skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That series is fantastic, if a bit infuriating. It defines a language around concepts and dynamics I've seen, intuited or had other self-taught people attempt to explain at me, but due to the hollistic nature of theirs and my own education on social dynamics, never clicked for me. The one addition I'd like to see to it is advice for the person who understands the Game, but unlike the Losers (who just want to fly under the radar) and the Sociopaths (who just want power), wants to kill the Game for good. Someone who wishes for the world to work according to democratic principles where everyone is an equal, instead of the feudal lord - serf dynamic exhibited in pretty much all of recorded history.
The lesson I take away from these incidents is that MAD is highly robust to false positives.
This is very strange, as I highly doubt they're crawling the entire DHT space, and even if they did they would be getting only infohashes. These are hashes of (a subset of) the torent metadata (including the chunk hashes), so it won't actually tell you what the content is, unless you also download the torrent metadata from peers using BEP-0009.

I'd bet they're pulling popular torrent files from big sites and then pulling peer lists from the DHT. This will work OK for 'hot' content, but they could probably get much better lists if they actually connected to swarms and did peer exchange (PEX) which clients effectively have no control over - it's up to their peers if they are going to reveal addresses through PEX.

Also note that of course none of this will work for private torrents (which almost all clients respect) as they disable all methods of peer/metadata acquisition other than from the trackers directly.
This a common argument I encounter, and it is a bit of a straw man.

The offerings in densely populated areas are not better.
>You'd think that HN of all communities would be more appreciative of what CIG brings to the table.

Like what exactly? How to deliver nothing but keep being funded with internets-fedaykins fighting tooth and nail to keep your image unsullied?
Because Red Hat is home to systemd, did I got it right ?
It's hard to be positive about solar roads. They are a ridiculous concept.
> This is stupid.

Partisan threads are bad enough without stooping to this. Please edit such name-calling out of your comments here, as the HN guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
This 509-year-old map contains the first known use of the word “America”
> You're praising them for being developers, rather than actually making anything finished

This is a developer forum more than a gaming forum, so I think it's appropriate, don't you?

> plenty of cash without ever releasing anything

Come on now. I haven't at all kept up with the game for the past year and half and I can still tell you that they are regularly pushing out content simply because my inbox gets spammed with their content update newsletters.

In fact, the latest email is from 17 hours ago, announcing Lumberyard alongside "Alpha 2.6 with Star Marine", their big FPS patch. Saying they "aren't releasing anything" is disingenuous.

If you're saying they're not releasing anything you want to play, then sure - they haven't released anything I want to play either. It doesn't change anything.
ubuweb is a fantastically deep and broad archive with resources often hard to find elsewhere. check out the films section [1]- i feel any site with laurie anderson, alvin lucier, cory arcangel, and kenneth anger for free deserves your love and support.

[1] http://www.ubu.com/film/
I've been running since XC in HS, but reconnected in my mid twenties to overcome addictions.

Since then I've more or less just substituted one for the other, but the running seems to have better long-term effects.

The activity is closely connected with my work and personal life -- in that when I don't run, the rest of my life suffers.
To be honest it would be more about making a statement than trying to enforce it legally.
If you do change your name/identity/city, do you also switch careers?

How do you approach applying for jobs? Do you make a fake resume/CV? Or just a new empty one focused more on "skills" vs job history?

And what do you say when they ask about job experience? Honesty, I guess, but it might make them curious/suspicious/nosey.
You would have to contact the department of Thought Police that would help you identify Trump supporters. From there on, simply compile a list of people that may not use your software.

The rest is trivial.
Soo, how different is this new game engine since it a offshoot of the crytek engine? Is it going to add another x years to the development? Because it took my company almost a whole year to switch engines for a game that is a tiny fraction of the size of SC
> I'm curious what Urban American has gotten "kicked in the teeth" by? Mainly, the $ figures are from military, power, and agriculture which Urban American doesn't want in their backyard. Pigs and turkeys don't smell so good, and wind farms are noisy, unsightly, and a bit dangerous. Counting military and power spending is pretty poor form. Transportation happens because the low cost raw materials come from the rural areas. No roads, no food for urban folks

A local example for my State would be spending on public transportation vs bridges. Elected officials from rural areas are routinely outraged about "wasteful" spending on buses/trains to relieve congestion but then complain that not enough is spent on rural bridges and highways. You are right, we do need roads to bring food in (it's symbiotic too by the way -if urban areas don't buy then rural areas are back to subsistence farming and poverty) but we could do that without four lane highways and overpasses. Personally I amok spending tax revenue on infrastructure but that should include public transportation in urban areas if appropriate.

