skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly find that the difficulty is maintaining good thought patterns. For instance, on Mondays, I'm often hungover and on a comedown. Life feels terrible, I'm unproductive at work, my self-esteem is shot, I basically hate myself. I vow to change everything, go to the gym, to give up drugs and cut down on booze. Awesome. By Wednesday I'm starting to feel positive - I feel better in myself, things are going well, I'm productive again and my self-esteem is returning.

By Friday, I feel so great, that the emotional memory of how I felt on Monday is all but entirely faded. What was I so worried about? I've had (basically) a great week, and the weekend is upon me - my phone is going off because people want to go do things and get smashed and spend a load of money listening to wicked music in fun, grotty venues and once that starts, I feel lifted and amazing, the party is great! I'm meeting people, chatting shit, I don't want to stop. Afterparty? Hell yes! Afterparties are for the cool kids and going to them makes me a cool kid!

Then all of a sudden it's 11AM on a Sunday. You've either passed out or all of the substances have worn off, you lug yourself back home, having possibly succeeded at what your altered brain set out to achieve, but have frankly forgotten most of it. You either go to bed Sunday, or get pissed with the people who can't face the idea of returning to normality. Either way, in the case of the former you can't sleep, and in the case of the latter you pass out and wake up on Monday feeling so terrible that Monday is a write off. You are full of self-loathing and duck your boss's calls, then the coworkers your boss thinks you might just be able to handle's calls, then you either somehow manage to get into work to be yelled at at 2PM or you just pass out again, wake up at 4, and then have some dazed sort of day and catch some crappy sleep and possibly salvage Tuesday.

So that was an extreme example (the life I'm trying to change, funnily enough), but the point was that it's really really difficult to change in any long term meaningful sense when your mind is so ready to forget the reasons you're trying to do well. I don't think it's something as specific as alcoholism or drug addiction, as it's a much more broad thing - booze and drugs feel more like a symptom of a certain mindset, as opposed to the things that cause it - I can quite happily (and have, many times) say no to drugs, and I've had liquor on my side for months without touching it (and I can also happily have a few beers without going nuts, too). Perhaps it's a symptom of ADHD, perhaps it's a crippling poor impulse control and lack of self-discipline, perhaps I'm a product of my environment (I live in Brighton which is mental as it is, and my main friendship groups tend to hit things hard) I'm not sure.

I'm just going to keep trying. Each time it gets a little better, despite fluctuating, and each time I get a bit more mature. Just have to hope I nail it before I end up homeless or dead.
> The point I'm specifically trying to come to grips with is the idea that money came before barter

I had this discussion a few years ago and one thing that I found interesting as a thought is that barter is not something people like to do. It's generally only used if a token cannot be used because for instance the token is not stable in value. So in times of crisis people would fall back to barter as an alternative but when a stable token of exchange exists, barter does not play a role.

The first thing that develops in a new community is debt and credit but with regards to if money or barter came first there does not seem to be a lot of agreement. I personally feel that barter is quite an unnatural concept because one party will most likely always lose. I cannot imagine that it would come naturally because it's a step back from debt and credit. The only thing it would give you is the ability to trade with someone you don't trust. And that is probably when you tribe meets another tribe which I feel is something that would happen after establishing a local currency.
> Google and Apple both care very deeply about these problems

Not enough to force SoC manufacturers to isolate baseband from the main memory and not enough to make baseband firmware FOSS and transparent.
"...no secure smartphones." There's always a weakness somewhere. Makes me wonder why governments want backdoors. Just in case we manage to make a perfectly secure device? It's too onerous to ask a judge for permission to "hack" a phone through weaknesses rather than asking permission for an escrowed key?
No one asks why Saudi Arabia is a US ally
No, only that the article is being misleading in it's breathless clickbaitiness.

The quote is absolutely in line with the article; actually including the quote in the article would have rendered the headline 'Bitcoin dev thinks blockchains for banks are way cooler, has thought so for months, and is reluctantly moving on'; that might be a fun article to read, but it's not frontpaging HN.
There's some benchmarking of simple fib type things here [1].

[1] https://cdn.rawgit.com/darach/my_little_pony/master/my-littl...
Credit card transactions are reversible by a third party that is supposed to only exercise such power when it believes the original transaction is fraudulent, and is in turn accountable to a very robust legal system.

With reversible bitcoin transactions, the person paying can unilaterally reverse the transaction in a definitive way, without any way to appeal the reversal.

I think it's clear we are talking about fairly different threat models, even if you are all for fully irreversible transactions without any centralized control.
I belive he is saying that the baseband code is closed source even to google and apple. Thats where much of he danager lies, it has exterordinary levels of access to tne device and there is no accountability for its security.
> instead of helping projects

This isn't how it works. You don't help projects by pretending the football-stadium-sized issues with them don't exist and using them despite their flaws.

