skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why have you put this in as a top-level comment instead of actually replying to me?

What is the relationship between cookies, hashes, and compression of data? Why are you talking about cookies/hashes?

If the application on your phone can't cope with compressed data, how are you intending to have it understand data that's been compressed?

I don't understand what you're thinking. Reducing total bandwidth with magical intermediaries is potentially a good thing, but you seem very confused about how it might be accomplished

In short, you seem to be saying this:

I want to reduce the data transmitted between
external servers and my phone.

This should be possible with compression.

How can I do it?

Does it have something to do with cookies
and/or hashes?

Is that accurate?
Article attacks a strawman.

Slack's own marketing page says "Team communication
for the 21st century." [0]

Who is advocating for Slack as a project management tool?

[0] https://slack.com/is
This story doesn't fit the HN guidelines. Please filter stories like this out of your submissions, and focus just on the ones that gratify intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
why dont both companies develop PRO features?

Imho Twitter should be offering a PRO feature for easier handling of accounts with large amounts of followers, with increased analytics, possibilities for promotion etc.

Square is already charging a fee on transactions (as it should) but imho it should also aim at beeing the number 1 provider of POS hardware to merchants, and again deliver a pro offering, with analytics of revenue, customerbase and much more.
I believe there also was a paid version with more levels. Was that discontinued?

Edit: Oh, I was thinking of TuxRacer.
A web tool that took a CSV or JSON endpoint and ran a few R/Python/whatever scripts to see what the mean/mode/min/max of each column was, if there were any strong linear (or other types) of correlations, etc.

A lot of example datasets can be found on opendata.socrata.com, data.gov, data.atf.gov, data.cityofchicago.org, and more.
Just so it's clear, the previous Yubikey NEO also supports gpg-agent for SSH authentication, not just the new Yubikey 4. I've been using one for months. It presents a standard smarcard CCID interface and runs an OpenPGP applet.

The source to the actual Javacard applet that implements is available on Github: https://github.com/Yubico/ykneo-openpgp
Here is a free audio book (from Librivox) in case anyone is interested: https://archive.org/details/democracy_america_vol1_0709

And here is a video I made about Caucusing for Bernie Sanders (equally important for the future of Democracy in the US): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0vO1j9ZhwQ
Fascinating. No pipes yet!
doubtful, more likely a bug - and its supposedly getting addressed in an update in January.
The article does state his status. In any case, not everyone wants to have a spouse and/or children.
I think your question is about 50 to 100 years later than Smith. He, so far as I know, did not distinguish between capitalism and free markets. His work was nearly ahead of its time as written anyway.

The "time limited" thing sounds more like 19th Century Progressive thinking informed of Ricardo. It sounds basically like George to my ear. And dependent on how all the math works, I can see no reason it would not be an improvement on perpetual ownership.
I think it supports ECC keys in the PIV applet, but not in the OpenPGP applet.
"How is civil forfeiture(cash register justice) not a constitutional violation?"

It is. But you assume that laws cannot violate the constitution. They can and they do constantly, all the time. The constitution doesn't mean shit (I wanted to add "anymore", but from reading history, I'm not convinced it ever meant shit). That's just reality. It only means something when people in power want it to mean something. And yes, it's incredibly ironic that this is the exact system we had a revolution to get away from. Maybe not so much when you consider that a revolution is a 360 degree rotation that ends up in the exact same place. In that case, it probably isn't ironic that such programs had a huge resurgence under King George II (2000-2008), although had he been the third, the irony and historical allusion would have been even better.

As far as justice and rule by law in the US, I think it's time for us to accept reality, that the US "justice" system is beyond broken and unfixable. This simply isn't justice and most of what the system deals with is not either: it's the opposite. If we keep lying to ourselves that this is justice, we'll never be able to stop this horrific system that ruins millions of lives and creates such a terrified, divided society. Once you understand that there are no laws and no Constitution protecting you, that the gang in blue can do whatever the fuck they want and get away with it up to and including murder, shit gets a lot scarier. And no, you don't have to be a minority to see this reality.
It's been a long time since I played a good old jump'n'run. This is going to be fun.
A History of Hard Choices
There are three main limits, and several secondary ones.

The big one is heat. As densities go up, so do power consumption and heat dissipation for active cells. Inactive cells are OK, which is why the highest density devices are now flash memories. That doesn't help CPUs.

The next is fab cost. As someone else pointed out, state of the art fabs cost billions now, and there are fewer ones with each generation.

