skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GDP is very much flawed in the sense of "how much humanity has achieved". You need some kind of moral framework for that. And I really don't think you can go with money = good. And you might also need some kind of better measure for achievement as separate from ethics.

But it's answering a completely different question. It's trying to answer the question "has the system we call economy optimized itself during the time span we are looking". The "optimized" here is referring to Pareto efficiency more than anything else. But GDP is not that good tool even for this. I chose it to have something definite to discuss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency

Personally I see capitalism as quite shitty tool for distributing and managing resources. But in globalized and interconnected world we have to operate in low trust environment. With such mutual lack of trust, capitalism is suddenly the best possible system for doing stuff.

EDIT: Theoretically perceived value can be added to system with constant amount of resources. You would probably gladly pay 10$ for very fine stamped shovel that light weight. If there is 15$ crude, rusty, heavy welded shovel right next to it, it doesn't look all that appealing. You normally don't perceive situations like this because the system is working so well. Any product out there could be optimized for slightly less material usage while not making it worse in any way, that would directly increase the profit margin. That would show in GDP.

Currently we don't do that, because engineers are busy doing other stuff. But if there would be price increase in materials, the picture changes automatically.
Once you start losing a couple of 250 -750 million dollar payloads, your customer base will care. This isn't KSP.
Do you have basic infrastructure?
Sounds like your cofounder invested $10k and realized you didn't make a comparative contribution. You can promise the world, but people have lives/better investments to move on to.

Just move on and chalk it up to experience.
The Falklands aren't a barren islands.
Uber Is Not the Future of Work
In a way, isn't that just it? They're still 'fighting' over them because they're actually not that important? If they were important, the fight would be over much more quickly.
Mathematics doesn't imply anything. You can make a model using mathematics and then use it to make predictions, then test those predictions experimentally. By doing this a lot you can discover things and give them names like time, and proper time, and space and whatnot.
For someone like me who was using Spotify for a few years, the short experience with Rdio that i had was like "Oh, ok, it's basically like Spotify. I keep using Spotify then."
okay, why should I let a third party access my browsing history?

Big player already do that.Why should I trust a small party too?

Not being cynical, just wanted to see if the payoff is worth the compromise.
Speaking of security concerns, you might think twice before continuing to use OwnCloud as a part of your password vault solution. It's had critical security bugs in the past, and I'd wager more in the future.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2845072/ubuntu-owncloud-and-a...

Part of the value of a service like LastPass (not a fan personally, but for argument sake I think ths still holds for this issue) is that someone is (should be) always on duty to monitor the service for suspicious activity and be ready to respond to security issues in the code base. While you're in class or a meeting or a movie or asleep, they can already be locking ish down and implementing patches / fixes.
Ask HN: I use my own product, but others don't. Why?
A few days back I launched restaurantmapper.com, a way to easily discover restaurants when you are on mobile. I personally use it a lot, because I find it easier than Google or FourSquare. But, the response I'm getting from people I've shared it with and on forums I've shared it is... non existent. No response. Please can someone tell me - what's going on? is my design really bad? am I solving a problem only I have? is it not clear what the product does? What is the issue... thank you.
I am sitting in a dark room, with a high-contrast IPS screen, and still can barely read anything.
clickable link: http://www.restaurantmapper.com
Relay support is nice, but I still desperately wish for "caching relay servers". I'd love to be able to spin up a high bandwidth VPS with storage and let it be a node, but for it never to have the ability to actually decrypt the data it's storing.
> Show me the contract I signed that created that situation [that is, getting a license to use the software].

(IP lawyer here.) First, there doesn't need to be a contract; second, even if a contract is required, it's quite easy for a supplier to get a customer to form one without getting a wet-ink signature from the customer.

Fundamentally, an IP "license" is simply this: You want to take Action A. Licensor has the legal right to prevent you from taking Action A, e.g., under the copyright laws. Licensor announces (to you specifically or to the world) that Licensor will not invoke that legal right against you, as long as your taking of Action A is limited to Circumstances C. You are now licensed. (That's how the GPL putatively works -- it's a bare copyright license, not a contract [1].)

If a contract is required, one can be formed in a variety of ways, including an offer that is accepted by performance (known as a "unilateral contract") [2]. So-called browse-wrap agreements fall into this general category [3].

> (difficulty: a post-purchase EULA or inside-the-shrinkwrap document is not a contract)

That's not a universally-held view in the courts [4].

[1] See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Lic... and https://www.law.washington.edu/lta/swp/law/contractvlicense.... and http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

[2] https://www.rocketlawyer.com/article/whats-the-difference-be...

