skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be a repeated theme [that I'm noticing] at present which to my mind hints at a particular flaw in capitalist society - that we end up paying for things by proxy.

You want a curated suggestion for what to read but instead of paying for a curator to make those suggestions you pay for a book that poorly hints at the worth that you've received from the curators effort. Or you want a particular piece of software but instead of paying directly [in part] for those who conceive of the software and implement it you pay for a support contract, or [gratis Google software] you pay slightly more for many things the advertising of which in part pays for the software that you use. You want to watch a well written movie, you pay for high-priced drinks and popcorn. Et cetera.

It seems that the value being generated gets removed one or more steps from the point at which the money paid that [poorly] feeds back to the system that you find that thing valuable. To me it seems that we lose a lot of the financial value to third-parties that place themselves at the interstices - the publisher's executives takes a large cut of the book price but did little of value, the 'stars' in the movie take a large cut but any one of hundreds of actors could have done that part, the advertising execs take a large cut but much of the output they direct is antagonistic towards those who are really seeking other things.

Just seems a really weird way to go about improving society.
Noble thought, but I don't think it's that simple. When users aren't using a service, in most cases, there are still resources being used. I'm thinking of data/file storage and infrastructure to provide reliable availability, security, and backups. Perhaps in some cases it may make sense, but certainly not most.
Firefox's Paywall-Pass

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paywall-pass/
Scientists are leaving top academic positions to lead drug companies
Hew Raymond Griffiths, had never been to the US. He was extradited from Australia to the US for something that isn't considered a crime in Australia.

The irony is this part:
"Griffiths finally returned to Australia on 2 March 2008, after 5 weeks as an illegal alien in the US immigration detention system following his release from prison on 26 January 2008 (Australia Day). A condition of his repatriation to Australia was that he never again re-enter the United States of America, a country he had never visited before being extradited to it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Raymond_Griffiths
Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
To the tune of 'Badger badger badger badger mushroom'.

Only without the bit where there's the mushrooms.
2100 books over 6 months = 350 books per month, or 12.5 per day. Assume the books are $30 - $50, so $375 - $675. Assume a 70% cost of goods sold = $112.5 - $187.5 revenue per day. Tough to make a living unless he can push those numbers a bit. Interesting idea. Hope he can do it.
> Heck, I give more credit to the tertiary industries such as the people delivering the iPhone packages to my door, than I do to any owner of a patent for a product that they didn't build.

The iPhone would be shit if it wasn't for the advanced radio it uses that is based off of Ericsson's technology. There are lots of patents in the agreement and some may seem dodgy, but you can't deny that Ericsson had a huge hand in developing all the radio stuff that we just take for granted. Apple isn't part of the 3GPP and had nothing to do with inventing any part of 2G/3G/4G/LTE.

Even Apple doesn't deny this, they just wanted a different royalty rate after their previous agreement with Ericsson expired.
It's more that it didn't work, at least not like they made believe. There's not much to make obsolete.
We'll see in the next 7. The Guardian article is 1 day old so far. ;)
Smartwatch can spy on your password, ATM pin
Permissions required:

Identity

Location

Photos, Media, Files

WiFi connection info
nice to have access to rust libs from node.
It derisks the company at low cost because you're raising money on great terms. It's almost always a good idea to have extra cash in the bank, especially when that cash comes.

I once heard a quote along the lines of "the company that wins the space is the last one to raise funding before the funding market turns south."
That's Reply All (same hosts as TLDR). This is a great listen.
You jest, but the only time I get to have a Coke Cherry Vanilla Zero at a restaurant is when they've got one of those machines.
Why stop at the website? Using that logic it's not the website that destroys lives it's the author. But that's not how we have traditionally defined liability in defamation cases, and the reasoning is pretty sound. If the Google search result contains the false statement Google is now part of the problem.
"Here's Why."

Aaaand close tab. You too, WaPo?

But yeah. It's vogue right now to show disinterest in Christmas (at least in these here elitist North Eastern cities), but I'm one of the seemingly few that just loves the holidays. I didn't come from money, and even though my parents ended up divorced after 25 years, "family" as the most important thing in the world bar none was drilled into our heads. Christmas was all the wonderful that came from and surrounded family. It was visiting, gifts, and food - putting the world aside for a minute and concentrating on just being together.

So yeah, I'm the guy that puts on Vince Guiraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas album at 12:01 am the day after Thanksgiving. I have a tree much too big for my apartment. I remain like Scrooge's nephew Fred - impossible to bring down during the season, even if you're a generally miserable person.

