skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The economy still works if banks go down, it just gets messy.

This is not accurate. The _ability_ of an ISP to route packets is not affected if another ISP stops routing packets (their ability to rout packets is independent). There will be a change in bandwidth usage but not in ability.
If a TBTF bank goes down, it is entirely possible that other banks have financial contracts with it that are necessary to be fulfilled for the second bank to remain operational (their ability to route financial payments is dependent)
My advice is to start with one really good course rather than a platform for courses of variable quality. This will prevent the pretend work of adding Facebook/Snapchat/Twitter integration getting in the way of the hard work of teaching people.

Good luck.
I think keeping them controlled but allowing recreational prescriptions gets you at least part way there. You go to see your doctor, tell him you want to try a particular drug and your reasons for doing so - curiosity or having enjoyed it previously both being legitimate reasons.

The doctor reviews your history, discusses any concerns/conflicts with existing medication, and having ensured that you're fully informed, issues you a prescription which entitles you to purchase the drug at your nearest pharmacy and doubles as your license to carry that specific controlled substance.

That way, safe intervals can be observed (for example, it's generally recommended that you shouldn't take MDMA more than once every couple of months or so), appropriate recovery/preparatory supplements can be recommended, and dependency can be watched out for.
Get your code out there
Whut?

You can write a stream to file with maybe 2 commands, and try to decode it later.

If the DRM on the stream is broken, you can save the stream to file and decode it later. If the DRM on the stream is safe, then it should be equally safe between the stream and saving the file to disk.

I fail to see how letting you save encrypted stuff to local disc has anything to do with breaking the DRM.

Also, the first thought people have when given a new service for free is "how can I use this to pirate movies". This is why we can't have nice stuff.....
Governments, Digital Services and Procurement Reform
Why Business Cards Are a Great Sales Tool in the Digital Age
C++ Actor Framework (CAF)
A hack is "troubling", and you deal in healthcare? I work in med-tech. If my hosting service was hacked and PHI potentially exposed, we'd have finished migrating away within a week. If your concern is only a business agreement to limit liability, do you mind sharing your product so I can never use it?
My preference would be something CSS or HTML based where if JS is off it still displays an image. I am not a super web developer or anything, but how about a fixed-size <div> block with the background set to the low-resolution version that contains the high-resolution version? Or just both images, stacked on top of one another with the high-resolution version positioned higher in the z-stack?

Looks like they didn't even add a <noscript> tag (though generally I think uMatrix doesn't play nicely with noscript because scripting is selectively disabled, not entirely disabled), which would be at least a token effort towards alleviating the problem.
I almost never use this service, but I'm happy to throw $5/month at it.
What Technology Is Trying to Replace Humans at DOD
Can someone please explain why this comment is being downvoted? Is it not feasible or is that stupid in some way? I'd just like to know if the downvotes are from a technical perspective.
If enough people use secure communications, then it becomes noise. Take an old, boring door lock analogy: everyone locks their home door, but nobody thinks that they have something to hide or illegal in their home just because of that. Making privacy and encryption tools easily accessible and easy to use is our best best imho.
We need formal codes of practice, we need good institutions, but we also need a cultural change.

We no longer have the luxury of saying "oh, it's just a CRUD app, it doesn't matter if things go wrong". Software has become too important, it has become too deeply intertwined in our daily lives. Errors and leaks from trivial little apps can have life-changing consequences for users.

If your software handles personally identifying data, there's a non-zero chance that you could ruin someone's life through negligence. Legal case management software might be an obvious example, but it's the tip of a very big iceberg.

If you have several million users, one-in-a-million edge cases are going to happen constantly. Weird things happen at scale. We need to treat every Android permission and every Facebook API call as a potential matter of life or death. We need the personal courage and the support of our peers to say "no, I will not implement that feature", "no, I will not store that user data", "no, I will not transmit that in plaintext", "no, I will not commit that to production without unit testing".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
Did I read that correctly? This will be delivered as a snap package?
With a physical notebook and a pen. Old style. Tried several notes apps but there's something about freeform on a paper.

I also use it to keep track of my tasks as a to-do list.
Ok, I don't understand any Russian :) but it seems there is a plugin on the Opera addons store (https://addons.opera.com/ru/extensions/details/wallabagger/?...).
This addon is mentioned on the following Wallabag page (https://www.wallabag.org/blog_index.html). Hope it works.

EDIT: you can also have a look at Respawn (https://github.com/broncowdd/respawn). It is not as advanced as Wallabag, but it also saves a copy of any webpage to your own server.
> By financing loans, aren't they already trying to do this? Building and operating more schools just adds more cost.

No providing loans increases the demand side of things (more people capable of paying) without controlling costs or increasing supply.

