skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What? That's one hell of a strawman if I ever saw one.

Richard M. Strawman, to be precise.
A cure-cancer PoW where each block fixes all of cancer is ridiculous.

A more apt analogy would be that each block would solve a protein folding or active site matching problem for cancer. Then each solution would be public, and useless to mine over again.
> Veronica Gomez-Lobo, director of pediatric gynecology at Children’s National Medical Center, said the trend of abstinence has been mostly among younger teens rather than older ones. While there's not good data on why this is happening, she thinks of it as a “contagion” factor. So many teens are waiting to have sex, she suggests, that the peer pressure goes the opposite way than it might have in the past.

OK, so the interesting question is whether the birth rate for this cohort will increase as they get older. Hypothesis: Sex has become unworkable for many young people, and they will just opt out of reproduction. In recent decades, birth rates have dropped in many Western European countries, Russia, Japan, etc. The reasons have been diverse. Too many other options. Social disruption. Whatever. But time will tell ...
Good points. I understand that Apply HN and YCF are not the same concept, but I was under the impression that Apply HN applications were going to take 2 YCF positions.
What Happens When the Internet of Things Meets Machine Learning?
The problem is the business model.

All of these behaviors 1) are hostile to high-quality accessble content and 2) are fundamentally driven by advertising (or its failure).

Information is a public good. This doesn't mean it costs nothing to produce (the contrary), but high-quality public information has a high positive externality to the common wealth (that is, the commonwealth), and is essential in a democratic society.

Some see the solution as micropayments. I disagree strongly, see Nick Szabo, Clay Shirky, and Hal Varian as to why not. Superbundling might work, but the ultimate superbundle is a highly aggregated, means-based fee. Either a direct tax (income or wealth-indexed) or bundled into broadband services. The former strikes me as more equitable, the latter as more viable.

The costs are low. A $100/year average fee per $30k in income, charged only among OECD nations, would cover all online advertising revenues. A $500/30k rate would cover the entire advertising industry. ($30k is chosen as roughly median OECD per capita income.)

(Note: corrected from earlier figures which applied to worldwide population: $20/person and $100/person would cover everything, if paid by everyone, though I see an argument for progressivity applying the tax to developed nations.)

The distortions, perverse incentives, inefficiencies, privacy invasions, security risks, and more, of the present model simply aren't worth it.

HN's policy is that paywall-based stories are acceptable. I disagree strongly with this view. The WSJ is trying to play both sides of the subscriber-only / viral content game. And are providing increasingly slanted, unreliable, Murdoch-tainted content to boot. I view it as barely above spam.

There are other sources, they should be allowed and encouraged. WSJ should be blacklisted.

And yes, I absolutely would like to see an alternative publication financing model pursued. I'm not holding my breath. But supporters of the model I've proposed include Richard M. Stallman of FSF and Phil Hunt of Pirate Party, UK, among others.

Previously, on global advertising spend, publishing models, and per-capita costs:
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/post /adKy4gM317c

Several posts on content syndication, and inherent problems of information goods and markets:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=content+syndic...

Hal Varian (UC Berkeley economist, Google's chief economist) on information goods and markets:
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/japan/index.h...
What I meant up there is they had three verified fair elections to bail out, they didn't, so now their country is in ruins.

Democracy has its failures, but people getting what they voted for isn't one of them.
One should never attribute to anything else what can be blamed on any left-leaning government. At least not on Hacker News.
Detestable comment.
Obviously, this result is just because there is a type 3 society in every galaxy.
Whoah, they pulled alien blue?? Never going to delete that app.
Yes, but not as much.
Hey, could you elaborate on what C++11 features you use on AVR chips? Thanks in advance :)
He's live!!!!
To be fair, this doesn't address publishing's revenue problem, though it does the public good element. See my earlier comment.
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He displays a lot of knowledge, but also doesn't look fully mentally with it. He has trouble controlling verbosity and keeping things relevant and on-topic. It's also not clear how much up to date knowledge he has; he writes like an old man complaining about the foolish optimism of youth.
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Another example of how economicly illiterate anti Bitcoin Advocates are.

Go look at USD/YEN movement, 1-3% movements occur daily, if you were to purchase YEN with USd and later refund to USd you could end up significantly up or down.

But the wealth YEN represents is many many magnitudes greater than Bitcoin. When YEN appreciates by 2% that influences hundreds of millions of people and business, and guess who is pulling that lever, a small cabal of corrupt bankers.
Amazon Profit Tops Estimates as Fast Delivery, Cloud Fuel Growth
He's live talking about the app now FYI
Start Trek: the Next Generation explored exactly this scenario. https://youtu.be/geMGo2P94j4
Because phones are ubiquitous?

