skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I (, in a non facetious manner) honestly don't get this. Aren't all of the above listed giants the ones that are going out of their way to track, spam and use our personal lives as objects of advertisement in the first place?

How or why are they petitioning for the government to not be able to do what they're already doing? Isn't that completely ironic? Is this a case of "it's okay if /WE/ steal your data, but we don't want to government too (so that only we have total access to it)"?

Someone more enlightened than me, please help me out.
Ask HN: Why Slack over IRC?
Why do people (developers especially) use Slack over IRC?

There's a very healthy IRC ecosystem at Freenode and some other IRC networks for opensource development. But now I'm hearing some developers casually mention that they can be reached on Slack (instead of on IRC) as if that was the default means of communication now. What advantages does Slack offer over IRC?
Exactly. Writing a user of Signal on Android, Apple is the last place I want him to be!
Google never stopped providing search in China. The Chinese government blocked them. Google pulled development from China because of all pervasive spying.
I would deploy all of your applications to the same Kubernetes instance. If you need to worry about isolating specific applications on different hosts, that can be accomplished by labeling those hosts and setting up affinity rules. In other words, hosts can be split into different zones and pods deployed for specific zones, but still have one larger Kubernetes instance.
> but have you ever a fantasy writer who put people on the Southern hemisphere of their planet and made the North warm?

The Dragon Age series of games (and books).
It's not meant to be used for 'distributed' computation.
Or maybe this shows that bad people sometimes do good things out of serendipity; sometimes they even get credit and manage to hide their evilness. It doesn't make them in any way similar to Aaron Swartz, though.
> What does everyone complain about?

British winters have a similar temperature as Texan winters, but they have a lot more rain and a lot less sunshine (because of the clouds, and because the day is shorter).
String Interning Done Right
Yes, from the article: "In the 1960s, researchers David Gale and Lloyd Shapley embarked upon research to take up an unlikely subject: matchmaking."
Anything over 25C is a scorcher. Though nobody has AC in their homes, so we're less able to cope.
so it means trusting Poloniex/Kraken's API, so not decentralized and trustless.
Thanks for pointing to that, I'm always baffled at how few people fail to acknowledge the most "basic" complexities of meteorological reality.

I have the suspicion that our inherent bias for linear thinking is the culprit here.

Some things can't ever be grasped intuitively and as long as education doesn't at least catch up with our propensity towards boundless optimism our and many more species are essentially doomed.

That said, it needs both for our children to be able to survive - boundless optimism and objective thinking.

As much as I am a kid of the 80s I don't see capitalism - with all its super exciting promises - being much else than an ever accelerating system to even more short-term
thinking and conscious/subconscious ignorance at this point.

Yes, it might be less comfortable but we need to change now - each one of us - to save what we have inherited.

Talk with people, teach them, be nice and understanding but tell them that it's all in their hands - even if that's a scary thought!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experim...
Website version with no need to install: http://www.timqian.com/star-history/
This is a whole ball of worms:

- Cofounders should have a roughly even equity split, with the min being no more than 10% less than the max (unless there is a significant factor like one founder investing 100k+ into the business at conception). This prevents resentment and keeps the conversations equal.

- You will have to get used to being in the press, it is necessary to be successful. If this makes you uncomfortable, then have the non-tech founder be the face of the company. But your name and company will be in the press.

- The non-tech stuff is his side of the business. 99% of the time it is best to let him handle this. You need to divide responsibility and then let go.

- If your company relates to the plight of the homeless, this seems fine even if it is a bit early. Otherwise this seems like a distraction / gimic to gain publicity in a "look at what crazy startup founders have to do" kinda way.

- Stop caring what other people think. If / when you're successful you'll get even more people who think you suck and talk shit about you, your product, etc.
Robot Lives Matter
That is great.

However, it doesn't seem to get stars that are removed. Is it impossible?
If you click on the wikipedia links, you can quickly see that Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is ~5 degrees south of both Fermont and Dunkirk.

Even Paris is north of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.
US blocked India's booming solar effort through WTO
re " A lot of the design problems have been solved already. Questions such as when modals are appropriate, how to design forms effectively, what makes a good call-to-action, and how to structure IA effectively have been answered."

Do you have a book / resource / something where this information is distilled?
Thinking about Intimate Surveillance
South Africa is about the size of Alaska, but it doesn't look like that on most flat globe-projections.

