skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In India don't the rich people just have tinted windows and air filters?
Guam is way further away than Europe and Hawaii is almost as far away.
I'm not an IPFS expert, but my guess is they have the great firewall, so they can MITM every connection and inspect all of the packets for this type of content and do whatever to the originator/packets.
In the software space, I think that the world could use high-integrity reader/renderer libraries for common file formats. It's embarrassing that e.g. TIFF and font file readers/renderers have enabled arbitrary code execution, years after the formats were standardized, for inputs that aren't supposed to contain any interactive functionality.

Of course it's pretty obvious why nobody has done this before: almost nobody wants to pay for high integrity software unless compelled by law.

And there's obvious problem number two: even if you find a philanthropist to pay you to write this software and give it away under the most liberal license, it'll take effort to switch away from existing libraries. You might be able to imitate the structure of e.g. LibTIFF but everyone who was handling TIFF with another library will find it hard to switch.
Heh heh, I know the Spectrum was a big deal in Spain. Not so much in South America. There's a lot to love about that computer, but the C64 was technically superior: I had a C64 and my friend had a Speccy, and I remember games looked better on the C64. Of course, the Amiga blew both out of the water, but I didn't know anyone who owned one...

> If I remember correctly the Spectrums could display more simultaneous colors than the C64. Not sure about this.

Pretty sure it was the other way around. The Speccy had a limitation where some graphics modes had colors in horizontal "bands", so games had to be designed around this limitation. And when a sprite crossed bands, it changed colors! This didn't happen with the C64.
If this acctually happens, it would be interesting to see how the international law, ai<del><del>space trafic control and military missle defence systems develops, so that SpaceX can land one of these in Shangai without having to worry about accidentaly starting a thermonuclear war.
"it is nearly-impossible for any actor to block access to this content because it is replicated around the network automatically, using peer-to-peer encrypted connections that would be very hard to identify and block at the ISP level. "

It's right that the connections are encrypted, but it's NOT correct to say that content is automatically replicated (but it's a common misconception). Instead, content who is wanted by other peers is the only content that gets replicated. You need to explicitly "pin" content to help replicate it.

This is different from Freenet where content is indeed pushed out to other peers in that fashion.
As a similarly aged child in the USA, nearly every child was bussed to school in a school bus. When I was growing up, school was far away, only reachable by car or bus. After looking it up on a map, I discovered that it was less than a mile away, and would have been easily bikeable or even walkable if there was a safe route to get there. I think I spent more time waiting at the bus stop each day than it would have taken to just walk there.

On a few occasions I missed the bus and mom drove in to pick me up since walking home was unthinkable.
The startup scene is pretty decent. There are hundreds of companies here, including some pretty big names: DigitalOcean, BlueApron, Etsy, Casper, Compass, Stack Overflow, Jet (technically in NJ, but close enough), Meetup, etc. Not to mention that the larger ones (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe, etc) all have pretty large offices here.

What I like most is the diversity in the companies. They're "tech" companies, but their business is advertising, finance, real estate, and lots of other industries. There is so much diversity here that, even if you only hang out with technically-minded people, you'll still have plenty to talk about. When I lived in SF, every person seemed to do the exact same thing but for a slightly different variation of the same kind of company.

Anyway, I'm obviously biased, but I prefer NYC to SF. The weather was a huge point for me, but also the fact that NYC just "feels" more like a city - it's incredibly dense in most parts of Manhattan, which makes it easy to walk to almost anything. Diversity are transportation are two other big pros.
This infographic was seen recently, previous HN conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15364537
Take off/landing are probably a big chunk of any 30min flight, so you'd really only have 15-30min at most being disconnected from your laptop or phone, not a big deal. I'd be totally satisfied just looking out the window... even on my 20th flight I doubt it'd be boring.

