skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be a shame if SoundCloud disappeared considering how many of my music discoveries come from there. If it wasn't for SoundCloud I wouldn't have known Pilotpriest, Dance with the dead, Droid Bishop, and other synthwave artists even existed. Bandcamp is okay but I find it hard to find new synthwave and related genre artists on their search. If SoundCloud dies someone over at Bandcamp needs to beef up the search and tagging system over there (I buy much of my music now through BandCamp).
That's the big IF: competently used.
There will be. Of course there will be. Encrypting phone calls isn't a particularly hard problem; the hard problem has been getting the audio frames of a phone call into the clutches of software to begin with, and we've already just about killed that problem.
I'm glad I never jumped on the container bandwagon.
Numenta Anomaly Benchmark (NAB) Competition
What is possible to define is contempt of court for not decrypting something under a lawful order to do so.
But that's the thing: I don't think most people realize that the phrase is a hierarchy. They just think it's a flat list of things you can do. At least that's how I was taught and other places (like the EPA website) imply.
Everyone, on both sides of this river, they need to grow up.
Right? Damned if they do, damned if they don't...
Enterprise gamification is anything but child's play
You're mostly right. There is a lot more sophistication now, but most of the advances facebook has made are in two areas:

-Mobile. Making messaging a central strength of the platform. Figuring this out is a big piece of why the stock is doing so well.
-Conversations. Facebook has become the default place for people to discuss (or, more accurately, shout about) media/news. I mean both news from external sources and personal life events.

Everything else is reorganizations of existing features in new ways, like the shift from the wall to the timeline. It was a new feature that better fit an existing goal, not an expansion in the scope of the service.
Mobile app testing: When to choose real devices versus emulators
Obviously, there's affordable housing because plenty of people manage to live there.
Interesting.

$1000AUD is the de minimis threshold, for both GST and Duties.

Depending on the good, there would be duties as well as GST applied.

(I'm a wannabe trade nerd)
> Why not impose the full cost of disposal on people that throw things away?

Because if the cost is great many people will just dump their trash illegally.
I'm wondering what's a good way for a dogfooding company to look at things from a fresh perspective. Perhaps the traditional focus group and user interaction studies?
TCPoke: Trade and battle Gen 1 and 2 Pokemon (Gameboy) over the internet
"The proof-of-work also solves the problem of determining representation in majority decision making."

Right. The miners rule Bitcoin. That's the way it was set up. The big miners are[1]:

F2pool 28%
AntPool 22%
BitFury 16%
BTCCpool 12%
all others 22%

All the miners listed are in China. They all communicate and have issued joint statements in the past.[2] Their position is that the next block size jump should be to 8MB, but there's no rush to implement it.

What bugs Gavin and the "core Bitcoin developers" is that they're not in charge. The "Bitcoin Foundation" is broke and irrelevant.[3]

The original idea of Bitcoin was that mining would be something done as an idle activity on user's PCs. Today, Bitcoin mining is done in big sheds holding thousands of racks of special-purpose machines, located in cold climates and near power stations.

[1] https://blockchain.info/pools
[2] http://imgur.com/JUnQcue
[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-30/the-final-...
Here are mine, helpful colors and error message included.

sync = "!f() { echo \"$(tput setaf 4)Syncing this branch with origin master$(tput sgr 0)\" && git fetch origin master && git rebase origin/master && echo \"$(tput setaf 2)Branch sync successful$(tput sgr 0)\"; }; f"

ship = "!f() { echo \"$(tput setaf 4)Shipping this branch to master$(tput sgr 0)\" && git checkout master && (git merge --ff-only - || (echo \"$(tput setaf 1)Could not merge branch into local master\\nRun git sync before running this command\\nIf this error persists, you have local, un-pushed commits in your master branch\\nPush them to origin master or move them into a branch before running this command$(tput sgr 0)\"; git checkout -; return 1)) && (git push origin master || (echo \"$(tput setaf 1)Could not push branch\\nRun git sync before running this command$(tput sgr 0)\"; git reset --hard HEAD@{1}; git checkout -; return 1)) && echo \"$(tput setaf 2)Branch ship successful$(tput sgr 0)\"; }; f"

