skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since none of the other posters have mentioned this, I would like to point out that before the latest version of the TPA, congress had the power to amend treaties, whereas now, post TPA, they do not. So a treaty is either passed or not, with no modifications, which I think is an undermining of our constitutional representative democracy.

Another thing to keep in mind is that an easy way around the treaty clause is to just pretend something isn't a treaty, which I have been told is how they intend to treat the TPP.

To me this is one of the most blatant power grabs of the supranational oligarchy, but I have heard a certain argument that I think is worth repeating, and it goes something like this: "Yes, the TPP enables an international and unaccountable tribunal to make decisions that could adversely affect participants, including the USA, but the reality is that we intend to have such power in the tribunal that it will just be another tool in our arsenal of national interests, and we won't allow adverse things against our own." I think the failure of logic in that argument is pretty apparent. All the TPP does is increase and centralize power to unaccountable entities while undermining the rule of law and our constitutional representative democracy. (and I'm sure it undermines other countries in similar fashion.)

Once again, the real issue is that our own governments are being used against us in class warfare, and the rich are winning.

Also I didn't realize the implications regarding DMCA, which I think was horrible legislation that should be repealed.
"Although there is some truth to this, the past tends to be only a limited predictor for the future"

A great example of this is Malthus. His predictions were absolutely correct based on the history of the world until that point. The reason he was so wrong was because the world changed so dramatically.
China. And do hardware startups.
Hope YC India is real some day!
So how sustainable was that?
Weev threatens prosecutors with info from Ashley Madison leaks
Walking turns out to be good for you.
No one is about to flood the market with free goods. Power in a capitalist system is derived from scarcity, so it follows that artificial scarcity will be maintained if a 'post-scarcity' technological development was made.
Chef's two-pass execution model and how it leads to subtle bugs
Well, it categorically denies that "Facebook is always listening using your microphone," regardless of which feature we're talking about.

But that's also really easy phrasing to write a loophole for :P
At what point in the history of the public markets in the United States was market-making of any sort not an activity reserved for an incredibly small minority?

The difference, from what I can tell, between the HFT "elite" and the human market-maker "elite" is that the human elite actively colluded to retain their status. Compare the largest HFT firms to the largest investment bank, and the number of entrances and exits in the market for electronic trading firs.
It's very hard to do things 90% Angular. Integrating Angular functionality with JavaScript is difficult.
Private trades have existed forever. Dark pools as infrastructure in their current form, of course rely on computers.

It's like the difference between searching for a house on a public database, or a broker's private database...
Richard Dawkins was a scientific hero too 'til his latest meltdown.
You should note, this is an extremely misleading article. He is in fact worried about AI.

Hawkings wrote this in the same thread:

You’re right: media often misrepresent what is actually said. The real risk with AI isn’t malice but competence. A superintelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours, we’re in trouble. You’re probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice, but if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green energy project and there’s an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants. Let’s not place humanity in the position of those ants. Please encourage your students to think not only about how to create AI, but also about how to ensure its beneficial use.

This was what her wrote when asked about technological unemployment:

If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.
The USDS is part of the White House. They are directly under the President.

18F is basically a contracting agency, run by and for the government. They basically take on work that's assigned to them by the USDS. The USDS does work as well, but typically more with a leadership and policy role.
I'm not sama, but here are some thoughts anyway.

If this is really something you think could be big (a "winner takes all game" as you say), you're going to have to grow a company to address the opportunity -- which will mean giving up the lone wolf thing. That's a choice you have to make personally. I'm sure being the lone wolf is more comfortable, and it's entirely possible that you could build yourself a nice little business that way, but you won't be able to own the market.

Once you decide which way you want to go, applying to YC or not will be an easier decision. I do expect that YC could help you with your network.
Or just a significant number of people in the same region searched for or posted about killing bugs.
They are not. The largest, best-regarded fund manager in the world (Vanguard) is on the record saying that they've benefited from HFT.
1) I generally believe in trying to find the most-impactful areas to donate, and also concentrating on areas that are important to me personally, and also areas where I am uniquely suited to make a difference. This seems like a good intersection.

2) A controversial thing I believe is that unless you are getting multiple percent of equity, it's usually a bad deal to join an early-stage startup that hasn't yet found product-market fit and the resulting growth (there is a big exception here for hard tech startups that will take a long time to produce a product but be incredibly valuable if they're able to).

We've noticed that the best startups tend to not hire employees for awhile. One of the reasons, it seems, is they are able to convince much better people to join once things start working.
Worse vs which baseline scenario?