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That's not really true. Rural America is quite aware of the issues Urban America face because that's all the news really covers

Seeing coverage is not the same as understanding. Ask someone in a rural area how to solve inner-city poverty and they will give you a different answer than someone who works in the field. The same could be said about rural issues.

To be clear, Im not saying urban America understands rural America. I'm just sick of seeing this narrative of "Trump won because liberal elites don't understand rural America". It's way too simplistic.
I used TCC a lot back in 2003 or so for schoolwork. I had an ancient pentium 1 thinkpad someone had given me that I used for all my programming assignments. TCC compile times were basically instantaneous for simple C programs, I remember using the `tcc -run` hasbbang feature too.
And disabling DHT in your client. I've seen trackers that have that as a rule.
The problem is defining "supporter" in legal terms. It's probably easy to exclude the Trump Organization itself, but what about those who do business with them? You could exclude people who directly contributed to Trump's campaign, but does one such person in a company bar use by the entire company? It quickly becomes a bit of a quagmire.

Possible alternative: require preservation of a copyright notice which (among all the usual stuff) condemns Trump and his policies. It gives voice to your protest, without the definitional hassles that enforcing a restriction would have.
To my knowledge, there's been no country that said "no rich people." Yes marginal rates have been very high in the past - sometimes it had no effect (UK example - though it only went up to maximum 50% marginal tax rate), sometimes it coincided with large times of expansion (US had marginal tax rates as high as 94% and hovered around 90% between 1944 and 1964).

Further, there's never been proof it "kills your economy." I've never met a phenomenally wealthy person who said "well, if tax rates go up to x%, that's when I stop working." These folks LIKE working, money is great, but it's not their driver. And, even if they DID stop working, would it be the worst thing in the world? Honestly - do we really think there's only one Gates, Zuckerberg, Ellison, Page, etc?
I looked at the source thinking I could port it to newer kernels but .. alas it's way above my level.
> but the Cyanogen Inc fuct up and sold exclusive rights to CyanogenOS to a domestic carrier in India.

It's boggling there has been no official word from Cyanogen Inc on why this happened. I never liked the OnePlus marketing or press, plus I had a OnePlus One with that terrible grounding/touchscreen crazy issue.

Just judging from OnePlus's support, I have a feeling Cyanogen was getting sick of them too. I'm sure there's much more to their fallout than what's been made available. Considering my experience with OnePlus's product, I'd probably side more with Cyanogen.

There was a lot of controversy in the open source community about Cyanogen's partnership with Microsoft. It seemed like good idea when you think of Microsoft pushing more Android products and their internal divisions trying to break away from their own failing phone market. But I guess that effort failed as well. Did they ever release any phones with CyanogenOS + Cortana?
After getting my refund, I've been watching the SC narrative unfold from the sidelines with interest. There's enough things that've gone awry in this project to write a book about (and I guess if you were to collect all of Derek Smart's writings, that's what you'd have).

For me, the main deal breakers and why I got out were that I felt substantively bait-and-switched when you compare the current "game" to what was originally promised, and a complete lack of any confidence whatsoever in this game actually coming out. The latter is mainly due to things like this, where core technologies are forever iterated on at a fundamental level even this far (5 years) into development.
You don't even have to move it. You can set up a pre-pack insolvency, then buy up the business - assets, employees, stock, everything - in a new company and just keep going, but without the debt. There have been some scandals about business owners doing this, but I don't think it's been entirely effectively stopped.
There are some devices for that. Eg: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gobackbone/backbone-the...
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Yep, but we only noticed it on Dec 21.
Interesting to hear that. I didn't look into the evidence about public goal setting and its affect on achieving them. I'll need to reflect on the approach and report back.
I don't expect it would be legally enforceable but I would like the chance to be able to make a statement with my code.
Serious philosophical question: can you verify someone's ideology, their internal mental state?

If not -- then this doesn't seem possible.

If yes -- then maybe.

.....

That said, from an editorial perspective, I find this very troubling.

More and more in America, we attempt to shame others based on what we perceive as their intentions and internally held beliefs and attitudes.

In objective reality, we can never fully know or understand what someone else is feeling, or what they intend. (At least as far as I am aware.)

