skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Operation Paperclip [1] part of the motivation for the US investigating weaponized LSD was the fear the Nazis were investigating it. But I'm not sure Nazi use was documented to the extent it was in the US, with the CIA's MK-ULTRA program experimenting on unknowing citizens by dosing them with LSD [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Prog...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#Drugs
Well I guess Django ships with sqllite but postgres is the normal thing to flip on. Good to know rails is the same...
> In reality, most software that is actually made is custom software.

Do you have a source for this claim? (not denying, just curious to look at the numbers!)
> I would hope there's no service out there that lets you guess passwords like this.

Technically he didn't guess the password to any specific service, he just happened to have stored his own Reddit password in plaintext as the body of a draft email. The email service allows you to search within the body even if your message is "hidden" from their interface. At worst, he MacGyvered a feature of their service to recover a string he couldn't remember.

This was a coding exercise, nothing more. If he had stored his Reddit password in some obfuscated/encrypted format behind another password-protected service, he likely would not have pulled off this stunt.
The parent was expressing surprise that libertarians are not worried about "blowback" against market players who actively mislead society about the negative externalities of their business activities.

My comment was about how libertarians are never worried about such things -- that in fact the idea of a market player paying for a negative externality is explicitly against their convoluted philosophical perspective. I was arguing that it's wrong to have an expectation for a libertarian to behave rationally when a negative externality is involved.

Nothing about your comment seems to be related -- I'm gathering you are trying to use some kind of slippery slope analogy to show that my thinking when expanded to some imaginary limit actually yields some sort of undesirable result. Thanks I guess -- I suppose next time I make a comment about how environmental damage is mispriced by the market that I will consider the implications of my words when they are reinterpreted randomly as a somehow specific comment about net neutrality ...

On the other hand -- thank you for demonstrating very well the exact experience of having a discussion with a libertarian -- I often find it to be an exercise in being confronted with random analogies designed to separate the topic from any arena of specific facts.
Looks like you're still pissed at Google for shutting down Google Reader.
99% water.

Correct human babies past say 1 don't need 10 more years of cow milk to be healthy or have strong bones.

Youngest is lactose intolerant so that makes it a bit easier.

Can do almond milk but she doesn't love it.
I really wonder where you work then. It sounds really weird.
From the top of my head,

1. Mention what products. I know you'd want to say everything but still mention some of the everything .
2. Repairing requires trust. Hosting a site on wix doesn't offer trustworthiness.
3. Add a few more sections, like by when you'd launch and explain the how visually.
4. Mention an exact location. I am pretty sure you won't be able to start off with the entire world, so mention a state/city or two at the most. You can do it subtly like "we are starting off with x and x places and would coming to your city soon"

On the idea - it's pretty generic but requires absolutely efficient execution to have the wow factor.

All the best.
hydroponic/vertical agriculture, energy optimized shipping, limiting deadweight loss within the US labor force, waste (like trash) management, developing a public-facing interface for human genetics, meal substitution, sleep substitution
As anyone with experience in payments will tell you, this is the easy part (and should explain why Google hasn't expanded the coverage in the four years they have been offering this).

The reason that payments systems are all either expensive or inconvenient (usually both) is that the regulatory systems that underpin the international movement of money are very complicated, and are different in each country.

Getting payments to users in the US and UK is relatively easy; you'll need a business entity in each country and you'll also need to register with the regulators in each country (e.g. as a MSB in the USA, requiring a $1m bond in some states). Note the phrase "relative"; this is not something that a couple kids from Stanford can disrupt, you need expensive lawyers and banking contacts. You can run all of that from your office in Mountain View though.

You'll also need to comply with various "know your customer" regulations; the US government will not be happy if you wire money to O. Bin Laden, or anyone else on the OFAC watchlist. And even if you're sending money to a "gmail UK" email address, you will need some way of proving that you're not sending money to countries that have sanctions/restrictions on capital flows like Iran and North Korea.

That's the easy part. If you actually try to make a serious international play, then you'll need a sizable team in each region that you want to do business in. The Eurozone is relatively easy to cover, but your regulatory requirements in South American countries will probably require one or two people per country (that's to keep your bank relationships warm, and to keep up with all of the paperwork that's required to operate a money transmitter business).

This is why Paypal charges merchant fees of 4.4% _plus forex fee_ to receive money from an arbitrary country in the world. This system is hugely complex, and very resistant to change, due to the serious consequences of making a regulatory error.
Watch SpinaliS Canada Pitch on Dragon's Den in the Fall of 2017
With a low resolution 720p screen and only 2GB of RAM and less than 10 hours of battery life. You can buy a similarly equipped Windows laptop for $199 or less, or with a more usable 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage for 30 bucks more. Of course there are both lower end Chromebooks and Windows laptops, but they're really beside the point to what's being discussed.
> I'd use kimchi in place of salad dressing.

