skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Even assuming all this, a hybrid approach of HTTP + IPFS (or DAT) is still better than what we have now, since IPFS is essentially a worldwide CDN for static files.(Sorry: an inter-planetary one.)

- The content-addressing aspect makes it perfect for distributing commonly used libraries.

- We already cache all this content locally. What a waste! Why do I have to fetch jQuery from fricking California when it's sitting on my girlfriend's phone in the other room?

- This extends beyond the web: think about the benefits (both in security, practicality, and performance) of content addressing introduced into package managers (take it one step further even: combine this idea with the new move towards reproducible builds (https://reproducible-builds.org) and package managers like guix and nix and things get really interesting).

- It's actually easier to use for the average person. If you don't think this is the case I propose a simple experiment: download the beaker browser and set up a simple static site. I recently did this. It really is one-click hosting! Considering how complicated web hosting is to the average person (ever try to walk a friend through setting up a website? not. fun.) -- people would love to be able to set up personal websites this easily... and for free?

- As others have mentioned, there are many solutions being worked on for the mirroring of data (Filecoin etc).

- For websites that are visited regularly, this is not an issue -- all content is cached temporarily. It suddenly becomes basically free to serve an audience of millions... again: with one click.

- If history serves as precedent, if it does fail it would be in spite of being an objectively superior, practical solution. Getting a critical mass of people on this thing is the hardest problem to figure out. -- I suspect package management, academic data are the best place to start, then one-click personal hosting -- not even think about "apps" for now.

- Didn't you just read the web is about to go permanent? Do you really want to be archived for all history as one more nay-sayer? ;)
Similar to a few places in Los Angeles

Flashing red light = stop sign is in most people's driver's ed, but it seems like most people don't know how to react to it (like you, I see some people simply blow through and others wait indefinitely)
On a road with high traffic speed and not enough visibility of pedestrians waiting at the side of the road, most motorists won't yield
Do you have a point? Make it.
USB3? Can you tap that fast?
First, let me say that I think that IPFS is a good idea and that it has applications that are useful now. However, if I interpret the parent's "thoughtless hype" as "hopelessly naive", I'm pretty much in agreement.

Checkout Freenet[0]. And while trying to maintain anonymity makes the problem even more difficult, there are fundamental problems in Freenet that make it basically unusable (mostly around cache coherency and latency). Freenet has been around since Ian Clarke's paper about distributed information storage and retrieval systems in 1999. They haven't managed to fix these fundamental problems in nearly 20 years of trying. I see absolutely no discussion of the same problems in IPFS (though abandoning anonymity is a good start).

It's one thing to say, "Hey distributed file system -- awesome". Then you can build all the easy bits and say, "Well, maybe cache coherency and latency won't be a big problem". But now look at what IPFS has to say about cache coherency on their wiki [1]. There is nothing at all that identifies or addresses the problems they will run into -- just a definition of the term and some links to random resources.

It's all well and good to say, "Eventual consistency", but what about guarantees of consistency? If I'm a vendor and I have a 1 day special offer, can I get a guarantee that caches will be consistent before my special offer is over? How do you deal with network partitions? Etc, etc, etc.

Before you start calling HTTP "obsolete", how about solving these kinds of problems? I have absolutely no problem with projects like these. They are awesome and I encourage the authors to keep working towards solving hard problems like the above. But announcing your solution before you've even realised that the problem is hard is pretty much the epitome of naivety.

[0] - https://freenetproject.org/

[1] - https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1m...
The Navy pre deployed 4 ships before the hurricane hit:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-hurricane-...

