skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/30/iron-man-irl-gravity-and-...

maybe some rich guy bought the whole company
The problem isn't that Bezos has 1,000x my net worth. He has 1,000,000x my (approximate) net worth. One millionth of my net worth is seven cents, so Bezos:me is me:$0.07.

The graph isn't logarithmic. It's shaped like this:

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>a geospatial application which provides the ability to build and host custom 3D globes and 2D maps

Always great when the main page is full of advertising speak, but has no clear description of what the software actually does. You'll find that on GitHub or the developer page. WHY?
In Cambridge, UK, we get somewhere close to that with 3 bins:

- Green, for compostable waste (food, leaves, shredded paper, etc.)

- Blue, for recyclable waste (pretty much anything made of plastic, foil, paper/cardboard or glass)

- Black, for everything else

The only things you really have to watch out for are things like plasticised foil and styrofoam. Batteries can be tied to the top of the blue bin in a plastic bag.

It works really well, and you basically just have to know what's recyclable and what isn't (which is usually written on the packaging anyway).

I think our local authority is a bit ahead of the rest of the country on this, though. Most places in the UK still make you sort glass from paper, etc.
Capitalism, when it works right is a meritocracy that rewards business acumen - the more merit, the more money you get. The problem is that the reward - money - is itself a substitute for merit. Having success is much, much easier, if you already have money (hence the saying 'the first million dollars is always the hardest'). This is also what Capital in the Twenty-First Century highlighted: Owning wealth is rewarded more than working. But it is (or at least can be) a largely passive 'activity' that anyone can do (just how much talent does it take to hand some money to a hedge fund manager and live off the interest?). Even just at a smaller scale, people can mismanage a business and still succeed if they have a big enough marketing budget to drown out their (objectively better) competitors. So the argument is that we are doing a suboptimal distribution of resources, because the people that have the most money are in a positive feedback loop that awards them more money, and that is a local optimization that prevents us from finding the global optimum where that money was in the hands of someone with more business acumen.
Wish I'd read your comment beforehand. Tried it blindly and and lost about 10 min trying to figure out what was happening ...
D is compatible enough with C/C++ that I have been able to take largish multifile projects and convert them one file at a time to D. The full regression suite was run after each file was converted. This helped ensure both an accurate conversion and did not leave the project in a broken state for an extended period.
>I think that’s missing the point I was trying to make.

I think Daniel Stenberg missed the point of some of the comments. (At least the prominent ones I saw.)

>We use C for a whole range of reasons as I tried to lay out there in spite of the security challenges the language brings.

The availability and practicality of old ecosystems are valid justifications but it's orthogonal to the "memory bugs caused by the language vs the human".

There's nuance and you have to distinguish multiple conversations:

1) curl should have been written in a memory safe language (past tense)

2) curl should be rewritten in a memory safe language (future tense -- e.g. maybe use Rust)

3) setting aside curl's 19 years of wide deployment challenges, D.S. could have been a better spokesman for the benefits memory safe languages

Daniel's response is mostly to #1. However, some of the criticism is really conversation #3. Understandably, #3 is somewhat harder for D.S. to adopt because it requires distancing himself from the 19 years of curl as a successful utility and instead, consider how a language's design affect programmers' bug count. Many felt that D.S. citing curl's bugs as "human logic errors" instead of "language-induced errors" undermines his point when conversation #3 is the framework.

So maybe some of the new nitpicking of counting CVE bugs is more about conversations #2 & #3. The #2 may not be realistic for another 10 years... or maybe never because of various deployment hurdles. However, we can still discuss #3.
Try London.
No. You'd need to add the geospatial information to the photos to get something you could import into Fusion.
For those who also didn't know: Daring Fireball is apparently a blog about Apple that is authored by jgruber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gruber#Daring_Fireball

I still don't know how jgruber's comment is supposed to catch the sarcasm, but that's probably something going over my head as well.

Edit: From another comment, apparently Daring Fireball is also largest platform to host Deck ads.
To me, the Apache 2.0 License seems to have too much verbiage. I'd much rather see a license similar to MIT/BSD/ISC but with a patent grant. Could someone write that up in a way that lawyers like it?
Stochastic program optimization that can write faster code than humans
The GitHub repo is at https://github.com/google/earthenterprise/
Did anyone actually look at the content which is responsible for the increase in size? I hope it does not include the source itself, comments, and who knows what.
> because they've somehow become a hereditary Communist dictatorship

Shouldn't we just call it a Monarchy then? The "communism" in DPRK is just some red paint applied on top of a religious monarchy, in which the Kim family is blessed by the gods to be the leaders of the people. This is as far from the ideal of communism as you can get. Or is the battle for preserving the original meaning of the word as the ideal of the workers collectively owning the means of production and directly profiting from them, rather than making one person on top exhuberantly rich, now completely lost?
You make it sound like the FCC privacy rules were bringing something totally new to the table. That's not really correct. They were more bringing back something that had recently been lost.

