skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every now and then spend a whole weekend (or just a week of after-work hours) learning the new hot X to the point you can honestly say you know something about it (it doesn't take that much for an experienced coder to learn a new thing) and bam, you have another buzzword for your CV. Select as needed to get through HR filters.
Not true at all - the problem is that IPv6 routes are less mature and less monitored than IPv4 routes, so using v6 preferentially is actually often slower.

I work with VOIP and we had to disable v6 for our customers because we were getting complaints about latency issues repeatedly from customers on v6. Disabled IPv6, no more complaints.

IPv6 is more likely to make you "the Yahoo of your market" than the inverse, especially if you work in latency sensitive applications.
I think only as much as you can do so anonymously in the first place. Regarding the resizing issue specifically, the use of "resolution + window size" is sufficiently unique in fullscreen (especially if you have a vertical toolbar like many devs do) that it can be deanonymized.
About $35 million of the $310 million to be raised has been earmarked for construction of up to 100 new apartments on surplus land owned by the San Francisco Unified School District. The units would be rented at below-market rates to the district's 3,500 teachers and 1,600 classroom aides, who also would be eligible for new rental housing allowances and home down payment loans aimed at reducing living costs for another 300 educators, Deputy Superintendent Nyong Leigh said.

5100 staff per 100 apartments. A 2% dent in the problem for $35 million. Even if the entire $310 million were put toward housing, it would still mitigate housing costs for less than 20% of the staff.
MIT Guide to Lock Picking [pdf]
Still, it will take only 1 doctor (or committee) to verify the machine. Then it can be replicated, and replace every other doctor in existence for diagnosis. This will be a game-changer.
SmartWatcher – the ultimate personal safety app
Imagine being able to call for help by pressing a button on your watch. That is the basic premise of SmartWatcher.
“The beauty of our solution is you don’t need special hardware - just an app for your smartwatch or phone” says CEO Morgan Cohen, a Dubliner who founded the Zurich-based company. Cohen studied computer science in Dublin before moving to Silicon Valley to join his first startup, and now lives in Switzerland with his family. Apple Watches are selling very well, and it’s likely they appearing under many Christmas trees this year. But a lot of people are unconvinced as to why one of these newfangled watches would actually be useful! One genuine use is personal safety: a smartwatch has the perfect form factor since it’s always there on your wrist and is quickly reachable. Someone experiencing a medical emergency such as a heart-attack usually does not have the presence of mind to make a phone call, or even be physically able to do so. However the same person could probably manage to press their watch.
In the case of domestic violence, or teenage bullying, the SmartWatcher solution has another advantage - discretion. Triggering an alert can be done without anyone noticing.
But the system is more than a sophisticated panic button. Smartwatcher Technologies has developed Continuous Safety Monitoring. Once activated, the app periodically asks you to confirm that you’re safe. In case you don’t confirm yoursafety, the members of yoursafety network will automatically be alerted. Continuous Safety Monitoring is perfect for walking home or exercising at night, visiting dangerous parts of town, or whenever you feel unsafe.
SmartWatcher is available in app stores, and the main capabilities are free of charge. Those wishing to avail of advanced features like Continuous Safety Monitoring pay a small fee via an in-app purchase.
This article may be inspirational to you, but it's not very well written or well argued. Is the California gold rush really an example of "sudden discovery of underutilized resources"? And isn't the subject of that sentence actually the technological changes that inspired the "major changes in economic patterns"?

Okay, so zero-sum games and scarcity economics are based on the idea that resources/valuables are limited and I'm all in favor of agreeing that there is no end to resources, creativity, or human sympathy. And I would even be willing to take that a step further and say that, no matter what the problem, there will be people willing to devote their time to it.

But the crux is not available resource: the key is defining something as a problem. Are schools the problem, or poverty? Are broken windows the problem, or mandatory minimums? Take away the assumptions from this article, and you aren't left with much more than a half-reasoned book report. I would be much more inspired if the conclusion of this article was something like "nuanced solutions are the only option" rather than what was presented: "be excellent to each other".
"All attempts to achieve Communism?"

