nobody forces a Jewish person to eat pork, and nobody forces evangelical Christians to interact with sinners.

The right of evangelical Christians to enforce their beliefs on others, i.e. by making it illegal for homosexuals to get married, is a very different right, and you haven't made an argument for why that right should be respected at all; should Jews be allowed to shut down a restaurant just because that restaurant happens to serve pork or shellfish?
The trick is to create a Bell Labs and not an Institute for Advanced Study. For programming related things (assuming that's the domain?), that's a hard line to draw. Getting regular interactions with the ycombinator classes would be one way to combat it.

If you're wondering about the criticism of IAS, see this quote:

"When I was at Princeton in the 1940s I could see what happened to those great minds at the Institute for Advanced Study, who had been specially selected for their tremendous brains and were now given this opportunity to sit in this lovely house by the woods there, with no classes to teach, with no obligations whatsoever. These poor bastards could now sit and think clearly all by themselves, OK? So they don't get any ideas for a while: They have every opportunity to do something, and they're not getting any ideas. I believe that in a situation like this a kind of guilt or depression worms inside of you, and you begin to worry about not getting any ideas. And nothing happens. Still no ideas come. Nothing happens because there's not enough real activity and challenge: You're not in contact with the experimental guys. You don't have to think how to answer questions from the students. Nothing!"
> There's no need for the gross violation of freedom some people fear, locking up parents or declaring them unfit, tying people to a chair and needling them.

Not yet. If you don't think propaganda will align "drug-de-jour" with vaccination, you can go back half a century in the history books and find some surprising artwork. The point is that it's a bad precedent to coerce. The whole idea of the federal hammer (all-or-nothing) has betrayed the notions of community and local governance. I see the discussions on Nextdoor.com for my neighborhood, but it's ultimately left up to the Feds to mandate. Why aren't the states doing this? Because they are too afraid of the backlash, while the aloof congresspeople are obviously detached.
> I’m going to personally donate $10 million

Statements like this always turn me off. I guess it's because it breaks the illusion that Sam and everyone else at YC are normal people like most of us. They're not. They're INSANELY wealthy by any reasonable standard.
Oh, I see, you were making a smaller point than I thought originally, my misunderstanding. Since I hunt and own livestock, I regularly consume meat that didn't go through FDA inspection. My impression is that is a fairly rare thing.

How many people would fly on a regular basis if the state outlawed commercial manufacture of airplanes?
This is extremely exciting and I will apply as soon as the application process is announced. I would love to get funded to work on this open source digital audio workstation I've been working on[1]. Its goals are perhaps a little too ambitious and 25 years is not an unreasonable timeline for realizing them.

[1]: http://genesisdaw.org/
Not just a story or two, but shockingly many good stories get overlooked by default. I wrote about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828818 if you're interested.

> I would greatly value a higher signal-to-noise ratio.

Fully agree! The question is how. It's a tough problem. Any ideas?