The hospital ship was at Norfolk and in reduced operational status, so wasn't ready to go.

https://www.military1.com/search-and-rescue/article/18355360...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It doesn't say anything about jokes.
I'm in a similar situation, I hope these couple of pieces about univalent foundations are useful: https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2014/voevodsky-origins, https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2013/awodey-coquand-univalent-foun...
What do you think of this actual proposal? You absolutely do NOT need the whole web replicated on every computer.

https://github.com/Qbix/architecture/wiki/Internet-2.0
The six disks say:

Lotus 2/22/93

Lazarus, (formatted) WP

LAZ6

Backup 13

Backup 12

Backup 11

All the backup discs are scratched out with pen though. I hope they didn't wipe them!
For most of the anecdotes I have, they are all covered under a NDA. This one is a good one to repeat as I don't have to worry about someone complaining that I gave away their trade secrets.

Most of them leave the $20 solution in place as they can then save $$$ over paying for a 'proper' solution (someone typically comes up with the $20 solution before the $8m solution makes it to the RFQ stage).
I wish people wouldn't downvote so readily these days... but at least you got some good responses.

I just want to say it's ok to take a stance against the whitewashing of history especially regarding wars. I'm a combat vet and have spent a long time trying to decipher some of the darkness under the whitewashing in order to potentially find insights into timeless truths about war and politics, and most people truly just don't understand the extent to which it happens or just how much of what they think they "know" about something is half-truth surrounded by propaganda pushed by an education system with an agenda. It often hard to swallow ugly truths, and it's even harder to determine if they are "truth" or not in the first place, often since the evidence is lacking or hidden itself which forces us to use inductive logic instead of deductive logic. Many people don't understand the distinction.

What I like to do, especially on such controversial subjects as wars like Vietnam, is listen to a variety of positions and try to entertain their positions with as much openess as possible. Sometimes I find diamonds this way. For example, one of the most influential persons on my current views of Vietnam is Fletcher Prouty[1]. A more recent thread I have begun to unravel is the claims by Webster Tarpley[2] about Robert Thompsons[3] influence over the early strategic decisions. The point is that these matters are still being researched, foia'd, and analyzed, so don't be too discouraged at the pushback you get for going counter to the common narrative.

1: http://www.maebrussell.com/Prouty/JFK%20by%20Fletcher%20Prou...

2: https://youtu.be/EeQAYOqRvBk?t=1777 (this entire video is worth a view for those interested in alternative history)

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Grainger_Ker_Thompson
Debris from the Qantas A380 engine failure several years back fell on some buildings in Indonesia. Nobody was hurt though.
I've just watched some parts of Ken Burns' doc, and I'm a little disappointed. It tries to be so impartial/objective but at the same time I feel it portrays the US gov't as rationally acting from necessity, where the protesters are shown as destructive and the north viets as mysterious/wild/weak-but-many (the doc barely shows their side of the story).

It occurs to my that I think the opposites are true. US gov't was acting irrational/anti-freedom/for-no-good-cause/destructive. The protesters were right and managed to pressure the gov'ts quite a bit with their "slight-destruction". Finally the north viets very very human, and they sacrificed a lot themselves for their just cause. They were right to fight for self determination; it is what the US also had to do at some point (and takes great pride from).

Especially in the current geo-political climate we need to see the human toll of these totally useless wars. No body attacked the US for a while, yet it has attacked/destabilized many countries. It, again, spends more then half of its budget on war with no end. And now has a wildcard president picking fights with a, this time, nuclear power. Wtf.

Finally, it gets mentioned in the doc, but very lightly (end of part 3):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

The admitted "false flag" or "fake" attack that served as a pretext for the US to get into war. This is a HUGE part of the story. There was no good reason for entering, "we the people" never wanted to join, so a reason was fabricated. Disgusting. Completely in line with the low moves Hitler made to get his war going.

TL;DR: Don't watch Ken's doc.
They can bring a fire ladder.

They could also use the self-inflatable chutes, but those are likely to create injuries, so they are an option of last resort.
Apparently, one of the teams from Andorra does:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Andorra
A react component that renders a scroll-to-top button
Because you can read email from the command line.
This is a bad idea. Once it loses its effectiveness it'll leave the drivers in a worse state.
I agree. It's clear from this thread (and it fits with my experience as well) that the usual advice only goes so far, and for obvious reasons: if I had enough energy, motivation, and discipline to work out, eat healthy, meditate, whatever -- all the standard advice for lifting my mood -- I wouldn't be depressed!

