skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "1) Money is created by giving out loans (fractional reserve banking), so I assume you're talking about some other way of creating money. What, exactly, would you do to the Fed to change governance?"

Let's look at this in more detail, as it's clear I haven't explained the plan well enough yet.

First, I should clarify the Positive Money campaign I linked to is about money reform in the UK banking sector, but the general ideas can apply equally to the US, even if the implementation details would be different.

Okay, so let's look at the situation in the US. Money in the US is generated in two different ways:

1. Federal Reserve generates money for the US government to spend through the sale of government bonds.

2. Banking system generates money through making loans.

I'm going to leave the problems with the current systems for the time being, so let's skip to what we would change if we wanted to have a single central body in charge of new money.

Firstly, you would take the power to create money away from the banks. Banks could only lend money they had available to lend. This could work through lending out the savings of other bank customers, with customers able to choose how much or little of their money they wanted to invest, and what risk/reward ratio they wanted to have with their investments.

Secondly, you would want to change how money reached into the economy. If banks couldn't create new money, who can? Should government take on this role? The risk with giving governments this power is they might end up printing more money than is needed in order to fund extravagant government projects. How do you get around this?

If the Positive Money ideas were applied in the US, you wouldn't have the Fed selling bonds. In some sense the Fed wouldn't exist. What you'd have instead is one central, transparently-run group controlling how much new money was created, which sets the budget for the government to spend. All new money would be spent into the economy through government programs. There would be no need to sell bonds, the money would be created without debt (i.e. without the need to pay interest to groups willing to buy government bonds), it would simply be new units of exchange available for use in the economy.

Any questions on the above?
http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/51107-10-things-that-are...
Neurotic Styles by David Shapiro
Owners and board members of companies should be liable not just for the action of their employees but also the actions of their subcontractors. Otherwise, we will have situations like the one John Oliver mocked in the North Dakota petroleum industry.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/10/12/john_oliver_e...
Safer, in this case. Vaporized water in the lungs can lead to pneumonia.

Plus I hear it has dihydrogen monoxide in it which can kill you in numerous ways.
They'd just put them on YouTube these days, with its 60fps support. Wouldn't cost them anything.
Leaked internal Yahoo documents indicate that "Project Index" is actually a revolutionary new way of algorithmically rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Speaking of clipboard managers, since significantly leaving Windows, I've rather missed the Ditto clipboard manager.

http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/

That said, probably the biggest Mac barrier for me is that I cannot stand the large palm rests, including and especially with (but not only because of) their sharp front edges.

I'm also not especially fond of glossy displays.

Software-wise, I bump up against some instances where Apple exerts its control to stifling effect: 1) Yanking the rug out from under FinalCut users having some... "legacy" requirements; 2) 30% because we can, milking the "walled garden" for maximum effect; etc. On the other hand, someone needed to fire the first bullet into Flash and some of the other Adobe corporate BS.

And to "go Retina". And to advance AES deployment into the ARM hardware environment.

But, these days, my concerns software-wise run towards "open" -- full stack -- ain't gonna be / can't be taken away (content as well as functionality), and real usability as opposed to what appears to be an increasingly self-serving cadre of "graphic design".
Well, even then, 802.11 didn't come out until '97, so no one was ordering from Amazon over wireless then!
already posted yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10543157
Yea 2008 to 2010ish. It would be silly to not invest into our growth right now given the opportunity at hand. We liked being profitable very much though and promised to be back at some point :-)
That's what desktop OS means to me (not a complete list):

Mouse support

File system access with permissions / access control

Boot control

Background non gui processes

Custom Drivers

Ability to change OS behavior given enough permissions

Multiple display support

Default tab-order behavior for the input boxes, and tons of other input box behaviors

Apps that can be resized and can set their own size.

Ability to mount drives, including remote SSH.
The anti-patent patent pool
I don't know where you got black and white thinking from. I wouldn't say Bill Gates doesn't love computers, just that he loves something else more. Something that may very well not be good for computing.

Uber and AirBnB? Do they love the work they do? Maybe. But they love themselves more. They love the idea of being "disruptors" or "innovators" or "rich" more than they care about transportation, housing, or their customers.

And those guys who love sports? Maybe they love winning more.

It's easy to feign passion, after all. Especially when you're already committed to investors.
To clarify, I meant that fq_codel solves bufferbloat. Its wide adoption will solve the problem globally and being present at Linux will help that, as Linux is the kernel in several home network appliances.

Other AQMs could solve it, if properly implemented, but fq_codel needs no tweaking.

CORRECTION:

fq_codel is not default in Linux, but is default in some distributions, like Fedora.
They likely didn't speak to an IRB.

