skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A nice deconstruction, thanks! I really like the analogy.

My perspective on US preppers is mostly based on the materials they publish - websites and a book I read - which often tend to paint very fatalistic scenarios (understandably so; most people don't apply to their lives everything from a book or article). And then, honestly, a lot of works of popular culture paint it this way.

I try to cut through my biases, but I think I failed. I don't want to say America is fatalistic per se, but - as far as I know from all the reading and watching I did over the years - the American mythos still revolves around self-made men and women, pioneers and colonists. It's different in Europe; there've been mostly stable settlements here for over a thousand years. Most of our history curriculum focuses on that. We're used to rules and borders changing, but not to having to bootstrap civilization.

That said, I think the increased focus on "partition tolerance" part in the US compared to Europe may be in big part a result of US having lots of areas that are very sparse. In Europe, especially the western part, there isn't enough space. The whole continent has twice the population of the US but the same land area. Most rural communities are still pretty close to towns and major cities.
In the last 50 years of European history, has something like this happened?

For example, in 2014, southeast Europe received record levels of rain, which lead to wide-spread flooding and landslides. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Southeast_Europe_floods which points out that it was the most rain in 120 years of recorded history. Some areas were isolated for a few days, 300,000 households were left without electric power, etc.

How close were they to having drug gangs or other groups take over local power? Do you have any evidence to back up your thesis?

How would additional weapons have helped the situation that actually did occur? What mix of weapons should they have had?

Are there any lessons from other European floods (the recent British floods, the North Sea flood of 1962, the 1953 storm and floods, etc.) to show how perilously close things were to total discord, which would have been solved by more weapons backed by combat veterans?

(Of course, in the 1950s and 1960s, most of Europe lived through WWII and many were combat veterans. But they didn't have the weapons you think are essential. Yet somehow they survived.)
This was shown in the last episode of Arrow. Oliver was so mentally distraught over Felicity breaking up with him that he couldn't physically beat Vandal Savage, and all of Central City was destroyed.
Are there any reasons to restrict content other than collision with another distribution channel? If they have exclusive rights to it, no such issue should arise I think.
Correct. It's why it is hard to lift really hard past 45-60 minutes even if you are working different muscles. The CNS just wears down.
I wonder what the reasoning is that PayPal allows you to 'send' someone $0.00?

I'm not really surprised at how terrible the support via Twitter is. I almost never use chat/email support these days with any large company-because of how useless it has become.
>The first time I visited Google, they had about 500 people, the same number Yahoo had when I went to work there. But boy did things seem different. It was still very much a hacker-centric culture. I remember talking to some programmers in the cafeteria about the problem of gaming search results (now known as SEO), and they asked "what should we do?" Programmers at Yahoo wouldn't have asked that. Theirs was not to reason why; theirs was to build what product managers spec'd. I remember coming away from Google thinking "Wow, it's still a startup."

A desire and the ability to own problems is difficult to bring back once it is lost.
That was my initial thought as well. I looked through the 10k but they only break out revenues by Yahoo-owned/affiliate rather than individual Yahoo products. Can you cite any sources to back up this claim?
> The idea that hard forks are dangerous or irresponsible is a belief that is not well supported

bip99 - https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0099.mediawi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinxt/comments/3t21dh/dangerous...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3griiv/on_consensu...

> scare people away from doing what's necessary

Most block size hard-forks can be deployed as a soft-fork. "It's necessary" is highly contentious and you have failed to cite any of the arguments you disagree with- you're wasting everyone's time.
What we've learnt from the mob
It's not about impressing anyone: it's about aesthetics for it's own sake. And carefully chosen wardrobe says a lot about it's owner's personality, of course.
Agree with the comments that this seems to confirm what was already known. (Though if there was no previously published confirmation, then the paper is still relevant.)

Two things about the methodology leave me wondering. They gave a 50-pound prize to the top performer on the mental fatigue tests. Couldn't this work against the study as a demotivator? I'm thinking in particular of the other studies showing monetary rewards have a negative performance effect on demanding cognitive tasks.

Second, why neutral mood documentaries? Neutral mood doesn't to me make something obviously not mentally demanding. It does sound relatively lower mental effort, but as a research paper methodology, it doesn't seem to prove it, and I feel like there are better options. Why not meditate, for example, or just lie down for an hour listening to soothing beach sounds or something like that?
It's interesting that one of the articles in the header says "Why Spin Is Good For Democracy". Seems Krugman takes that hook, line, and stinker.

