skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of populations on HN. Some of us avoid those topics like the plague. So no general indictment can be made.

Those topics are poisonous because they can't be driven to a conclusion in two paragraphs or less. And most everything's been said, so they run in circles rehashing tired points. Not to say they aren't important topics. But it takes an essay of 100 pages to cover all the ground, or a PhD even. But everybody has opinions, often based on whatever they just were thinking about. Their arguments come off as sophomoric (which they mostly are). Folks point that out, and away they spin.
Exactly. And why should it matter anyways who posted the article here on HN? The community here decides what is or is not worthy of discussion, not any single company.
The undercurrent running through "I Am a Strange Loop" was the grief of losing his wife to brain cancer.

The playful discourse evident in GEB was no more.
No. See:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/01/17/notdane.html

There are 3873497 CAs your browser has to trust today. DANE adds a 3873498th and a 3873499th, and the ones it adds are controlled by NSA.

The solution to the CA problem is to drastically reduce the power CAs have, which is what is happening with key pinning and certificate transparency and whatever follows that.

The solution to the CA problem can't possibly be "create a new super-CA controlled by governments".
Wow, it basically reads like one of dozens of 'creative person is successful, not good with their money or the business parts' stories, just with the Wright brothers.

I mean, sure, if establishing a monopoly and aiming for maximum monetary extraction from a market is the primary goal - which it seems to be for many people (here and otherwise) - then yeah, they "blew it" so to speak. Still, first in flight, history remembers this, and all pilots must speak English if they expect to land in the United States and most well-to-do nations. Oh, and this tidbit:

>In October 1915 Orville sold the Wright Company to a group of investors for a reported $1.5 million.

...a quick calculation makes it look like in today's value that'd be around $35 million. Might not sound like a lot for the Forbes business crowd, but that's a good chunk of change in my opinion.

Their secrecy surely didn't help them, but trying to apply that to today's environment is just stupid. The likelihood of being 'ripped off' is more of a concern now than ever - if the idea can make it to China, it can be made in China without recourse. Try playing whack-a-mole with lawsuits while trying to do business as the originator? Sounds like a terrible business plan.

I'm going to be writing an essay about 'Why I keep secrets as a struggling inventor' soon, and will submit it here for discussion. In it will be one design from years ago that I feel comfortable showing in public. Grand scheme of things I know I have to pay for protection in the patent game, but even with the patent, there are still risk factors in the global scene.
War profiteering: Report alleges Kenyan army colludes with Shabaab in smuggling
At least Verizon FIOS in the Boston area lets you opt-out of all sports channels so you are not charged this fee.
2 points. I won't speak for myself, but from what I've gathered from friends:

1. A lot of people seem to like video ads. Movie ads specially tell you 'whats hot', and general ads put you 'in the loop' so to speak. I've tried to install ABV for a couple of people who won't let me because they actually like ads (as in youtube, not the shiny bright popups). This may be true for more people than HN crowd would assume.

2. One of the biggest problems I have with non-cable is that I need to think. When I'm with friends, we spend a very considerable amount of time trying to agree on what we want to watch, and often end up watching some stupid cute cat video because we couldn't decide. TV solves that. Perhaps if cable were referred to as 'a curated platform of best video content, being streaming 24/7', the conception would change?
If this technology produces real diamonds of high quality, but at cheaper cost, I wonder what its impact will be on diamond prices over time. Most likely they will decline, no?
How does DNSSEC give immense control over TLS keys to sites in those TLDs exactly? I think I'm missing something.
I deleted my Facebook account after realizing that every time I would go on it, the clickbait and mindless minutia would irritate me more than entertain me. between the advertisements, there would be 'you'll never guess what happens next!' posts, then political propaganda, then children/marriage updates on people I hadn't interacted with in years. At a certain point, I realized that it wasn't even fun to me anymore, so I bid farewell to everyone, backed up my contacts & pictures, then deleted my facebook. It's been about two years since I left and, for the most part, I don't really regret it.

With that said, what I do regret is missing out on my growing family. My cousins from out of state as well as my siblings are getting married and having kids. I was helping my mom log into her facebook the other day and I saw pictures of my niece's first day of ballet class and my nephew's first day of kindergarden. It made me light up and think "Ah shit, I'm kind of missing out on these things." Although I see them every now and then, stuff like that is the only reason I would even consider getting back on FB. I find it funny that it's for a completely different purpose from when I first joined in college.
Ah, here's one from a pro-helmet resource: http://www.bhsi.org/limits.htm

It indicates that helmets in the U.S. are only tested for 14 mph impacts.