Whaaaaaaaaaaa? That's brilliant! Definitely going to try this.
At least with using ligatures in IntelliJ IDEA, I find that it makes zero difference as to how the monospaced font is aligned.
> You're talking a huge campaign of enough voters across enough districts to override what a few lobbyists do. It's asymmetrical. It might work but it usually doesn't. It's also extraordinarily difficult.

That's how voting works. Will it happen this election cycle? Maybe not. On the plus side, we've got plenty of discussion on the books saying what might happen to the internet if we allow net neutrality to lapse. In 10 years from now, when the general public goes looking for what happened to the good old internet, there will be a depth of articles and commentary, as well as people who've been following the issue over that period.

It's not worthless to voice your knowledge, even when it appears people will go against you. Consider the FBI record story from yesterday,

> Two years later I regained my seat on the board as the riders finally figured out that the strong helmet rule was a good thing. It then started spreading around the world and has since become standard in racing organizations almost everywhere, saving hundreds of lives and preventing thousands of serious head injuries. I’m proud of that. [1]

Due to his early effort, people knew where to turn when their theories did not pan out. There was a plan B ready to go, and everyone jumped on board.

Not ideal in the formal mathematical-proof sense, but, that's how humans and evolution works. We try stuff, see what works and what doesn't, and adjust if necessary.

> I'm for people trying it esp in rural areas. It's just that the ISP's currently outspend them on outreach and politics. Many of the areas getting hit are also already conservative where they believe business does it better. So, there's that too.

I agree there are a lot of speed bumps. That shouldn't stop us from trying. As technologists, we have an opportunity to share the importance of this topic with our family, friends, and representatives.

Perhaps we're wrong. No harm done. In the event we're right, people may consider your words more carefully in the future.

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/les/crypto.htm
> he and I coauthored

…which means that you wrote them and he, ah, "co-authored" them?
No need to get stroppy, calm down.
Digital Security for the 2017 Lawyer
This is patently false. There are no fixed constants at the level of social behavior. Nothing about society is "purely genetic", and even if it were, the human genome changes all the time.
"Galaxies" is the one I keep coming back to. It has the property that computer-generated instances of it are often satisfying, with distinct "aha" moments where everything falls into place.

That's not true for all logic puzzles -- many Nikoli-style puzzles can be clever when designed by humans but are tedious when designed by computers.
There is quite a continuum between fiat currency collapsing and the sort of zombie apocalypse you describe.

Fiat currency has become worthless many times in many countries without a total breakdown of civilization to the extent that gold no longer has any value (e.g., Argentina, Yugoslavia, Brazil, Weimar Germany, post-revolution France, ...)
I am of similar mind re: github.

Recently, I found viewing a potential hire's StackOverflow to be much more interesting than their github. You learn a lot about what kinds of questions someone asks and how they ask them.
Couldn't you just have a constraint based on more then one column? In fact for many applications there are different types of resources (rooms, people, etc) which you might want to be unique within anyway.
Given that HN runs on a single server [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006 ], I'd be very willing to take your side of the bet.
What pure functional programming is all about: Part 1
Iirc Zuckerberg allowed profile pics but realized people kept changing them all the time so they implemented photos
You mean just like NSA warrantless surveillance.

If it is done by the state you can keep it confidential, can't you?

And I don't think that you need hundrets of people to steal gold. Several people with state orders to delete and change regord will be enough.
I would recommend changing this link to the linked writeup by Scott Helme:

https://scotthelme.co.uk/nomx-the-worlds-most-secure-communi...
"Late stage capitalism" is a technical term with a specific meaning. It's from Marxism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism
It's the "reasonably complete" phrase that I'm responding to.

For example: Qt was released around the same time. Do you know if the first version included QGraphicsView? Because it has features we still associate with a modern 2d graphics API-- affine transforms, opacity, grouping of primitives, arbitrarily complex paths, and decent performance even with event handlers and many items being animated on the canvas.
One Time Pad!
If you quantize the model, you already get a factor of 8 reduction in model size, and GitHub Releases allows files up to 2 GB.
While this is a decent guide, I find that being skillful in latex comes from memorizing many highly specific commands. I spend most of my time googling for things such as "How to use (a), (b), (c) for enumerating lists".
> I'm pretty sure such action would be illegal under UN rules, ie: you can't invade a country because they don't give you back your posession.

So?

Since when would that make a difference to anyone?

The concept of UN "laws" or "illegal" just makes me laugh. The UN has treaties - countries agreeing to limits on their own behavior. The UN is not a government, and does not enforce any law.

