skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have thought that those in European nations would have learned from their mistakes by now. Spain did this, initially only some companies demanded money and so Google just removed them from the index. Then the companies realised it was a disaster.

Then the Spanish government made it mandatory for everyone to pay the media companies, regardless - and they weren't allowed to do it directly either. They had to pay the state, who then paid the publisher. Nobody was allowed to opt-out. So Google News pulled out entirely. It was an unmitigated disaster... for the publishers:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/new-study-shows-s...

To quote that article:

Whatever loss of traffic occurs due to readers who may read a news aggregator and then choose not to read an entire story, is more than made up for by the "market expansion" effect, the study found. In other words, given access to a news aggregator like Google, people read much more news.

The NERA analysis found a 6 percent overall drop in traffic from the Spanish Google News closure and a 14 percent drop for smaller publications. Those numbers are slightly smaller than a GigaOm analysis from last year, which found traffic drop-offs of 10 to 15 percent.
Healthy food is substantially more expensive than junk food in the US, esp. at the amount required to get full. No wonder the poor generally eats less well than the well-off.

If the government subsidizes veggies and less sweet fruits, more consumption is likely esp among the poor and lower-middle class (even though habit change could take time). The savings in the healthcare system and social safety nets could more than pay back the full amount spent on these subsidies.

As a bonus: de-subsidize agricultural products used to produce non-complex carbs, soda, and sweets, e.g. corn and wheat. Subsidies contribute to cheaper prices, excessive consumption, and worse health. To do that directly might be politically difficult, taxing the end products more could be a plausible compromise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_St...
Yes, Palestine sure is hilarious, isn't it?

I laud his reasons.
I'd rather see a job guarantee via a public works program like we had in the 1930s.

It's not like those robots who supposedly stole our jobs are actually fixing creaking US infrastructure. It's just falling apart.
Having a little browse through their releases (https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer/releases), it seems like many of them are national mottos, qv. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_mottos

This one is Algeria's.

That's the what - as for the why, your guess is as good as mine.
I don't think Seti look for intelligent life because they want to have a conversation. They are searching because finding evidence of intelligent life out there would be a very important discovery. Perhaps one of the most important discoveries we could ever make. Are we alone in the universe? It seems like we should not be, but we have a sample size of 1 so far. It's a big big big question.
Maybe there's an inter-dimensional, pan-galactic conspiracy to come to Earth and kill anyone who is about to reveal Fermat's marvelous proof.
I think your reasoning is somewhat an artifact of bias in science fiction in the first place. You see presumption of FTL all over the place, and so it's depressing to consider that it is very likely a hard impossibility, because it rules out a lot of those stories. But, there isn't a lot of science fiction which explores the consequences of eliminating biological aging, or anything else which might make 1500 years actually a rather short span of time for intelligent life.

Maybe the galaxy is full of life which thinks nothing of going on a journey that would take thousands of our years, or longer.
I completely support the IPFS (especially with them keeping content hosting explicitly out of scope). The problem I faced when trying to leverage IPFS for a project is that the reference implementation is very difficult to use in languages other than Go, and to completely embed in applications (as in staticly linking to sqlite).
Videos from systemd.conf 2015
The spanish gov bluff lasted a couple of weeks... (until the big media groups realised how bad the profit-loss was)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/12/15/that-was-...
This is one of the reasons why the IT industry in the EU is so weak when compared to the US.

As a citizen of an EU state I can't help but feel that we are here governed by complete morons.
With blackjack and hookers.
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I want to ask the opposite question. Are there any hypotheses that would explain how fictional subspace (communication) would work? Or even FTL comm.
Has any organization formally estimated the worldwide, annual economic value generated by the open internet? When copyright (intended to promote the generation of creative works) is abused for control, the loser is the legitimacy of copyright. Those who want control should invent new mechanisms that are specifically for control, instead of hiding behind and squandering the legitimate role of copyright.
A Borough in Alaska Is So Close to Selling the 'World's Most Ridiculous Ship'
Atom is noticeably slow for me on a modern rMBP, too.

I'm using version 1.1.0.

It used to not even let me open anything but the smallest files. I think the limit was a mere 2 MB!

I do not get that denial any longer but it still feels slow especially for larger files.

Sometimes I have to open 500 MB text files. Atom cannot handle them, while they open nearly instantly using MacVim.

So in these modern days I use MacVim more than I use Atom.
Actually, I believe it's still in effect.

Edit: yup, it is:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150725/14510131761/study...
> However, without mass adoption, it seems very unlikely that an alternative internet would emerge before the increasingly-likely collapse of the open internet.

I am not sure what you mean by mass adoption. Sure, there has to be a critical mass for it to work. But I don't think that everyone and their dog should use it.