It's not that the helmet stops working altogether, it's that the helmet's protection really isn't sufficient. It'd be better to wear a full-face motorcycle helmet, but of course that'd be miserable on a bike.
The US retiring the Space Shuttle was a cost saving choice. It's cheaper to pay the Russians for transport while we are developing a replacement that's meant for longer range manned missions (Mars and the Moon).[1]

[1]http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2011-05-15...
They could set up their own fdroid repo anyone could add to fdroid. Decentralization over an open protocol is a good thing. Guardian Project hosts their own and it's bundled, but there are a few private repos in the wild you can add today. It's similar to Ubuntu's third party sources or ppas. If big open companies started supporting it, maybe it would gain some steam. This would sidestep some of fdroid's official repo's more stringent requirements.

https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Setup_an_FDroid_App_Repo
Attachment to highway bill would deregulate trading of startup employee shares
So what are you suggesting, that we all drive diesel cars?
Thank you for having a brain. You'd also need to have a new way of issuing money as mortgage lending is how we currently add fresh money as debt. I'd recommend something like social credit.
The motivating use case for DNSSEC is DANE. DANE stores TLS certificates in DNSSEC-signed DNS records. But the top of the DNSSEC tree is --- de jure! --- controlled by governments.
My gut thought is to look at it like radio. Radio won't go away because it only has 1 channel (AM) because it is a broadcast service. No infrastructure between the signal and you. Emergency services for example. More than that though TV and radio OTA broadcasts are something that should continue, there is 0 config, you just tune into the frequency and you get the message.
AvanceDB, an in-memory database based on the CouchDB REST API
If you want people to peacefully coexist then you have to establish civil rights. No one's existence should be contingent upon personal sentiments or arbitrary morals. Either, we all have the same rights or we have none. There should be no debate as to who should have these rights as they benefit all.
Online Matchmaking, but to Borrow a Dog
In the UK we have several free OTA channels. The commercial ones are funded mainly by advertising and by being available to all they can offer potentially more eyeballs to advertisers.
In addition to the GitHub project, the author posted:

- a presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au5a9aoX6Lg

- a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szpYFrm0Udc

Selling points seem to be performance and CouchDB compatibility: AvanceDB has blistering fast document lookup and map/reduce performance. If you are currently using CouchDB and struggle with view build times then AvanceDB should be a seamless replacement for your view workload.

Via the couchdb-user mailing list: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/201511...
I believe crowd-sourcing 'what to watch' will drive you to the lowest common denominator (cat videos). Instead, we take turns choosing. And live with what the other guys choose because, well, that's called being social. Its not too awfully painful to watch a costume drama once in a while.
I'm lucky enough that my lab bought me a Macbook, overcoming my main objection -- cost.

I still wouldn't use one as my home PC, though, because I like to play the occasional videogame.
Both Apple and Google take 30% cut. There's no way a game developer will want to use a PlayStation or Xbox VM and pay them another 20% (that's what console makers get today I think). They'll rather use an engine that already supports multiple platforms. All app developers are already building apps for Android and iOS without using any VM in most cases anyway.

Microsoft and Sony make billions of $s in revenue from their console platforms. It's not easy to switch to a VM play where you're a "nice to have," not a "must have" and continue making billions of $s.
Knote: a NLP and AI based system to eliminate the frustrations of studying
> sweet/salt/sour/bitter/umami

Better than 'umami' is the native English word: savoury. I really don't know why folks feel the need to reach for a foreign word when we already have a sufficient one, other than wanted to sound fancy.

It's like 'cilantro' instead of coriander, or 'arugula' instead of rocket.
No, normal selection is not out the window then. You've only added a second selection mechanism (parents) on top of nature's. And I'm afraid that selection will be based on hype alone.

As to "first impressions" and such, they're based on thousands of years of both social and genetic selection, and I don't think those traits are conveniently located in a single location. Even then, what if the same genome location controls both "first-look judgements" and "jump away from the path of that speeding bike"?

As to editing the genome, I'm afraid I don't share your optimism. I consider our genome to be a 3.2 billion-line BASIC program (the old-skool one, with line numbers and no variable scoping), without unit tests or documentation of course. Sure, you can replace a single line and still have the program compile or run correctly. But how are you going to conclusively prove that your modification has no unintended side-effects, for either current or future generations?
CQC open data used to show the state of care across the UK
I've been working on a project (with others) recently to create an interactive map and league table showing the quality and cost of care across the UK which can be found here: http://www.trustedcare.co.uk/care-map/

We used data openly available from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) (http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/how-get-and-re-use-cqc-information-and-data) and research from TrustedCare.co.uk (who commissioned the project).

The data shows 4,500 (approx.) of the 26,000 (approx.) care services have never been inspected and in the worst counties over 20% of care services inspected failed to achieve a rating of 'good'. Perhaps most interesting is that the data shows no correlation between the amount users pay and the quality of care they receive; many of the counties with the highest costs are ranked in the bottom third of the league table.

