skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That you need to know or care about what programming language it's written in, rules it out for 99% of the web's users.
Why people keep trying to erase the Hollywood sign from Google Maps (2014)
Sweet! I can't wait to be a billionaire tomorrow!
Turning SMS Secure into a Sort of TOR-Like SMS Tool
I appreciate your comment. Especially paragraph two. Those cases sounds like an especially promising application of direct democracy. I'd be interested to hear if such a system has been implemented anywhere? California, and many other states have similar 'pause' mechanisms built into their 'ballot proposition' system. In the early years it still caused some huge budget issues, since there was a disconnect between it and the legislature's legal budget requirements. It has also been critiqued, very heavily, for being a tool used primarily by those that can afford to get an initiative to the ballot and then fund the initiative's campaign. I read a decent book on the topic in my undergraduate years, "Democracy Derailed" by David S. Broder. A good primer, but I'm sure there are others/better out there. A quick search of Amazon books returns many results. I still take issue with drawing the conclusion that direct democracy is a panacea to the ill of corrupt or ignorant politicians. I've worked in both local and state government, and I saw the same mix of smart, ignorant, passionate, petty, morally guided, morally bankrupt, misguided, misunderstood, enthusiastic, apathetic, hard working, leeching, etc people that I see in non-political, non-governmental circles. Simply enlarging the number of 'legislators' so that more of the population being governed is voting on each law passed does not seem to solve the problems we are having. I do love the idea of direct democracy as a veto or recall mechanism. I actually think it's brilliant. If it was built into the existing election cycle it would be so easy to implement. One possible implementation: Any law passed as of or since the previous year's November general election is automatically up for recal, and is recalled if some super-majority votes to have it recalled. Laws older than a year can be voted to appear on the next general election ballot for recal with a simple majority. Any law which is recalled will go directly to the floor of the both the House and Senate where legislators have the opportunity to ammend the law; if the House and Senate can agree on an ammended version of the law within 30 days from the date of the certification of the instigating election the law will go back to the ballot for a special general election to be held 60 days after the certifying of the ballots from the instigating election. That would be awesome. Someone should make that a thing.
It doesn't matter. Authorities (at least their managers/directors) think in terms of PR/Damage Control and Risk. The fallout if they did nothing and something happened (maybe even just reporter reporting that tweet was ignored by FBI) would be enormous. Much, much worse than fallout that occurs for "overreacting".

And once they've reacted it's very hard to admit they are wrong or ever let go (as in they are unwilling to accept PR/blame). Just to avoid the .001% chance of headline "FBI had perpetrator in custody but let him go!"

Sadly, the public is a ignorant, fickle, short-sided, lynch mob. Public facing organizations are(have to be) driven by risk mitigation rather than being effective.
> it is not the best at improving the human condition

I argue the answer is not in publicly funded, non-capitalist services. It is in general-case and appropriate business regulations. Capitalism is a winner-takes-his-as-much-as-possible system. Left unfettered, it can and will find unjust profit in exploiting its workers. At scale, even customers can suffer for some time until a competitor rises.

By properly regulating businesses, we are able to more confidently say that opportunity is granted to all, and personal responsibility is left to the individual. To me, that is a win. The charge of society, in my view, is not to improve the human condition for all. It is to ensure the opportunities.

As an aside, let us be clear that to improve the human condition for some, you do so by reducing the financial condition of others. In a capitalist society, your financial condition directly correlates to your standard of living, granted it experiences drastic diminishing returns. So it could be said that reducing someones fiscal condition therefore reduces their human condition. The human conditional philanthropy is strikes me as a bit ironic from this vantage point.
And I can see how it will play on CNN and MSNBC....with virtually no coverage. Bias plays both ways.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10516633
It is possible if the school they graduated from is bad, but even then the point still stands and is even stronger: if they've graduated, they still are better than naive, unschooled individuals who are even worse in educating others. They at least have _some_ idea of the concepts involved.
Average consumer (those 90%) don't have a job so they don't have any money to spend with.

The cost of living is going up not down mainly because of urbanization.

"The fact that nobody here has any idea what those people are going to do, doesn't mean there is nothing to do. "

Thats not how it works. You would already now see plenty of new types of jobs replacing those that are lost. This is a gradual process although perhaps exponential.

In other words you would already now see new types of jobs that would pay someone enough to live off and the prices go down on things. They are not and thats despite us needing less and less people for things.
Technical excellence is usually secondary to anyone except technicians and a few power users. It was the same with VHS/Betamax. The network effect and the set-up cost are much more important for the majority of users than technical excellence.
What It's Really Like to 'Walk' in Space
Yeah, I'm sure it'd be possible to build on top of Hugo (or many other static site generators) to build something that might be usable for the typical wp customer - but afaik none of them are that out of the box. The most likely alternative I can think of is Ghost: https://ghost.org/

But, I'm not sure how easy it is to customize along the lines that people expect from wp (Now, that could be considered a feature - but it also means it could be a hard sell to someone that just wants a wp site).

