skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice quote, but also wrong. The Swiss had tons of wars, both internally and externally [1] and provided many other countries' armies with their mercenaries [2]. Also, the cuckoo clock comes from Germany, specifically the Black Forest [3].

Full disclosure - I'm Swiss. As our history teacher put it: "The Swiss were always fighting, and if they weren't fighting each other they were hired by others and fought other Swiss mercenaries on the battlefield under different banners."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Switzer...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_mercenaries

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock
> "anything advertised is not worth buying,"

Then how do you find out about new products or services? Remember, reading about it in a news paper or a news site or even a blog is also advertising. Paid for one way or another.

Basically any time you hear a brand name or see a brand name or read a brand name, that's an ad. A paid-for ad. Even your friends' t-shirts and computers and cars and stuff having their brand name on them ... that's an ad.

So if you never buy anything advertised, what then do you even buy?
When you see people telling in public about talent sortage in the XXXXX field/sector/technology - you can bet this is about to be commoditized.

Why? because the ones that send that message need/want as much cheap labor on that field as possible, and that's the way they can get a lot of people moving on that field.
Exactly, that was my first thought. I have an OpenVPN endpoint on different ports over UDP and TCP available.

My experience is, that UDP is also blocked like TCP. The only possible work around is then IP over DNS, which works but with very very limited bandwidth.
Chat messages in bytes?
Has anyone tried benchmarking various chat application and measure the bandwidth usage?

I am building a chat app with smallest footprint. It would be great to know how much data other apps uses.
I'm very curious about the apparent association between elephants and caves. As another poster said, the training data would doubtless illuminate...
See also transfer.sh
> MD5 is is broken and should not be used for anything anymore.

With the possible exception of demonstrating brokenness in hashing algorithms ;) (Sorry, couldn't resist!)
I like to share articles, projects or even videos on different social networks. I never liked to use Tweetdeck or Hootsuite because I just want to share things through an extension, not via a dedicated application. For that, Buffer is the best
But what's the alternative? In many cases nobody really knows what's in our best interests. So with any protection from "phishermen", you'd suffer from other inefficiencies or harm caused by good opportunities being blocked. Just the fact that research is still ongoing as to the effects of alcohol says that nobody could really decide if it's a net positive or negative for each individual.

You only have to look at laws forbidding marijuana use or homosexual acts to realize that governments aren't competent to make these decisions since they just reflect what the popular opinion of the "phools" already is.
Assuming those mutations have effects on neurons functions (and not e.g. just remnants from ontogenesis) seems this should make future "immortality" tech much more difficult (post-cryonics resurrections, brain uploads, etc).

Not enough to scan brain connectivity info, neuron types and per-person genome, you will now also need per-neuron genomes to truly capture and reproduce a brain.

Not that we were anywhere close to any sorts of brain uploading, but this news just made it orders of magnitude more difficult.
I'm sorry, but he did not invent emoji - DoCoMo did.

I'd say the BBC need better fact checkers, but they're no longer in the business of facts, just paid PR like this, and state mouthpiecing.

Edit: the "fingerprint scanner" they tout is not what it appears to be either. This guy doesn't make money from apps directly, rather from book and course sales - I.e. Selling false hope. http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?162014-Chad-Mureta-App-Em...

Kinda thing that gives those of us who do have useful products a bad name.
These poor, starving CEOs constantly kick people out of jobs for simply annoying them — it's called "firing". Tyranny of the corporate mob bosses.
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On the silly "inequality is getting worse" claim:

"Contrary to the author's claim that the rich are getting richer, not due to underlying economic trends, but by using their power and influence to enrich themselves, I have in this column more than once suggested that the real reason is the enormous expansion of the world supply of unskilled and semi-skilled labour brought about by falling transport costs and trade barriers. With globalization, a billion or more rural people in Asia could be recruited into the urban industrial sector and produce the tradeable goods that undersell the goods hitherto produced in the United States and Europe. Until this new Asian labour is wholly absorbed and its wages rise to Western levels, U.S. and European unskilled wages will remain depressed and the share of profits in value added will rise. Ironically, while this sharpens inequality in the West, it promotes equality on a world scale as Asian and eventually also African peoples are lifted out of misery."
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2012/Jasayinequality...

+ Even if there exits market failures, we don't want to replace them with government failures, which are usually even worse.
>>> Two months later, Fingerprint Security Pro was in the app store.
>>> In the end, the app didn't actually offer any security - it was a gimmick that pretended to read someone's fingerprint and deny them access to the phone, with a hidden unlock button in its top corner. But it didn't matter. Users loved it. In its first month, it made $12,000. Mr Mureta was on his way.

Interesting ..
What about Gravatar?
Indeed. There is this common meme among religious people that some men make money their god. Sometimes it's even illustrated with people worshipping riches. It always seemed to me to be a stretch. I've never seen anyone worshipping money like they would worship a god.

