skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To really make arbitration fair (or at least as fair public courts) you'd need so many regulations and oversights that you'd just end up with a parallel court system that would likely have the same problems that arbitration tries to solve in the first place (mainly time and expense).
Uhm. I'm not sure that is entirely correct. The city proper of Stockholm is very dense, often comparable to Paris. While not as uniformly dense there is higher building often six to eight floors, compared to the usual five in Paris [0, 1].

The modernist housing blocks in Stockholm were to some degree supposed to be self-supported in what was called an ABC-area. ABC (Arbete, Bostad, Centrum) is an acronym in Swedish for work, housing and service (or center). That's why they are as disconnected from the city as they are.

The problem with Stockholm is that the city stops very abruptly once you go outside the main islands. You essentially have suburbs just a couple of kilometers from the city center. While Paris just goes on and on. This becomes quite clear if you look west on a satellite maps of Stockholm [2] or compare panoramas [3, 4].

[0] http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=e532796...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrondissements_of_Paris
[2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bromma,+Stockholm,+Sweden/...
[3] http://www.tyreso.com/ovrigt/flygfoto/city/DSC01246Large.JPG
[4] http://caliban.lbl.gov/panoramas/paris/paris_panorama5.jpg
Smart money controls Bloomberg like a Puppeteer a puppet.

Are you referring to the television network's general long-standing slant on the phantom nature of the Chinese economy?

Please elaborate.
What? There's a bunch of rich professional athletes too but you'd be laughed off the internet if you published an article saying that the answer to poor career prospects for millenials was to start playing football. If 'it might work for a couple people' was the point she was making she did a very poor job of it.
Because ProtonMail would have been required to give CloudFlare encryption keys that would have 1) allowed CloudFlare to inject JavaScript to steal decryption passwords and keys 2) Allowed CloudFlare to collect
metadata on traffic for individual users

ClouldFlare are a bunch of great guys. And, they wouldn't
do any of that unless they were delivered a National Security Letter forcing them to.

If ProtonMail signed up with CloudFlare, like HushMail did, ProtonMail would have no way to know if these types of code modification attacks or metadata collections were happening.

And, as people saw with Hushmail, since CloudFlare does not do SMTP proxying (filtering/challenging) a DDoS could have still taken down ProtonMail's mail servers offline. While CloudFlare allowed Hushmail to get it's website back online, mail to my Hushmail account is currently delayed by several hours due to DDoS of their mail servers.

From https://hushmailstatus.com/ :

"We're investigating reports of incoming and outgoing email delivery delays. We'll update this page as more information becomes available."
Sure. Except that the OP of this on Medium went on to detail a very different scenario, outlining behavior that mirrors exactly what I said. You assert that the companies you've worked for do it differently? Ok, that may be so. But you're also not the bellwether for the entire industry, no matter how you may characterize your 20 years of work. I've been in it half as long, and as a person of color I can tell you unequivocally that you have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to exposure, opportunity or lack thereof, or general desire to be involved in technology as a profession from that community.
I agree.

> I disagree with this. Natural vs artificial is a false dichotomy (...) Humans are primates, we're part of nature as is everything we create. Artificial just is a subset of natural.

There's a good illustration of that point that surprisingly is not XKCD:

http://abstrusegoose.com/215
Mini pig plays in leaves for the first time
Looks completely broken — This is on Chrome (46.0.2490.80), Mac OS X (10.10.5): http://imgur.com/bC1n1sA
Recursive Restartability: Turning the Reboot Sledgehammer into a Scalpel (2001) [pdf]
At any point prior to roughly 1800, China was almost certainly the most advanced society on Earth. Statistics on historical world population are sketchy at best, but generally, you could pencil in between one-third and half of all humanity owing allegiance to whoever controlled the Yellow River.

What's a little bizarre is how a relatively poor, thinly-peopled section of western Europe managed to attain such an outsized portion of power on the world stage in the first place. I've read any number of different theories on how and why this occurred, but I haven't yet pieced them together into something that really hangs together. Nevertheless, it happened...