The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/elder/11988560/Costly-care-homes-may-not-be-the-best-league-tables-reveal.html) has used the data in an article today which also includes quotes from a number of prominent bodies/figures in the care industry.
Number 2 is true and very frustrating. I'd like to have a Netflix channel option. Sci-fi channel, horror channel etc. Did you ever call up someone else and tell them to turn to a channel then share in the same experience?
Hmm. Are you sure? How about tobacco, unbalanced food, guns, ... all these things are advertised and are causing deaths - so their hands are not clean either.

But yes, not their own customers, but the bad analogy holds only when you think that citizens are customers of the government.
The dreamplug is probably closer to the pogoplug in feature set (and definitely cost!).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GM1Q1O/?&tag=bcgpfeed-2...

It's dirt cheap ($10-20), easy to load linux on [1], and it can be a simple file server, it can run minidlna, google cloud print [2], all kinds of stuff.
800MHz is not a screamer, but most simple I/O tasks like A/V streaming and printing are a walk in the park.

[1] http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-series-4

[2] http://geekvisit.com/hacking-pogoplug-mobile-adding-airprint...
Effective Renewable Energy Policies Spur Investment and Economic Growth
That being said, we can clearly not conclude that 'content is king', right? If 'Meta' profile information biases submissions negatively? As mentionned earlier, I am not complaining simply stating a fact. As for YCOMT, it's from a funny episode of a comedy Show I used to watch ... live and learn I guess.
Well I just found out that international calling isn't included in my service plan :P
Good point; +1 for not bashing my opinion.

I will say that Venmo already is installed, is aware of my contacts, who I pay the most, and my payment details. But I use Apple Pay and I agree that it would be heavily adopted just because it's already there and it's one less "account" people have to worry about.
Were You Aware of All These Sensors in Your Smartphone?
> These days, there's a dozen screens in the home, and all of them have computing power many times greater than even the original XBox - more than enough juice to power a huge catalogue of existing games.

The TVs and so forth tend to be based on ARM SOCs that have miserable I/O systems; they're pretty good at decoding compressed video, but they're awful at locally generated frames. And they are not platforms in the sense that they have storage in the tens or hundreds of gigabytes range, or decent UIs, or a stable and common set of APIs that developers can successfully target.

So the TV hardware isn't sufficient, and the TV software definitely isn't. And you're not going to get (say) Fallout 4 or anything even remotely recent running on your TV without putting a decent GPU in there because now you're talking 100 watts (honestly, more than that) with corresponding amounts of cooling, plus boatloads of flash at $0.50/GB. TVs are a low-margin business. Better to keep the specialty hardware separate so you can stay in business.

[Don't get me started on cloud rendering. Capex and latency are . . . I won't even get started]
Understood but we've been "developing a replacement" for as long as I've been alive and near as I can tell we're farther from having a replacement than when we started.
Redis vs. RAMCloud
Secure DNS allows a number of nice things that otherwise are a risk, such as trusting server SSH fingerprints without prompting on first use.
"hyperbole to the extreme"? I beg to differ.

The modern US fascist state so far have managed to destroy all their sacred democratic values and entities: legal, political, law enforcement, press, TV, education, health system, basic infrastracture and is not thinking about stopping their endless offensive wars, while everybody is proud to support their army. The US doesn't give a damn about international laws and contracts and still thinks it can get away with bullying everybody as they like.
Almost an entire race sits in concentration camps, the so-called US prison system.

The NAZI party was the modern german part of fascism, while the modern US part has no name yet. Most of the industrial, press and wallstreet leaders were actual NAZI's, and I don't see any actual change despite the name.

Looking back to the NAZI times, extermination of entire races was very a well-hidden agenda. But why is the US law enforcement free to shoot any black people? This agenda is not really hidden and pretty obvious.
There is really not much difference, just that the US fascism is a much more modernized system. But the NAZI system was also a very modern and successful fascistic system those days. Not counting that the US NAZIs brought the German NAZIs to the power after all.

http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/rise_of_american_...
"One Country! One Language! One Flag!"

[ADDED] https://www.intellihub.com/america-today-parallels-nazi-germ... is also a popular link
I wonder whether netflix et al will introduce ads once cable is dead and the VoD market is saturated. After all, they too want to increase their profit at any point in time.
I've been using forums of one kind or another for nearly twenty years.

So my question is, how much of what I believe was planted there by somebody using this stuff?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts

Eh....not really. The problem these days is a disconnect from reality.
Steam Machine = console replacement

Steam Link - Stream your PC games from another Steam PC on the network

The former is several hundred dollars and competes directly with Xbox, Playstation - the other is only $50.
I was actually in Fruita earlier this year. My hosts proudly took me to the statue and told me the story.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11178
But rights depend upon 'personal sentiment or arbitrary morals' all the time. Who I rent out my upstairs room to - I'll decide. Which clubs I join; what movie theatres I frequent. And these things have economic/social impact beyond me - the theatre will close if it doesn't show movies acceptable to a large enough population etc.