But what I am seeing every day is people worshipping Moloch[0]. Men and women so sure that The Market will save us if we only leave it alone. It's not the money that's the deity, it's the perfect, efficient Market that promises riches if only you could get that pesky government out of the way.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Go to freelancer or a similar site and take a look at what people wants to pay for.

Browsing there 2-4 hours will help you know where's some demand (with cash) and what you can do to aggregate that demand into an interesting project that works for you.
Good joke about the police.

I am going to have to digest a lot of this (I cannot see you have landed any significant mind-changers) but it is more and more clear that public policy is going to be informed and sometimes driven by a software literate culture - and the "works on my machine" approach you allude to is correctly more terrifying than "started up ok in my garage" approach to mechanical issues.

But I honestly think that what I understand of the libertarian / anarchy / whatever approach places waaaay to much emphasis on individual ability to determine the reliability / safety of goods available.
It is easier to hack and make small changes i presume.
Blab, Video chat app kind of like Periscope for groups of friends
This sounds more-or-less like how I started cooking when I was 18 (2004), in the first year of university.

We probably had a bit more "bland" — I couldn't help being British — but we'd also go shopping once a week, cook most evenings, and vary between short/long prep/cooking time things. We'd sometimes use semi-prepared foods, (British-)Indian curry pastes were used relatively often, but something like a "make tacos kit" was expensive for what it contained, and only used once or twice before we'd work out how to make it ourselves.

Also, being four 18 year olds, we were never able to make leftovers last until the next day :-D

(None of this was unusual in Britain; /not/ doing this was unusual.)
Because you might like that company/organization/website. As the IPFS dev said in other replys in this thread, you can choose which sites you want to help
So you are implying that if Iran had handed in the correct forms everybody would be okay with them building nuclear weapons, STUXNET would not have happened and so on?
> In many cases nobody really knows what's in our best interests.

I may not know what is in my best interest, but I know what isn't - someone else lying to me and cheating me to pursue their own interest. The problem is hard because perfect solution is AI-complete and pretty much requires mind-reading. But we can at least try and eliminate the obvious problems. We could, for instance, start punishing marketers and salesmen for lying.
Why would mass only a bit larger than 10m in diameter have so much gravitational pull?
I've been looking for software for months that would help facilitate a lot of collaborative document production. I love the simplicity and user interface of this system -- almost every other system I've tried fails in some major element of the user experience.

It's missing two things that I would need to actually use it:

1. An overview, where you can see the status and progress of all the projects at a glance. Right now, as far as I can tell, the only info the overview page gives about the projects is the project name and participants. I'd love to be able to see which columns were completed in the overview page.

2. Project templates. I want to have a few different project types, each type of which loads a default set of columns, colors, and tasks.

One final observation is that I'm not sure what the "state" field of the columns does. Changing the state doesn't seem to have any visible effect. For my purposes I'd like each of the columns to represent project stages and for it to be very meaningful when we've moved from one project state to the next.

Looking forward to seeing future iterations of this project! I've been amazed at how hard it is to find a software solution for my needs, and am very glad to see new promising new development in this area.
What is the cost that you expect for "a standard server"?

The service will cost no less than the cloud provider price where the server is running, plus a fee for us to maintain the platform up and running.

You will probably like to spin-up game servers using a web interface, rather than administering a Linux machine via ssh, isn't it?
Hoes does it compare to Seafile or Owncloud?
So, no details, no screenshots, no explanation, no description, and no product.

Actually, I'm flagging this. HN needs more actual content and less of this "let's see if anyone is interested" crap. If you want to gauge interest, write something with content.
Is that related to the fact that neurons have much longer lifespan than most of other cells in human body? How many mutations connective tissue cells have for example? Hard to say whether 1000 is much or not without knowing about other parts.
PhysX is disliked due to it being partial towards Nvidia-based h/w. Also the console SDK (of PhysX) is very compute-intensive and usually not the best solution.
It turns out this is kind of already in the Linux Kernel. See here: https://lwn.net/Articles/614348/

You can tunnel TCP / IP / GRE, reasonably even Ethernet itself over UDP. This is actually really interesting for cases where you want layer 2 bridging over the internet without all the complexity and overhead of a VPN.
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Yes, like rabbits. Horses, too.
The number of people older than you in decreasing but it is not yet as smooth as it should be. We will fix it. Thanks for noticing. Wolfgang
And of course, the people in the government who write the rules and regulations, aren't rational humans, either.
>At least in finance you can get to a number where you can finally say 'fuck it', and go do what you really want to do...

I recently quit my job. I was working for a large investment bank. Many people talk about leaving to do what they really want to do, something interesting that they can be proud of.

