skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some tiny 'countries' out there. If you can see the surface area of your country from a blimp then launching a satellite seems wasteful ex: Monaco, Nauru.

I am sure Liechtenstein could do GPS from blimps / drones cheaper that even microsatellites, but why build your own receiver when GPS is cheap and your to tiny to matter militarily.
We banned this account and detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10940125 and marked it off-topic.
That's not a bug, it's a 'feature'. But it's a good call to change it anyway :)

You get the email because the output differs from 'empty' (default) to 0 (it's not on the front page right now). I'll change the default output to 0, as the corner case is irrelevant.

Thanks!
I wasn't impressed until I noticed it was b and not kb. I have no idea how they pulled this off.
You can probably work around this issue by using hundreds of parallel TCP connections in a round robin fashion.

Assuming you are sending a packet per frame, this setup means that you are only sending a packet every few seconds per TCP connection, which means retransmissions should have already happened by the time you send another packet.
What you are describing is called Flattr. It was launched in 2010 and never went anywhere, like every other micropayment service.
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On the rent front, I doubt it -- salaries are just increasing to match.

All-cash comp in the 300-500k range is surprisingly common (at least for 10+ year experience people in hot fields); add any luck on equity, and 2 incomes, and you can afford SF rents as they stand.

Being able to reliably get a $300k/yr cash salary (salary+bonus, but still cash) seems more related to absurd rents than 10% of people getting huge equity payouts (which tend to not even be that huge). I also think a lot of people who get $1-5mm equity windfalls often think "oh, buy a house somewhere else" vs. "a small condo in SF".

(equity does affect the buy market; if there were a rate hike and China implosion at the same time, but people still had equity money, they'd probably be the majority of buyers.)
And thats still a blog post.
Ask HN: Is it feasible to ask not to talk while coding during interview?
I cannot code and talk at the same time. Generally speaking, I cannot talk and write at the same time. I can write a few short sentences down, but I can't write a clear and concise paragraph while talking, either in my native language or in English. My code will be a mess while I am talking. I don't know why.

I regard myself as a good engineer. In each job I have, I become one of the de facto lead engineers. I have built high performant systems that support dozens of millions of unique users daily. But I failed miserably during tech interviews, especially when I was asked to code during phone calls.

So is it feasible that I ask not to have code interview via phone call? Is it feasible in onsite interview that I ask not to talk while I am thinking and coding. I am fully aware of the norm that I should talk aloud of my thought process. That is the reason I ask here.

P.S. It is also the reason I can't do pair programming. If an engineering team requires pair programming, I will not apply since I know I am unqualified.
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I like the railgin idea - is there any studies on this?
Jurors are selected specifically out of the general population to be deferential to authority and law enforcement because of the way selection works.
That was my impression as well. My guess is the banner is young and unable to cope with people having ideas other than his own, or possibly has a mild paranoid/delusional disorder. The two examples didn't seem at all unreasonable.
At least in the UK, smart meters don't use radio-based time switching as they have their own clocks which are synchronized with their remote system. All commands to these smart meters (including the ability to remotely disconnect them) are cryptographically protected to ensure integrity and authenticity, and also have anti-replay protections.

Disclaimer: I've worked for a smart metering manufacturer.
Data is forever.

If you've got a working model (and system) for Users, Widgets, Gizmos and Sprockets, then there's little reason to change.

New client devices come and go though, and users expectations of a good interaction experience change, and once your backend is solid you can quickly throw a new skin over it and view/interact with it in a new way.
I normally treat stars as a bookmark, rather than as a declaration that I believe this is High Quality Work. Rather it's more along the lines of "I want to be able to find this easily at home when I have spare time next week".
I have payed nothing for PGs essays or slate star codex epically detailed tear-downs of published studies. They are among the best writing I have read.

I have payed nothing to the people on youtube who shown me how to fold a shirt, do my hair, make pasta easily, chop food like a chef or whatever else I needed help with; granted those aren't writing per-say, but a decade ago I would have found that information in a blog.

I won't pay for writing, I will pay for a fact-checker, but so far that only seems necessary on highly-technical books.
Happens perhaps a couple dozen times a day.

They're not truly deleted, because you can read them if you turn 'showdead' on in your profile. There is such a thing as deletion too, but only a comment's author can do it, and only for the first two hours.
It's not particularly well structured and veers in the direction of straw man.

But most arguments in favour of blockchains as a superior way of doing things are centred around the idea that replicating cash is the most important thing about building a monetary system, when cash is actually the least important (and most likely to be deprecated!) part of the monetary system the world today is built on. If you still need a separate authority or method of reaching consensus to reconcile debts, then making the record of who controls the assets independent and immutable is a bug of the monetary system rather than a feature.
Looks good but I've been using http://multitwitch.tv/ ( https://github.com/bhamrick/multitwitch ) for a while with no issues.