So yes, you can just invade a country because they don't give you back your possession. Other countries might get mad at you, but the UN is quite irrelevant.
As far as I can tell, that is very much the exception. The artists who are famous long after they are dead were typically famous during their lifetimes, too. Over in classical music, for instance, all of the top ten were (at least) distinguished professionals during their own lifetimes.
Human Intelligence in action
Thanks for your feedback, subsidd. I have updated the post.
I was thinking about these just the other day, but couldn’t remember the name/location. Thank you 'tgragnato for posting!
A nice intro project is writing your CV in latex, using packages like https://github.com/xdanaux/moderncv
It takes some time to get used to and it's annoying to place the cursor correctly to backspace from != to =.

But it looks sexy and confuses the co-workers XD. Joke aside: I actually like making my PC mine and like the look. I don't think it makes me a faster or better programmer in any way...
> The end of net neutrality means they control what they or others can provide to you.

That is not completely accurate. They are not content provides or censors... at least not directly. Some of the major ISPs do own ad networks and so can prioritize advertising distribution in a way that others down stream cannot. They can also irregularly throttle access to content using criteria of their choosing, which isn't completely censorship but is absolutely the slippery slope.

Net neutrality is beneficial and important, but the ISPs aren't the ones you should be most fearful of in these regards.
Open Source Software Is Big Business with Big Funding
This is the one game (apart from maybe Super Hexagon...) which has always been reinstalled on new phones/installs.

It's definitely because they are both fun & simple?

Smart phones these days may be more capable, but great graphics don't make a great game.
which also has been on HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14209874
Who is making the critical views? That would make 90% of my decision with the remaining 10% being writing style/ability.

I already know of a handful of people that comment on those topics that others may describe as wearing a tinfoil hat - If that's the style of criticism then no, absolutely not. Not interested. If it's more positive but pointing out where it's possible to go wrong I might give it a go.

Personally speaking too, I'd much more likely subscribe to a podcast than consistently read articles - My downtime is mostly only during commutes.
Just in time! I use pandoc to generate PDF files from markdown, but it's not a straightforward process in any case but creating documents that look like Donald Knuth dashed them off in 1978. Pandoc is super flexible but your output goes through LaTeX templates so customizing them felt out of reach given my limited time--until now.
I like the idea but the xml tags </ /> look horrible
There's something to be said about the gigantic number. The machine needs to direct itself to the location of the data, and those methods aren't interchangeable to the machine or to people, unless performance-irrelevant machine code becomes a major use case.
I absolutely love ShareLaTeX. It's one of the few products that is kind of niche but does one thing and does it really well. I definitely get $8 a month worth out of their service. Having used MacTeX and similar products, ShareLaTeX is just a much smoother user experience. Not to mention their documentation is great and really gets to the point of what you are often trying to do. I've used their service on the last three research papers I've written and have been sharing the platform with different professors I work with.

(I sound like a shill, but check my comment history — I'm not affiliated with them. Just a happy customer.)
...but this article is giving me the context I need to understand the Google results
Well it was also possible as most European companies had state-run telephone monopolies into the 1980s. And when they were privatised the government's were in a position to impose rules on the newly created private companies - namely that they had to sell local access to competitors.

As the US govt. didn't own AT&T, not the Baby Bells, nor today's Verizon & AT&T, the situation is a bit different.

The irony that the US has a much worse situation because there is so much less competition (despite it being the home of capatalism).

In terms of speed I know Ireland (where I am,) and the UK can both get you VDSL2+ service (so like up to 80Mb) on copper pair from numerous suppliers. One service slow access to netflix? Go to another.
Pretty amazing! Reminds the article from 2002 which had to be one of the biggest Slashdot moment for me, from somebody who wrote code to play music from a scanned image of an LP.

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/index.html
And there's no milk pancreas to the best of my knowledge :) well not yet anyways.
Only if one sets the bar quite low, and has very lax standards for doco. Unfortunately, people often do set the bar low in the Linux world. But to those from other worlds the descriptions that come to mind are "acceptable" and "mediocre". As people have pointed out passim over the years, the expected as the norm quality of doco for the worlds of the BSDs and the commercial Unices is noticeably a higher standard than in the Linux world. By those standards, "second to none" is most definitely an exaggeration.

Sadly, "treated as an afterthought" is all too often still applicable, as well; this also being a disease of Linux doco that it hasn't wholly shaken off. The culture of updating the doco in lockstep when the software changes hasn't really taken a firm root, alas.

Just one example of such doco problems is a systemd issue where the doco does not tell the the issue raiser that the entire basis for the issue is wrong. Users have to resort to finding commentary hidden in the source code. Raised as a documentation issue, it requests a documentation change to warn users of something that is not in fact the case at all. Ironically, the true doco issue is actually that it is deficient, and the correct doco change would be to move the commentary into the manual where users can easily see it.

