skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 4chan example was the mass shooting at a community college in Oregon.

Personally I find a connection between how many people see computing as a black box, and the criminals who insist on posting there deeds to social media and elsewhere. To them it's a magical conduit to millions of people. I wonder if there's a deeper study into this because as a software developer I find it hard to believe that others can't at least get a sense that it's all derived from 1's and 0's.
Fair enough, an experiment.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10688820 and marked it off-topic.
Anyone who refers to David Brooks as "the insightful New York Times columnist" has lost me as a reader. I can't remember the last time he had an original, or even accurate, thought.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/i-dont-think-david-brooks-i...

Here are two good books:

* The Korean War: A History - Little known fact: The US took the wrong side in the Korean War by putting the former officers of the Japanese imperial army in power in Seoul. It committed countless atrocities to achieve its stalemate, including fire-bombing half the country (Germany redux) and using napalm on whole villages, a foreshadowing of Vietnam.

* Old School - A novel by Tobias Wolff. If you're tired of tired prose, try Wolff. He cares about sentences.
Fixing the first problem and finding alternatives I think is far more easier to fix than the second. We have had several thousand years to figure-out a solution to the problem of rulers politicians and yet, after all this time, here we are still displeased with those in power.

I think the following http://raincatcher.org/what-we-do/ is a really interesting solution to the fresh water problem.

Here's a video of what they do. https://vimeo.com/29880712 skip to 1.38 if you are impatient.
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While it wasn't hardware I wish they had mentioned GEOS: If you had enough money for a disk drive this would give you a Mac OS feel to your C64:
http://toastytech.com/guis/c64g.html
Devil(Luddite)'s advocate: "But how do I send emails to my friend's phone then?!"
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But the ultimate enabler of countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran is the US/West by 1. making them rich through oil-buying (some of the money goes to fund terrorism) and 2. selling them arms.

So the West is to blame indirectly (and directly), too.
Parent was talking about acquisitions. There is a reason for the "LargeCompanies" HN account name, and the first comments from that account is not difficult to find.
haha!! Thanks for the wish! Crossing fingers!
Indeed. Just like every electrical item. Integrated circuits aren't easy to repair, or cost effective for that matter.

I don't think Keurig machines are well made as an aside, so more of them get thrown away than there should be. But that's an issue with Keurig, I don't really expect your average consumer to be popping open electronics and repairing things (regardless of what the item is).
I went through his list last year and selected two books that got my attention.

The first is a book about the rise of the shipping container. Really informative and clearly describes the design process behind a technique we've always taken for granted. It's a historical account mainly, starting from the idea all the way to modern day shipping.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller/dp/...

The second, which I read through the first few chapters of, describes the origins of the steam engine, but it was a bit bland for my tastes.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Most-Powerful-Idea-World/dp/022672...

Both are interesting books to be frank so I'd recommend at least checking them out.
> not having your permit is rather costly

It sure was for Eric Garner…
I'm sure it was unintentional. As I am also sure anyone could in fact hack something quite useful from a hairdryer.

It's just poor decision making to use such an object, which could be interpreted to have connotations to stereotypical views about women, when trying to have a campaign against that very thing.
Batteries + Solar Panels > Solar Panels + Wind Turbines

Batteries + Solar Panels = Higher efficiency, higher performance, lower maintenance, lower weight.
It's really not you had parts built all over due to politics each with a different quality control process which lead to issues of major parts not fitting properly because they were manufactured to slightly different tolerances, about 40% of the tiles have had to be rejects due to this for example, major engine components also have had this issues.
Also due to politics the shuttles have had to be assembled in California and then flown to Florida which was very expensive process.
Government projects are tend to be designed as too big to fail and bring as much work to as many states as possible because that what gets you the vote.
This isn't an argument against NASA, NASA is very much needed there are a few fields you do not want to hand off to the private industry completely (and ideally not at all) and space exploration is one of them.

SpaceX is for the time being more or less a unicorn because it is privately held and for the time being Elon Musk does not have to answer on every decision to shareholders when it will come to that the overall level of innovation will slow down, commercial space flight isn't a bad idea but commercial altruistic space exploration is a pipe dream in the long run.
You will not find many companies that will be willing to take on a 20-30 years Mars project for nothing than their own fame, yes working for NASA on such projects is very lucrative but in the absence of NASA it just wont work because there will be very little financial drive to do so. ULA/LM doesn't want to go to Mars they want NASA to choose Orion and their launcher to go to Mars and pay them heavily to develop and build it even if it never gets used.
No links to the land records of the allegedly unmortgaged properties? Ditto for the other allegations? I fully expected the mudslinging to begin in earnest, but this seems lazy.
I booked an appointment with a doctor for basic allergies (Houston), and ended up seeing some version of nurse instead. It worked well, and I didn't have to wait weeks and weeks for the appointment.
> But the location isn't irrelevant and that's the entire point that this article blindly misses. The company may not care that their developer is living in Silicon Valley, but there are a lot of companies that do care and will pay high salaries for him/her. Either the company competes and offers a high salary as well, or it just doesn't get to hire developers from Silicon Valley. It's basic supply and demand.

