skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Content payment wants more, not less, aggregation. Ultimately a broadband or content tax indexed to wealth or income. Information is a public good.

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/japan/index.h...

David Brin tried pitching a new micropayments concept with repudiation as magick sauce. No.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4r683b/repudia...
>Is there even such a thing as an equivalent diet?

I guess the closest thing is the Paleo diet.
I'm sorry, you mean "A theory of justice" as 1971 book? And it says that you have to hate Trump supporters? I must admit I fail to follow your argument here.

My point is it is routine for the elections to paint the opponent in the most apocalyptic tones, Republicans will always claim Democratic candidate would immediately build USSR-type socialism, import 20 millions of immigrants to subvert the elections, and ban Christians from going to church, and Democrats will always claim Republicans would starve all the poor, reinstitute slavery and remove all the taxes from the rich. There's a tiny amount of truth in both claims, but the other 99% of it is pure bullshit.

Quoting this routine electoral bullshit as if it would be whole truth and nothing by the truth is nonsense, unsupported by any reasonable evidence, and can not be taken seriously. And I don't see how the book you mention, however are its excellent qualities, changes anything in this regard.

Whatever the book says, Trump is not going to ruin our society, he is not Hitler and he is not an indulgence to abandon all reason. He is a blowhard conman that raised to prominence because our politics and government are deeply troubled and we weren't able to find a way to fix it so far. Having people associated with his supporters to undergo struggle sessions, disarmament before the Party and a ritual purification is not going to fix it either.
Analyzing thousands of startup descriptions to see where tech is going
For any other rtorrent users, check out rtorrent-pyroscope for a modified version that provides a number of enhancements (more compact UI, a number of ancillary scripts to manage torrents, make torrents and modify torrent files).

https://github.com/pyroscope/rtorrent-ps
Yeah, I'm recently started as a research engineer in a lab at University of Michigan doing self-driving car stuff, will update the website with more info and post-summer reflections within a couple weeks.
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Your fingerprint is your username, not your password.
That doesn't make him an employee - so your talk of "firing" him is still misleading.
Relative to how ubiquitous Facebook et al is, yes.
The US had been helping the Saudis wage war in Yemen well before the anti-ship missile was fired at the US destroyer, which presumably is in response to a wedding being bombed.

Matt Lee of the Associated Press asked State Department spokesman John Kirby what the difference between US involvement in Yemen and Russian involvement in Syria is, to which there was no answer.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-co...
Regardless if I agree or not I can understand your opinions about Thiel being free to support Trump politically. What I can't understand is why he should be able to continue his association with YC without even answering questions. YC supposedly uninvited supporters of SOPA from demo day, but when you're actively trying to elect someone to the highest office in the country you don't even have to explain what you mean? I don't really see how you can have a democratic society when people can't even be held accountable for fundamental things.
If I resubmit without the tail comment will it remain? Edit:Amended a new comment to stick to the point
> I don't find it [sex] a reasonable claim that it proves consent to reproduction

Excellent point; thanks for the insight.

> My point is simply that we don't have a human right of reproduction.

While society does have interests in many aspects of reproduction, I think those are greatly outweighed by fundamental liberty and the sanctity of your own person. As an important principle (not an absolutist rule, of course), we shouldn't tell people, including women, what they can and cannot do with their own bodies.

Also, governments have a dangerous track record with such policies. They've resulted in forced sterilizations and abortions, for example, and ethnic and religious discrimination.
> What you think about that?

There are plenty of interesting ideas that could use development (e.g. topic
map engine or log storage, from top of my mind), because they either have only
one open source implementation or are only implemented for one platform (Java)
that often is a deal breaker. Publishing yet another tiny library that is
not different in any meaningful way from its competition is just pointless.
(Just writing, on the other hand, is a good learning exercise. But one doesn't
need to publish everything he's ever written.)

And there's the thing about porting things to a different language. It rarely
leads to pretty results, mainly because the author structures the code in the
way that is idiomatic for the original language, not the target. Unless it's
a really big library, retaining original structure is unimportant.
I guess I'm splitting hairs here, but they didn't really pay for the service they were banned from. Using your bar analogy, it's like they were let into the bar for free, bought a drink (maybe finished it, we don't know?) then got kicked out for fighting. Would they be entitled to their money back for the drink?

Cheating has a small impact on the player base and probably on how much money Niantic is able to extract from the store. Holding onto gyms for a period of time nets the trainer "free" coins they didn't have to purchase. GPS spoofing opens up some of the more remote gyms to more attacks, and allows certain people to level up faster. It also has the effect of driving legitimate players away because they feel they can't compete.

