skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see the problem of delivering effective data centers to warm climates, but apart from the latency aspect, my guess is that Facebook's strategy of building a traditional mega-data center close to cheap hydro power in a region with year round cool air is more economic than this.

I hope to see them succeed though, especially if the data centers can be self sustained with wind or ocean (wave, tidal, ...) power.
Does it make people less religious? I'm not sure - it definitely makes religious people more likely to hide their faith and not allow it to be challenged directly.
But the protesters most assuredly do not have (and should not have) the right to deny and infringe on the rights and autonomy of others.

It should also be noted that the speaker was due to speak at a university, an organization that's supposed to be dedicated to the free exchange of ideas. The protesters are certainly free to not attend his speech and to express their disapproval of him in ways that don't silence or harass others.
I've interviewed at the major software companies, including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. In all interviews I was interviewed by the people and managers I would be working with. In many cases, I would also interview with members of other teams I would be expected to interact with. I now realize I must have taken that for granted and did not realize it was a privilege.
The government should do my taxes. No, seriously. They already know enough to figure out if I made mistakes in my tax return, so there's no real utility here, beyond giving every tax payer the ammunition to land themselves in hot water.

There's no real reason why every year everyone needs to go through this pain behind the eyes. And letting accountants do it doesn't really lower the stress level - I still need to hand off all the "state" and paperwork necessary, and I'm still on the hook if the accountant gets it wrong (I've had this happen to me, too, and it's not fun). Doing taxes is not productive.
Vaccines sometimes cause grave injury and the vaccine court pays out. Some people aren't so keen to press their luck.
If you want to continue to comment on Hacker News, you'll have to do so civilly and substantively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The reason people never switched is because Linux (almost) never came installed on desktops.

Yes, that's exactly my point. Solving that problem is key to improving Linux adoption.
Evidence that prejudiced white western beliefs about orient turned out to be wrong ? Who is surprised fellas.

This might sound like a racist rant but it is not. I routinely come across American Indologists routinely publishing papers about India which are way off than what an Indian might be able to see as trivial truth. I will not be surprised of Western world has made similar mistakes about the Orient.

I think western academia needs a more unbiased fact-check about their understanding of the rest of the world especially in the times of xenophobia.
AssertJ (http://joel-costigliola.github.io/assertj/) deserves a mention. Great support for collections, guava, jodatime and IDE autocomplete friendly to boot
It's the usual security theater. Custom roms do a good job of securing root access for apps, what I find hilarious is a sideloaded app can do a lot more damage yet Android Pay works if you have sideloading enabled... go figure.

You can get Android Pay to work on a rooted device using systemless Xposed framework and root cloak, it basically just lies to the dumb checks.
>If you're able to categorize news sources as conservative, or liberal, then couldn't you aggregate news by grouping the conservative and liberal articles about a specific topic together, and presenting them side by side?

See, the thing is, people aggressively self-bubble so if you natively show them both sides, they will stop using your service.

There may be a minority of less-political and more-rational folks who want that, but I've discovered trying to get people to use polurls.com that people don't want side by side.

If you do side by side, you create cognitive dissonance when "their side" "appears" "wrong", and the easiest way to solve that cognitive dissonance is to close the tab and not return.

>Then, you'd at LEAST be reading the differing opinions. The problem is, I doubt many people would want a service like this. Like it or not, human beings seem to enjoy the comfort of their solidified beliefs. It's far easier to digest your right wing, or left wing news, rather than digesting BOTH. People don't really want to change.

Exactly, which is why I envision a system of silos where you can have your biased lunch and eat it too, but whose tools allow us to measure opinion and biases, and which can attempt to bring down some of the barriers between bubbles through a variety of surfacing techniques.

Give people what they want and the tools to classify THEIR bubble, and in the process, keep other bubbles and ideas just on their edges, visible in the periphery...

Combatting cognitive dissonance self-preservation is a problem worth solving though, ugh.
Complex != Good

Have to admit, I haven't used any of their competitor's software, but just because you can change every single setting, doesn't mean people will want to. I'm pretty sure no one in my company fully understands it. Settings are all over the place, and even small changes require many clicks to get to where you need.

I know it's a different product, but if you look at Zendesk, it's so simple to get setup, and there are still many integrations to achieve what you need but all at the click of a button, in a friendly interface. It just works™...
> Salt water is highly corrosive.

To metals. Not so much to plastics.

> Isn't marine biology highly sensitive to heat pollution?

Isn't land-based biology highly sensitive to heat pollution?
From a comment on the linked page:

"justcauseisjustthat wrote:
I'm surprised how little they got but then no one is probably looking at the corporate phones on desks. Cisco, Avaya, ShoreTel etc are all vulnerable to be used as bugs to tap offices remotely."