With regards to Carthage, power was almost entirely concentrated in the hands of the ex-Phoenician elites, so its not inaccurate to consider them a colonial Mediterranean culture, not appreciably different in kind from Syracuse, Massalia (Marseilles), or the Chersonese. It might be a stretch, but there could be some comparisons made between Carthaginian control of Iberia and Numidia with the British Raj.

Egypt is attached by all geographic, economic and cultural ties to the Middle East and Mediterranean, and always has been, aside from technically residing in the continent of Africa.
Front-end Development Architecture
A two income home is like putting valuable data in a RAID-0 HDD array.
> There was a time when U.S. manufacturers looked down on their Japanese rivals as purveyors of cheap, low-quality knockoffs. That 1960s conventional wisdom is taught these days in business schools as one of history's most glaring examples of corporate hubris.

Aren't you just falling into the same assumption? Japan's auto industry was known for making "junk" for awhile (toyota reverse engineered chrystler models of the time), then they really took off and built a reputation for quality. The point of the article is that the same may be happening again, just substitute japan for china and the US for japan. History rhymes.
There's still a speedup, but it's dwarfed by the magnetic->SSD boost.

We do have fragmentation within a block. Our records on the heap are about 150 bytes, so maybe 30 rows per 4K page. In the pathological case where there is 1 row per page due to fragmentation, queries have to fetch 30x the number of blocks, which is a killer on a spinny disk.
You know what I love about PuTTY? It's been around since the Clinton Administration (debuted in 1998), but it's still only at version 0.66.

What will it take to get a version 1.0? Sentience?
This was pretty normal 50 years ago in the UK.
I would welcome an ABET accreditation for software engineering with open hands. It would get rid of the whole debate on what Computer Science degrees should teach.
What do you think of the Pebble Time Round? Thin, round, and an unbacklit display.
I don't think he's being insightful at all. All his observations seem to be shallow and his conclusions are weak.

> parenthood became a religion in America...Nothing in life is allowed to be more important than our children...a human achieves its peak value at birth and declines thereafter

Most Americans tend to believe their children come first. This isn't a religion, it's an evolutionary instinct. A species can't continue if its organisms don't put enough effort into their offspring if their offspring are completely defenseless for the first decade of their life and only 3 are born to every female. If I kick a 40-year-old out of my house he'll find a hotel to stay at temporarily and be fine. If I dump a 2-year-old on the street, they'll be roadkill within the hour. Caring more about children isn't any more unique to this time period than it is to this species.

> Another sign of the parenthood religion is that it has become totally unacceptable in our culture to say anything bad about our children, let alone admit that we don’t like them all of the time.

I grew up in a household where my parents weren't afraid to tell the truth to me and it was pretty brutal. There's enough negativity at school that it feels like people are surrounding you at all sides with insecurities. Honesty isn't bad but if your kid goes to public school he already knows where he falls short. Also, saying things behind your kid's back isn't any better. It'll come back around to them.

> Mothers are also holy in a way that fathers are not expected to be. Mothers live in a clean, cheerful world filled with primary colors and children’s songs, and they don’t think about sex.

I don't know where this is coming from. Maybe this was Jesus' ideal for a mom, but nowadays the ideal mom seems to be one that argues over who's carpooling next week and buys their 16-year-old birth control just in case. I think anyone who can could and do laundry probably automatically counts as a good mother nowadays.

I think the problem is the author treats kids more like a car than a living being. Your car's muffler isn't going to get fixed until you admit it's broken. You don't fix your kid by bringing him into the shop one day after work. Being a parent requires being a teacher, boss and friend at the same time. In no way is "owner" ever part of that definition.
Get Better Grades in School by Developing This 8 Good Study Habits
Not extrapolating a visceral disagreement with someone to either a condemnation of that person or a diagnosis of mental illness or dysfunction seems almost like the essence of HN civility.

