skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so maybe democracy is the anomaly. It maybe just happened that the American Constitution showed up around 1790, right before the Industrial Revolution. Causal? Coincidence? We dunno so much. But we can always hope that increased material prosperity leads to less oppression.

China/Singapore/Taiwan are not just unspeakably evil places - that's the system they got by walking their path

Perhaps this hope is in vain. But I still hold to it.
What's the scale in this context? Your explanation doesn't really clarify.
Bufferbloat == San Francisco Bay Area housing market.

The offices and jobs create demand for housing, but housing hasn’t been constructed anywhere near as quickly. We don’t want to lose packets of engineers, so we pile them into the buffer. The amount of free space in the buffer has shrunk so much that the cost of latency is spiking exponentially.

We can try fancy schemes to guarantee QoS, but those work only for small numbers of applications on a limited scale. As any good network engineer can tell you, the only real solution is to build more.
Some Hintjens' quotes -

i) "One tactic I used was to take the cult techniques and reverse them"

ii) "We create culture by sharing" (extends to a successful project being a culture, a share-alike licence, and a name/domain which of course can be forked)

There are many others - his writing introduced me to Conway's law (was b) - "A software system mimics the structure of the organization that produces it ") - I've only read part of his work, time well spent and good to discuss with programmers and non-programmers - he made me think
>this lets you finesse the question of "what do you mean 'control'"

I'd say that this is one of the most difficult things about it, so as long as we're not answering this question, I agree it's not that hard (though I agree that the article didn't take these thoughts all the way).

For example, the tongue-parasite mentioned in the article: I am not sure exactly how that parasite works, but if it responds exactly how you would expect a tongue to respond, is it then under your immediate control (If it doesn't, imagine a parasite that does, even to the point of transmitting tastes)?

The fact that it does everything that your tongue does and something extra (stealing nutrition), is that what would make it not part of you? If so, what about artificial limbs that do everything the missing limb does but in addition does something else, possibly beyond my control (periodic internal maintenance, for instance)? I would say it should be regarded as part of my 'self', even though I cannot control all aspects of its behaviour.
Ion was invented ten years ago according to someone else on this thread. I believe Amazon was mostly a perl and C++ shop at that time.
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"All the inflation that was intended to happen was actually absorbed..." - do you have a source for this? That seems a whopper of an idea, and I'd like to explore it at length.
b) That's Conway's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
"Some folks still use Garmin GPS due to privacy concerns, but most of the world uses internet-connected navigation for its many advantages: fresher maps, more coverage, better tuned navigation algorithms, better user experience because iteration is 10x cheaper, etc."

There is one thing missing: people use Google Maps, Waze etc simply because it's free.
Thank you for the info! But I also think that this will not get a lot of coverage, if I need to learn this address from a comment in HN.. Hope it does somehow..
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It does.

There's an offline language pack installed, though.
Bitcoin isn't really analogous to an "internet", but I think I get what you're trying to say, in that blockchains offer a form of private network on top of the shared public network. There is some truth in that, though it goes beyond public and private, it's truly about trust. All transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain (in its current form) can be seen by everyone else in the network. The trust comes from sharing knowledge about transactions, every Bitcoin (and Satoshi, which are fractions of a single Bitcoin) is traceable by every node on the network. In some ways it's even more 'public' than the Internet it is running on.
Pretty small compared to a lot of proprietary repos.
Too bad there's no source available?
And do you want your gut bacteria to be part of you? Only the part of them that doesn't make your stomach upset when you eat <something>?

Though I instinctively think this definition sounds good, I think in the case of gut bacteria it doesn't hold up. They are an integral part of our well-being, but if we could engineer them to only respond 'positively' to food, surely we would. And yet, I would not say that those bacteria that make my stomach act up are less a part of me than the bacteria that don't.
Libvbyte: C library for integer compression (32bit, 64bit, SIMD)
For JVM most popular benchmark is https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki
A major feedback was that folks need that thing and they need it on premise. On the recent update, you left out that folks should contact you at that other mail address, how so?

I can't use Kite if it's not on premise.
>I'm honestly sorry to tell you this: the experiment didn't work. Turns out when we took away the reason for private interests to be interested in these children, the lives of the children didn't improve

I'm not sure where you had this experience. In the US and Europe, when child labor (and children prostitutes) was abolished, circa late 19th - early 20th century, the lives of children improved greatly.

In countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America where it's still either allowed or authorities turn a blind eye, not so much.