Draw a shape around SA in Google's MyMaps, and then drag that shape up to Alaska. The shape grows about 3x bigger.
US Robotics Network Taps
Who would be the customer for these?
>everyone in New England

This is pretty silly. I just did some measurements in Google maps and not a single point in Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Rhode Island is even close to 100 miles from the Canadian border.
Look at the full stock price history of any company which became very valuable, and you'll see bubbles and busts along the way. Whether the market's calculations of Ethereum's potential is correct remains to be seen, we'll have to see what gets built on it over the next few years.
La importancia de la operación
Not what I heard from a friend that now works there... He consistently got raises (and some stock) when achieving things, and says he really shouldn't be complaining since he now makes almost triple than what he used to make at his previous job. But maybe he's the exception.
Because that would be corruption by official definition and the winner of the bid would sue. And that happens even if you don't buy it from your buddy but by an industry standard part from an industry standard supplier for the private sector.
I think your second group of numbers is off: -5C is 23F
I was addressing the GP's map/queue.

> .. generics ..

It should be obvious by now that Go's IDE is the command line. So Go generate young wo/man :) But seriously, having recently switched to C11 from Go, I would take C's crappy pre-processor over poor man's metadata in comments approach of Go. [p.s. edit: in the sense that C11 actually has a far less painful way to achieve type-safe generic code.]
I like the look of your product, but I think you are being disingenuous having this text on your main page "We don't store any of your words and your data never touches our disks.". I don't think you would put people off by making the Siri note in the privacy policy more prominent.
Well, to be fair, the loss of pollinators isn't impossible to recover from as a substantial number of plants are hand pollinated already because its more reliable than nature in some situations.

It is more likely food will increase in cost and everyone outside of the 1st world will be under substantial strain because of it.

Unfortunately, Capitalism has shown consistently it is incapable of handling externalities like pollution, mishandled pesticides, etc.
Because the rest is cold.

... says the guy who used to bicycle to university in -37C (-45 with wind chill!)

Fun fact: the plastic buckles on knapsacks will shatter like glass in -45 weather. Try biking to school while holding a knapsack in one hand. On snow and ice.

I'm smarter now.
There's more info here: https://torrentfreak.com/popular-blu-ray-ripper-shuts-down-f...
The resources required to replace the firmware on a non-crippled Android device is access to the Internet from that device. This is not a big ask. Most people who own an iPhone have a data plan and/or access to WiFi.

Sure, only a small minority of device owners can actually make new firmware, but fortunately only one of them needs to make and distribute some firmware for everyone to be able to install it, if the device is open.
just look at any HN discussion about Slack, which will have a Slack vs IRC segment. This is a particularly long one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486541
Kind of ironic how much this argument was used against bitcoin back in the day...
Nice clickbait title... I certainly fell for it. The post has nothing to do with HN users but VCs in SV in general.
Oliver, it looks like you're the creator of the petition. Thanks for doing this.
I think we'd all love to see him be CCO (Chief Cryptography Officer) or something similar for Apple.

I assumed that were referring to Moxie and my initial thought was that it would represent a sad loss of autonomy for him.
Every computation runs on every instance of Ethereum, yes.

It is important to note that this is not a resource for distributed general computation - it's for running smart contracts. Per the Ethereum development tutorial, "you will not be able to do anything on the EVM that you cannot do on a smartphone from 1999." https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethereum-Development-T...

This is not a very good article - it's rather breathless and short on technical detail. In particular, calling it "the World Computer" is completely not what Ethereum will be capable of.
Though they probably say the same about our 100F (~38C) summers.

Considering how many of them come to our Southern corner to enjoy our 38C summers, probably not.

(And they're very welcome, by the way! I'm quite happy to see tourists around.)
Erlang is mentioned only once in this entire article, and it's in the "See also" section. Nothing in this Wikipedia article supports the claim that Ericsson uses Erlang at all.
If you mean someone first star a repo and then unstar it, I don't think you can get that
I felt my face get red hot for you when I read those last lines.
I think you're completely missing my point. AAA isn't the technology, the cell phone is. I'm saying learn how to change a tire so if your toys fail you, you can still get by. A "hipster" wouldn't know how to change a tire because he would ironically be so dependent on his iPhone he would never consider the fact that he would ever be out of cell tower range, so would never bother to learn.

Your insults and assumptions ring false, and since they are the meat of your argument, you have no argument to make.
It was a pump'n'dump. Lots and lots of people on the Reddit bitcoin-related subs reported PM spam about Ethereum, for instance.
Same, got tricked into it.
It wouldn't be quite so bad if there was a good one run by a non-profit or open foundation.
Yes, but it at least reduces your counterparty risk to trusting someone to deliver an accurate price feed, rather than trusting them to deliver a pile of money. There are various ways to reduce the trust in a single party, from simple multiparty voting to ambitious betting schemes like Augur.
Why can’t we write list.len()?
Note that the link here is to the blog generally; the specific post here is https://whiteboxgeospatial.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/canadian...
It's not black and white, IMO. Say I write a screenplay that gets turned into a Hollywood blockbuster that makes 9 figures. I'd reasonably want my fair share of that money.