Part of what made "the good old days" of the web so awesome was that you needed to put in some hours to actually use it. Thanks to this, it wasn't that interesting for people who didn't want to contribute (somewhat) meaningfully.
Large soundsystems for clubs and festivals have an entire culture of their own[1], heavily associated with the dub and reggae music scenes. Many are hand-built and maintained by a core group of people who travel with them and operate them on location, bringing resident DJs and MCS, and competing in sound-clashes at dub festivals.

On the speaker-technology side, Funktion One systems are easily recognised by their polygonal tweeter horns[2], meant to disperse high frequencies in a very specific cone, which makes it easier to avoid dead-spots and phase-interference in complicated environments while directing the sound.

[1]: https://boilerroom.tv/systems-of-sound/
[2]: http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1836
> Human-readable text, file paths, SQL statements, and others are all conceptually different, and this should be represented as different types at the language level.

Objective-Smalltalk[1] has Polymorphic Identifiers[2][3], which are URIs used as identifiers in the language. So that handles file paths and web addresses. SQL is not solved directly, but XPath can be encoded in the URI and there are mappings from relational DB APIs to URIs[4][5][6].

I hope we can get rid of identifiers encoded as strings once and for all.

[1] http://objective.st/URIs

[2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2508169

[3] https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/publications/media...

[4] http://blog.dreamfactory.com/add-a-rest-api-to-any-sql-db-in...

[5] http://restsql.org/doc/Overview.html

[6] http://www.slashdb.com
Somewhat agreed. However, there is enough repression to provide incentive for semi-shady people to work on these things. Unfortunately piracy seems to be the biggest incentive for secret communications, and while that is indeed productive, it incentivizes high-bandwidth torrents for large files, which is not exactly in line with the most crucial needs (although of course there are important uses for distribution of videos and photos). An interplanetary low-bandwidth Usenet might be the most crucial necessity for the upcoming dystopian future. So I suggest we start encouraging the spread of subversive poetry and politically uncomfortable discussions, to incentivize such a grassroots network.
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So we need to go through the legalese in detail and make new definitions of slightly modified original concepts so that the law can't be applied to them anymore - like what the pharma industry does with rebranding old medicine by changing the formula slightly. Ideally, that should also be polymorphic in nature, i.e. the definition/implementation could be changed easily algorithmically. Unless there is some radical change to the law making it algorithmic, it would always be trailing a few years behind.

As an EU citizen, it's mind-boggling to see the sheer stupidity of our politicians in the past 2-3 years...
Hence your throw away account, huh?
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But once these plans apply to every single EU state Google will in effect have to choose between leaving the EU market or paying.

That's at least the plan they have come up with.

If they severely limit the Internet in the process doesn't matter to them. They'll create a shitty EU alternative if they have to.
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I don't think it's a question of resources, it's a question of priorities. The US government spends tons of money on all sorts of things, but spending that money instead on security would mean they'd have to stop doing some of those other things that we actually pay them to do. The Navy could stop buying warships and spend all the extra money on security, but then they wouldn't have any warships, which is what the Navy is actually for.

This is by no means a government only issue. Multi-billion dollar companies keep getting hacked for basically the same reason. They too have lots of resources, but they are also spending those resources actually doing something. The BEST result you can get from spending on security is...nothing bad happens.

I completely understand the counter-argument that spending on security saves you the costs associated with getting owned, but that's clearly a hard argument to make to people who see all the other ways their money can be spent directly producing the results expected of them. It's the same basic problem IT has always faced ("it costs money, it doesn't MAKE money"), but it's worse with security since you don't even see it for the most part, except maybe as an annoyance.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-urzOpwgCvBk/VCsZEjOfwwI/AAAAAAAAR...
Well, the reason to drop them in boiling water is to control the softness on the inside, because you have a consistent starting point at 100C, then you can keep the temperature at 100C and time 5 minutes.

If you use cold water, the time for the water to get to 100C is going to be dependent on the stove and the flame that comes out of the burner, so when the water gets to 100C, in some cases the eggs will be half-ready, in some cases 1/3 ready, so it's more difficult to cook the eggs perfectly. Obviously, if you are always using the same stove and the same flame, you will eventually know how long it takes you to cook the eggs, but then when you switch stoves, you have to re-learn this. For me, dropping the eggs in boiling water is a little easier.