Moreover, the very idea of "let the kids be raped for money, lest they starve to death, it's the least we can do" is sick.

It's not by any means the "least" we can do.
Wow. Powerful stuff... Really makes you consider your own mortality.
Because search tends to have a significantly higher margin than Google's other offerings (say Cloud), even if non-advertising revenue reaches 10% of total revenue, the non-advertising profit is below 10%
Any solid Java, C#, C++ libraries?
>While this has historically been the case, Python 3.4/3.5 has really sped up adoption of Python 3, and from an open source maintainer, Python 3 is making large inroads.

If by great inroads you mean "around 6-10% in PyPI after 8 years of trying", then yes.

But unless it gets over 30-40% it's not anywhere near significant in my charts...
> It also caused serious diplomatic and political problems, with Germany for example.

It didn't really look like a serious problem from within Germany. Our administration is as pro-US as before. We've stopped sharing some information, but I doubt that has caused the NSA much trouble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany–United_States_relation...
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Point?
Sure, but you forgot to mention which are these "all".

Besides, cars kill far more people than car thieves (actually, they are the leading cause of death in young people), pollute the air, have a big environmental impact for their construction (including electric cars), contribute to urban noise pollution, and influence city planning in creating monstrous (sub)urban sprawls. And that's before the billions spent on oil for car use, and the millions killed to ensure first world countries control it and get it for cheap.
Google play is the worst with fake reviews, i have seen apps with 1000s of fake reviews, i reported it multiple times but google did nothing...

Same fort malicious whatsapp apps (fake spying tools and name imitations). Google should really up their game on these garbage apps.
> It's "statically typed" vs. "dynamically typed" that is the useful distinction.

I officially propose to use the term "accidentally typed" or "eventually typed".
or you could just build a drone without GPS.

Geofencing only works if people stick to the rules. Criminals normaly don't.
Don't RFC-Validate Email Addresses
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543926 and marked it off-topic.
Exactly! It is up to the court system to decide what to do about a particular case. Any promise from a government official will be a lie.
Hover used not to have any info in the UK. It now does! Sweet update.

But note that no-fly zones are pretty onerous: all the best parks in $town are occluded by the huge zone for an out-of-town airport.

Likewise a local beauty spot that occasionally activates for military training is marked without any timely activation data. Is it hot or not? The zone is larger than the current NOTAM, which suggests they're being completionist, which is maximum ass-covering and minimally useful.

This sort of blunt zoning mostly doesn't make sense, and will likely get ignored.

(in fact, if that same zoning applies to geofences, all the $town flyers own bricks)

Real pilot info is semi-useful: http://notaminfo.com/ukmap ; the legal 400ft limit is 120m, which is an invisible speck in the sky. Useful for setting ceilings for waypoint flight, etc.
This comment breaks the HN guidlines. Please eliminate incivility and name-calling from your comments here.

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Thanks - updated
No I think except for the politicians and military most people just got the standard model of Trabant or nothing.
It's a reasonable technical solution, yes.

More useful would be a lower ceiling in no-fly zones, tbh; no-fly is appropriate for real aircraft, but for toys there is value in considering "no-fly" and "low-fly".
You made a trainwreck of this thread by taking it down an ideological flamewar tangent. That breaks the HN guidelines. Please don't do this again.

Blithely pronouncing a radical view to be "scientific consensus" on the most divisive of topics is a form of trolling. I've noticed that users who do this invariably display how far from dispassionate science their interest in this subject really is. There's also some irony in how fixated they are on the topic of intelligence—a quality that somehow never seems to distinguish these threads.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11539519 and marked it off-topic.
I don't see why is this particularly relevant to software developers -- it's some good advice to anyone with relatively good income who is not already financially savvy.

With this title, I expected to see some advice for the developers working on financial software, such as money amounts not (always) being floats, or why RDBMs are not a good fit to save financial transactions, and the like.
Pieter came to work with us on a project in San Francisco and I'm so happy that I could find this post through hacker news so soon after he posted it. I don't know if he will get my email but I'm glad I had a chance to send it.
The irony of procrastinating by reading about procrastination
Laser Quest closed about a month ago (as did everything else in that plaza). If I remember correctly. LinkedIn purchased the real estate.
News feed eradicator is another useful tool along the same lines.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
I agree it definitely has that quality. However the analysis also 'feels' right to me, the proposed model fits elegantly. My money is on him being correct in many ways.
Pinterest jumped the shark
I really fall under #3.
My wife got a job offer which implied relocating on a short notice.
I wasn't finding any work at all and a PhD seemed like a way to keep busy for 3 years doing something (potentially) interesting.
I did some ballpark calculations on the subject. You would need about 800kW laser to reach parity with M61 Vulcan autocannon.