For a company with all remote employees, location is indeed irrelevant. Unless you're claiming there are no developers in the whole rest of the world that would do the job equally well for cheaper, which seems unlikely. Or unless you can back up the claim that developers in certain locations are simply better than ones in other locations, which seems to be what you're implying.

As an anecdotal counter example, I have moved several times in my career, and don't recall it ever affecting my productivity.

> If you're buying a car and it comes with a high power engine that you don't care about, you still have to pay the premium for the engine. You can't pay less because you tell the seller that you won't utilize the extra power. The car has a higher market price because there are people that will pay extra for the high power engine.

I don't see what that example has to do with anything.
Good video on that, which a lot of people might have seen but still worth linking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
Doh. Thanks.

So software tweaks, then. Yes?
This is why outsourcing fails. Generally, outsourced developers will just implement exactly what the spec says to implement, no more and (hopefully) no less. You can't communicate with them synchronously and answer their questions in real time because they're located on the opposite side of the earth. Time is money and waiting for your answers would be too expensive, so they just don't ask questions, instead they make guesses and assumptions about anything you haven't clearly specified.

Then you slowly realize that it takes about as much time and effort to write a comprehensive, detailed specification of the software, as it does to actually write the software itself.
Are you wishing that the current usage of the word (the title you linked to) would stop, and that usage would revert to the older Latin meaning? Unfortunately that's not how language develops.
Then I think I see a pretty simple fix...
MPLS is no longer the only transport connection in WAN, but it's far from dead
Space stations cannot live forever.

https://www.rt.com/news/iss-bacteria-mir-mutation-765/
> There's really three outcomes to a startup: They die, they get acquired, they IPO.

There's a fourth: they serve the needs of their customers over the course of years and decades. which, as someone in the market for an email client I can fall in love with and use for the rest of my life; is exactly what I want.
Interesting. It definitely sounds like it did some damage, but not a lot, and software has already evolved to handle it better. Plus, such an attack continues getting more and more expensive as the transaction fees you need to spend to keep it going get higher. Obviously I'm not saying this is a good thing for Bitcoin, but on the whole of things it seems like a blip. It's not like any of the fundamental algorithms underlying Bitcoin were seen to have vulnerabilities. And if I have to put up with increased transaction fees every so often during an attack in order to have a decentralized currency, well, there's worse things in the world.
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سيد or سعيد are not religious names.

The former means "Lord" or "Master" and the latter means "Happy" or "Gay". They're perfectly secular names.

The religious names are Mohammad's aliases plus the Big Four figures in Sunni Islam and the other big figures in Shiite Islam.

Other than these, the rest are non Islamic names. If some low level Mohammad's companion was called سعيد, this doesn't change the fact that it's a secular name.

To be honest with you, the whole thing looks so ridiculous because ( عمر Omar, فاطمة Fatima ) are considered religious but some Latinos are called Omar or Fatima. Maybe we should drop the whole thing.

> Today there's a real chance the next French President comes from the FN.

Let them have this experiment. If they're so bigoted and extreme to their own detriment, I wouldn't stop them. Let them learn by experience not to be guided by fear or populist demagoguery.
I tend to disagree: the occlusion predictions of the encoder should usually be more accurate when the decided signal it's played through a high quality output chain than when played through a chain that does all kinds of intentional and unintentional signal mangling post-codec.

This surely does not rule out the possibility that certain classes of compression artifacts are lost only on low end headphones, but I really would not give compressed sources a free pass on wonky headphones. If you listen to compressed audio, you don't want post-codec inaccuracies.
Two words, opportunity cost.
One important thing they left out about the C64C was that it was actually a masterstroke rarely seen from Commodore management after Thomas J. Rattigan took over.

Tramiel had kept Commodore constantly moving at breakneck speed with very little room for error by cutting prices so aggressively there was next to no margin. It was actually one of his price cuts that caused him to get pushed out, as well as savage Comodores retailer network (they had tons of hardware in the pipeline, announced a massive cost cut and refused to reimburse or credit retailers for the difference in recommended retail price, causing lots of retailers to lose lots of money, many of whom subsequently dropped Commodore).