I've been wondering lately if there isn't a model of care that goes beyond just a psychiatrist (to prescribe the meds) and a therapist (to administer therapy along with the standard advice about exercise and eating well). Something more like a "nanny" or a caretaker who could help the patient with those things: bug the patient daily to make sure they're taking their meds (and/or supplements, if you're going that route); buy and cook that nice healthy food; get you out of the house and into the gym; etc. Something more than just seeing a therapist once a week, but less intensive than any form of institutional care (even on an outpatient basis).

Asking for a friend... :(
It strikes me that the unhappy people are not always the same ones and don't always have the same reasons.

For example I imagine there are a few people long unhappy with Darwin's open/closed hybrid state that are perfectly happy with Linux or *BSD ... And a bunch of those won't necessarily increase their happiness with Apple even if they open up a bit more. So it's correct to say Apple can't or won't please that type.
The A380 has four engines in total, and can easily tolerate the loss of just one in normal flight. Adding more engines has been a basic way to increase reliability since the beginning of the field; it's not just modern aircraft engineering. There's no other part of the airplane behind the engines either, so nothing to be hit by debris.

What amazes me more is that the newest twinjets are now considered reliable enough to fly six hours away from the nearest landing strip -- that's how far they can coast on the single remaining engine if necessary!
British Color
if you can explain this, go ahead:
"The concrete hypothesis is that the network of subjective measurements of distances we experience on DMT (coming from the relationships between the phenomenal objects one experiences in that state) has an overall geometry that can accurately be described as hyperbolic (or hyperbolic-like). In other words, our inner 3D1T world grows larger than is possible to fit in an experiential field with 3D Euclidean phenomenal space (i.e. an experience of dimension R2.5 representing an R3 scene). This results in phenomenal spaces, surfaces, and objects acquiring a mean negative curvature. Of note is that even though DMT produces this effect in the most consistent and intense way, the effect is also present in states of consciousness induced by tryptamines and to a lesser extent in those induced by all other psychedelics."
"How dare you allow your malignant cells to unboundedly replicate! What would your mother say?"
For "Roman XV" I've entered "Arabic 15" and got rejected.

"15" was accepted, though. Manual password guessing is not much fun - reminds me of school too much.
Suicide?

Edit: I wonder why it is getting downvoted? I am actually about to quit HN due to its increasingly oppressive PC culture.
I'll step in here. I've met people who are visual like me, and do math using their visual thinking. For me, algebra and such is like tetris or a legos but with symbols. To this day, when I do algebra in my head, it involves visualizing symbols as if they are on a page and manipulating that picture.

Others however are not visual, but yet they can do algebra fine using something like logical rules, and to be honest, often tend to be more accurate with it. It sounds like you're one of those people, so it's unfair for what the above poster said regarding everyone being "visual". I think it's not really a matter of ability, it's more about what methods people prefer and some people just don't prefer visualization.

Funny side story: I think I can do the logical thing but it isn't my usual modus operandi, and I had to work on sharpening my "logical" side. I remember when I was in particle physics, and my office mate was so good at the algebra in QFT class and always very accurate. I on the other hand made frequently many little errors, but I'd always be able to "see the forest from the trees." I remember him once showing me the correct way to derive some transition amplitude that was in the homework, and just seeing it for the first time, I said "ah, that reduces to 1 + blah" because I could see that immediately; while he hadn't realized that even after working on it for a couple of hours. I think both types of people (left and right brain I guess) sort of complement each other in research, and we both have to approach math in our own ways.
There's thousands of other more dangerous things you should worry about in your daily life. Like lightning or shark attacks.

