skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great point, of course. More technology typically requires more energy, which doesn't just appear out of nowhere. Although newer technology tends to require less energy per unit of work/computation, in aggregate the amount of technology in use increases rapidly enough that net energy requrements increase as well.

I'm hopeful that solar power will play an increasing role. Our sun won't last forever, but barring catastrophe it'll be there on any timescale those of us living now care about. Of course, solar's effectiveness depends on how much the energy captured by solar panels exceeds the amount of energy requred to manufacture them. I get that sense that solar power's efficiency and cost effectiveness continue to improve rapidly, but most of my information on the topic comes from mass media. It's an area I'd like to know more about, but I don't currently have enough time to do the research needed to properly understand it in depth.
Tried playing the first one a year ago but with the turn-based system and fast-travel being what it is, progress is slow. Which wouldn't be bad when you want to spend your Sunday afternoon in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but this is not a game for someone who has a 9-to-5.
Even though I sign into my phone using my Google account, I use gmail through IMAP in K-9 which isn't tied to the phone account at all.
217 and 218 weren't easy (circa 20 years ago).
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> I doubt the doctor has ever personally done opiates and MDMA

Well it's a good thing that's not a prerequisite to getting someone's opinion.

I'm all for sensible drug policy, and you may be right that MDMA and opioids are completely different classifications of substances, but the fact that the doctor hasn't personally done both is no reason to dismiss his statements out of hand.
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I'm not sure what the right solution is, but tying tokens to IP addresses is probably not workable.

Better mechanisms for protecting tokens stored on the device seems like the only way to reasonably improve this situation.
Contributor here. Welcome to ask question. We are working on GPU support now.
UpCloud secures 4M for growth
I feel like this should be part of dbpedia.
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I would use .io - that said, I'm using .tv for my own project (video related), and I understand the extreme pain of trying to come up with a good name that's not yet widespread and is available.
For a very long time ATMs were suspicious to users. What if I asked for $40 and it only gives me $20? Why can't I get $23.45? I need to speak to a human because surely my (entirely commonplace) problem is unique enough that a machine can't handle it. What if I ask for a receipt and the machine has a bug that transfers my entire asset portfolio to the Netherlands?!

There are plenty of social important and authority-dominated areas of our lives that have been taken over by technology. Health care can easily be one of them if we let it. It will go through the typical technology adoption curve, but going through it will happen nonetheless.

And yes, people still prefer to interact with human professionals. When they know the costs of doing so, most choose a competent alternative, especially so for things the alternative is good enough at doing. It's the entire reason legalzoom and webmd exist. The real problem is that we are hell bent on obscuring the cost of health care and demanding way beyond our means.
I've been there m8.

I too am a designer and is depending on developers to do the hardcore OSX stuff (I can do web-coding myself well enough) and I too are depending on their time.

After a number of attempts at starting various products/services ex. [1][2][3] with various levels of success but ultimately fizzling out.

Ex. Weekendhacker have around 8K designers and developers subscribed but it kind of died out, because the time i spent vs. any income I made was not making sense. I haven't killed it but it's basically in hibernation until I figure out what to do with it. It was a really frustrating to see something like that die out with such high hopes of starting an actually community.

However I finally managed to launch something that is generating growing side income for me year over year, which I can control the progress of and which allow me to expand slowly but surely.

https://www.ghostnoteapp.com

Now GhostNote is only the start of something much bigger I am building but it allow me to control the scope and slowly expand what I am doing while still enjoying it as an added bonus I am making good money.

In my experience the key thing when you do side projects is to do something you enjoy doing and something which even if you make no money you are glad you did it.

Another thing is to make sure you create a bunch of little successes for yourself. Better to start with and launch ex invoicing than trying to do a whole suite of things. That way you spend way less time and get way less attached to what you are doing and you can own it. What you have done look amazing but are you really solving something fundamentally (this is not a rhetoric question) or just redesigning what already exist out there?

You should ask yourself the questions like.

Why am I building what I am building?

Is there a simpler way to do what I want to do. (Ex. could it just be email to start with? Weekendhacker was.)

Is this really what I want to spend my time on?

Does the world really need this?

But most importantly you should never give up, sooner or later you you wil find something as long as you make sure you don't spend too much time on each.