But the C64C went the opposite direction: Despite 8-bit machines being past their prime at the time, the C64C was launched at a higher price point, often obscured by bundled that included GEOS and/or Quantum Link. At the same time it was drastically cost reduced. Some of it is obvious - if you open an early C64 vs a C64C the case seems pretty much empty in the latter; the 8x8KB RAM chips are replaced by one or two; lots and lots of 74xx series chips are replaced by a couple of custom asics etc. Some are not so obvious - fewer different types of screws etc.

The result was that the C64C was a large part of saving Commodore at a very difficult time (when was Commodore not in crisis?) by dramatically increasing Commodores margins. Probably the first and only time that Commodore had margins similar to Apple, though still at a much lower price point.

Of course, shortly after essentially saving the company from one of its worst crises ever, Rattigan was fired by Irving Gould, and Gould personally took over as CEO - allegedly because Gould was annoyed that Rattigan got lots of positive PR. Rattigan later won a $9m lawsuit against Commodore over the firing... The history of Commodore management is that success was as bad for your continued employment as failure.
Yeah but that's ridiculous, they had only 13 employees that's 7.6MM per employee over the span of 2.5 years, some of them I'm sure they left already... You tell me when this starts making sense because it just doesn't right now.

Too much money! I don't care how big of a genius you are you're not worth that as a developer of an email client, and honestly to write an Email client is not genius level shit. The UI was dope, and their invite process was funny, that's all.

Looks like Dropbox fucked up, that's all, bad business decision, trying to copy Google and do better than them in the end they did the same.
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> I don't understand why people wouldn't be willing to make windows—to take your example—in exchange for pay, just as they do now.

Two reasons:

[1] There might not be much to buy with that money due to effects like this / inflation now that everyone has more money but there's only the same amount (or less) of stuff to buy with that money.

[2] The actual job is horrible.

Some of the aspects of the job can be mitigated. Others, not so much. There's a big tempering furnace that's really hot. There's really no way to avoid being uncomfortably hot around the quench, even with the nearby air conditioned room. It's running at almost 800F all day.

Glass is inherently dangerous. I know of people who have been killed on the job, in spite of lots of safety gear, etc. I personally treated some very serious injuries (e.g. cuts to the wrist causing permanent damage and massive blood loss).

There's a lot of grunt work that can't be very easily automated. It's boring as hell. It's very tiring work. I have lots of other complaints, but in theory, a different employer could at least fix some of those and they would presumably have to.
Well it was the C64's time. If you got enthused about computers by the movie, in 1983, chances were you'd get a C64.

Wasn't Broderick's character using an IMSAI to show he didn't have the money for new hardware, and had to make do with 2nd hand stuff?

'War Games' isn't a half bad game on the C64, either!
Look at http://archiveopteryx.org/badmail/ for your storage backend.

Strict RFC implementation, email normalization. Bad emails won't kill your email client 30 years from now.
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There has to be some degree of separation at some point though. For all I know, there could be more than one "me" experiencing life as processed by my brain at any given time, but the self cannot possible be the complete interface as a whole. If it were so, then the self could not continue to exist if a portion of the interface were removed, but it can, regardless of it being a less than optimal condition.
Naive question: why can't it be boosted out of low earth orbit and used further out in space?
Microwaves should be properly shielded. If your microwave is interfering with your Wifi, its time for a new microwave.
It is already common in other countries. I was in South America last week and saw ads for a wireless service there (Claro) advertising "free WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter and/or [streaming music service, can't recall the name] doesn't count against your data cap."

https://www.google.com/search?q=claro+free+facebook+whatsapp
1) Start a major world war.

2) Find out the (new) standards the military sets for someone to fill the functional role of a full-fledged doctor.

Boom, there's your "MVP doctor" program.

I'm joking, but there almost certainly a ton of fat that can be trimmed from the training we expect out of that title, and it's probably just a matter of motivation. There shouldn't be that big a difference between our current standard for "doctor" vs the one the military comes up with in that example.
If I believe your number:

> First - do you believe it is acceptable that 7 million people die every year from pollution?

Answer this, how many of that 7 million year over year die from carbon dioxide?

This is the major issue with deniers. Carbon dioxide != pollution.

Edit:

I don't know anyone not in favor of clean energy. I know plenty who warn of government overreaching using climate change scare tactics.

You want to take a stance on pollution, then do that. Don't rant about climate change deniers.
I realize the police have to do their job somehow. But if the subject was a white male, 160 lbs, with a winter hat on and I happened to be near the scene of the crime, I can't imagine the police ever bringing me in for questioning even though I'd fit the description as well. They'd take one look at me, see I'm a nerdy white guy with a good-old American name, ask me if I'd seen anything, and then let me go.
> Even worse, proof of work is almost exponentially getting worse over time.