I've complained a number of times about sketchy behavior from researchers in the space of "Bitcoin transaction deanonymization" which were likely to cause harm to people and have reliably gotten a response from CS departments that sounds like "anyone could do this, so there are no ethical considerations".

E.g. for an example in print from CMU, see section 6.2 of http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7139

I don't consider the argument persuasive:

First, if we look to physical law there is no experiment that couldn't just be conducted by 'anyone'-- That nothing prevents me from stabbing you in the chest just to see what happens doesn't make it ethical.

Much research in this space ends up actually breaking the law-- at least pedantically. For example, in the above citation they talk about the efforts they had to go through to avoid being blocked ("We spent some additional effort making our measurements as difficult to detect as possible", "Perhaps, bypassing the authentication mechanism
and associated CAPTCHA by reusing an authentication cookie could be construed as a “hack.” However, we argue this is nothing more than using a convenient feature that the site operators have willingly offered their visitors.") which demonstrates that their access was beyond their authority, a violation of the CFAA (at least by the standard Weev, who incremented a counter in a URL, was prosecuted under!). Even outside of criminal law, the foreseeable harm you cause to another by investigating them opens you up to a tort even when 'anyone' could have performed the investigation.

Researchers have access to institutional, governmental, and structural support (cheap students) which heighten the potential risk of their work (as well as their potential liability). But even ignoring that, research that causes harm to people is harmful regardless of who does it. Owing to the heightened risk and liability public institutions have infrastructure for harm mitigation which appears to be being bypassed.

It sounds like over a million dollars of public funding went into these recent attacks, and efforts the tor project spent defending those attacks were diverted from being spent on protecting against other ones.

But I don't think any of this is a problem limited to CMU or even University research.

I think Computing professionals are simply falling down on their ordinary professional and ethical obligations to the users of their systems on a regular basis, in part because we're making a mistake of confusing the appropriate adversarial model we use for security analysis for an ethical maxim... and CMU acting as paid outsourced law enforcement due process violation mill is just a symptom of a greater dysfunction along with things like the Facebook emotional manipulation experiment.

Edit: This is speculation on my part based on responses I've seen when asking researchers about their; but I am told that at least on other projects CMU CS does at times seek IRB approval, so my impression that they never do is probably sampling error.
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/
It'd probably have to be a monolithic dome
And Prolog.
Fair point, but in my mind for $500mm any wood should be at least 3" thick reclaimed teak or more expensive.
I am saying that regardless of what we'd like to expect, we should prepare for the unexpected. Picking your attacker is doomed to fail; don't try. I don't think this is controversial.
Plywood is a lot better than unreinforced masonry in an earthquake.
How SpatialOS Works
already posted, with unaltered title, earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10543627
Udacity raises $105M at $1B valuation to fuel international growth
An interactive visualization of global scientific collaboration
Bank of America and Chase both have it. You can send money to someone using their email address or mobile phone number.
Agreed - I was expecting something like poured cement for strength and insulation.
Interesting investment insight. I assume you have amassed fantastic wealth by now given your ability to predict market collapses.
One problem is the fact that you need to have an iPhone. Unless Apple makes it usable on Android. That would legitimately surprise me.
> Well the question is then what's the point other than a personal exercise?

What's your question? Is it "What's the point of blocking ICMP?"? Or is it the opposite question?

If it's the former, then there are sysadmins out there who cargo-cult their network configuration and listen to folks like Gibson Research Corporation who've been giving really bad advice [0] for the past decade+.

[0] Specifically, they strongly recommend dropping all traffic to ports that don't have listening services, along with all ICMP, rather than rejecting said traffic and allowing all non-problematic ICMP. They also have a "handy" tool [1] to make it look like doing anything else is "DANGEROUS": (The tool reports [2] if your site responds to ICMP echo requests.)

[1] https://www.grc.com/shieldsup

[2] Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED) — Your system REPLIED to our Ping (ICMP Echo) requests, making it visible on the Internet. Most personal firewalls can be configured to block, drop, and ignore such ping requests in order to better hide systems from hackers. This is highly recommended since "Ping" is among the oldest and most common methods used to locate systems prior to further exploitation.
Algae engineered to deliver chemotherapy only to cancerous cells
Typically both single-core and multiple-core benchmarks are reported. Because some workloads can be effectively multithreaded while others cannot, single-core performance is often as useful a metric as multi-core performance.
It is, but a lot of in-game object behaviors (and almost all modding) was done in "UnrealScript", a sort of java like language that compiles to bytecode.

https://ardvaark.net/unrealscript-and-domainspecific-languag...

UE4 seems to have more complex scripting capabilities:

> UE4 also includes new developer features to reduce iteration time, and allows updating of C++ code while the engine is running. The new "Blueprint" visual scripting system (a successor to UE3's "Kismet"[80]) allows for rapid development of game logic without using C++, and includes live debugging.[81][82]
Easier than having it automatically installed on your phone, already aware of your contacts and payment details, and able to recognize nearby iphones and offer them as Payee's?