The reason they are separate is so that you can

git push --force-with-lease origin HEAD:<remote-branch-name>

in between. This way, GitHub marks the PR as "Merged" instead of "Closed with unmerged commits". It's a minor detail, but I like it.
If he could get Lawrence Fishburne to play Cowboy Curtis one more time that would be so awesome. God, I feel so old now.
Except that repair costs be too much in many cases (ie the replacement part or the labor cost) that it is cheaper to buy a new product for just a little more.
This all sounds like the downfall of taking massive investments and going public.

They are under pressure to keep growing at a high pace. In reality maybe they have grown about as far as they can go. They have substantial revenues and what should be a very profitable business as is.

But will the pressure to grow due to maintaining a high stock price kill them?
I first used swirl while taking several of the R Coursera courses from Hopkins. While the courses were fantastic, swirl was how I learned the material to be able to complete the assignments and projects.

I highly recommend using swirl if you're just getting into R.
Answer me this, because I really don't know:

Back in the 1700s, if you wrote a private letter (on paper/parchment, with a feather ink pen as they had back then), in a foreign language, and the court system wanted to use this as evidence, could the government compel you to translate it?

Or, suppose you developed your own cipher (they had ciphers back then, I'm sure). Could the government compel you to decipher the message back then?

The use of encryption really isn't much different from this.
Some of the responses here are kinda obnoxious. I helped kickstart the original letter and I'm very happy about this response.

GitHub more than anything has been a blackbox, and this was a very notable first step towards opening up. It should be encouraged, not shut down.

Privately (and some publicly), in the past few days, a lot of major open source projects were discussing a coordinated move away from GitHub. This likely puts that all on hold, but we'll see what changes GitHub makes and how people want to respond to it.

Again, I'm very happy about this response, as should everyone in this thread. We'll see in the coming weeks what it really means though.
> There's plenty of people with severe mental illness who have security clearances.

Yes, but only if they lie or waffle in their applications, because mental illness is specifically discussed as a reason to deny clearance.

http://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/security-clearance-jobs...
When you refer to "PM" are referring to Project or Product Manager?
A functional democracy could be as effective as a "trust free" basis for choices of operational consequence on the network. In a sense, that's what a democracy is, anyway. One only needs to observe the schism between the left and the right in pretty much any democracy.
Why are the continents so red?
R-Values. Exponential going the wrong direction. After R-15 or so you slip into the long tail.

Good article here- http://www.energyvanguard.com/blog-building-science-HERS-BPI...

PH is performance based, but the religion is a bit excessive on R. I do greatly value the air tightness and the quantitative approach.

High R-Value walls are tough to build and get expensive quick. Double wall, exterior sheathing, more parts, more fasteners, etc. We use SIPS walls/roof that have very good R, very little thermal bridging and outstanding air tightness while being fast to build.
Note on fencing and distributed locks
To expand on my last point somewhat, consider plastic items as one example. In the article, the author mentions that some unnamed people [who exactly?] criticize the idea that "the environmental impact of making virgin plastic [are] “minimal,” a conclusion based more on the emissions and energy required to recycle plastic than the fact that the stuff persists in the environment forever.".

Take that last point – plastic "persists in the environment forever" – and let's just assume it's true (for reasonable interpretations of "forever"). What then are the full costs to manage all of the plastic we produce and use? I'm fine with making everyone pay (thru a tax, say) for the costs of cleaning-up (almost) all of the plastic that persists in places we'd rather it not, like the oceans or really any place that's not a landfill. If the tax rate required to cover those costs is really high then that's a nice reliable signal sent to everyone considering buying something that uses plastic that they should reconsider. Some things presumably would still warrant being made out of plastic, regardless of a high tax rate; others could easily be made out of something else.
How the fuck is this not illegal? Oh wait, it is and someone should prosecute CNET. They're gaining elevated access to your computer without your permission. For once, can't the CFAA be used for good?
Historically, "Assault weapons" is a useful category. They where designed for close combat where shooter mobility was more important than holding a lower prone position.

