skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to see someone do forest gardens / permaculture at scale. Right now the largest projects have only been a handful of acres. I'd like to see someone setup a forest garden that's 1000+ acres, so that we can learn more about the economics, viability, and best practices for actively managing entire continents to passively produce food the way the native americans supposedly did.

I realize this is out there, but I also think it's something that's viable from a cost perspective, and also has the ability to capture people's imagination like few other things. I'd also like to see an emphasis on promoting fungi in the ecosystem. Right now there isn't a single park in the entire world that's actively managed to promote the growth of edible mushrooms. And while setting that up would take 20+ years, it wouldn't be that expensive and again I think there would be something kind of magical about it.
I did read the novel, but that's a work of fiction though whose primary purpose is to be enjoyable to read. I don't think it's particularly useful here.
He can maybe nudge the equilibrium over a bit. I'm not sure he rails at the dimwits so much as religious teachings and their legal acceptance which may get somewhere. I mean:

"If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death"

"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live"

are largely depreciated so these things can happen. Maybe death to infidels and apostates will go next.
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” -George Orwell

or propaganda in this case.
I agree that programming at work isn't as fun as it is when you're just hacking away on side projects.
But there's also that satisfaction of learning your craft well.
Deriving (almost) limitless energy from geothermal wells can enable energy independence for practically every nation. This can be a huge game-changer in geopolitics and concept of nation states. Perhaps on how to do it and then open sourcing the technique.

Got this idea from Manoj Bhargava's project of using graphene cables to conduct heat from the earth and then convert to electricity. (link: http://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/could-a-new-approach-to-therma...) He claims that they have already figured out the basic mechanics for it - i don't know how far it actually is tho.
And invariably the job is written in a very legalistic way to make sure that nobody ever actually qualifies.
Yeah, gotta use an emulator of some sort I guess.

I really wish Rosetta was kept around by Apple.
> As an aside, goddamn is UEFI ugly.

I was installing a graphics card once and broke my EFI setup. Not because of the graphics card, but because I apparently bumped the CMOS battery enough to wipe settings.
I saw a 500Mpps SYN flood just last week, followed by about 500Gbps of UDP packets. All from real IPs.

Botnets have far surpassed amplification attacks at this point.

>This is why filtering is desirable.

Come up with a way to implement it that actually works and doesn't break legitimate use cases. spamsolutions.txt is starting to seem relevant here.
No, it's not an urban legend.

Commercial properties prune their palm trees regularly to avoid falling coconuts.

Though I worry more about jacktrees. Their melons can weigh over 100 pounds!
It can also be a deflation hedge. Let's assume your bond has a -1% yield and we hit -5% inflation. At maturity you have more effective capital.
> Not every company is Apple that they attract tons of resumes from prospective candidates.

If Apple can attract the candidates and you can't, you're not offering enough money.

This is exactly the point about the "engineering shortage". If there is a shortage, salaries should be going up. Since salaries are not going up, there is, by definition, no shortage.
SoundJam will never be open-sourced as its code was bought by Apple and became the foundation for iTunes, which was obvious to any developer around that time who used SoundJam and then iTunes.
I found it slightly depressing. Dawkins is smart but a bit bleak and humorless. Give me a Feynman type any day.

To take a memorable quote from the book:

"We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes."

It's not technically accurate. Genes are not selfish - they are inanimate chemicals and they don't do programming. Dawkins is obviously being poetic but you could write less bleak poetry.

Some Feynman for comparison:

"It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man [...] It usually ends in laughter and a delight in the futility of trying to understand what this atom in the universe is, this thing — atoms with curiosity — that looks at itself and wonders why it wonders."

Jollier and doesn't resort to anthropomorphising molecules.
Israel post on internet -> bizarre rant/block quote that references mossad drugging NSA agents? And if you think for one moment that the US intelligence establishment doesn't plant double agents in Israel, spy on Israel etc....
But then again this is a sock so, surprise surprise.
> In general, India has a very high drowning fatality rate.
> Each year, 86,000 people drown in the country, roughly 20%
> of all drowning deaths worldwide.

Isn't India roughly 20% of world population anyway, making this number entirely consistent & unremarkable?
Oops. Forgot to read 'Show HN' rules before posting it. Renamed.

(Referring to "For example, blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs." at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
Proxy detection is actually pretty hard for fraud. Proxies come and go much faster than a detector can pick them up, and a fraudster can just flip through proxies until they find one that works.

(The Tor thing is easy because Tor publishes a list of exit nodes, but some people manage to screw even this up by blocking even the non-exit relays as well!)
I played multiplayer Spectre freshman year at college. It was probably one of the earliest multiplayer experiences available to people, period. (NetTrek 3.0 predated it and arguably, Bolo outdid all of these from a fun-ness perspective; all of these were Mac-only).
In addition to security stuff, it would also be good to see projects get funded that have the potential to save massive amounts of electricity. PyPy might be a good example of that.
I personally regret not dropping out when I had the chance. The extra debt really wasn't worth it.