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5735

* https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-tim...

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5f36e3d30375cf04292b...

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/systemd-documentation-errata.html
This is just looking at it from an assembly language point of view. Isn't it even more complicated at the actual byte level? For example, are an instruction, and then the same instruction but with a width prefix, different?
Microsoft rebooted the platform so many times there was no opportunity to grow the ecosystem. The only way to build an ecosystem is slow and steady but Microsoft was too impatient for that. When they didn't immediately get success they just threw everything out and started again... twice!
Tldr; eat fruit and smoothies, don't drink juice

"Pulp" left behind during juicing contains the most wholesome parts of fruits, which prevent glucose spikes and contain most micronutrients
It's not about LinkedIn. Apparently companies today don't care about your work or skills. All they want is a dog that is trained to obey. School education is part of that. Questions like "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" are a sign towards that direction.
I find it hard to believe the common case for the 1% of the 1% always succeed because of sheer luck, brillance (although those things certainly can help).

The 1% of the 1% succeed because they are driven to find success, because they are relentlessly applying logic to the problems they face, because of determination - because they don't give up. I think the term thrown around these days is grit.

So yes, share what happened before, but more than likely those with 'grit' are going to figure out what has been tried before on their own and sometimes they'll reapply what failed in the past and make it work.
>>> "inside people" or drunk/coked producers leaving non-compliant laptops on planes.

As I said, toothless. That such practices are allowed to persist demonstrates how inept their security is. Non-compliant laptops shouldn't exist. The audits miss them. For a group that champions DRM, they cannot keep track of who has access to what within their own houses.
Yep, this goes all the way back to "Windows for Pen Computing"[0], a version of Windows 3.1 for very early tablets. Here's a video of Bill Gates showing it off: https://youtu.be/eenDjMXfVBQ?t=2m22s

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_for_Pen_Computing
Great article.
https://appspopo.com/vshare/
> because central banks managed to convince us that we don't need it to back up our currency.

No, it's because we switched to much more productive things to back up our currency. Our currency is backed by the willingness of our citizens to work and the value of the land and other possessions.

The currency is stabilized by not printing more than what there is to back it up, nor less.

Gold is a terrible thing to use because you can't create more of it as the economy grows.

Don't think fiat money is not backed by something - it most definitely is.
There is quite a difference between Free Software, which has the user rights as its main objective, and Open Source, which has the developers rights as its main objective.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Not easy, as would be even recreating it in hardware. This is the analog world where tolerances, stray capacitance and unpredictable small differences in gain or frequency response make every circuit behaviour slightly different even though it uses the same exact parts and layout.
A good enough digital recreation of that circuit would be possible only if it could sample the imperfections of a real chip, and to be believable it should probably analyze a hundred chips to get what parameters are changed
during production and how much.
UK: Larger Tesco supermarkets usually have a few of the cheaper Acer Chromebooks on display along with lower spec Windows laptops. Comet/PC World usually have a few. Chromebooks not evident that much in education, still mostly Windows.
How does this compare to the lady in the very first part of the article who drank freshly squeezed juice?

What you're doing is not "freshly squeezed".
I'm a big fan of Net as well. Ported it to PuzzleScript last year:

http://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=f45e9354364a5e9be201...
Yeah 'dependent agent' in HMRC's guidelines would cover a group of UK based founders launching an LLC from the UK.

So you can certainly open an LLC from the UK but you'll be liable for UK Corporation Tax so I'm not 100% wrong.

I should clarify my previous statement. You can, of course, incorporate anywhere you like from the UK but HMRC will just ignore the fact you have incorporated abroad and tax you as if you were a UK corporation.
I tried to learn LaTex a long time ago when I was just getting started with Linux, but gave up when I found that I could use MS Word and get what I needed, without the steep learning curve. I'm sure LaTex is much better than Word for some things, but I've never needed anything as specialized as LaTex. In fact, I don't use 99% of what Word is capable of and most of the time I'm using a simple text editor or vim or atom.
Oh wow you're right! I don't know where I got the idea that fuse handled ioctls from.
Absolutely. How else can an activity like Riding dirt bikes, with a near 100% injury rate for even casual riders wearing full safety gear, be popular?

So many things in our society are overly sanitized to the point that we have an almost complete mental aversion to the idea that some things can be unavoidably dangerous and will still be beneficial (or at least that we should be allowed to do them because we want to, because we are free human beings).

Back on topic, after riding a dirt bike I just feel... Alive? For days afterwards I feel like a complete human. It makes the injuries worth it.

A good book on the subject is
Foolproof: how safety can be dangerous and danger makes us safe -- Greg IP