Granted, it's like banning the ergonomic snow shovel. Sure, it's slightly better, but it's generally not a huge difference.
> I choose not to because that undesirable attention is a small price to pay for the desirable attention I receive.

That's exactly my point. But note that women don't really have this option. Men will hit on them no matter how much they downplay.
> Forcing your sexuality on somebody else in a context other than one where they desire it is terrible

How will you know if the other party desires it without showing your intentions?
I think Twitter's issue is a vision problem, they don't have a good idea of what they're trying to do.

Facebook's is trying to connect the world - this leads to FB messenger, Oculus, Instagram, trying to buy Snapchat, internet.org - basically acquiring or creating what they can to drive human interaction and communication online.

Twitter has one thing they built that they've made awkward changes to which most people seem not to care about. Closing their open APIs which built on Twitters core value was a mistake and their attempts to monetize in weird ways at the cost of their own usefulness has also not worked out.
The right way to do drugs
There can only be one blockchain though. As far as I know, any long standing blockchain has a unique name.
The Grauniad is a tabloid now, has been for a few years. The Times is still a broadsheet.
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Muvily Chrome extension – Get IMDb rating without opening a tab/popup
There will be no more single process browsers left.

However RAM is cheap and very useful in general. The more you have the faster your computer seems to run. Obviously if one has already hit the RAM limit of the motherboard and needs more, s/he's out of luck. I had a 4 GB laptop and couldn't expand it anymore. Then I bought one with 16 GB and I can expand it to 32 GB. I looked explicitly for that option, because I was pretty sure that sooner or later 16 GB wouldn't be enough. I rarely hit 12 GB at the moment.
Hi, I made this extension for myself because I was sick and tired of checking rotten tomatoes and IMDb rating while browsing the list of movies.
I've put it up on the webstore. Use it if you want.
Absolutely. This feature is such an integral part of a repo that distributes releases that I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more attention from Github. I, for one, would love to see them provide the checksum for the archives that are published via Releases -- it's not currently available when you create a release and relies on the operator to implement a workaround that creates a digest and publishes it on an external endpoint.
>Why does US law have to be costly?

Because it is seen as a business opportunity. Essentially, capitalism.
You could just use data, machine learning and optimal control to make better estimates. It has aleady worked for fighter jets, self driving cars, and automated factories. With enough data it will work for anything.
I would very much be surprised.

Some personal examples:

For years I've worked with Microsoft products. The company I worked for paid big bucks for Microsoft enterprise support. Tried to use many times, always same results. "We'll send this to engineering." Never a response.

Same with Apple. Bought an iMac that repeatedly ejected USB disks. Known issue. Apple support forums have hundreds of unanswered, unresolved threads on this issue. Yet Apple support had "never heard of it." Same "we'll send your logs to engineering and get back to you." And never heard back.

Local cable companies call you constantly to get you to sign up for services. Then when there's a problem they'll come out and fix when they feel like it.

Got a problem with your Google Apps account you pay for? Good luck.

Sell something on Ebay and someone screws you over? Ebay still keeps their cut of course.

Paid $1500 for Google Glass, found out explorer project was shutting down through Twitter and The Verge, rather than Google.

Had a Digital Ocean box disappear for no reason. Response from them was "sorry." Saw a recent article where someone else had that problem too.

Had a similar issue with a Linode box. Same results.

So maybe I just have terrible luck.

But I'm willing to bet that there's way more money in sales and marketing than there is in supporting existing customers.