"Don't call people sociopaths" seemed almost too banal to comment on, but this is is a pattern that recurs several times a day on HN.
I believe that if you set the foreign key constraint as deferred, the lock won't be attempted until commit time (and then only briefly), which should help a lot -- assuming your problem is with long-running transactions that hold locks while they are open.
CloudFlare was the first company ProtonMail called (with in 5 minutes of the DDoS starting). Unfortunately, they couldn't help ProtonMail. But, thanks to @rdl for responding to a txt on his cell phone at an inopportune time and mobilizing CloudFlare's sales and engineering teams to talk with Proton (during the company's retreat no less)!

For all the people getting nasty and arm chair quarter backing this on little to no information or trying to claim credit for things they did not do- understand that once you start working in venture funded startups pretty much everyone knows each other and many people have worked together before.
Thanks, that was interesting to read. I take it that helium-filled hard drives work in a similar way?
Interestingly, Albrecht Dürer's engraving Melancholia I (1514) is thought to portray melancholia as "the state of waiting for inspiration to strike, and not necessarily as a depressive affliction". Seems like the author sees it in a similar way (an opportunity for reflection).
> When you buy on Kickstarter, you aren't preordering.

Its a really big elephant being felt by blind men. So... no.

One very specific example of a kickstarter that I participated in was a board gaming project by DVG which is roughly their thousandth product shipped and specifically was the 6th expansion to their warfighter game series. In that line of business they have extreme front end expenses for printing and shipping, and in exchange for what boils down to preordering, you get a modest, fair discount.

Sure it as a product didn't exist other than in the minds of the producer and the artist team, but the odds of them failing were approximately zero assuming the economy doesn't implode or DVG himself get hit by a meteor. And there are risks, they have had massive shipping delays. However as you'd expect everything eventually showed up and looked as good as the last five expansions and the base set.

No one in the traditional gaming community found this saga terribly interesting or unusual... Given the lack of surprise, its highly likely that in areas outside this and the area in the article, there are other fields of endeavour that are running a boring pre-order operation.

Seriously, does anyone think anything can stop Jason Scott from directing tech documentaries? It takes forever, but aside from getting hit by a truck, its as sure as anything that "something" will be released sooner or later. I have some money in for the 6502 documentary and I'm just not worried.

Interestingly Amazon offers preorders. I've already pre-ordered cstross's new Laundry Files book which won't be released until mid next year. Nobody talks about amazon pre-orders, but I've done it before with no problem and I've never even heard rumors of a logistical fail. Perhaps the lack of failure makes them too boring to discuss in public. What can you say about Amazon preorders other than they work, which isn't good clickbait, compared to "many or most kickstarter projects crash n burn" which gets the clicks.
I think some of the claims are a bit over-stated.

For instance, I agree that the mortgage loan process is silly but it is heavily supported by government agencies Fannie and Freddie, and that likely won't go away. Sure, technology and the law will soon allow you to borrow directly through a peer to peer model, but do you think anyone really would lend you money for a 30 year mortgage for less than 4%? There may be a market for less credit worthy borrowers that have trouble getting a mortgage now, but politicians would surely crack down on that.

Sofi, which lends to very low credit risk students has been very successful, but that's because there is some room in the rate which you would pay going through Stafford loans (around 6-8%) so that makes sense. So there a student can get a rate lower than the one-size-fits-all rate of Stafford loans but I think that rate is too low for mortgages to allow for a more competitive private market. There may be some room to better assess credit risk for private student loans, but considering that 85% of student loans are public [0] and there is a lot of regulatory uncertainty regarding Consumer Protection legislation, I think that opportunity is limited.

In terms of investment advice, low cost ETFs already exist and are pretty amazing for what they do. You can invest in a broad index, albeit passively managed, at ~15 basis points (0.10%). I don't know anyone who is willing to fall over themselves to manage your money for less.

