skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I been involved in the cryptography/security community for many years. I continually see privacy/security start-ups struggle. There are lots of reasons. But, I think the key one is that doing something online securely will always be more difficult and expensive that doing it insecurely. This truth was instilled like a law of physics when the internet was first designed.

There's only a certain number of people that are deeply passionate enough about their privacy to put in the extra effort or pay the extra cost. So, companies in the space tend to plateau after 2-4 years. They essentially saturate their markets and the (rather static) size of these markets are rarely large enough to sustain the company (this is especially true when hardware is involved in the business plan). In cases where they are sustainable, I have seen it be at the level of "life style business" rather than exponentially growing startup that can IPO at a level that will provide investors a significant return. While there have been exceptions over the years, I would caution people on HN from doing privacy and security startups until you sit down and honestly and truthfully estimate the size of the market that you are targeting.

Us old folk remember another secure phone company before SilentCircle/Blackphone - CryptoPhone. I have talked with some friends that remember the CryptoPhone product failure. Some thought that the Snowden revelations changed things. They thought that such companies would be viable now due to mainstream market apatite. But, I think over the next few years we'll see more evidence that this isn't the case.

Privacy is an area that is very easy to get passionate about and become emotionally invested in. But, it's probably not a great space for your startup (or for your investment).
I tried and could not find any mention of a TLD for private and general use. Do you refer to the use of a name without a TLD, like "example"? I think while "example." would make up a valid domain name (not sure about that though), it would not be very useful for this purpose as browsers nowadays tend to try to guess if you are entering a search term.

A much more useful approach would be the existence of a reserved TLD for private use analogue to the private IP address space. But it seems like nothing like that has been defined.

Update:

Out of curiosity i did search for some more information if "example." is a valid domain or not...

While technically valid and [0]used for while by some TLD registries, ICANN has [1]forbidden the use of so called dotless domains.
Google planned to use "search." but it was [2]declined.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7085

[1] https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/article/icann-kills-google-dotless-doma...
I remember traveling through Delhi and washing my face afterwards at the hotel. The amount of black sooty dirt that came off was startling!
Going reactive: better software for your business
Seems like both of them might be worth fixing and at least part of the solution is the same.
> While I do personally believe Wayland is going to become The Linux Display Server Of The Future®

Best i can understand, wayland is a protocol spec rather than a set of code like X. Each compositor/wm is individually responsible for implementing said protocol and thus take over the job of X (input handling et al).

Meaning that there will no longer be an X server to act as a independent arbiter of behavior. Whatever the devs of whatever DE you are logged into will have the final word.

The more i learn of Wayland, the more i expect it to turn into a hairball to match X. Only now without a network option ("too insecure"), and with GPU acceleration.

BTW, why are we so bent out of shape about this seats concept? Why oh why are we continually trying to turn a single user piece of hardware into a desktop mainframe?!
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Which Bluetooth keyboard do you use?
Gee, for a fast memory move of
blocks of data that contained
some whole virtual memory pages
the fast way was just to
have an API to the OS that
tweaked the virtual memory
page-segment tables! I'm not
sure that simple idea has
ever been used -- maybe there
are some problems with it.
Akka.net is a C# port from the Java version. Not sure about the rest though. :)
Continuous Checking Markup Texts with Travis, Asciidoctor, IntelliJ and RedPen
That looks like an amazing concept! I especially dig the wading pool improvisation.

Ideally I would like to have something like this for indoors. Are there any plans to offer a non-backyard version at some point in the future?
My point was that they could actually be required to exceed EU regulations in some cases. Similar to how California has tighter regulation than other states.
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And that's kind of what OP is doing. He's saying "lets not even go to those sites". In a weird way, it's more ethical to just not share them, than to share them with ad-block users.
Pre-launch Melbourne startup Foxley secures more than $700,000 in seed funding
New, non-invasive method developed to wipe out cancerous tumors
iOSStash Launches: A huge collection of app-related tools
That's only one time end of the universe has a very low entropy. If you have an area with maximum entropy, there is no way to tell.
Meet the new bullies. Same as the old bullies.

There's a lot of this going on in the tech community. Far cry from when <geeks|nerds|smart people> got pushed around... Now they're (we? I hope I'm not like this) the ones doing the pushing.
Erlang makes much more sense if you've had experience with Prolog.
One interesting way of avoiding direct dependencies is to let modules interact with one another via reading/modifying DOM. It probably sounds strange, but the approach works well when you want to create reusable code that also follows the progressive enhancement principle.
>the officer told me to turn off my phone. I complied

Why did you comply? He has no reason to ask that of you.