Finally, of course, sizes are getting close to the atomic level.

Secondary limits include electromigration (the atoms won't stay where you put them as they're pulled on by electric fields) and even X-rays not being short enough for mask etching.

Heat is the biggest problem. CPUs aren't that big; you can fit a thousand in a shoebox if you can cool them. The Bitcoin ASIC business is a worst case. Those devices need no external memory and very little I/O, but most of the gates toggle on every cycle. Mining farms are now located in cold climates near cheap power stations.
It's not unheard of for ISPs that typosquat the whole Internet like that to provide a second set of DNS servers that perform correctly for those who know how to use them. Mine does.
As of 2013, the WSJ had a print circulation of 2.4 million, and 900,000 digital subscribers. Do you seriously think all of those people are CEOs and staff?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal
> Square also thought Starbucks would help Square launch new customer-facing products

It was obvious that this was never going to happen from the beginning. Square neutered Wallet for the Starbucks deal, turning it into a less compelling implementation of the existing QR-code system.
Is there a documented procedure for deprecating future crypto algorithms? The process and desperate responses seem ad hoc. Is there an example of a smooth deprecation for some certificate usage?
Cars won't convert in large numbers if oil-based fuel is a cheaper option.
I noticed there's a recently uploaded youtube clip of 0.4.0 in action - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Hwx1FfpEo
Yes, that's exactly it! I was going to offer it on the Android market for a small fee. I didn't reply to your message because this is my first time on the site. Thanks for the tip. I wanted to know if I could like hash a zip file and send the text version, then unhash it with the key.
Unless I am reading the article wrong, that says that children of high income earners do better on the SAT, and that high income parents spend a lot on education.

I don't see anything about the correlation between parent income and child income.
Yes, and chefs are compensated for their time/labor. You can't just walk into a restaurant, eat a meal, and take off without paying what the owner of the restaurant has determined is the price of the food you just consumed. How exactly is a software developer/musician/artist supposed to be compensated for their time/labor without copyright and the ability to determine the terms of the sale ? There is significant up-front time and expense involved with any type of creative work.
You clearly don't have much experience with debating copyright instead your trying to shoehorn in your argument where they don't make sense.

"You copy a product you devalue the product by increasing supply"

A digital product already has infinite supply. The question isn't if copying affects supply, but if it affects demand. If someone copy something they would never have bought the economic damage to the author is theoretically zero. Copyright doesn't even deal with "increasing supply" as a intrinsic thing. If you spend year creating recipes for a restaurant that become successful and someone opens a restaurant next door serving the same things (and thereby increasing supply) the original restaurant has little to no copyright claim. The same is true in other fields. Even universal human rights doesn't deal with intellectual property in this way. There's simply little basis for this view.

"When you pirate music you harm only the creator of the music"

That you "only harm the creator" is objectively false, since even if you prescribe to great harm being done by piracy it's not only the creator, but the rightsholder that gets hurt.

"What does a typical weak, cowardly human tell himself when he commits a crime?"

It's when you don't have good arguments nor is well read you have to resort to this type of name calling.

"Yours is the lazy rebuttable without foundation in reality"

My arguments are absolutely based in the current discourse.
Ask HN: What should I look out for when buying a Macbook from Craigslist?
Im looking at buying a used 2015 MBPr from craigslist.

What are some things I should look out for to make sure I'm not getting scammed or buying a stolen macbook?
Show HN: Touchless PC Control A.k.a JARBAS
It is also on GitHub.
What do you guys think?

Also, feel free and encouraged to fork it on GitHub!
Trains are feasible to run on electricity, since they run on fixed tracks and you can have overhead cables or 3rd rail configurations. There is no realistic chance that ships and planes will not use petroleum fuel for the foreseeable future.
Very interesting article--it's rare to be able to point at such a cut-and-dried case of "Hey, that legacy support? Literally ruining our nice things."
My two cents.

A lot of these problems come from two clear areas, software and business methods implemented in software. It was not until recently that patents were allowed in these areas. I have never felt that there was any justification for that change, and I would not mind if all patents in those areas are thrown out.

I do not support HR 9 it weakens protection for invention in all areas, tipping the balance to the big boys, since they repeatedly attack a small entities patents, without risking being found in infringement.

I think if you exclude the software and business method patents, you might find that a lot of the so called "non practicing entities" are not trolls, but are small businesses that actually are developing technology.
That's pretty interesting about the new technologies and how small businesses can still operate profitably in the current price range. Where did you read about this?
The summary of the bill for those interested in what it actually does.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/9/su...
Also: better batteries.