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

[4] See http://www.lawnix.com/cases/hill-gateway.html -- I have some problems with the reasoning and outcome of this case, but it's still out there.
Antoher one is "Kardak Island" between Turkey and Greece.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imia/Kardak
In the general case, would recording the conversation (probably just audio) likely be found acceptable?

I'd expect to prearrange terms for how the file(s) would be stored (encryption etc) and hard limits on how long they'd be kept.
Good to know, thanks. We vendor our dependencies so it'll be next release before this will work out of the box.
If you could read the article, you will find that it says so.
The difference is, Spotify has a HUGE brand. When Spotify launched it was like iTunes, but you could listen to everything "for free". Sure, it wasn't free but compared to paying for every Album i'd listen to, a flat rate is basically free.
Close.io is hiring remote back end engineers
Top 50 Technology Christmas Gift Ideas for 2015 (with money-saving tips)
have xray machines installed at all crematoria... along with good quality kitchen knife.
I just keep my passwords on a publicly visible website.

fastmail --- 31&84$KsATbUIOPalrwdklwdfjljklwdfljk31&84$KsATbUIOPal$*KsATbUIOPalrwdklwdfjljklw

apple --- CNK7wt5a2QcJ2T/qm9J+oc3JUvg/cR/uIrJ2qPgAePk

Then I mess with things. Say Rot5 for the last five characters of my Apple password and ROT8 for fastmail. Not exactly what I do but you get the idea.

However, setting up the ATV4 took a few hours.
I use a RaspberryPi that runs Raspbian and mount my file server's UPnP media directory using djmount. Then start videos on my TV using the OMX Remote app from Android devices (OMX Remote plays videos using the omxplayer app on the RPi). I had to increase the gpu memory on the RaspberryPI so that all my videos would play and once in a while kill omxplayer processes but other then that it works fine. And you go this route, you could still install Kodi if you need the plugins.
If I'm not mistaken, one or more of the previous generation Roku devices uses the same SoC as the Raspberry Pi.

We have a Roku 1 and a Roku 3, and they are both great for the price. The $50 Roku 1 is attached to an old but "too good to throw away" Sony Trinitron CRT, and the Roku 3 is on our bedroom TV, a 27" Vizio LCD. They both stream via WiFi with no issues (480p on the 1, 1080p on the 3).

I did have a couple of RasPis running OSMC before we went with the Roku devices, and apart from issues with the initial setup, the Pis worked great. The Roku does offer a greater selection of services so there's a lot more 3rd party streaming content available there, and the official Plex app on Roku makes it easier to stream from our media server than the Pi, but if you know what you're doing you can enable uPnP on OSMC and local streaming mostly works fine. You can also run emulators on the Pi on top of OSMC, which is great for nostalgic gaming. The Roku 3 has a limited selection of games and a Wiimote-like remote, but no support for emulation that I'm aware of.
Falklands has 3000 or so people, a small town, lots of sheep and is not really disputed except when Argentina feels like distracting attention from whatever shitshow is going on at home.

Even their historical claim is dubious as hell.
That would be pretty cool if replayed keys blinked "in real time".
NYPD Commissioner Bratton vows to push against smartphone encryption
ArXiv link http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04834
So, you are saying that they (ISIS, Hamas, Boko Haram, Hizbollah, Al Qaida etc.) are not real muslims? They are also followers of Allah, see Mohammed as their Prophet and the Koran is their holy book. What makes them not real muslims in your eyes? Because they have a different (wrong?) interpretation of verses and hadith?

Morally wrong, sure, from my PoV. From their PoV they are the good guys.

Islam is a religion that teaches a few good things in verses and hadith from the early times of the religion when it was weak and had few members. So they needed to be tolerant and also wanted the Jews and Christians to be tolerant towards them.

Later, after the immigration to Mekka Mohammed changed his teachings and they become more and more intolerant and violent. The religion became more political as the teachings contained more and more text/rules about how to treat non-muslims. According to the koran, "Allah" knew that some verses contradict others, the later (more intolerant verses) abrogate (replace) the earlier peaceful verses (sura 16:101 and 2:106) - so you see that there is a bit of a problem with different verses telling different things.

Don't get me wrong, I would hope that all muslims would only follow the earlier peaceful teachings (and ignore the concept of abrogation) and many already do. But I don't think it helps in telling the others are simply "wrong" becaus that helps avoiding a much needed discussion (self-criticism). It would be better to acknowledge that there are intolerant verses and to understand why they are there and finally to come to the agreement that such intolerant teachings should no longer be accepted as part of the doctrine (well, only as some kind of "rejected part").
On-demand containers from GitHub repositories
Couldn't something like this replace a networked based OS (Windows) that use a dumb network base, keyboard, mouse and screen in a corporate environment? AKA: VDI

You could walk around with this computer stick and plug in wherever there's a keyboard, mouse and monitor...
With the recent security issues surrounding LastPass, it makes me wonder, is the bar set too low even for professional products? Does LastPass not do this testing on their own? Does LastPass not reach out to the security community and contract to have this testing done, proactively? I mean, these folks pulled this off in their 10% time...
1. This reminds me of the territorial dispute right now between Canada and the US, http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-tiny-islands-where-ca...