Bugging corporate appliances is easy as well if done by design. A WiFi repeater box plugged in the conference room wall could have a miniscule MEMS microphone and audio preamp wired to a ADC port on the main microcontroller (assuming it's too small to have an audio input), so that it can listen and relay elsewhere when instructed to. And let's not forget about networked printers or even the coffee machine if connected. At an old company I worked with, many decisions of vital importance were taken while drinking coffee on the armchairs around the machine.
Those professions cannot be compared with software, you would have to compare an industry where the product is intangible.

Do you see musicians making samples and giving them away to other musicians for free? Sure, you can find some online but it is definitely not the norm.

Does Hollywood create stock footage and release it for other production companies to use for free?

Do photographers allow others to use their photos for free?

OSS is very unique to the software world.
Really, I was just wondering if there were any examples of Americans being sentenced to decades in prison for copyright infringement. It sounds like the answer is no (?).

Also, I assume the multiple counts issue also applies to Germany and other countries, so the US penalties aren't necessarily that much worse. (Well, 10 years is much worse than 5 years, but it isn't decades worse.)
We are aware of kbfs, ipfs, and several other systems. There are many trade-offs one can make in this space, and I think Upspin's set of tradeoffs is somewhat unique.

One reason we started this project instead of contributing to others is that it's not clear that the trade-offs made by extant systems are really working for users, at a fundamental level. Maybe Upspin's will, maybe they won't. We'll see.

We wrote a bit about this in https://upspin.io/doc/overview.md but there is still more to say. I filed an issue a while back to write a substantial document that compares Upspin to other systems. Hopefully the community can help us flesh it out in time: https://github.com/upspin/upspin/issues/177
It's ok, you can find security in your clear sense of smug superiority over them.
They've discovered fossil fuels on another planet. Oil companies have already launched oil drilling probes.
Serving web content on Windows is not a good excuse for anything. Move it to linux or BSD.
This seems to focus on the human part (you can just type it) while the tech is underneath and IPFS seems to focus on the machine availability while the devs would have to create a front-end for humans when needed; I think that it would be better compared to IPNS
Of course, but are you contending that in the past those factors were significantly different, and that the reason for the difference is primarily automation?
Can someone summarize this for me? ;)
The mere fact that people have appealed to the basest human instincts throughout history doesn't, of itself, mean we haven't turned some invisible corner. This seems to be essential to how cybernetic systems work.

It is true there has always been an appetite for trash. It's also true that the forces of industrial psychology and sociology have never before been so mobilized to maximize consumer behavior and minimize critical thought.

It's not one or the other -- it's both.
I am running QuickBooks business for my personal finances. I realise that it has some parts that are not needed, but it is good that I don't have to learn anything new. Also my accountant can directly see my finances to do a return if required.
And in fact, this very post is an announcement of an announcement of an announcement of an announcement.
why would the community help you when they could better spend their time helping out projects that are further along?

you seem oblivious.

you're all idiots.
Incredible--would you mind sending me your LI profile (privately of course, email in my HN profile)? I'd love to see an example of a profile that generates that much interest, even if it's mostly low signal.
If anyone else thinks Atlassian are going to run Trello into the ground, there is an open source alternative that's sprung up called Wekan. https://wekan.io/

I haven't used it personally, but it appears to look and work just like Trello!
The development of Warajevo
UPS Showcases New Delivery Drone, Fucks Up
if that is what it took to explore space I would actually sign on. alas we are probably two or more generations from actually being on more than one rock in our own system
Hi, Thanks for taking the time to leave some feedback, I am always open to taking anything constructive.

Do you have any suggestions about providing a better ui for the listeners, would placing the player at the top of the page help with the problem?
I'm in the same boat. My self-taught experience inspired me to pursue a CS degree. The degree did put me in a serendipitous position that led to a number of great industry opportunities but personal growth was my main reason for starting it.

FWIW, I'm studying in Canada and paying my way through school with internships.
Steam Top 3 (# of players playing right now)

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (518008), Dota 2 (456350), ARK: Survival Evolved (58477)

Linux version? 3/3.
I disagree. The Article i stupid. There's never been a war. A war is destructive. Microsoft is doing well for itself.
Win10 is arguably the best Windows ever. The world is going cross platform. Ubuntu is a great distro, Linux server Systems are awesome. Android is awesome.

Everyone did their best and many people and organisations are doing well for themselves. If that was a "war", everyone seems to have won it.
Reminds me of a funny Steve Yegge Blog Rant: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/truth-about-intervie...
> Stethoscope is powered by a Python backend and a React front end. The web application doesn’t have its own data store, but directly queries various data sources for device information, then merges that data for display.

