skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but it's at least good PR. Like some other companies, they do a lot of "nice" things that may not gain them anything immediately but it's good for branding and it's still a "by Google" tag on something people want. It reminds me more of companies that underwrite NPR programs or whatever. They aren't getting paid directly but lots of potential customers hear their name and that they sponsored something you want.
I could imagine choosing to describe one's diet as Mid-Victorian solely for the bonus points it would earn one at the next Steampunk meetup.
See jandrese's response to your comment. It's not a trivial $6/day is not a trivial cost for even lower middle class people.
I'm curious how that would be found so quickly - presumably it would have to be the title, because performances are individual.

And why would Google even take such a claim seriously? If you're playing Bach clearly no one has a claim.
Just as video uploaders can have strikes placed against their accounts, so should users of the ContentID system.

A potential solution would be adding a "fraudulent claim" response option (requiring a detailed explanation) for people to reply to takedown/monetization notices with. When a ContentID account gets too many of these checks (verified by an actual human being working at youtube) they are cut off from the system for a period of time.

If this response is used incorrectly more than a couple of times by a given account, they would be locked out of using it in the future to prevent flagrant abuse/bogging down of the system.

Potential for liability on false copyright claims will never be added to the law because big entertainment has the government in its pocket. Thus it falls on content hosts/providers to force abusive industries to "play fair".

ContentID itself being a terrible system is beside the point, and an argument for another day.
> How can a hedge fund issue options until options are legally able to trade? Short answer, they can't.

Couldn't a hedge fund call up their bank of choice and ask them to write a custom OTC option? Assuming of course the bank wants to take the other side of the trade. Or does the law prohibit any sort of derivatives created by anyone?
Yeah, but getting Kermit properly configured required the blood of three chickens and a wizard. Z-Modem had sane defaults right out of the box.
I think I agree with you, but I'm willing to consider that there might be a bit more nuance to the issue. Like I said, I'd have to think about it more to be sure (that is speaking only in regards to somebody who already has an addiction).

But overall, I am still for complete legalization of all drugs, as I still hold that a consenting adult has the right to put any substance in his/her body that he/she chooses.

I would also oppose a law restricting the advertising of prescription drugs. But, then again, in my world, the distinction between "prescription" or not would be a lot fuzzier anyway. It might even disappear altogether.
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And here an online player for SID files:

http://simulationcorner.net/Sidplayer/index.html
Heh, this is almost my exact same workflow.
I'd bet it's pretty low, too. Even those less demanding BigCo jobs are often gated by a proxy IQ test in the form of coding challenges, and I'm not seeing any signs of those going away.
If he's going to treat you as shitty whether you made a single error after a long, long time of perfectly competent contributions or you write code that reads like you typed it with your face all the time, then I really don't think it makes a difference.
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It worked great for kids cartoons. Talk the kids into bugging their parents to buy the sugary cereal and overpriced plastic toys.
It's not guaranteed to be atomic in failure conditions. Also, the biggest difference between Redis and Geode would be the "distributed" part, which involves maintaining these guarantees across a cluster of machines (which Redis demonstratingly doesn't do).
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It currently does not support unicode strings, since the current implementation uses standard C character arrays

... err, just a tiny issue!
That's not at all disingenuous; the two are completely unrelated. :)

The DOM uses local state extensively, and sometimes you need to interact directly with its API. When you do, you can either do more work to translate it into your preferred architecture, or not.

In this case I didn't think the extra work required to wrap the DOM API for cursor position would be worth the trouble.

That's certainly not an endorsement of the DOM's architecture. ;)
Is this a cable modem or a router? My definition of cable modem doesn't include an IP address.

These POCs never include enough information for me. For instance, is this exploitable from the external interface, or only internal?
I've been meaning to search for exactly this for 'personal production' use. I think it fits the bill in a great way.

Say you have a blog, or even some kind of small application, only you develop/administrate it, and only you ever will. SSHing in couldn't be simpler, but front-end authentication sucks. Everything available feels overkill to just authenticate that you are you. Most recently, I just used HTTP basic auth, resolving to see if there was a way to use SSH 'soon'.
The AWS SDK for Go is now 1.0
I did not try sodium. But to be clear, the picture of a place to throw my empty soda cans which turned them into melted bits was the attraction, all without hooking up to grid power. I'm not actually trying to smelt aluminum as some are.

But watching folks melting alumninum is instructive.
Yes. However the sad fact is (sad at least if you dont like politicians) that politicians ARE the knowledge class for ruling.