Until mid 2016 ISP privacy abuses could be dealt with through the FTC, basically the same as privacy abuses at most other internet businesses are dealt with.

In mid 2016 a court ruled that the FTC did not have authority to deal with these issues for common carriers, which ISPs had been since being reclassified as part of the 2015 net neutrality rules. The result was a significant loosening of privacy regulation for ISPs.

The FCC rules would have undid that loosening.
> If people had to write a check every year, there would be outrage to the amount people are actually paying.

Historically the french have done pretty much that.

In fact it was even more painful as the historical method was to provide advance payments by thirds (IIRC the first two thirds would be based on your tax estimate, and the last one would be the net, or a reimbursement in case of misestimation) so you'd send the taxman a check 3 times a year (or go to the bank for a wire).

No more outrage than most anywhere else, just a lot of wasted time and necessity to plan for and remember to send your advance payments.
The War for Talent Is Over, and Everyone Lost
There are many other specialist subreddits that are very good.
Were do I send proposals for "comment of the month"?

More seriously speaking: IMO this is solid advice. It

- is actionable

- goes out of its way to be polite and respectful

- has a chance to actually improve online discussions one comment (and hopefully commit) at a time
For those curious, I am guessing this is the link: https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
The US tends to have local monopolies; in order to change ISP you need to move house, or maybe state.

This is because the national telco monopoly was broken up early into horizontal companies, rather than the "local loop unbundling" system in the UK (and I think other European countries).

LLU is a little strange because the lines are still owned by one company, so there's no choice of who does the maintenance and installation work (it's always BT OpenReach in the UK). But you do get a choice of what happens to your packets after they reach the DSLAM.
Sorry to be nit-picky, but software released under the Apache 2.0 _is_ also free/libre software. Free software ≠ copylefted software (the latter is, approximately, a subset of the former). In most cases (vast majority?), Open Source software (as defined by the OSI) is also Free (as defined by the FSF).
> The ability to replace the cable has saved me a number of times and the headphones still work/sound great.

I couldn't switch back from using bluetooth headphones. Once you get used to the wire not getting in the way and how you can walk around without having to take your headphones off, wired headphones just feel awkward. When you can get ones with 40 hours battery life then that isn't an issue either.
>I guess you can blame Christianity (maybe Catholicism in particular?) and Victorian propriety for pulling it back the other direction.

Puritan christianity in the US and Europe, after the reformation, yes.

But talk, customs, and such of christian populations throughout the middle ages were just as, if not more, raunchy. Check, e.g. Procopius for some the vibe of what was going on in the Christian empire of Byzantium.
I wonder how much experience people yelling "OMG you're using C(++) - you have to rewrite everything!" actually have. Some of them can motivate their claims with good examples (at least to some extent) while others just show a serious lack of understanding of project scope and/or the reason something is written the way it is.

One of my favorite examples so far: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAASwCXdQUiuUnhycdRvrU...
What does Zig have to offer over Rust's FFI[1]?

Also, it might be useful to know that HN's comment syntax isn't Markdown, though it shares a few features like indenting for code blocks and asterisks for italics. Markdown-style links are not supported.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ffi.html
I think you are right that there are necessarily network effects online as well. But who benefits from these network effects to what degree, and how stable any central control over that network can be is very much determined by laws that could be entirely different.

Network effects necessarily exist, but walled gardens don't.
>Why should people conform to your unusual position on property, as opposed to the mainstream one?

That's a nice fallacy you've got here, and that would imply that his opinion is actually uncommon around people who have studied the subject (spoiler : it's not).

>Personally, I quite like owning things that are mine.

Possession and property are not the same thing.
Well, it gives us cheap electricity, which helps us run our hospitals, for example. Thus helping kids live through the early years (where mortality is more likely).

But as we all know, replacing coal powered plants with safer things (nuclear, solar, wind, tidal) would cost nothing compared to healthcare costs.
> Never visited the US but I assumed you had the choice of providers, just as most of the rest of the world where internet is available.

Unless you live in a major metro area - where you might, if you're lucky, have two choices of cable provider - there's a reasonable chance you only have a choice between cable, ADSL over some neglected wiring to an exchange a few miles away, and satellite. So if you depend on having fast internet speeds, you're stuck with the one cable provider.

Also - it's not particularly uncommon that an apartment block is wired up for a specific provider and unable to get service from any other provider due to a monopoly contract the building owner signed. Then you also have that happening over entire areas in places, just with local Government signing the contract.
Actually it is feedback I have from the data guys at work, not HN.