Trac is an awful, awful piece of software. It's awful to set up, to use, to maintain, to gather feedback from, it's awful for just about everything. If in some very weird parallel universe it gathered even 1% of the following that Github has today, you'd find a 20 page google document at the top of HN about its issues.

This is me being nice. Kallithea is a lot better, but it's just a far poorer Github-like clone. You might as well use Gitlab.

The other advantage of Github is the network effect. You don't have to create yet-another account, which removes a barrier to contributions.

When you're an open source project, you can think of the "Submit issue" button as your payment form. Same UX rules apply: The user must be able to file the issue as easily as possible. You should not throw obstacles in their way. You should not ask 50 questions when they can't answer half of them, especially if they just want to tell you "You have a typo in decode.c" or even just say hi.

Time to enrollment. How easy is it to become a contributor? When I file an issue on your project, I am doing you a favour - you should help me help you. I have myself given up on several large scale projects because they use shit software for bug tracking. It's not fun.

A lot of people don't understand this today. Github has fixed these issues and this is a huge reason why they are popular. And before you say anything, this document here is about is not time to enrollment, but quality of life when you are already a developer (especially on large projects). I'd certainly love for GH to fix those.
Hypothetical link: github.com/github/github/issues
> On the Neo900, the modem is connected via USB (bus; there is no physical connector) which means it doesn't have DMA.

You'll find the modem on most smartphones is connected via USB - or rather its chip-to-chip version, HSIC. For SoCs where it's on-die - on the same bus/fabric - they will (if it's not an idiotic design) use an IOMMU of some sort, to prevent DMA from having access outside of its sandbox.

Even if it's a modem on the other end of USB - which will almost certainly be using DMA, but at least host-programmed DMA - that's no guarantee. Google "Evil USB". USB is a overly complex stack which has and will continue to result in countless vulnerabilities, regardless of what you do with it.
I live in Oakland atm; The Uptown area prices are already stupid, it's where Uber is leasing a building "soon"; Prices are already up quite a bit from the SF exodus.

Oakland is actually an interesting place to live though, which is not what I would say about Daly City/South SF/etc.

Commute to the South Bay is pretty crap, which is why I refuse to work down there though. Not that I would have bothered when I was in SF either.

In any case, I feel like Oakland prices are highly correlated with SF prices; despite liking Oakland I'd move back to SF if the price difference wasn't so huge.
As I said elsewhere, frankly I doubt Apple can move fast enough to rip them off based on the popularity shown in November. Perhaps this was already in the pipeline.

I don't entirely buy into some of that philosophy, but to me Apple is different here for one reason: every KNOWS they act like this. It's not like this is some out of the blue thing. I don't have much respect for someone purposely running into a wall and then loudly complaining about it in public.

The first few times some of this stuff happened in the App Store or it was an unwritten rule that was 'violated' yelling was TOTALLY fair.

But violating an obvious and published rule that has gotten numerous others kicked out of the store? Why are you complaining? You knew what would happen.
"the truth is somewhere in the muddle"

Nice Freudian slip. "Muddle" to me sounded like one, probably because of its similarity to huddle, but a bit to my surprise it is a word, with an even more appropriate meaning "an untidy and disorganized state or collection."
didn't they do the same thing with the iphone meteo app? It was on the front page a year ago or so...

PS: I'm not very familiar with this expression, but isn't it like.. "co*k blocking"?
>This is unnecessarily dangerous.

Bullshit. If one car running with "CarOs 1.0" has a collision you can be sure that engineers will ensure that this specific case will never happen again in the future. Autonomous cars have already clocked up over 100k miles from multiple vendors. The government is needed to step in now because this tech is going to hit the roads in the next five years anyway, whether they get out of the way or not.
Have a citation? The claim that a couple of exchanges in china have majority of the mining power seems plausible and I'm willing to accept it as fact on the strength of multiple assertions that it's the case. But the claim that these exchanges, which are presumably composed of the pooled resources of many independent or semi-independent agents are coordinating to prop volume and price (in the face of a collapse) seems to call for a bit more support than a flat assertion.
There are roughly 190k practicing dentists in the US [1]. There are approximately 2.2 physicians per 1000 people in Poland and 2.5 physicians per 1000 people in the USA [2]. There are 38M people in Poland and 319M people in the USA [3].