That helps smartphones and electric cars.
What Snow Tells Us About Creating Better Public Spaces on E. Passyunk Avenue
I feel the arguments against old vs new tech or humanness vs automation are missing the point.

A meaningful debate is the choice between supporting technologies that centralize power or those that distribute it.

The notion that decisions are being made for the benefit of "machines" is nonsense. If that appears to be the case, it's likely for the benefit of those who control the machines.

It's strange that free and open source software was not mentioned, since visionaries (albeit flawed) like RMS predicted the power shifts we see today.
> Because of capital investments, surely an alternative to oil is still 20 years away?

It depends what you mean by alternative. The day when the last gallon of oil is burned may not ever even happen, but the day when 20% of things that currently burn oil have been replaced with something else could be very soon, and 50% only a few years after that, etc.
Ask Ethan: How Big Was the Universe When It Was First Born?
Psychologists have helped with the mental side of the NBA game
Oregon banks reject marijuana money
The funny thing is: most languages have a development philosophy completely opposed to TIMTOWTDI, so they are all trying to write a tool for the one perfect formatting style, not a universal tool with enough flexibility for the different styles. The former usually leads to enough segmentation for every effort to die in its infancy, the latter to Perl::Tidy.

This is especially apparent with Python with its PEP8 standard -- most formatting tools only deal with PEP8 compatibility and only in one direction. Especially with Python, automated code formatting is mistaken for beautification and thus there is a remark in PythonTidy's documentation "Python scripts are usually so good looking that no beautification is required".

I tend to think this is exactly the same thinking that has lead Perl into the mess that's slowly being fixed since about 2005 and I cherish the difference between a language community which has had its painful experience with insufficient tooling and learned from it and the one which hasn't.
It seem to ignore one variant of willfulness thought. The one that weaponize it in an attempt at getting someone removed from some position or other.
If the courts interpreted the constitution more broadly, the 10th amendment would render most federal laws and regulations unconstitutional. Ever since the Wickard v. Filburn era (or arguably even before then), the courts have given the federal executive, legislature, and bureaucracy great deference.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
I feel there is definitely an element of generalization and survival bias in this article. There has been a recent Patidar reservation agitation [1] in Gujarat, India. The Patidar community, people with the surname Patel (Patels are one of the communities that is mentioned in the article extensively), are losing opportunities in education and government jobs due to the reservations in Gujarat and are calling for reforms with reservations. One of the reasons being the survival bias of the Patel community, that everyone generalizes the community to be very entrepreneurial and successful while ones that are not so fortunate in the community are marginalized with lack of opportunity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patidar_reservation_agitation
Power per bit per km from tower is slowly decreasing there, but it requires a new clever noise floor hack for each generation.

For a given modulation scheme, the power required to reliably transmit one bit a specific distance is effectively fixed by the laws of physics.
That's not their marginal cost though. They may need $90/bbl to balance their budget, but they don't need $90 to pump the next barrel.
Amazon has set up drone delivery research centers in the UK and Israel for just this reason.
Thinking a little further. In the future, we will have autonomous cars, and a user will probably not "own" the car, but will simply order it. And the user can specify if (s)he would like to share their ride. This car can easily have additional functions, for example package-delivery (a package is nothing more than a shared ride with a non-human passenger). Of course the logistics will be run from a central computer system. Perhaps this could be a more cost-effective solution to the whole package-delivery problem (?)
Bah, the patent system as a whole is broken anyway. There are very few patents whose absence would have slowed down innovation. On the contrary, the presence of patents tend to slow down innovation.

You want more innovation? Abolishing patents altogether is probably best. It won't "save the inventor", but it will certainly save the invention.
It was fun to dive into the source code. It's C++ with multiple inheritance :) https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux/blob/master/src/badguy/...

There are several methods for dealing with each type of collision.
>polling

Would you like to cite said polls? Any results from Mexico I'd take with a grain of salt, most likely they just polled upper class individuals who obviously will cite cartels as a danger.
(Working number theorist here.)

What these guys are doing is definitely awesome. (A bit removed from my specialty, so I can't answer detailed questions about it unfortunately.)

But let me add that there are already a LOT of bridges between number theory and algebraic geometry. To get a sense of the scope, google "Arithmetic geometry" or "Diophantine geometry" and you will find much, including (large) books on these topics.