I have literally hundreds of ideas, tens of a whole graveyard of almost implemented projects [4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Just keep trying new stuff, make new aliances with developers. Do several things at once if you have to. But if you want to make money with your side project don't be too attached.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2563718
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2991206
[3] http://mashable.com/2012/04/19/pinview-facebook-pinterest-ap...
[4] http://000fff.org/uploads/LiveChat.png
[5] http://000fff.org/uploads/TL02.png
[6] http://000fff.org/uploads/NewFlow1.png
[7] http://000fff.org/uploads/NewFlow_02.png
[8] http://000fff.org/uploads/Map_Template_Layout.png
[9] http://000fff.org/uploads/StarStruck.png
[10] http://000fff.org/uploads/badgenation_Sketch.png
> Totally free expression is crucial and in no way will it affect you physically.

Until it elects the sort of people who want to see me deported into positions of power. At which point am I obligated to hand them a free platform again?
More specifically: in the next major Node.js release (v7.0.0), ES6 modules will be implemented. That's what I was trying to say.
Thank you for sharing. I don't have any experience with predictive analytics. I found this article approachable and it sparked my interest in the subject.
Well, China already has a nationalised Facebook.

I suspect if Facebook are still around and dominant in 20 years there will be officially-mandated features (not necessarily this one, most likely anti-harrasment or anti-fake-news) or national-level Facebook replacements in many non-US countries.
Your comment is proof that it's next to impossible to reduce the nature of the human condition down to ironclad mathematical concepts.
I hate walled gardens and I'm all for trying to move you and, at least tech friends, to platforms people control.

But the trouble is Facebook, Amazon, Google .. these companies are not only huge, they control distribution networks. Let's look at when Amazon removes a book from their store. Sure any retailer can choose not to supply a book, but when Amazon does it, their distribution network as become so large and central for most people that it does effectively censor the book. There are millions of people who only buy books through their service.

I'm not saying they should be public entities, but you need to be aware of the fact that they do effectively control the flow of information just due to their sheer market share.
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> But even then, we see things get through as there are talks at hackcons at hacking things like cars, airplanes and biomedical devices.

Food for thought: imagine open-air discussions with proofs of concept of "cracking" critical infrastructure like bridges and dams.
How what proportion of the entire global population of functional programmers who qualify as proficient or better on this scale are employed by Standard Chartered?

(This is intended as a serious question, not a troll. It often seems that in discussions of FP, and particularly of Haskell, someone will suggest that there are few widely-known, large-scale projects written in this style that can be used to evaluate its effectiveness, and someone else will then reply with one or more of the same very small collection of larger projects or high profile organisations using FP/Haskell that are publicly known.)
The company the author refers to in the article is not Chinese.
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I don't think DRM stops them from doing P2P. Limited upload speeds are a much bigger issue. Plus people finding it icky to be an uploader on something they already paid for.
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Probably, I am infering from Herb's blog entries and the addition of kernel mode support to VC++ on Windows 8.

And the addition of UDMF with COM APIs.
If the federal government is lending to students then "taxpayers" (as a collective) aren't funding colleges, the individual students are (who are taxpayers individually, but I don't think that's what you meant).

And if the government participates in loan forgiveness, then the fact that the government is also a lender isn't really relevant, because the taxpayers will be covering that bill anyway.

Really, it's for the best that the federal government gets any interest from student loans, rather than private banks having a vested interest in the growth of tuition rates.
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full release notes [ https://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-5.5.0 ]
Uhhh, the government does build and operate schools? So many schools. There are public Universities in every state. Some of them top notch and as good as the best private universities in the world. Most of them decent.

Government loans should only apply to state schools, the schools should be funded better, and there should be more oversight and price controls, sure (public schools waste millions of dollars just like private ones on sports, administrator salaries, fancy buildings and landscaping that aren't necessary, etc).

This is exactly the reason Clinton/Sanders proposed a plan to include free tuition for /public/ universities for people meeting an income threshold. No free rides to Sarah Lawrence.
Still happens today. Example being Amazons Grand Tour not being available in Canada from launch. Of all companies they should have had that figured out.
Which DRM free streaming service has the most customers?

(let's say they have to be at least sort of like Netflix, with minimal advertising and comedy/drama shows)
There should be an issuable ban for people who react to an article without reading it.
You have a good point about driving people underground, instead of giving them an outlet - but as the article points out,

> Like the mod said in his own words, they are not interested in public policy, they are focused on white nationalist racial discussion. To continue on that course without steering into hate speech is impossible.
What if all the major places of discourse ban your speech? Isn't that basically the same as the government doing so?