So we argue about 'privilege' like that can make a difference. Its at root, the majority vs minorities. The game will always be slanted toward the majority, because free market etc.

I'm in favor of peaceful coexistence, and treating everyone fairly. But I'm only one. The market (there are markets even in non-commercial/social transactions) will dominate the game.

I'd be more interested in following the dialog, if there was one. We have folks making up rules on every side; inventing new words and theories and constructs. And shouting down folks from other viewpoints. Its all designed to impede real dialog.
Except Hulu (at least used to, it may have changed recently) still shows ads to their premium subscribers, which is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
End hunger with a smartphone app
comparing the US to a national-socialist political party

That's a good one. Saying Nazis were socialists. The word you're looking for starts with an f.
How does having a new super-CA controlled by the NSA impede key pinning and certificate transparency?

I agree that CAs + DANE is just as shitty or shitter than CAs.

But:

a) In the event DANE replaced the CA system, one super-CA controlled by the NSA is better than 300 CAs essentially controlled by 50 different governments including the NSA.

b) Nobody's making you use DANE. Signed DNS records are an improvement over the status quo regardless of what you think of tying TLS to it.
The problem with this claim that the western diet is part of our evolution is that we use every trick in the book to combat the negative side effects. I, for instance, have Crohn's Disease, which basically didn't exist 100 years ago. If our Western Diet were influencing our evolution, yeah maybe the population would be healthy because it would be dynamically adapting, but it'd be because people like me would be dead or dying off. But we aren't because of modern medicine. So we're not really evolving that much thanks to our diet. We're handling the negative consequences and getting stuck in a quagmire. Autoimmune diseases are increasing at a crazy rate even now in the East.
Indeed, those are all other non-monetary ways to create more value for oneself. :-)

I understand the desire to want to keep hold of the equity in case the startup gets big, but having dead weight shareholders is a really good way of ensuring a company doesn't get big. It is hard to judge—maybe the company is really on its way to growth and success and the OP has earned the equity—but more likely it's the psychology of not wanting to let something get away "just in case", and that's not what startup sweat equity is about. There probably needs to be some consideration, but if one doesn't believe in the future direction of the startup, hey, you are getting a whole lot of time and hassle back in exchange for surrendered shares.
Virtual Reality Journalism
My favorite is when they broadcast some old TV show and because the TV show itself is so cut that they can't really cut anything out, they instead speed is up to 1.1x or 1.2x. Honestly though you can only really tell by listening to the music in the show, that's what gives it away. But yea, they make it a minute or two shorter so they can fill up more space with ads
There certainly is product placement in the UK - see [1]. When watching these shows you'll see an opaque 'PP' logo flash up on the screen to let you know.

[1] https://www.itvmedia.co.uk/advertising-opportunities/broadca...
Same thing for the mobile web. Since I pay for data usage I am more concerned about things like video pop-up ads or even little things like web devs failing to download an ad image appropriate for the size of my screen instead of the original resolution image.
No offense taken :)

You may not like Mozilla and that's ok. But you still should support them as Mozilla's interests are mostly aligned with the interests of the users.
You're both right and wrong.

RAID controllers that you could afford for yourself, costing less than $1000, are just another point of failure. I've seen them fail more often than the disks, causing corruption as they went. However I've also seen the very expensive datacenter RAID controllers keep a whole bunch of servers up for years as their (15k rpm spinning rust) disks were failing and being swapped.

SSD problems with power failure are such that ZFS won't save you. ZFS's checksumming will at least know what's corrupted and what isn't. But the extent of the corruption will be practically unlimited if the OS can't trust the drive to honor write barriers / flushes - any byte since the last powerup could still be only in volatile cache on the SSD and never make it to persistent NAND.

Every filesystem depends on these occasional flushes/barriers to establish checkpoints where all previous writes are really written, including ZFS. Consider, it may have created an updated copy of the filesystem tree root node, made sure it was flushed, made another updated copy, made sure it was flushed, and then (only after the flushes) re-used the space that the original copy occupied for other data. If you can't trust that the flushes actually happened when the drive indicated they were completed, then it might be that only the last write, over the original root node copy, actually made it to the NAND.
Embedding scientific computation in your site
I was wondering the same. I would guess the dimension is high (maybe in the 10s or 100s?), and smells should be rarely 'similar', because I believe most smells can be traced to a single compound or family of compounds (with shared structure). For example, "fishy" smell seems to be associated with a singe molecule, Trimethylamine [1].

I got a single hit from a google search:

"On the dimensionality of odor space"
http://elifesciences.org/content/4/e07865
what is abv? abp?
New ransomware encrypts your data but forgets the key
I see the illogicality in my reaction but it still makes me nauseous - I can't quite put my finger on why.