Building and operating more schools increases supply which would have a downward pressure on costs as private institutions would then be competing for students against (more) government run schools.

> IMO, when you have a functioning government, this is what makes a single payer system (like is often seen in healthcare) so great. The single if schools can't come to a reasonable price/agreement with the single payer, they don't get paid. And it leverages a central tenant of Capitalism... there's always someone out there willing to work for less.

Ha! This is first time I've heard someone try to explain single-payer healthcare as an example of capitalism.
'pretty good' sounds like a doable metric for a small team.
I've run my first design sprint and it's been awesome: this is what I learned
That does seem dodgy, so we took the 15k/month bit out of the title. I guess we'll leave "AI-powered" so as not to leave it completely naked. Or should it just say "Logo Creator"?

I noticed that https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=indiehackers.com constantly uses this trick of revenue numbers in titles. That's annoying clickbait in an HN context, but on the other hand, we need more good stories about startups, entrepreneurs, and projects, and dodgy stories are the price one pays for good ones. So I think the answer here is continued community vigilance.

Usually we'd see a point like this before 11 hours had gone by, but clearly not always, so everybody: if you notice something misleading on HN, especially if it doesn't get fixed right away, please alert us at hn@ycombinator.com. We can't read all the comments but we do read and reply to emails.
> And the work/life balance is definitely not screwed if you spend half the week working from home, like I always aim to.

Working at home is still work.
> What we see in practice is that the subsidies cost the government (which is fine -- that's what a subsidy is) but the value is being captured by the school, not the student.

But is this really an unintended consequence? Who has more lobbying power in Washington, students or Princeton and Yale?
I was in a similar boat, but picked the cheaper state school (which now, btw, is not cheap 15 years later).

I think, realistically, the only benefit I maybe missed out on at a more expensive school is that I could have (completely anecdotally) met a larger, richer network. And now, I would be using said contacts in that network to get me better job(s). For example, I've seen perfectly regular people come out of Cornell and they just mint money.

On the other hand, investing in a network doesn't stop at college, so it can be overcome in various ways.
A security update for the Raspberry Pi
Because it has data binding.

You only write your template once, you don't have to think about two separate paths: creation and update.
With backbone, you either did that and had performance issues or did updates separately, which is a pain to maintain.

Also, in backbone, parent<->child communication is a complete after thought.
Complexity of Condom Use Underestimated (2012)
I think at the heart of the 2016 US elections is this panic over the decline of capitalism. It'll be interesting to see what the alt-right does when the world doesn't need the old systems of manufacturing and military to sustain societies.
Good summary, but just to be clear, I never rejoice the progress of C++. I hope it dies a horrible death in the burning pits of awful programming languages.
Show HN: Ultra-fast style transfer in the browser
Still waiting for an explanation other than "white people caused this"
You're not telling the full story.

$6k got me a 4 hour response of a 5 man crew with an excavator to replace a rusted section of a wastewater pipe, which involved digging 14ft down and demolishing part of my driveway (and pouring new concrete in after it was finished)

> No more than 2 days of work for 1 person.

You'll have us believe a plumber charges $375/hour for this project, based on the $6k quote?

This is not typical, so either your project is extremely difficult or you're not telling us something else.
> Yes except for the fact that they continue to sell them. Apple hasn't also stated how long they'll continue to make and sell new iPhones for either.

Not a fair comparison - iPhones are updated every year. "We don't mind selling you this" is not the same as "we are actively invested in this."

They are clearly NOT supporting the market with the Mac Pro they have now; whether it is being actively sold or not isn't the point.

It's like Google's many many halfway-dead apps: people use them, they're online, but no new development is happening.
The Not-So-Passionate Programmer: finding a job when you're just a normal person
Technically runc and the Kernel are setting up/providing your containers. Docker Engine is a platform for managing containers/images.
I guess the state of the art is more complicated than the Department of Astrophysics in the comic admits.
Can OP or an admin de-abbreviate "CS" to "Commercially-Supported"?
Its strange to see negativity to genuine support for open source projects. Instead of inventing conspiracy theories to try to explain away and diminish the donations perhaps it might be better to focus on the positive.

And maybe be try to understand why all the billion dollar companies so popular here rely on open source but do not seem to accomplish much beyond token gestures and posturing. Clearly Smartisan shows if there is a will you can do a lot. Maybe there is something to learn here that can lead to a positive change.

I think its beginning to look more and more like HN should stick strictly to VC and new tech stores. There is no social or moral dimension here to process any other information.
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It would be great to hear your feedback, thoughts, questions to our new API layer. It's like Stripe or Twilio for video streaming use cases.