Also, the drag and drop doesn't work for me -- when I drag and drop, the stream doesn't open, the item just stays where I "dropped", and as you can see from the screenshot [1], it stays there (and during one of the drag and drops it also selected some text and couldn't get it to unselect).

Why not just make it to where people click on the items in the sidebar to automatically go into slot 1, 2, then 3?

[1]: http://thumbsnap.com/i/VWKtad3j.png?0120
I've even seen these things being sold at Walmart and other supermarkets. I go to craft shows and see normal people accepting credit cards to sell their knitting and their quilts. It's really opened a whole new market. I can't imagine them going under, what life would be like after that.
So instead of being afraid of everyone else's credit worthiness, we now need Fort Knox level security, and any breach of said security means losing everything, permanently. It's like keeping savings inside a mattress, except people can use automated to try to hack into everyone's mattresses.

No, you just need the mechanism we generally use when our assets might be stolen or lost: insurance. This is also one of the services provided by banks, in that bundle they call an "account".
Part of that is California's particular political history, where for a long period of time both major parties on the state level were pro-gun-control. The public displays of firearms by the Black Panthers in Oakland in the 1960s scared suburban white conservatives into calling for gun-control laws, which were enacted under Reagan's governorship with bipartisan support in the state legislature [1]. As the state has swung more solidly Democratic in subsequent years, they've retained and gradually strengthened such laws. The state Republican party has now turned towards pro-gun viewpoints, but no longer holds a lot of offices.

[1] The first one, which effectively outlawed both open carry and concealed carry of loaded guns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
> The concept of savings or retirement for millennial might as well not even exist.

Probably not a popular view, but I think there's some truth to it. Check out the Harvard JCHS article [1], more households are paying 30, 40, and even 50% of their salaries for rent than ever before.

Major shifts like this can only be explained by culture, IMO. Maybe the US is undergoing a major shift toward wanting to live in city centers, even at the cost of saving for the future? Or people in certain metros just think they're that exceptional / special / etc. that they "deserve" to live in a certain place? Or everyone in a high-ambition career think they don't need to save because they'll "make it" (maybe true?) and will have fuck-you money in a few years?

It's a big change from the past, that's for sure.

[1] http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/research/publications/projecting...
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/07/muslims-and-...

Pretty sure killing/punishing apostates isn't frowned upon in Sunni world. You can dress it up either way you want.
if that were to be true (elite not 'growing' at the masses' expense) it would have already happened. modern world is essentially what u describe, elites, lesser elites and then the struggling commons.
You can buy such services using existing satellites, or buy the designing, manufacturing and launching of such a satellite - there's no inherent need for everyone to do all the steps domestically.
Employees with non-American names are penalized in the US
See also Martin Fowler's "First Law of Distributed Objects" - "Don't distribute your objects". The reasoning is exactly as you described.
Even some of the good stuff on this site I wouldn't feel compelled to pay for because truly it isn't transformative and I would probably be better off not reading it and doing something productive instead. [..] Stuff I do pay for: [..] Spotify, Netflix.

OK, so blog posts are of almost no value to you. But a bit of music and some TV shows, that's where the really productive, transformative stuff happens whose creators deserve a few bucks..
Ads are most effective when they are personalized, and it's hard for site to personalize an ad for you if you don't visit it frequently and it isn't relying on cookies from other sites. It's definitely doable though...
How do you make an account to post an unpopular opinion?
> I'm not sure if the regime is the reason for the repressive Islamist culture of Saudi Arabia.

Well if you treat half of the population like second class citizen, then you shouldn't be suprsided about the repressive culture. This is a vicious circle. How should the culture improve if the government provides such as role model ?

> If we're talking about treating women like second-class citizens, Iran is definitely in the same boat,

Sorry but that must be a huge boat, because women in Iran can vote, drive a car, travel alone, etc.

> The historical alignment of Russia and Iran with the Assad regime isn't the problem.

I won't argue that the Assad regime is terrible but fueling the oppositions with weapons and money was a huge mistake. But we tend to make mistakes over and over again (see Libya). Also where do you draw the line ? What about the civil war in the east of turkey ?

> So, the Saudis are scared of the rising tide of popular mobilization and Shiite mobilization

I want to add to this that SA is mostly afraid of the economic rise of Iran once the sanctions are lifted and rightly so. I really don't believe that the timing of the execution of Nimr was a coincidence. SA did everything they could to stop the atom deal, so I would't be suprised that they would also use those means to sabotage it.

It might be true that the destruction of the embassy was sanctioned by high levels or at least tolerated, but the iranian government and politics is not as homogeneous as one might think. You have moderate people like Rohani and Katami and then also extremist like Khamanei (although he recently also condemned the descruction of the embassy) and Ahmadinejad.