I compared how much you need to melt aluminum with how big volume dent you can make to steel with 20mm round traveling 1000m/s. The energy you need to melt aluminum is considerable, and autocannons have pretty whopping rates of fire.

You need 0,05 second beam on target with 30kW laser to have the effect of single 20mm round. During that time M61 fires 5 rounds and incoming BrahMos missile would travel 50 meters.

You can claim that penetration is hardly needed. Then you can add bursting charges with programmable time fuses to those 20mm rounds. And you have high speed high accuracy shotgun.

It boils down to targeting. Both can do it if they hit in the appropriate time window. BrahMos does S-manouver at the close in range, but 500m before impact it moves straight. At this point it's trajectory is ballistic enough to hit anyhow. And it's kinetic energy is going to give you a bad day no matter what (~1000m/s and ~1ton weight, comparable shell from main gun of Iowa). During that S-maneuver you have to score or you're dead. Cannon rounds have long time of travel, you have to shoot when the missile is 2km away to hit it 1km away. The good news is that missile traveling that fast has to have turn radius of several kilometers.

In the future both close in possibilities are likely to be futile. BrahMos II has twice the speed and it's likely to have some stealth features. If you can't see it on radar, shooting it with laser is impossible. You can still see it on IRST, but shooting extremely hot beam of light towards it is going to fuck up your delicate sensors.

Edit: current best weaponized lasers have similar size, weight and range than M61. But lot less power. Increasing the range and the power at the same time is very tricky.
Pieter, after reading your article I feel connected to you, despite us never having met.

Thank you for everything you've done as a blog writer and as a member of the open source community.
I didn't know Pieter but contributed to CZMQ which was a excellent example of how C can be well written. ZMQ was like having lego blocks for me had so much fun playing with it, he is a profound thinker.
I've often seen people propose things like that, such as congress being paid the average salary or maybe even no salary. However they're much more likely to take kickbacks if they have the power and not the money.
Excellent news.
Parent answered with just the facts. You deduce they're upset from nothing at all.

>I'm just saying it hardly surprises me.

Which doesn't convey any information -- except your non-surprised status. It doesn't surprise you because it's something that had to be done, it doesn't surprise you because Apple tends to innovate in those areas, it doesn't surprise you because Apple wants to lock people in, it doesn't surprise you because Apple doesn't play well with other's standards, etc, we don't know which.
Too shaky..
something about your comment makes me thing about cloud computing.
>It does, but is rarely used that way. The man wearing a sausage link necklace went on a nature walk and faced the music when bears showed up.

That assumes the man did not first violate the sausage factory's trust by breaking numerous agreements pertaining to sausage use.

>I'm just pointing out that the phrase is heavily biased to the point of being a dog whistle.

Agreed; I dislike the phrase as well. It however doesn't absolve Snowden of responsibility.

>I see no evidence of it in what little I know about his history, and a narcissist would be busy filling that gap.

My read is he's a bit self-aggrandizing and narcissistic at times. I'm not a professional, so that's only as good as any other lay person's assessment.

>So small that it is as equally likely that he is a quadruple agent still acting under the orders of the USG.

Or worse, the sausage factory.

In all seriousness though, I'd classify the chances of him being a foreign intelligence asset as low—but not low enough so as to be non-trivial.

>... which means the leak of operational details has had no operational impact (likely because it was already well known).

I wouldn't be so sure:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9508191

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M#t=20m39s (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)
My point was that these tech CEOs don't have that kind of influence, and they don't. End of story.
The Bitcoin story continues. This is pretty huge.
You are probably misremembering because Apple frequently dives into new standards early. Mini- and micro-SIM cards come to mind.

(I assume you wouldn't include Windows, or the choices made by Microsoft for Windows as being an "established" choice.)

The only substantial "dodged established choice" I can think of recently is the lightning connector over micro-USB. But that's fair enough, as micro-USB is a hateful connector. Paying a few dollars more per cable is relatively inconsequential.
> A US company (or individual) should absolutely ignore court orders from a non-US court; such courts have no jurisdiction. A "valid" court order necessarily must come from a court with jurisdiction.