We are also on Product Hunt today, if you want to check it out there: https://www.producthunt.com/tech ... there is also a 20 GB free plan for people from product hunt ;-)

Best,
Stefan
It's still not very clear what the kit includes.

My guess is that this will appeal more to wantrepreneurs, if at all.

By the nature of startups, there can be no levels to build a startup.
true, but when there is something unexpected about how the AJAX request or the HTTP server are working then debugging is going to be harder because of the abstraction.
What I heard is that all of their Haskell software combined is about ~1MLOC (and they don't comprise a single system), and a huge chunk of that (a couple 100KLOCs at least) is the Haskell compiler itself, which they've modified and consider a part of their codebase. The Haskell compiler is still the largest Haskell program, and if it isn't, there are no more than a couple programs that are larger.
Lua Internal Development History Released
The scale (and thus cost efficiency) is completely different. It's way easier and cheaper to build a given amount of capacity in a single massive installation than spread out across 200,000 different roofs.
What parts of Play Services are actually useful without the Google hosted services?
Will Trump Eliminate the H-1B Visa Program?
Everyone I don't like is Hitler!
wrong, look at the firewall code from OS X.
I agree with you about the gradual refactoring. I love FP and according to that list, I'm mostly an "advanced beginner"... and I see nothing wrong with that.

Even "just" refactoring Java or Python code to be more functional is a huge win. Even "just" using Scala in a more or less FP way is a huge win. I don't fret being unfamiliar with Lenses or whatnot yet.
Because it seems like Java without having to deal with JVM.

Like Java, it is not a good choice... but people stick to what they know.
Is there no unofficial market for it?
Fuck DRM. Seriously.
If you have some pointers to Git internals explanation, similar to what you're looking for PGP/GnuPG, can you provide them? That would be useful and illustrative :) .
Isn't BitTorrent still free?
I think you assessment of the article is fair. It's not the best piece I've read on this topic, but I found it interesting enough to share on HN.

Do you think it's possible we'll get to the point where technology makes labour so cheap that capitalism and markets as we know them now will no longer make sense?

With software that already replaces a lot of human labour, and things like 3D printing continually improving, it seems like it's at least possible for us to reach a point where the means of production are so easily available and so dispersed throughout the population that the current system as we know it won't really make sense anymore.

So I'm not even sure "postcapitalism" would be the right word to describe it. Things will still be produced, and the idea of markets won't go away. But this new system might not be recognizable to us at all. I often wonder if we can even envision how the transition could happen, because we're so used to reality as it exists for us now.

I don't mean to sound like a naive technological utopian. I suspect that something better than what we have now is possible, but the transition, if it happens, will be messy and painful.
Surely it would be the other way around.

I mean, I get the idea behind transgressive pornography, but be real.
At the time, the primary link was ldsmag.com, and did not work.
> Probably because on smartphones and tables they have their own app and don't have to rely on a browser.

But then they have to rely on the OS instead. Not sure what is better.
I'm not sure if I'd be paying your mortgage per se, but I'd be paying for whatever benefits you receive through the Social Security Adminstration's Disability Benefits program. But even if I was, why would that be controversial? Why should the government not provide aid to people who are virtually derelict?
DRM relies on handing the ciphertext, a decryption program, and the key to the opponent, and then telling them not to use it except when they are allowed to use it.

If your browser is in charge of running the storage of the ciphertext and the decryption, it is much easier to debug it and apply a patch that will store the plaintext than if you have to do this all in an Android emulator as well.

But either way: DRM doesn't work for long.

In the meantime, Netflix is providing enough value for me that I happily pay their monthly fee and don't bother looking for ways to break their DRM.
Gerrymandering explained: a visual gudie
At the lua workshop this year I spoke about my efforts to convert the historical source code of lua into git form. Until now this history was private to the lua team.

I finally put the last pieces together and have now pushed the results to github.

It's split into 4 repositories:

- Main source: https://github.com/lua/lua
- Tests: https://github.com/lua/tests
- luac: https://github.com/lua/luac
- manual: https://github.com/lua/manual

See my talk's notes for more info: https://www.lua.org/wshop16/Daurnimator.pdf
An educated population is NOT a zero sum game.

The top thing the government can do for it's people is to keep them alive. (Free from invasion, murder, etc).

The second thing the government can do for it's people is to keep them healthy. Access to health care, etc. etc. More of an offshoot of above, but for things deeper than alive.

The third thing the government can do for it's people is to educate them. Not so that they can get "better jobs", but so they can be educated. The people around you vote just as much as you do. They decide the future of the country just as much as you do. Would you rather someone who never ever set foot in school helped elect your local government, or someone who has a PhD from a good college?

