skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The anti-trust trail didn’t result in much in the end. The market forces that clipped Microsoft’s wings were a magnitude larger, and would have been the same regardless. The DOJ was nothing compared to Ballmer laughing the iPhone off, or Linux dominating embedded devices and internet servers despite all the FUD.
You are basically asking them: "I love your work. Please add an option so I can use it, benefit from it, then leave and never pay you again."
> I dont truly know if global warming is a thing

There is no question that global warming is happening [1]. Even denialists will concede this. They only question the severity of the problem and whether it's man-made or natural.

High temperature records are broken nearly every year nowadays. The last time we had a record low temperature was 100 years ago (though I can't find the reference at the moment).

[1] http://www.climatesignals.org/data/record-high-temps-vs-reco...
For those who don't know, the Robert T. Morris quoted in the text turned out to be the author of the worm, and the R. H. Morris also quoted was his father (who also did a lot of work with the NSA).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
Seeing this got more attention than I assumed - at Peer5 (YC W2017) we attack this by doing distributed video delivery.

It's very challenging to figure out how to do this in a way that benefits users and improves user experience - we are very careful about being fair to users on mobile connections - but I think that a distributed web platform is the future and the only way we can combat the (lack of) net neutrality.
> Especially with things one has little control over.

He chose to pull out a pre-relase phone (that he was under strict orders to keep secret) in front of his vlogging daughter's DSLR camera while she was filming. Nothing in that scenario was out of his control.
Interesting project/business.

As an aside, for your main page, I would stay away from using the word "Lego-block components".

I haven't checked it out, but Lego is likely a registered trademark. Best to avoid unnecessary legal issues.
That doesn't seem like an equivalent situation. I'm talking about a tragedy-of-the-commons situation, where an individual has a negligible influence over the climate, and so might rationally go ahead and instead spend his effort on something that he will actually get some benefits from.
Everything You Need to Know About Wireframes and Prototypes
Property is a social invention, maintained and enforced by government, whose laws are controlled by the people.

We have free enterprise not because freedom is absolutely right or an absolute right, but because we've determined that's the best way to get a decent outcome for the most people.

Should free enterprise start oppressing the people, we'll change the rules. Because we made the rules.
Right? Not mention the "crashes" mentioned in the repo will be caught as soon as you test it...
All forms of underwater plants will do better with more CO2, especially the ones that also grow above water. Perhaps not including seaweed.

I don't know how much effect that will have, given seaweed is mostly it, but planted aquariums typically need to artificially inject CO2 into the water to get decent growth rates. The exchange rate with air is deeply unfavorable, so there'll be barely any CO2 in the water otherwise.

The exchange rate also worsens as temperature increases. I'm not sure how it'd work out overall.
Exactly.
This reminds me of the 1990's AOL's walled garden model that ultimately lost to the open Web.

I wonder though, if we really descent into a multi-tier internet and if a version of a "legacy" internet survives in some form (even though not accessible by main stream FB/GOOG users), if that legacy part of the internet will become cleaner and once gain open to grass roots innovation?
what would replace them?
Yes, it is just a cycle.

Companies create an open platform to get users, then they progressively squeeze the platform for more money degrading experience, some other company creates a new open platform that offers a better experience, rinse, repeat.
Exactly. And the very act of stopping most fossil fuel use may result in a very fast increase of warming because of the diminution of global dimming - although how much (and wether or not it's significant) is highly debatable - could be nothing, could be a straight up +1C in a few weeks.

And as you said, stopping the fossil fuel use worldwide would upend our entire modern civilization, result in massive food shortages and an economic crisis, and likely significant conflicts as well. Damned if we do, damned if we don't.
I think in this case you're both being downvoted for calling up some of the right's favorite bogeymen(SJWs, communists) without any real cause for it here.
> 2016 saw average concentrations of CO2 hit 403.3 parts per million, up from 400ppm in 2015... "The largest increase was in the previous El Niño, in 1997-1998 and it was 2.7ppm and now it is 3.3ppm, it is also 50% higher than the average of the last ten years."

