skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like you want to have your cake and eat it:

> If I have a website that is reachable on the internet that hosts a wiki and logs access, does that mean I am doing business in all countries that have internet access?

I'm guessing your answer to this question is "No". However, since you feel you are not doing business in Brazil (for example),then why complain when Brazil blocks your site? If your answer is "Yes" and you agree that you are in business in all countries, then you should be compelled to follow the laws of the countries whose populace are earning you wealth.

Morally and pragmatically, I feel that if you gain financial benefit from a country, you should follow their laws. If you find the laws unconscionable - refuse to do business there.
If you don't follow how it came mathematicians have so much trouble with some papers:

This is part I — http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/Inter-universal%20...
> Such a scenario is generally best resolved by solving the cause of the shock and doing everything to let the market clear. Most of the time this will be temporary and conditions will resolve, if not at the speed at which makes everything happy.

Maybe waiting would work, but that's no reason not to intervene if we think that intervention can bring us faster growth (even if this will only be temporarily faster growth until we "catch up" to currently unused production capacity). If consumption stimulus will help recovery (and I think it will, on Keynesian grounds) we should do it.
One of the premises of this article - that "competing standards" exist primarily because of political reasons or shallow decision making - demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of software engineering.

Sure, some engineers (especially junior ones) enjoy reinventing the wheel more than using something that already exists to solve users' problems. We all like to trick ourselves into thinking we're unique snowflakes (this problem extends into our personal lives as well). But more often than not, when multiple popular standards emerge, it's because there are legitimate engineering tradeoffs that are being made.

JSON vs. XML? XML is far more capable but complex. JSON is far simpler but less capable. Sometimes when you're delivering value to customers, you need that extra complexity, so you use XML. Other times you don't need it so you use JSON. It has nothing to do with ego or politics. Multiple different JSON libraries? One may prioritize ease of use to get up and running, the other may prioritize strong typing for serialization speed. One may prioritize strict compliance with the spec, the other might prioritize speed above all else. JSON vs. a binary format? JSON is more readily compatible and easier to debug. Binary is faster but more complex to setup. It goes on and on.

Again, sometimes competing standards or libraries or languages emerge because of political or capitalistic concerns. But usually when you're talking about competing open standards, there are multiple because there are legitimate engineering tradeoffs being made because engineering is not a one-size-fits-all science. (Few sciences are, otherwise they wouldn't still have people working on them.)

When an open source project rejects a contribution, or five projects exist to solve the same problem, they're often making legitimate engineering tradeoffs that are in no way arbitrary, and any one project would suffer to try to be every thing to every person. The article in question doesn't even point out a single example of a set of standards or libraries that are entirely arbitrary in their differences or could be collapsed into one solution, which further highlights how this is a theoretical argument, not a practical one.
> At least it has no negative effects...

That's debatable. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-MBAs-looked-down-upon-in-Silic...
What makes you say that? I see nothing impossible about building a self sustaining colony on, say, Mars.
What if there won't be? What if, for many of questions, the only proof is as decipherable as MD5 of question?
> There, it gets a find, because "com.com" has a resolver which reports a find for anything of the form "*.com.com.", leading, of course, to a page of ads.

There's a few insane SLDs, such as 'uk.com', (operated by centralnic - though owned by demys) which responds with an A record for any unknown query, that should result in an NXDOMAIN. The webserver at that record has a link to buy the domain from centralnic, and a bunch of chinese language ads from Baidu.

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multi-device sync means you have to store the private key in the "cloud", or something else which could directly identify you.
Why would you produce something for what there is not demand? Is not this the first lesson for start ups? searching for a market-product fit?

Do you agree that the goal of a business is profit?

Ergo, is the prediction of profits what create production. This is the core of the capitalist system, isn't it?

If a business don't see profit in its future, the rational thing to do is decrease production and, more important, stop new investments. That means lay offs, no new hires, etc..

Less people with jobs, less people with money, less demand, less future estimation of profits. Feedback loop.

