skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We recently did a reddit Q&A where you can find a lot more about the product and see the community response. https://redd.it/3sabrd

Settlements are done using smart contracts which allows a user and a trader to execute a exchange with out the need of a third party to handle their digital currency. Taking away the risk. A decentralised p2p exchange which powers the app and uses the built in NFC in your device to pay at NFC checkout terminals.

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While not the same as the Steam Machine, I got one of the Steam Link streaming boxes for $50. It's pretty amazing and can't believe how well it works.

I've only played Rocket League, Pay Day 2, Monanco, and Super Meat boy on my television.

For me, it's the perfect compromise for my casual gaming. I get to have a custom built PC, hidden away in my office and a tiny box on the living room.

I look forward to seeing the platform evolve.
...whole new market...
No, chess engines use the simple highly performant "native" move representations. My 8 bit scheme approaches the performance of native representation, but is only (potentially) useful for other types of applications, particularly chess databases.
Privacy erosion is enhanced/enabled by use of technology, but it's ultimately a social issue. This is not an us-vs-skynet situation. Our society is simply organised incorrectly; power/control over private information is misallocated and the result is a privacy hostile world.

It's not the first time we've run into this kind of power misallocation. And we've solved a variety of them: slavery, women's suffrage, segregation, gay rights, etc. We've tackled privacy before [1] in the dead-tree context. We can fix social problems, and privacy/surveillance is one for our generation to handle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence
Fair enough. One of the key questions with these MOOCs (using the term broadly) is the degree to which their certifications elicit a positive reaction from a recruiter or a hiring manage. (And, of course, how effective they are, on an hourly basis, teaching material relative to other methods. Although I expect the answer to this depends upon the person and how much structure they prefer.)
I've been running Firefox OS on Android for a couple of months now on my Nexus 5 with CyanogenMod and everything works alright. As long as you have KitKat or above things should go smoothly.
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Maybe your culture is healthier than mine. But the other day, there was a link to the Wikipedia article on the con man who sold the Eiffel Tower:

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

At the bottom, there is the "Ten Commandments for Con Men". They include "wait for the other person to reveal any political opinions, then agree with them" and "let the other person reveal religious views, then have the same ones". There is a reason why con artists do this. People in general tend to like people who are similar to themselves, and often dislike people who are different.

Privacy makes it possible for people who are different from each other to live in harmony.
>sort of person who would be willing to pay to remove adverts is the sort of person advertisers most want to reach

People who wish to buy shit also exist. Some of them might actually want info about their options.

Then there are people who are not annoyed by commercials and who are easily manipulated to buy almost whatever. They ruin the adds for the rest of us. They are probably poor, because advertisers already got all their money.

Personally I would love someone to advertice books to me. I've even subscribed to goodreads for that, but their recommendations suck big time. (Though it's still good for bookmarking what I want to read and reading reviews.)
There's a bit more about the module and devkit here: http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/nvidia-jetson-tx1-...

Frustratingly the details for the connector are probably in the Embedded developer centre, which requires a registration. https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded-computing
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In-N-Out are more vulnerable to delivery delays because they serve real french fries rather than the reconstituted chemistry experiments that most fast food places have. They are delicious when they come out the window, but must be eaten immediately to avoid calamity. So even if DoorDash were doing everything right, customers would not be happy with the french fries.
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Isn't that how it works with non-money property though? Suppose the brothers each inherit a yacht from their uncle, and each steal a yacht, and each host a party at a golf club, giving the owner a yacht in exchange - brother A the one he stole, brother B the one he inherited. The owner of the stolen yachts comes calling. Brother A gets to keep his remaining yacht until the golf club owner (who forfeits the stolen one) wins a civil suit against him. Brother B loses his immediately.
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Well, parallel execution, for one. Am I reading this right? Postgres has not had parallel query, DML, or DDL until now? This has been a feature of Oracle for as long as I've been using it.

Say what you want about enterprise software but Oracle is a beast... if you work for a company willing to shell out for it. That cost will seem sillier though Postgres closes the feature gap.
The pyramid scheme analogy only holds true if you are paying in with money, not time. Other social networks are investments of time too.

Testimony: I registered for Tsu and have been active on it a for a few days after reading that story. There is nothing within the site that pushes monetization at you - there is a tab for payments, but it does not direct you there, and I didn't look at it until just now. When I did, I was presented with a terms of service, and then a "no spamming" click-through agreement.

Therefore I have to conclude that all of the hubbub is generated by some combination of early external marketing efforts and the natural tendencies of wishful thinkers. They've decided to stop pushing that angle, most likely because they hit their critical mass targets and can move on towards more sustainable growth options.
i returned my helmet as being defective, since when i fell off my bike it didn't protect me from breaking my radius, and forcing me to go to the hospital. Stupid helmet laws, i knew they didn't work...
>Am I the only one who thinks RAID controllers are a placebo and wouldn't trust anything but ZFS?