I personally would reframe the luck argument into one based on scarcity of resources. It's not about whether inequality is "necessary". It's about whether it can even be avoided.
Has PayPal just not tried to fix anything or add features other than a CSS refresh in, like, ever?
I guess my point is that those people often also haven't 'spent enough time on activities which sharpen your visual aesthetic sense' - fashion is mostly a group signalling phenomenon. I.e. people do it, because everyone else in the group they want to identify with does that.
I agree, as a Tumblr outsider I'm under the impression that Tumblr's (community) importance is mainly self importance.
I like the idea of parallel/independent organizations but I think the problem I see with their use in businesses is the fact that it can impede the very purpose of a business: to make a profit from a good or service. To achieve part of that mission is to specialize where you have someone directing production (managers) and someone who knows how to produce a part of the good/service (labor). Now, I do believe managers and labor can be the same thing at least in terms of dual roles. But to get there you can't bomb out an existing firm's structure which is what I see Zappo's CEO doing. The turn around is either going to take a VERY LONG TIME or it may never happen at all with high churn of employees.
Let's not confuse mass surveillance and targeted surveillance of small number of people. They are two different things.

Snowden is right when he says that every phone is vulnerable for targeted surveillance. For people like him, every phone is dangerous even when they are closed.

Mass surveillance is different. NSA can't just pick random person and remotely track their phone when it's turned off.
What are your thoughts on the millions of miles self-driving cars have already put on the road without a sensor in every little spot?
We're a small group so we don't have separate roles of PM vs BA.
Slightly off-topic, but for anyone unaware, NetBSD is a wonderful operating system (it happens to be my favorite). Rock-solid reliability, very organized file system, great package manager (pkgsrc), and compatible with virtually every platform imaginable, you can see the full list here: https://www.netbsd.org/ports/#ports-tier1
Thank you, this looks like a great minimal yet complete plugin. I'll have to try and hack my own together this weekend.
Fortunately not my junior colleague! just a junior dev using my lib in his company's project. Thank you for the FAQ. I will forward it to him
On one hand I hate spammers and their ilk. On the other hand, I have to congratulate them on finding a neat hack around spam filters which is technically not breaking false claimant laws . The simple fix is to disable $0.00 invoices as any actual invoice for services not rendered is fraud.
Most of this stuff seems pretty common sense and reasonable. I really only have a couple of objections:

* Issue templating.

It's one thing to prefill the entry box, it's quite another to add fields that everyone must fill out. I quite like that filling out something on Github is totally the opposite of filling out something on Jira.

* Issues and pull requests are often created without any adherence to the CONTRIBUTING.md contribution guidelines

This is a people problem that has plagued open source from day one. You cannot engineer your way around it in a manner that doesn't annoy your contributors.

There was a blurb in here about getting rid of the big green "new pull request" button, but that was when this link went to a google doc. Good - if someone doesn't want to take PR's, then they have almost no reason to be on Github in the first place. Put another way, it's the mark of someone that wants a repo as a signpost of sorts without actually interacting with its community.
> I think you would find, if you have n options, one of them is the correct one, and there is slight bias towards the correct one among the decision-makers, a similar theorem still holds (from the central limit theorem)

You are making too many simplifying assumptions. One of these is that the decision-making process involves a simple up-or-down vote. That is rarely the case in complex discussions. Instead, as the number of folks who can bring up additional points for debate or an n+1th option grows, the length of time spent debating grows quadratically unless there is some procedure (For example, a presiding officer who can cut off debate) to stop it.

> I would say that is an issue in any project regardless how things are decided.

This is definitely incorrect. Decision procedures have a massive impact on how long things take to decide. I have empirically observed this. Student organizations at my university had a word for it: wanking. It was incredibly common at student group meetings.
You sure it's not the suggested check-ins feature? http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/09/22/swarm-now-lets-you-che...
It's also very dangerous.
> int16_t is also unportable as he mentions later

It's theoretically unportable. I have yet to see a real system to which it's unportable.

> What risk? Please explain how int introduces undefined behaviour.

(Signed) integer overflow is undefined behaviour. It is very common to develop on platforms on which int is 32 or 64-bits. This carries a high risk of accidentally overflowing the limits of a 16-bit integer and not realizing. When you do this you don't notice anything (because it doesn't show up on your development machines), but you've introduced undefined behaviour that can easily manifest in practice on machines with 16-bit int.
I was talking to a friend the other day and came up with a term to sorta quantify what I consider perhaps the most important revolution of my lifetime: TTK or Time To Knowledge.

The example I always use, the occasion when it first occurred to me, was a couple years ago when, for some reason, I decided I wanted to make a foam for a cocktail. Within 5 minutes, I had found a video on Youtube illustrating how, not to mention a dozen other sites documenting various techniques.

I imagined being back in the 1980s or 90s and confronting the same wild impulse. How would I have figured this out? Asked a couple people perhaps. Contemplate a trip to my local library. Maybe make a mental note to chat with a bartender next time I found myself at a cocktail bar. Probably just give up on the idea and go back to watching the A-Team.