Kind of a hierarchy of needs.. education doesn't matter if you aren't safe.. but once you are safe, it seems very important. Not at ALL a 0 sum game. You don't educate to give people better jobs, but to enable them to think critically. Which is why 4 year colleges do a lot more for the world than coding boot camps or trade schools.
It's more like "Some of the people I don't like have various Hitler-esque tendencies".
OPEC Agrees to Cut Production in Drive to End Record Glut
What about private institutions? Are they not subject to the same constraints?

https://priceonomics.com/static/images/college-one/Yearly_Tu...

Also, if these institutions are interested in "maximizing value" then they should be perusing modified MOOCs (online course + office hours and on-site testing). They are not.
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If we actually thought they were Hitler, we'd be at war.
thought Canonical is doing its own "docker", e.g. SNAP, lxd etc that are not totally identical but very similar to docker, what's going on here.
Interesting comment. All the talk about renewable energy forget the fact that the Sun energy is equivalent to burning the earth for energy. Except it's much less efficient.
I prefer this one : http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/8610

I think it's a better idea to separate skills required to use most of the language, and the ones required to create libraries.
There was higher turnout in this election then the last.
Yeah, and one of the trade-offs is that you need to stick to certain conventions that are somewhat enforced by frameworks.
> How would that even work (I mean, in terms of similia similibus curentur or whatever)?

It works in terms of some people having more money than common sense.
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Given the breadth and intent of these laws, I'd expect a different response - requiring ISPs to block VPN traffic that isn't hitting a whitelisted (i.e. corporate) endpoint.

VPN traffic has a distinctive signature, and ISPs are already using deep packet inspection hardware already, so blocking VPN traffic seems like a natural evolution in this particular arms race.
throw r/the_donald in there with them
Totally agree. I just can't see myself going back to templates with special DSL. I rather just use JS :)
Web Anonymity to Become Reasonable Suspicion Thursday
Incidentally, cURL just had a major security audit. The dev is doing due diligence to avoid RCE vulnerabilities.
> Markets exist irrespective of whatever the formal mechanism of trade is sanctioned by the state.

Yep. One of the most amazing things about "1984" is that there is a very visible market, dismissed by Orwell as "the proles". ("Orwell's Revenge" by Peter Huber is a great analysis of 1984.)
Even if someone doesn't like it AND doesn't use it, they can still tell the world how they think about it.

You could have written your comment without that sentence and it would still convey your opinion :)
Farming indoors with LEDs can be profitable now
While this is great and very usable, especially for people with limited data plans, I can't help but feel disappointed that simple offline caching of content is still considered a major feature in 2016. Without DRM, this would be a no-brainer.
Virtualbox doesn't solve the problem of performing non-work related tasks on a corporate computer. It would help resolve some of the concerns about sandboxing data, but only some.
If you become disabled, then you do get the opportunity to receive subsidized help in the form of disability.
If Reddit can not handle free speech, Voat will.

Once Voat is overrun by the enemies of free expression, someone else will take the helm and continue. Such is the nature of a free Internet.
It should be considered that LEDs are now being used for lighting in situations where there used to be no lighting at all [1]. The potential energy savings we could realise with LEDs may be negated by an increase in lighting itself. This would be an example of Jevons' paradox [2].

[1] http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/10/led-light-cfl-b.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons's_paradox
I'll use Thai as an example because I speak/read/write Thai, but the following is also true for most other languages...

If you were raised speaking english, then the roman letters of the english alphabet have distinct pronounciations/sounds to you. They make these sounds in your head when you read them. Someone born in mexico will have a different alphabet, and heck even australians and British people have different sounds for their letters than Americans. Heck even Americans from different regions have different sounds.

The point is that Thai people make different noises when they speak. They do not have an "z" sound. Frankly, none of their sounds match up exactly to any of our sounds. When you spell thai words using the english alphabet, you will then tend to read the word back as you have written it, in English, and thus incorrectly. Thai letters have Thai sounds, so you should learn this second alphabet and then you can read thai words by making the correct thai sounds.

If a language has an official transliteration system, such as pinyin for Chinese, then it may possibly work, but you are still essentially learning a second alphabet, merely one with the same shaped letters. For languages like Thai though, there is no official transliteration, and making your own and using it consistently would be more difficult than simply learning the Thai alphabet, and infact would more or less require learning the Thai alphabet.

For an extreme example, consider that African language that has the clicky sounds. How would you even begin to remember how a word sounds if you were storing it in your brain as text after transliterating it into the English alphabet? "Click clack click clack" is not the correct pronunciation.

Edit: I re-read your comment and see that you speak Japanese. You are using roman-looking letters, but you are surely being very careful to read the letters using Japanese sounds. Given that an alphabet is a set of letters that represent phonemes, are you really using the English alphabet or have you created a second, phonetic Japanese alphabet that happens to have identical shapes?
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