Sure, it doesn't violate the constitution but it still is a serious issue.
No! It isn't!

Control systems are not intelligent. It helps to know how they work, and when you do you realize they work on very simple principles.

Intelligence is about learning and applying knowledge, AI is either simulating or synthesizing these behaviors outside of nature. It's not just taking the place of a function that something intelligent does.
Well it's not in Google's DNS records... Is that G an actual "G"? Read this http://mashable.com/2016/11/21/fake-google-domain/#EfEO7G8ZY...
I have offered paid training at Lambda Conf in the past with my coauthor Julie and I am opposed to this ladder for _many_ reasons.

I think the class (as in hierarchy) and topic-chasing anxiety it will induce in many is counter-productive. It's extremely flawed as a guide for what to learn or what in order to learn things as well. One of the worst attempts I've seen on that front in fact. And yeah, the labels are useless anyway. It doesn't really matter what one thinks a "beginner" is.

It's also just bad optics. I don't know why John does stuff like this.
I believe most of the brokenness of current day frameworks comes from templates. Here is what you get by JSX being JavaScript:

1. Easy to write typechecking for the templates.

The compiled template is just function calls (or well, factory function calls) and the typechecker can work with that.

How many template language authors will write a typechecker for the template language?

2. Sane scope sharing - you can take advantage of all existing encapsulation and modularization tools of JavaScript. How do I expose functions to JSX? I simply bring them in scope e.g. by importing them or defining them. How do I expose functions to the template? Well... it depends. There is this $scope object (Angular)... Or there is this components property which informs the template whats in scope (Vue: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/components.html#Local-Registratio...). I guess there are worse options, like having to register your helper functions or components into some sort of global registry and pray that there wont be a conflict.

3. First class components - want to write a list component that takes an item component as a parameter in props? Tough luck, its likely that the template language of your average framework doesn't support this. JSX gets this for free because its just JavaScript, and JavaScript is a proper language with first-class support for passing around functions and classes.

Its not that its impossible to do this... its just that most template languages aren't advanced enough, and somehow we think thats a good thing.

4. The sandboxing fallacy

From https://angularjs.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/angular-16-expressi...

Angular template, and expressions, should be treated
similarly to code and user-provided input should not be
used to generate templates, or expressions

If you are distributing the compiler with your framework, there is this urge to expose it to the developers. If you expose it to the developers, there is the chance that it will end up compiling user input. And then you spend ungodly amount of time building a sandbox, unsuccessfully.

-

svelte seems to be built by people with deep interest and expertise in compilers, so I'm somewhat hopeful that its template language will not suffer from the usual template language problems. On the other hand, the task is much harder (compiling to code without runtime), so that seems like a driving force in the opposite direction (less powerful template language). I guess we'll see how it goes.

IMHO the next step in frameworks isn't this (compilers are hammers, and everything else is nails). The next step is, after current frameworks fight things out, we take the common subset of the "infrastructure code" that the most popular ones use (DOM diffing? events that are the same across browsers to remove the need for synthetic events? PropTypes? Maybe someone at whatwg should start thinking about this list) and include it in the browser API, then let frameworks build on top of that and be 10 times smaller on average.
I probably did and getting massively down voted as a result. But I can't delete it either once someone commented on it.
why is the company the govt not being sued into oblivion?
It's so true. I have been places where governments were more effective and efficient than in the us ... Worshipping the idea that "governments can never do anything right" seems to be a self-fulfilling proposition in a democracy ...
So far announced:

1. New instance types: r4, c5, i3

2. GPU attach to any instance.

3. AWS Lightsail: Virtual Private Server, like Digital Ocean

4. FPGA instance family F1

5. Amazon Athene:
Ad-hoc analytic, Google Big Query style.
How do you increase the performance of the primary/middle/high-school system? To me, that means creating better and more educated teachers that can generate more 'performant' students!
Have you been to Hong Kong or Beijing?

Lots of led encrusted buildings.
Thanks. Are you saying you could "stream" a 50 minute episode in 3 minutes even before this announcement?

Your second statement (about torrent sites) implies that everyone was already "downloading" content and NetFlix's servers were happy to serve the streams as a single very fast download without regard to how long it should takes clients to consume that (i.e. no throttling) - is this correct?
Redhat also has a lot of security features not in upstream docker due to docker, inc not accepting them:

Source: https://github.com/projectatomic/docker/tree/410e23a7eeb52d4...
I created an app that allow me to take notes in context.