But what would I care if some 13 yo kid in a developing nation watches it on the internet? They will never be able to pay for this movie. There is nothing to be made from this.

And, you know, entertainment has value. Sure, my script could be fluff, but maybe i have a disabled kid in it, and this brings a lot of internal growth and strength to some.

It's a tradeoff, and it isn't clear what the answers are (again, IMO). Rights of the creator to control the destiny of their creation vs the rights of humanity. In the US we have decided that libraries are legal, for example. I can read and consume movies endlessly and never pay a cent, legally. Also, I can open a used book and CD store, and resell products. That hurts the economics of the publisher and producer, but is a net gain to humanity (IMO). Publishers don't get a dime of the money from my used book store, yet it is legal because we have determined that in this case the rights of the consumer trump the rights of the publisher. A different nation, or different time, might lead to different decisions. Let's not get too 'judgey' over people that fall in a different place on that spectrum.

OTOH, if there is no way to get paid at all, movies in their current will essentially disappear - essentially no one is going to do a Hollywood type production as a hobby. So, conundrum.

Personally, I will never judge somebody that thirsts for information, can't pay for it, and downloads it instead. There is no harm to the producer other than "I want to control my creation". I recognize that desire, but I personally think there are bigger things in play here that trump that.
Network taps are fairly standard tools for diagnostics and monitoring. Most enterprises operating larger networks/datacenters probably have them or devices offering the same capability (although often more fancy, with integrated traffic filtering etc, or embedded in their normal network hardware)
Excellent post, this is really well written.

Regarding the bug in Mesos found by Aphyr, that has been fixed: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-3280

The internet should thank people like him for finding these issues.
"The marketing on Go is that it has great concurrency built in"

I say this every so often, but it's worth repeating: This is why I tend to consider Go a scripting language rather than a "systems" language. If you're used to Python or Ruby or PHP or something, holy cow does Go ever offer great concurrency support with blistering performance.

If, on the other hand, you've got a task where you're literally counting cycles in the CPU and intensely worried about L1 cache and you're using lock-free structures not because you read a blog post about lock-free last night but because you've tried everything else and it's the only way to hit your performance targets, Go is not great choice. It's probably still miles better than Python/PHP/Ruby/etc. even so, but that's damning with faint praise.

I think Go occupies a rather nice spot on the cost/benefit chart, but it certainly does not occupy the highest performance slot. But to get to that point, expect to pay some more on the cost side, and for a lot of people, it is more than fast enough, with at most just a bit of performance analysis.

Also, I'd suggest that the defining characteristic of channels is "select". If you've got a channel that will never ever be used in a select statement, you're definitely paying a lot for that capability. On the other hand, if you really need it, I suspect it can't get much cheaper. Again, it occupies a rather nice place on the cost/benefit chart, but it is definitely not in the highest performance slot, and, again, for a lot of people it is more than fast enough and a major upgrade over what they are currently using.
A new Social Network for challenges
Is anyone else kind of shocked in 2016 that a webserver for a language can only serve 10 requests per second? I agree that a super optimized stack that can serve 15k requests per second is a bit much for hobby projects but 10? If 1 user pulls up a page with a bunch of images, he has a 3 second wait to get everything. Sure you can static host some stuff with nginx.... but still.
Should You Edit Your Children's Genes?
Also Pillars of Eternity
Growing up in Michigan, this isn't all that counter-intuitive. ;)

What I initially found more confusing were climate patterns, thanks to the coastal effects on the west coast.
Once Ethereum's gas price adjustment is operating, what would you think of an option contract that uses the gas price data instead of an external feed?
He's benchmarking the difference between a Pi2 and a server, so it makes no sense to introduce another variable - unoptimized, unfinished code.
> We have the power to choose how we use these devices, it doesn't have to own you.

Indeed! It's just so sad that there are legions of people who do allow their toys to own their lives, who would be lost without their modern conveniences. That's all I'm saying.
Dragon strongly recommends training and using a good mic, but mine is good and cost 30 BP which I don't think is expensive in this context. Initial training takes about 15 minutes.
This isn't as big an issue as it used to be in the bad old days of EU production subsidy. Most of the modern food waste is along the production and distribution chain, especially in stores when food has passed its use-by date.
first, lets be clear about Micropython, the software versus PyBoard, the reference hardware. Micropython on a Pyboard is runnunig on bare metal with no OS. Micropython is very portable, and builds nicely on Linux, yielding a nice small-footprint Python. I am not aware of a build for Android, but it seems like it should be straightforward. Everything about Micropython is tuned for low memory footprint, so it might be a great tool for Android aps.
The DOM is not a tree, there are links between siblings and from any node to the origin.
One key difference with Bitcoin is that, unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum has an account based architecture. In other words, you have an account that is credited or debited, and you then have a current balance for that account. If you need to get your balance or send ether, you just look up a single number.

