skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am from India, my college had decent internet speed but slower Internet speeds(around 1MBPs when it was fast), hence the use of DC++. 100MBPS on lan was pretty fun. This was in 2011.
Its interesting to know that Purdue has strong DC++ community, also auto bots is something that I did not know about in college :) From what I have heard from my US friends is that the rules are much more stringent in US about file sharing and colleges enforce it much more strongly.
I'm similar except I don't like the word 'toxic' to describe my revulsion to Reddit-like sites.

See, it's not the negativity that gets me, or the political incorrectness. Neither of those things is ever truly a turn-off. It's the regurgitated slogans, and in particular the one-liner quip ad hominems. If I see a comment section and it's a hierarchy of one-liners, that's a clear cut sign.

I'm going to openly admit to being an elitist. I'd rather discuss a topic with an evil genius than an imbecile.
I absolutely have the right to buy a copy , watch it/read it, and sell it to someone else. First sale doctrine states that.

I don't have the right to make and sell copies. I do certainly have that right for the original.
No! That is part of why HN is great: you can say something and get corrected with a few downvotes.

I'm all for correctional downvotes even if I get them myself sometimes.

Your proposal however will is likely to encourage unnecessary cowardice and political correctness from old accounts and a landslide of throwaways.
Sorry, but this is totally irrelevant. Any large organisation will have legal issues.

Google:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/feb/24/google-vi...

Uber.. hasn't been quiet in the courts.
Author here. The post is a little rough around the edges, but I wanted to get something out since I haven't published anything in a while.

Any feedback is appreciated!
Sure, but not really what I meant. Adding public option and subtracting individual mandate would basically be a step towards having single payer with secondary private market.
But there would be no basis for outlawing reverse engineering either.
2:

It's not that disproportionate. Most militaries are funded within 2%-6% of GDP. America's economy is just so enormous that the spending seems ridiculous. Yes, there is a lot of waste, a LOT OF WASTE, but it's a small price to pay to feel safe and secure from foreign militaries when one has the benefit of, as the economist put it: "friends to the north and south and fish to the east and west."

The thought that a war could ever occur on our own soil is simply something most Americans don't even contemplate, unless you've spent one too many evenings polishing your favorite firearms and rewatching "Red Dawn."
There are two candidates with actual chances of winning; so "both presidential candidates" is fine to say.
Healthcare fits that description, food possibly, housing and education not so much. Have they become more regulated? Are regulations the reason for education prices increase?
It's a more intense high with a much shorter duration so one would have much higher control over when they're high and not high.

I don't believe it's significantly more addictive though, it's just more affordable to the most vulnerable demographics due to the smaller dosages.
Microsoft Will Pay You to Use EDGE Browser [Reward Program]
Somebody on reddit found the bottleneck: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4yinbt/writing_a_jpeg...

After fixing it, it apparently runs in 100 ms.
someone with little / no influence will be fired. budgets like this get bloated and abused by entrenched political interests.

the second question has nothing to do with anything really. what's so magical about a military budget that isn't exactly identical to any other government agency budget? do people actually imagine if we cut defense spending the government magically hands back "unspent" money? of course not, they'll piss it away in other departments.
The cloaking injection malware has been present for at least 3 months: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1428395/404-to-... and apparently undergone several revisions for the bot-checking/cloaking.

As I see it, there are only a few explanations for what's going on:

1. The author added the malware on purpose (and probably should be banned from publishing plugins on wordpress.org)

2. The author had his partner add the malware but didn't understand the code (which, if he couldn't spot the malwareness of the the obvious content replacement hooks or the eleet "?v=1337" URLs, means he probably should also be banned from publishing plugins on wordpress.org)

3. The author rented out his wordpress.org plugin author account and didn't pay attention to what it was used for (which means he probably should also be banned from having a wordpress.org plugin publisher account)

Odd that the wordpress.org staff appears to believe this multi month adventure was "a mistake".
Especially housing!
When was the last time you had a load of people tell you to kill yourself in person?
Why is the guy in the German image walking on the wrong side of his car, and why is the car parked on the wrong side of the street?

And now that I'm taking a closer look: the cars in the side street in the background, they are also on the wrong side of the street!

Something looked odd about this image. I'm not sure if the above is it.
Anyone who has been in the military would be completely unsurprised by a total inability to track spending.
Why can't the bacteria evolve enzymes to produce these amino acids? After all, they evolved enzymes to produce every other amino acid...
> Or, to put it more bluntly, just because these entities can talk past one another doesn't mean they should do so. If they both act in this manner, should I just go ahead and give them both a pass?