Starting with the same density, (190k / 319M) * 38M, we would get 22.5k dentists in Poland. We know there are slightly fewer physicians per capita in Poland though. So let's take 22.5k * (2.2 / 2.5) and we get roughly 20k dentists in Poland.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentistry_in_the_United_States

2. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS

3. https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

Edit: Off by a factor of 2. Darn!
The way I see it, dummy cameras and real ones have exactly the same pre-crime effect: they both create a sense of security and add to the observed risk associated with committing a crime.
With dummies you get really low cost (practically no maintenance) but lose the benefits if and when a crime actually happens. Still net positive, I think.

Like common locks, cameras only really prevent opportunistic crime. And for prevention, dummy is as good as the real deal as long as it's not widely known which is which.
You sure about that? My experience working as a government employee (i.e. about as low-variability as it gets), with corresponding low pay, and as a corporate contractor (high-variability in the sense that you may not be needed tomorrow), for higher pay, argues otherwise.

Heck: drug gangs.
You missed my use case, freelancers who receive international payments and want to minimize 3rd party risk.

As someone who has been robbed by PayPal I find bitcoin to be quite useful.
There is no way that any significant portion of music piracy is due to audio quality qualms. I only have my own perspective, but outside of niche online communities I never even hear about things like "audio quality" or "bitrate" get talked about, but piracy is a massively widespread phenomenon. People pirate for money and convenience, rarely quality unless their ISP isn't reliable enough to stream.
Why did this get downvoted? Ugh.
Not only is OsmocomBB incomplete, but it's illegal to use. I've heard it mentioned multiple times that the baseband and the full stack that communicates with the modem has to be verified by the FCC, in order to comply with regulation on RF bandwidth and power. Even if you got it working in your new cell phone, using it would be illegal. I'm not how true that actually is when you can flash router firmware to use illegal wifi channels, though.

http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/LegalAspects#Usingmodifiedph...
"well-roundedness" includes all sorts of stuff, like sports (especially WASP-y sports, like things involving boats) as well as volunteering and voluntourism.
Sure, i'm in my 30's, programmer, can build a proto from scratch (mobile, server, web, etc). My problem today is a lack of time to build stuff.

About savings, i did a good job and can last for 3-4y without working.

I'm aiming for VC money and i'm aware of all the process. The hardest for me will be to build a great team or to even find a great co-founder. It is indeed a tough route, i've prepared myself for several years and really know that's what i want.
like it has been for the last 25 years starting at the University and through the places i worked in Russia and here - natural cycle of plan, design, implement of the stuff slated into the next release (ie. the dirty word of "waterfall"). It has mostly been pretty large projects with multiple teams involved (though even in 1988 in high school with a friend developing a small game we followed the same "process").

As someone said "you can't successfully run marathon by running a series of sprints". One can try him/herself to run even a couple of miles by running it as a series of sprints to understand the foundational principle from systems analysis about the cost of low latency and synchronicity (normally one would expect that software engineers are aware about it without self-mutilating experiments, yet here we're ... to really feel the pain make somebody tell you, strictly each 20 seconds, where to run the next sprint) - those being the 2 main paramount features of Scrum ( note : Agile,insisting on low latency while relaxing somewhat the requirement of synchronicity, is a little bit less disastrous on its own, ie. when isn't attached to Scrum).
This statement is a great example of professional writing in action.

> Apple announced this week that they’ve joined our fight to use technology to improve sleep.

Right from the opening sentence, this piece begins on a positive note. It isn't f.lux vs apple. It's flux and apple versus the overarching problem, and that's a much more effective statement than the bitter fight that all of us were probably expecting. I'm very impressed by the f.lux team's maturity.

If I were to teach a professional writing course, I would show this piece to my students as an outstanding example of how spin can affect the reader's perception.
We don't know if Apple was already developing this before the November kerfuffle. It doesn't look good, even if Apple has been working on it for 3 years.

But again, because for some reason I had to say this last time too:

DEATHS?

Can we avoid obviously hyperbolic statements? I seriously doubt they could ever prove that.
Or you can just use WIFI and turn the baseband off like I do. The cell companies are all crooks anyways (in the US), and I don't want to do business with them.
Commuting downtime is a major drain on productivity. Self driving cars could possibly remove traffic lights completely.
@jono Will you be able to answer, if github has any plans in the roadmap to open source the code in 1-2 years and develop in open instead of closed rooms.

Given many open source project adopting it for their code repository its important question to be answered.

Otherwise sourceforge.net story will repeat again, this time with github. Many projects adapted it when it was closed source and then when they open source it slowly and later due to falling revenues just started crumbling.
Credit card transactions can be charged back months later.
Chris Wanstrocity is an inept leader, social activists roam the halls in self glory about their contributions to the world while Kakul spends money on retreats and hires senior product people who have zero open source or dev ops experience. This company needs intensive care with new leadership asap or they will be doomed, Gitlab is salivating right now.
Sorry for my ignorance, but then how the "brew" thingy works? that seems to install a lot of software without Apple blessing - is that suddenly ok?
As SoundCloud Signs UMG, CEO Ljung Says Subscriptions Are Coming This Year
There just aren't the resources, hardware and information wise, you need. RF engineers don't seem to share the drive for free and open source technology that has been the common theme with software.

