skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It's truly amazing that one of the world's richest men would buy one of America's great papers and allow it to abandon basic journalistic standards. In a sense this amounts to an act of sabotage.

At first, I thought it was meant to be an insurance policy against politicians turning against Amazon, but now I have doubts about whether Bezos wishes the paper to do actual journalism.
Let me rephrase it: amazingly there is (at least) 3.2 billion people having no awareness of you ;)
i'm sure it's easier to get off heroin when you're already off the streets
interesting... most of my ebooks that I have opened in iBooks on the iPad are pdfs which don't have that option so I assumed they didn't have the scrolling option but I was able to do it with an actual ebook. It would sure be nice to have continuous scrolling on pdfs as well.

edit: iBooks on mac os doesn't have a continuous option.
A few factors here:

First, housing in SF is insane. I have seen lots of articles about how bad it is and that $50k or even $100k is considered "low income" in these parts.

Second, the weather in the Bay Area is very homeless-friendly. If you need to sleep outside year-round, it is best to be someplace where you will neither die from the heat in summer nor from the freezing cold in winter.

Third, homelessness is on the rise nationwide. Homeless people can relocate relatively easily due to not having to give notice at their apartment and having lost most or all of their material possessions. So, the odds are good that some people are simply coming out here for the weather.

Fourth, big cities like SF tend to have more services for the homeless. There are meal kitchens and the like. If you are completely destitute, you go to where you can get free meals and other services. I know because that is exactly why I went to downtown San Diego for six months as a homeless person. I left and went elsewhere when I was no longer outright destitute and did not need access to things like soup kitchens to have any hope of surviving.

So, I think if you want to solve homelessness in SF, you need to work on homelessness across the nation.
I think the most striking comparison is Tokyo vs CA itself; similar populations, much more area in CA, and Tokyo still built 1.5x as many homes.
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It applies mostly to AWS because of their respective marketshare in that space. Even more so specifically considering the S3 service.
This is a really cool idea actually. However you're likely talking sub nanosecond rise times which makes things a little difficult in the signal processing space. For example my scope (knackered old 1971 Tek 475) can barely manage 1.8ns on a properly terminated transmission line which this will likely not be.
If I remember correctly, ncp only works on LANs (using local segment broadcast), so it doesn't require either side to have any Internet connectivity at all. Your approach would be a lot more flexible, but I bet people would also appreciate it if you could figure out a LAN-only mode -- for better privacy, and when the Internet connection is down. Maybe you could start with an ncp-style segment broadcast and then fall back to the transit relay server if nothing on the segment answers and begins negotiation?
You mean this one?

http://mashable.com/2017/05/24/airlander-butt-plane-successf...

There's actually been more than one of these types of aircraft (known as Lighter Than Air - or LTA Aircraft), either as an idea or prototype throughout history.
This one is good too but it's about ITER.
So, basically, you're saying "my ignorance is as good as your knowledge"?
Yeah, and if you are actually in the field and trying to learn it (as you are and this article's intended audience is not), a nice little bonus is that PhD theses are usually formatted in a way that's very friendly to markin' 'em up as you come to grips with the material.
Despite the situation being uncomfortable, we really wanted to... but US government just will not let us. I am already exempt of ESTA and need a regular visa because I travel to Iran now and then. For all my 35 years of life, I wanted to become live in the US, and now that I could afford it, it is made impossible by the government (even when my wife has a German passport in a year, we could only do it if we accepted that maybe no persian family member can visit us.
Heat will kill you just as surely as cold will, and is especially a problem if you don't have easy access to drinking water.
Interesting.. I'll take a look at it. My first thought is that magic-wormhole needs a canonical way to allocate "nameplates" (the numeric channel identifier at the start of the wormhole code), and that's tricky to do in a DHT (I'm assuming syncthing's relay server behaves like a DHT).

We've got a ticket open (https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/72) about distributing this rendezvous server.. I'll add a note to check out syncthing.
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The problem is that extractive industries drive Dutch Disease. A Sovereign Wealth Fund can fight it, but Dutch Disease will have an effect. (The other thing that can be done is to have the entire country save more, by running a budget surplus and encouraging individuals to save more as well. This is... somewhat hard to do, in practice, without incredibly strong social cohesion.)
One of my big drinking epiphanies is a US pint of Brooklyn Defender or Ithaca Flower Power IPA is approximately 2 standard drinks.

4 beers in this scenario equals half a fifth of normal 80 proof whiskey like Jack Daniels.

A "couple of beers and a shot" becomes equal to an entire bottle of wine.

Two beers with a long pour (friendly bartender) of tequila or Jameson on the rocks is again, nearly half a bottle of whiskey.

