skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you mean disenchanted[1], not disenfranchised[2].

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disenchanted
[2] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disenfranchise
Quantum effect based PUFs using IR lasers would be really neat for things like authentication tags. A provably unclonable key would be incredibly useful, especially if it doesn't need contact.

There's also QKD variants based on mutual access to PUFs, using the PUF as the equivalent to a signing keypair in a key exchange. QKD in general might be pretty redundant, but that particular use would certainly have its niches.
>If we look into History we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings, and spreading their influence, 'till the whole Globe is subjected to their sway. When they have reach'd the summit of Grandeur, some minute and unsuspected Cause commonly effects their Ruin, and the Empire of the world is transferr'd to some other place. Immortal Rome was at first but an insignificant Village, inhabited only by a few abandoned Ruffins, but by degrees it rose to a stupendous Height, and excell'd in Arts and Arms all the Nations that praeceeded it. But the demolition of Carthage (what one should think would have establish'd it in supream dominion) by removing all danger, suffer'd it to sink into debauchery, and made it att length an easy prey to Barbarians.—England Immediately, upon this began to increase (the particular, and minute causes of which I am not Historian enough to trace) in Power and magnificence, and is now the greatest Nation upon the globe.—Soon after the Reformation a few people came over into this new world for Concience sake. Perhaps this (apparently) trivial incident, may transfer the great seat of Empire into America. It looks likely to me. For if we can remove the turbulent Gallicks, our People according to the exactest Computations, will in another Century, become more numerous than England itself. Should this be the Case, since we have (I may say) all the naval Stores of the Nation in our hands, it will be easy to obtain the mastery of the seas, and then the united force of all Europe, will not be able to subdue us. The only way to keep us from setting up for ourselves, is to disunite Us. Divide et impera. Keep us in distinct Colonies, and then, some great men, in each Colony, desiring the Monarchy of the Whole, they will destroy each others influence and keep the Country in Equilibrio. [1]

-John Adams

So yes, empires do rise and rule for a time but in the end they grow weak from over reliance on luxuries and having no real competition to fight. In the end these empires based on war always collapse.

But let's take WW2 for example. WW2 led immediately into the Cold War, and the Cold War led into the War on Terror. It is also worth noting the arbitrary national lines drawn along tribal boundaties after WW1 and WW2 and their direct contributions to the enflamed tensions in the middle east today.

>The primary reason Jews, Christians, and Muslims are having trouble solving their problems using violence is that they're not using enough violence.

That is M.A.D.

What exactly is the issue here, what is the end goal that is achieved through violence? It's survival, right?

If we are to ensure survival amidst such increasingly rapid technological proliferation, mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

[1]http://www.masshist.org/publications/apde2/view?id=PJA01d005
Wow. Just wow.

If you're going to market your software like this:

>Stormpath is the first easy, secure user management and authentication service for developers. This is the PHP SDK to ease integration of its features with any PHP language based application.

You should probably at least google what your crypto functions do.
Ask HN: What are your favorite paid online services for non-programming use?
I guess many people have monthly/annual subscriptions to certain online services, and most such services offer conveniences, provide access to content, improve productivity, etc. I wonder what paid non-programming-related services (e.g. Github, AWS, DigitalOcean, etc are excluded) are popular with the community here?

My current subscriptions include: pinboard, tarsnap, expressvpn, the economist, and the information

P.S. I'm mainly interested in digital services here, so things like food/grocery/domestic/personal care subscriptions do not apply.

P.P.S. To avoid the obvious, the usual suspects such as Skype, Netflix, Evernote, Spotify, etc may be safely omitted.
Indeed. It is surprising that more technology isn't being put forward to confusing this information. And no, the privacy policy doesn't do anything to calm me down. How does one defeat a digital camera at range?
But then we are back to the initial problem: we are just guessing how many people we are going to date. So its still not really true that the math supports it when dating in actual reality. There is no reason to choose two, three, four, or any other number based on math alone.

There are other assumptions that this model of dating makes that also aren't well founded. For example, the probability distribution of the candidates probably isn't going to be uniform: a person who has dated one person versus someone who has dated fifty is going to have a lot of biases to the selection that the person who dated only one person didn't have at that time.

What I'm getting at here is that this isn't math giving an answer. There are many different places where a person has to make leaps of faith in order to accept this model. And a person also probably needs to make a definitively incorrect guess to start things off.

So if someone were to be wondering if they are being an idiot for not dumping the person they are with, who they like, for the sake of appeasing this math model? They could be prudent: and it wouldn't be going with what is supposedly going to give them a 37% shot at finding their best match. It would be not breaking up with the person they are dating.
This looks really cool. Do you have plans for an Android version?
You can run HIPAA workloads on AWS.