I don't agree with many of the decisions Niantic have made, and I no longer play the game. But I don't agree with people demanding refunds from game companies that they have been banned from. I like that cheating players are punished. Cheaters in Counter Strike have left a very sour impression on me.
The only difference between Hillary and Trump is her corruption is complicated enough to sweep under a rug.
I was going to say the same thing. Likewise for iOS. Not that I have anything to hide, but if I didn't want to comply in such a situation, I would turn my phone off, game over.
I saw that he mentioned that he got the book off of an author's website for free and went looking for it -- found Dr. Vazirani's site and course page[0]. He mentions that it's available for download because at the time of writing, it wasn't found in bookstores.

Berkeley, in the meantime, has deliberately blocked access to the linked algorithms.html[1], as well as the root directory of the algorithm PDF files, suggesting to me that this is not an actual "free" book.

If anyone knows otherwise, I'd love to hear about it since I love free books.

[0] http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs170/fa06/

[1] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms.html
Is incessant fear-mongering manipulation the inevitable dystopian end of a society that is always connected to channels of mass communication? This is the result of the race to the bottom for eyeballs and attention - the appeal to fear. Does this ever resolve?

We spend so much time lamenting the demise of journalism, the sensationalization of media, the fear-mongering, etc... But it's not like distinct "bad choices" led to this state - it's the simple consequence of TPTB (well, anyone, really) having the ability to engage wider and wider audiences (and ultimately everybody) in increasingly real-time creating such fierce competition for attention that we must eventually use our most powerful emotional appeals for even the most trivial messages.

I mean, look at me, being all fatalistic - I'm guilty too. But I'm legitimately curious where we go from here, or perhaps more accurately, where do people think the bottom really is, and what will happen when we get there?
In his case, these were 5 funds of hedge funds. Which underneath could be much more than 20 funds.

You're also forgetting how much the compounding of the fees can cost, and you have two layers of them. This could easily make the S&P at least 3x higher in returns after 10 years.
It allows wildcard domains/subdomains with automatic certificates... how does it know which certificate to serve without an IP-to-domain mapping? Is it relying on SNI (i.e. no support for old devices)?
What's the longest break you've taken from working? You might be surprised how little actually changes in the course of 6-12 months, once you get past the obvious surface changes. The perspective that can be gained from stepping away for more than two weeks can be invaluable.
It was pretty common name when USB was new and general population had no clue what it was.
irv would be nice, but I feel like campaign finance reform would help more.
WikiLeaks never aligned with US party politics.
There is unlikely to be anything like a perfect solution, and placing the burden on the taxpayer anytime a parent decides to brush the kid off seems unfair as well. A good guideline though, is that you can't force people into medical procedures, or force them not to get one they want/need. Given that life is unfair in that way, or at least not equal, the law is going to reflect that inequality to some extent.
Yes, Caddy uses SNI. Although it can't get wildcard certificates from Let's Encrypt, it can obtain certificates during the TLS handshake for a specific server name.
This is only the case if the business is incompetent and insane, and also not communicating effectively with development.

Or maybe things can look that way, if the devs don't understand the business.

The business is doing something to make money. The requirements will somehow work to support that something, or will be something that your business contact thinks will support that something. If they don't make sense, that means your mental model of the business is different than your business contact's mental model. And unless your company is unbelievably dysfunctional, that's an opportunity to talk and reconcile those models.
Get that job thru connections or a public job listing when you're competing against other applicants?

That's the key question.
You're very right about the weaknesses of DHTs. We're planning ahead for future mitigations by making every layer of IPFS pluggable. We also devide routing into Peer Routing and Content Routing, as well as soon Wire Routing once there is a packet-switched overlay network in place.

There are also improvements upon Kademlia such as S/Kademlia which we've partially applied to IPFS (and we'll continue to apply more).
Well, I worked for 10 years and then took the last year off. I think you're full of shit, but I'll find out one way or another in the next few months.
Shenzhou 11 has successfully lifted off
For my side-project, http://hackernewsletter.com, it has been simply time and being passionate about it. In the beginning I tried various things from reddit ads to guest blog posts, but now six years into it and 38k subscribers, I've found that simply showing up and doing it every week has been my biggest marketing resource.
I don't really think this guy gets it either. Both candidates are horrible people. And yet, this whole election is about the candidates and not what they 'say' they're going to do.

Only one of them has abused elected office to amass a fortune. Only one of them is bought and paid for by foreign interests and big banks. Only one of them is protected from the consequences of their actions by the DOJ and FBI. We know full well that any of the rest of us would be in prison if we did the same things.

As inexcusable as the things Trump has said are, the things that Clinton has said over the years are even more inexcusable. Consider as just a single example her public denunciation and haranging of Vince Foster, likely leading to his suicide shortly thereafter.