There has been one famous example, the USSR and its friends. It's arguable as to whether communism was even really the goal (Soviet politicians famously promised constantly "communism in 10 years" and everyone knew that was a lie). Certainly what they had was not communism, because communism is stateless, classless and, as my fellow commenter points out, lacks money.
The problem is that America is so diverse that national stereotyping is hard. It is more akin to saying all Europeans.
No, it's a 50% probability of there being at least one collision (or, put another way, a 50% chance of there being no collisions).
I just saw a great interview of Stephen Kotkin, a Princeton history professor. He's spent many years digging through Soviet archives and other primary sources and just published the first book of a two volume series about Stalin. One of the things that he found was that these people were actually Communists. It's easy and tempting for us to dismiss the Soviet Union as megalomaniacs that used Communist rhetoric for their own ends, but that's not the truth. These people were true believers and they did the things they did in order to bring Communism to fruition. It's a dangerous ideology fueled by envy and contempt. The Cold War was not just two great powers contending for influence, it was an all out battle between two fundamentally opposed visions for humanity. One in which each man exists only to serve the ends of society, another where each man is an end in himself.

Edit: Link to the interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MzPzfEVjNE
The Kindle DX battery life was atrociously low people were reporting sub 50 hours/2000 page turns....
>Also, leverage your set-asides and find reputable partners to team with.

This is something that I've always wondered about. Contracting officers and large contractors are desperate to team up with start-ups (otherwise known outside Silicon Valley as "small businesses") so why don't more start-ups use government contracts as a no-strings-attached method of raising cash or bootstrapping?

Maybe it just doesn't sound cool or sexy to say that you're basically working for Uncle Sugar...
Anywhere within a city? Larger populations have been proven to have more instances of crime for various reasons.

Further, if you're wearing a massive, expensive pair of goggles that simultaneously broadcast your wealth and block your vision, you're gonna get mugged. It's just a matter of time.
The paper is available here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06955
This Unicorn Was Built Using 8 Obsolete Marketing Tactics
Change (The Situation – Yourself)
This was a very interesting 60 Minutes piece last night, but also very frustrating. They tested three brands of EVOO sold in the US, and found two were complete fakes, but didn't tell viewers which ones not to buy. How does this provide any actionable information to the public? At least tell us what we should be looking out for.
I've mostly seen it on wykop.pl (a website, it's like reddit had kids with 4chan).

Here some people try to trace it: http://www.wykop.pl/wpis/6202818/kto-mowi-do-swojej-mamy-mam...
Cor 0.3.0 released
Should We Train Scientific Generalists?
Hacking Redis to Save Money
Show HN: Concept extractor
Accessing a USB camera or Raspberry Pi camera using the same Python class
Good observation, flagging is our way of snitching and "trolls" are our "enemies of the people".

Now that you mention it, I don't think I ever flagged somebody on HN. Could it be because I was born and raised in communist Romania?
"GM and Lyft said they will work together to develop a network of self-driving cars that riders can call up on-demand"

Pretty interesting. Especially considering Ford has been linked to working with Google on developing self-driving cars. [0]

[0] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-talks-google-build-self-0...
Red November Leaves
Show HN: Redis Lua Development and Debugging with ZeroBrane Studio
A new plugin for ZeroBrane Studio that enables developing and remotely debugging Redis Lua scripts. More details at:

* Short video overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mlajCj4QPw

* Blog post: https://redislabs.com/blog/zerobrane-studio-plugin-for-redis-lua-scripts

* The Redis plugin's repository: https://github.com/pkulchenko/ZeroBranePackage/blob/master/redis.lua

* ZeroBrane Studio website: http://studio.zerobrane.com
Tech stack for Muse: open, encrypted social protocol [1:47]
Yes, it's possible. You run tor under its own user and block all ingress/egress traffic except from tor's user. You talk to the outside world proxying through tor.
Of course they believed it, but nonetheless they were not actually heading towards it. How do you transition from a police state with a strong social hierarchy and monetary economic system to a stateless society with no classes or money overnight?
Where do you live, in occupied Palestine?
#Worker crushed to death after wall collapses at #Chicago_Ford_plant
My Leadership Resolutions
More likely it's going to raise your utility bill, Portland has to pay for our fancy new pipes somehow.
Release notes: http://ost.io/@yosbelms/cor/topics/5
Oh right, I forgot that I'm a jew, so I deserve it. Thanks for the reminder.
General Motors invests $500m in Lyft, forms partnership
I've been keeping busy with re:search, an Amazon product review search, mining and insights, http://research.oneiros.cc

An interface on top of a learning algorithm that would alert users when certain conditions are met (certain word mentioned for example) as part of an Amazon customer review.

