skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the letter spacing is broken which makes it very tedious to read. This is a shame because it's a nice little article on a very useful technique.
Regardless of unfounded concerns, I've refused a smart meter where I live for two reasons - one, they're extremely expensive, there's a large yearly fee equivalent to 20% of my power costs, even though they don't have to send a tech out to read the meter. Two, I don't want to share data about my power usage with my utility. I'm happy to have the data, and I do log power usage locally myself to a very high precision, but I don't trust the utility to keep that data safe - my power usage data is a VERY good predictor of whether I'm home or not, which is data very useful to burglars.
> Anxiety is high among residence.

[citation needed]
Japan has a lesser but similar problem with hay fever.

It is costing a lot in healthcare, but those Cryptomeria japonica(杉) remains standing.

I cannot quite figure out why.
Because states, corporate powers, & hoarders of capital sweep systemic issues under the rug of their rhetoric...

Our cultural consciousness sees this as an isolated event, where the only party involved is Indonesia; meanwhile, we continue to invest in & buy their palm oil, made in the monoculture petro-chemical tradition.
> On the flipside, if you have friends who aren't right next door (or perhaps who once were and you don't want to write them off because they moved), it helps to have the ability to drive to their place. I'm not arguing for "car first", but I don't think "pedestrian first" makes sense either. Most of my friends are scattered around a 20-minute radius.

A good transportation policy takes all major modes seriously. If you look at a biketopia like the Netherlands, they still drive as much as they bike. Nobody wants to completely get rid of cars, transportation nerds like myself just want the different modes to be on an even playing field, rather than cars being always hyper-dominant like they usually have been in the US. I expect to continue to own a car for a long time.

Also note that, assuming everything transformed overnight into an urbanist's paradise, that 20 minute radius would shrink considerably, and many of your friends would be reachable by bike. I'm paraphrasing a quote I heard before: "Car-first planning creates distance that only cars can solve."

> I'd have less problem with dense housing (especially since I don't actually care about the stereotypical "yard and a white picket fence") if said housing started including -90dB or better soundproofing.

Agreed. This is one regulation that I am all for.
Keep!
Maybe because since the mid-90's I have seen any safer alternative that I liked being steamrolled by the C and C++ duo, where the authors shared the same enthusiasm.

I will abstain from such comments from now on, hopefully Rust will succeed where the others failed.
Totally one sided.

Talks about the "Obama administration", but doesn't bother to mention that Barack Obama himself graduated from Columbia University and from Harvard Law. Both Ivy League. He didn't pay his way, nor was he a "legacy" admission.
140ce? What the hell does that mean?
> As an entrepreneur whose motivation is to change the world through software, I find your post insulting.

I am sorry about it but I think that people who make such statements insult themselves deliberately.

> On what basis can you claim that democracy and human rights are better examples of changing the world than is a communication revolution?

Common sense. Communication is useless without democracy. Human rights are all about minorities and tolerance. So 'Democracy' == 'Human Rights'.
A good hilight: http://pastie.org/10523598
That's why they call it "climate change" now, instead of "global warming". This way if it gets warmer - climate change. If it gets cooler - climate change. Bad weather? Climate change. Nice weather? Also climate change.
I think Elizabeth Gilbert had a better take on the topic:

"I am a big advocate for the pursuit of curiosity. You've maybe heard me talk about this before? We are constantly being told to pursue our passions in life, but there are times when passion is a TALL ORDER, and really hard to reach. In seasons of confusion, of loss, of boredom, of insecurity, of distraction, the idea of "passion" can feel completely inaccessible and impossible. In such times, you are lucky to be able to get your laundry done (that sometimes feels as high as you can aim) and when someone tells you to follow your passion, you want to give them the middle finger. (Go ahead and do it, by the way. But wait till their back is turned, out of civility.)

But curiosity, I have found, is always within reach.

Passion is a tower of flame, but curiosity is a tiny tap on the shoulder — a little whisper in the ear that says, "Hey, that's kind of interesting…"

Passion is rare; curiosity is everyday.

Curiosity is therefore a lot easier to reach at at times than full-on passion — and the stakes are lower, easier to manage.

The trick is to just follow your small moments of curiosity. It doesn't take a massive effort. Just turn your head an inch. Pause for a instant. Respond to what has caught your attention. Look into it a bit. Is there something there for you? A piece of information?

For me, a lifetime devoted to creativity is nothing but a scavenger hunt — where each successive clue is another tiny little hit of curiosity. Pick each one up, unfold it, see where it leads you next.

Small steps.

Keep doing that, and I promise you: The curiosity will eventually lead you to the passion.

And that'll be the end of boredom." [1]

[1] http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/one-of-the-greatest-quotes-o...
I completely disagree. If this was a chatroom or something, then sure. Submission comments should actually add something useful regarding the submitted link.