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/04/24/obamas-st...
All this pro-union wishful thinking is funny to read.

Paul Graham is so right.
Whether or not any of WFM policies pass scrutiny doesn't change the fact many people do visit the store due to these policies and that the prepared foods adhere to them. :)

I am hopeful about the meat, at least. In the bay area, much of the chicken comes locally from Mary's which appears to be a legit operation.
I'm not sure how you would like me to answer false assertions? Especially since my post is clearly about people with a mortgage (as is the book I recommended). The best I can do is point you in the right direction to properly educate yourself.
London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
What is job growth exactly? If it is what I think it is, smaller population growth would explain that completely.
Best wishes to Garry on his new adventure!
How Platform Coops Can Beat Death Stars Like Uber to Create a Sharing Economy
Has anybody else seen tvguide.com listings fail to load when ad blocker present?
I've now seen this behavior on multiple devices, spanning Windows 7 to 8.2.

Using Chrome with Adblock Plus and Ghostery installed, tvguide.com/listings loads only the upper header pane (and does not populate it).

This occurs in regular or incognito windows.

This is a new behavior that has manifested for me for the first time this week. It still works "normally" on Opera (Android) without blockers.

Anybody else seeing this?
The problem with ProtonMail is that their business model and brand are based on being domiciled in Switzerland and operating under Swiss law. Their datacenter threatened them if they didn't pay the attackers and no other datacenter in Switzerland was willing to take them. They tweeted out for help finding one after everyone with sufficient bandwidth to withstand the attacks rejected them: https://twitter.com/ProtonMail/status/662212032368889856 Eventually, one came forward. But, the ransom had already been paid at that point.
Stories like this are going to kill the crowdfunded gadget market, and it's going to go the way of GroupOn as another mid-2010's Internet fad.

I would much rather pay 2x the price for a real product that has been shipped to stores and has a review, as opposed to a pre-order Kickstarter campaign. It's really interesting to me that based on a video, people are willing to drop hundreds of dollars on gadgets simply on trust.

Kickstarter or Indiegogo need to take more responsibility for these campaigns, otherwise they will find themselves dead in 5 years.

They need to:

1) Have the creators set the number of funders to a reasonable level. If you know how to build 100 devices, you don't know how to build 100,000 devices, it's an entirely skillset and price point.

2) Have the creators set an execution plan, where they need to his milestones with firm dates before money is released. Once it has been determined it hit a milestones, then the next round of funding gets sent to them. IF they miss a milestone, funders get the option of refunding the rest of their money back.
It'd be amusing if fonts started adding ligatures that supported turning that sequence into the price symbol.

Alternatively, and for bonus points make "the artist formerly known as prince" a ligature for the symbol
UK ISPs to store browsing history for one year, no warrant
Probably not compared to the local salary, which you will not be paid more than I expect.
The paper authors Candea and Fox refined their idea of recursive restartability in a 2004 paper called "Microreboot - A Technique for Cheap Recovery"[1].

[1] http://dslab.epfl.ch/pubs/microreboot.pdf
These are all really awesome!
Flush Indian startups face shortage of skilled workers
I never see the articles about how investors need to be more careful, because some of the companies they're investing in are failing. That's sort of the point of the platform - I give you money for something that currently does not exist, and I get the chance to get that impossible thing if you're able to make it exist. Stop telling me to "be more careful", and acting like I'd be better served shopping at stores that don't fail to deliver. Stores don't sell maybe-dragonfly-robots.
Interesting. Checking the overview page [ http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/overview.php ] shows how they got the recordings.

At first, I though the recordings might have been based on the optical imaging technique outlined in this article [ http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/june-2015/lhc-physic... ] but it is apparently been used for a separate effort to preserve native American recordings.
Anyone interested in words should read Lewis's "Studies in Words"; it's a wonderful book.