POC version would allow users to subscriber to products sold on Amazon and search through its reviews, as well as get some basic statistics about lexic patterns in reviews (positive or negative, most common words...). Based on the initial adoption the learning algorithm would come into play and provide suggestions and insights based on customer reviews.
People will disagree, but this is the sociological purpose of religion. Religious communities bring diverse people together, elevate the weakest, and promote societies that are competitive, but tempered by the empathy which comes from a shared identity.

Is religion the answer to questions of inequality? Historically speaking, probably not on its own. However, it certainly informed most of the larger solutions we have today.
Hong Kong: Cross-Border Kidnaps by Mainland Chinese Police
It's a photo of the great wall of china, referencing the blog title "great wall of numbers".

I'm not sure what it has to do with programming? By default, I think I'd expect a blog with that hero image to be a travel blog.
Relevant links:

Tech primer -- https://github.com/Muterra/doc-muse/blob/master/readme.md

Whitepaper -- https://github.com/Muterra/doc-muse/blob/master/whitepaper.m...

Spec -- https://github.com/Muterra/doc-muse/blob/master/spec.md
function openssl-key-to-pin() {
openssl rsa -in "${1}" -outform der -pubout | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | openssl enc -base64
}

function openssl-website-to-pin() {
openssl s_client -connect ${1}:443 | openssl x509 -pubkey -noout | openssl rsa -pubin -outform der | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | openssl enc -base64
}
Some public wifi providers (like the mentioned hotels) hand out IPv6 addresses but don't actually route v6 traffic. So any connections which use v6 by preference will be broken from those connections.
A debate on whether Node.js is overrated
Building a Startup in 45 Minutes per Day While Deployed to Iraq
Purely Functional Web Apps Using React and PureScript
That graph with china being red is worrisome.
If you extrapolate the trends, in an other 15 years we will have 2 internets, one for China
and one for the rest of the world, and you will just have to pay for any routing between the two.
Captain De Morgan Strikes Again  Non-Singular Non-Positives in Non-English
The beer glass emoji is filled with lager, I want to specify amber ale or stout color. We need beer modifiers!
Kickstarter Fulfillment
Actually as technology improves, people are freed to do fewer technological tasks. Technical IQ becomes less important. Ultimately most folks can return to reading, writing, art and leisure. As we used to call it, utopia.

The challenge is to redistribute resources fairly once the concept of 'working' is no longer pertinent.
I think too few of them realize how powerful (yet easy) SBIR and CRADA programs are - free funding to develop a product, courtesy of DoD, HHS, etc. Up to $750k per year. I know entire $50M+ companies that specialize in SBIR R&D alone even, then license their product patents.

Heck, Oracle started out as a DBMS for the CIA. Almost all of the founding semiconductor companies of Silicon Valley were funded in large part by defense work (missile guidance). People forget this, but I think the realization of its potential coming back around. (https://www.sbir.gov/about/about-sbir)

What's cooler than developing products used instantly by up to millions of customers all at once? Once you overcome the stereotypes of working with the government, you realize how truly amazing and transformative it can be if you do it right.
On reflection, you're right. Perhaps three taxis occupy the same road space as one bus, if they're full that might mean 15 people, compared to perhaps 30 on a single-decker, and 60 on a double-decker bus. But still, I would say there's potential for high-occupancy taxis to play a role. In the future it may well be that the distinctions between buses, taxis and Uber-style service gets blurred. I remember reading that there are already trials in Finland for on-demand buses which dynamically alter their route to pick up and deliver passengers.
> Surely, you would agree that this level of disdain for authorities is not very heealthy too.

That depends on whether the authorities are a danger for civilians, and when they start acting like organized crime or like the arm of a dictatorship, they truly are one.
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Weissensee is indeed awesome; a rare high-quality German TV drama.
"I hate to say this but a real partner does not leave, they stay by your side and help you through the tough times"

I don't think this is fair. Everyone has a breaking point, and the OP is pretty clear that the situation was extreme.
I don't think "thriving" is the right word, the state never felt secure.