Finally, yes, cold water is used to make the eggs easier to peel.
Exchange computer with some clear protocol for
communication (probably based on elementary
mathematical/physical principles)

I always see people talk about stuff like this, but it's never really clear to me how elementary math or physics will help us communicate with other species---species that will likely have sufficiently different biochemistry from us to make communication at least as difficult as talking to a dolphin or an elephant.
I guess it just needs time for maturing: more languages and better UX. If IPFS finally piggybacks on the Ethereum ecosystem it will accelerate considerably this...
Do any of the videos involve prominent systemd contributors interrupting the presenters, like in the notorious "Desktop on the Linux" video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdUmlGxVo0?
Healthy food is more expensive per calorie. If you are overeating (i.e., if you can pinch more than an inch) you can reduce calories and increase quality without spending anything extra. Most poor folks can pinch far more than an inch.

Living healthy is neither difficult nor expensive. Last night I made a stew of tomatoes, collard greens and beans: total cost maybe $5-6 for 2-3 meals. In a short while I'm walking to a public park for a workout - unlike poor people I can afford to use the pullup bar ($0), the parallel bars ($0), the basketball court ($0) and a jump rope ($7).

(Google ATUS stats on TV watching before claiming poor folks don't have time to do the same thing.)

The problem is willingness, not ability. Some people just don't like vegetables or pushups and don't find the health gains worthwhile. If you want to improve their health, you need to coerce them into changing their lifestyle.

That said, I'm all in favor of reducing agricultural subsidies. I just don't think it's going to have a significant effect on health.
Brain has internal ‘odometer’ and ‘stopwatch’ – study
Couldn't EU telcos just block this protocol and declare it a special service (thanks to the new net-neutrality ruling) ?
New Streetlamps Will Keep Cell Service Running After an Earthquake
"During unification, the northern Italian powers decided that having a country that speaks about a dozen different languages would pose a bit of a challenge to their efforts, so they picked one and called it “Standard Italian” and made everyone learn it. The one that they picked was Tuscan, and they probably picked it because it was the language of Dante, the most famous Italian writer."

The article was specifically about how the New Jersey Italian American accent came to be, so including details about Southern Italian emigration to South America and the rest of Europe probably wasn't necessary.
er, my log math is bad, but the point is still valid.
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If it becomes uneconomic, then that's precisely what Google will have to do. What I suspect will then happen is that news outlets will have to offshore their news distribution to outside of Europe. Ironic, really.
Speaking of fermentation, I recommend that anyone who enjoys bread has a a sourdough starter. It's one of those things where a tiny investment of time (a few minutes per day, or less if you're storing an already-started starter in the fridge) makes for a large payoff of great-tasting bread.

This is probably the simplest and easiest guide I've found, and it's the one I've used to greatest success: http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/11/how-to-make-so...
That was a fun diversion into the past! I remember playing Pong on the Atari 2600 as a kid. That, and Combat!, a fun tank battle game.

As an aside, Flickr really surprised me here. I couldn't zoom into any images because they disabled user scaling for mobile users. For the love of vision, people, stop doing that! Don't TAKE AWAY a core feature of someone's phone because you don't want your precious pixels to be shifted, especially in this case where it actually limits the utility of the web app in the first place!
walking to school. Isn't that called 'school run' in the US, i.e. when parents drive their children there?
I think Ted is onto something here. The author might want to try this approach. If he's concerned, he can do A/B testing between Give In and Fuck Off to measure their effectiveness. Haha
And right now some of those people get benefits or wages via a dedicated debt card, which is effectively a withdraw-only bank account.
In the end, it all depends on how minimal the minimum income is.
The joke is that they tried to retreat... Yes, this is the same gov that taxes the sun... (and probably soon will try to rent cubic meters of air so the spaniards can breathe)
Snap-on is fantastic. If anyone ever sees any for sale at yard sales - even broken, rusted-up, mostly junk tools, buy them. If you can find a distributor, they honor the lifetime warranty.

Craftsman tools used to be the same, although you have to be careful - they've started mixing in the cheapo junk lines and putting the Craftsman name on them, and those don't necessarily have the same warranty policy.
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Your initial reasoning is correct, which is why it's best to first bring the water to boiling temperature, _then_ drop the eggs in the pot.

Think about this for a second: When the water gets to 100C, it stays at 100C as long as there is sufficient fire under the pot, correct? So, your water is stable after it boils. You can then drop the eggs, time 5 minutes, and you're done.

If you don't do this, it would be difficult to apply a time to the process, like you said. But, if you let the water boil first before adding in the eggs, it's always going to be 5 minutes to soft-boiled eggs, so it becomes easy to time the process.
Australia is hostile to foreign animals. There was this really absurd example from a few months ago:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/13/johnny-depps-dogs-a...
Wow and you're that guy that won the Putnam

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
> Those who want control should invent new mechanisms that are specifically for control

You mean, DRM, rootkits, hardware TPMs, etc? Personally, I prefer copyright, at least it can be easily ignored.
> Quantum entanglement could very plausibly allow for superluminal communication.