(If you only know Lewis as a Christian apologist and writer of children's fiction, don't be misled; this is C S Lewis the eminent university professor sharing the fruits of his very considerable erudition.)
It must be tiring living in a state of constant offense.
Why Programmers are NOT Engineers (and that's a good thing)
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1. Engineers design and build the same types of things over and over again, from principles that have been developed, tested and put into practice over, literally, thousands of years. These principles are rarely expanded upon, and only after careful testing and proven performance. Programmers on the other hand consider building the same thing over and over again to fall in one of three categories (1) stupidity (2) ignorance or (3) market failure.

2. If an engineer builds two bridges of exactly the same specification, the cost of building the second bridge will be reasonably close to the cost of building the first one (technological advances and inflation not withstanding). If a programmer writes a useful program, and wants to share it with his friends and family, the cost of each additional copy of the program is fairly close to zero. Unlike the engineer building a second or third bridge, there is no need or reason for the programmer to create another copy of the software by designing, writing the code and compiling a second or third time.

3. Following on from (1) and (2) above, an engineer designs blueprints that describe _exactly_ how the structure is to be built, but a programmer usually has no idea how the program is to be built, because if s/he did know, then it means someone has built this before, and therefore there is no reason to build it again, because the marginal cost of copying a previous design is zero. This tends to make the best programmers experimentalists (because the risk is small) and plagiarists (because the cost of copying existing designs is zero), and the worst programmers are those that think like engineers. Conversely, experimentation in engineering is discouraged, especially on things like bridges, because it is costly and dangerous.

4. But what about the domain known as computer security? Shouldn't security be 'engineered'? Yeah, good luck with that. People who crack computer security are nimble experimentalists. Because the cost of experimentation is so low, security cracking tends to be a never ending series of probes until a weakness is found. Protecting against that approach cannot be 'engineered', because the engineering process is one in which you plan for every known contingency. But if you knew every possible contingency, there would be no security issues, because they would all be covered off.

Sorry, the above is a bit rough. I'm still refining my ideas on the topic. Feedback welcomed.
I'm not a historian, but if 10-20% of the population in my state died of famine and persecution like it happened in Ukraine, then I would not be surprised if anyone taking over the reins would be welcome.
In the late 80's there was a company selling a database with a front end that reminded me quite a bit of an Infocom game. I think the database was named something really generic (Q&A).
I like this: http://www.montblanc.com/en-us/discover/specials/montblanc-i...
Because I was identified before getting in and I was the only person not involved in the trial there.

I would be in serious trouble.

That laptop's disk went kaput so eventually I lost it (this might have been 6 years ago).

I did come back but never heard anything that outrageous.

When the judge says "stop recording" my heart sank because I realized that recordings were not an accurate description of what happened there.

Recently I read about a case where a judge convicted a witness, just like that.

Eventually it was overturned but now that judge is at the European Court of Human Rights.

Convicting the witness without an extra trial is far more serious and nothing came out of it...

Edit: Court name was wrong.
There is all kinds of standards-abhorrent stuff and bad practices in here.

Examples from the link:

struct Header* head = calloc(1, sizeof(struct Header) + data_size);
head->type = type;

Head is not checked for null. This will segfault when heap allocations fail. [Preemptive reply to folks used to high-level languages and the Linux overcommit behavior: yes, heap allocations do fail, and yes, it is possible to handle such a failure well.]

typedef void* var;

// ...
return ((var)head) + sizeof(struct Header);

It's illegal to do pointer arithmetic on void pointers. You need to cast to another type first.

#define alloc_stack(T) header_init( \
(char[sizeof(struct Header) + sizeof(struct T)]){0}, T)

That's going to crash when you try to access the T on many non-x86 architectures. On x86 you will have subtle problems like atomic ops failing to work.

I have seen cello come up on HN before. Seems like a cute hobby project based on some kind of flawed ideas of what "C" is. If people interested in learning C are reading, I suggest learning C "for realsies" and avoiding this thing.