This is a rather trivial example. But then consider the ease and dramatically lowered TTK where programming knowledge (via StackOverflow) or general knowledge (Wikipedia) is concerned. The internet itself cut the lag. But it was first Google, then Wikipedia, that turned TT#$&!%&@ (Time To me cursing that I have access to all this potentially useful information that I can't quite seem to reach) to TTK, Time To (real meaningful well-organized) Knowledge.
Thanks for the suggestion! Will definitely look into that!
Yes, there are, which is why i used the term "half-life".

But if you are the type to be a lifer at a job, you don't need advice on when to join a startup in the first place.
There are other options between unconstrained direct democracy and monarchy by someone who does not listen to colleagues. For example, a model wherein one person makes the final decision but is socially pressured to earnestly listen to the opinions of other members of the community often works well.
Let's Fix Node.js Buffer API
China’s 1% owns one-third of the country’s wealth
YArchive is one of my favorite high-signal low-noise sites; so much that I run a mirror of it.
I've received invoices for $0.00 when receiving promotional items for projects I was a part of. Comes right in the shipping box, and I'm assuming it's an accounting requirement.
Here's some other details: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3urm8o/optin_rbf_i...
What takeaway should I have?
Sure, but that's a totally different mechanism than the one discussed in this link. According to the presentation, it uses ephemeral keys that are randomly generated at boot, so it doesn't help with things like remote attestation.
They seem to have no qualms about using sales stats to undercut sellers on Amazon Marketplace. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023044414045774829...

I see no reason this would be any different.
I tried hard to cover all the possible question.
Please, read the post _carefully_ before asking or proposing anything.
During the SOPA debacle, Tumblr informed their entire userbase via their dashboards that forthcoming legislation would destroy the service. They enabled one-click to contact your representative. It generated 87,000 calls. http://staff.tumblr.com/post/12930076128/a-historic-thing

At the time, I remember seeing HN jumping up and down about how great this was. I was excited too, because now I had hard data of a 0.29% response rate. Tumblr as a business died that day.

It doesn't matter how many users you have or what their demographic is if you haven't created a culture of commerce. In the absence of revenue, "rope in millions of users and then reap the profits" seems to scale to about three people profiting per transaction.

2013: "Yesterday, during her call with Wall Street analysts, Marissa Mayer said Yahoo would explore giving Tumblr bloggers the chance to run Yahoo ads on their own pages."

It's 2016 and Tumblr still shows zero revenue on Yahoo's balance sheet.
In which way is Tesla an original?

There where electric cars before from others. Even in the 1990 Renault sold an electric car, which was much more affordable than a Tesla.

Tesla started with the chassis from the Lotus Elise to get experiences in automotive development. Like with any other OEM the components - with few exceptions - are from established suppliers. The autopilot in the Tesla comes from MobilEye, which has this technology for years available in the Volvo.

The manufacturing of Tesla is a modern production facility, which you will find also at other OEMs. Because it is build by German companies who are doing such things for years for OEMs.

So, in which way is Tesla more original than FF?

The only thing, that I currently see are the Superchargers, basically free energy for your car with free as in free beer.
@d99kris
I just went to the filters page, and saved filters, went back to the home page, and the filters were not applied. I am not logged in; does it only work when you're logged in? If so, you might want to hide that link for non-logged in users.
I wonder if more toxic chemicals are necessary to recycle or to initially refine it.
We didn't need bitcoin to know that HashCash and the like wouldn't work to prevent spam. The existence of botnets already means spammers won't be impacted. No need for expensive specialised hardware when other people are paying for the commodity hardware and electricity. And since a regular user on a not-so-powerful mobile device needs to be able to compute the hash in a reasonable time, that puts an upper bound on the processing that's guaranteed to not be an obstacle to a spammer with 3000 botnet slaves.
It might because they want customers to use OpenShift (version 3 is all docker/kubernetes under the hood) instead of a custom built solution. Although I do wonder how things like this will impact the OpenShift project since Kubernetes is such a key component.
Amazon Workmail vs. Google-Apps-Mail vs. Zoho?
The Fun of Programming – Gibbons, de Moer and Bird (2003)
Yeah.. Wiki's systemic culture problems have chased off a number of editors. The own admins don't even follow the site's rules when its convenient for them not to.

This is not a matter of opinion. One such rule is that there is a procedure to go through for deleting pages - I've personally been victim to a now-ex admin who killed a page I was working on, completely bypassing the checks and balances that are supposed to be in place. (Said admin was later kicked off the site for bot editing without approval, but not for ignoring deletion procedure.)

The site's still quite valuable as long as you avoid politically charged topics (and run, don't walk, from the talk pages), but they are open to being forked if this continues.
All magic comes at a price.

You could have learnt other tricks of the trade, could have made new friends talking to that human bartender.