>If the police had told her to turn off the phone, there's nothing she could have done at that moment in time.

If a police officer tells you to turn off your phone, you don't have to listen to it. They cannot legally compel you to do that. They can tell you step back, and you should definitely take a couple step backwards if so. If they want you to stop recording, they need to arrest you and have probable cause for that arrest.
In-Ear EEG Makes Unobtrusive Brain-Hacking Gadgets a Real Possibility
But - the Heinlein approach was to simply volunteer to be a Citizen. Yes it came with duties, but that's kind of the point. So there would be classes sure, but self-selected. If you feel abused, why just join the other class.
Why is this on HN? Flagged.
Helen Sharman was Britain's first astronaut -- she spent seven days on the Mir space station in 1991. Peake is the seventh British astronaut[0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_space_programme#Britis...
I could literally hit someone with my car on purpose and get a lower sentence or commit countless other immoral crimes against society and get out earlier.

Even the previous two years didn't really seem proportionate, but the new ten years just shows how unhinged this legislative effort is.

I hope the House of Lords blocks this, since that is their remit after all.
Wierd Phone Numbers: Let’s Dial Up the Weirdness
So question.. what determines "passed" vs "failed" user validation?

My question for that is you get so caught up in the excitement of a new product.. it is very easy to say "hey 10 people liked it, good product". How do you know the product is REALLY user validated?
>Farm data is expected to be a $20–$25 billion revenue opportunity, but we haven’t yet determined how the data can be collected, structured, stored and shared, let alone monetized.

For crying out loud...
Auto Micro Farm
some decade of this pollution and will happen either way
This seems to confirm just how important the price of data is for ML & AI based startups. Methinks there is a market alone for data companies, not even those that are necessarily doing anything productive with said data, just collecting it.

Also raises the question of whether its possible to bootstrap a data science, ML, or AI startup, given the high expense of purchasing that data.
The Irony !

When I went to India, I though to my-self the living standard in the villages were HIGHER then the cities.

The air in the villages were clean - it was much cooler weather due to not being trapped in the congested cities.

The village people though I was crazy to think that their village was a paradise, and everyone wanted to move to the city.

I think its a serious lack of education that India/Bangladesh will not learn easily. A large number of people need to die due to cancer for it be taken seriously, unfortunately.

We are talking about a country where chain smoking is really common !

And no I a person from the sub-continent so I am not being racist, just pointing out some of the terrible facts about why I am terrified of going back.
Web Beacon
I think Gul Agha invented/popularized the actor paradigm when at MIT, because he came to UIllinois in 1988 or 1989 or so and gave a talk on it that I attended. Akka sounds like Agha so I bet there's some play on words in there, with the Scandinavian mountains and other explanations afterthoughts.
Per capita is a FOOLISH measure here. China's population is more than 4x ours and rapidly growing AND urbanizing.
sap from fruit of flowers by chance?
Hilarious coincident that the photographer's name is Josh Pollen!
The F# Formatting library lets you do things like re-order code and hide less important code for documentation purposes. You can create clean documents presenting code as a narrative. http://tpetricek.github.io/FSharp.Formatting/literate.html
We have known about global warming for over 100 yrs now... I think it qualifies as "old-fashioned" by now.
I have a pair of pet terrapins. Has anyone tried aquaponics with terrapins? They produce a lot more waste than fish. Perhaps that'll allow for more land-mass for growing?
It's nice to see that we will be able to at least decode these archives. Though I think for new software people are better off using zstd if they're looking for this set of performance characteristics.
If you want to do business in the RF -- or handle the data of customers who live there -- you have no choice.
Nice resource! It looks like you currently have a mix of terms for the same values, like "In Progress" and "WIP" - you might want to standardize before the list gets too much bigger.
The solution to both is essentially the same - burn less fuel, more efficiently. The old environmentalist motto "think global, act local" is quite apposite.
But you cannot be owning the Android device because Google is owning it by means of closed-source core components.

Well, manufacturers also aren't going to let you own your device because they release only blob-stuffed devices.

There's actually no such thing as fully open-source Android: https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/9HHRURorE7g

It feels very silly, but still running Linux kernel self-built from sources on modern ARM devices is mostly discouraged, and if it works, it's result of volunteer effort. And even if drivers are there in source, datasheets for hardware are often not public and one needs to sign NDA to read it.
The Immortalists – a short film doc by Jason Silva
In Portia labiata the juvenile phases from egg to first instar last from 21-36 days (mean: 27 days). (Hallas, 1987)
It was a blast to write. Glenn is a smart guy with some great content around game networking. There are good ways to do networking for games and other real-time applications and TCP isn't really one of them.
At this point talk of "sovereignty" turns everything into an argument over semantics. Better to consider the effect on individual rights and liberty. That is what is completely missing from our national debate.
1) Thanks for the timeframe, I wa swindle ring about that.