Likewise, I can imagine people using this with an embedded Raspberry Pi.
Wow. If you treat teenagers like the young adults that they are, and not talk down to them like children but rather give them solid information, they rise to the challenge of taking personal responsibility for their lives.

Whodathunk? ;)
Incarceration rates have no impact?
You're welcome to disagree with the definition, but the SEC already has defined "fomenting." In fact, there's already a fairly famous episode involving Apple: http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/03/13/jon_stewart_expose...

> this practice of "fomenting the market" is "actually blatantly illegal, but when you have six days and your company may be in doubt because you are down, I think it is really important to foment." Cramer specifically cited the example of stirring up rumors that Apple's iPhone would be rejected by both AT&T and Verizon Wireless, and that it wouldn't be ready to demonstrate in time for Macworld in 2007.
I've submitted that as an alternate.

Vote that up and flag this if that's the way you feel:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11592904

(I'm well aware that HN doesn't condone flagging paywalled content. I disagree strongly with that stance, particularly as the paywall repeatedly becomes the primary topic of discussion.)

I'm also more than happy for you to be credited with the submission, though it didn't happen to be submitted already at the time I posted it (I strongly suspected it would have been).
> ten years from now, will people be arguing AWS is a utility as it becomes as big as a major cable company

Interesting point.
So if I manage to create a perfect copy of you, you have no objection to me shooting you - the original one - in the head afterwards? After all, you - the perfect copy - will still be alive and well.

If that prospect makes you a little uncomfortable, you are intuiting the problem of "pattern identity" vs "continuity identity".
It's not so much that they'd rather watch porn. It's that porn sets their expectations regarding what sex is and with whom they expect to have sex.

If I'm a 4 and I won't settle for less than an 7 (which is a step down from what porn is teaching me about averages), it's likely I'm not going to father many children.
Geoblocking: Consumers not breaching copyright by circumventing with VPN
I don't think it is fair to compare Mark Zuckerberg to Tim Cook. Yes they are both heads of huge tech companies, but that's not what it really is about. Mark Zuckerberg is far more famous than Tim Cook. He is Bill Gates famous.
'Twas but a little joke. (Full disclosure: I'm the lead developer on many jokes.)
How Growth Hackers Are Tricking Your Brain into Buying More Stuff
It worked on most people. You can't see your own weakness.

True skill is convincing normal people to do things that they would normally find repulsive.
No. I was comparing the requirements against my ability to imagine messy details. I suppose Docker jumped out as a different level of abstraction relative to the general problems of scientific reproducibility; the diversity of scientific investigations; and the existing social and physical infrastructure of scientific laboratories.

I suppose the sort of messy detail I might imagine is how does a Matlab license work in terms of multiple containers. And the details are messy because of legal and institutional constraints in the markets I suspect are looking for this solution.
Sorry, imaginary number composed of two irrational numbers.
You shouldn't think of this as being delayed; they are providing advance notice of a serious vulnerability being patched so that those using it can update ASAP.
Remind me where AU is again??
If you're a 14 year old boy wouldn't you go for pretty much anything you could get?
Where did you get all this idea? You know enough terms, yet somehow you have an incorrect understanding of pretty much everything.

If you are interested, please read an actual math textbook. (Yes, they can be a giant time sink, but at least you'll learn the correct meanings of sets and functions.)
Proxmox vs Ganeti vs oVirt vs OpenStack vs ...

Is anyone aware of a good comparison of the solutions in this space?
Detestable replies to detestable people :)
> if that's the way you feel

Everyone who feels good about paywall articles, raise your hand.

crickets
CNBC averaged around 200k viewers during daytime recently: http://www.wsj.com/articles/cnbc-to-stop-using-nielsen-for-r...

In 2009, Power Lunch supposedly had about 400k viewership, but it's declined annually since then.

I would guess there is not a large overlap between CNBC viewership and Icahn's Twitter followers, but I don't have any data for it.

However, anything significant Icahn tweets is amplified beyond his readers. I've long wished Twitter would show embeds alongside favorites and retweets, because embeds contribute substantially to a tweet's views.
We made the decision to develop for iOS first before CareKit hit the scene.
"3D Printing will never gain broad consumer appeal"

The author says that less than 5% of the population will own a 3D printer. I agree with that, but that isn't the interesting bit.

What amount of the population will own 3D printed products. I don't need to have my own 3D printer if their is a Kinkos like company that can print items I want (or shops have them printed and I buy from the shop) and have it delivered by drone minutes later.

Why would I want the overhead of having a 3D printer? How many people actually have or want to have paper printers today?
Very limited view of what happened there. Vz went down hill the moment that private property rights were lost. When the government started taking businesses, both local and foreign owned, it doomed its economy right then and there.