It might be harder to get a job without a degree though. HR departments for big companies are pretty keen on college degrees.
Not a googler, but I'm related to one, and I'm told that it's dependent on your ability to set boundaries for yourself. Nobody should dock you for saying "hey, I'm working on my 20% time now". If 20% time is dying, it may be partly that there are some bad managers who will dock you for it, and it may also be partly that programmers would like it but don't feel empowered to use it (for political/personal/personality reasons).
That's what I gathered from the article too.

It seems strange that there's an awful lot of pro-Israel handwaving in this thread implying that The Intercept (of all outlets) would publish this piece at the behest of the US government.
It's not dead. It's manager dependent, I guess - It's not carte blanche to do whatever you want (was it ever?), so whatever you're doing needs to have, or potentially have, _some_ value to Google, but the bar for that value is pretty low.

It also isn't necessarily just "picking up other team's bugs" (I mean, you can if you want) - just last week my teammate finished up a 20% project to make a new UIView templating/auto-layout system for iOS, for the first example I can think of. This sort of thing is pretty common.
BOLO WAS THE BEST NETWORK GAME EVER.

Seriously, to this day, I haven't had an experience that quite lives up to Bolo between friends on an AppleTalk network. It is the 1 game that "Windows people" I know who have played, wish existed on Windows.
Charlie Sheen doctor injected himself with his blood
Does that mean if you link to a website, they own that code?
I disagree with your comment that the govt side isn't represented, you can look to Ben Wittes and people like him to get that. But I thank you for posting this, I've yet to see the point about the veracity of the snowden docs as a sibling comment also noted. The AMA looks interesting!
Four gunmen outside
Project Skybender: Google's secretive 5G internet drone tests revealed
Everyone can upvote. Contrast this to HN where you need a comment karma score before you can start upvoting.. it's effectively a grandfathering network vs a democracy where new accounts cost 5 seconds with no email verification.
Eradicate mosquitoes.
You should care if you agree there is discrimination in tech. If you are part of a minority and have never faced discrimination in tech, that might give credibility against such a claim.
http://www.maps.org
Out of curiosity, why wouldn't you upgrade? I know Yosemite had its issues, but El Capitan seems better. I agree that having something available for previous versions is probably a good thing. But just curious why you specifically wouldn't upgrade.
Empathy is the glue that holds society together. Our ability to share emotional states with others enables us to forge societies on a large scale.
I know Rick Doblin has proposed a drivers license type system for gaining access to different classes of drugs. It would be nice to see the creation of an evidence-based system.
Unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc...
Some of those people make just as much money as I do once you factor in the fact that they don't pay a huge chunk of it to student loans.

Step-father-in-law is a truck driver, makes only slightly less than money than me.
So what issues are there on the restaurant side?
Here, have a dose of nostalgia in the meantime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWCb8ayXNC8
I don't want more money. I want to be happy.
Unicode has superscript versions of all of the arabic numerals. "⁶" here is U+2076, "SUPERSCRIPT SIX"[1]; there's not any real "formatting" happening in my post. (Because HN doesn't support superscript, and two asterisks is a pain as I noted, and ^ gets confused by programmers for xor…)

If you happen to be on OS X, you can type Control+Command+Space in most contexts, and get a popup that will let you select special characters, like the above, emoji, etc. It even has a decent search box.

If you're on Linux, you can set a key as a Compose key (I use my right alt key); the default set of compose sequences includes superscript six as Compose, ^, 6. You can also input arbitrary unicode into most contexts if the app is using GTK with Ctrl+Shift+u, followed by the hexadecimal code point, followed by space.

On Windows, I have no idea.

[1]: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2076/index.htm
It's sort of a practical manifestation of the Dunning-Kruger effect. People underestimate their knowledge of processes and their ability to change them, so they don't.
Whether or not Apple has a definite vision for VR, I'm sure it's always a good idea to spend some resources on R&D just in case they need to compete in that space in the future. Apple can absolutely afford it.

Of all the new tech out there, I'm really excited about VR/AR the most. Happy to see that Apple is exploring this space too.
Simple, appropriate, low tech solution for the sewer issue - sawdust toilet: http://humanurehandbook.com/humanure_toilet.html
I was surprised by the champagne corks figure.
If anyone wants to watch these on their TV, I created an Apple TV app that streams all the videos.

Just search the App Store for "startup class" if you have a 4th gen Apple TV.
Actually, a company called Andela is going to make hundreds of millions off of this inefficiency. It's focused on finding Nigerians who have top 2% IQ globally and teaching them to code. Labor arbitrage. Check them out.
Fair enough! thank you.
Healthcare currently consumes 18% of our GDP and is projected to consume 34% by 2040. This will be absolutely devastating for us. The ability to accomplish anything meaningful as a society will diminish as more and more of our wealth is directed towards what is the most wasteful healthcare system in the modern world.