Meanwhile, here is a classical one. How do you find all integer solutions to the equation a^2 + b^2 = c^2?

First of all, it is fairly easy to see that this is the same problem as finding points on the circle x^2 + y^2 = 1 where both x and y are rational numbers. Now, to find these use "stereographic projection". See here (scroll down to "stereographic approach"):

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

The bottom line is that there is a picture you can draw which graphically gives you an easy solution to this number theory problem -- and once you draw the right picture, it is easy to use it to write down the algebraic solution as well.

These four mathematicians are continuing a long and wonderful tradition of finding applications of geometry to other areas of mathematics.
If you're looking for evidence that non-oil sources will get more profitable, less expensive and widely available in the future, Ramez Naam has a series of excellent blog posts (with lots of cited data) that are a good starting point. The first is from mid-August of 2015, and the last in mid-October, so they are timely as well:

1. http://rameznaam.com/2015/08/10/how-cheap-can-solar-get-very...
2. http://rameznaam.com/2015/08/30/how-steady-can-the-wind-blow...
3. http://rameznaam.com/2015/10/14/how-cheap-can-energy-storage...
Too busy lookin at the screens maybe
Hard to tell from the video, and it has been ages since i tried Supertux, but all too often when i try SMB clones they have this slippery feel to them. That when i let go of a directional button the character do not stop instantly, but "slides" for a block or two before coming to a halt.
So, in your opinion, someone taking part in commerce is completely justified in simply copying software without paying a dime to the author, and using that software to then, in turn, make money ? Who gets to decide when one person's rights trump another person's rights ?
> With InkWell we’ve tried to explore writerly creativity in a creative way—by letting the program emerge from a haze of half-known ideas

The half-known ideas (templates) presented were not the author's own, instead they were borrowed from other writers. This isn't writing, it's sampling.
"There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace."

I don't know so much about LaVey's relationships, probably you can help me there! Solomon's relations weren't that good either though. :-)

This topic is in my opinion one of the most difficult ones in life. What is right to do? Of course to just always take an eye for an eye is an extreme, but so is to turn the other cheek.

Moreover, there are a lot of people who don't love themselves enough. This leads to a vacancy that needs to be filled somehow by others, they seek endless confirmation or only find "purpose" in higher powers.

It's a very deep topic and I think I will need a lifetime to understand it. I think it's also very difficult to tell if other people are happy. I definitely don't ask often enough if people are happy. :-)
Why WebKit?
Work Hard, Live Well – Building Asana
The courts have also managed to disregard the 'enumerated powers' clause of the constitution and the tenth amendment.[1][2] In some ways, it is unrealistic for us to expect a creature of the federal government to restrict the powers of the federal government. Most of the federal agencies are defended by an 'ends justify the means' type argument.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_powers

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
I have only been married only been once, and am still married, but I think it is common for people to be happier in second or third marriages.

I am 64 and in my experience interpersonal relationships keep getting better with age.
See, I figure if I pay for a cheap server I could host a little Java program on it, and let everyone do the same. With a browser plugin, I could use the server I rent to circumvent the heavy load of data. However, I'm looking to establish a good system for this. And I figured locking even video into a sha256, and using the token on my user's phone (or cookie, I misspoke) I can undo the hash.
Which is why I suggested that Apple might put money into TSMC....

On the other hand, having pots of money doesn't actually mean a company can do anything significant in a particular area. Look at all the knock-offs in the Google Graveyard for examples.
Unix has made our lives much more pleasant.
Very fun. Reminds me of Mario in a big way, and I love it.
Great work!. I remember using it on a nokia long ago - worked well, even with the big limitations of the hardware.

Why haven't anybody managed to copy that feature well?
When you're working 18 hours days and burning out...he is mentally putting a cost/benefit to every single thing he does. I'm sure he decided he could generate more value doing something else (not a vague something else; a specific "I'm going to do this"). It's a coping mechanism and probably one of the few ways to stay productive in the face of insurmountable work.

Having put superhero efforts into a few roles, I can relate to that kind of behavior.
Hashing and compression are separate subjects, so mixing them in your description is not helping.

How do you see this idea working? What thoughts have you had? Why is your idea different from the ones that other people have had to solve exactly the same problem?

How do you see it working across multiple applications? who would operate "The Server"? Why would people access the proxy on the server? Why would they trust it?

Perhaps you could write up the thoughts you've had as completely as possible so we can see where you've got to, and what's missing.
whelp, that's officially the first time that statistics has made me cry.