You're implying that your baseline scenario is a constant absolute number of poor people in the world.

But that scenario is not really constant. If things are getting neither better nor worse, the children of the poor are as poor as their parents, and the absolute number of poor people keeps climbing.

If nothing got better, the number of additional poor people would have been at least 611 million, and that is an under-estimate because poorer people have higher fertility rates.

So yes, "only" 371 million more people in poverty necessarily means things are getting better, when sheer demographics without economic growth would have pushed the number 2x higher.
That would be interesting. But having a completely modular phone with hardware kill switches would be better imo. That way you can just dismantle it when not in use. Put it back together when going out. Switch the mic on when needed etc.
Not finished yet, but I'm happy to show sketches and explain everything. Ping me any time at d@spaceherbs.com or just call 415.960.9373 (Dan)

First versions are:
http://spaceherbs.com/client/old/client/index.html
http://spaceherbs.com/herbs
http://spaceherbs.com/client/new/client/index.html
It stayed on top of r/Chicago for quite a while.
Last Advances from the PRISTINE Project (RINA)
There will always be some form of scarcity. Look at housing prices in major cities. Once food and clothing became (essentially) solved problems people ended up bidding up the remaining housing stock to the stratosphere.
Would reporting them for theft work? Tell them they have X time to give you your car back or you will report them for theft.
1) Yes! That's really helped up expand into new areas.

2) The partnership talks about this all the time. We're very focused on not letting it happen. Far, far worse for us to miss one Airbnb than to fund 10 decent (and credible-sounding) companies.
Many of our most successful companies entered YC with little more than an idea. Slope is more important than Y intercept - https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-profound-life-lesson...
There will always be something we want, but can't have. It's human nature, I would argue. As soon as we push one boundary, another horizon presents itself.

Once we eliminate all the "simple" causes of scarcity, we'll soon be on to the next group. Some things probably won't present themselves as limited until they become scarce.

One example I like to think of: Land, it is currently abundant, to the point of ridiculousness based on our population. However, land near X (city, hospital, family, etc), is pretty limited. This is caused by unique local/contextual reasons. Not every city can have a beautiful ocean sunset, not every city can have a giant canyon in the middle that provides a unique nightlife of weird depths.
Many (most) don't encrypt anything anyway and will just comply with warrants and requests. That's not really the point.

The point here is that where we have device and service providers like Apple and Google and whoever-just-bought-LastPass where we do trust them to encrypt our info, the government won't be making rules that compel them to undo that work.

If you didn't trust Google and Apple to begin with, the government compulsion would be meaningless anyway.
Interesting to see Cloud Foundry take off this year after many years of being more of a curiosity on its own island.

I personally didn't get it until I saw Docker a couple of years ago and wondered "how will we operate all of these apps, services or even the servers they run on without playing yet another shell game and resorting back to traditional shit IT?". And that brought me back to Cloud Foundry and BOSH, to the point where I quit my old job and joined Pivotal.
There is always a temptation to stuff the order book to keep it going in a direction profitable for you (ie, fake volatility).

Is this something you have personal experience in? I ask because a lot of people relate this concern because they read about it in Zero Hedge, which is regarded by people in the industry as (as someone here once put it) "a conspiracy theory site without the theories".
Boston as well[0]. The handful of times I've used it (broken bulb in a stop light, for example), the issues have been resolved within 24 hours. Pretty impressive.

[0]: http://www.cityofboston.gov/doit/apps/citizensconnect.asp
SageMathCloud (https://cloud.sagemath.com), which was mentioned in the first line of the rackspace post, had 850 concurrent users at some point yesterday. Our typical load is that high now. I don't think we've exceeded 1000 simultaneous users, but will likely do so in the next week or two.
It also is a natural defense against ossification.
That sounds like a good plan.
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Perhaps it's time to start calling what Michael Lewis mislabels "front-running" as Lewis-running.
According to the Outer Space Treaty, Mars and other celestial bodies are "the province of all mankind." Nobody can own or control them. However, if (for example) the US mines some Martian gold for its own use, I believe the US would be the proper owner of that specific gold, though it still wouldn't be able to claim any exclusive mineral rights to Mars.
Hadoop vs. Relational Databases (podcast)
Interestingly, a lot of "bass heavy" music focuses on frequencies around 50Hz, not the really deep sub-bass. This makes sense when you consider human hearing. Those higher frequencies sound much louder to us, and they're still low enough to get the tactile feeling.
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liberal copyright laws create jobs. This is the opposite of that. It's big corporations securing profits and making sure there will be no competition.
> the administration will continue trying to persuade companies that have moved to encrypt their customers’ data to create a way for the government to still peer into people’s data

If you are one of these companies that are informally cooperating with the government on this, please state so publicly, in the signup process and by message to current users, so that we can avoid using your services now, or at least when it's discovered later if you weren't honest about it up front.
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World population in 700AD is estimated at about 200M, the current combined population of the six largest cities.
Yes.