Very, very few actually do it. Turns out no amount of money is ever 'enough'. Turns out adjusting your lifestyle from 400k$ to 100k$ is not so easy.

This golden cage phenomenon is well described here: http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/can-buy-me-...
iodine is awesome, but is usually very slow, in real-life tests I've rarely gotten anywhere close to the benchmarks cited in the README.

Nonetheless, it's an awesome tool to help you get that beachhead and upgrade your connection from there.
If you're on Chrome it's as easy as right clicking the email field. The extension's called Easy disposable email address.
Which is great for those Asian people, in the last 30 years alone around 500 million Chinese people have been lifted out of extreme poverty. Let that sink in, that's the entire population of present-day Europe.

But, as an Eastern European I'm of course biased. I grew up in the economy-controlled '80s when we were experiencing toilet paper shortages, among other things (question for the anti-free market people: how do you centralize the production of things like toilet paper? How do you decide how much toilet paper to make, in the absence of a free market?)
The implementation of "sentence" highlights that Clojure really needs an "interate" function with built in termination. Because no-one uses iterate...
I have read "the book" mentioned (Reinventing Organizations) and it's amazing. Another book to read would be Maverick by Ricardo Semler. The companies covered, from a wide range of different sectors, industries and countries genuinely seems to provide a nurturing, egalitarian environment for their employees. I think that operating from a teal perspective would make the world a better place.

However I note in the book that most organizations covered had a visionary leader who at some point stepped back and allowed the company to become what it did. Essentially embracing chaos and allowing the culture to emerge. Tony seems to be trying to impose this evolution from above, which I'm less sure about. (At least this is how it seems many of the zappos employees feel about it).

I would love to hear anyone's experience who is working for a company that's embraced holocracy.
Good on you for taking the criticism well.

This doesn't seem like a "create an issue on github" problem though. Surely it is a push a patch today problem?
Did you have a look to Protocol Buffers, Apache Thrift or Cap’n Proto for efficient network exchanges ?
This was actually the keyboard I was looking for. All I've been able to find here (UK) are the new-style chiclet ones. Looks like the ones you linked have been phased out. I can't even find them on ebay.

Having said that, the IBM one I do have is far better than I even expected. Top-notch build quality, even better than the keyboard on my Lenovo x200.
> ...The problem isn't that Iran (et al) pursues nuclear weapons. The problem is that they lied to the international community to get assistance from others in developing them...

That's only technically correct. Iran signed on to the NPT under the Shah. The post revolutionary government never signed or ratified the treaty, so saying 'they' lied when signing up for it is a somewhat contorted interpretation of event. Yes they inherited treaty obligations from the Shah's government, and the international community hold them to those treaties according to international law, but it's quite possible the post-revolutionary government don't quite see the moral dimensions of the situation the way you do.
... Well don't leave us hanging: Why do you feel that way?
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If these mutations are random they can probably be ignored. They likely have no effect or negative effects. Your brain might actually improve a lot by removing them.

If they aren't random and there is some purpose or information encoded in them, then you have a good point. I think that's unlikely though.
When people start mass advertising to do it outsourced.
Just before vegetables are approaching the rotting stage, they're still fine for a hearty soup. Scrub them if they're dirty, chop them into rough 1cm cubes, cook in a litre of stock, and blend (or not) when they're cooked.

Since I live alone, I tend to buy vegetables once a week, and meat on my way home if I'm sure I'll use it — I'm prone to wasting it otherwise. I go past at least four small supermarkets on my way home from work (30 minutes by bicycle). I have some frozen fish too, since it's quick to defrost, and bacon, since it keeps for ages. I have no problem making a vegetarian meal (chickpeas, tofu etc -- these keep indefinitely).
I thought nuclear weapons were supposed to deter wars?
I'm sure most developed countries do that by fining businesses for false advertising, which would incentivise the businesses to pass the punishment on to the staff who did it. Lies aren't really the problem though, fooling us with truths we don't understand is.

About tobacco causing lung cancer? That's been widely known for decades but rates of smoking are increasing globally so it's not just false information.
I was under the impression that Piketty et.al. showed pretty conclusively that a) inequality indeed got worse and b) it's a matter of policy, not globalization per se. The paper you linked predates the publication of Capital in the 21st century, so the author had no chance to react on those findings.
It's more then that.. it's about perception (how you spin things). For example, you could look at american doctors and say they mainly work on patients of self-inflicted diseases such as heart disease, obesity, etc. Then you could look at finance sector workers and see how they help people get jobs, loans and move the economy forward which leads to furthering humanity's progress and capabilities.
There is already a tinychat (and the existing tinychat are scumbags) so a name change might be useful.
Understood that scientists would be able to break asteroid into pieces using many ways. I guess what they could take advantage of this asteroid is to put a drone or some sensor material on asteroid so that it would help space scientists for space research. Its almost like unmanned space mission, just put a drone-sensor on asteroid. It goes with the asteroid and sends down information which might be helpful. Any space scientists here in hackernews? What do you say? Would it be possible and beneficial?
A way to look at cable TV is like a buffet. Everything is paid for in advanced. In a buffet, you can eat until you bust and the restaurant would still break even with the food cost at worst. Most cases, profit. The rest of users always make up for the revenue 'losses' caused by a small set of anomalies. This double income from ads and data only happened because your carriers were allowed to get away with placing data caps on wireless. In some distance past, we used to get limits on broadbands too, remember?
This is not what GP meant and you know it, but I'll bite :).