And you may be right about that configuration, but I cannot remember the exact details of the discussion.

Either way, don't get me wrong. I use MongoDB as well, and am quite fond of its aggregation framework. It's just not something that I catalog as "reliable and high performance" the way I do redis (which of course, also has limitations of its own).
How to create marketing that people love?
This is a great find, browsed thru a 1932 issue and it was like traveling on a time machine. 2^6 + 2 cover pages. Passes the numerology test too. Makes me want to travel to North Korea for live footage of the same theme.
Also, people were talking about buying Congress's search history, which of course ISPs don't even have - only Google does and their ability to sell it was not in any way affected by this rule that covered only ISPs.
In Finland, everything is wheelchair-friendly from our Helsinki metro, to trains, to buses. I am kinda shocked to read Americans think it's not important to allocate the money to enable those with limitations to live their lives as freely as they, the able-bodied do. The mentality "it does not apply to me, why should I fine two fucks?" is all too common in the American ethos. Quite pathetic really.
There's also another consequence not mentioned in the article - right now, almost all organs for transplants come from accidents. With accidents being reduced to zero, it will be very hard to get a viable organ for a transplant - so the medical community is already sounding alarms about the need for alternative solutions to be found(such as increased investment into artificially growing new organs).
And you're own comment is delightfully self referential (or not) - so both of you have up-votes for being so reasonable! :-)
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There's also a need for a solution to give somebody your email address over the phone. Often when talking to representatives, they want to send you something by email (e.g. a receipt). But when I spell my email address over the phone, there's a 50% chance that the other side got it wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6UxGCyhQY (caution: NSFW language, but funny)
Part of being effective is leveraging your abilities via managing other people. An effective manager can make 10 people each perform 10x more effectively when working towards a goal. You could argue then that one person's effectiveness increases the whole organisation's effectiveness 100x

Of course with bad managers it can easily go the same amount in the other direction, but it seems that Bezos has extremely effectively leveraged his abilities in management and built a very successful company because of that.
Ahah nice example! "I can't code, but if I were, I would like to be productive in something that doesn't require me to make any effort in understanding the problem, please advise"

I don't know where all the C hate is all about. I love C, it's a great tool. Can be quite sharp, be careful with your remaining fingers.

I spent the better part of last week studying rust and go, and my conclusion was 'meh, I'll have another look in another few years" and kept on trucking.
Good point. Perhaps if you gave the job to a CS major, or an engineer they'd invest the time in making a time saving interface. But an intern in Chase? I doubt they would have the skills or the knowledge to do that.
My point is that fiscal policy is only part of the influence the government has on the economy, and likely the less important part. Monetary policy has far greater consequences for inflation and money supply.

How do you come the conclusion that gov't corruption is "orders of magnitude" worse? I see nothing quantitative in your reasoning. Voters in public elections are playing with others' money, as are lobbyists for corporate interests. Private corporations play with others' land sea and air regularly. It's a flawed system as a whole, agreed, but getting rid of government influence is not the answer, as that leaves the economically powerless truly and utterly powerless.

And it seems you don't have an answer to the accumulation of capital. Left to its own devices, any capitalistic system will concentrate and grow wealth at a faster rate than economic growth. This is why a countervailing force is necessary, whether in revolution or governance.

edit re the agent principal problem: you forget the vast majority of people who are too poor to be shareholders or board members anywhere. The only shares anyone is guaranteed in society (in theory) is the equal and inalienable share in governance amounting to 1 vote. I shudder at the thought of a future America where your votes are directly proportional to your wealth, and seats on the Board of Directors of the USA are bought.
The Fraunhofer Underwater Energy Storage will be difficult to scale
Sharing Apple Music playlists
Buttercup: Cross-platform open-source password manager based on Node.js (alpha)
and now have 12000 billing portals to manage? 12000 different sites to update every time you update your ads?
Thanks for your impute.
Looking at the iPhone 5s screen, it is just a tad bigger than a standard biz card. I was thinking of showing about half of a screenshot expanded just a little.

I agree that graphic would be better. I just wanted something I could pass out for next two weeks while I workout a better way to present the app on the card. It would be better to personally talk to everyone but for some events that would not be possible.
Create an awesome happy birthday slideshow :)
Clean players on shady markets usually don't do well on the long term.
Best copywriter portfolio/pitch site ever
These were not normally programmed in C but in Assembler or basic. You might be able to find Misosys if you search hard enough, it's multi-pass iirc and works but you won't be getting a whole lot of work done in a day.
> In most cases (vast majority?), Open Source software (as defined by the OSI) is also Free (as defined by the FSF).