What is causing this and what can be done?
Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes
Darkcode spam programmer from Florida sentenced
Thorium Reactors: The future of energy
Thread on IPFS/DDoS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329195
Thanks for the advice. My first job was full stack Java backend (SpringMVC) and jQuery hell front end. Second was full stack, Python backend, AngularJS front end. My new job is writing Protractor tests for multiple AngularJS applications.

I enjoy writing Python. Javascript isn't that thrilling to me. Not super excited by the countless FooJS libraries and Promises and async everything. In Protractor if I want to get the text of an element in the DOM, that's a promise. I mean come on? .getText() should not return a promise. I'm not a Javascript expert, so this will sound whiney-ish, but I think Promise hell is a thing just like Callback hell is.
The brain. It's probably the most complex machine in the universe. If someday we could make artificial grey matter, or neurons, it would change everything. For AI, for health, for everything.
Young researchers in the medical research sciences. It seems, at least from everything I read, that the NIH et al are heavily incented to keep the inertia and old researchers doing incremental, low-impact studies in charge. Cancer research needs a DARPA, maybe YC can spark it: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/opinion/young-brilliant-an...
Nothing "scales" better than education - the trick is to think "outside of the box" which is also easier said than done..

Asking questions that are orthogonal to how we see education today might be a good way to get started:

Could school become all-play?
Do we need teachers?
Do we need grades?

and so on and so forth...
The article tells app maintainers that:

> To fix and avoid RCE in your app, you need to edit Info.plist file and replace http -> https for SUFeedURL key.

So to check for vulnerable apps I just grepped for SUFeedURL in my Applications folder:

snowwrestler$ grep -R SUFeedURL /Applications/*
Binary file /Applications/Coda 2.app/Contents/Frameworks/Sparkle.framework/Sparkle matches
Binary file /Applications/Coda 2.app/Contents/Frameworks/Sparkle.framework/Versions/A/Sparkle matches
Binary file /Applications/Coda 2.app/Contents/Frameworks/Sparkle.framework/Versions/Current/Sparkle matches
/Applications/Coda 2.app/Contents/Info.plist:	<key>SUFeedURL</key>

Then I looked in that Info.plist file and saw:

<key>SUFeedURL</key>
<string>https://www.panic.com/updates/update.php</string>

HTTPS, so I think I am good, right?

If I found HTTP strings I could protect myself by just setting them to HTTPS. Either the app would update over HTTPS (if available), or the update mechanism would just break. I'd have to manually check for updates though.
^ This.

Send us mail at contact@satifer.com if you want to talk about any of these. We're working on fixing "we never see research with unexciting results" and a few others.

We've set up an email list, we're hoping to get some conversations started soon at satifer.com

Cheers!
Research into "weird" species

There's a ton of money that goes into research of well-known plant species like rice, wheat, maize etc.

However, there are myriads of species where we know not much beyond the taxonomic assignment and getting funding to research these species is a drag ("How do you want to monetize that?"). Yet there's a wealth of novel resistances, food sources, medicines, biochemical pathways etc. hidden away in these species, there's just no funding.

There are some companies which sponsor small research projects into organisms like that (edit: mostly for advertising purposes), for example PacBio awards one genome assembly project of the "most interesting species" (read: underfunded). This species won last time: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

It's a weird tiny grass which can completely dry out and then come back to live, imagine what we could do when we'd take this pathway out and put it into wheat! Completely unresearched (Google Scholar has 122 papers mentioning the name, edit: Oryza sativa (rice) has 387,000) yet massive potential.

It may not be the best fit to your funding scheme because research like this goes far beyond 5 years.

Disclaimer: I work in plant bioinformatics (canola)

Later Edit: There's also experiment.com for crowdfunding research, but it's really hard to get a project crowdfunded if it's unpopular (compare: "We have this tiny plant we know nothing about" vs. "We have this tiny plant that may cure cancer", maybe the plant you know nothing about does that too?). YC could fit its funding scheme above "single project" and below "decades long funding"
The Requirements section of the user manual says that in addition to a C++ compiler, you need Python2 at compile time even if you're using Python3, due to a requirement of the Scons tool.
The government can barely thwart attacks that are communicated in plain text. So I don't see how using encryption will actually change anything.
My man. I was just thinking this would make a great mobile app.
I often feel like I'm surrounded by programmers who just come to work every day, write as much good enough code that they can, and then go home. They seem really happy. I want to be like them. But my care gets in the way. My desire to question why we do things the way we do only to be told "that's just how it is" is difficult to hear and only frustrates me further. The happy people around me don't seem to ask questions, they just do.
Dear Carey: A letter to a brother two decades after his death
But not appreciated.
I've had a number of different managers at Google and I've never had one that ever tried to tell me not to do anything, and even when they wanted me to do something their direction wasn't particularly strong. As far as my experience goes you can do anything you want at Google as long as it appears to have some value.
7ev3n Ransomware trashes your PC and then demands 13 Bitcoins
No one ever said "off".