No, there are others that cargo-cult believe in ZFS too

-- a hyped single vendor OS, without first-tier-support on Linux, and with its own issues, compared to a industry wide standard, used for 3 decades in the most demanding data-centers protocol and its implementations.
There's a typo in the "What is sodocan.js" lane, right at the bottom of the 2nd paragraph.

natuarally => naturally
The money quote

"[Bike lanes] has dual advantages, both reducing injuries and encouraging cycling, an important public health goal of its own given the physical activity and environmental benefits. Comparisons between North America and the Netherlands or Denmark have long suggested that their route design focus is better at welcoming cycling and achieving lower injury rates. Many were concerned that Dutch and Danish infrastructure wouldn't have the same impact here, but there is more and more research in North America showing that it does."
No, I definitely agree that we need privacy, I'm just saying that that's a bad example. A better argument and would be that, without privacy, there can be no social change, as e.g. homosexuality would forever be considered a mental illness and "treated". With privacy, society can involve in private until the new forms are strong enough to become mainstream.
This is an entirely moot premise.

Human evolution is no longer in the hands of nature in the sense that people most commonly think of it. It will never be again.

We've taken over direct control of our evolution. That's not an exaggeration, it's a fact of our present circumstances. These are the early days, yes, but non-the-less. The time scale of meaningful human evolution is about to shift from tens of thousands of years, to decades.

In that time we'll start altering the general human genome, and likely remove countless inherited conditions out of it either directly or indirectly. The technology will accelerate at an incredible pace from here, becoming very common; leading edge CRISPR knowledge and capabilities today will be laughable in 30 years.

Our evolution has done anything but been derailed, it's about to leap forward.

Who here really thinks humans ~500 years from now, will have much in common with humans of today? I don't think what exists at that point will be reasonably considered human at all, as we know the term. Nothing can really stop that outcome except an extinction event. The only question is what we become, not whether we change; and taking over control of our evolution is part of that.
[IANAL] Given that that's there for legal compliance, they're screwed either way:

If they knew, and didn't do it, they're criminally negligent, and have willfully endangered the lives of numerous prisoners.

If they didn't know, then they're incompetent, and have endangered the lives of numerous prisoners through inaction, which could still be considered criminal negligence.
The SoC (card sized) has everything you'd need, not just the connectors to the several I/O and networking interfaces you may need. You will hook in connectors are you like with the 400-pin interface on the SoC and get going.
Yes it is: embedded is a use category, not a performance specification. It's certainly not a "desktop" or "consumer" product as it doesn't even have a case. It's designed to be embedded within another product or system.
Would anyone be surprised if it had? I've been to some reasonably comfortable JackintheBoxes, but most of them aren't any better than e.g. Del Taco.
Certainly there wouldn't be a 100% match between "would be worth advertising to" and "would pay to remove adverts", but the problem is nobody (afaik) has any data on to what extent it might correlate, and so are scared by it.

I wonder if companies like the Guardian have thought about trying to compare between the two audiences, i.e. how people who now subscribe interacted with adverts before subscring vs. audience that doesn't pay. Thinking of some of the tracking tools that could be used... it wouldn't be impossible (though wouldn't be imperfect data either), but it would be a rather complicated thing to set-up so it wouldn't surprise me if they don't have it in place.
I often get frustrated with people who hate the food pyramid. A modern diet now lets people be the biggest, fastest and strongest they have ever been. The only difference is now we have the flexibility to be informed and eat the healthy or destroy ourselves with bad food where previously malnutrition made that call for us.
Two important things about helmets:

1. Helmets are very very useful if you're riding fast. In fact they are mandatory in all cycling sports. However most people don't commute to work going much faster than they would if running, hence they are not very useful for them.

2. In countries where helmets are compulsory, the chilling effect of risking a fine for not wearing a helmet has meant a decrease in the number of cyclists. Now, since bike accidents are relatively rare, but the health effects of cycling to work rather than driving benefit every single cyclist, helmet laws tend to have a negative effect on public health.

This said, whenever I'm going for a sporty ride (longer, or faster than usual) I usually wear a helmet. When riding 5 minutes to meet a friend for a beer I don't.
On reading the article,You realise how many of the features are heavily dependent on the chromium project.Considering Safari's penchant for incorporating new features,I do not see this working on iOS anytime soon.
Indeed, it even validates the use of mass surveilance to begin with. After leaks of the keywords that would "put you on a list" at the NSA, some people seem concerned to exercise their liberties, like googling for things in an attempt to avoid being flagged by intelligence agencies. This, of course, makes everything worse, as now there's more reason to commit the spying, as only those truly guilty would ever willing do actions that wind up putting them on a list.