Bitcoin on the other hand uses an "Unspent Transaction Output" architecture. Basically your balance is made up of all of the credits and debits (inputs and outputs) you've made with that account. So sending bitcoins requires referencing "unspent outputs".. which may be lots and lots of different transactions.

That's one difference, and there are others, such as the time taken to confirm blocks (current block time on ethereum is 16s). But there are still lots of scalability issues to be addressed, which are actively being worked on.

Vitalik Buterin has a great couple of posts on some of the issues:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/09/17/scalability-part-1-buil...

edit: Not sure why this was getting downvoted. Just to clarify, in case it seemed like I wasn't answering the parent. The points above are one of the ways in which "every operation must be verified by every node" is less costly on Ethereum. Obviously if it takes less compute time per transaction, you can scale to larger numbers of transactions per second. Ethereum has already passed Bitcoin in this regard, and has hit at least 8 transactions per seconds at one point, while Bitcoin's ceiling is 7 transactions per second. In addition, prior to launch I believe they managed to push the test network up to 25 transactions per second.
Japan's population declines for first time since 1920s
The whole point of law as a profession is to create profitable confusion, ambiguity, and power differentials. So the idea that you can automate this is - not impressive.

It might be useful in situations where there is one, and only one, clear, explicit, strict and agreed interpretation of a contract.

But that doesn't cover most of contract law, where the point of the wording is often to disguise and/or hide by misdirection or omission legal implications that can be exploited for profit, or to bully the other party into believing they have to accept terms without challenging them.
well, you couldn't. Peter Todd is a btc dev and provided a lot of thinking on the tradeoffs. He stated in an interview (fairly confident in this) a 100x improvement in speed and is in favour of not increasing block size. Should check it out, the intetview was on a podcast on the LTB network on itunes.

So you will be able to. He has done a lot of thinking around tree chains and scaling and optimiztion.

Btc is limited inamount of coins and came first, its value is as a currency.

Eth is the first popular blockchaindb. Coins are needed to pay miners and powet dapps.

If a currency cant be traded it idnt worth anything, however sidechains seem to provide a way to convert from one to another
Actually, that's another project made by me.
I feel tired to copy paste repo dir to the site. This is the reason I made this extension.
Saw a population map of Canada once. There's a thick line right along the US-Canada border. Its as if Canadians want to be Canadian, but really don't want to live there. They go as far south as possible while still technically being in Canada. (Not counting big coastal cities).
I know you joke about looking at credit card info, but it reminded me of this story[1] where fraud researchers at a credit card company (ab)used their access to credit card transactions of their customers in order to mine the data and perform fundamental research about various companies' retail performance.

They then used this information to trade on the companies just before earning release, and made a lot of money. They were eventually caught by the SEC because their trading was deemed suspicious, i.e. their options bets always seemed to work out.

1. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-23/capital-one...
Ok, that makes sense. But is it an absurd proposition to say that people who release non-open articles should not be allowed to directly build on the work of those who did it for free?

So how about if part of the agreement of accessing an open article was that any published work citing it would have to be open too. is that absurd in principle? and is it really non-enforceable?

An offshoot of this would be that anyone who goes on to cite something in a non-open article, could academically be accused of not reading the article their citing, and therefor mis-attributing information. This could lessen there creditability or even be grounds for a specific type of plagiarism.
Biking to school in -35C weather isn't too bad if you're properly dressed and practised at it. The trick is to avoid sweating.

It's when something goes wrong when you realize just how bad an idea biking in -35C weather. Being dressed for exercise in -35C weather means that you're severely underdressed for delicate bike repairs at the side of the road, and you can get dangerously cold very quickly.

- someone else who is also smarter now.
What's Happening at Yonge and Eglinton RIGHT NOW?
I didn't day 100 anything. I said near. The people of new england are near ports for trade with the "old world" of europe, just as canadians are near the great lakes. The boarder was all about ports, not population, even in the west. It's all about the waterways to the world, not being within some magic distance to any boarder as the crow flies.
Whatever Happened to Virtual Reality?
But Android is based on Linux, i.e. it wouldn't allow MicroPython to run directly on the bare metal.

So that would seem to make actual Python a better candidate for Android porting. I found http://qpython.com/ which seems interesting, but the site didn't look finished.