Now on the other hand, you could be taken out by an entire airplane crashing, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587
NASA Asteroid Probe Snaps Farewell Photo of Earth and Moon
How come there's no title for this question?
Yeah, and it takes "prime numbers" but not "primes". Kind of annoying.
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struggling on this one.. (not morse code)
count them
It's not really coasting. A transport category aircraft is required to have enough power to continue climbing if it loses an engine, so it must also have enough power to maintain level flight indefinitely (barring fuel consumption, oil leaks, or mechanical damage from an engine failure)
`fork()` in the kernel is a prerequisite for `&` in the shell, but not the same thing. Another sample point: job control first came to shells in 1981 (http://gunkies.org/wiki/4.1_BSD). Perhaps '&' too originated then?
Very well said. However a true functioning democracy require more than these unfortunately. At least in order to have those well functioning institutions you need an entity that can expose groups who have hijacked them.

Countries like Turkey who have been on the losing side of power game for at least couple of centuries, or countries like Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Greece that were non-existent before but either their borders drawn with a ruler on the map or too weak to stand alone are under heavy influence of foreign agents/powers. Heck, even US is under heavy influence of interest groups to the extent that public was sold on to the idea of Iraq's invasion. Even then most Americans opposed the Iraq war but their voices were drowned by heavy media bombardment.

Take Iran. Once they had their own elected government but CIA staged a coup [1] and installed Shah. Think for once, if a country is run with democracy, but a real one, would they throw a democratic country and install a dictator instead? US is a very strong country in many respects and hides many large cracks. Don't be fooled by its looks.

You need more than institutions to have a real democracy. It is not easy to have people's voice heard.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/cia-admits-rol...
A brief survey of current techniques for estate and gift tax reduction [pdf]
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(collab effort crowdwiz bruteforce yay)
the missing #'s in each sequence... 428
Accessibility or " really unpleasant "? You are moving the goalposts.
> This is what makes RAII in C++ so important/convenient.

This reminds me of the C++ developer who, when asked what his favorite snippet of C++ source code was, replied with:

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They only would need to sell to other robot owners. In a borderline case, a small group could own and operate a whole tree of technology required for a modern living standard, like a self-sufficient farm that buys nothing from the outside.

While possible, this is usually not efficient, though.
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Lightens the night.
Does anyone know what happened ?

Was he sick ? Was it cancer ?
> US gov't was acting irrational/anti-freedom/for-no-good-cause/destructive.

How old are you? Valid question. My younger friends who missed being alive during the real fear of Russia/Communism often say exactly what you said. People who are old enough to remember that time period, even if it was the very end, understand a little better the mood of the world at that time.

History does not happen in a vacuum. While it may have been irrational in hindsight, at the time the spread of Russian communism was a real and valid fear (the documentary even talks of France telling the US if it did not help in Vietnam they would consider aligning with Russia). If only the US knew then that it would basically win a culture victory barely ~20 years later.

Your TLDR is seems to say ignore history and believe the very simplistic view of a war mongering US. If wars were only that simple, they could probably be avoided.
> IPNS isn’t done yet, so if that link doesn’t work, don’t fret. Just know that I will be able to change what that pubkeyhash points to, but the pubkeyhash will always remain the same. When it’s done, it will solve the site updating problem.
There's a chap by the name of Ted Nelson who's been working on that for the past 50 years. Unfortunately, the problem is a bit harder than it looks.
I meant to say "cruise", if that makes more sense.
"We're not a State, or even a Territory, we're an independent Commonwealth and supposed to be independent of federal disaster assistance. But myself, and other political leaders in Puerto Rico, abdicated our duties and did not prepare. You are providing us immense and essential aid, but we need more, as my leadership has been corrupt and incompetent. Thank you for your extraordinary efforts so far, and thank you in advance for saving the people I was elected to protect."
The Origin of the Stored Program Concept (1985) [pdf]
If you are one of the people who wants to end "Fake News," you are also on board with ending Net Neutrality.