Let's go to war!

2. There is no dispute over Dokdo, it's Korean territory plain and simple. But if Japan really wants it, they should just take it or else just shut the fuck up about it and stop bringing it up every year.
Hey Zuxfer,

I'm the developer of the extension.

Totally valid point, we thought a lot about privacy, and our approach to managing the issue is two fold

1. Your browsing history isn't identifiable on our databases since we use a random hash from your credentials to track your history.
2. We have absolutely no interest in using the data, even non-identifiable data for marketing purposes
3. We leave the final control in your hands, if you feel your privacy is breached, you can clear all your data from our servers and uninstall the extension.

Here's our privacy policy for reference - https://getfetch.net/privacy.html
Best summation of the whole nonsense I;ve seen
So it is not from google it is trying to raise awareness through deception which is probably not the way to go about it.
I can't wait for the detailed HN post explaining how this scheme was defeated.
Exactly, they are £90 here in the UK.

For £120 I could build a mITX machine that would destroy this. (http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9LffwP) - Granted it's not as small, but who really cares?

For £200 I could buy a Chromebook, but instead I bought a ASUS X205TA for £85 from eBay on sale (I had vouchers etc, but even without them it would've been £130). Yes the trackpad isn't as good, but the build quality is okay and it runs Windows 10 absolutely fine for what I use it for.
Yep, also I would say that Heartbleed is definitely deserving of a place.
Later it says you can specify which JS runtime to use with python:

build:
runtime: python27
js_runtime: nodejs-0.12
app_module: ''
CRUDCAST: Two Nigerian Programmers Chat about Technology
A few months ago, my friend and I were stuck in traffic commuting back from work.

As usual we'd been chatting about challenges at work, the Nigerian developer ecosystem, local start-ups and everything else under the sun. Incidentally we hardly ever see eye to eye on a matter.

He thought it would be a brilliant idea to record these conversations and turn them into podcasts, as a way to open up our conversations to an audience wider than ourselves.

Though I had fun recording these, I didn't think other people would actually be interested in hearing them til we saw the positive reception Episode 2 (our third episode) got from our local programming community.

http://radar.techcabal.com/t/crudcast-xolubis-weekly-podcast/2919?u=akamaozu

Shortly after that, we submitted it to iTunes.

To date my favorite episode recorded is Episode 5.

http://radar.techcabal.com/t/crudcast-xolubis-weekly-podcast/2919/56?u=akamaozu

We had 4 guests: a web dev, two travel bloggers and a business development lead. All women.

We went out for ice-cream and the bloggers talked extensively about their tech stack, how they decided on which technology to bet on, how they use image curation to reel in their audience, using Instagram to discover new business opportunities.

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I learned, considering three of our guests aren't really tech people; it's just a means to an end for them.

I'm not sure if these conversations are interesting enough for Hacker News but I thought I'd drop it here and see what you all think.

---

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/crudcast

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=1052693458
Being able see my history sorted by amount of time I spend on a page sounds like a good idea.
What is there to insure?
How on earth is that better then a raspberry pi?
This is like selling a computer where if anyone but you sells software that runs on it, or even makes their own, you can sue them.
That said, the colors really are beautiful. At least, what I can see of them. Excellent color palette! I'm a sucker for softened tones like these.
Can it take advantage of GCC's split stack support? https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SplitStacks
As an uninhabitable island with rival territorial claims from Denmark and Ireland mainly because the fishing rights are potentially worth something, it's a better comparison point than an island group which has been continuously occupied for nearly 200 years...
Note that, while SpiderOak is arguably more secure than Dropbox, they rely on a hybrid security model wherein they still have your encryption key on their server, but encrypted with your local password. This matters because if your password is ever compromised, however briefly—say, by using the mobile app or the website, neither of which are supported in a secure manner (they make this very clear)—then all your data would be permanently compromised, with no way to rotate your keys and re-encrypt your data before someone gets access to it, short of blowing out your account. I get why things work this way, but still, yuck.
That one's not unreasonable.
Also, Foriegn Labor Certificaton Data Center[1] is used by DOL to determine the prevailing wage for an occupation.

[1] http://flcdatacenter.com/OesWizardStart.aspx
(Not constructive, but OK: Obviously a blog is not a journal paper, but it doesn't try to look like one either. It does have references to the journal papers it discusses though. As for the Cerf and Adami paper you linked above: from my searching it appears this is not published anywhere, it's just a 15-year-old preprint on the arXiv.)