I thought the "various data sources" scenario was exactly what Falcor was for - interesting that they used React.
Gotcha, thanks for the extra info. So you still have to sign up with the Upspin service to be able to consume shared files? I was under the impression from the post that it was an 'account free' type of service, in as much as you can publish a URL where people can grab files, but still provided a level of access control, and I was having a hard time reconciling that in my head.
Three man team and he was the lead. Yes, it was a project management issue.

I'd rather see basic project management skills than basic knowledge of algorithms. Unfortunately, the former is much more rare.
> When someone thinks you don't deserve to live because of the color of your skin, you're well within your right to defend yourself against that idea. You shouldn't have to wait until they're knocking down your door.

Replace color of your skin with political belief, and you've just made an argument for Trump supporters who live in places like Berkeley or San Jose to violently defend themselves from liberal rioting.
It always makes me sad to see that the PuTTY download page is served over unsecure HTTP.
For a product change that massive and anti-user-desires, you're kidding yourself if you think there wouldn't be a million challengers ready to fill that role. Hell, it could be as simple as people using other successful social networks more (Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram), and they'd sure as hell capitalize on the void left by Facebook by introducing features that bring them closer to providing the activity Facebook was pushing away.
Edit: Great points! Space would be a terrible location for data center hosting, not only due to latency and heat radiation issues, but also due to the difficulty in mitigating solar radiation.

What about putting the data center in some kind of low Earth orbit? Something within the magnetic field, but far enough out to radiate heat? Would the latency still be a factor if your web server and CDN were hosted "in a cloud" on numerous communications satellites?
Show HN: You&A – A Personal Trainer in your pocket
And I would recommend MobaXterm, definitely also worth to try.

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
One of the big problems with financial data is there is no standard API to get data out of the financial institutions. Mint is a glorified site scraper. As a user you are giving mint your username and password to login and trust that they won't do anything malicious and that they will protect your data.
It's not necessarily about the jobs, it has more to do with the economic engine.

The economic engine has been in a virtuous feedback loop for hundreds of years. People are born, get educated, find work, and become consumers and savers, thus generating the sales companies need to innovate and lending the capital for others to start new ventures.

Step by step we've built this whole engine simply because we were born in this system.

If jobs are lost fast enough, the whole engine shuts down: as AI replaces jobs faster than new economic sectors are created levels of spending in society will decrease, leading to reduced profits (or increased losses) and increased layoffs, thus speeding up the process.

The thing is that AI has the potential to replace all jobs any human could ever have.

Now, your second point regarding jobs that can't be replaced: every job can be replaced. The human brain isn't special it's just a machine.

And you're looking at AI research in a linear fashion. At some point enough computational power breaks through any problem.
At least in astronomy, this is pretty standard when publishing in Nature or Science. Typically all the press releases are coordinated together with the release of the actual publication.
Who owns it?

Edit: Looks like EA owns it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Paint#Legacy
I agree with this. Furthermore, the bright youths of the nineties spent a lot of time putting hardware (and software) together. Now a lot of this is on a commodity level, open source packages abound, and the theory is more accessible than ever.

Software as the future is yesterday's news.
I think I see what you're saying, but...

...when has it ever actually helped to attack them?

Also, +1 for:
> But the truth is that tolerance is advancing rapidly and it is disorienting for people who've never had to practice it much.
> You further give no means by which to do so, and rule out one of the more important ways of influencing someone--social stigma.

Come on, dude. I only ruled out harassment and attempts to get people fired. If you can't think of any other ways to "challenge someone's ideas" on your own, you're beyond help from me.
This is an excellent point. A lot of what I learned in university was things I didn't know before, and didn't learn either, but I learned they existed.

When faced with a problem now, I can often identify at least what area of my non-knowledge it belongs to. In that sense I knew a lot less after university than before (in a relative sense).

The ninja skill you get from a very broad education isnt solving problems by applying knowledge, its solving problems by identifying them (then Googling)
This logic only holds if you take an extremely narrow view of what constitutes self-interest. If you broaden that understanding to include the benefits we receive from wider social progress, then doesn't this chain of reasoning fall apart?
Pfft... not touching it until they get to a version 1.0 beta.
Huh? I don't have access to the full article; is it about therapy in general or psychotherapy in particular?
Ask HN: Do you have a (personal) disaster recovery plan?
I am curious what (or whether) HN readers have in place in terms of personal disaster recovery, particularly if it extends beyond having a go-bag and making backups.

I am also curious what disaster scenarios you've prepared for. Alien invasion? Asteroid strike? Zombie outbreak? Robot uprising?
>people are worried about being murdered by radical christian terrorists.