A built-in tablet that turns on automatically in each seat might solve this problem. But then someone will have to offer wireless internet in space.
My point was, that they should pay westerners that kind of money to move there, in order to pull experience in. India has plenty of talent, but they don't have so much experience.
"I think of it as persistance bias" might fit the bill.
I'm saying that's the only conceivable scenario in which the UK would agree to "reunion" with the USA.
I don't think consumer goods are getting cheaper. The iPhone is getting more and more expensive (even not counting the iPhone X price bump).

But should consumer goods (food/small items) be small in developed economies? Things like Rent, Transport (Car/Travel), Health Care, etc... should weigh more.

Wait, these are all getting expensive or am I wrong?
Weirdly it feels like it would be more embarrassing sitting in the tower rather than one of the cells.

The person in the tower can only look at a few cells at a time but hundreds of people in the cells will be staring at the tower all the time.
I think it'll become hard to explain simple things in this place. THE CODE IS FIRST DEVELOPPED INTO HAPROXY DEVELOPMENT BRANCH AND ONLY THEN BACKPORTED INTO HAPEE ONCE WE CONSIDER IT STABLE ENOUGH. ANY SINGLE HAPEE COMMIT HAS AN UPSTREAM COMMIT ID. What is difficult to understand in this statement ?
Maybe one of the Baltics. Although Russia might take grave exception that that prop.
Or just don't drink too much :-p
Nah I grew up in south central europe, I’m good with weather. Seeing -15C (5F) and 38C (100F) in the same year is pretty normal to me. Honestly I moved to SF to escape the summer heat and now I miss my winters and falls and springs and it’s been crazy hot here lately.
Does the great firewall just happen between outside and inside (Chinese) connections? With IPFS, you could have a direct connection to peers and you could have a direct link (same WiFi for example) where nothing leaves your network when downloading.

As long as one peer in the network has a outside connection, all peers could access that content via relay for example.
I think this is perfect time for humanity to start efforts in that direction. IMO international gridlock may work out to our advantage. what I am afraid is having a single global superpower (likely china) emerge and control the fate of humanity with an iron fist. BTW for next few decades the dream of being fully self sufficient mars colony is just that, a dream. Any billionaire would have to be out of their mind to leave perfectly good 'empire' on earth to live life of a commoner on mars/colony.

Secondly, I know I am speculating but IMO the reason Elon want to do this now may have something to do with emergence of singularity. I think he wants to have backup BEFORE we create artificial superintelligence which by median of estimates of AI researcher is to be believed around 2045.
Gatsby is dope!
The 2017 """referendum""" was a push poll, not a binding referendum or even a fair and objective opinion poll.
Banks used to do that explicitly. The managers sat on a raised platform, in the open, overlooking the tellers and banking floor. Some bank branches still have a raised platform.
I was about to say, The Expanse handles that very well for you, and it sticks fairly close to the books as well.

It's easily the best Sci-Fi on TV right now.
Similar to what kirkyl said, but with a twist.

Your end user is the 6th grade version of myself. (Curious and interested in computers but no mentors/guidance to get started/lay breadcrumbs). My family/friends came from blue collar background, so their programming skills are effectively zero. Asking for help doesn't really exist since I didn't know anyone to talk to or know where to go on the internet.

When I was much younger (10 years old), a big part that delayed me from getting involved in programming, was not understanding "the point" of programming and figuring what to search for when trying to learn.

I (10 year old version) seriously thought that all programming was:
cout << "What is your name?";
cin >> name;
cout << "Hi << name;
return 0;

Based on the C++ book I had access to, I didn't understand what I could tangibly build from knowing the idea of int,strings,arrays etc. I also thought that when people made games, they hardcoded the raw pixel values for every possible state/character/action. (Dumb, I know.)

I also thought you programmed "cool" games, by throwing a stupid amount of time in hardcoding each pixel value.

So I paused on programming for 10 years and picked up paintball/cars/Mechanical Engineering instead.