Technocratic views always seem to me to be a variant of the 'old physicist' problem (http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2556); that is, smart people in a given field wrongly assuming they are just generally smart, rather than specifically.
Relational Databases is one key area where Google Cloud can improve. Adding support for the most used databases (Maria, Postgres and may be Google own version of SQL-like AWS Aurora to support large data stores) and easing the migration path for companies to move their databases into Cloud can ease a lot of customer pain. This can accelerate the migration to Cloud much faster. It is very difficult for companies to move to Cloud and adopt NoSQL stores simultaneously.
URL suggests it was once "Work/Life".

Great, strong parental leave policy, especially enabling fathers to take their leave further down the track when they can possibly have a stronger impact. (First few months are largely supporting your partner through feeding schedules.)
> trusted to run their own lives

Most of the time yes, but this is about creating a functioning market. I don't think people can be trusted to create a functioning market for products they sometimes can't set a monetary value on (if they are ill) and sometimes don't understand (because they aren't doctors).

> Britain for instance allows over the counter medicine that's illegal in the US.

I'd guess there is medicine that is allowed over the counter in the US that would be prescription in the US. But the bulk is probably the same.

I fail to see how not being able to tell my doctor he should provide me with a specific prescription medication is detrimental to how I run my life.

Healthcare costs need to be held down, most importantly in single payer systems, but it's quite important in insurance based systems too.
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It felt like he was biting his tongue and really pulling punches when mentioning the complexity of C++.

I also liked the comment about some of the good ideas being lost over time. I would love to hear an in depth talk about some of the serious the regressions we have in modern software systems and design.
It's hard to tell the difference between "using with impunity" and "totally being monitored by organizations who don't wish to tip their hand." Neither is particularly more speculative than the other.

Edit: ...for a service as new and questionable as Telegram.
Do any HN'ers have experience with the SAD lamp available from Costco?
No, he won't be able to present evidence at any trial. It's much more than keeping some testimony sealed.
> You don't trust your email provider?

It's a luxury those days, with email providers snooping over messages to show your advertisements and all sort of TLAs snooping just because they feel so. There is some buzz about end-to-end encryption out there for a reason, and the reason is a lot of people don't trust their email providers.

But I reasonably do. I'm hosting my email myself, on the hardware I own, located on my own premises. Although I may get hacked - one can't be ever sure they won't - most modern systems are too complex for any single human to grasp and sometimes bad things just happen.

But I don't trust my domain registrar and the network. DNS may get poisoned/spoofed, network may be tapped and traffic redirected, registry or nameservers may get hacked or subpoenae'd (ok, I'm not a criminal, but who has a protection from powerful authorities if they suddenly decide they want you?) and whatever else.
Popular Google Chrome extensions are constantly tracking you by default
Orwell was so insightful. It's rubbish being poor. And it's not a choice, or a result of bad morals.
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Genetically-modified salmon to be sold without being labelled as such
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By percentage of household spending, the US spends less on food than anyone else. There are several articles about this. This was the first search result for me:

http://www.ibtimes.com/us-spends-less-food-any-other-country...
Deep inside the Linux kernel: a network latency spike
Yeah HIPAA doesn't cover data provided by patients to businesses. Should it? I don't know, probably.
My favorite over the top rant on the pains of this profession: http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks It's much more than just sitting in front of a screen all the time, which I think a lot of people can think isn't that bad either given they themselves spend so much time in front of their monitors and televisions... (That particular aspect doesn't bother me at all, I was a gamer before I was a programmer.)
> Yes, but by default a modem from your ISP is acting as a NAT device routing to a private IP space.

Not in my experience. The default modem provided by both Comcast and Knology (who is -I guess- now WOW!) is (or was, in the case of Knology) a bridge device that requires you to provide your own router. You have to ask for a modem that's also a router to get something that's not a bridge.

That doesn't mean that the modem doesn't have an IP address, mind. AIUI, on Comcast's network the modem gets an IPv6 address so that they can do network management stuff to it.
In 5 years will AWS still have 25% operating margins?
Thats worrisome. I knew they could ping for info/reboot it but had no idea they had write access to the device.
Fenc: a command line utility to just f^H^H^H^H^H^Hully encrypt a file
> The point of banning encryption isn't too stop criminals from using it, it's to stop non-criminals.