If what is needed really is a static site (a "web site"/"homepage") -- I think netlifly looks quite promising:

https://www.netlify.com/
I was just in the process of summarizing that table, thanks for bringing it up. The QZ article does not really place this finding in context of what else is going on and what is already known. The current breakdown from IPCC's 5th Assessment Report:

1.1 [0.8 to 1.4] mm per year -- thermal ocean expansion
0.76 [0.39 to 1.13] mm per year -- glacial melt
0.33 [0.25 to 0.41] mm per year -- Greenland ice sheet melt
0.27 [0.16 to 0.38] mm per year -- Antarctic ice sheet melt
0.38 [0.26 to 0.49] mm per year -- land water storage change

Sum: 2.8 mm/year
Observed: 3.2 mm/year [1] [2]

As usual, Wikipedia has good entry level summaries [3] of the high-level info, for those of us that want to get right to the meat.

[1] http://imgur.com/vadnlXJ

[2] http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGIAR5_WGI-1...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise
The FBI abilities do not end with them. There is a host of 3 letter government agencies they can (and have) gotten assistance from.

But, in this case. I seriously doubt this guy is worth trouble... Unless government knows more about him than we do (e.g. he sells stolen intel to highest bidder).
Moreover, VPNs are juicy targets for surveillance corps since so many do use them to conduct illegal or questionable activities. My personal strategy is to use Tor with a private obfuscating bridge rotated frequently between hosting providers.
technology moves (increasingly) faster than legislation so thats going to be difficult to do.
It has this: http://pfd.alaska.gov/
You have to apply to get their dividends. That will also be the case for the UBI as you will have to establish your identity, residence, and give them your bank account info somehow.
Antartica is a source of water causing the oceans to rise. This paper demonstrates that snow is offsetting that loss in terms of total mass of Antarctica.
Scalable and Private Media Consumption with Popcorn [pdf]
MORE INTERACTION = MORE SALES and MORE LEADS
Not isolation but lonliness. Isolation is neutral in people that don't feel lonly.
Perhaps they are designed to hunt and kill humans, wearing their flesh as a suit until it becomes unmistakably putrified and they are forced to kill again? Just a thought.
Bet ya this is some climate change science the right-wingers won't be denying.
Social Networks Are Bad for You
Topological Transformation Approaches to Database Query Processing (2015) [pdf]
Supermin solves a narrow case: how to distribute an appliance [Linux-based OS disk image] as a very small download (typically 100K - 1MB). It works by observing that the end user already has the files they need as part of their host Linux OS (eg. /bin/bash, /lib/libc.so), and the distribution is just a skeleton of the disk image, which is "filled in" on the end user's machine by copying the host files in at the last second.

So it's not really applicable here, although I understand people use supermin to build chroots for Docker (as the author of supermin, I wouldn't necessarily recommend doing that unless you understand the limitations).

What is actually needed here is libguestfs, which is a pure userspace tool for building disk images that doesn't require root access and is built for scripting/automation and security. We have a tool built on top of libguestfs called virt-builder which specifically churns out minimal Linux distros very quickly.

Sadly virt-builder can't build TinyCore Linux yet, although it probably should be extended to do that. It would be a lot simpler to use virt-builder, than to go through the tedious and dangerous steps outlined in the article.

http://libguestfs.org/

http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html
> It's too expensive; it has the wrong nutrient balance; it's made in the wrong place

These don't sound like dealbreakers. One assumes that it can be made more cheaply with scale; with adjusted nutrient profiles; and in places where it is not currently being made.

If existing products are better, then Soylent will presumably face some problems on this stage, given that world hunger is in fact still a problem. But I don't think they'll be those ones.
Profile of Eli Horowitz, Former Publisher of McSweeney's
FWIW, here is a CNN story:

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/03/world/antarctica-ice-gain/

>However, this isn't good news for our climate necessarily. Authors of the study say the increasing loss of ice in the West Antarctic and the peninsula, plus slowing ice gains elsewhere on the continent, could mean that there will be overall losses of ice in the next 20 years.

>In fact, this may already be occurring, according to other research published as recently as this week, which suggests the West Antarctic ice sheet is destabilizing, which would more than overcome the ice gains and could result in 3 meters of sea level rise.
Canon iP4000 Driver
On the contrary, I am friends with such a person. We've talked about it.

Actually, I am friends with many such people, if you count Chinese people using English names. There is a mode where I don't know any part of a Chinese person's name, but there's no mode where I know their personal name but not their surname.
It's rather hard and inefficient to do that over Tor.