Almost everything is advertised - you might not have seen the ad, but it was definitely somewhere at some point. The question is, whether or not you chose to buy things that you've seen advertised based on the ad, even indirectly. Personally, I attach negative value to ads, i.e. every time I see the product advertised, I purposefully lower my opinion of it.

(EDIT because of nitpicking - that's a heuristic and not the only rule I use; e.g. some companies are extempt if they have earned my trust personally and their advertisement are honest. My rule, born of experience that includes working with marketers, is to assume advertising is purposefully dishonest unless I know otherwise.)

> So if you never buy anything advertised, what then do you even buy?

So I've seen the product as used by a friend. Is that advertising? I've heard my friends who use it talk about it - is that an ad? I read third party blogs and forums on which I find recommendations by people who are experienced with the whole classes of products (hint: non-profit forums and blogs are the best). Is that an ad?

If so, then the word 'advertisement' here has acquired too much meaning and we need to split it for the discussion.

I am totally fine with buying things that are "advertised" by trustworthy actors who wish me well or at least are neutral to me. I reject buying on messages sent by dishonest people or those who have interest in profiting at my expense (e.g. salesmen, advertisers).
"I grew up in the economy-controlled '80s"

Me too! I'm from Poland. And that's why I'm so sick of all those inteligentsia do-gooders who want to impose their own preferences on everybody else because they know better and this legitimizes them to orchestrate the society.
This is how i read those points:

1. Our focus is to serve teams so in the near future, all of our new features will be directed towards teams. (btw which features of trello do you feel lack "focus on teams" ?)

2. Our visual design is better than Trello.

3. We will eventually bring in more "social" collaborative tools (any idea what these will be like?)
Government run orgs and monopolies go hand in hand very often. Im not sure why.
These kind of projects are a lot of fun. I wrote a simple one, in Ruby, using Sinatra here:

https://github.com/skx/web-file-publisher

But then as an experiment I wrote another which uses TOTP to authenticate uploads, so you can upload a file directly via CURL with a suitable TOTP device. This is written in golang:

https://github.com/skx/go-experiments/tree/master/publishr

Using TOTP limits compromise if your upload is sniffed, although I run it behind SSL so I'm protected against that regardless.

Interesting project though; and I like that you can deploy it via Docker.
Yes, that's pretty elaborate :-)

There's space in qp tries for jumbo nodes - they currently use flag values of 0, 1, 2, so 3 is available for byte-at-a-time branches.
>Shopping in supermarkets is one example - they make a "path" for you to follow, stuff you may not usually buy is positioned in such ways that you

That's what Ikea does, and I hate them for that. I find it to be really condescending/paternalistic in relation to its clients, on top of the manipulative "buy-this-stuff!" thing.

> your loyalty card gives you an offer on the stuff you usually buy

My solution, which, granted, is not so great but works for me, is to never ever accept loyalty cards from stores. I understand that that implies that sometimes I pay 5% or 10% more, but I think it more than evens up by me not buying stuff that I don't really need because of the 5-10% price reduction. I also very rarely look for special prize offers on stuff I buy day to day, like food items, it only encourages me to buy more of it.
I wonder if this is related to neurite repulsion. In Drosophla, the DSCAM gene is alternatively spliced to provide an "expression signature" for each neuron so they can maintain neurite repulsion. Maybe these point mutations are providing a similar function?
What client apps do you use?

I've become a daily user of OneNote over the last 12 months or so but didn't know there was an active eco-system to add-on.
> I'm sure most developed countries do that by fining businesses for false advertising, which would incentivise the businesses to pass the punishment on to the staff who did it.

In principle yes, but in practice the false advertising laws are way, way too lax.

> Lies aren't really the problem though, fooling us with truths we don't understand is.

True, but companies now tell bullshit that is so obvious to see through that it's often very clear whether they want to scam you or not. This again should be punished but currently isn't.
No, Piketty showed that inequality is getting worse in the West. Inequality is getting smaller in global and it is an empirical fact. Anyhow, his theory has serious flaws:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2014/Jasaypython.htm...