Imagine if there were 40 comments that all said "Cool" or "Nice work". Do you think they should all be upvoted? "Very cool" followed by how or why you think it's cool, or something else constructive, is worth reading. "Very cool" by itself is just a mindless blurting of emotion.

If you want to boost the author's morale, send them an email or message saying you like their work. No need to pollute the comment section here.
Oh, this actually works great at AWS, yeah! We've been sending transactional e-mails from our servers at Amazon for a couple of years. They do require you to request the e-mail ports be unblocked, but once we made the request it was approved within 24 hours. As a bonus, the same request form also has a space where you tell them what you want your reverse DNS to be. Very handy.

Last year Microsoft also announced Azure support for reverse DNS entries. So I would anticipate Google getting on this "bandwagon" fairly soon too. Just my guess though!
Main alignment with GPS and then finetune to get maximum performance. At 100km the main signal lobe is quite large, so being off by a few dozen dish diameters isn't large enough of an error to not to be able to get started.
on the contrary, i believe the opposite is more likely.

humans will become more connected to the devices they invent -- not less.

food for thought: canonical design will be a thing of the past -- instead, devices will be designed for the user in context.

one day, my device wont even work for anyone else using it, because it responds only to my behavioral or biological signatures. anyone else trying to use it would have to re-train the device.

devices will become more like dogs, less like paper.

this is the next step in devices, and in AI.
Default view of comments page seems to be too zoomed in?

https://i.imgur.com/bDrJSHI.png

Firefox on Android running on a Nexus 5

But once you zoom out it seems fine. And it's much more usable than the old view.
> The best we could hope for is international pressure from other countries, especially it's neighbours.

Southern-Asia isn't known for incorruptible democratic government either. They don't really pose any interest involving Indonesia's affairs.
Somewhat related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467847
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It's like with Lenovo and SuperFish. Even if you have a perfectly good business model and satisfied customer, there's nothing stopping some greedy people to try and extract even more value from their customer.
I wish people who write these posts would tell us, the RobustIRC authors, about it, and would ask us for proof-reading.

> For the entire duration of the partition, users on the smaller half will be paralyzed

No. RobustIRC nodes that are not part of the majority will cancel long-running GetMessages requests and refuse any other requests. The client will switch to a different node.

This is even mentioned as a possibility in a later paragraph:

> I’ll leave the reader to think through some scenarios, such as establishing a temporary domain of consensus on the smaller half, or forcing users to reconnect to the larger half.

Given this piece of information, I’m not sure what the article’s point really is. At least for the current deployments, the RobustIRC design works well in practice. Sure, strictly speaking, RobustIRC cannot _entirely_ eliminate unavailability (nothing can), but in practice you can work around unavailability really well.
Wow, the title of profile page is now

* Marked for removal from database - in PHP programming language *

Curious what they're doing right now..
"Witch hunting" (used in the metaphorical sense of "us" versus "them") goes back much farther than Salem. However, it's the most cited example that gets dragged up in discussions and leads people to think it's the first case of it. None of that is new to Western Civilization though. Many cases, religion was only the pretext for some monetary or status gain by the accuser, but if you look deeper into the Salem Witch Trials, the same goes for them as well.

Reformation and Counter Reformation had Protestants and Catholics killing and accusing each other in some of the bloodiest wars of Europe of the time[1].

Middle ages had it with Heretics, Jews, Muslims and sometimes even Roman Catholic versus Orthodox Catholic all accusing and killing each other.

Early Christianity, there was pagans versus non-pagans[2] as well as the various sects of Christianity denouncing each other[3][4].

Could go back further, but I think that's enough examples :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorianism

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism
There were about 170,000 Koreans forcibly relocated to Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan during Stalin's rule. That might have something do with it.

But, from Wikipedia, the ROK has about 20% of its population with the surname Kim/Gim/Ghim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Distribution_of_South_Kor...
I guess I don't understand why people looking for an impersonal experience don't just book a hotel - or even a motel. At least then you are guaranteed certain things such as working showers and toilets.
This is a part of the transcript: http://pastie.org/10523576

Very immature CEO.
Did you really think that the forest was always there? Trees will burn and they will return.
I know how to use lex/yacc. This is much better as lex/yacc are, frankly, miserable to use.
I question the premise that car software needs to be bug free. For example, there are car models on the road right now, which have sold millions of units, that are running software that is known to be terribly written and buggy. The Toyota Camry, for instance.

To succeed in the marketplace, the software in new cars just needs to be no worse than the car software currently in the marketplace. That is a much lower bar.