I don't really think them talking past each other is the fundamental problem. From all I can tell, the "digital freedom" side (for lack of a better label) generally understands pretty well the reasons for why some people want to have DRM, and they even address all of those reasons publicly if you go and look for it. But the "art industry" has a vested interest in ignoring all the arguments, and that, indeed, seems to be mostly about profit (and to some degree a lack of understanding of the technical possibilities and of their side effects). That's why a serious and productive argument between the two parties doesn't work, and why the "digital freedom" side is forced to use similar propaganda strategies to counter the unwillingness to even engage with the arguments on the other side.

As for whether you should give them both a pass: If you think that that's going to get you to the world that you want to live in?

> The first "side," I think, to "rise above" the cherry-picking statistics and hyperbolic "negatives" will draw more support and eventually have the upper hand in negotiation. Not overnight.

Well, one wishes.

> But cases like this try to sledgehammer something - to enact drastic change overnight - and in my opinion, that's not a prudent course of action with respect to most functions of Federal Law.

And yet, that's exactly what was done with the DMCA. It's not like the counter-arguments were invented after the DMCA was put in place. They were simply ignored, and the DMCA was, as you put it, sledgehammered into place.
Accountability for what someone posts as a comment. You want to cause trouble, you should be flagged as such, to the point where you can no longer do it anymore. Commenting should be earned. Right now, someone can just be a troll on one topic, start the ball rolling, maybe get downvoted, and then move onto the next topic. Over and over. There needs to be a signal to noise ratio that prevents them from ever going any further.
I can already see Apple putting a battery 50% smaller and keep the same bad (according to my opinion) battery life of their iPhones in order to claim they have the thinner handset on the market.

Seriously, device thickness is for 2016 like camera megapixels was for 2006, it's totally unnecessary to keep pushing it and it hurts usability, yet, it looks good in the numbers you show the consumer, so companies keep doing it.
Ah, so if a large corporation stabs me in the back for completely understandable reasons that are hard to avoid in the real world ... I'm still stabbed in the back.

I don't think the venom here is justified at all, but I also don't think it would be justified if it was one malicious person who did it.

But the problem and the poor decision needs a ruthless critique, the reasons it ended up this way are a side problem that most people shouldn't care about.
Malfoy / Locte: All grown up
Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages
Show HN: List of coworking spaces in Berlin (and other cities)
bingo, this is an asinine way to do bookkeeping. And reuters shouldn't report based on this kind of waterfall problem. The issue is we're off by ~65B which is over 10% of the budget. That's the scandal someone is misdirecting away from. I want to change the parent to, I get you want to clickbait but seriously??
Are we storing this all in cash, or are there bank records is what I want to know.
It's not meaningless if you know what they mean.
> I view this as a good thing. Debt is not fun and should be worrisome. Especially in the US where it's socially acceptable to carry mounds of debt.

I feel the same way. The Fear encourages me to save money and evaluate my spending habits. (I'm also in my 20s.)
> We can afford the things we don’t need, but we need the things we can’t afford.

Isn't that how it's supposed to work?

If you don't need it better be cheap or I won't get it.

If I need it, I'll buy it even at a higher cost.

It's basic economics.
Do you mean DTI of 7%? 70 is pretty high...
That put some things into perspective. Thanks for posting that. I've been pretty much at SL0 (slightly into SL1, been considering VR a bit) with my thinking and personal projects, I realized, when I should be at least SL2 (not having a term for it), at least as far as my thinking, if I'm wanting to make a long-term impact. Might not go quite as far as RAW did, though, even though I like him a lot.
sure, let's spend our tax dollars more efficiently. point me to the government bureau that magically manages its finances "efficiently".
> Why do US citizens tolerate spending a disproportionate amount of their financial resources on their military?

Because most of us are too ignorant to know better, and those of us that do are trapped by a de-facto two party system that is more interested in maintaining its own power via the status quo than representing the will of its constituency (for example, DWS and the DNC).
Isn't that just Keynesian economics?
At the very least, Nixon at one point decided a good tactic would be for the Soviets to believe he was unstable and was willing to embrace the idea of conflict, so as to scare them off of aggression.

His quote was "I want them to think I am nuts".

During this period of his presidency, Nixon was known to become so drunk that Kissinger effectively took over many of his duties in private

To reinforce the idea that he was "nuts", Nixon ordered at least one bomber-wing approach of Soviet airspace. I don't recall if the planes actually carried nuclear weapons, but IIRC, it was Nixon's intent that they should.

Not sure if this qualifies as a "plan", but it was rehearsed.

A neighbor who was once was stationed in a Titan ICBM silo also recounted a story that seemed extremely scary: during the Arab/Israeli war there was apparently a report by US intelligence of a Russian missile launch, and in his silo he claims they had their hands on the keys ready to turn (weapon was armed, fueled, they were literally waiting for the launch order)...although they were later informed to stand down when the missile was confirmed as a test. I asked him if he would have turned the key, and he said absolutely.
"The spokesman downplayed the significance of the improper changes, which he said net out to $62.4 billion. “Though there is a high number of adjustments, we believe the financial statement information is more accurate than implied in this report,” he said."