Governments which don't respect property rights can flourish under absolutely ideal conditions, your petrostate idea, yet even that is fleeting even if the conditions remain good. Its doomed the moment they do not.

So its not ideological, its simply fact, void property rights and you destroy your economy because trust is gone and when trust is gone people will not waste effort on what will be stolen from them
A favorite author of mine is Wil McCarthy. He pretty much wrote an entire series on this subject. =D
>Births are what matter, as a pregnant teen can get an abortion, resulting in skewed statistics if you're trying to figure out how many teens are having babies...

That's true, but if your argument is the lower number of births is due to widespread availability of contraception, you have to address pregnancy and not just births.
This sentence sounds like a spoof of the modern software ecosystem.
Contamination in North Dakota linked to fracking spills
Ask HN: iOS engineers, what are your most helpful coding practices
iOS engineers, we all know that iOS code can get pretty messy, crashy, buggy and almost impossible to debug. What are some of the coding practices that you used that have helped your app to more well written? I will consolidate your suggestions into an github page. Some of things that I can think of are
1) Switch statement should always be exhaustive.
2) Avoid state as much as possible
3) Singleton's are evil

Love to learn from your experience!
Congrats, rms!

Those pictures on the page are horrible, though. Really bad photoshopping.
We recently discovered that the NAT Gateway also terminates connections by issuing a RST packet when it receives the next packet for a connection that it believes to have timed out, effectively causing the new request to fail. The previous recommended approach of NATing in VPC was to use NAT instances, which sent FIN packets when the timeout was hit, cleanly closing the connection. That behavior was far better, since it indicated that a new request should re-connect first.

AWS Support indicated that this was a feature of the new NAT Gateways, even though it breaks outbound connections made by popular implementations such as the Requests python library's urllib3 connection pools. This is pretty unfortunate, and has been a roadblock in migrating to the NAT Gateways.
what happens in US cities is not comparable because your not stuck there. the many suburbs of cities like SF do have affordable housing its just not located where some want to be. IOW, NIMBYs aren't socialist, they just aren't social with people they don't want living next door
Apprenda does all of that, without relying on a company far larger than you
Votes for a board are not tied to % ownership in company. For example, people get hired to serve a board of directors and have voting rights, but may not own shares in the company.
It's how it works at Amazon.

"How much gross profit is the retail business going to generate that I can spend on drones and the Amazon Echo v2"
You could maybe argue that the actual practice of medicine is a human right, but offering medical advice to others as a paid service is certainly not.
Hm, I think neoliberals and commies are uniformly distributed on HN.
I think the downvoting comes from that everybody who blames Chavez or the capitalists without mentioning stupidity just uses the Venezuela case for pushing his right or left agenda.

Where on the world did price control ever work?
Some of the main issues are:

Driving out professionals and putting cronies in to run infrastructure. People who don't care about "capital equipment maintenance" and things get run into the ground.

Political oppression.

Controlled economy, setting prices which create black markets.

Over reliance and lack of contingency planning vis a vis petroleum prices.

Overreliance on being "anti-imperialists" to be the antidote to their ills.

Etc, etc.
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Agreed. I don't suspect democratic polities elect dictatorial strongmen unless the nation has largely ceased to function at a political level. Then you get a Chavez, a Khomeini, a Castro, a Hussein, an al-Maliki, and in some weird alternate future that's too close to our own... a Trump.

* Edit, some of those guys appeared in countries with no history of democracy, but I think the point stands.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no Chávez sympathizer by any stretch of the term. But people don't vote for populist outsiders just because they're stupid (although lack of education certainly plays a role here). They do so when they lose faith in established political parties.
Word.

Not trying to be a downer, but if I were to lose Alien Blue before the 'official' app is up to par, I'd just be browsing and interacting with reddit far less.

The new app is that bad in comparison.
Totally agree.

Well I would say that Alexandra Elbakyan of Sci-Hub fame is in the vanguard in this respect. I'm not making an equivalence here because Stallman repurposed the tool that is copyright to make copyleft to underpin free software legally whereas Elbakyan is an out and out pirate as far as the law goes.

I have used Sci-Hub and gen.lib.rus.ec countless times already even though I attend a "developed-world" academic institution and have access to a lot of the material that is shared on those sites. Sometimes it's a simple matter of convenience, sometimes I my institution does not have the required subscription.