It's worth remembering that people made the exact same arguments about the iPhone: "this isn't a desktop computer that you can just reboot, a phone is safety critical--a 911 call MUST go through." Not a concern anymore.
Given a consensus protocol, it should be easy to connect the servers in a mesh though, right, getting rid of the tree structure and the single links?
4 US Senators and 5 US Mayors are allegedly on the list (http://pastebin.com/Yh2muT9r). Not much evidence besides taking an anonymous person's word for it though.
Oh man, you'd be surprised - I'm an avid predator hunter and spend ridiculous amounts of time out in hay fields at 2:00 AM with a night vision system, and you would not believe the stories I've got about poachers. One night, I had a couple of good old boys roll up and shoot a deer that couldn't have been more than about 75 yards away from me.

EDIT: There's a whole cottage industry around robot wildlife that are used to catch poachers, both day and night: http://www.roboticwildlife.com/enforcement_decoys/index.php
Ok, it's pretty clear now that you just have a personal grudge against any sort of density, man. You need extra space to be happy, that's fine, but you're not everyone. Look across the pond at Western Europe or Japan: two very different cultures, both higher-density than the US, both tend to have higher social cohesion than in America, not lower.

> Remove that and replace it with a degree of liberty

Do you know what liberty is? It's letting the market have a say in how dense developments can be, so that people's individual choices dictate what's available, rather than the law. It's supporting all modes of transportation so that people have an actual choice in how they get around, instead of being required to drive to do anything or go anywhere. Forcing everyone into what topspin thinks is best isn't liberty, it's coercion.
Except - everyone will consider the docker package from Debian LTS too old for any "real" use and will prefer to do `curl ...|bash` dance to install docker, and it will be happy to include statically linked/bundled dependencies.

The modern Linux distribution (the one everybody wants to use) is something which has curl and bash, and can execute ELF binaries.
Fair enough that it's very nice for a tiny portion of web users to be able to reverse engineer code, but WA might increase performance for 100% of web users.
> On the other hand, people in rural areas tend to be on friendlier terms with their neighbours than people in high-density areas.

Ostensibly friendlier, but how often do they actually interact on a day-to-day basis? (I agree with the rest of your post)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10487585 and marked it off-topic.
Keep. Much better than before. However, text in comments is still to small (maybe enlarge text and decrease indentation for replies)
You’re correct in that there is no tree structure in RobustIRC. All nodes talk directly to each other.

Raft dictates a topology where the leader must be able to reach all followers directly, though.
In all fairness that outage was due to a subsea cable break and those require both specialized equipment and time to get the equipment on-site.

... and it's a really good example of getting what you pay for. I really do not think the islanders are paying Centurylink enough to be able to fix subsea cable faults with a 4 hour lead time.

That being said Centrylink's lack of redundancy and fallover links is another matter.
> If we were required to "stand under the arch", as it were, how many of us would have pushed back against things that our employers asked us to do?

We can't achieve this consistently with privately owned software. Software must be public and transparent to have consistent accountability.

In the case of Grindr, for example,
I assume we don't know exactly who wrote the original code. And the company would probably protect that information.

I believe those who contribute to open source software can and do subscribe to the author's desired level of accountability specifically because they know everything they write is available for public scrutiny for eternity.
From mumphster's transcripts linked in the children (drmjg is the Livecoding.tv CEO):

slateytv: you look childish and irresponsible for releasing her full name and company
drmjg: As mentioned above her account really has nothing interesting on it. so there is no reason not to even delete it.
[...]
ellbot: also why the hell would you edit her profile to show her work and personal information to the public
slateytv: are you unable to delete accounts?
ellbot: do you not get how childish and evil that is
drmjg: oh no. #1 we can but as you know is not like we go and delete each account instantly as 80% of users who requests account deletion come back after two weeks to requests their account back and are mad we deleted it
drmjg: #2 people who requested account deletion in pasts used the accounts for credit card fraud and then re-create new ones.

This is the weirdest attempt at a runaround I've seen in awhile.
Ew, premature optimization
Some basic services and shopping are included into the first few floors. For something more fancy, it's ok to drive.

As for being disconnected, it's usually quite opposite, if your friends live in the same building: you're 5-10 minutes away from them.

Again, speaking from the personal experience, not dreams. Map: https://goo.gl/maps/g7bEBsoqwkL2
Ask HN: Best ways/resources to learn finance (self-study)
Currently have a plan to start with "Principles of Corporate Finance" (by Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers), followed by "Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives" (by Hull). Then perhaps "Security Analysis" (by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd). These seem to be of quite seminal nature in finance literature according to most sources.

Not very sure what to do after that. Would really appreciate any guidance in this direction, or if there is a better/efficient way to go about gathering solid applicable knowledge in this area.
Want to acquire solid finance foundations, so as to be able to implement the complex financial processes & systems (like marketplaces, securities & OTC instrument contracts, trading bots, etc.) on my own.