It's actually way easier to just use your regular botnet or pretty much every other approach.[1]

And then it's rather simple to prevent this with your ordinary approach. There are currently around 1000 exit nodes[2]. Compared to most DDOS attacks that is really small number of nodes. For various reasons (measures that are mostly there to make sure Tor can be used for regular browsing in a usable manner, even when there is people that want to download lots of large files) you will run into limitations rather quickly.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html.en#DDoS

[2] https://metrics.torproject.org/relayflags.html?graph=relayfl...
This is a great project and a fascinating archive to browse in.
god, thank you! as an entrepreneur who has been bodybuilding for more than a decade, i have a really weird love-hate relationship with soylent. i really love the idea because its actually something i've done for myself (custom mixing meal replacement powder formulas) and considered marketing and selling, and i really hate that the soylent guy went ahead and just did it. the worst part for me is that this guy started way way behind myself (and many others who are obsessed with bodybuilding and fitness and nutrition) in terms of nutritional and dietary knowledge, which is evident from his early formulas, and yet he managed to drum up enouogh media attention that he is widely considered a pioneer in the space. i mean, meal replacement powders have existed in supplement shops for decades!
Page one describes the keyboard being completely reprogrammable:

The keyboard has unlimited rollover, meaning that a keystroke is sensed when the key is depressed, no matter what other keys are depressed at the time.

Actually, the hardware can tell exactly what physical keys are being pressed at any given moment: it knows when any key is depressed and when it is released. This means that the Lisp Machine could* be programmed to interpret the keyboard in any manner whatsoever: in this sense the keyboard is completely "soft".*

It's refreshing reading an instruction manual for a computer that states the reprogrammability of its keyboard. This is "what you get when you make the hardware and software" taken further than Apple.

The manual then says the number of deviants from their defaults will be small:

But the Lisp Machine has already been programmed to interpret the keyboard input in a useful way, and such reprogramming would be necessary only for the most special needs.

Symbolics, I disagree. I (a regular programmer) have reprogrammed my computer's keyboard to imitate parts of "programmer's dvorak." Because my system is not as reprogrammable as a lisp machine, I must be aware of how my BIOS, kernel, X11, and emacs are each interpreting my keyboard input. It was a pain that would have been less on a lisp machine.

There are a lot of holes in my argument, though. My need for reprogrammability was created by ThinkPad's, Linux', and emacs' design choices I disagree with.
Reminds me of the notorious case of Henry Lee Lucas in the United States who at one point confessed to hundreds of murders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas
Why did the narrative change from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change"? Because you can't prove the climate changes. The climate has been changing since the earth was created and it will continue to change. Can someone tell me when Miami will be underwater like you tell me it will be? Give me a date range...something specific. Since it's science and it can be "proven" then someone should be able to tell me that. And if that date comes and goes and it doesn't happen do you promise to back down or will you make up an excuse? Of course you won't back down. You'll just tweak your theories. Until then why take issue with taxing U.S. companies w/ carbon taxes or whatever you're calling it nowadays and focus on the real carbon polluters....China, Latin America?
Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools
You are indeed right. Although I'm surprised HN hasn't ghost banned you for being negative anyway, lol
That affects their risk profile, not whether or not it is legal. The EU has specific rules that affect foreign sellers selling products and services to customers in the EU, irrespective of where the seller is located.
Coin specie was used as early as 700 BC in the west (Mycenaean Greece). There is evidence that the Chinese minted coin as early as 12th century BC.
Show HN: Blabr – Embedding scientific computation in your site
The stores already charge delivery fees, and they don't go into the driver's pocket.

The table-waiting model of using tips instead of pay sucks, but tipping for delivery can be a lot of money.
Hi Andrea,
why did you say that?

I mean, do you have any data or links or your own thinking?
The After-Work Email Quandry
How to price your software product [free eBook]
Since when were there all these conspiracy nuts on HN?
A more important question...Is bitcoin a pyramid scheme?
First, I agree that we are driving the cause behind the recent climate change issue.

However, I'm not quite sure how they can prove Exxon lied about this if climate change itself is something that can't be proven easily as true in the court of law.

It has a majority agreement among the scientific community but people are allowed to disagree about it outside of that community and in the courts.

If the climate change can be proven as a legal fact 100% all the way, then you can say Exxon intentionally lied but Exxon can just say it believes that and get away with it as their protected right.

As long as we continue to proclaim legally that companies are "people with rights", than we have no rights to change how they can speak or "lie" to people.
Esa.io – Expertise Sharing Archives for Motivated Teams
Yes. I am thankful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre
I think any Soylent thread would benefit from a summary of typical comments, to make way for new ideas. Pick yours.