Etc. IPAs are deceptive when you're just trying to "have a couple of beers at the pub down the street after work."
Magic Wormhole is a clever way to send files easily and securely
This is awk which emits the stream of unique things, as they are seen. it doesn't require sorted input. It runs at the cost of building the obvious hash in memory so can drive you to swap over large inputs, but its portable, does not require post-install s/w typically not on small systems and it delivers outcomes fast.

I use it all the time when I have some UNIX pipe emitting things and I want to "see" the uniques before I do sort | uniq -c type things.

#!/bin/sh
awk '{ if (!h[$0]) { print $0; h[$0]=1 } }'
Anita Sarkeesian's astounding 'garbage human' moment
I suppose, but it's not really made as a one off run-a-command type tool. It needs set up so that you can compare now to then.

Having no parameters specified doing something real is probably not desired, as it would overwrite the DB that your aide Cron job is running.

That's why your Linux distro (not aide) picked those funny defaults.
Also https://instant.io/
And, more recently (1930s-1940s) got a got a significant (around 5-10%) population boost due to Dust Bowl-driven econonic migration.
You need more stories like this to show people who wouldn't normally consider CS as a viable, lucrative path to a second career. Areas with high unemployment and people in dwindling old industries may get a second wind in life if they tried his approach. A big change like this also requires multiple exposures to the currently much easier to reach CS education as a possible solution, so I hope more people produce accessible content like this.
The security model here is pretty great assuming you trust the rendezvous server.

Maybe consider an optional challenge/response prompt (like when your pal enters the prompt code, their client generates a second code that they give back to you) to make sure nobody's intercepted the request before them, odds aside (if someone got your initial code somehow, they could definitely man in the middle the request otherwise).
What if you don't want to "get back to work"?

What's the long term plan for people in that situation?
Only when the request includes a referer. Without one, it just loads the image.
Ok, I'll bite. From the project page: "Copying files through email first requires transcribing an email address in the opposite direction, and is even worse for secrets, because email is unencrypted. Copying files through encrypted email requires bootstrapping a GPG key as well as an email address."

And S/MIME is essentially PGP/GPG, except you bootstrap the key from a central Certificate Authority. So yes, it's still a hassle.

As for SSH, how would /you/ place the public key on /their/ remote end? That's a bit of a chicken and the egg problem right there, don't you think?
Obviously it did work out better for some people, and some people continue to do it today. And it's unfortunate that the people who live this lifestyle today are missing many of the social supports that would have made it easier back then: a housewife in every home on the street for support, milkmen, society basically trusting kids to amuse themselves and get to school on their own, etc.

But, I think it's easy to romanticize those aspects and ignore what happened to people who had kids out of wedlock, people who did not want that lifestyle but were forced into it, kids who grew up isolated, institutional racism, what happened to mixed couples, etc. During the magical 50s, my grandfather was disowned by his family for marrying a non-Jew, was denied a job at DuPont for being a Jew, my stay-at-home grandmother couldn't work despite having a chemistry degree, and my mother contemplated suicide just from sheer loneliness growing up fairly isolated.

So yeah, it worked out great for some people. And it didn't work out for other people. And that's basically the situation we're in now, except that today, there's a lot less social stigma associated to people living the life they want to live rather than the one their family or their society wants them to live.

I just think compared to what was wrong with the 50s, the situation today is obviously better. Yeah, it sucks figuring out dinner sometimes, but there's really no comparison.
Could it be this one [0], or its predecessor [1]?

[0] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lockheed-martin-aircra...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_P-791
Those attacks are still "gentle" as if you have (and you should) a read only backup you can resolve it with near 0 dataloss.

What I fear are cancer like virus, not wiping or encrypting data at time T, but introducing subtle errors on a longer period. You would be contacted by hackers saying your last 6 months of data contain error. That's scary.
file.pizza always fails, while instant.io doesn't.
They are considering more than raw duration. That's why they're comparing a prop plane to a prop plane.
Discussed in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9953767.
Cool. Does the data transit the server, or does it do NAT / UPNP type stuff for direct comms after the initial rendezvous?
Nice, this looks useful and extensible! I popped it up on TC, I like the idea of transferring files wizard-style.

http://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/magic-wormhole-is-a-clever-...
Lower peninsula too, though for a slightly different reason: Detroit, Flint, etc. have become ghost towns as automotive manufacturing has moved out and automated.

It's not a natural resource, but if an industry moves then it, too, leaves people behind. And when it's a ghost city not a ghost town, it can take a long time to realize the money is gone, and it can leave a lot of people in the lurch.
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Want to solve 90% of homelessness?

Fund an infinite supply of government make-work jobs with included housing, legal drugs, and okay pay.

Model the make-work towns off of coal towns of old. On cheap land so housing is cheap.