And I think that's part of it. Don't get me wrong - 24 hours of Christmas music a day for weeks or more has to be defined somewhere in UN definitions of torture. But for some people, this is the happiest time of year because it was, at one time, the happiest time of their year, and is associated with the happiest memories they may have from their lifetime. Music is strongly associated with this season, and I imagine with those memories.

And that sells, baby.
You're basically describing the unbundling problem. People aren't accustomed to (and therefore generally unwilling to) pay for news, travel-related advice, recipes, et al. but they were historically willing to pay for such when they were bundled into a physical publication or where the advice was covered by a commission on some other service (like purchasing airline tickets).
God bless y'all. I wish the American radio stations, malls, stores, etc. didn't feel the need to do so for five weeks.
If anyone else likes snowflakes like I do, I highly recommend this poster of some of Bentley's images:

http://vermontsnowflakes.com/poster2.shtml

It shows the different snowflake structures against a temperature scale. It's a great gift for anyone that likes winter.

Part art, part science :-)
The Problem with Friendly C
Fast and right can be had, it just won't be cheap.
"The series will likely be starting right around the beginning of 2016"

I really hope you do this. I also suspect you have underestimated the incredible workload this will be, and this shouldn't receive any hype until you start delivering. It will likely take 1-2 days to edit and produce 1 hour of video, and making a full game along with making full, good quality videos, will take, well...good luck!
> they make a decision on the veracity of the remaining information through their results

No, they don't. They attempt to figure out which site you might be looking for based on the terms you typed in; relevance to your search terms may or may not be correlated with veracity.

> As to the dinosaur fossils...they don't have standing to sue over defamation, so Google is protected from making the hard decisions there.

The comment I replied to said the plaintiff had "contacted" Google, and expected that to suffice. I gave an example of people who "contact" Google and should rightfully be ignored. Now you're saying that those people don't have standing to sue so it's OK.

Truth is the ultimate defense against defamation. You seem to be arguing that Google is in a position to judge whether content is defamation (which necessarily involves a determination of truth), based on nothing but someone contacting them. How, precisely, would you propose they do that? This particular court certainly didn't offer any insights there.

> I am not for limiting the rights of individuals over corporations.

Judgments should not under any circumstances depend on who the plaintiff or defendant are. This judgment is precedent for a similar suit against a far smaller defendant. I'm not concerned that Google will be deeply hurt by a six-figure court judgment and hope they win on appeal because it'll help their bottom line; I think this sets a completely broken precedent and I hope Google wins on appeal to reverse that.

> Traditionally, if someone were to publish something false in a newspaper the plaintiff could name the author, editor and newspaper publisher.

Of course. But that doesn't mean the plaintiff should be able to name a third-party who provides a list of headlines found in newspapers, especially not if they haven't actually sued the newspaper and won.
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"And if you go in with this mentality, even when startups fail, you succeed. If you put five years into building a company and team, you will end up with a great network of talented and motivated people, lots of first-hand experience, and often some management experience as well.
Worst case, your next step could be going into Google at the VP level it would’ve taken you 15 years to get to joining out of college to “inject some startup DNA,” and catch up on salary within a few years. Unless this internet thing is a fad, that job will always be there for you."

This advice is quite precise about where it applies. If you're at a startup that is undercapitalized, working you 12-16 hours a day, 7 days a week, with poor management and no opportunities for anything but building and maintenance, you can actually wind up worse off than when you went in: no built-up network and nothing that would make you "VP at Google" material, and in the case of startups doing pay cuts (in an environment of ever-rising rents), even less money than when you started(!) He is referring to working at "decent or better" startups; problem is, you may not know you're not working at one of those until you actually work at another one.

The rest of his advice is probably worth listening to, but the above part should be considered very carefully.
"I'm curious, is a TV station liable for content of Syndicated shows, or commercials or all the other content it did not produce but choose to show?"

Well, they chose to show it. So yes.
Awesome. Gusto is great, use them for my startup https://commando.io. However, I am not a fan of the brand and name change of Gusto. My 2 cents.
But it can be said in particular of Africa in the more relevant and recent hundred years or so. Especially in the context of the comment that sort of loosely implied China was alone in subjugating Africa, in the present day.
The upcoming iPhone7 rumored to have a liquid metal case design
> What was broken with the old-style that had a dozen clearly-labeled nozzles?

That they typically had only one each sugar free (usually diet cola) and non-carbonated option.
I don't believe the blog post announcing Rayon ever made it to HN, so here's a convenient link: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/12/18/rayo...
>Everything doesn't always have to be justified on the basis of productivity, you know.

That really depends on who is paying for your time. If I own a company and you want to nap on company time, then you definitely need to justify it on the basis of productivity.
The key distinction to note is the one between specifications and implementations.