2) yes, but this one is idiotic, as many are, but still.

3) the President's job is to appoint, Congresses job is to hold a hearing and approve. They have failed to do anything approve/deny, therefor in breach of their constitutional obligation. But you're right it's not about time, so much as politics, but it's a first in history that this congress failed to act. I mean hell, Thomas was a horrendous choice, but even after all the negative stuff about came out in congress they still approved him. What they do now is unpresidented.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/killer-of-thai-welder...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/erwin-spence-guilty-m...
That doesn't say much though.

Something that is "just abstraction" can still be world-changing...

In fact those are the most world-changing things (abstractions), the concrete stuff mostly derives from there...
This sounds remarkably like Dwarf Fortress. Virtually anything is possible if you're willing to spend enough time on it
In my country, politicians regularly act in the interests of demographics with high voter turn-out, and against the interests of demographics that can't vote or have low voter turn-out. Given the choice of cutting benefits to retired people or cutting benefits to young people, the young people will get the cut much more often.

It'd be great for /me/ if only people with a masters degree or higher could vote, as the government wouldn't have to waste time addressing the demands of 95% of the population and could instead spend more resources on people like me.

I don't think it'd be good for 95% of the population though.
I look at as as Climate change being caused by air pollution (of CO2 & certain other gasses). The old fashioned air pollution is more localized, but isn't completely localized - acid rain was/is a regional air pollution issue for example. Some of the particulates generated on the other side of the world certainly do travel here on air currents, not in high amounts, but if they carry potent pollution items, it may have some effect.

Another issue is that agricultural and sea food products sourced from polluted nations may carry the pollution with them, needing increased monitoring of imports.
Just put a link under the ad "why am I seeing this ad?" leading to a page with the explanation.
Private GitHub Repositories and NixOS
Whereabouts is that? How many hives?
Was the kiddie pool chosen specifically for cost? There are a plethora of fiberglass and UV-stabilized PET plastic holding tanks used in the aquaculture business (and rainwater collection systems) that would have much better strength and lower tendency to go brittle over time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11995441
Describes the premise. There is more detail around that comment in the thread that will address your question
I was born and brought up in India as a teenager after which my family moved to USA.

Now whenever I go back to India with my family, someone always will end up getting sick. If you go out during the day time you can feel a layer of sticky stuff starting to cover your face and eventually more dust and air pollutants stick to your body. After you get back indoors if you take a white towel and just rub it gently on your face you will see amount of black dirt that comes off. I hope India takes steps to move forward with clean and renewal energy sources because they can have serious consequences on health of all Indian Citizens.
Kim Dotcom working on new 100GB cloud storage website launching in January 2017
Also speaking of Watts, His superb book Blindsight is online:

http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

Echopraxia is a loose sequel to it (in fact, I found it disappointing similar; not that it's in any way a bad book, it's just that it's about the same themes).

His Rifters trilogy is online as well, but Blindsight is a lot better --- the first Rifters book is excellent, the middle one is so-so, but I found the last one to be a dead loss.
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A lot of more advanced things can be found on https://pythonspot.com
In this case rationale for SQL was relatively mild learning curve. Surely it is a good thing? But you raised a good point. In QuestDB SQL is implemented into syntatic sugar over java-based streaming model.

Writing support for another language wouldn't be that hard provided there is consensus on what suitable query language is?
I disagree. It's a good way of evaluating what someone in the US is asking of the Chinese when they say that the Chinese should do more to limit emissions. They are asking the people in China to do with less than they have.

It certainly shouldn't be the only measure that gets discussion.
Thanks!

There are a lot of indoor options available, but they are pretty small in size, and might produce a salad a week at the most. That's really not AutoMicroFarm's vision.

If you are thinking something that's larger in size, that's a possibility in the future. AutoMicroFarm would have to solve the issue of the weight (the water and sand in the current system are about 1.5 tons). Also, the cost of the LED lighting would have to come down before it is affordable.
We can't elect different politicians. The big lie of democracy is that you get a choice about policy.

You really don't. What if there are no leaders on the ballot who support the policies you want? What if there are no leaders on the ballot who support very popular policies?