I suppose the Open Access model in the academic publishing world is the ideological equivalent to what Stallman was a part of building in the software world but it seems to be playing out a lot differently. In the wider world of literature I couldn't say.
How is it possible ? don't the IRS demand detailed recipts for every expense ? while sales are easily trackable.
My prediction is AWS will split after Jeff dies (or is otherwise not involved in the company). Then Amazon retail will split from Amazon logistics, and so on.
The typical way to picture the universe is like the surface of an expanding balloon, a 2-manifold which happens to be embedded in 3-space. If you picture galaxies as spots on the balloon, there's no "last" galaxy, they're all roughly equidistant from their neighbors. Analogously, our Euclidean universe is thought of (in terms of noncompact spatial dimensions) as an expanding 3-manifold. There's no last galaxy there either. However, if you include time, then at some point in the distant future there will be a last galaxy because old stars will all burn out or be sucked into black holes. And further in the future protons will decay, so there will be no baryonic matter left, plus black holes will eventually evaporate. Much sooner than that though, the continued expansion of spacetime means that galaxies will in time disappear over the expanding cosmological horizon, and future lifeforms will know nothing of the universe outside their own aging galaxies. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_univers...
> Where on the world did price control ever work?

Was it ever applied isolated from other factors?
This isn't correct.

Amazon has not matched our May 2015 price cut for GCE (they instead have tossed a couple 5% cuts). They responded to our 2014 cut a day later. We saw a similar reaction with Nearline last year; a few months later they introduced S3 Infrequent Access, but it has plenty of caveats (rounding up to 128 KB per object) and still a 25% higher price per byte.

In the meantime we introduced custom shapes for GCE giving our customers a measured 20% savings. Finally, even Microsoft has per-minute billing.

If you're looking for the best price/performance you'll have to come to Google Cloud.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud, so of course I want your business ;)
Sentence immediately after the two you quoted:

Certain, newer pieces of some of these services, such as the Azure Active Directory service at the heart of Office 365 and some of the newer, complementary Xbox Live services are hosted on Azure.
The pretty strong anti-establishment streak held by goldbugs and cypherpunks is largely shared by HN though. I think much of the sneering comes because there's a third type of person that influences discourse around Bitcoin to some extent: shills.

Obviously a lot of Bitcoin evangelists have large BTC holdings because it's entirely in keeping with their belief that it's a brilliant idea, and many if not most exchanges, altcoins and even blockchain based trading schemes weren't conceived as ways of persuading fools to part with their money. But many Bitcoiners are speculators and some of the schemes dreamed up around Bitcoin were scams or might as well have been, which hasn't really been the case for flavours of Linux. FOSS evangelists might have made similarly grandiose claims about their project and the philosophy behind it, but they weren't trying to pump the price of their commodity holdings at the time or running get rich quick schemes - they usually weren't even expecting to get paid!

Something of a tangent I know. I largely agree with you on the virtues of some inflation in an economy as a whole, but I think it's pretty evident now that Bitcoin is neither replacing currency as a whole nor representing a sufficiently stable store of value to encourage hoarding on any scale. Frankly Steam accepting BTC is no more economically destabilising than Steam deciding to accept inflationary-by-design Linden Dollars.
This is a cool side-channel attack that makes use of two nuances in the web.

First, the cache storage mechanism in service workers allows a site's javascript to cache a 3rd party request it has loaded through the fetch API. Caches aren't thinking about timing attacks, and in general are performance sensitive, so it's reasonable to expect that larger resources will take longer to cache and this time can be observed by the page.

Second, you can generate facebook posts which are targeted to specific demographics - like age ranges or specific ages. This will generate URLs which will have a different page length when loaded by logged in users in the target demographic compared to others. It looks like this is possible because there is not an explicit 'access-control-allow-origin' header set on facebook, and while the 'x-frame-options:deny' prevents loading of the content, it can still be cached by a 3rd party.
Hmm that's quite a far fetched hypothesis.
You say same number, you mean same flavor. Either the 'number' is not in R and thus it's not a number or you end up with a host of contradictions.

But, I have had my fun poking people who don't really get set theory.
Current global IT market is trillions of dollars, AWS is ~10B... lots of room there.
If you're bullish on AAPL, this is the kind of stuff that investors can and should take advantage of. Apple is the same company yesterday as it is today. It's ability to generate cash is the same today as it was yesterday. Carl Icahn saying something on TV doesn't change that.

From one of Warren Buffet's annual letters:

“If a moody fellow with a farm bordering my property yelled out a price every day to me at which he would either buy my farm or sell me his — and those prices varied widely over short periods of time depending on his mental state — how in the world could I be other than benefited.

If his daily shout-out was ridiculously low, and I had some spare cash, I would buy his farm. If the number he yelled was absurdly high, I could either sell to him or just go on farming.

Owners of stocks, however, too often let the capricious and irrational behavior of their fellow owners cause them to behave irrationally.

Because there is so much chatter about markets, the economy, interest rates, price behavior of stocks, etc., some investors believe it is important to listen to pundits — and, worse yet, important to consider acting upon their comments."
Space travel using constant acceleration
So just to clarify because its as clear as mud, 8.7 is still affected so we are waiting for an update ?