So lets say I am annotating a video online I am watching, the app knows the URL and take notes for that specific video.

Or lets say I am working in Sketch and have some todos or comments or information, my app knows what I am working in and attach notes to that specific context.

Or in Sublime, Terminal etc. I can even add notes to files and folder in finder.

That way I don't have to worry about structuring my notes (because I am not good at that) my notes are structured for me by my usage and always in context.

I am even selling the app now and making quite good money on it.
> If the author is arguing that information cannot be intrinsically valuable because it is so abundant, you cannot create a monopoly on top of it.

Sure you can, that's exactly what copyright does. You create artificial scarcity by forbidding people to make use of an otherwise abundant resource.

>it is useful to incentivize the creation of valuable ideas which is difficult when they are used freely.

I don't think it's that difficult, it's just hardly anyone is seriously considering alternatives to the copyright model, not least because its proponents have elevated it to morality status.

We are starting to see a possible alternative in the form of Kickstarter and Patreon. Some creators using these services happily give away some or all of their creative output, and primarily sell their continuing labour. And I think many of those who currently restrict their content will begin to care a lot less about piracy, once they're not relying on piecemeal sales for their income.

I don't know if that model can scale to all content creation, but I think people have underestimated it in the past.
In Linodes case it's not about "a hack" it's about at least 4 hacks within the past 5 years.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/bitcoins-worth-22800...

https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/

https://blog.linode.com/2014/01/19/an-old-system-and-a-swat-...

https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/05/security-notification-and...

I'm not even sure if they ever figured out the last one.

So yeah, hopefully ryebit was just kidding.
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"Conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted"

Are you kidding? It's called taxation!

People are taxed massively more now than at any time in history and a lot of it goes towards the military. I'm not saying that's good or bad - just that it is.

The General has a right to his opinion, but he cannot seem to grasp action and consequence.

The world is not some simple place wherein you can have easy answers to such questions.

Imagine for a moment if America did not control the high seas, the Panama canal, de-facto the Suez, the Gulf, and patrol the South China sea - and make them open and free for everyone to navigate - even competitors like China, Iran and Russia?

All of those areas - including the routes around S. America and Africa would be controlled by totalitarian/thuggish entities or irregular forces and it'd be too expensive or unsafe to travel.

As just one example.
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"Most often" might just be hedging.
We were just reading "Android security in 2016 is a mess"[1] 2 days ago and now we have another great example for it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056288
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Not sure if you will like this I personally like the podcast http://nomadcapitalist.com/podcast/
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In principle every x86 operating system has this problem. The difference is in the expectations. If a laptop is certified for Windows 10 I expect it to run Windows 10 decently. If a laptop is Qubes OS certified, I expect it to run Qubes OS securely, with decent performance.
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Yes, but then not selling it in stores for recreational use ends in heroin being substituted with fentanyl (and other, even more effective synthetic opiates) in the dark market, because fentanyl is cheap to make and transport (way bigger potency for the same weight) and then killing many people who otherwise would not be dead.
The case for regulated legalisation is harder to make for opiates than for many other drugs, but still there.
No. The malware steals a secret stored on the device that gives the attacker the same access to your google account as your own phone.
I second this, I love K-9.
There are cases where this approach would be very welcome. However it probably won't solve the problem of "a cumbersome user interface was causing the time taken to update a record to jump from around one minute to as much as 30 minutes per entry." That's bad design with maybe the collaboration of the customer who didn't understand the problem or pushed/spent enough to fix it. Not different from building a bridge too narrow to make two cars pass at the same time: perfectly safe but not functional enough. Engineer's fault, customer's fault, both? In the case of this software who's going to be sued, the developer or the customer? The customer by the people in jail and maybe the developer by the customer?

However, let's also try to compare the complexity of that software system with the complexity of a bridge. What would be more complex, that Tay Bridge or California's Odyssey? I bet on the latter and I assume that it would cost much more money and time to properly build and test software systems. It's almost only manpower, compared to concrete, steel and wood, but the costs could go up by one order of magnitude compared to what they are now.

If this approach gets mandated it would be a big slow down for every industry needing custom software. It also means we'll only need 1/10th of customers to keep our shops open, the 10% with more money. Goodbye to the small ones.

There will be the equivalent of a construction site manager, but good luck with the bugs that become apparent or are introduced after years of changes to the first accepted delivery of the project. Bridges are much more static than software.