Wow, the bubble that is the military-industrial complex. That's 62 Billion dollars that could have gone to education, infrastructure, or helping the poor.

If you were this careless with a fraction of this dollar amount on your personal income taxes you would be thrown in prison.
Let me reiterate, I don't think the PRU is a problem. But it's just about the many orders of magnitude in the real-time latency achievable with the PRU and achievable with the CPU under the default software stack. I shouldn't have to use the PRU for every problem that has some real-time requirements, I should be able to use the actual real-time abilities of the CPU. There are many benefits to being able to do so (e.g. portability, less effort).

Real-time is not a binary thing, there's a whole spectrum. In many cases compiling real-time code is a non-issue.
Since Rust people are reading this.

I find myself wanting to walk an iterator pairwise regularly for stuff like this and I'm using:

for (cur, next) in (& vec).iter().zip(vec.iter().skip(1)) {
encoded_data.push(cur);
if cur == 0xff && next == 0x00 {
// ...
}
}

Is there a better way to write this? What I'd really like is the equivalent to Clojure's partition[1]. I know that the stdlib has windows `(partition n (dec n) seq)` and chunks `(partition n n seq)` implemented on slices but I usually want this on iterators for the lookahead-like behavior shown here.

[1] https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/partition
I believe he is referring to this part of the article:

>The spokesman downplayed the significance of the improper changes, which he said net out to $62.4 billion.

>At first glance adjustments totaling trillions may seem impossible. The amounts dwarf the Defense Department’s entire budget. Making changes to one account also require making changes to multiple levels of sub-accounts, however. That created a domino effect where, essentially, falsifications kept falling down the line. In many instances this daisy-chain was repeated multiple times for the same accounting item.

Basically 62 billion was effected, they claim trillions because of "write amplification" across multiple accounts.
Fixing US Goverment Vulnerability Management Policies
Unless of course they had money from previous budgets.
The IEX delay and batch auctions are really two completely different things.

IEX delays almost all messages in and out by a small amount.

They don't delay messages for orders that their own router modifies, their discretionary peg order. This lets their peg orders update before any one, ie HFTs, can update their own resting orders on IEX or at other exchanges in the case of a fill at IEX.

It's important to note that even with the IEX design, speed is still very important as its still a price time priority queue for order placement and cancelling. An analogy would be if all 100 meter sprinters reaction times were delayed by 1 second from hearing the starters pistol. The fastest runner still wins, its just that all reactions times are delayed evenly.

Batch auctions are a whole different animal, and to be honest, one I'm not very familiar with. Their greatest weakness is that they don't operate in a stand alone environment, ie the rest of the world continues to trade around them which eliminates most of their advantage.
It's not sarcasm. I'm talking about a legally-protected right - you can post on Twitter because Twitter has decided to allow it, not because they are legally required to do so.

> ...we choose to single out one religious ideology we don't like and censor the fuck out of it?

"We" didn't single out anybody, Twitter did, and they can do that because they own the platform and have absolute authority over who can use it.
Why in the hell would I want to give HALF MY DAY to the company?
For your second point you have to consider the bigger picture. If the US drastically cut it's military spending one of two things would happen. NATO or another international military alliance would form to continue the status quo. Or another country would become the world military superpower. If that new superpower was Russia or China it could negatively affect everyday life in the United States. The US military spending is in a local maxima.
> “Where is the money going? Nobody knows,” said Franklin Spinney

An ex army ranger once told me that the 'missing' money in the military budget goes to operations like the ones he was part of, which of course he could not tell me about. Of course there is also waste and pork, but I think the majority of this money is for black ops.
Well, yes, but that's also from the expectation of higher standards. Combine that with the sheer mass of consumption for - pick a product, pork - and the costs soon become very high indeed.

Scary thought: very little of our actual total food produced and imported is actually examined. If we insisted on complete examination it would be prohibitively expensive.
> Regardless of the outcome of this case, people would still have continued to sing happy birthday

This is true. Yet, if the case had not happened, Warner would be able to block the usage of Happy Birthday in any movie it wanted to.
There is a difference between political correctness, and just acting like an asshole. You can state your mind, without blatantly saying something just to get a rise out of everyone else. That's called a debate, not an argument. Throwaways wouldn't get anywhere, because their status needs to be earned through time, and peer review.
I can't tell what you meant.

Mocking a powerful politician is fair game. Indeed, mocking the powerful is a necessary function in a republic or democracy, and should be practiced in direct proportion to the hypocrisy openly demonstrated by the target.