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/
> polls aren't facts.

Yes they are. You mean to say that polls aren't conclusions within themselves.

Polls are a piece of data, a fact.
Factors are great, and surprisingly powerful even outside of statistical computing. With that being said, I prefer to create them on purpose rather than having read.csv attempting to be helpful.
Show HN: A Telegram bot to generate random strings
> Has this now changed (at least for Seagate)?

I suspect rotating drives have a variety of several failure modes, some of which could be predicted by SMART, others which it's unlikely to be predicted.

Each new model is probably bound to have a different pareto of failure modes.
I understand, but were talking dollars on to an already likely expensive TV. Especially with the market that these remotes live in. Also, all those Z-wave/zigbee type devices are unique ID correct? Shouldn't be an issue with multiple copies.

I'm just thinking we could be so much better at controlling our TVs from a 'connected home' perspective.
Thanks for sharing this! I use NJParcels all the time to explore the neighborhoods around me. It's really great to learn more about how the site was built.
Check out lektor (getlektor.com). It allows you to define your content fields in ini files- https://www.getlektor.com/docs/models/

I have been using it on a side project for the last week and I really like it!
Check rlwrap.
Yeah I just noticed that in the second to last paragraph. They definitely have a clever solution for doing this.
I had an edit there with the other values ;) regardless, thanks for the writeup
That's like 50th percentile for central London for a 2 bed flat.
Heh. I might look into dating once I have free time. Currently, I have none.

(Also, I'm gay. That might make things much more difficult.)
27 * 4 = 108
> Consider that basically the entire consumer banking and insurance industries still use mainframes. It's possible to consider that an artifact of legacy

Legacy is certainly a large chunk of it. The vast majority of Fortune 500 companies have been using IBM mainframes since the 1960s or 1970s, and some were IBM "shops" before computers were invented.

The cost of moving software and data from a proprietary IBM stack would be enormous, even if you could guarantee that it would work. However, the failure rate and cost overruns that appear to be endemic to very large systems development (including IBMs) make moving a risky proposition.

The average CEO is focused on quarterly numbers and is unlikely to stay around for very long. If IBM mainframes were in place decades before the CEO arrived, and will likely be around for at least a decade to come, why take the risk?
Yes! We most definitely do, we will be looking for Android developers in the near future
It the simple "halo effect", where good looking/attractive people are attributed other positive qualities that they don't really posses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect

Plus, given some limited information about a person, we tend to fill it with "wishful thinking" and assign all kind of positive attributes that don't really exists.

On street parlance this is called "putting the pussy on a pedestal". This is a very common thing that most men (and/or women) do when they are young.
Sure, the instrumentation problem was found eventually, but it would have been even better if it was found much earlier, before speculation bounced around the internet. There are quieter ways than a publication to get other eyes on the problem -- like a site visit by a review team.

The kerfuffle eventually resulted in a bunch of drama, including a leadership change in the consortium running OPERA (https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21656-leaders-of-cont...).

Thus, the statement in the GP comment that "Nobody wants a repeat..." pretty much captures the issue.
Begging the question: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/begging-the-questio...

Almost _never_ a valid reason to use this phrase. Using it incorrectly signals (a) you're reaching (b) not so cunning a linguist after all.

HA. It's been patched to "raises the question". Good edit!
I think it's reasonable to have candidates submit a solution to a problem prior to an interview, but if you require it in order to apply I think you'll find that you don't get very many applicants. In the first case, the candidate has entered the pipeline and has some confidence that the position is still open and that you aren't rejecting him out-of-hand (unqualified, etc).
Thank you kindly, any feedback is much appreciated
Some of these articles are unclear, but it seems that most of them continue to miss the nuanced difference between jailed for failing to pay a debt and failing to respond to a court summons. The Minnesota cases seem to be the latter—people arrested for failing to come to a court hearing.

The fact remains that prison for debt is illegal in the United States and you are astronomically unlikely to ever end up arrested for debts (especially if you always respond to summons). It seems that in the rare cases where someone actually is arrested in connection with debt they are in for a day or two at most.

There are serious problems with law enforcement in this country (civil asset forfeiture, rampant abuse of power, etc.) but I don't think debtor's prisons are one of them. People aren't rotting away in jail for unpaid debts.
Good points here but lots of questions remain:

What happens when you have competition with 10x or 50x the VC funding?

What happens to long-term product development when all you do is short term / small-scale improvements in order to 'better serve' your customers?

What happens to your core IP advantage that may be several years now but will have disappeared after doing long stretches of "feature" developments to chase after customers?
That's a rather large downgrade to the previous accusations. From evil company to a company with no benefit to mankind. I think you can say that about a lot of peoples jobs - what's your point?
> Which is normally done by the game engine.