It isn't much of a choice, but given the choice between two such nasty people, many are going to go for the person who at least isn't bought and paid for or who believes that laws are only for the little people.
> generated by electric blowers

Is the electricity generation clean? Unlikely in SEA.
Source maps does seam to be the biggest issue to solve before people can start truly experimenting. But huge congrats on starting and moving forward this amazing project.
While a sabbatical year might be very beneficial for the person taking it (for the multitude of reasons mentioned in the article), it can be detrimental for the organization. For example, if the person taking the sabbatical is in charge of (or playing a lead role in) a project that is time sensitive, then this is a big setback for the project. Similarly, if the person is mentoring someone else (who is dependent in some way on his presence), then taking a sabbatical is unfair to that mentee.

This is why it is important to plan the sabbatical year so that it is personally beneficial and also not detrimental to the organization and its people.
Yes we haven't been very vocal about it yet because it's not yet part of a go-ipfs release -- it'll be in the next release, go-ipfs v0.4.5.

Note on the name: floodsub is one specific implementation of pubsub. There are many ways to do pubsub, and we chose to go with a naive and simple flooding implementation for now. In the future there will be more, and you'll be able to use different implementations simultaneously.
You were the first to finish set 7.

I assume most people don't know, so: Filippo was one of our earliest adopters of cryptopals. He is a monster. He demolished everything we put in front of him.

You should watch Filippo run set 8. I've read a bunch of his code via cryptopals, and I'm a better programmer because of it. I'm very excited to watch him work in realtime.
That's the absurdity of modern business in many places. Short term, stupid thinking.

I'm glad to work for an employer with more enlightened work rules. When I had my back surgery, I was out for nearly 6 months. We had about a weeks notice, and my #2 person was able to take things on and I was able to transition most projects to her. Everything went fine. Actually it was a great thing because my fill-in's talents became apparent in my absence, and she got promoted later as a result.

Any workplace that changes so quickly that an above average player is totally out of touch in <1 year, the place is a shitshow.
Well, yeah that's why I have trouble with it. At least in Mandarin Chinese, which I have experience with, I've seen people describing themselves as 'fluent' when in reality they are either (a) lying or (b) meaning that they can speak conversationally.

My real world rule of thumb is that if I wrote "Fluent in Mandarin" on my CV, but then in the interview I couldn't read or write decent responses to emails or something like that, then most people wouldn't consider that as fluent (despite the dictionary definition).
If you work somewhere with such turnover that your knowledge is useless in 300 days... should you?

I tend to believe the rate of change in programming is grossly overstated anyhow, but that takes it to truly absurd levels.
For a carbon-based 3-layer noise-dissipation system perchance?

https://i.imgur.com/Z9vv5OF.png
A quick search for "free speech zone court case" only found cases effectively upholding trespass law over free speech. To what court case or law are you referring?
I'll add on my own anecdote here, I'm a stats major and I've found that in my stats (as opposed to pure math) classes, I find the learning is very much done just by reading the book because every new concept is just an intuitive application of earlier ones, once introduced to the concept I can understand it even without working through the excercises.

In my more pure math classes (and admittedly in some topics like counting problems) I have to spend a lore more time doing exercises to actually have a grasp of the material. It's frustrating but that's just how life goes.
Yesterday's news tomorrow
Out of curiosity, can you explain why you think there is a constitutionally protected right to support a political candidate and no such right to support a criminal organization (assuming by "support" you mean simply voicing support and not actually funding or committing crimes yourself)? It sounds good to me, but I can't think of where the constitution actually says that.

Of course, the real problem I have with your comment is that you say "collective punishment" is not justified. I'm not so sure I agree. I have no problem with collective action like boycotts, even if the boycott is in response to a perfectly legal action. This is just basic economic freedom and freedom of association. Perhaps you're speaking specifically about terminating someone's employment, which does have some specific legal protections.
I did this with the intention of promoting the product.

The issue was that I built it on someone else's platform. Something I've known to be a cardinal sin and a disaster waiting to happen.

Alas, I built /r/lifeprotips and it quickly became a default on reddit. I started building the site (lifeprotips.com which is no longer up) around the same time.

Some moronic moderator named reddit.com/user/krispykrackers banned me because I was promoting the site on the subreddit. They still use artwork I paid an illustrator to design for my site that I re-used there.

tl;dr: don't build a following on someone else's platform. You will be penalized because in 2016 there is no loyalty to the game anymore (I've been building sites since the late 90s so I know how corporate this environment has gotten).