Make and install custom Ubuntu image with all of the needed packages/software to do introductory tangible dev work on. Make it work for 3 large dev camps(Python, Web Dev(Basic HTML,CSS,Javascript),Embedded electronics (Arduino).
Sure the 10 year old kid can install everything via command line scripts themselves.

But knowing that you need a './" in front of 'script.sh' isn't entirely obvious at that age. It is also incredibly demotivating when your getting your feet wet, and can't figure the './' out.

Have links on the Desktop to the Mozilla Developer Network, Python Docs/ Game Tutorials, the github explore tab, Intro to Python/Web Dev online courses and StackOverflow.
As well as a challenge for the 10 year old: Like make a pong-like video game.

The mission statement for this entire idea, "We gave you all the tools and they work well. Now the only thing stopping you from being a hacker/programmer is yourself."

Distributing it via old hardware would be nice, because most kids/parents are worried about "ruining" their existing computer by migrating to Linux and losing Windows.(At least I was)

Having a separate dedicated physical box, will give the kids a good environment to try things and fail in. Without worry about accidentally deleting everything on the file system. Like family vacation photos.

Do FB marketing and target parents that have kids in middle school and want them to go college and be doctor/lawyer/engineer types.

Sell it at (cost + $20 +shipping). Plug and play.
in general abstract terms, important problems have solutions that:

- improve security and efficiency (which is also security :P )

e.g.: umbrellas prevent you from getting wet, the judicial system (intends..) to enable the public to trust one another, your skin is a firewall against pathogens, sleep cleanses the brain of metabolic byproducts, dreams (ostensibly) make it more likely that your awake mind will succeed more..

- address shortcomings of previous attempts, or otherwise explain that the problem was previously underrated (if it isn't a solution that just happens to have astonishing luck :P)

- punishes gamblers that speculate without paying the price and instead do it at the expense of nonparticipants

- even better if the solution to the problem enables mutually-beneficial interactions at the atomic level

- and 10x as better if it avoids growing into a benevolent dictatorship
Hey! Sorry -- we should've made this clearer. ARKit only works on devices running iOS 11, and some particular devices at that:

iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, iPhone SE, iPad Pro (9.7, 10.5 or 12.9) – both first-gen and 2nd-gen, iPad (2017), iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, iPhone X

I think these are the ones, at the time of posting this comment.
That would be true if it was only happening in the stock market. But if all assets are inflating: housing, stock market, cars, top wages, etc... then it'll affect consumer good at the other end.
If IPFS is not entirely stateless the protocol to set up the state will always have identifiable information, like how TLS is easily blocked in the same way. Also, a protocol-agnostic approach is traffic analysis with machine learning (this is being used to identify custom-protocol VPNs).
You can't loan people huge sums of money with no interest and expect bubbles not to arise.
Will it have a real keyboard?
Well, same with the games you mentioned! None of those games are C64 exclusives; in fact, I played many on the PC.

It's a nostalgic thing anyway: to me, Bruce Lee and The Last Ninja defined the C64... and my childhood.

edit: according to Mobygames, at least Raid over Moscow was never published on the PC, and certainly not on the arcades. So there's that :P
The only safe email is text-only email | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15224199 (Sep 2017)

Not too many metions of email clients except mutt and alpine.
Don't forget winter and spring time slush. There's a reason Timberland boots are so big in NYC.
It uses Apple's ARKit so it will only work on iPhones. And you need iOS 11 and at least an iPhone 6S or a very recent iPad for it to work.

Google has announced some Android AR stuff so when they roll they out, we will look at making this stuff work across both platforms. Sorry it won't work for you yet!
We spend more on education than almost any other country. I believe per K-12 student we spend second in the world per student after Switzerland. Not sure if that is exactly accurate but you can look it up for details.
One of my childhood friends had a fatal car crash on a road due to ice -- that metal cage is no guarantee of safety.