It is a bit tricky here. Based on the situation, the same software can be some times be open source AND free software, or open source only (ie, not free software).

Eg: Linux kernel. When it is run on your computer, usually it is mostly free-software (linux-libre would be fully free). When it is run on your router, they (vendor) shall give you the source code, but may not allow you to modify it. This is violation of freedom 1 (The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish). Then it won't be a free software, but just open source. You can't even confirm whether the source code they gave corresponds to the binary run in the router.
Ask HN: Which companies have an open salary policy?
Which (tech) companies do you know which have an open salary policy?

From your experience what are the pros/cons from having such environment?
Well, one good argument would be that there's a party which'll tear down any reasonable set of regulations every eight years. You could argue that the solution is to convince people that electing this party is a terrible idea, but... that doesn't look to be happening any time soon.
He's not going to be impeached for dishonesty, the government is entirely run by his fellow Republicans.
Similarly in Lithuania, it takes me few minutes as well:

1) Login to e.bank (I use mobile signature attached to a SIM card)

2) press link to a local "IRS" equivalent

3) check and confirm the prepared tax declaration (usually everything is already there)

During the whole process I have to enter my bank ID and PIN code once.
Well your name fits you well...

Yes it would be better just to tell people about the app. But for next few weeks I will be at events that the best shot I will be able to do is pass them out to people as they walk by.
Why would you forward to opendns with a local dnssec enabled resolver? Just implement dnssec and run a proper dns infrastructure.
No DNS operator reading HN? This thread is full of misinformation.
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The initial impetus was actually a design to allow a CA to be transparent about its own operations. However, the DigiNotar incident triggered the plan to apply it to all CAs.
I'd be more careful than that.

Indeed, it seems that the risk of significant vision loss consequence of LASIK surgery is ~5 times lower than that of contact-lens wearing, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASIK#Risks . However, it also seems that this risk is tiny, on the order of 0.05%. Other complications of LASIK seem much more likely (see the same link). It would be interesting to see a large study comparing LASIK with wearing contact lenses.
“content” (music/video, software, books) licensing to ISP's
A while ago I wrote a paper for my MA on this. I wondered if there was some kind of way the creators of music etc. could directly license to ISP's access to their works, sold in bundles (i.e. music bundle for $x, movie bundle for $x etc.). I know it might be a pipe dream, but if musicians, movie makers and hackers in poorer countries could somehow directly participate in it (without silly record companies), then i'm certain it could bring down the likes of Pirate Bay.
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That Secundus was a lad though wasn't he? Was he the Roman equivalent of FUME (if you ever been to London you will have seen his tag - everywhere).
Edit: it is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13994062
I actually think that building an independent system for binaries is a better plan, for various reasons.

One is that log bloat is indeed a problem, not so much for the logs, but for those that want to monitor them.

The other is CT has made some tradeoffs to allow cert issuance to be quick. I don't believe binaries need the same tradeoffs, and, for example, instead of an SCT, they should come with an inclusion proof (something I'd like to see for certs, too, in the long run).
You're assuming the intern actually did the job - that he didn't e.g. get bored a third of the way and finished the rest by dragging down the "No" field through the rest of the column in in Excel, and then changing a bunch of random URLs to "Yes".

My experience is that most people assigned with boring, repetitive jobs will either automate some of it or start cutting corners to avoid the work.

(In fact I'm starting to believe that the first runaway evil AI trying to take over the world will get stopped in its tracks, because it will not understand just how different the "on-paper" states of inventory and books in small and medium businesses are from reality.)
Being/becoming good at CS-riddles (i.e. passing Google-like interviews) doesn't necessary correlate to being A player on the real job. So one might say Google employs a lot of B/C players (who just passed their interviews) where being A is a requirement for the job.
So for ideological reasons government is regarded as bad in the US and to remind everyone of how bad it is citizens are forced to endure a painful process for paying money to the government to reinforce just how bad it is?
No more accidents to the safety mechanisms in cars can be removed? What could possibly go wrong.
This raises an interesting question: who is the ISP for congress? My guess is the government itself, but anyone have anything more specific on that?
A fundamental sense of fairness -- for reasons given above.

I understand that the "social contract" may dictate otherwise in practice (even ignoring arrogant self-declarations of "social value", coming from a communist East European country, I've seen enough of those). After all, we're just a bunch of primates.

But to pretend there's nothing bizarre about this group-above-individual arrangement, that the opposite is somehow a completely invalid or incomprehensible viewpoint, is a serious lapse of the imagination.
It was my understanding that there would be some deaggregating and deanonymizing to be done on the data.

Hasn't this been shown repeatedly that it is not only feasible but also quite easy ? It seems to me that the verge missed the point here.