Yet many of us still pretend we can, denouncing and shaming others because of their perceived intolerant or hateful beliefs. And, it's becoming socially acceptable, sometimes even encouraged... forgive me, but this whole idea is extraordinarily surreal.

EDIT:
What makes this doubly strange - if this were satire, it would be funny.
A problem with foundry yields may affect next year’s iPad availability
This has to do more with Google and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) and their terrible restrictions. A company can't distribute a phone with Gapps if they product Amazon Fire devices. Samsung even got shit for using Skyhook instead of Google for location services (Skyhook is still battling this in court):

http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source-...
I get database error when I try to visit the page.
It seems like most manufacturers have a 20/25-year standard, meaning that their panels should still be capable of producing 80% of their peak efficiency after 20/25 years in the field [1].

A 20% decrease over 20/25 years isn't bad at all. Compare that to the 3-4 automobiles that the average American family might buy during that period, or the normal 30-40 year lifespan of a coal generator [2].

Recycling glass and silicon is fairly straightforward, compared to other recycled materials (paper, plastics). Panel recycling will probably be complicated by whatever rare earth minerals are currently used in solar cells, but that's just another potential market.

[1]: http://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesi...

[2]: http://qz.com/61423/coal-fired-power-plants-near-retirement/

[3]: http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/smart-energy-solutions/de...

Edit: Forgot the source on 3-4 cars [4].

[4]: https://www.kbb.com/car-news/all-the-latest/average-length-o...
If that was your understanding of the world you might spend all of your time crafting your arrow to be just right. Rather than practicing to make sure that as a hunter you can make the arrow hit the proper target. And then blame your inability on your lack of finding the right sort of stone to make the arrow or something as such. Your definition and understanding of the problem determines the potential for solutions in finding solutions to the problem.

Similarly there are places in the United States where everyone is armed, and yet very little violence happens. Maybe if everyone had all the nuclear weapons they could want, no wars could ever happen again which would be a good thing.
Can you explain how Trump gamed the process through the electoral college?
No, none, in early 2Ks I just skimmed the first ones Google told me to

Since we're on HN, I could suggest you to search "clojure music" on youtube. There are a few talks about a dude revisiting music theory from wave freq. all up to Bach all in a few pages of clojure code. Very Very very cool.
Even without the knowledge, I find intrinsic value in training yourself to focus. Also find it helps to focus on how the activity is enriching myself, or future benefit. I might want to leave a sink full of dishes overnight, but if I do them now I frame it as a gift to my future self and the amount of relief I feel having tied up loose ends like this each day is enormous. The more I do it, the better and more efficient the habit becomes, the less time it takes.

There is more resistance to get started because of inertia but once I get going that inertia works in my favor.
As said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13250414 the decision to open source it was based on what kind of people used it (more small organizations than we thought, fewer large organizations than we thought).

We don't do HNDD (Hacker News Driven Development) but I must admit that I was looking forward to the reception of Auto Deploy in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13239604
Lifestyle design and time management tend to make people less happy because they then tend to focus on the past and future, priming the desire/fear based systems which make you feel like the present moment is not good enough. The key to improving happiness is learning to guide the attentional system to the present moment as much as possible. The present moment is full of rich sensory data, usually inherently pleasant.
Ask HN: Which company has the fastest hiring process?
Do you know which companies have the fastest and least painful hiring process for Software Engineers? I look at the number of interviews during the process, the length of the process, the kind of questions they ask, if I can answer these questions based on things I do everyday at work and not extra stuff I have to study before an interview, etc. Things that would highlight my experience and that wouldn't make me feel like a college student preparing for an exam at school.

e.g. #1 One on-site interview of 2 hours talking about optimizing an existing Web app.

e.g. #2 One day work assignment at home like building an iOS app.

e.g. #3 Fixing a few bugs in a day on their existing software.
This is also why most online community/forum owners don't let users delete their own posts (or in a lot of cases, delete their account). Because it makes the content real hard to read/make sense of if some of it randomly goes missing for whatever reason.
I manage my time by stopping reading after a few sections when I realize that the article does not contain information that will matter to me for real.

It's actually quite simple. Only do things you really want to do and try to do it well. Be nice to others and be nice to yourself.

Don't waste time reading stuff which is boring but... "stay hungry... stay foolish"
I experimented with using TCC as an experimental native code compilation backend for a scripting language. Was pretty impressed how easy it was to embed compared to some other solutions I tried.
Watch the Glittery Mirrored Alchemy of a Christmas Ornament Being Made
Most torrent clients do support encryption (opportunistically), although the bittorrent protocol's encryption is relatively weak and uses RC4. It should be considered more obfuscation to avoid DPI and whatnot.