I rode my bike throughout winters in college and had a few minor crashes due to slippery roads. If I were to do the same now, I'd use studded bike tires for better grip in ice which were unheard of back then.
Cryptos Fear Credit
A small minority of Americans voted for Trump. Should we have ignored the results of the election because only a small minority of sour grapes shouldn't make that important a decision for the rest of us?
Google removes Catalan referendum app from Google Play after court order
"it is nearly-impossible for any actor to block access to this content because it is replicated around the network automatically"

This isn't entirely accurate though. It's only replicated if people request it. If everyone only requests the content through `ipfs.io` then the content will only be living on the original seeder, and the IPFS gateway nodes which run GC on a regular basis.

Depending on how the content is moved, it _might_ end up on a few other nodes (a way around nats, by using a third party peer to stream content between two peers), but I believe it's only ever moved through the network, and will not be stored on the nodes. If it is, it's only there till the next GC (disabled by default I believe).
Perhaps we should revisit the idea of a political detox?

I for one have been noticing the signal-to-noise ratio on HN has been lowering over the past year. Discussions have become less about the content of the article and more about the title or some other related fact. Technical discussions are becoming increasingly derailed by bike-shedding, ideology, and flame wars. Hell, I bet even the average word count per comment is down.

In signal processing, when noise becomes too high we implement a filter. It doesn't have to be too harsh of a filter, perhaps a band-stop filter which passes most frequencies unaltered but attenuates those in a specific range to very low levels.
Its not "anywhere on earth with a flat landing spot" if you want to be able to retrieve the thing. It either needs to go somewhere with the very specialized launch infrastructure and personnel it needs or the ability to transport (how to you transport a 48m x 12m cylinder?) it to somewhere that does.
Some communication from said company quoted below. Not sure if I'm missing any gotchas, given my relative inexperience in this sort of stuff.

"Let's break down your deliverables.. I want us to properly define my problem, current and future needs.

Then we review what's available in the market to see if it suits our needs.. finally, if we decide to develop our own software then we do"
Musk is also "dancing around particular words" by using initials.
That's a good point. I was using "startup" to mean "building a new product with a new company," but that's not always what startup means. It's true that the failure rate of small businesses is lower because many are selling staples (food, clothes, home services) or are franchises.
> This split to XML also allowed us to implement a live UI reloading. It’s something that will save quite a lot of development time as you can see every change in the UI without recompilation and redeployment.

It looks like the Reactant UI is an add-on for Reactant that has you writing XML which is "live reloaded". It's not clear whether or not only the XML is eligible for live reloading or not.

Source: https://docs.reactant.tech/reactant-ui/introduction.html
How very crypto-anarchistic
Let's look at the claims from the parent:

* re-usability of the first stage of an
orbital class rocket,

I think the shuttle argument has some merit, it was certainly designed to be re-usable. However the first stage was a blend of the SSME's and the SRB's. While the SRB's were "refurbed" it really was re-manufactured. The shuttle and its SSMEs were closer to what F9 does today.

* the first to prove out supersonic retro-propulsion

Here the key is supersonic retro-propulsion. They really were the first people to light up a rocket engine facing the 'wrong' way of a supersonic spacecraft. NASA's interplanetary systems have all used parachutes to get into the sub-sonic regime before firing retro-rockets. Neither retro-propulsion in orbit (nominally a vacuum) or on the Moon count as supersonic.

* and the first private company to re-fly a
spacecraft (the Dragon Capsule).

If you add 'orbital' spacecraft then it does work (private company, orbital craft). If you consider suborbital flights like Spaceship One then all of the sounding rockets that are fired doing ionosphere research probably count too.

With luck, next month they will be the first company ever to launch and recover a rocket with 27 engines in the first stage.

They are also the first company to launch two rockets into orbit in a single weekend.

So at what point would SpaceX's achievements become "impressive" for you without having to add context?
Yup.

5-6X will not get you a nice house in a nice area. It will just get you a small house. In San Jose, the cheapest ones I'm seeing are in the 500-600K range - smaller than 1000 sq ft.
Total orbital rocket flights/yr are usually considerably less than 100 though, so I'm sceptical they'll ever approach airplane reliability with so few flights.