No--we will fund single founders, but it's harder.

No.

The best thing is just to do it--there is no pre-startup thing really.
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And same timezone as SF.
In fact by repeatedly using their product you subtract from their bottom line since you are consuming computing and support resources.

I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. Their product is SaaS; by definition to use the product requires consuming their computing resources--that's what they're selling! Unless you're honestly of the mentality that companies have moral standing to tell you to eff-off once they have your money. But I don't think you are, so please clarify.

To answer your question, LastPass's popularity is largely due to word-of-mouth. People used LastPass because they liked it, they liked its ease of use, they liked what they perceived to be the honest nature of the company. Because people like the average user on HN, who are likely the "Tech guy" for all of their immediate friends and family, tell their families to use LastPass and help them set it up. When you piss off the guys who evangelized your product, you're not just losing his business; you're potentially losing the business of everyone whom they recommended it to.

Case in point, I convinced my girlfriend to start using it (she fortunately got 6 months for free via a student email and hence will suffer no monetary loss if we decide to switch) and was considering telling my family about it, but now I'm having second thoughts. And considering this is, again, a subscription model, the "Haha, we already have your money!" model only works for one year. The projected revenue based on the expectation of renewals, however, goes out the window.
With systemd too it's clear that Linux sees its future as something distinct from POSIX.
This is mostly good news. A few thoughts:

* The FBI-NSA-etc. axis already tried to ban nonescrowed crypto. This was in 1997, when far fewer products relied on it, far fewer people used the Internet, and far fewer groups mobilized to oppose it. If even that effort failed, this one was likely to fail as well.

* Excerpt from that 1997 proposal, which was actually approved(!) by a House of Representatives committee: "It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture for distribution, distribute, or import encryption products intended for sale or use in the United States, unless that product..." http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/T?&report=hr108p4&dbna...

* I disclosed in 2012 that the FBI had drafted a proposed law to require backdoors; that legislation was never introduced, even as a placeholder. My 2012 article:
http://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-we-need-wiretap-ready-web-sites... Of course the FBI's bill could be kept in reserve to become Patriot Act 2.0, just like the FBI-NSA-etc. axis had EPPSCA in reserve, which morphed into Patriot Act 1.0 a month after the 9/11 attacks, as I wrote about here: http://www.cnet.com/news/how-bin-laden-and-911-attacks-shape...

* If the legislative approach is now off the table, as the WashPost piece indicates, look for the FBI-NSA-etc. axis to try more creative approaches. "Oh, you want that $2 billion government contract? You want your new device to be FIPS 140-2 certified? How about that merger or FTC antitrust review? Environmental reviews? Trade? Taxes? It sure would be a shame if things didn't go your way. Maybe you can help us and we'll help you..."

This is why it's worth supporting groups like EFF (I donated last year and need to again before the end of this year). They provide a moral argument that counters that of the Washington establishment--and also provides guidance for tech firms when they're faced with challenges like those above.
- 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg
The cost of rent in the Bay Area is getting really high, both SF and down south. The archetypal startup in a garage in Palo Alto is not as affordable as it once was. For various policy reasons it's really hard for new people to move to the area without paying an arm and a leg in rent.

Do you or YC have any thoughts on things you could do to help this, if any?
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I like the way Zach Weiner over at SMBC put this:

>A human is only happy if she has two, and everybody else has one. And even then, she starts imagining three.

(http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3531)
I was a dedicated "over" guy until one of my cats discovered how easy and fun it was to unroll it. I had to switch to "under".
I've been nothing short of respectful in tryimg to explore this issue. Resorting to personal attacks won't get you anywhere. OK, we are done. Thanks.
I grew up in a trailer park too, and look forward to the day I can afford to go back to a life that simple.
It is unfortunate that you see today in many Muslim countries branches of (international) banks that deal in usury and interest. This is due to globalization, and the willingness of the rulers to allow anything the West wants. There are Islamic alternatives to many of traditional interest based transactions. Unfortunately there is still quite some debate around them, as there does not seem to be any sense of urgency or proper funding being provided to push for that, given that many people are lax, and accept the status quo. What there is _no_ debate about, is that dealing in usury (e.g. savings accounts, or taking an interest bearing loan) is prohibited Islamically.