Bittorrent peers are fundamentally public by design, unless the torrent is marked private, so this is just curating and presenting that information.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Python solution were shorter than Haskell version that doesn't use lens.

If you link me the example maybe I can provide a Haskell version using lens.
+1 on read, read, read. Books and articles as well as text.

Pick a topic and explore it in depth.
One of my goals for 2017 is to develop a deep understanding of Python asyncio; deep dive into the philosophy and implementation as well as develop best practices for using.
It's the key problem indeed. It is not the party leadership who wants to alter your way of life. It's the life that is changing. Automation, solar, energy storage and an increasing tension between finite resources and exponential growth all are altering their way of life. It is ok to want to stick to way things have worked in the past but it is not ok to ignore the world as it changes around you. In twenty years, the world as they know it will be gone. The longer that simple fact is ignored the harder the fall becomes once reality can no longer ignored.
I first read this book online over 10 years ago and it has helped me tremendously in understanding the time domain, frequency domain, and Fourier transforms. I can't recommend this free book enough!
Yeah for sure. And yes Merlin Mann (Inbox Zero guy) is an awesome person. Very authentic and real. Didn't keep peddling productivity BS. I've followed him ever since.
> I notice how much more clearly I can think after.

If the run is more strenuous, do you still see the same effect?

For me, a 3 miler at a relaxed pace definitely helps me be more focused afterwards.

But if I'm going full tilt up and down hills, or running longer distances, I find myself mentally exhausted afterwards. My theory is that this is due to my mind constantly battling itself on these kind of runs ("THIS HURTS PLEASE STOP NOW" vs. "PUSH PUSH PUSH").

EDIT: I should say both types of runs are relaxing afterwards.
What is the point in copying hex values?
If you work with AWS infrastructure in a VPC, sometimes it makes sense to use a VPN to access/manage VPC instances that don't have a public IP (e.g., app servers behind an ELB). Of course, one could also just tunnel through an exposed SSH server in the VPC, but a VPN server can offer a little more convenience and flexibility.
I've found it to be good practice to run a single/few stratum 2 node(s) to serve local resources. To whatever degree, it's usually more important that these resources be more in sync with each other than with a satellite, which is fostered by having as few nodes as possible trying their luck over the internet to bogged down public stratum 1 NTP sources, instead configuring them to use a single source of time from a box more in its vicinity.
We also subsidize the coal and oil industries by not aggressively factoring the externalities they produce into their taxation.
Yeah I also felt that way after a couple paragraphs. I still skimmed/speed read to the end, but I get what you're saying. The article is good though and worth a full skim or speed read in my opinion
"Nah. Trump gamed the process in more ways than one through the electoral college"

The electoral college is now considered 'gamed'? This has pretty much been how a president is elected since the United States was founded. If Hillary or Bernie were actually trying to get the popular vote, their campaign trails would have looked much different. They were trying to 'game' the system too (but failed).

"and actively encouraging foreign intervention in our election."

Hillary had 30,000 missing emails and Trump made a joke about Russia. Jokes aren't supposed to be taken seriously. We also still have no proof Russia hacked anything. I have access to IP addresses in Russia. It doesn't mean I'm in Russia or Russian. I will believe it when I see the proof.

"I don't recall any other candidates doing anything remotely similar to what he's done."

You mean like when Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton blame both the wealthy and white people for all of our country's problems?

"Bigotry is different than dissuading others from supporting Trump(who is a bigot)."

Trump isn't a bigot. Many of the 'bigoted' things that you see in the mainstream media were completely taken out of context or were outright lies. I watched his live speeches and then saw the resulting media coverage. It was ridiculously bad.

Is Trump going to be a good president? Only time will tell. He's not even in power yet.

I'm glad you feel it's okay to be bigoted against a person as long as it's not on the list of protected classes.

Many on HN love to smoke weed. Would it be okay, in your opinion, if all companies got together and had mandatory, monthly, drug tests, and fired anyone that had any level of THC in their system?

After all, the government can only give you the freedom of speech, right? (this is the argument I keep hearing when someone wants to be bigoted against another (usually on the left) after the Trump election)

When you start to encourage the singling out (and generalizing) of people based on things such as political opinions, it creates a world where you lose your freedoms and the only people that come out on top are the wealthy and those in power.