The link you posted doesn't support that. “These charges are based on eight months of investigation by the FBI that is alleged to have taken the investigators deep into a hidden culture of hatred and violence,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Beall. “Many Kansans may find it as startling as I do that such things could happen here.”

A hidden culture, not an open one, and open surprise and bewilderment from people don't really work with the idea that people are actually worried about being murdered by christian terrorists. It sounds like people didn't even know this existed.
Presumably you use something to manage which apps get root access. Or is there actually malware that doesn't require any user screw ups?
Totally agree. Here in Australia I consume multiple sources of news and pretty much the only message we are getting is that Trump is a joke and / or completely insane. While there may be a short term boost for American's putting themselves first the fact is that in even a few short weeks other countries are starting to realise being "all in" with the US is not a viable strategy with Trump in charge.

Long term I think countries that have traditionally been staunch allies of the US will now at least be open to other suitors which until a few weeks ago would have been pretty much unthinkable.
I think that we should use the Basic Job to provide all the valuable government services that left wing types want to provide by overpaying public sector unions. E.g., child care for working women, infrastructure, that kind of thing.

We could probably make it revenue neutral if we replaced overpaid unionized public sector workers with basic jobbers at $7.25/hour.

But yes, even the system you describe would be better than a basic income. It would cost a lot less money because very few people would participate in it.

The problem with the soviet system was not the basic job. It was the lack of anything else.
This is really cool. One day I'm going to build my own observatory and observe star light curves and survey for supernovae.
Michelson:a Statically Typed Stack Based Language for Smart-Contracts[video]
I think you should at least mention the option of hiring a professional accountant.
Because oil tanker starships with crews in cold sleep passing near uninhabited planets worked out so well in fiction, we just have to try it in practice.
If they have a 10 meter telescope in space, they may very well have the technology to see Earth.
Name-calling dismissals are at least in equal oversupply. Please don't do this here.
> Isn't land-based biology highly sensitive to heat pollution?

No, land-based organisms comparatively have a much, much higher tolerance to temperature swings.

Water's high heat capacity and conductivity means that most marine environments have extremely stable temperature ranges (a few degrees one way or other), so most marine species are adapted to live in only that range, and quickly die otherwise. Tropical fish are hard to keep alive precisely for this reason.

Air temperature varies much more widely depending on time of day, season, and weather, so terrestrial organisms have all developed extensive strategies for thermoregulation (e.g. mammals, birds). For example, dogs can survive in both arctic and tropical environments.

Plus, while heat is naturally dissipated upward, underwater thermal plumes are more likely to affect fish than above-ground plumes would affect birds.

FYI, Cornell uses lake water to cool several campus buildings, and they needed to carefully review that the warmer return water wouldn't negatively affect fish [1].

[1] https://energyandsustainability.fs.cornell.edu/util/cooling/...
I just want to comment on the telecoms thing, a few years ago I would have totally agreed with you but recently things have picked up here. (All prices in NZD)

I left in NZ in 2011 where I had ADSL2 with a 60GB cap at about $100 a month. Came back in 2013 where the best I could get was ADSL2 capped at 90GB for $100 a month. VDSL was around and reasonably priced but wasn't widely available.

Within a year my plan moved to uncapped which also became the standard for everyone, and within a year of that I had uncapped Gigabit fibre for under $90 a month. And fibre is rolling out around the country at very reasonable prices.

Mobiles slowly coming down getting closer to the cheap UK pricing, $30 a month can get you unlimited calling/texting and 3GB or so. Data is still the real killer here where I was on a £16 a month unlimited 3g plan in the UK.
"As we say in the Netflix Culture Deck, responsible people thrive on freedom, and are worthy of freedom."

But you arbitrarily can't watch stuff in Incognito Mode?
It felt more like a month...

Also, if you don't discuss / face a topic you can never move forward. What is critical is that when you /do/ discuss / face that topic you do so in a positive way that increases understanding and fosters critical thinking on your opinions.
tl;dr: He sends an email to the recruiter requiring that he interview with the manager he will eventually work for. Brilliant!
Yes, but the problem being solved is often a double problem. A) develop embedded software to control a system of "stuff"
B) characterize the system so you know what controls to apply.

The virtualization helps you ensure that A is doing what you intend to do, but not as much with B) knowing what your intent should actually be... and even if you can build a reasonable model of 80% of the behaviour, the really critical stuff tends to be out of the envelope type constraints like, oh the sensor gives this bogus reading under conditions X, so you need to ignore it or avoid condition X.

Edit: case in point (an adjacent story in HN)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13700798 "UPS Showcases New Delivery Drone, Fucks Up"
I'm pretty sure dissipating heat is harder in space since you don't have a relatively cool medium like air or water to dump the heat into.