Then come the creative destruction, that is supposedly a good thing. People is more desperate, accept worse conditions, business not 'efficient' enough close, this create less competence in the market and people ready to work for less. The survivors can accumulate more claims in the economy, what means concentration of capital in less hands. Rise and repeat.
To be fair mortgage rates are often explicitly, contractually tied to prime rates, whereas savings rates generally aren't.
Watch the exoplanets dancing
No need for stereotypes. As others mentioned, the UK is actually very much ahead of the curve in online and retail: big chains all but wiped out independents in the last 20 years, and with all the faffing about Waterstones, nobody said that they are the only bookstore chain left on the market (Blackwells is strictly limited to university areas, and WHSmith is a generic corner-shop business that sells books in some stores). Waterstones themselves went through painful restructuring, as the article said, built a half-decent online shop, and implemented an automated fidelity program that should give them invaluable insight in their core userbase.

Chances are that in Scandinavia, like in most continental countries, you actually have more than one national bookseller and a variety of independent local shops, which means consolidation hasn't actually happened yet on the scale we've seen in the UK.
There's an OS written in Rust: http://www.redox-os.org/news/this-week-in-redox-8/
Yes, but the amount of people who actually use secret chats is tiny.

It reminds me a bit of the CAP-theorem: Security, Device Sync and Usability. Pick two.

My personal preference is solving DU, because I can do security aware stuff with GPG.
When startups say being lucky was a big part of their success..I guess this is what they meant
Beautiful and poetic
> ..the other advantage of a MBA is the network...

This may be true for a small number of top-ranked business schools (and even then it's debatable) but not for the vast majority of educational institutions offering MBA degrees.
No, iMessage for example generates a unique key pair per device and submits your public key to the key pool for your account. Devices can then sync old history using each other's keys and new messages will be encrypted for all devices.

The problem is that the key pool is in Apple's hands. You cannot guarantee that they don't go and add a key do the pool and get all your messages anyways.
> While 'Winner Takes All' is one way to do representative voting and checking that item off the list, it's one of the worst ways to be representative.

State and local elections are often not winner takes all, but two-round voting. (Really, more than that, if you want to cheat and count the primary election and possible run-offs there.)
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An hint:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuous_circle_and_vicious_ci...
>"environment in which your body finds itself in

Yes, you are what you eat. If you eat cancerous substances once per week, you put yourself in risk zone. It's what you eat, drink and breath with build your body cells, you give them weak building material and treat them poorly, they are weak and can be attacked easier. Already decades ago some scientists said that cancer is environmental and you decided whether you got it or not. Eat healthy, not processed meat, fresh vegetables (not frozen), drink clean water.

The same rule applies to other illnesses like alzheimer, it's something "new". First alzheimer was described in modern history, while thousands of others illnesses were described and diagnosed even 3000 years ago by Egiptians.
Both articles were written for a wide audience, which includes non technical people. Tesla's image and technology were bashed by someone claiming to know everything there is to know in the field. Non technical people see 'a limited demo on a known stretch of road' and assume Tesla engineers are idiots who wasted two years when they could have employed this awesome dude to think outside the box (that's always cool) and magically implement machine learning to solve all the problems.

'Learning by doing' as presented by Hotz is all fine and dandy when you drive on a motorway with a very limited set of road signs, no pedestrians, no traffic lights, etc. Hotz also assumes people learn to drive by watching others, which is only partially correct. Traffic rules are not learned from experience. Low light conditions, fog, handling the car on snow and wet surfaces and numerous other factors have to be trained (if they can be taught through training). And after all that work, the algorithm must be tested extensively before it can be shipped into production. The reporter omits asking any questions regarding these aspects.

I don't see the problem with Tesla highlighting these aspects to people who may be fooled into thinking one boy genius would solve all the problems with self driving cars in a couple of years, while they (Tesla) are wasting time.
ReactOS shares a lot of code with Wine. Mostly DLLs. Code flows both ways.

Even if you're never going to use ReactOS, it still helps make wine better.
Ask HN: Interactive history book/app-which startups/innovations should we include
We’ve created a history book for kids. So what? Well, it includes things like Y-Combinator, coding languages, iPads and self driving cars – stuff that really affects how we live. We want to show kids the connection between ‘boring’ history and the amazing things we see around us each day. And we want to do it in their language, on their level. We’ll pair the book with an app for deeper engagement.

We created an infographic http://www.history-of-the-world.org/HistoryOfTechnology_Infographic.jpg if you want to get an idea of what we’re doing. Please share any thoughts or experiences. Any feedback is welcome.

Cheers.
I had Apple Script and Swift Playgrounds on my mind as I typed it.
I agree

It's a bit obscurantist, to be honest.