This service will push adoption of apple pay as well as benefit as people start to use it; I predict it'll take off here in exactly the same way that Paypass and similar took off in Australia when they were introduced. Lots of skepticism tied to a huge acceleration in uptake.
Chase has "QuickPay", where you just enter the recipient's info, and the transfer is near-instantaneous. Only works with other Chase customers, however. Other banks have similar systems.
You can do this easily with Square Cash and Venmo already.
Victims of the Ashley Madison hack can have their story heard on this site
Shopify is build through and through for the developer ecosystem. We very intentionally leave lots of profitable space in the ecosystem so that others can build companies on top of our platform.

We also sweat over every API addition, often launching new features API first before we even put UI into the product to use the same features.

The developer platform is really core to us even if it sometimes doesn't strictly make economical sense to divert so much potential revenue to others. Yet, that's the long term game we are playing and it's working.

The reason is simple: Commerce is really different business to business. There is no way to build a single (good) product that solves all requirements.

Our philosophy is pretty simple: Shopify adds whatever most people need most of the time. This changes over time - towards the end of the last decade people sold mobile optimized themes. This was something we had to build into the platform because everyone needed that. Things that only some people need some of the time ( or similar variations on the theme ) should be supplied by the app store.

If you find inconsistencies between what's happening and what I'm saying here, please email me at tobi@shopify.com
As a lisper, the content is similarly well executed. It's a rarity to see both in one place.
Yeah. I don't care too much one way or the other, myself. I do miss having a house heated by radiators rather than forced air, though.
http://rhaas.blogspot.sg/2015/11/parallel-sequential-scan-is...
Javanese wooden houses are made of teak, which proved not to be terribly good in earthquakes.

Plywood, despite its low-brow demeanor, is far more suited to flexing than hard teak wood.

If we're talking boats, on the other hand, then teak is the clear winner.
> The drawing experience on the Surface has been perfect, the display resolution also best of class.

How’s the latency, precision, pressure sensitivity, palm rejection (especially latency)?

Have you compared the generations of the Surface w/ Wacom vs. N-Trig tech? Have you tried a recent Cintiq? If so, any thoughts?

I’d really love to see some reviews from artists comparing Cintiq vs. Surface Pro 2 vs. Surface Pro 3 vs. iPad Pro for stylus use.
Building the Community's Largest Labeled Mobile and Sensor Dataset
Venmo still takes several days to transfer the money to your account, and you have to remember to request the funds—they don't even begin the transfer process until you do that.

It would literally be faster to write your friend a check.

We need instant cash transfers in the United States, like the rest of the world has.
Payment channels combined with the lightning network (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zVzw912wPo) would allow Apple to create create off-chain transactions and aggregate micropayments into individual bitcoin transactions.

However, unless Apple has had a secret bitcoin project going on for the past few years, it's too early to deploy something like this. Their first person-to-person product certainly wouldn't use a cryptocurrency.
Entrepreneur Overcomes U.S. Immigration With Social Impact Gaming
They are hit and miss. iCloud is somewhere between okay and meh (Photos made it worse), Music is terrible, but Apple Pay and iMessage are fantastic.
Which Hollywood movies feature the most ridiculous code?
I think this article is pretty on the money. We've been looking to hire front-end developers in senior positions all over Australia for the last few months... and it has been tough.

What we often find is that people do a CompSci undergrad then find work in .Net or Java — only to realise a few months later that they much prefer to work as a FED (front-end developer) and didn't even know it was an option. (front-end and back-end development are two very large and robust teams in my place of employment)

A bit part of that, as the author touches on, is that the skills required to be a good FED are varied (and not always specifically about programming). The root of the problem in Australia is that the front-end development position exists professionally but not academically.

Its difficult to find universities or courses which offer accreditation or certification in a front-end specific skill-set.
My Jekyll install (https://collantes.us/) is also minimal. I truly love Jekyll, and the flexibility that presents: add post (.md file), commit, done.
Was anybody really complaining that their iPad wasn't fast enough? Was that holding back developers?

When combined with Apple's effectively forced upgrade policy with iOS, yes, many people have complained that their iPad is no longer fast enough, even if it was just fine before the OS update.

App developers are forced to collaborate in that exercise by Apple deciding which versions of iOS (and visual styles etc.) apps must support to go into the App Store.