What do you think ending Fake News involves? The only way to do it is to have the government, Google, Facebook and probably these same ISPs you hate deciding what can and can't be put online.

You simply want to replace one giant beaurecratic gatekeeper with another one.

Anyone dumb enough to think Fake News resulted in the election results (please, show me the data) while rushing online to scream about Net Neutrality is a pawn in the game.
Because IPFS uses a distributed hash table like Bittorent, you don't have to know where stuff is--that's the problem with the HTTP, which is location addressed. IPFS is content addressed—the hash is the location.

You never host anything unless you want to; you don't host random stuff.

It's 2017, if you're using Google Docs or an instant messenger program and lose access to the backbone, you can't communicate with somebody who's in the same room with you. That's kinda silly. IPFS solves that issue.

IPFS is censorship resistance because it's a distributed protocol that can use a variety of transports. If I run example.com, people can DDOS it; it's much harder to do that when hundreds or thousands of nodes have the same content and you can connect to any of them. Sure worked in Turkey: http://observer.com/2017/05/turkey-wikipedia-ipfs/.

Filecoin is a cryptocurrency that will be mined by providing storage via IPFS.

Folks may want to read the white paper before they make assumptions about what's possible and what's hype: https://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf
https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publication...
wipes tear from eye
HA! Thank you. That had gone right over my head :)
Level 23

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A firearm against the man's skull,
Fired a round, now he's deceased.
> It first mentions that Johnson wanted to escalate so had a congressional resolution drafted for when the time was right,

FYI, the documentary mentions that the resolution was already drafted before the second incident.
Answer is "queen".
It's a reference to Bohemian Rhapsody
The other benefit is that this flow encourages you to push the WIP branch to remote as early as possible. Otherwise I find I'll work too long exclusively on the local repo getting things "just right", and creating an unnecessary risk of data loss.
I apparently am watching a completely different Ken Burns doco than you are. I find myself thinking "wow, I forgot how completely fucking corrupt Nixon was" or "wow, Johnson really was up his own ass" every episode.
"ramanujan" was pretty pretentious
He struggled deeply with alcoholism, but the cause of his death has not been announced.
I'm disappointed I didn't see that one sooner! I think I'm at the point where each question is now a challenge for me though :/
I agree. The Americans look bad. The French look bad. Even worse is that at first the Americans looked like an ally since they were once a colony. They way they left the Vietnamese out to dry after WW2 is a tragedy.
Distributed technology keeps centralized providers honest. If github got complacent their customers could migrate their most important data in a very short time.
I'm unfamiliar with Darcs, but thanks for calling it to my attention. Based on a quick look, it appears Darcs uses text diffs, so it's not quite what I'm talking about, but it's definitely interesting.
hmm, can't figure this one out

97...98...99...00
Level 17 : 1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103
Tried : ramanujam, taxicab, hardy-ramanujam. Nothing works.
millennium bug ;)
The problem with socialism without free market is that it has been tried many times, and it drastically lowers productivity, leading to deficits. People start spending their copious free time in lines waiting for the rare and insufficient goods to arrive. If you think USSR was long ago and this time it will be different, look at Venezuela.
ramanujan (ends with an N)
#000 T '29

No idea for the above. Reference to the t29 heavy tank? "Black" T in 1929? Nothing is coming up. Black Tuesday/Black Thursday of 1929 wasn't it either.
ahhh thanks!
n, not m.
Catalan Separatists Defiant Before Independence Vote Deemed Illegal
black tuesday 1929

Answer is "wall street"
still not getting it, tried 4.6692 and 46692

e: got it, thanks!
4.6692 ?
And here I thought that maybe it had to do with bits and powers of 2 (0 and 1 being among them)
Ugh, thanks
>It would be big enough news that most users would switch and the development would only benefit from the extra cash.

You think most of VLC's users are the type who would read about a fork on a site like this? I imagine their user base is much larger than that.
Hypnagogic Meditation in Seattle