Sure, for games. Not all projects using 3d graphics are games, or use game engines.
Solar panels are only about 20% efficient though, you're still losing out.
In the US, mortgage interest is tax deductible whereas rent is not. The more you earn (and thus the higher your tax bracket) the more this subsidy is worth.

The other big factor is inflation. Rent will increase every year while your mortgage payments will stay at the same nominal value. Admittedly inflation is much less of a thing now, but in the past it made owning a home hugely more worthwhile.

Great calculator to explore the various paramaters here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calc...
I updated this morning and nothing got restarted. Shouldn't pretty much every network service I have gotten a restart? sshd, postfix, apache, icecast2, dovecot

None of them restarted. So I restarted them all myself...
You are assuming that the girl's age changes, but it really doesn't have to for the situation the parent describes to be true -- the skill of not being an idiot can (far) more than adequately compensate for a ~15 year age gap... But it might be different for those who didn't start out as idiots :)
It's not always about buying into the norm or just having an investment - there are a lot of compelling reasons to want a house.

-More choices in terms of size, acreage, architectural features
-No worry about landlords disapproving of your lifestyle, no drop-ins and inspections, etc. (I knew someone whose landlord let her cat out and it was missing for weeks)
-You can change your property to suit your tastes
-The only pet limits are those imposed by your government
-With a fixed rate mortgage, your monthly costs stay basically the same. Yes, there are repairs, but you can save up for that and postpone many things in a pinch. Except in extreme cases coupled with poor emergency savings, rising property values are unlikely to push you out of your home (and if they do, you get something for it). With rent, your landlord can raise the price and you have no choice but to pay it or move out.
-You can get attached. Some people just like that feeling of having roots, and there's nothing wrong with that preference.
Conventional weapons. While Israel doesn't officially have nuclear weapons, it's a pretty open secret that they have a few dozen. By allowing Israel to posture with conventional weapons, the US is keeping Israel from going nuclear to solve problems. A nuclear strike in that region would be...problematic to say the least.
Precisely 80 columns may be derived from TTY, but the range 80 was chosen from
is not. It's around the limit of a line human can easily comprehend in one
look. If you make it 160 (easily doable), then the line gets too wide to read.

Guess why articles in newspapers were typically organized in several narrow
columns instead of spanning throughout the whole page, even when the article
was several pages long?

And once you forget about the ridiculous idea of having few lines as wide as
the whole screen, so there is a small vertical area on the left with almost
all the code, while two thirds of the screen is wasted (or so you need to
scroll horizontally, which is equally bad), suddenly using proportional fonts
goes awry, as you need the alignment, which is a separate thing from
indentation.
This kind of "Nuh-uh!" pedantry isn't productive discourse. The GP's point, as you were clearly able to recognize, is perfectly correct.
I went out and got a ray:

https://www.ray.co/

It is pretty, but they use swiping for moving around/changing channels on Roku and it's infuriating. It becomes a workout to do even the most basic of things.

In my experience, swiping is nearly universally horrible UX.
Does this render all the React content server-side first? I wasn't able to figure out from an initial glance through the files.
Cloud providers pricing structures don't usually shine in edge cases, which I believe this project qualifies for. I would imagine the total cost to be prohibitive for the average hobby user and that the author neglected to mention it to hide this fact, or because he received special pricing either because he works at Google or is closely affiliated to it.

Still really cool project. Just doesn't sell GCE very well for the use case it embodies, big-data hobby projects (although I'm sure it could be applied similarly to business problems).
I don't know if that actually works in practice. Aren't photovoltaics (commercially feasible ones) like 20% efficient? Sure, its 20% of a bigger spectrum, and plants aren't perfectly efficient either, but I don't know if the math quite works as well as you make it sound.

The other benefits are awesome though. And our fusion future will make the photovoltaics issue moot anyway :)
so far, no IPOs this year!
So, like Riak CS then?
Why would a government discourage transactions? Shouldn't we encourage people to move closer to work/school?

Property transaction taxes are taxes on the precariously employed.
One could argue that the whole independence thing is pretty arrogant in the case of Finland for example.
On Amazon look up the "CMS 50D+" (note the + at the end). It will do what you want, and produces a CSV file.

It is currently $36 so a little over what I said, but has been below $30 previously.
Hmm, you're quite right; I'm not sure how I came to believe that.
Dear VCs,
You made a lot of bad investments. Prepare to take a loss.
Keep in mind just how old the language is, as it started as S in 1976. It was intended to be a glue language for Fortran and C.