Talking to someone who is a master at something is far more valuable than asking the internet specific questions - how do you know what questions to ask...
The love/hate relationship continues as PRS renews its deal with YouTube
A Week with a Rails Security Strategy
Even if there actually was an (opportunity 2), there would still be an opportunity cost.

The only decision right now is yes or no on (opportunity 1). Decide on it's merits.

From your description this mostly boils down to deciding where you want to live. If it's an internship and once it's over you return to where you were, it's not really relocation.
So the contributors appoint a project leader according to relevant expertise, and that leader has final authority in decision-making. But prior to making any decision, the leader solicits independent input from each contributor.
DoorDash Struggles in Quest for $1B Valuation
Energy used and emissions are more interesting than the process chemistry.

The paper linked above mentions that some sulfuric acid recovered from lead-acid batteries ends up as an input in soap making. Sulfuric acid surely passes the bar for being a toxic chemical, but it isn't a big deal if it isn't released in that form.
None that I could think of. Netflix would still be bound by their contract - exclusive rights or not.
That sounds so much like Gilliam's Brazil. Good luck.
You make dealing with PR-driven agenda sound so easy, but the actual practice is so different. There was the guy from BP, who announced that he was indeed from BP and proceeded to whitewash the article on his employer. Then there was the fellow with the India Institute of Management, who took down the slightly less shady competition and made his employer look splendid, and carried on for years, and just now there was the guy from Monsanto that it took ages to get banned. As just some dude, I take more pleasure in walking the dog than fighting an unwinnable battle against better-equipped forces.
The open source Nginx exposes only a few metrics. To get all metrics one would need the Nginx Plus closed source edition. Now with this service, I am not sure Nginx is going in the right direction. Also how they handle their HTTP2 and Javascript alike language despite the Lua scripting integration.

Status only with Plus: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_status_module.html - demo: http://demo.nginx.com/status.html

In the open source edition: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_stub_status_module.ht...

Pretty sad.
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We need to talk about TED (2013)
> The only way to get your changes integrated upstream through GitHub is to file GitHub's version of a pull request

No

The Linux Kernel is on Github and only takes patches, not pull requests
I once spotted an Etsy card on Tumblr. 7,000+ reblogs. A month later the $3 card was still available. I contacted the artist asking about it. "If I had a nickel..." she said.

Tumblr's just not a place you go when you're thinking about buying stuff. If it doesn't work organically it's not going to work when you bring corporate ads in. Yahoo bought it for display ad inventory and then, oops, the bottom dropped out of display ads.
That PG essay is the bomb. Can't imagine a world where Microsoft inspired that much fear : )
wouldn't that make your phone get hot and then blaze through the battery as it desperately boosts power in order to reach a base station?
That's my point. Questions are a good thing. You don't "design away" user's questions.
If you have a license key then yes.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg442061.aspx
We have the diamond level plan from GitHub and have >260 private repos at my company.

We only chose GitHub because we wanted to host our open source repos there. If they don't prioritize the open-source projects then we have no reason to pick them over BitBucket or something else like that.
Does medical lithium end up in our water supplies, from people taking it as medication? Is it possible to extract it from that water?
> many "enterprisey megacorps" seem to apply a restricted subset of C++ rather successfully

Your definition of 'successfully' is vastly different from the Megacorp definition of 'successfully'. I interview C++ programmers _all the time_, and let me tell you: practically the only reason those restricted subsets of C++ exist is to allow bad programmers to work at Megacorp.

There are a lot of really unqualified C++ programmers in the world, and by far the biggest problem faced by Megacorp is employee churn, not code quality and not product deadlines.

The use of 'C++ subsets' solves the employee churn problem at the cost of code quality.
This was submitted to HN before, however I just noticed it today, I moved away from google-apps-email to zoho these days and am wondering if Amazon workmail could be a better option?
Tea grown in the Scottish Highlands
Glad to! Sent you an email.
Foursquare raises 45m Series E
In fact, the one that says how decisions are taken follows a Benevolent Dictator for life model. Cleary, not something we would accept in any other community aspect of our society.

There are a handful of counter examples floating through my head. The BDFL model can be described generically as willing collaboration among peers where one ultimately has the power to control the project. The strongest example that comes to mind is bands. A band can have a very similar model, they - like open source - can also have a project structure nothing like a BDFL.

Cleary, not something we would accept in any other community aspect of our society.

This is also kinda funny to me because if we make a theoretical BDFL more controlling than we expect from an average Open Source BDFL, we accept this model for collaboration _all the time_. It's called "management." What's not funny is that this is the premise is treated as axiomatic by the researcher.
:+1 woot woot!!! LGTM
The main reason why sitting in the front of computer is bad for the posture is because shoulders are turned in and pectoral muscles are contracted long periods of time.

Stretching your pecks two times per day improves posture much faster than this exercise.