Certain exemptions are made to people that have this as their only alternative, other than being thrown out on the street if they can't pay their rent for instance. However, this is only reserved for dire situations, and some people take this too far, and think that they can be exempted, whereas they cannot. It is the responsibility of the community to provide for the poor first and foremost.

I would need to look up to see where this shift started to happen, but I would not be surprised if it started to take place at, or around WWI (that's when a lot of other problems started to happen in the region).

If that turns out to be the case, then yes, it is quite sustainable that it lasted for over 1250 years.
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Ah got it, so no fun allowed at all. Understood. Thanks.
He sounds about as qualified to opine on economics as I am to give my theory about black hole physics.
The fact that people fear technological unemployment — freedom — is a sign we live under an idiotic system.
> Americans they need to reduce carbs and fat and increase protein to move towards a healthy diet

The majority of Americans consume more than the recommended daily intake of protein, the source of which is mostly red meat, which is arguably a less healthy diet. I do agree that the average American consume to many carbs, and again, from sub-optimal sources. What need to happen is an increase in fruits and vegetables which most American are sorely deficient in.
For some key background information, I recommend this article from May: "Detroit Revitalizes City with 311 App".

http://www.govtech.com/Detroit-Revitalizes-City-with-311-App...
They're investigating us, who are not suspected of any crime. Let's throw out their ability to investigate.

Traditional policework goes a very, very long way, and it's time to admit that the terrorism angle is too overblown and intentionally abused to take seriously anymore.

Ultra-narrowly targeted, ultra limited duration, warrant-required wiretaps which are disclosed as evidence in full during court trial are what is acceptable when exhaustion of traditional methods hasn't closed the case. That is the standard we should work from.
They want to know e.g. what ad you've just watched on TV so they can reinforce it with one of their own, that's what they listen for.
> 1. Aren't government positions notoriously underpaid compared to their private-sector counterparts?

Yes.

> 2. Doesn't that mean that "government software" would end up being written by below-average developers and be significantly worse than private-sector software?

Assuming that that is the case, the fact that government positions are notoriously underpaid compared to private-sector counterparts would also imply a significant skill deficit in those overseeing and managing government contracts for outsourced work compared to the people employed by the private contractors to exploit the contracting system for maximum profit.

So, if we assume that public sector pay deficits mean, on average, public sector skill deficits, then so long as you don't address the pay deficits, you're stuck with either :

(1) Government software being substandard quality because its made by people with substandard skill working in government, or

(2) Government software being substandard quality because of substandard controls and quality assessment being exercised in the process of contracting out the work to private firms seeking to profit from government contracting process.
x=8, 98 seconds?
>"shared risk, the population is responsible for the poor"

I pay taxes for those two already. Must I still blame capitalism?

Not trying to be obtuse, but some of the thing mentioned are already supposedly part of our society. Represented by proxy through our government, yet we don't hold it accountable. Capitalism is not our problem.
“This is the center of the world. The people, the beer, the energy. It all comes from here. It’s the Brooklynization of the world.” The crowd cheered. Adam ordered that more shots be handed out. The crowd cheered again. “Whatever you want to do, the world will help you do it. You will raise investors. Whatever you want to do, whatever God wants you to do, whatever the world needs you to do, you will do it, because each and every one of you,” (here, he pointed to his shirt) “is a creator.”

Time to burn everything down, guys.
Are global wages about to turn?
post-scarcity is kind of a misnomer; there will always be scarcity in something -- land and human labour will always be valuable. Energy and other raw resources required by the replicators might be really, really cheap, but not free/unlimited.

Imagine an economy where everybody has a Universal Basic Income of about $10M. It's post-scarcity, so there are replicators that can make anything, and energy is really cheap. Robots mine and farm the asteroids using that cheap energy so all raw materials and raw food are really cheap. By really cheap, I mean about the same price as now. So you've got $10M a year in income, and can buy a car for about $500.

- Land is crazy expensive. There are billions of rich people bidding it up

- but you can rent an apartment for cheap since mile-high skyscrapers are easy to build

- human labour is crazy expensive -- who's going to work for you unless you pay substantially more than $10M/year?

- but people still need meaning in their life; most "work" is basically volunteer labour

Basically Star Trek.
That is impressive. I haven't used the Seattle one yet.

It sounds like City of Boston has the resources to do things as they break or wear out. They just don't have the man power to check all the light bulbs or pothole as they break.
Except Go doesn't guarantee source-order struct layout, so that'd be a suggestion relying on implementation details (see also: relying on scheduling order of goroutines).