Also, big middle finger to reddit for trying to be a big boy corporation but failing to address issues like mine -- I spent so much time and energy getting that subreddit to where it is today and I get rewarded with a punch in the face.
Huh... why? I mean, burglars and hackers are usually very different people, and the former usually doesn't care about what's on your phone, just your phone. I grant however, that you could have a particular situation perhaps relating to your work which might alter that.
I found rtorrent kept breaking on my often enough (mac) that it wasn't worth keeping around. It got dropped from homebrew for that very reason. Transmission cli does a wonderful job in place of it.
does it seed to a 1:1 ratio?
That's a consequence of their increased empirical longevity.
+1 for Meteor.

I'm pretty sure Jason uses Mupx for deployment to DigitalOcean (https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up/tree/mupx).

For anyone interested, this package makes it super easy to setup all the tools and deploy to the servers (almost as easy as pushing to Heroku!).

I've had good experience in scaling using Mupx and Cluster (another package from the same team - https://github.com/meteorhacks/cluster)
Lynch mobs were a real thing. They're aren't a literary device. Mobs of white people really did grab black men and boys, torture them, and then hang them to death from trees. People are alive today who witnessed this happening.

Nobody is "lynching" anyone here.
Maybe Samsung should pay that bill?
I'm not concerned about college students, who have always been a mess, or their fleeting obsessions and hackneyed philosophies. I am worried about agents of the state who are armed and almost universally trusted by our courts, and have a rich history of abuses and corruption. That's not hatred, it's a study of our own history.
They could just be normalizing every data point to be between 0 and 1 by dividing by the range. That's a homomorphic encryption.. it passes your weird assumptions.

I don't know why you're harping on about sound encryption, the point of this is to keep the statistical information intact in the cipher, without giving away the underlying market data.
Let's assume I don't. Wikipedia's entry starts:

> Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

Is it a shortcoming to be a girl or a sissy, and if so, why?

Should people who are girls or sissy feel shamed for being that way, or be ridiculed?

Is the way out of ridicule for girls and sissies to be more like a man?

Does diononea really use her computer "like a man", or does she actually use it like a woman?

The only way I can see this as useful satire is to accept the underlying premise of misogyny, which I do not wish to do.
I don't get what you're trying to say. What does "objectively hateful" mean? You think the president's words don't affect Americans?
Limewire, Bittorrent, and its ilk were fairly mainstream in the same way that driving over the speed limit, recreational drug use, and jaywalking are; and like these things it was often afoul of the law.

So as enforcement got better and legal alternatives emerged, their 'popularity' declined. There are also people who share Netflix logins, which is a (grey-market) option for those with no money, but is vastly less likely to result in DMCA notices mailed out to you.

If anything, the various decentralized networks of the 1990-2000s were the products of organic demand. There is simply less demand now than there was, or that demand is being suppressed by other mechanisms (such as laws, in the case of copyright-infringing sharing).

Perhaps there's just not a lot of demand for hosting your own identity in some decentralized, federated social network.
> is it speech and ideas? Then do not fire.

How far will you take that principal though?

What if you have an employee who consistently comes in and talks about how he'd like to kill all the non-white people? What if he talks about how many guns he has? I think this would make the office an unworkable environment for most of my other employees (particularly any PoC) and I would be very justified in firing them.
Look, it's clear what you're missing here.

If you yourself support Trump, or believe that he's equivalent to Hillary Clinton, that's fine. (I mean, it's not "fine", and I implore you to reconsider, but that's as far as it goes).

But Paul Graham and Sam Altman do not agree with you. They have said, publicly and repeatedly, that Donald Trump is far more dangerous than an ordinary political candidate; that he's a dictator, a modern-day Mussolini, someone for whom we'd need to create a "resistance" were he to be elected.

The criticism animating this thread is that if Graham and Altman truly believe what they are saying, they cannot coherently continue to support one of Trump's more important surrogates and enablers.

You are welcome to disagree with Graham and Altman (and me, and most other people on HN) about this! I do not challenge your right to do so.

But please address the argument that's actually being made.
Thanks for the tip. Guess that's what I get for depending on the docs and not reading the code.
Cheers. It was interesting to learn what JJA has been up to since coming up with the great (at the time) Cold Fusion back in the mid 90s. [I'm really showing my age here. ;)]
That said, the name was valuable itself.
I'm currently on a trip around the world, going over 1 year at the moment and loving life, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I've met countless 20-somethings doing the same, and a surprising number of mid-career professionals, and they're all European.

I have yet to meet a single person in almost 2 years of international travel that is from the US and was willing to take a break in their career.

I hope this American culture shifts towards Europe in the future. Americans are left out of this experience and cultural exchange, and seen as choosing to rather stay at home to toil over their bank accounts. The professional and personal benefits are more than adding 1 more year of your working life will ever get you, and besides, I want to see the change because I have a vested interest in finding a job when I come back.