Additional background info if it helps:
Current skill sets I have: Economics & Stats (MS level knowledge) | R, SAS, Stata, MATLAB, etc. (2 years as data science guy) | Python (2 years as full stack dev); basic Java (coding challenges level only) | Also good college level calculus, linear algebra, basic optimization techniques etc. so won't shy away from complex Maths.
I think you're trying to pound a square peg into a round hole here. You're onto something in that rural people do tend to be more open and approachable -- having grown up in a rural community I'm in agreement with you on that. As to the cause -- in my experience, rural living is a retreat from what draws people to city life.

City living (this is all just my experience) is about chasing opportunity and throwing yourself intensely into the pursuit of success. Out in the country, I see people who have earned enough to buy a house with some land, and are ready to drop into a lower gear. They're willing to forego the opportunity and experience in order to achieve some stability and a slower pace of life.

So it's no wonder that, when you deliberately remove major sources of tension from people's lives, they are more easy going.
fwiw, as of right now wide view looks fine (full-width) in firefox on android.
Came up against this http://i.imgur.com/DKHNnD5.png

I think it's a good idea however I suspect you're up against the very popular and local buy/sell/swap groups on facebook. Plus there's craigslist and gumtree.

Not to say there isn't room in the market for another such offering. Good luck with it but I would say it's not immediately obvious what those front page blocks represent.
Willie Nelson’s Crusade to Stop Big Pot
Works well. Keep.
Effective code of conduct requires stable environment, people knowing each other and so on. No way it can be implemented in profession that's booming at the rate programming is.
I know everything is in the Bible, but I am interested in your beliefs! This is why I find libertarianism to be close to theology; when I start asking really difficult questions, you will refer me to some book, which turns out to be hopelessly circular (as in the case of property, which is defined in terms of non-coercion, which is also defined in terms of property).

It seems that you want to have world black and white, and so you invent new categories to deal with difficult moral dilemmas. But personal ethics is not something coming from a book, it's a result of intuitively answering these questions (by "feel") and sometimes accepting that there is no good answer, or that answer depends on different circumstances.

> look to the current system in the US (or most other Western countries) for answers to your questions .. it's a reasonable approximation to my ethic

Yes and no - that's my original problem. When I ask you a specific moral question, the answer indeed seems quite reasonable. But then you're (very definitely) against things like taxation or state (which are integral part of the Western culture). I would like to understand where this contradiction comes from.

Now that I think about it, the whole business of how libertarianism treats "property" seems kinda morally repulsive to me for a different reason. It seems to me that libertarians treat property as a kind of extension to human body, in a sense that someone losing half of their 1000-acre property forever is a comparable (or worse) crime to a homeless losing a toe to the cold. What I miss here, I think, is a certain "normal" sense of proportion (or even admission that there is a proportion).

Anyway, I appreciate the discussion, especially given you were the only person willing to respond to my original post.
This looks to be a paper published in this conference:
IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries, 2000. Proceedings.

You can find a copy in IEEE xplore, which probably has a better formatted article.
If anything, with the advent of bootcamps, software engineering is moving away from formal education and into trade schooling. Personally, I think this is a step backwards for the discipline.
See through walls  Here is RF Capture that lets you see through walls
CloudFlare is now PCI 3.1 certified
That question almost reads like a criticism, but I'd like to throw my hat into the ring here and say I'd like to know how markets cope in this situation. Do we have real world examples?
(Sorry for the slow response!)
I'm really glad you called this out! You're totally right. The demo video was shot with an earlier version of the app before this was fixed :)

Here's a more recent video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3S95b9gAC8
One decimal place (in grams) was kept since precision != accuracy.
By using Google cache you lose formulas and figures but get the text back http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:P9gUqzO...
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10293368.
Dungeon Robber
"think thrice before using your votes".
I remember this being also used as the justification for not having clearly separated up/down buttons.

I totally disagree with it, fwiw.
Yes, the PDF itself contains gems such as `-1.1E-4 Tc`, which sets the character spacing to a Java-formatted float. PDF can't handle such numbers.
The forests are much much older than humanity. But we're on course to wipe them out. I agree with you, I also think they will return, once we've gone extinct.
I think this is a selection bias. In a big city, you see everyone. In a rural area, people who are more anti-social are more likely to become outright recluses, they're totally invisible to the rest of society. Thus, you only see the more pro-social people in a rural area.

For example, we think of people in rural areas as being those who love the outdoors, they get out a lot into nature, exercise a lot, more than city slickers, right? Except no, they're actually less healthy than urban residents. Sure, there are some there who really are going out into nature constantly and are in fantastic shape, but what you don't see are the people who just sit at home all the time watching TV and smoking, because there just ain't that much to do - http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023047935045764344...
Man, if I were an investor I'd be doing anything I possibly could to eject this guy.