Remember: US privacy protections (e.g. 4th Amendment) don't apply to non-US people outside the USA. Please fix US courts & law to actually give us protection.
The claim is not that there is an immediate danger. The claim is that there is a subtle, bad influence.
So, I've added another [smaller] closet for faster access in front of my original closet. I've experienced several cache misses and I've decided just to wear what I'm wearing... for the rest of my life. Is this data-oriented? Am I doing it? :O

Are the poorly-dressed just disgruntled system analysts???
I guess "scale" here is log10 of the multiplier used in storing "amount".

So to convert the value back into the currency range, you're supposed to compute "amount / 10^scale".
Opera VPN behind the curtains is just a proxy, here's how it works
I've been using Linux for a long time and I've been involved in discussions about this for as long. A while ago I wouldn't have had a good argument, but now I do:

> If you kill off half of distros, you probably just cause the people working on them to go away, not switch to one of the remaining distros.

That would actually be good. Except for their personal benefit: they're having fun, together with their friends or random people on the internet, they're learning, etc., for the rest of us, they don't help that much, they just serve to increase the confusion. They also help drive away commercial software developers since Linux users in general are very active and vocal. And then we get stuff like "why isn't software X ported to distribution Y".

Not much real value would be lost if half of today's distributions would be lost. Specialized ones, like system recovery, penetration testing, firewall ones, file system layout experiments (Gobo) would still be useful. But the myriad distributions in existence are an exercise in anarchy. They're not even an exercise in democracy since democracy involves also caring about your fellow men and exercising self control and discipline, which many of those distributions don't. As I said, the vast majority of distributions can't even support their software, see the recent security fiasco with Linux Mint. Which is a very popular distro!
He could also fly to Murmansk and cut the drive in half. Personally I'd fly to Murmansk, drive a couple of hours to Kirkenes, and spend a few lovely days taking the boat down the coast to Bergen before grabbing a train to Oslo.
In Norway on my last few domestic flights or flights to Scandinavian countries I was not asked to present any ID. Ticket on a mobile screen was enough. But on some domestic flight in 2014 I was asked for ID.
This is a moral panic! Flimsy is rock-solid compared to satanic abuse rings and penis thieves.
So much so that this thread is currently the #1 result on Google for "ClarisWord".
The solution is simple. Continue calling the boat Boaty McBoatface. Ignore all references to the government's preferred name. They can choose what's painted on the side, but the name depends only on what people call it. If enough people call it Boaty McBoatface its name really is Boaty McBoatface. If your job depends on calling it the government's preferred name then subtly alter the timing of your speech to make it clear that it's not the real name while maintaining plausible deniability. Only written communication from coerced people remains a problem, and hopefully that will be far outweighed by people using the real name.
The news feed eradicator has been a very good solution for me. I can still message, participate in groups, but that damned newsfeed is blocked! The newsfeed is engineered to suck up all of our precious cognitive space and fill it with mostly junk.
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Yes but at what cost? If people are fine with this, companies will start forcing people to scan faces for all sorts of reasons. Whether it's to enforce drm or for better targeted advertising ("It seems you're suffering from acne, here's 3 products that may help"), do you really want to live in a world like that?
I try to keep my carbon footprint low. I don't have or want to own a vehicle. I mostly walk or take public transportation.
Not really the case - a lot of major projects (like boto and AWS CLI) are in Python.
Just turn off your adblocker for wired.
Casual visitors not interested in actually joining a website (at that moment) can be of value if you don't actively antagonise them. Saying that you need an account to view the content when someone follows a hyperlink posted somewhere to a Pinterest board means that you will turn away a decent percentage of those visitors with a sour taste about your service and brand. Sure, there is the old adage that there is no such thing as bad attention (any attention, good or bad, builds your 'brand'), but I'm not convinced this works in this case.

To illustrate; literally the first thing that popped in my mind when seeing this topic in the list was “Ah, that silly imageboard you can't view without signing up.”
<Cough> Working for a contractor heavily involved in this project, all I can say is that internally on our servers as well as in any documentation and conversation the vessel is referred to as 'Boaty McBoatface'.
People literally playing 50-50 coin flip games with skins, sometimes with somebody else, or sometimes even just against a "bot". Its pretty crazy. Its started with betting on matches, which i think is kinda okey, but i think coin flip is the end. (cs:go player)
This small example shows the true nature of any democratic government: if you vote the way they don't like, they will not submit to it. Voting is useless.
This seems like bad move on the British government's part. Name the thing Boaty McBoatface and reap great PR for years.

Edit: Or maybe it's all part of the plan. Let us all down by hinting that they're not using the name, then announce a change of heart. The internet would explode.
So "A McBoatface by any other name would sail as adequately"?