Have a minimum age of 30 to prevent kids/teens/young adults from moving to these towns and being employed at these subsidized (read: un-profitable for the government) jobs.
How does this compare to AirDrop (besides obviously being cross platform)?
If there are really no jobs and the prospects for new industries are poor, offer relief by purchasing the houses.

Then tear them down.
Like the nice clean look. Would love to read an about page and how you created it.
Can you expand more? Is it the difference in opinion of the totalitarianism exhibited in 1984 vs. the anarchism from Homage?
I’m surprised to learn this company still exists, after hearing some of the crap they were pulling to give the appearance that their product was a hit.
Yeah, also the two sides can exchange (encrypted) notes about their apparent network environment (including their public IP address, as reported by the rendezvous server), which might give them a clue that they're on the same LAN.

Also see https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/48 for some discussion about making things work when you're connected to each other but not to the internet, e.g. an ad-hoc wifi network. It doesn't work at all now, but it totally should.
You've never used OIS on your oPhine?
It's 8 grams or 10 mL of pure alcohol. So you would need to calculate that based on percentage and volume for the specific drink. But you can reason using the "standard beer/wine/whiskey units" as a rule of thumb and round up by 1 or 2 total drinks over the course of say a few IPAs vs Budweisers. Same if you drink 100 proof vs 80. Or 15% zinfandel vs 12% merlot.
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It would seem that strict zoning and building rules hasten and encourage gentrification. Without more density, and with more people wanting to live in the same area, rents rise more and the ones who win out are the wealthier renters. If some buildings were replaced with more density, then the housing supply reaches further down the demand curve to those with less money.
Why is this the responsibility of the Bay Area? Are there not other tech hubs out there? Are there not other cities willing to attract startups and to become tech hubs? Isn't the promise of tech the ability to do business anywhere on the globe?
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1. White collar cases often turn on technical details neither the judge nor the jury really understand. Even if the law's on your side it's a crapshoot.

2. Defendants have enough money the prosecutors can't just scare them into taking a plea bargain. 98% of federal cases are pled out (which is a good indication of tyranny). Prosecutors don't have the resources to take every case to trial, especially complex cases. It's easy to get people to understand drug distribution and bank robbery without calling dozens of expert witnesses. Financial flimflam? Not so much.

3. The public cares a lot more about keeping violent criminals behind bars than fraudsters.

Also, this bugs me:

>It’s been nearly a decade since the financial crisis, and yet no big-company executives are behind bars. One reason, says Eisinger, is that court rulings have taken away tactics that prosecutors had used to pressure defendants, such as restricting attorney-client privilege and preventing their companies from bankrolling sky-high legal bills.

Prosecutors should not have "tactics to pressure defendants". If you can't get a conviction without taking the defendant's money so he can't afford a lawyer, maybe you don't have a case.
I wonder if the nature of the product creates incentives for fussy recipes with a lot of ingredients

You make a good point, and I wonder whether this could be mitigated by balancing some simple recipes (which lets the cook deliver with minimum effort - including the work of shopping/planning) with some deliberately complex recipes (pushing the cook to learn, experiment with new techniques, and push their comfort-zone).

Personally, that approach would resound well for me, but I'm conscious that I might not be the ideal viable demographic.
There used to be (maybe still is?) a toy, sold by Edmund Scientific and others - that was basically a thin black and big dry cleaning bag. You'd basically take it outside on a sunny day, whip it around a bit to "fill" it with some air, tie it closed, and then let it heat up in the sun. Eventually, it would take shape, becoming buoyant, at which point you could let it go to float off (presumably tied down with a string if you wanted to keep it).

I don't know if it is still available or not, or whether anyone ever added remote controls to it...

Hmm - apparently it or something similar is still available - or you can try to build one yourself:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-Solar-Heated-Balloon/
Related to a current trending HN story about Coal in US Appalachia, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14648018.
What if there are 65535 active send requests? Perhaps of which 65534 are opened by an attacker?
There was a whole course (notes for which are here [1]) dedicated to this topic, by prof. Jeremy Siek.

[1] ecee.colorado.edu/ecen4553/fall09/notes.pdf
Congratulations, you are not an alcoholic!
How does your solution give poor people more money?
Exactly. It's not hard, it just costs some money.

It's exactly the same as physical security. You build fences and buy locks. You pay people to keep an eye on things. You take insurance to cover the rest of the risk.

Nothing hard, no new inventions required. It just takes some attention and cash. It's part of the cost of being in business.
One thing I've wondered is to what extent does discrete logic "scale proportionally" to integrated logic.