While people make source code to be as clear as possible, mathematicians go the other way.

One idea would be to invert the proof, going top-down, instead of bottom up (in the explanation), then clearly dividing the subproofs instead of one big "wall of text" (yes, I know, there are numbered proofs/lemmas, but still it is not very well organized)

Edit: looking at the paper above it seems the author really tries to be helpful, the paper seems very organized (but it is long)
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People don't use Telegram (or whatsapp) for secret chats, but because it's a UX friendly messenger that replaces paid SMS services.
I agree. More generally I have often wondered if pure mathematics (and theoretical physics [1]) will reach such a level of abstraction that it becomes impossible to digest all the established ideas in order to build on it. The mathematicians attending this workshop have an ability to manipulate extremely abstract concepts that is superior to the vast majority of humans, and even they can't seem to handle this proof.

[1] http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/index....
That's a completely ridiculous statement and I don't see how you can back it up.
Yes, the programming language, not the platform. Android doesn't run in a Java Virtual Machine, it only uses the Java syntax

Microsoft was sued because they certified the platform and it was incompatible.

Google/Apache never certified the platform to call it Java
FHE will probably take a while to become practical. Remember, the first schema was published only in 2009, which is very recent in cryptography standards.

Secure multi-party computation can achieve similar objectives (compute on encrypted data-sets), but is much more mature research-wise (first schema dates back to the 70s) and can be practical for large algorithms today. See http://enigma.media.mit.edu/ (disclosure - I'm one of the founders)
In another thread, someone mentioned a mobile app that paused ad videos if you weren't looking at the device. Maybe the approach you mention could be applied in a similar way - to morph images in ads until you do look at them.
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There's no point to doing math if there is no communicating it to other people.

I would not agree with that. One can do math for personal pleasure.
But my intuition say. Google has fairly large amount of data. Their cars drove much distance than his leading them more space to test. More data to test more intelligent systems will be.
Signal has multi device sync now, and it's cryptographically secure. It works by sending Signal messages to the other linked devices. This enables Signal-Desktop (the Chrome app that is now in beta). Sync is only implemented in the Android client at the moment though.
You can be upset all you want, but unless it was adverticed as "easily expandable" or whatever then your upset-itness doesn't matter.

I don't know what you are going on about carpets, but to relate it to topic: You are well within your rights to choose the actual lamp in which you use the bulbs.

I don't get why people use such bad examples/metaphores in this topic. Car just is nothing like a light bulb. Another shitty, but little better example would be a gaming consoles. You can't just make a game for new consoles and sell it in stores without going through Microsoft or Sony. Are they within their rights to restrict who can make what kind of games for their consoles? Are they entitled to profit off of each game sold? After all they "just" made the consoles, we buy them, shouldn't we get to choose which games we play and how we obtain them?
> And there is no creativity in Mathematics.

What?!
It does not quite kill metro, but it hides it really well. Pressing the Windows key or the Start button gives you the Old school menu. If you want the new Metro Start screen on Windows 8.1 or the menu on Windows 10, you have to press Shift+Enter. So unless, you specifically or accidentally press Shift+Enter you will never see Metro again.

The only time I had to go to the Metro Start Menu was to find the Universal Apps like Mail and Edge browser. These don't show up on the Classic Shell results for some reason. Once I pinned them to the taskbar however, I haven't needed that Metro screen again.
Who are we comparing with? It's difficult for me to see how American government is not necessarily more representative than the usual European/parliamentary government.
I wouldn't go anywhere near that. Not worth getting legally tainted.
Here's a 3D schematic of what an Erdstall would look like:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151217104816/http://erdstall.d...

orange: entrance

yellow: shaft used during construction, later filled up
"but will instead concoct stories that explain their choices"

Piggybacking on SCHiM's comment, and changing "choices" to "beliefs", this is also something you will learn from looking at tribal societies (creation myths, etc).

Now I'm reminded of this clip from the Star Trek TNG episode Who Watches the Watchers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uii5WrmChbE)
How well do you understand the term "homomorphism"?

Search engines are the most common example, in general.
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Signal is currently beta testing "Signal Desktop" which introduces (somewhat limited) multi-device sync capability. I use it and I'm happy about experience.

I basically don't need other communicators right now for close family and part of my friends.