Forking over money to a company provides zero benefits other than the use of the product or service, in my experience. You get no say in how things work there, and you're lucky to get someone who is actually empowered to help you.
> It’s like a Visa payment network that’s controlled not by Visa, but by the people—one that is open to all and that can move money more cheaply and efficiently. That’s something we should all care about.

The USD doesn't compete against VISA. Gold doesn't compete against VISA. BTC doesn't compete against VISA.

Please, will someone inform these poor journalists that it's sheer folly to pit a currency or a commodity against a Corporation? American Express isn't competing against gold bullion, and VISA isn't competing against BTC. VISA is competing against Coinbase and Xapo.
There's a long history of distributing source code already partially processed, and for decades, this has been what people expected when they download a source tarball. Newer generations were introduced to open source through github and are less familiar with this, but they also are rarely interested in source tarballs — they're interested in either the source code to contribute to (in which case they'll git clone) or in a binary distribution.

Really the main purpose of source distributions is for packagers. Especially when you're creating pkgbuild scripts like for archlinux's AUR or gentoo or slackbuilds or macports or BSD, all the tools needed to build the source code become build-time dependencies for your package, which is annoying for people installing it.
They and Pandora. You could probably make quite list of "companies that could be great and nicely profitable except that investors want it to try and be mega-huge".
If you're the type of person to say something likely to be censored on Twitter, we don't want you on there anyway.
I once proposed that the way to express one's attraction to a person was to treat the person nicely, e.g., holding a door for them. My interlocutor responded "So, flirt with them." I suddenly had no idea was "flirting" was. I thought flirting meant actions intended to propose amorous activity (American Heritage Dictionary: "To amuse oneself in playful amorousness; play lightly or mockingly at courtship"), and my sincere intent had been to remove that element. Had I been flirting all these years? Is it impossible not to flirt, while treating people in a warm manner?
Your sarcasm is missing the point.
What's wrong with putting that in the project description ,or prepending it with a "DEPRECATED"? I mean the easily editable field in the header of every repository.
That's part of the cost too! In fact, that's probably one of the most important, and potentially largest, components of the cost to consider.

People already dump their trash illegally. Are you arguing that whatever laws they're breaking should be repealed?
These are very good points. I do agree that it's possible someone could come up with a testable multiverse-type theory.
I distinctly remember them responding to Dear Github previously, and pretty quickly.
Your needs and point-of-view are pretty specialised. But just because you don't need to use it doesn't mean no one else could benefit.
Vancouver and cities like it became popular because of the critical mass of fun, interesting, creative, hard working young people who moved there and created communities. Once priced out, they will just go elsewhere. Other young people will follow and recreate the same communities with a lower price tag. Depending on local land use restrictions, some amount of gentrification then follows. In other words, this is a problem that takes care of itself, to some extent. Visit Austin or Nashville today and you will see this in action.

San Francisco is an outlier given the extremely dense concentration of high paying jobs which drove housing into orbit. This makes it much ''stickier''. However, this entire model is dependent upon the public markets giving tech companies sky high valuations, which could change. Already I see many of the more proactive venture firms scouring outside of SF for deal flow, particularly in these gentrifying second tier cities like Austin, Nashville, Minneapolis, Kansas City, etc.
I have to second that. Twitter really does provide negative societal value, given that it's almost perfectly designed to drive outrage storms and incoherent, ingroup-pleasing snark in place of journalism. If Twitter suddenly vanished tomorrow, the quality of public debate in the United States would skyrocket.
If having essentially no affordable housing rendered a city an economic ghost town, then much of the Bay area and Manhattan would be "ghost towns" - which, in turn, would lower housing prices radically.

What might happen to Vancouver is probably similar to other major cities with housing crunches but an otherwise desirable economic climate: lower wage workers will be displaced further from the city and forced to commute, housing prices will remain astronomical and suck much of the gains from the area.
I never understood that line of thought. It's like saying one should be free to shout "FIRE!" in a cinema just so that he can feel happy with himself ("hey, my shouting is terrific! I carry no responsibility for what you'll make of the words I say!").