If by "plausibly", you mean "in contravention to all currently established theory". As the Wikipedia article you linked itself states.
The author is also a computer scientist so many of his books are well detailed for those versed in related fields (the way biologists write sci-fi books that scatter biology details other readers not versed in the subject would miss) like people here.

A Deepness in the Sky, for example, touches on open source, technical debt, project management, memory density, branching, DRM, encryption, stenography, and other more nuanced topics; but it's a sci-fi novel first. All in the backdrop of a universe with no FTL (at least for this book in the "series", more like books in the same universe).

He also does great alien races (the other book in the series, A Fire upon the Deep, has alien races which behave on different computational architectures to achieve sentience; and touches on obfuscated code (among other topics) in a great way).
F14/Phoenix was a fleet defense weapon -- horribly expensive and intensive to operate, intended to stop long-range Soviet bombers from griefing the carrier battle groups (Tu-22Ms and Tu-160s with Moskit or similar supersonic anti-shipping missiles are a carrier captain's nightmare). Once the cold war went away there wasn't really anyone left who offered that kind of credible threat, and attempts to turn the F14 into a bomber were more expensive and less effective than the F/A18.

Today, there is one aicraft/missile in service with roughly comparable performance to the F14/Phoenix -- the Eurofighter Typhoon II when equipped with the (similar range to Phoenix) Meteor missile. This isn't an accident. One of the major purchasers for Typhoon is the UK, satirically renamed "Airstrip One" by George Orwell in 1984; because it's basically an unsinkable aircraft carrier off the coast of Western Europe, and in event of a conflict with Russia it'd be a major NATO logistical resupply target for the aforementioned TU-23Ms and Tu-160s. The Typhoon II was delayed into the 21st century but basically it started as a cold war solution to the exact same problem as the F14, minus the cats and traps.
Exactly how is this being executed on Linux systems?

Dr Web are selling anti-virus. I'd like more info on how it infects systems.

Edit: You know, this is really ONLY being reported by Dr Web. Funny that.
I have to say, I'm surprised this didn't happen a lot sooner. While there aren't as many linux systems that won't have backups, there are a lot of very valuable systems out there, and some percentage of them must not have backups.
Any systematic excercise of a willpower is good. Education, even in its most boring and irrelevant forms, is a willpower excercise and therefore is making one a better person - more resilient, more self-reliant, more capable of further educating themselves.

That very role of education I was talking about is preserving the accumulated knowledge of our civilisation. As it grows, an amount of general education everybody must withstand grow too. And instead there is a disgusting trend of simplification.

I would prefer to see a civilisation of polymaths rather than a civilisation of narrowly trained craftsmen.
Thanks for the nice article. Peak detection algorithms are indeed required in many engineering applications, so it is good to see that there are different approaches to the same problem.

I just want to add that PeakUtils also support fitting gaussians and computing centroids to increase the peak resolution, allowing for a higher resolution (instead of just finding the indexes). Also, the PeakUtils indexes function was inspired on Marcos Duarte implementation, so those methods have some similarities in the results.

Marcos Duarte
How much do you think Google earns with News? I'm pretty sure they would simply shut down the service EU-wide, and continue providing just their core business, Google Search.
> The Revelation Space books also have lots of people moving between stars at below light speed.

House of Suns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Suns) was one of the best examples of that. Starship chases lasting thousands of years, people making 200,000 year circuits of the galaxy...
He can blame himself for worrying about it and wasting time on a huge writeup. Instead, he should offer to help for reasonable pay, have stock responses for rejections to prevent wasted time, and otherwise dont worry about the fact that companies are mostly selfish. That's life.

Just enjoy building and letting people use your app. Fuck the rest.
The Logical Design of the RHODOS Multithreaded Microkernel (1994) [pdf]
Good mathematicians never beg any questions!
same problem here. I usually buy only from amazon themselves, rather than any third party seller, if i want a proper VAT invoice.

Sometimes i do buy from others, providing i get their VAT number. but in such cases, the VAT amount is never itemised on the amazon invoice.
If the condescension wasn't necessary before, this comment did very little to demonstrate why.
> technology has never reduced the amount of work.

And then a couple sentences later...

> At the end of the 18th Century, 90 percent of the US workforce was employed in agriculture. As of 2009 (the latest year for which there are figures), less than 0.7 percent are farmers. It’s not the case that now 90 percent of Americans are out of work; they’re now engaged in other, often less back-breaking labour. The percentage of people engaged in hard, dangerous and boring jobs has tumbled.

That is a clear contradiction even if we had the same level of employment we did back then (which we don't when you account for child farm labor and low rates of retirement), "less back-breaking labour" is less labor.
Then they get pinged for indexing news articles in Google search.