I would even claim Iran is probably the country in the middle east with one of the most repressive regimes but with the most tolerant populace
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Indeed you did, my bad I made it to 5) Email :).

Fair enough whatever works :), though I would point out to anyone reading this that the learning mode for emacs is open file, save file, type in file.

Also not sure what you mean with portability since emacs is literally just plain text as well.

Everything else you'll learn as you go - I wonder if I can do foo followed by I can do foo!.

The irony of org-mode is that it made me actually use emacs every day something nothing else ever has (I've used IDE's for programming since the late 90's).
"The transaction limit has recently been raised to £250,000 per payment"

So what happens if you want to send more? Do you need to make a personal trip to the bank or is there some other system in place?
Yeah, quite funny that I learned of this company thru blog post.
You have a valid point that it takes time.

However, the cost to time ratio isn't sensible.

It's "reported" that Google and some other companies have been paying Ad Block Plus in the region of $120 million per year for their ads to be whitelisted.

Secondly, their taking 30% of revenue for the whole period the networks ad's are approved. If they stop paying, their adverts get blocked.

The main issue is that they go into it with a blanket statement of all ads are evil and are blocked for the "users sake" but we'll make a decision on behalf of users if we think your paying enough to get the adverts showing.

As a user myself, I hate bad adverts but how do they know what I think is an acceptable? They've never asked me.

If I said to you, you're not allowed to reply to any thread on Ycombinator until I've decided you can on behalf of the community, oh, and you need to pay me 30% of your wages so I can keep "reviewing" the situation... you'd tell me to bugger off.
The positive uses of new accounts (described by foldor and myth_buster) add more value than the negative ones destroy. Being open to trolls is annoying, but it's a price worth paying for having an open forum. It's particularly valuable when a knowledgeable person—often the creator of a project or the author of an article—is inspired to make an account and comment on the story they know about.
This directive would be just if it were possible for me to know, in advance of clicking on a given link, if the destination I'm clicking on embraces advertising revenue. Instead, I'm just supposed to Figure It Out, wasting bandwith and processing power for ads I don't want to see? Your business model sucks. Sorry.
We are constantly taking demand for other platforms. Hipchat being one of the most popular ones. Check my profile for my email to send us a message so we can get you on the list to be notified when we make changes.
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Well if you use sun.misc.unsafe or JNI all bets are off
Cryptocurrencies reduce (but hardly eliminate) counterparty risk in exchange for an increase in systemic and personal risk. The dominant financial markets have exhibited a preference for reducing systemic risk over other forms of risk. I tend to think they have made the right trade-off. I have not seen a convincing argument for the alternative.
Release of gandalf 0.8, battled hardened, scalable iPhone port forwarding
I'm proud to announce release of gandalf 0.8, this is a very battled tested tool to port forward ports on jailbroken iPhones. It lets you do ssh -p 2000 root@localhost.

Similar to other tools, gandalf is better because

1) It is scalable, worked with 25+ iPhones at the same time, see README about needing to use custom version of usbmuxd and issues the linux kernel might give you.

2) Provides a nice status server, see what devices are tunneled with gandalf --status

3) Battle tested under stress.

4) Written in a functional programming language OCaml, so you know its type safe.

5) Features nice options like closing connections if there is no activity on the tunnel after a configurable period of time, defaults to five minutes.

6) Doesn't leak any file descriptors, so you can actually leave this on and forget about it.

Easily installed via opam, OCaml's package manager.

opam install usbmux

Provide a mapping file of the form <udid>:<local_port>:<device_port>

Find the udid of connected devices with plain listen mode:

$ gandalf

Will print as devices plug in and out.

more serious sample usage:

sudo which gandalf --mappings etc/idevices/mappings --daemonize --verbose --timeout 900

Outputs colored debugging messages to the system log too.

Source code, star the repo if you like it!:

https://github.com/onlinemediagroup/ocaml-usbmux
The documentary did absolutely try to sway me, but I'm basing my opinion on the sworn testimony of the actual officers that did the framing, as well as the officers of the neighboring county. The key, the blood, the bullet, all appeared only once the Manitowoc sheriffs arrived at the scene, in plain sight, despite upwards of 6 previous searches performed by their neighbor sheriff's department. Do you have another explanation? Do you feel that the documentarians faked this testimony?
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Ghana is at an interesting position vis-a-vis UK.

We are on the same time zone, and there are about five daily flights between london, which has what anecdotally feels like a big Ghanaian population.

I am not sure where I am going with this other than if Ghana was a stock, she would be a strong buy.
Here's the summary:
IP Geolocation is at best inaccurate.
Remember the 90s? Terrible time for LGBT community.
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Very interesting post.