It's 20% of the time you're paid to work on things that aren't necessarily part of your core responsibilities but still have a plausible positive impact to the company, even if it's just goodwill and team building.

It was never claimed to be a 4 day work week.
Anyone who believes something at face-value is asking to be deceived. I think reddit is truly great at playing to the common denominator. Whether that is good or bad, I do not know.
Awesome story friend. I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors!
By whom?

Not lobbying for the release of your own spies would be very much out of the ordinary.
Sure -- C is a great way to let programmers produce error ridden code that compiles.
>no access control, full copy of repository on every computer, no exclusive files locks and so on

but those are benefits
The Graphing Calculator Story
He who play in root, kill tree.

-Slackware fortune file
This is great. Big fan of curated lists. Keep it up.
NFL player accepted to MIT math PhD program
At my last company I had the opportunity to write some code to fetch data from an api and display messages on 15 Daktronics signs for a bus transit station. That was cool and pretty low level for me, because I had to send bytes to this sign according to a certain protocol defined by their poor documentation.

That project could have been a blast, but it was put off until the last minute and then rushed and then the signs were hung at the transit station before we had a chance to interact with them and toggle some switches inside so we had to do that on a ladder in the cold oh and by the way my test sign was not exactly like the sign that was actually installed. So as usual, another project ruined by rushed managers who didn't involve me sooner and just started buying stuff and doing things.
Alternate models of representativity / democracy. Party systems, direct representation, lobbying, etc. there is so much to investigate there!
If you use a distinct server for Tails then you could still spot the downloads, you'd need HTTPS and serving from a busy mirror that serves a lot of other apps and systems as well
actually, on reading the rest of the page... backs away slowly from religious war
Traffic patterns. Ahh, just kidding. No really, traffic software. The world is tied up in traffic. Mainly stop lights are are archaic and need such a large improvement with how it detects traffic and stand stills.

Have you ever sat at a light and wondered why it was still red when no cars were coming in any direction?

This software is lousy, it should have object recognition, sensor tech, but the basic idea of traffic lights haven't been updated in decades.

You want to save time, money and a big sale to the rest of the world? Fix traffic lights.
> the other is just putting out some products few people care about.

Exceptional job establishing your bias for the rest of us to see.
Microbiomics and Metagenomics.

Wherever you look, there's opportunity for sampling and sequencing - in the soil, inside livestock, on hospital floors - that could lead to novel life-saving or industrial applications or at worst, a better understanding of the natural world.

To do this at scale takes capital and resources - difficult for many labs, but not a problem for YC Research.
My wishlist in no specific order. You should consider crowdfunding some of the research- I would be interested in options to support these kind of issues and I'd have no issue with the results being commercialised provided there was some form of "open sourcing" the technology.

* Green energy
* Battery technology
* Water cleansing (ie pollutants from rivers & oceans
* Water purification
* Air purification
* Food production
* Medical technology
Research into productivity using different programming languages + frameworks.

There is almost no research into which languages are best and a lot of guesswork. This is also directly related to ycombinator itself so you guys have plenty of incentive.
> Just knowing that you can quit, if you're not happy, changes how you interact with your employer.

I think if I KNEW this, I'd have a significantly different perspective on things.
This little trick came in very handy

cat <file1> <file2> ... | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

I have a variant of that which I use to count how often individual words appear in a body of text:

cat ${FILES} | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | sed -r 's/\t/ /g' | sed -r "s/'s//g" | sed -r 's/ /\n/g' | tr -d [:punct:] | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
This little trick came in very handy

cat <file1> <file2> ... | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
How to make 20% time: Just do it. Don't tell anyone. Tell that asshole trying to control your work to fuck off. When you've got something, tell the right people about it. Watch the other assholes at your job trip over themselves as they trash your work that you already got buy in from from the right people. Publish it. Launch it. Put it on your resume. You'll probably get fired because the assholes will resent that you're not under their control. So what? Make getting fired part of your career progression plan. Start your new, better job, rinse and repeat.
HTML rendered via what? nw.js? Electron? I feel like the former is a bit more solid by virtue of having been around longer, but unfortunately both ecosystems are such a mess a11y-wise that I haven't really delved into them. In any case, it's probably a safer bet than something like GTK/QT which is either entirely or mostly inaccessible. But HTML rendered in a browser at least has the potential to be highly accessible, and one workaround for poor a11y implementation of nw.js/Electron would be exposing the HTML to another browser over a local port with functions callable via JS over the server port.