As a small example, consider Brainfuck. The Brainfuck specification (if such a thing exists) has no upper bound on the number of memory cells, but practical implementations generally do have a limit that "useful" Brainfuck programs will rarely hit. The specification describes a TC language, while the implementation does not.

Therefore, if a language is TC according to its specification, but has an implementation in a language that is shown to not be TC, then it follows that the implementation must be of a non-TC subset of the language. This is, of course, assuming both that the specification has been proven TC, and that the implementing language has been proven non-TC.

I believe the point being made in the paper is that the C specification itself is restrictive enough that it describes a non-TC language. In other words, any implementation of C that is truly Turing complete would be violating the specification in some way. In that case, it follows that a C implementation of a TC language (such as the bignum language) must only be an implementation of a non-TC subset of the language.

(As an aside, consider that nothing running on an isolated machine will ever be truly TC, since an isolated machine has a finite amount of memory and so can't be TC. It's not that much of an inferential jump to see that this kind of TC-breaking limitation could end up in the specification of C, a language quite close to the metal.)
Great name.
Actually, it is how we have traditionally defined liability in defamation cases. This is like suing the newsstand because the local paper is defaming you.
What do you call it when one company acquires the assets and obligations of a portion of another company [0] for a token amount of money?

Do you say that the acquiring company is "getting cozy" with the company that's divesting itself of those assets? If not, why not?

[0] Say, a stagnating project that the divesting company can no longer fund at a level required to ensure the project's success in the marketplace.
The WP author here confuses correlation with causation.

Both obesity and fitness response to cardio (e.g. measured by VO2Max) have genetic factors (many obese people are genetically low-responders to cardio). See the recent University of Bath study for details.
What I find a bit disappointing is that this won't be a remake in the sense of writing the code in modern C99/C11, but rather a copy/paste with comments of the original code according to https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xy110/announc... .
We have metered electricity, water, sewage, etc. Why shouldn't we pay per byte?
...because in his former shop, he had to carry a whopping 200 books!
Since there is <50% chance that this will pan out, then you would be making a good bet. Also, 99% of startups fail from inception, so according to your risk-reward tolerance you'd want to avoid investing your time or money in early stage startups as well.

Scientific advances are made when someone accomplishes what others thought was impossible. I haven't seen anything in the physics to indicate that you'd be breaking (known) laws of physics. It seems that this article was written for people such as yourself.
The Real Estate Market Does Not Reflect Global Warming
What Challenges Does Your Organization Face When It Comes to Testing Software?
I've never heard of employees vesting preferred shares as part of their compensation. Is that a thing?
syscalls aren't public API on Darwin platforms (e.g. iOS, OS X). The only supported interface to syscalls is libc/libsystem. And I'm not aware of any equivalent to futex. So AFAIK there's no way to implement a userspace mutex that isn't just a wrapper around a system-provided mutex (e.g. pthread_mutex, or a serial libdispatch queue). And if you're wrapping pthread_mutex, adding a spinlock doesn't provide any benefit.

FWIW, libdispatch itself definitely uses Mach SPI. For example, skimming through the source, it calls thread_switch() using a non-public option (there's 3 non-public options to thread_switch now, two of which are intended for dealing with the QOS issues that my article talked about; the private os_lock_handoff_s that the objc runtime uses internally uses one called SWITCH_OPTION_OSLOCK_WAIT and libdispatch appears to use the other, SWITCH_OPTION_OSLOCK_DEPRESS, as well as the third option which was added just for libdispatch called SWITCH_OOPTION_DISPATCH_CONTENTION).
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Except that people don't actually need to hold NewZims. If they don't trust the currency (and they won't, not in Zimbabwe), they'll work for dollars, save in dollars, and then on tax day they'll convert just enough dollars into NewZims to pay the taxes. That way they're safe from NewZim currency manipulation.

The only people who'll get paid in NewZims are government workers, and when they get paid they'll rush out to convert their NewZims to dollars that people are selling to pay taxes.

The only way this cycle stops is if the hassle and expense of currency transactions outweighs the distrust of the government's stewardship of the currency. Until that time the NewZim is trading at some huge multiple of the official exchange rate.
How many white rhino live in America? America annihilated nearly every large animal species, as part of Manifest Destiny.
This is great to hear. I'm glad the project is progressing.

For those not in the know, JMAP is a protocol for mail that, unlike IMAP, has threads and labels built-in at its core. In other words, Gmail without Gmail.

And it's about time somebody came along and built something sane for this.