Occasional video call can be made using other platforms.
This is how regulations can influence you're business. Unrelated to this, but in corrupted countries a relative of the guy in the government can easily kill your business by asking him to ban yours or promote his!
+1 for Signal (used to be TextSecure). They now have a desktop app in beta which synchronises perfectly with my mobile
Where's the criticism? They merely pointed out (to non technical people) there's a long way to go to reach 99.9999% precision. They said nothing bad about Hotz achievement (except that it's relatively easy to achieve). They also corrected a mistake in the article regarding developing the autopilot in-house.
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I think this only holds true until the technology catches up. Twenty years ago the moon was probably best still observed and such with probes, but now as the number of options increase for how we can get there it might be viable to put people there permanently; provided private or government justification can be proven.

The moon problem I see is, what happens when a private company decides to make a profit off of the resources there? Pretty sure every government is going to scream bloody murder all the while trying to do the same but expecting their stance; as governments; to be more important. Should be an interesting time for rights when that occurs
Most people with a top-tier MBA would never wanna work in tech.

Sure, it may seem interesting to be an executive in Facebook, but that is not nearly as lucrative (and interesting) as working in trades or billion dollars deals in finance.
They are following legal procedures. Brazilian ones, which are the only ones they have to care about. Why would they possibly care in the slightest what American courts have to say?
Page http://www.symbos.de/facts.htm, end of the third paragraph "Real preemptive Multitasking, a dynamic memory-management for up to 576K and more and a totaly MS-Windows-like GUI are the three most important things."

The previous sentence is "I want to give everything to SymbOS what a modern OS needs.", so I read that as being a statement of what the developer wants the OS to have in the future.

Further down the page, in the details section, it states "Priority based preemptice [sic] and cooperative multitasking" is done. Wikipedia mentions that a combination of preemptive and cooperative task management is used [1]. I'm confused.

(And just to be clear: I'm not trying to be negative. I'm very impressed with the technology and tenacity of the author.)
I would love if a huge part of the population remained in WhatsApp while another migrated to Telegram and another kept both apps. I want people who use instant messaging services to suffer.
Since when was it possible to sync whatsapp over multiple devices?

That unnecessary limitation really disgusts me, since I am the type who deletes his whole chat history weekly because I don't want to carry it around with me in case of another targeted stealing attempt. I'd love to integrate my whatsapp xmpp account into pidgin.
> What if I refuse to provide visitor logs, is it OK for them to block my site at the border? What about to order a private teleco to block my site?

That depends exclusively on the laws of the country in question, not on the laws of the country the offender is based on. That's what a sovereign state does, it determines its own rules.
My foundational statements, I think most people would agree to the follwing:

1. Sovereign countries have a right to formulate laws and uphold them to protect their citizens.

2. Companies can choose where they do business. In most cases, the relationship with host countries is symbiotic (benefits include skilled employees/employment, taxes).

No one is suggesting that WhatsApp is breaking the law, however, Brazil requires WhatApps cooperation in a criminal investigation (criminal, by Brazilian law). WhatApp chose not to cooperate. Brazil's judiciary have come up with leverage to gain that cooperation, in the absence of more effective means (arresting WhatApp officers if they had an office in Brazil, as a US would in a Contempt of Court charge)

IMO, legally this is similar to the UK using ISPs to block the Pirate Bay - it's perfectly legal in Sweden.

Extreme example: the US would be entirely within their rights to block an Italian porn sites that has videos of 15 year-olds. The company won't be "lawbreakers", but they are not welcome on US's cyperspace
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To further aid confusion, "Green Card" in Europe means a certification from your motor insurance provider that extends motoring insurance to the rest of the "green card countries" (which is basically Europe)
It's interesting that ULA has such a different approach to reducing the cost of space exploration, by using fuel from the Moon. For them that makes a lot of sense. The upper stage of a rocket already get's pretty much into orbit but currently leaving the spent stage in orbit has no value. If you could cheaply refuel it from the moon though, suddenly it's a useful vehicle again.

That calculation doesn't apply for Spacex though because they're planning on making their main booster stages reusable. That would dramatically reduce the cost of putting fuel in orbit directly from earth. No detours to the Moon required. Space technology and the future of space exploration has never been more exciting.
What a strange remark. Are you envious of those who have someone to talk to?
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