Probably the most serious example so far was people with 2nd or 3rd generation iPads, who were effectively forced to update to at least iOS 7 because of app compatibility issues. Significant numbers of users appear to have experienced serious performance problems afterwards (just google any plausible complaint wording) and to have reported varying degrees of success in ever resolving them.
This student entrepreneur partnered with the FIFA World Cup
how does it compare to uTorrent 2.2?
> because ops people are not capable of doing code reviews

That's probably specific to your organization.
Single Node Caffe Scoring and Training on Haswell
My experience with Chase "quick" pay is that the money disappears for several days and occasionally never reaches the recipient.
Apple Music is for 'everyone,' even Android users
Installed this earlier today, only thing thats worrying me so far is that it seems to wake up my phone (to the point it asks for the passcode) every now and then. Not really a fan of that happening all the time as I can see it draining the battery pretty quick. From what I remember reading through the GammaThingy source code it has something to do with needing to wake up the display to change the gamma (https://github.com/thomasfinch/GammaThingy/blob/2b504461c4f1...) but it seems to be doing quite a lot more even once the max temperature has been reached...

Edit: also probably worth mentioning, unlike GammaThingy the implementation of f.lux is hidden inside of a compiled nib.
Don't you mean "have something to lose"?
Winning Isn’t Everything: John Weaver and the Business of Political Seduction
If you look at the overall trends, economic mobility is decreasing for most Americans.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/20...

Calling the US a 'feudal' state is obviously hyperbolic, but it's most definitely a classist society.
It's pretty standard QoS measure, network schedulers especially for multiplexed/aggregated networks will have a bias for small packets, you should be able to find performance statistics for various token bucket configurations that will demonstrate that.
Disadvantages of using Disqus as your commenting system:

1. Your comments are in disqus, and not local to your server
2. Users with JS disabled are not going to see the comments
3. Friends and other would-be commenters may be banned by Disqus without having been banned by you.

As to point 1, I believe there's an API that you can retrieve your messages from if you ever want to migrate away from Disqus, but the other two (I think) hold true no matter what.
How on earth did they come up with such a good name for it?
Can we please stop decrying black hats without nuance? Because that whole "CMU is blackhat now" thing? That's not what happened here.

Selling exploits exclusively to assist the government is very much like a large swath of white hats.

What do you think Infragard is? It's Feds rubbing elbows with crooked pro-government technologists. But they're the white hats, remember.

At the end of the day, you only have green hats (the color of money), and people who don't wear hats at all. The black/white distinction has become meaningless.

Recommended reading: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/
I can't really disagree with your list, but I feel most of it demonstrates power user features rather than typical needs of a professional. I repeat my earlier point: I don't see much there that, for example, a graphic artist would demand. Very few people in the wider populace use multiple displays. Most people wouldn't know what boot control, background processes, or even filesystems are. Tab-order is screwed even on a 'real' OS like OSX.

My main gripe is this belief that the iPad is somehow less capable because it doesn't run a 'real' OS when, in fact, it is usable precisely because it runs an OS tailored towards its purpose as a device for consumption, primarily, but also for specialised professional niches that don't involve tinkering under the bonnet for the sake of it — not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
Ask HN: Are we just not mean't to be as cofounders?
We met a few years back, he tried to recruit me for an idea of his, at the time i was running my own company and backed out.

Fast forward to now, we just started talking again ~5 months ago, and about 3 months ago we decided we would 'date' to see if we were a good fit to be business cofounders.

Our problem is: we have each other, but in 3 months off and on - talking ~3 hrs per week, we have not been able to find a suitable, and viable business idea to work on.

Has anyone had a similar experience? How did it end? What would you do in my case?

Thanks
iCloud Photos is still very slow. With Photostream, it used to be that photos were available almost instantly. Now I have to wait minutes, sometimes hours, for photos to sync from, say, my iPhone to my Mac. It's not a bandwidth issue on my end.
It's not absurd. Just because the law lets you do something does not mean that you should, or that doing so is morally right.
TensorFlow built a language, AzureML uses a bunch of languages of your choice to build any machine learning on Azure. Try it https://studio.azureml.net/ follow the tutorial
I think the problem is that it's really hard to pin down, in a legally operational way, which country "really" produced the good, when intelligent people are trying to tax-optimize it all.

Let's say you concoct a scheme (pretty sure this is typical) where you have the artwork for a movie actually done in the UK, but on paper, you write it up like your selling the British workers' output to Luxembourg, then having the latter work on it, then buying it back into the UK at a huge markup.

Certainly, to an expert, it will be obvious that it's a sham to say any art was produced in Luxembourg. But this would have to be a distinction that can be seen by a tax accountant. All they see is, "Lux bought IP, UK bought their IP, seems legit".

Edit: rewrite for clarity
Poor choice of words on my part, if you configure jump frames on your uplink you are going to kill your network stack, if you limit it too much you'll have a huge overhead.
The point being is that for transferring data especially when responsiveness is important if not paramount utilizing the maximum potential frame size you can push without fragmentation would generally yield a poorer result in real world applications.