Mocking random members of the public (calling them cucks or faggots in threads on reddit) serves no function.
> Why do US citizens tolerate spending a disproportionate amount of their financial resources on their military?

The military industrial complex is an enormous jobs program. Some of your friends and neighbors probably have a job that supports the military in one way or another.
> Why do US citizens tolerate spending a disproportionate amount of their financial resources on their military?

Any congress member that suggests cutting funding to the military gets painted as not supporting the troops during his/her next election.

Also, no major party will adopt the reigning in of military spending platform because then the opposing party will constantly bring up that the unemployment rate increased due to the other party's budget cuts.
NIST's new password rules
If you look realistically at Gary Johnson's and Jill Stein's predicted chances of winning they are only ahead of me by about half a percent
This brings back memories to the Twilight CD-ROMs [1] we had in the Netherlands in the late nineties that came out every month and had all the latest (cracked) games and applications on it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(CD-ROM)
But you're not going to get that amount of sleep if you're working long hours.
But cloudflare would not.
Presumably this would be in areas where downloading over the internet is difficult/prohibitive, like in Cuba. Just connect to the truck's wifi, not the internet at large.
> Adding public option and subtracting individual mandate would basically be a step towards having single payer with secondary private market.

I don't see how it would be, unless by "subtracting individual mandate" you mean "replacing an individual mandate backed with a fee/tax/penalty for failure to comply with a universal tax, an option to select a private option with the tax refunded as a subsidy, and a default of using the public option if no private option is selected". Which, really, is retaining the individual mandate, but making it impossible to break rather than penalizing breaking it.
Details:

I wanted to have a nice way to compare the different coworking spaces in Berlin, so I've created this.

The purpose was to be able to see them on a map and to have a quick access to their pricing information.

If people like it I'll add a more natural way to make edits (as well as to add new coworking spaces / open new cities).

Technical details:

No backend, purely static hosting (with client-side rendering through React), no hosting cost so far.

Stack: TypeScript, React, static pages generation through ReactDOMServer for SEO purposes, hosted on github pages, SSL through CloudFlare.

Map tiles:

- Currently using Leaflet / Mapbox (50,000 map views a month for free).

- Considering eventually switching to Google Maps if reaching the threshold (25,000 map views a day for free).

- In the future, looking forward to see the work of the Wikimedia Discovery team as it looks very promising: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps / https://maps.wikimedia.org

First website I am making since 2006, feedback is welcome :)
Maybe I'm bitter for my age, but I feel that the culture has already gone through the crossroads. I do get what you're trying to say, though, but I believe that it's the industry that finds it self at the crossroads, not the culture. The culture itself has largely been co-opted by business concerns.
Earning from Adsense depends on number of factors including the Cost-per-Click (CPC) and Click-through-Rate (CTR). If you have content based on high CPC keywords and get traffic from western countries, you can make a decent earning.

For example, if you serve 10,000 page impressions per month with average CPC of $0.50 and a CTR of 3%, your monthly earning could be $150.
I used to think I had a good bullshit detector until I ran into a category of candidates that I now call theorizers. They are great at design, know technical details inside out, master algorithms, will be able to critique and describe the architectures of past projects very well. They can do everything, except the mundane act of writing code.
You might have to see someone who took philosophy and a Machine Learning researcher about that :)
There are two major party candidates. Check out Duverger's law[0]. Basically, a first-past-the-post/plurality voting system very often results in a two-party system. In the US, issues like disproportionate media representation and gerrymandering further enforce this framework.

So, colloquially, it makes sense to say "both" candidates rather than (unnecessarily) acknowledge that there exist third-party options. This article is not about the presidency (although it might be relevant), and the reporting isn't lazy just because it omits Johnson and Stein from its discussion.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
There was a rich set of features around this in Grand Central that Google removed when it became Google Voice. There were options for having people not in your contact list have to go through a phone tree (that you could customize) before being allowed to make your phone ring.

Grand Central getting bought by Google was the worst thing that could have happened to it. So sad to see an amazing service nerfed.
Cubans would benefit from having access to the internet... Cloudflare doesn't provide any of that, nor is a PoP required in Cuba for Cubans to browse websites (even those running behind Cloudflare). Nor will Cubans benefit from a data center being built in Cuba, since majority of said data center's clients will be internationals (not businesses nor people in Cuba).

It does seem like a Cloudflare PoP in Cuba is merely for the novelty.
I think reuters' description is accurate. If you do your accounting in such a way that all numbers are garbage but the errors mostly cancel each other out it's not a matter of being unable to account for 10% of the budget, it's a matter of not being able to trust any numbers at all.

This is deep institutional rot.
Would you feel comfortable hiring somebody for automation who cannot provision a fleet of servers where every third server has a Cassandra node and every fifth server has a Redis instance?