So, to be clear: you are advocating some interpretation of quantum mechanics (for instance, but not limited to, the many worlds interpretation) where the measurement process is really measuring the system that produced the entangled pair?

I believe this interpretation fails to explain experiments where people have entangled particles with timelike separation [1], and then have shown that measurement of the second particle (which has never co-existed with the first particle in any reference frame) collapses the wavefunction of the first particle.

I'm not saying that the Copenhagen interpretation is the absolute truth, in particular many-worlds and superdeterminism are valid alternative interpretations, but I think the one you're advocating doesn't work.

[1] http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110... (non-paywall: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4191 )
>> Nanobox detects your app type and automatically configures the environment and installs everything your app needs to run

Yeah, that's gonna be a bit hard for it to do with our Clojure web app. Well, maybe. If it knows to install openjdk-7 and nginx because it sees a project.clj, then perhaps it really is as smart as it thinks it is.
Take a 50-kg object (110 pounds) and carry it in your arms for an hour on a flat road. You will have done no work against gravity. You may complain that this is not how the word "work" is used in everyday life - and that you will have done a lot of "work" against gravity (preventing the object from falling to the ground). However, if you wish to discuss Physics and Mathematics, using terms that have precise definitions in those fields, you cannot object on the basis that these words do not have the same meaning as non-Physicist and non-Mathematicians ascribe to them.
This sort of situation has led to the exact opposite - territory which both two countries claim doesn't belong to them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil

This is because both Sudan and Egypt claim a slightly nicer parcel of land by the coast, and presumably taking Bir Tawil results in ceding the claim on the other part. It all came about due to slight ambiguities chopping up the old British Empire colonies in Africa.
There is no way that was a live broadcast from the moon because an analysis was done on the rate of speed sand would fall in the supposed live broadcast. The rate indicates Earth gravity:

Gravity Analysis of Falling Sand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tud7xlSI9fo
Before I clicked the actual link I was secretly praying it would be written in Go so I could comb through the source code and understand its inner workings! Thanks for sharing this and making it open so us lesser experienced systems devs can learn!
Doesn't work in the USA

Clicked a few of the items you have listed on the left. I like the design.

We're always trying to find new restaurants and try new places so I would use something like this - but as an iPhone app - not really a website.

I dabbled in restaurant apps a few years ago and came to some conclusions:

More often then not, people make restaurant reservations or look for a restaurant to go to while at work - sometimes, people don't want to use work computers to do this (+ firewalls) so from their phone is best.

More often then not - picking a restaurant is pretty spur of the moment - "hey want to go out to dinner? sure - where? I don't know - let me look something up quickly" - and what is the device most of us have on hand? Our phone.

(completely based on personal research)

So - make an app, and possibly try another demographic.
Also, to answer why an extension for Browser History:

1. Fetch indexes page content as well as the titles and URLs of your history, making it easy to find links
2. Fetch ranks search results by engagement which means the most useful links usually surface on top when you search.
Anonymous Releases How to Hack ISIS Guide,Terrorists Issue How to Stay Safe Tips
It seems I can't also specify a ruby runtime, though. What makes one reasonable and another not?
There are two differences:

1. These are generally hardware drivers rather than generic software. If your computer comes without a text editor, anyone can provide your with one for whatever price they decide. If your oscilloscope comes without an I2C decoder, no-one else can add it.

2. Usually the software is used to cripple the device and then you pay to remove it. For example on oscilloscopes they use a software low-pass filter to limit its maximum frequency. You can pay to have it removed.
If Spotify becomes its own "label" then it'll probably have a better chance... given the size of its user-base.
Not really true for Raspberry Pi 2. I'm running it with Kodi@OpenELEC next to my TV, it's set-up to connect to NFS via WiFi served by one of the SOHO Mikrotik routers. On the other end Synology DS215j NAS is cabled in via 1Gbit. No hiccup on 1080p/720p whatsoever despite WiFi choker, but haven't tried anything bitrate-crazy yet.

(For physical media I still just use a PS3.)
LastPass always represented a single point of failure for me, although still bettter than what people usually do - same password across all services.

I recall one interesting method involving no third-party services is a concatenation of a random string combined with some of the letters of the service I'm using. E.g. the first and last letters of the website I'm on. So if the random string is xPv4rz and I'm on HackerNews, the string becomes hsxPv4rz.
I know that this isn't what you asked for but one way to dramatically reduce the attack surface is to not upload your passwords anywhere and not sync them between devices.

Just keep the passwords on your phone (in a password manager) and type them by hand on your computer. It works well enough since you always keep your phone with you (at least I do).
OT but .. I love the rubik loading[0] intro!!

[0]: https://getfetch.net/img/status.gif