It's not an either/or situation, banning encryption is designed primarily to stop criminals from using it. It is also effective. It's obviously not 100% effective, it's probably more like 75% effective. I think you're assuming that most of the people arguing for prohibition are dreaming of a police state, and I think you're constructing an oversimplification that doesn't acknowledge the facts.
Since the blog post contains the player just the same as the current link, it would probably be better to change the link to the blog.
That's a caricature of his actual position, please be more honest than that.

edit:

Here's another video that does a better job of conveying his reasons for being the way he is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA&t=35m41s

He's also been on record as saying multiple times that a lot of it is because he comes from a culture that's much more abrasive than US.
Ain't going to happen before AI.

As a 'just so' story think of the radio play 'War of the Worlds' and how hard that is to do in video, then take that again to VR.

VR/AR means rather than one story your telling multiple at once.

The human hours is just prohibitively expensive.

It currently pays off because of novelty, but that's it.

What might work is raw footage of something in progress (Since the situation 'pays' for the 3D) but this is rare to non existent in proper journalism.

Take the shots being fired in the Paris raid filmed by a 'citizen journalist'. All immersion would achieve is seeing into the photographers apartment.

This drone footage would work, but it's less a story about Syria and more about war porn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ELAa02TUY
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10589040
Agreed. I don't think we need a wall either. But we do need something. I was just pointing out that putting up a wall doesn't make you a bad person.
How about C:

We have a tight deadline. Why don't you approach this by doing x and y. After we're finished and have production code deployed, you can refactor into z.

In the process of implementing x and y, the developer will soon learn that z is inferior. If he doesn't, you need to get rid of him because he's incapable of learning.
Even those less demanding BigCo jobs are often gated by a proxy IQ test

I'd be way of assuming that anybody working a blue-collar job has a low IQ. There are lots of reasons people take the jobs they take, and IQ is only one of those reasons. I would wager that there are a significant number of coal miners, plumbers, auto mechanics, etc. who are just as "smart" in the general sense as the average HN reader. I obviously don't know an exact percentage, but the stereotype that "blue collar == dumb" is definitely not valid as a generalization.
I don't like either result of discussing whether or not terrorists use encryption.

Terrorists used unencrypted communication -> government will want to spy on everyone's unencrypted content more.

Terrorists used encryption -> Government wants to restrict encryption.

Instead discussion should be around what is already legal but wasn't done and why.
> Again, your conclusion about Muslims being fundamentally blood-thirsty is unsupported.

I've certainly never concluded that, you can verify all what I wrote. What I wanted to point out is that there is real danger that once Muslims attempt to read the "primary sources" themselves discover inspiration for immense intolerance, really not comparable to such present in Old or New Testament (and I've met some very radical and unpleasant Christians too). Not to mention that most "converts" are sucked in over their acquaintances, independently of the will of their families.

> most Muslims don't want to kill you

One of my best friends from childhood from basically secular Muslim family later converted to more fundamental Islam and he specifically isn't fighting except intellectually, at least as far as I know about him now, so you don't need to explain me that. Still I personally saw the fundamentalism rising and was actually close enough to atrocities of different kinds and directions. A member of my family had the luck just by accident to avoid one Islamic bomb attack. A few generations ago more neighboring (Christian) villages of my relative were wiped out by Muslims, women and children included. The world isn't for everybody as nice as is maybe for you so that you can just turn the head away and pretend that dangerous and disgraceful things don't exist and in some periods don't ugly grow.

Ask Armenians (Christians killed by the Ottoman Turks): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide

A Hindu from India also gave his voice in this discussion and somebody downvoted him, even though he wanted to point to something meaningful:

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

"The Indian historian Professor K.S. Lal estimates that the Hindu population in India decreased by 80 million between 1000 AD and 1525 AD, an extermination unparalleled in World history" [3]" (at the time of Muslim invasions and rule)

The Christians in the areas controlled by the Islamic law had the periods of "relatively quiet times" (with always much worse treatment than Muslims) and another periods of extreme suffering performed by the Muslim ruling minority. Note: just the minority of the population in their area were Muslims, and that was enough for extreme suffering. The biggest proof: Hindus.

So what the "most" of Muslim population does isn't even important. Even small number of determined oppressors (claiming to do just what their religion gives them right to do) is enough to make huge damage. And this can't be downplayed.
Take a look at Netflix's Falcor (full disclosure: I wrote lots of it).
She needs to write a book. Interesting life...
It doesn't work like that. You can take down any video instantly just by filing a copyright against it.
Correction: a lot of meat. The diet was basically animal protein and vegetables. In their linked studies, the authors make it clear that offal in particular was consumed far more heavily than today. I guess it was cheaper than skeletal muscle meat.
How about an essay from some of the billions of people outside the US and managed somehow to go on with life without being in America.
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Though animations like these are nice, can somebody give some examples of svg animations that are a part of the usable interface?