This is also related to the encryption by default debate, were we must acknowledge the very large amount of metadata leaked if we only encrypt our communicatioms/data when we deem them sensitive.
I agree with you 100%. But there is no way in hell I'm phoning that number.
Frankly, I think setting up a standard testing VM with limited resources (2-4 cores, 8GB of RAM, small disk) makes much more sense than purposefully reducing programmer productivity.
Non-violent crime is not necessarily soft crime. Ask someone who has been conned out of their life savings, or just plain had it stolen via some sort of fraud and now face an uncertain future with no financial security how seriously they view non violent crime...
In my own experience, it's important to not be the smartest person in the room. You always need to surround yourself with better people. Otherwise your own growth will stagnate. Intellectually, socially and as a human being.
Killing the open web? Not hardly...

> I had a blog once. It wasn’t big, but I loved knowing who I was writing for. I loved knowing that the same couple hundred people would come back again and again...

Had a "blog once"? And your a writer? Why did you stop writing for it?

This is the same article that could have been written by musicians 12 years ago or the MPAA 8yo...yes yes existential threats to the fundamental nature blah blah fucking blah...

Don't get me twisted tho...I don't even like Facebook and Twitter anymore due to their obscene popularity, but whining about them "killing the open web"?

Please just stop the hyperbole.
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I find it strange that people are so quick to conclude censorship. Do they really think Facebook cares what some blogspot blog thinks? Facebook erroneously blocks links for a lot of reasons such as if many people report the link or if the link gets more shares than the domain usually gets.
Why? Should bit.ly be held responsible for the actions of the Libyan government? Should customers of heroku be held responsible for Heroku's corporate actions (customer.herokuapp.com)?

The domain hierarchy doesn't actually tell you much about the relationships between entities and certainly doesn't tell you enough on its own to discern culpability between entities.
Probably because data centers don't necessarily mean a lot of jobs. The 2014 financial report doesn't mention Amazon in their top 10 either: http://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/110442

Looking for headquarters is meaningful if we're trying to make a comparison between Mountain View and Loudoun County. Google is headquartered in Mountain View. Loudoun has no real equivalent for HQs or even large offices for global companies. The startup scene is pretty dry too.

Apart from voting a board that wants to increase housing there's almost no comparison. If you want to use Dulles and Loudoun as an example you should use it to illustrate that you can't slap in a bunch of housing units without thinking about infrastructure.
Completely agree about the not selling. Not so sure that Google would get zero benefit, though.

Firstly, Valve is extremely profitable, crazily so, and seems (imo) unlikely to stop being so profitable, so short of a crazily high PE ratio it would eventually pay for itself. Secondly, they'd be buying a userbase of 100m+, including presumably lots of interesting data from steam chat, gaming preferances, etc.
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And get any agreement in writing if you are going to wait till next funding round you should say you want a multiplier ie pay me x now or x +50% in 6 months x +100% in a year.
So, you own part of a company as an investor now -- think of it in this context to transform your relationship into a positive one. If they can afford to buy your interest out for a reasonable sum, you might agree as a matter of courtesy.

You should carefully engage an attorney to look at the by-laws of the company to verify you are protected as an investor. In some cases, holding onto shares of a company (LLC, for example) could open you up to substantial tax liability without personal disbursements to cover expenses. If these protections are not there (tax distributions, etc), and if you're going to remain an investor, you should ask for reasonable investor protections -- they'll need these anyway.

Most employment agreements have a non-solicitation (for employees and clients), non-disclosure (of trade secrets), and non-compete clauses. These would probably be quite enforceable against business co-founders. If they try to leave you at the side of the road, no need to get worked up about it till they've been successful (get an attorney advice though).

If the existing co-founders are going to invest more of their time in the company, you could, as a part-owner of the company, offer to dilute (on same terms as other owners) as their continued engagement may make your prior labour have value. Ask if you could be on their board to help them see problems in their strategy -- while you probably don't have enough equity to change course, your voice as a technically-minded investor could be positively channelled to help them; they might be lucky to have your kind and productive assistance.
Could someone tell me why freenet and similar project are not as popular as tor ? And is they're more or less secure than tor ?
I'm really wondering how you can reach such a number... Thomas?
> Sure, you need some knowledge, but you'd better believe other people have that knowledge as well.

For any chunk of knowledge, except for very unlikely ties,
there was a first person who
had that knowledge, and for that person, then, the claim is false.