Keep in mind also that it's easy to rewrite the bottlenecks (which are only a small part of most programs) in C, C++, Fortran and other languages including D. That may not be what any particular person is looking for, but that's traditionally the way things have been done.
Better returns directly on the money (given historical averages hold) yes. You also have to consider I'm locking in my monthly housing cost in 2016 prices (until I pay off the mortgage that is, then I merely have to pay property taxes) also I can make improvements to my standard of living that renters can't. If I want a hot tub, I simply install one rather than having to find an apartment with one and paying a massive monthly premium for it. Rent for a decent one bedroom in my area is $1200 a month, my mortgage is $1120 (taxes and insurance included) and that gives me 3 bedrooms and a yard. For me this was the better choice.
> The problem is we would look like we are "pushing" drives to get the 3% kickback and it damages our credibility and reputation.

1) So what does it look like now with what you are doing? For example you are offering free credible information about drive reliability which contradicts what you actually do which is make using drives for backup irrelevant. While I am sure that the following is not the case, I could easily say that you are doing this to make people think drives aren't reliable and hence they need backblaze! Wow look at drive failure I should DIY this! (Do I think that is your strategy? To repeat I don't..)

2) Note that http://www.dpreview.com was purchased by Amazon and it has only grown larger and more reputable (in terms of the reviews) since then. And they openly link to Amazon and they could easily be accused of a tremendous bias but apparently they either aren't worried about that or the effect is nominal.

3) I can fully understand, as a business decision, why you might not want to "cheesy" up (my words) your site with amazon links or perhaps you might feel the 3% is not consequential enough to do so. It is certainly a judgement call. However don't assume that everyone that would be a potential user of your company really would think that way because I can assure you that isn't the case.

> we hold ALL our customers data, so our reputation is incredibly important to us.

The fact that you are earning money from affiliate links does not mean you are not reputable and doesn't give me any less confidence that my data will be safe. It's a non issue (for that reason). You have a right to earn money in any reasonable fashion. Affiliate links are an accepted way to earn money (we aren't talking about selling customer data). If anything I think almost the opposite. I want to know that you are making money and robust in business practices so you have the funds to insure your operation will continue for the foreseeable future.
Actually returns (on solar companies) will probably be pretty high. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics

Looking at the graph from the first link, what will likely happen is solar installations will grow rapidly to meet the trend line, which means high revenue growth.

Solar is also currently priced like it's dying, so there'd also be a price/earnings increase.
>and the decision to use grow lights indoors instead of sunlight

This is the part of indoor automated farming I don't get. You have this free, abundant source of energy needed to grow plants, and you don't use it... why? Seems like a massive inefficiency. Indoors is fine to protect the crops and control the environment, but why not above ground with a clear roof to let sunlight in?
>No matter how one goes about it, the proof of this theorem is nontrivial.

Is there a proof of this?

Also, AMS: adding additional text to the text I selected to copy is not cool.
How Major Chinese Banks Help Sell Knock-Offs
Deapite the most strong public sentiment connotations, the phrase correctly distinguishes a sect of the globalist group, and is just used as such by me. Hence the phrase was "new world order globalists". Its a loaded term, granted and I could probably find a more descriptive way to articulate it, but focusing on that as criticism is nothing more than grammatical group think as a strawman for the much more importance issues being put forward. Its the lazy way out, eg, "that dude said "nwo", all his point are moot and hes a crazy conspiracy theorist." That essentially the position you took.

Also, are you even in the same thread as me? Theres plenty of context, within my comment and out, thats gives an indicator about why such a comment is relevant to the discussion.

What you have done is perform a knee jerk reaction and now you are backpedalling.
Color me skeptical. I bought into this, at first. After reading some other stuff, not so much.

Like this, for example: http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/dispelling-backblaze-...
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I think the biggest reason is that in most Western markets buying a home is a fantastic investment. In the Bay Area at least it lead a lot of families to a good pile of generational wealth.
Here are some of our thoughts https://learn.scrapehero.com/demise-of-kimono-labs-and-the-f...
The roads are for everyone to use. The houses aren't.
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English is my second language, and while I'm able to skim and read text very quickly, increased use of literary vocabulary puts me off very quickly. It feels like pulling the hand brake. These articles are that much more tiresome to read. Also the longer, convoluted arguments force me to read the thing word by word until I can get the gist.

Once I discover it's in fact a long-form article, I will space bar-skim to see if there is any merit, and stop reading in 99% of cases.
This provides a huge incentive to start and finance new solar startups, and gets very expensive for this presumptive monopolist.
That combustible media environment must therefore be taken into account when publishing results.
I am a Chinese. Obviously I don't think Dr Fang is an enemy.
I love this app! It's super user friendly, and a stream-lined way to coordinate with friends without the messy group messages. Great work.