I mean if you make a big machine out of these things, are the trade-offs you make regarding e.g. signal fanout and propagation delay similar to those made in an IC that did the same computation?
Crossing the JNI barrier is expensive performance-wise. Unless it's a longer running, CPU heavy calculation its usually best to stay in pure Java. There are some things that going out to another high performance framework will speed things up, but the bar is a bit higher because of the JNI overhead.
It's like saying best way to fight heroin addicts is to supply market with poisoned heroin. No heroin users - no problems!
That's exactly what I was thinking.

And you know what? That's good enough. Money and power. Pretty much sums up why most big companies exist.

The part about making the world a better place I'm sure it's on their: "a nice to have" pile.
You're right about that.. It's still my favorite framework even though I too have my pet peeves (no lazy loading, really?).

Anyway, what are you currently using? Why?
Yeah, I think the relevant part is "getting into software/tech in 30s", not learning to code per se which should be non-newsworthy at least through one's 50s.

Then again, I changed careers into software in my 30s (had just turned 30 when I left aerospace), though I had coded in some capacity my entire life. Newsworthy?
Visit the website and open browser's DevTools :)
see also- https://docs.syncthing.net/specs/relay-v1.html
I don't follow. What do you mean?
Wrong question.

Community is your market, and crucially, you.

You should have found the community first. Then, if you're truly part of it, you'll know what your product should be.

If you're asking the question you're asking, it means you built a product without a market which is going to be... challenging.
If I did things right, the rendezvous server shouldn't get any advantage over a network attacker: one guess per invocation of the program, 1-out-of-65536 chance of getting it right, 65535-out-of-65536 chance of giving you a WrongPasswordError.

FWIW, there's also a --verify option, which causes the program to print out a hex hash of the session key, and wait for you to approve it before sending anything. Not as ergonomic, but it removes the MitM threat pretty effectively.
A lot of stuff works amazingly well when you're on the same wifi network as the development server and use a top of the line iPhone 7. I assume most "usability testing" from such websites are done like that.
It's an old joke from the television show Cheers.

"Well you see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo and when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Now, as we know, excessive drinking of alcohol kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. And that, Norm, is why you always feel smarter after a few beers."
> I wouldn't automatically grant that.

While this deserves qualifications, most of the time restaurant food is simply not as hygienic as meals prepared at home. And its not some deliberate plan to make it so. Despite their best efforts, a somewhat large scale food establishment just allows a lot more opportunities for food contamination. And I say this as a person who eats out everyday (Lunch out, dinner and supper at home).

The only place I can see that really escapes from this is the high end restaurants. Usually they don't have to rely on cost saving measures, and have well developed supply chains for obtaining fresh ingredients and keeping them from contamination. But I don't think most of the people here could afford or want to eat at such a place regularly.
They don't? AFAIK no cloud vendor guarantees consistent performance on their multi-tenancy offerings (at least none backed by SLAs). Vendors sell both dedicated tenancy, with consistent performance, at a higher price and shared tenancy, with variable performance, at a lower price and expect customers who choose the latter to deal with the variance on their own.

Large companies run a benchmark after each instance startup to check how noisy that instance's neighbors are. If it's bad then they simply terminate the instance and start another one[0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/547xbx/netflix_found_5...
From the phrasing of your question, I suspect we disagree on the answer to your theoretically rhetorical question. I don't care what people could or would like to audit with their free time, I care what people do audit with their actual time, generally because they are paid or have a financial motive to do.

Windows is fuzzed, analyzed, traffic analyzed, attacked, and picked apart inside AND outside Microsoft with higher frequency and greater depth than Linux is, regardless of which happens to be open source and theoretically easier to examine. If Microsoft were to inject malicious stuff into Windows it would be found and reported and exploited. There is too much money, too much exploit opportunity, and too much security researcher brand cred available to anyone who discovers even a hint of malicious behavior on Microsoft's part for it to go unnoticed and unreported.

And again, the point of the comment wasn't "Windows is secure" as nothing in tech is secure. The point was that someone who advocates wearing tinfoil hats around Windows to protect against the NSA while thinking Linux somehow gets a pass from those same bogeymen is not making a rational case for how to behave or what to fear.
Microsoft has Bing, though they're obviously less influential than Google there.
No, because it's not a JS-superset.
In the other corner we have Exxon Valdez, BP Deep Horizons, Aliso Canyon, rednecks driving "coal rollers", the Koch brothers campaigning against EVs, and the Australian government using the drug dealer defence in relation to coal mining.
A possibly similar tale is the one being done by some former Kentucky coal miners:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/fossil-fuels/the-...
If an infinite supply of jobs deals with only 90% of the problem, does this imply that any finite supply deals with 0% of the problem?

Also, if you want make work jobs modeled on coal towns on cheap land, maybe we could have them in coal country, digging not-coal out of ground. Then we could deal with the death of coal mining as well as 90% of homelessness, using that infinite supply of not-jobs.