I love that they could have the resources and time to explore using safer languages for their use cases.
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if you type anything into the google search bar [..] you either get wikipedia [..] or clickbait ad-filled trash that gives you one sentence of content before you click "next", repeated 10 times downloading megabytes of data

Hyperbolic to the extreme and rarely true.
Ok, downvotes. "are there any studies"?
And Italy, and most of the mediterranean countries. And possibly, also some other countries in Asia or South America.
Can we secure the internet of things?
So slaves who are highly productive for fear of their life, or even chattel-workers (I.e. Most folks) who likewise produce for fear of the bread line... They have a high standard of living?

I call shenanigans. The best predictor for having a high standard of living is having a high standard of living.

Also, define "standard". The most universal standard I can consider is leisure.
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I wouldn't be surprised. I used Godaddy once to search for possible domain names. I found maybe 10 or so good ones, and then took some time to think about which one to choose. A couple days later I went to register the one I wanted, only to find that Godaddy had "helpfully pre-registered" it for me (their words on the landing page they parked on the domain) and they would now sell it to me for 3x the price (you know, for the convenience). I looked up the other domains I had searched, and wouldn't you know they were also "pre-registered".
All the fast payment systems outside the US are Government-run. In the US, online payments are run by private enterprise. The US doesn't have enough socialism for this to work.

The US Fed has been pushing for faster payment processing, but the big banks don't want it.
Which just makes the point - growth is a meaningless statistic if it's not widely distributed.

A more accurate statistic would be median disposable income, as a proxy for general economic self-determination - and that's been on a steady downward slope since the 1970s.

The tragedy is that there's plenty of physical work that could be done, outside the pointless confines of Web 2.0. The US and the rest of the West needs better energy distribution grids, smart everything, renewable power, and mitigation against climate change.

A lot of the existing infrastructure, including surface transport, is barely fit for purpose. Improved education at all levels is an easy win. And so on...

None of this is likely to happen within current economic and political narratives. So yes - the US and the West do not have a bright future, unless the narratives change.
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To use a tech example, look at computers. Just 20 years ago they were extremely expensive and out of the hands of many people, especially schools in poorer communities. Through manufacturing processes, we have driven there price extremely low (ex raspberry pi) enabling even the poorest communities to have access to learning programming and creating things. This would not be possible without the democratization of technology.

Another example is food. Advances in science and agriculture have enabled us to create vast amounts of fruits, vegetables, etc... and our distribution system allows for these resources to reach even the smallest of communities; And this can be done at extremely low costs. Here is a way to put it into perspective. 50 years ago you couldn't go to a rural community in Northern Canada and get a pomegranate without paying a huge premium to have it delivered there from a warm country where it is grown, thus only rich people in that community could enjoy a pom. Now, Poms are growing readily and moved around the world, so for a couple dollars anyone can enjoy one.

That is the power of democratization of technology and resources, and the next big step is democratizing our financial systems and marketplaces to distribute wealth better.
I'm not sure where you live, but your desires are incompatible with free speech. Frankly, they're so extreme, I can't imagine you could be happy as anything other than a hermit. I certainly wouldn't be quiet in your presence just because you don't want to hear me.
It amazes me that ancient people put up with such harsh conditions. Why not just move south, where it's warmer. I suppose part of the issue is lack of knowledge of other places, but still. Why stay in such a harsh, difficult place?
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All of this reminds me why I'm not using C++ anymore (a 20-years experience notwithstanding).
If anyone was there I'd love to hear your impressions.
The only sort of maybe non-sketchy theory I have is that the deputy had that information from a flyer, or a BOLO (Be On the Look Out), or that it had somehow been transmitted to him by people searching for the Theresa, and he wanted to confirm it. It's a pretty thin sort of maybe justification. I can't think of why he would need it confirmed.
It's funny that Ad Block posted the image as to "how dare they, who do they think they are!? Why shouldn't I be allowed to do something I want"

Yet they do it businesses trying to advertise every day.
Very cool -- I wrapped my first app and it worked great.

Sadly, when I gave to copy to a less technical coworker (ie, without node.js installed) and it open with a blank window.

Is that expected?
"Windows/DirectX/UDP is too well-supported and mainstream, let's build a twitch MMO using Javascript/WebGL/WebSockets!"

I wonder what the intersection of "people that want to play MMOs" and "people that don't want to install anything" is. There are good game streaming technologies (e.g. Guild Wars) that minimize the patch time, so it feels like a bit of a straw-man.
What other corroborating evidence? You've been asked elsewhere in this thread to substantiate that claim.

(As for Reiser: he told the prosecutors where he buried the body, so his guilt is established beyond reasonable doubt)
lol are you that easily maninupulated?
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