It really is possible to do
research that is genuinely new.
Indeed, the usual criteria for
publication are "new, correct,
and significant". Criteria for
a Ph.D. dissertation are
sometimes "an original contribution
to knowledge worthy of
publication".
Each each paper published in
a peer-reviewed journal
of original research is supposed
to be an example. When the US
NSF or NIH give research grants,
there is supposed to be research
that will be publishable in
a peer-reviewed journal of
original research, that is,
new, knowledge that
did not exist before.

In computing, we write software.
It takes in data, manipulates
it, and puts out data.

For my startup, I wanted some
software that would
take in some available data, do some powerful manipulations, and put out
some valuable data. So
to get some powerful manipulations, difficult to
duplicate or equal, and to know
right away that the manipulations were correct
and likely powerful,
I wrote out some original
applied math. I have to doubt
that anyone else in the world
has written out anything
really the same. Then I
wrote software to perform
the data manipulations
specified by the math.

The software and the math
are my proprietary intellectual
property, and I intend to
use trade secret protection.
Tell the world the details? Heck no.

Am I able to do such original
math derivations, "original
contribution to knowledge",
"new, correct, significant"?
Yup, as demonstrated by my
Ph.D. dissertation and published,
peer-reviewed papers.
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Few, if any, of the biggest, fastest and strongest athletes eat a diet based on the food pyramid.
Each part of the world developed a fitting diet. You couldn't expect a Russian to have fiber rich diet, it's mostly fat and proteins you can get during the long winters.
I'm curious about the role of these bacteria as an anti-inflamantory. I know many adult immigrants coming to Canada started to have hay fever in matter of couple of years since their arrival. Big drop in gut flora as a result of a diet change?
Nice article. Google has an incredible library for this stuff which is also worth checking out: http://www.openfst.org
Facebook is for closed networks. Twitter has literally no effect on the real world and is only cared about by the people on twitter.

Neither are really a problem.
>the chicken earned US$4,500 per month ($47,700 today)[5] and was valued at $10,000

Not a very generous multiplier, but then again, the actuarial tables for a headless chicken wouldn't be all that favorable.
a hyped single vendor

Who's that single vendor? FreeBSD, OpenIndiana, Joyent, Oracle?

compared to a industry wide standard

Good luck exchanging your fried RAID controller for a "comparable" model
Yea, I know all of that.

>It's possible to build it without those problems (see Fennec on F-Droid in fact)

Fennec is stuck on 40 because of difficulties with building it, and even when one person managed to build it, .apk didn't start on others developers phone. A few people tried upgrading it to 41 and all failed, I guess fennec is kill now. I talked about it a few times on their IRC with people responsible for fennec.
Another 64-bit ARM board out there: the Gigabyte MP30-AR0 http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#... http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/03/27/gigabyte-mp30-ar0-is-... . Unfortunately this one has limited distribution and $ask pricing.
Never use hints in production!
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* empty string == NULL in oracle

Why would that be a feature? NULL, by definition is neither 0 [zero], nor an empty string. NULL is an undefined value (sort of like a division by 0)

Personally I'd see this as a bug, not as a feature. But your mileage may vary.
I would be surprised to hear B2B sales of their underlying platform isn't a big part of the current or expected business. Most universities have or need a way to build compressed or distance courses. Most of their home-grown platforms are probably substandard compared to Udacity or EdX or something else like that.

Similarly for non-traditional education, custom-tuned and branded platforms for companies, non-profits, public agencies and the like. Helping build packages of courses and hosting self-developed content for internal development programs (lots of engineering firms have a learning component in career progression, for example).

It feels like there should be a huge market something that does all this ^^ simply, provides useful reporting and basic information analysis, and for a good price.
Facebook and Apple News might be "killing the open web", but Twitter? I'd say Twitter is a great champion of the web. Linking is so fundamental to the Twitter experience. Half of Twitter is links to other websites.
From the FAQ[1]: "WhatsApp communication between your phone and our server is encrypted."

[1] http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/general/21864047
Technology manipulates selection pressure; it doesn't eliminate it.
Depends on how much was vested, and how much prior work was done, and how much of a hardass you want to be. You're under no legal obligation to return it, but you might want to in some scenarios.

Let's say you had 2 co-founders and you all vested 33/33/33. I would personally feel unethical about keeping the equity if I left after 6 months. At that point, you're now free-riding on the remaining co-founder FUTURE work. Furthermore, you keeping that much equity will screwing the company (and yourself) since it will limit ability to raise money, bring on key executives, open up an option pool. In this case, I'd return a good chunk (but not all) of the equity.

BUT if the equity vested was really for PAST work, as you imply here, then yeah, keep the equity.
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Yeah, I think this illustrates why "monetising content" is the antithesis of community.
As a corollary to your point #2, there is a clear safety in numbers effect in which as the number of cyclists goes up, the rate - and often the absolute number - of crashes and injuries goes down.