Honestly, that's kind of why the BFR idea kind of worries me. It feels like SpaceX analysed the need for orbital space-flights, and realized there was unlikely to ever be the kind demand that would provide the economies of scale needed to do what they want. On the otherhand, there's undeniably a large demand for terrestrial travel, so they came up with a way to use rockets for that purpose. It feels like something to show investors, rather than a workable plan.

But hopefully I'm wrong. Economics aside, its certainly cool, and it would be nice to have an application for terrestrial missiles other than nuclear annihilation.
Seriously, I think it was literally USA vs. Puerto Rico.
They also compete against USA in the Olympics.
Now I'm not saying don't help them out, I'm just saying..
Alternative approach: Instead of using the IPFS2HTTP gateways (that can easily be censored, as gateway.ipfs.io has already been censored in Catalunya), run a IPFS daemon locally that cannot be censored (but is not anonymous either).

I live in Catalunya and wrote this tool for doing just that, in a easy way. It 1) starts a go-ipfs daemon locally, 2) opens up the referendum website in your default browser, via localhost.

If you're interested in accessing the website from inside Catalunya, give it a try: https://git.io/vdGUx
I don't know if Monty has anymore kids to name databases after.

Monty is the one who first created MySQL, and later foked MySQL to create MariaDB. There is also MaxDB, but it looks to be a SAP product.
I wonder if those Indians know that it's only a matter of time before their job gets relocated to another country with lower wages.
> it felt like to be in the ExtJS community after jack slocum exited

I've to admit that, on some rather rare occasions, I'm thinking about Jack Slocum and how he gave away/was taken away that thing that once was a truely remarkable, changeing lib for js, at least if you take into account when extjs was released. And I wonder what would have happen to him if he invented something like extjs in our venture capital and crowdfounding times.
Yet the US gives generously to multiple disasters around the world. We send aid, money, and often the US military to help out. This little study is done by Morning Consult, where the 80% study was done by Pew - so I'm a little confused by a direct comparison. I wonder what the exact wording of the questions was (personal vs government money perhaps)?
I propose a straight trade.

Europe gets coastal CA and everything less than 20mi West of I95 from Boston to NYC. 'murka gets the Soviet republics.

This way the people who look at Formula Off Road and think "I wish they had that in my country" don't have to put up with the people who look at it and think "that's needless pollution and destruction of the environment"
Of course. The point was that outsourcing was 'supposed to be cheap'. The reality is that for many situations it is not cheap, and is less expensive in the long run to pay a dev 100k or whatever the local market rate is instead.
I am "xenophobic"? I was born in America and lived there the first 18 years of my life. I'm trying to not merely generalize, and therefore I went out of my way to cite an actual example of the attitude in question.
It does stand for International Business Machines.

Randomly, Amazon employs over 350,000 people, 25,000 of which are here in Seattle.
As a little kid at Space Camp in the late 80s/90s we would 'dream' about what a moon base or a mars base would look like. I grew up thinking that it would be something my grandchildren would see. To even have this as a possibility now is something I think few fathom how important it is. Amazon & Google may not matter in 100 years, (go back 100 years and look up who the biggest companies were and how long they lasted) but getting to another planet and colonizing is a step that will forever be in the books as one of the crowning achievements of humanity. I applaud Musk and all he is doing, if my skill set ever fit what SpaceX needed, I would join in a heartbeat.
Trump Administration Lobbying Hard for Sweeping Surveillance Law
> here on earth first

I think that's the core of the objections. At least mine, anyway.
Did you read the full comment? Australia, I'm guessing, is more similar to Idaho than California.
It's quite possible they did do that. For example, Angular parses your source to perform Dependency Injection based on argument names.
>I think the exchange rate of your country's currency allows you to stay at top tier places when you visit India, that's why you'd experience India differently than Indians.

Which is exactly what he was saying.