As a result, we just recently got cheap, widely accessible SDRs, and even they only came about through more or less an accident. And their performance renders them pretty much useless for even just GSM. Now serious SDRs like USRPs have been available for a long time, and their specs make it possible to run GSM and other advanced RF protocols. So if you pay the 2k+ required to get one of these functional SDRs and have the knowledge that is predominantly still only found in dead trees or lectures in fields quite unrelated to CS, you still won't be able to get anything resembling a GSM phone.

There are the obvious legal hurdles, you are not allowed to transmit willy-nilly, not even to just talk to a public GSM network. If you make sure no RF gets out the real world, you can pickup horribly outdated, discarded GSM test equipment from eBay for more big bucks and use that.
In related news, they usually have a GSM(+) test network at the CCC congress, but they won't in 2016 because the regulatory agency just auctioned off the last bit of available test spectrum in the right band you could acquire through a lengthy, convoluted petition.

And the list just goes on and on and on.. remember you'll need to first communicate with a SIM (really, Java!) card that is your key into any network. They pretty much mandated the equivalent of a DRM dongle!
Bitcoin's potential got ruined by the Chinese speculators. In the West, on the contrary, people oversold expectations. I really want back the slow, but steady growth before the boom days!
What about the people who know just enough to be both sour and aggressively, passionately wrong when they seek validation from other people about how bitcoin 'has failed'.

Bitcoin is literally working right now. I order food with it, avoid currency conversions with it, buy blankets with it...

When people say it has failed it is pretty obvious they have some sort of emotional investment and are not objective.
This is just a special case of the fact that there's no secure anything.

In 2016 that's just the price you pay for using computers. You just have to live with it. Mitigate it the best you can, rely on the ol' "mossad or not mossad" strategy now and then, hope for the best, etc. If you have a strong need for increased security, well, god help you (spoilers: you will receive no help), you're going to pump a lot of effort into building something that will still have tons of vulnerabilities.
> For devices with cellular access, the baseband subsystem also utilizes its own similar process of secure booting with signed software and keys verified by the baseband processor.

According to the iOS security white paper, the baseband firmware is part of the secure boot chain, and has its own secure boot chain.

This allows me to assume it's very hard to inject or replace the the firmware with a malicious code. Whether or not the firmware itself has a backdoor or whatever I don't know, but at least one major phone manufacture knows this firmware is very important for security.
It's not tautological, it's just observing the thing a lot of people with libertarian mindset tend to forget - that state is a natural step in evolution of groups. When your society grows bigger than several dozen members, you no longer can have everyone deal with everyone else personally. You can't spontaneously coordinate larger groups of people, so a mechanism of coordination naturally arises. This mechanism pretty much always is a form of state.
This. I'm a big fan of Github, but it bothers me that this single service is the centerpiece of most OSS projects. We see it every time Github goes down and virtually nobody can be productive anymore.
I hope to see a version control system on top of IPFS some day.
The idea to make an interactive version is not new and I and most probably several others already had it before reading this article.
The technology is all there on the web.
Just look at this: http://evolutionofweb.appspot.com/
The issue is there is a huge amount of crisscrossing data that needs to be curated, classified, adapted and maintained.
It's a shame Wikipedia is no longer as forward thinking and reputable as they once were. They would have made a great steward of such a project. Of course we can still use the data Wikipedia has but someone still had to maintain the great parallel timeline project.

It's so unfortunate that in the end the downfall of almost all things made by groups of people comes from within those very groups. And unfortunately this phenomenon is probably not going to change very soon.

And speaking of groups. On the same timeline we could plot the lifeline of a lot of other things like organizations, construction projects, movements, etc.. And as you said events would be displayed horizontally intersecting with all those involved.

It is unfortunate that past and current approaches of teaching history at all levels do not make use of such an obvious concept. It's not super hard to figure out that things happen at the same time and influence each other. And it's not like it is impossible to use such representations without computer interactivity. Interactivity just makes it better. All history is thought as a fairy tale and emphasis is placed on knowing the exact date and time of an event instead of knowing how it relates to other contemporary and past events. All of this makes history have appeal limited to people used to thinking sequentially. Current approaches to history are impenetrable for someone who thinks about the big picture first. The common approach to history simply can't see the forest for the trees.
Since when is MIT license not compatible to GPL? The FSF seems to think it is: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#Expat
Personally I feel jobs like engineering should not be subordinate to management so I'll take flat.