For example, we have animating buttons and panels and UX elements, which I can't imagine doing in SVG.

Waiting bubbles, etc. are great, I'm just not sure of the widespread value. Happy to be shown a different view though.
How about a one-of-a-kind food that retains its value for a year or more?
Ah, I agree on that front. That does make sense.

But I still don't think this should distract from a conversation about encryption. Encryption has very importat implications for free press and privacy far outside of preventing terrorism, and it's important that it stay legal and accessible to normal people. Experts need to make their voices heard so that legal decision isn't made by people unconcerned with these important issues.
It is people that put their hearts into the work that made great things. Being polite should a technique rather than principal; if deeply in one's heart it is to make a great product. Also, when it's appropriate why not be rude to make things moving? Isn't it like the relationship of summer sunshine and winter snow; people perceive things based on different perspectives, as long as it's a natural reaction, why should we bother. I'd rather take candor rudeness than seemingly polite pretending. But of course, vice versa.
B doesn't send the same message, there are too many weasel words, and rather than being polite, comes off as giving the other person authority. I think.

Here's how I would phrase it: "Thanks for the patch. How does your code deal with condition X? We're a big project that needs to consider the needs of users under many different circumstances, so even if it seems like X only happens in 1 out of every 10,000 cases, that means it happens every five minutes to one of our users somewhere in the world."

The idea is that you know the contributor didn't check for X, but you're giving them the option of saving face. You just asked them whether they considered such a condition and explained why it might be important.

Edit: and if they did consider X, they can explain why their solution is okay. You could be wrong in thinking that it's not.
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That's fair. It's worth pointing out though that that particular comparison was between healthy and unhealthy food. There are various other studies out there that look at the cost of fast food vs. home-cooked healthy meals and things of that sort and found that the healthier meals were often cheaper. Of course, as others have pointed out there are other costs and other types of costs associated with food prep.
Color me surprised and happy... I hope this become a reality.
The start of paragraph six provides three links to related studies.
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Not a big fan of the Enlightenment, eh?
Cable modems are based on a pre-Carterphone philosophy that the modem is an extension of the ISP and is completely owned (and 0wned), configured, updated, etc. by the ISP. They let you buy your own, but that doesn't change the protocol.
https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/introduction
Evan has described a lot of the thinking behind his decisions in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYk8CKH7OhE

The <~ for Signal.map is a good example for a "clever" thing which makes languages hard to read for newbies. It looks like it's part of the syntax and not a function. It's not hard to understand, but it's another thing to learn. I am very happy that things are removed from Elm (or not added in the first place, like type classes) because design is not finished when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing more to remove.
Wal-Mart doe not run a centralized economy. It runs a business that buys items for one price in one location, then sells them at another price in another.

Running an economy is a political affair. People can decide not to go to Wal-Mart; they cannot as easily decide not to be a citizen.

Quite frankly, a large majority of the horrors of the 20th century were due to folks thinking "Oh, I understand where we went wrong this last time with our centralized planning. This time will be much better!" There's a ton of reasons for this -- enough to put in a book. Or several books. And those books are out there if you are interested in them.

A related question is this: can you run just a simple store like Wal-Mart through a technocracy? You probably can to a certain degree, then it falls apart. The more you can automate, of course, the less actual value you are creating. Software continues to eat the world.

But no, feedback cycle time is not the issue. Not even close.
I have searched for this before too as I'm not comfortable vacationing in places where I'm completely disconnected for a week at a time. Though the only thing I've been able to find are BGAN terminals. The equipment rental + data is extremely expensive.
This is a very inspiring story. As a reminder though, this kind of "rural sourcing" isn't a totally new concept.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ruralsourcing
This is true only if corporate executives are amoral automatons running hill-climbing algorithms. Rather than, say, citizens who use logic to make responsible decisions not just for their short-term profits but for the long-term good of their community.

Well, the system we have now really encourages that short-term, profit-finding behavior for corporations and the people who make decisions in them.

Many of the side-effects are just not part of the accounting, and therefore are not important to investors.

Money, money, money.
Without going on too long a tangent, this hasn't been our experience in practice at NoRedInk. We've built some absurdly complex UIs involving those same design needs, and what you're describing just has not been a problem.

I'd suggest giving it a try. It's really nice. :)
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Are you not aware that 88,000 people die from alcohol-related causes every year in the US and that alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of death?

http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-con...
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