Huh? Exponentially? The difficulty level is rising exponentially, but that's owing to continued investment in specialized hashing hardware. I certainly don't think that the actual amount of electricity being put into hashing is still growing exponentially. It would only grow exponentially if the price of Bitcoin continued to appreciate exponentially, and that hasn't been the case in years.
I don't thonk thats a fair definition. We need some term to encompass PoS, round-robin, multisig, and not-yet-known consensus mechanisms.
I'd start by learning how to search - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9419877.
This is fascinating. Awesome work!

An encrypted server-side database with client-side decryption definitely seems like a great building block for private, secure applications! However, my ideal building block for the data-layer would take one step further: by only storing data on the client, and be able to synchronize between separate clients in a fully distributed manner.

This would open up the door to purely client-side applications with zero-knowledge sync clients that can be optionally hosted on servers to improve availability without any compromises to privacy. It also has the potential to offer better-than-centralized UX due to the fact that all data is available locally, so there is no network roundtrip to be concerned with. A centralized solution like ZeroDB definitely still has it's place though, especially in applications that involve sharing and collaboration between multiple users, and in applications where the size of each user's dataset is too large to be managed fully locally.

My previous project, Toc Messenger [1], used a custom encryption layer over remoteStorage [2] to achieve something close to this, but remoteStorage is not a fully distributed protocol, and has to rely on the existence of a centralized storage server to function. For my next project, I'm hoping to experiment with something like Swarm [3] for the data layer instead, which uses CRDTs for conflict resolution and supposedly supports direct P2P sync in the upcoming 1.0 release [4].

[1] http://toc.im/

[2] http://remotestorage.io/

[3] https://github.com/gritzko/swarm

[4] http://swarmjs.github.io/articles/2of5/
If you disagree with my statement, aren't you also saying you don't believe in confirmation bias? It's more or less proven that we behave this way (seek out information that supports our beliefs, discard/adjust information that doesn't.)

Why do you think that?

I don't, actually; I think I'm awesome at being corrected and just happen to be right most of the time. Fortunately I'm often able to catch my biased, subconscious reactions before I say anything.
The Digital Antiquarian has a lot of really good posts about that era, extensively covering the hardware and software. Start from http://www.filfre.net/sitemap/
Seems like Meteor can slot in another database next to the current MongoDB+MiniMongo implementation?
This is temporary, the country is in "state of emergency", that gives the government and the police special powers to reestablish order. I think that was justified after the attacks but I would oppose it if the government wants to extend it past 3 months.
I think 'to do' differentiates itself from 'to be' in E' because while people use 'to be' to make global declarations of property (e.g. "That movie is bad" vs "I didn't like that movie"), they use 'to do' to make global declarations of action (e.g. "The IRA does bad" vs "The actions of the IRA reflect violence").

While avoiding 'to do' additionally aides in specificity, I believe avoiding 'to be' has a bigger impact, and avoiding both near impossible.
AnimalMuppet seems to be trying to make something serious out of it, hence my response.
I haven't read it, but interesting that "Fates and Furies: A Novel" a 3.5 star novel on Amazon makes the top 20 list. Is this purely a function of sales, not ratings?
Am I the only one thinking about naruto?
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Even climate change deniers must face that fossil fuels are polluting our air and water and are eventually going to run out. Investing in clean energy is just pragmatic and doesn't make you a tax-and-spend liberal.
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The definition "destroy a large number of" has been around for centuries. You're contradicting long established usage, while pretending to appeal to it.
For the same reason that they de-orbited MIR it will eventually outlive it's purpose.

The modules have a life span, the ISS's mission has already been extended beyond it's original scope, eventually it will come to a point where you can not maintain it and it actually becomes a risk to the astronauts (we didn't had major incidents with the ISS, MIR had a few including a fire, but no major casualties, but after nearly 20 years things can start to break down and a catastrophic failure can very likely result in loss of the entire crew).

The ISS is also limited in terms of what you can bring to it, what type of experiments you can run and how can you extend it so in some sense it limits our capabilities.
When something outlives it's purpose sometimes it's best to discard it because having it and investing resources into it prevents you from expanding and building something new.

We'll eventually have to build a bigger station that could be used for bigger experiments like micro gravity sustainable agriculture, industrial manufacturing and more. As well as potentially actually simulating gravity and other things.

Ideally you'll also want a space station quite further away from earth like maybe a 1/3rd of the distance to the moon which can be used as a launch platform and a future space dock.

Projects like that are going to be very expensive and giving up on the ISS could actually release quite a bit of funding as well as drive the need for a new space station because "well we got the ISS do we really need a new one?" is quite often used as an excuse just like orbiter development was hindered due to the shuttle being in operation for so long.