1. Liquid diets aren't new

2. Cooking is easy and enjoyable, I don't see why people avoid it

3. Soylent is healthier than fast food even if it's inferior to well-made natural meals

4. It hasn't undergone rigorous, clinical testing

5. It's dystopic, dehumanizing

6. It's a dietary choice of others that makes me inexplicably angry

7. I've been trying it for 50-100% of my calories for X weeks and it's been great/terrible

8. It's based on outdated FDA recommended allowances

9. It ignores the social, cultural aspects of food
Dev here. This is a follow up to a previous HN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10481316
Yeah, that's true. Parking is really a pain for most restaurants. Basically... good luck.

But grocery stores (at least Safeway / Trader Joes / Whole Foods) generally have attached parking and aren't too bad to park at. Though I still try to go during off-peak hours.
My Tomato router has Tor built in. I can enable it and route some traffic through sometimes, but does anyone know if it will consume bandwidth if I leave it open but not use it? Is every Tor node a potential relay node?
This shows you how to transform spatial index range queries to box queries.
I know it's not healthy (in terms of switching off from work) - but I do generally enjoy getting emails - receiving one more often than not will be a reply I've been waiting for, or even better, sometimes new opportunities/or customers I like catching up. The association with work makes it seem bad, but I think a nice email, regardless of time received is still a nice thing
You sound like you haven't ready any of the leading evidence or arguments for climate change at all.
Soylent is a mediocre product with great marketing. That is unfortunately the curse of capitalism - it isn't the best product that wins, rather the best _promoted_ product that is at least barely acceptable.

On the plus side, given Soylent is mediocre, I suspect that it can only expand the market for functional foods.
Very cool - this gets me pumped up to design a counterweight system to stow my treadmill desk like a murphy bed when not in use.

I wish this site had an RSS feed though, would love to get updates in a reader.
There's another thing people forget, too: you're made to chew things. Chewing helps break down food for digestion, and probably more importantly generates saliva, which is also very important for initial digestion as well as oral health.
If you buy apples, UK law recognizes you as having a right to those apples. If you then trade the rights to those apples away, you don't get a bunch of judges tut-tutting the person who received them, lecturing him about how you have the right to those apples.

If you have a right, you should be able to trade that right. A right you cannot trade should more properly be called an obligation.

If there are good reasons not to allow trading away a right, you should articulate those reasons, as I asked originally. It is not sufficient to simply cite their existence.
There is another article claiming that ice albedo changes in Greenland are caused by camera degradation over time:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL065912/full

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151030220525.ht...
This World of Ours – James Mickens (2014) [pdf]
You are only a relay router in Tor if you elect to be a relay router.
That idea that a selection of vitamins and minerals, et al. can replace traditional food has largely been debunked, for the current state of the art at least. Perhaps in the future, but based on our current knowledge base we can not yet replace traditional food with synthesized pills and powder for the majority of one's natural life. We still do not know all of the nutritional elements of some of the most basic fruits we pick up every day in our grocery store. If you don't believe me (I wouldn't, who am I?) check out the book below. The author has been in the field for decades, well published, studied both reductionist and wholistic approaches to nutrition.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/t-colin-campbell/whole-book-ex...
What’s Your Story? The psychological power of narrative (2013)
But it does get an inordinate amount of attention from people looking to crack it. At least according to my server logs. So sure... if everything is locked down and up to date and no shaky plugins installed no problem. On the other hand, one careless slip up...
More likely they will try to perform a Denial Of Service while appearing to be Distributed, so "DDOS" is technically accurate.
Here's a way to use an iframe to embed a blab in a web page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529079

For WordPress, you could use an iframe plugin.
DeepNetArt (including pr0n)
A reasonable number of my friends did particle physics PhDs in the States. None of them had their housing subsidised and one got very sick and had to sell her car to pay for her medical treatment so I don't think her health plan was great. I'm fairly certain dental wasn't included. And the ones I know worked 10-12 hours per day usually six days per week.

Some grad students do have better conditions from endowments that fund scholarships, but not many. And the supplementary work that they do as teaching assistants allow the taxpayer-funded undergrad programmes to run at a much lower cost than if they had to pay people actual wages.

There is an argument for saying that there's enough money in the further education sector - but the idea of grad students with cheap housing and great medical plans living off the taxpayers are not supported by any of the observations that I have made.
Given the large interest and discussion, I've created a discussion forum here:

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/highspeedencryption

It's public, but please do join if you're interested.

I think it would benefit the community to have an open and central location for best practices of high speed encryption.

Epistasis, Phil21, others, please do join and let's continue the discussion and progress there!
Alternatively one could use the Arduino API on the beaglebone with https://github.com/prpplague/Userspace-Arduino

It would make the whole thing less scary for beginners and there are tons of examples and documentation out there.
Actually UEFI was very Intel-centric when it started out. It worked only on Itanium and x86. We (Red Hat) spent a great deal of time of a very talented colleague of mine porting it to Aarch64.