Wearing clothes is a social act, not a personal one. That's why there are laws about it. We geeks should know, considering how we softly strong-armed entire swaths of dress-code rules to bow to practicality over other pre-existing social rules.

That does not mean one cannot stop himself from raping a woman if she wears X or Y (nobody loses control ever, and if one does he should be held accountable for it), but it's dishonest to pretend one should not feel attracted by people wearing clothes designed to make them look attractive.
Default destructors are fine since they don't produce any code as long as you don't have any real destruction going on.

>There's zero overhead and you guarantee to be covered in the edge cases where you do end up needing deallocation.

If you suddenly find yourself in a position when you need deallocation for something that is not supposed to be dislocated then I'd rather have it fail with as much noise as possible than have it covered. E.g. I prefer game crashing on out of memory rather soon than going on with thrashing the heap till it crashes 8 hours into the soak test due to the heap fragmentation.

>It's simply a better designed and more flexible container than a raw array.

Tastes differ. I ship games myself and almost all programmers I know do the same. I don't know anybody who would agree with this. Just to be clear, I am talking about destructor of an array. Wrapping arrays in structures is fine and everybody does this.
Probably a lot of toxicity would be removed if it were harder for people to comment.

You wouldn't have to raise the bar very high, I think, to convince people that it's not worth the trouble to write a few hurtful words.

For example, maybe follow-up comments to material require completion of a tiny survey (like 2 questions) from the submitter, that must be answered 100% correctly to “prove” that a visitor at least read the material and understood it enough to comment.

And for people too lazy for that, have an alternative like “or, to post this comment, 45 cents will be deducted from your account”.
The HN discussion on Ebert's comment was quite fascinating:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1273241

Jason Rohrer lived a very minimal lifestyle before 2012, as described here:
http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/simpleLife.ht...

We have set our yearly budget at about $9,756. Town, village, and school property taxes eat up about $1500 of this per year. After that, we have a budget of about $688 per month. We have devoted $200 of this to utilities (water, electric, and amortized heat), and $65 to telephone and Internet. You might be laughing: "No fridge, but you have DSL, huh?" Remember, I am a computer programmer. After all of these expenses, we are left with about $423 per month, which must cover food and other purchases.

His computer setup back then involved a broken Dell Inspiron 4100 with 950 MHz processor and 256 MiB of RAM:
https://usesthis.com/interviews/jason.rohrer/

His game Passage is a free download from his website.
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Absolutely. But my only point is that we can't directly transpose the legal experience over 50 years in wire taps since there was never an equivalent debate over it's privacy. Wiretaps weren't really questioned because there wasn't a real expectation of privacy on phone calls since we started out with human switchboards.
And from that thread it seems per-state ("CA did away with jury trials for infractions long ago"), while the US constitution is country wide. Apparently some states that I'm unfamiliar with allow the option to better preserve their illusion.

Also witness how the officers gleefully go about trampling the 5th amendment:

> Rejoice in the fact that, win or lose: ... It's still going to cost the violator more for the attorney than the fine will be.

Yet another example of the effect I'm describing - de jure it makes sense as it's one's own responsibility to pay for an attorney. de facto it constitutes an extrajudicial punishment that police directly acknowledge.
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In Win10 fontdrvhost.exe tries to modify windows Firewall rules every single day to whitelist itself :o

```
A change was made to the Windows Firewall exception list. A rule was added.

Profile Changed:	All

Added Rule:
Rule ID:	{59F33BF3-EAFF-424C-BB26-C2DF4A709398}
Rule Name:	Usermode Font Driver Host
```

Why would a simple Usermode Font Driver Host need internet access??!?!

binisoft.org Windows Firewall Control has an option to safeguard firewall rules and automagically deletes all unauthorized (by the only person that matters - ME) rules.
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