And it's a problem, I often call the reaction to terrorism "the East German fallacy", the idea that sweeping spying, denunciations and unfair prosecution makes everybody safer. It doesn't, people were risking their lives jumping the wall. Now it's even worse, there is no wall, there is simply no place you can go without being spyed upon if you are electronically connected.
I think that's right, especially the second paragraph about the cause of the explosion of nouns. A common approach to OO programming is to take the problem and identify the nouns in the problem, and then make a class for each of those nouns before having a clear idea of how the program is going to work. This is especially prevalent in combination with TDD. This is a recipe for disaster if you ask me. A good example of this is when Ron Jeffries tried to write a sudoku solver.
Even after you get in the process doesn't get any easier. A friend of mine is a CTO of a successful software company in D.C. that specializes in government contracts. However multiple agencies do a separate bidding process for the software development phase and for the UAT/QA phase (waterfall ughh). So often when they land a software project, the QA for that project will typically go to their direct competitor. The QA phase frequently gets billed based on time spent (with allowances for overruns specified), and so it's in the interest of the QA company to spend as much time in the process as possible. As you can imagine, this does not yield a very productive QA process. I.e. JIRA tickets for "The last letter on this form title is too curvy" are not uncommon.
Was it possible, perhaps, that those who "actually believed in what they did" were in fact brainwashed by the state? I am curious what the total control of the state has on brainwashing, or at the very least, strongly conditioning a populace to assert one belief system over another. To put it in a more politically incorrect viewpoint: Is it possible whose who believed in the GDR were in fact brainwashed?

I'm not clear where the inference of those who genuinely believed in the GDR as justification for informing on others comes from. Can you please elaborate?
Flagging is the equivalent of walking away from a conversation with an obnoxious person, not the equivalent of reporting someone to the secret police.

If you welcome and tolerate every single conversation that someone tries to engage you in, more power to you.
Looks like their site has some responsive issues itself. If you scale down the width of the browser, the menu appears overlaid on elements at a certain point.
> Often IPv6 is lower latency or again easier to configure. For some people that's worth paying money for.

There are no games that use IPv6 unless you are on Xbox One which uses IPv6.
I think this is the reason why "functional" programming results in fewer bugs ... or that you need to be really smart to do it. Or because you most of the time is refactoring the program (from an imperative language).
I used to get good olive oil when I lived in California. A little old guy would call me on the phone once a year, and ask if I needed more Olive Oil. I would always say Yes! and order a bottle or two. Then his granddaughter would get on the line and verify my address etc.

This guy owned the trees, pressed the olives and bottled it himself. It was the best stuff I ever tasted. He quit calling years ago; I miss him.
Let me know when you finish debating with yourself so we get back to a dialogue.
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So you're telling me that I have to adapt all of my codebase to work for ipv6 (storing addresses, comparing ranges, sockpuppet detection, throttling, ...) for absolutely no reason?

Yeah good luck with that, it will work as well as the python2 to 3 transition worked.
> in order to advance your career

Yeah, but "advancing one's career" is something that you didn't have to do at all in eastern bloc countries. Yes, if you wanted to get out of the country, or get rich, or own a car, or own a TV you really had to have friends in the right places. But an overwhelming majority of people didn't even know they should want things like this. Instead, they were happy to be alive and to have shelter and food, even if they had to wait in queues for hours to get that food.

Personally, I'm not old enough to remember much, but I do talk with older people - of the age of my parents and grandparents - and many of them have nothing but praise for the communist period. For example, I'm being told that year after year all the school children were able to go on summer vacation free of charge. They say all the textbooks, even at the university level, were either completely free or cost less than a pack of matches. Literacy and higher-education rates skyrocketed. Some remember even earlier times, when there was no electricity in most villages and they feel grateful for all the infrastructure work that was done then.

The more I hear and know about the era, the less I understand how it was really like. It seems so alien, so impossible, and it did fail in the end, but it somehow worked for nearly 50 years before that! How was that possible?
I just finished Trapped Under the Sea by Neil Swidey Definitely feel confident in saying I enjoyed rather than loved the book.
Slides: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/system/event_at...
But won't it reach a point where adoption is so high that major backbones and carriers simply retire their IPv4 equipment?

At that point you adopt or die.
I don't know whether this is a real difference or not, but Lyft "feels" like a much nicer company than Uber. I'm not thrilled about Lyft's rampant hipster-branding, but Uber seems like a company run by pricks.

Maybe it's just because they're the underdog, but I'm really rooting for Lyft.