What if polices are presented dishonestly, so voters don't get a fair choice on them?

What if policy is monopolised by party machines, so you actually have democracy twice removed - once from voters to parties, then again from parties to leaders?

I agree the referendum became a ridiculous exercise in "Are you more or less happy? Yes/No" - which is no way to make a decision of this sort, especially when a lot of people clearly aren't happy at all.

But that just emphasises how badly broken the British system is. It actively selects for political dysfunction. So of course dysfunction is what everyone gets.

The reality is you could pick a random selection of historically competent professionals from various fields, parachute them into power, and they'd do a far better job of picking policy and making sensible decisions than our professional pols do.
I don't know about the "widespread consensus", but forcing people to manually resizing their browser window to fit whatever they currently are reading is bad design in my book.

Most good sites, I think, (strangely not Hacker News though) have a width limiting, centered layout which makes it easy to read and browse.
Microsoft Reports a Big Leap Forward for DNA Data Storage
At a guess, because it collapses to almost nothing. The holding tanks are huge (I've used a couple of the 1,000 litre ones) and you can't easily get rid of them when you want to.
As someone who gardens, and has a little 3 acre homestead, this is not something I would go for in its current state... but there are improvements that could get me there:

1) I understand buying off the shelf parts for your prototype. But spending hundreds of dollars to be shipped parts I could have bought myself is just adding more middle-men into the supply chain. At this point, just sell the parts list and plans for $20. And when you have built parts with ease of assembly in mind, so this is 5x easier than DIY with parts from home depot... THEN sell the kit.

2) You need to share data of how much water is needed on an ongoing basis, in different climates. People in Arizona with limited water supplies might not have the same resources to put in, for example.

3) You need to talk specifically about what plants work well, what the yields are,in different climates and growing zones, and recommend planting strategies for different locations.
Using the Couchbase Sub-Document API with the GoLang SDK
Last I checked War Thunder didn't work for Vive, or possibly it was that making it work took hours of messing with stuff. Same story for FSX I believe.
Good. More competition = better.
>The submitter is posting spam to HN.

Except in the case where it is the submitter's own paywalled content, how is that spam? The submitter isn't benefitting from the paywall.
Humans have much more potential for racism in making predictions about the future than in judging things that have already happened. So while I agree that racism through biased input data is a problem, I think that even with that problem machines should be substantially less racist in their judgement than the humans they're replacing even if they're not perfect.
[Source?] US has dead malls, but those had actual stores at some point.

ex: http://www.businessinsider.com/23-haunting-photos-of-a-dead-...

Often because a much better mall was built in the area, or just completion from online shopping. As retail goes online you just don't need as many stores.

Malls take a critical mass of shoppers and stores to keep going. If not enough stores move in they can be stillborn but I assume that's really rare in the US.
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And of course it always plays right after you turn the volume on your speakers or 'phones up.
>"extracting the t-test from the rest of analysis like that is...idiosyncratic...at best."

So much nonsense about statistics has been institutionalized at this point that this sounds like a compliment. To be sure, the issue here is minor compared to the various misconceptions like "p-value is the probability my theory is wrong", etc that are dominant.

>"Are you actually refusing to call these "an increase in false positives", since the z-test is working correctly, but it's been fed a database of accurate weights instead of "item weights + gunk weight")? "

Yes, the hypothesis should include extra uncertainty due to gunk if that is an issue. These are true positive rejections. It is a bad hypothesis.

>"How about if the item database is wrong instead (e.g., chips now come in a slightly smaller bag)?"

Once again, the hypothesis was wrong. We are right to reject it.

In both these cases calling it a "false positive" is misleading because it focuses the attention on something other than the source of the problem: a bad hypothesis. These are true positives.

>"A MRI researcher wants to know if the BOLD signal in a cluster, once corrected for various nuisance factors, varies across conditions or not. That ("or not") is a perfectly reasonable null hypothesis."

Then they should deduce a distribution of expected results directly from that hypothesis and compare the observations to that prediction. What seems to be going on is they say that is the hypothesis but then go onto test a different one. Honestly, just the fact they are using a t-test as part of a complicated process like this makes me suspect they don't know what they are doing... Maybe it makes sense somehow, but I doubt it. Disclaimer: I haven't looked into the code or anything in detail.
I would have assumed you measured honey in liters but thinking about it measuring by weight is probably more practical...
Yes: in Canada, someone got four years for exactly that:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/longboarder-sentence-t...
When are we going to get people in government who have the slightest clue about computers?
Fantastic, really nice to see this done from start to finish. Will this ship to Europe?