There have been a lot of valiant attempts at this. Thunderbird has a few buggy extensions that attempt it. Notmuch is a very well written library and command line MUA with a very fast on-disk storage format (with ncurses, emacs, and vim interfaces, as well as neat FUSE file system toys), but it is not a protocol, and therefore does not scale well beyond the limited set of MUAs for it that mostly need a shell or a flimsy web app. Mailpile is an attempt at making a Web 2.0 style Gmail clone, but it's only an MUA and the on-disk format is flimsy at best.

JMAP defines the protocol first. Then, multiple people can take a stab at the most sane implementation. I like this approach quite a bit.
It's not the worst idea, as long as the price is connected to the cost.

The reason not to is that the production plays a huge factor in those things, and people use similar amounts so folding infrastructure into cost doesn't distort prices very much. With bytes, neither of those are true and pricing gets weird and often bad.
Being written in Go is hardly some kind of magic advantage. I'd go with Ceph myself because I know exactly where I stand with it. It's also got commercial support which comes in handy.
Analyse Asia 82: Seedstars World in Asia with Karen Mok
Synopsis: With Karen Mok, we discussed the initiative & footprint of Seedstars World & her perspectives on startup ecosystems after traveling 15 cities in Asia. The conversation started with her background as a social entrepreneur and how she eventually joined SeedStars World. We continued her journey with Seedstars World, where she organised the business competition across different cities from developed to emerging to frontier markets in Asia. Last but not least, she shared her observations on the different startup ecosystems across Asia, and how they differ from cultural attitudes of founders, employees & investors, co-working spaces, infrastructural challenges and the technology from mobile to social that helped her team to navigate the diverse continent of Asia.
Cambodia where I'm almost at does the same - dollars from the ATMs. Growing 7% a year. Maybe outsourced currency can work as long as you don't let everyone borrow loads and end up as Greece.
I find it comforting that the local Wal-Mart is playing Christmas music 24/7 now.

The other 48 weeks of the year they're playing music that's been targeted at whatever demographic shops at a that
certain time of the day.

At least Christmas can be a time of honest manipulation.
Kinda makes CERT a backwater. By the time it is public, you are already owned.
Private car ownership is on the road to becoming a rarity
Dollar per gigabit is the current standard way to describe cost of a fiber optic system.
> I think you're getting in muddy waters when you're going to let an algorithm decide whether information is correct or not.

I don't think that's what she was asking for. She didn't expect Google's algorithms to automatically make things right. She did expect that when she contacted Google repeatedly, with what was a justified request (we can assume it was justified because she won in court), that Google would respond appropriately.
I love the ABC Conjecture, it's so romantic: a statement about the fundamental relationship of addition,, multiplication, and factorization. I really hope they crack it in a way that I can understand before I die.
...because the marginal cost of each byte is effectively zero?

...because the cost of running the network doesn't significantly change whether it's idle, or at full capacity?

...because -unlike electricity, water, and sewage- we have an infinite supply of bytes?
Maybe a new OSS license is needed where the price of using the software is reviewing some code once in a while.
This Christmas reminded me that as long as there are people like me, who leave shopping for presents to the last minute, physical stores with large stock aren't going anywhere.

But I am definitely waiting for the moment when physical stores turn into a purely advertising space, and draw their revenue from there. In a very near future you might not be able to buy things at a store, you will only be able to look at and try things (books are a good example).

Clothes are an exception here.
FB Messenger and Snapchat declined in popularity this year among college kids
So this is essentially a subscription model?

It sounds like he is trying to capture the attention of a group of regulars to the point that they will all buy every book he displays. That, or every time he stocks a new book the updated store will at least turn heads. Standard bookstores never really change in appearance.

I guess there is also a threat. Buy it now because it won't be here next week.
This year, I took my side project HelloBox a bit more seriously

https://www.hellobox.co

It's a tool for creating a community. Its premise was "Create your own HackerNews".

I've re-designed a bunch of things, re-branded it, and am now planning to turn it into a business next year. We'll see. :)
And then there's the record store that only sells (and buys) the White Album:

http://hyperallergic.com/65570/we-sell-white-albums/
If you're going to support regulating the shit out of internet and capping their profit margins, sure. We'll all be paying about $40/month for gigabit internet, I'm all about it.

Of course, that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about private companies making up their own caps and their own cost structures so that they can push to the 30%+ profit margins seen in the wireless industry.
Very Zen.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
Ceph doesn't seem to support (serializable) transactions (correct if wrong), which is kind of the whole point. In fact, how does it differentiate itself from Apache Cassandra etc? By storing arbitrary objects?
Or even better

line.split(' ').filter(|word| matches(word, search)).count()
Apple developer intermediate certificates are expiring Feb 14, 2016
hear hear. Steve Loria, the author, has done tremendous work this year. Thanks Steve!
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