It sounds a lot less alarmist when you put it this way. We're talking like 0.6 part per million. If you look at the graph in the article, it's basically in-line with the past 60 years.
Are you worried about would-be customers self hosting? Because I doubt there’s that much overlap between would-be monthly customers and those who are eager to self host.

Or are you worried about clones?
Hi. I'm interested in type theory, and I'm a big fan of JS.

shrug

Is it really so hard to believe? Imagine if the browser's scripting language didn't have closures or prototypical inheritance. It was possible.

JS was a pretty good compromise between power and simplicity.
How to Deal with a very bad zombie Gameboy invasion
This is cool - I think it might be more compelling if you created some sort of infographic or analysis on top of this data that pulls the user in a bit.

What list did you use for book recognition? Are you only doing exact matches?
"Reliable and fast" is exactly why TouchID was so great when they introduced it. They aren't just nice-to-have features, they're the bare minimum requirements for this kind of thing -- a feature that you use constantly, and which gates your access to all other features.
>but it's time to look seriously at terraforming as well.

There are so many orders of magnitude differences between the two problems (budget, timescales and difficulty) that I'm not sure if this is sarcasm.
https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-Handbook/blob/master...

The example seems like a valid case. The type of event is expressed in a separate parameter, so being strict here requires pointless casting and doesn't actually make things safer.

Whether you think this type weakness is worth the downsides is up to you.
Web 4.0
For each request, or periodically?
The author of this seems to misunderstand what star trek is
New Skype for desktop is available
Show HN: API to check where a tv show or movie is available; Netflix, Amazon etc.
Here is an API we created to check availability of a TV show or Movie across multiple services

https://market.mashape.com/utelly/utelly

On Demand Services:

- uk

Netflix

Amazon Prime

Amazon Instant

iTunes

Now TV

TalkTalk TV Store

Google Play

BBC iPlayer

All 4

My 5

Rakuten TV

ITV Hub

- us

Netflix

Amazon Prime

Amazon Instant

iTunes

Live TV:

- uk

All channels - BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV 1, Channel 4, Sky 1...

More countries/services are being added. Let us know which ones you want !
Browser plugins was useful to know what to serve the client. I think the list of fonts was IE-only, although you could try to detect them by setting the font of a piece of text and checking if the size of the rendered text changed.

The version and OS are part of the User-Agent, and the idea was also to allow the server to send the most appropriate/compatible version of the page.
Scientists don't work in a vacuum. They do need resources to do their work. As long as they don't get them and research funding keeps getting slashed, the scientists cannot do much. They are already trying their best with the available resources.

Climate change can only be solved by political means. Hoping someone will make a breakthrough that will make the problem go away is not realistic.
Every time this sort of question comes up, I reflexively link people to this page: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

Most of the time what people think they need a VPN for, a VPN won't actually help them much. They have a narrow use-case in privacy contexts, in which case you're better off using Tor.
Some nations however are looking ahead, look at Morocco and Saudi Arabia. Morocco in the past hasn't been a major source of fuel, however they are now creating huge solar farms and planning to export power to Spain (and the rest of Europe). And Saudi Arabia are pumping huge amounts of money in to solar farms and are home to some of the cheapest solar farms in the world, subsidy floor prices are low as 1.79 US cents per kWh according to offers for tender this month. [0]

[0] https://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/world-s-cheapest-...
10-20 years from now they will all be saying "of course we wanted to do something at the time but the lefties wouldn't let us address climate change." Something about nuclear power (probably)
This guy would have been fine if he told his family he was working on payment software for the next iPhone. What he did though was the equivalent of you showing your family HIPAA records and pointing out private medical information about someone else.
Robert T Morris also started Viaweb and YC with P Graham. He has chosen to (understandably) maintain a low profile.
I will only leave it and never pay if something terrible happens: the price is jacked up, service suffers or I create such a great thing that I need commodity pricing.

But its worse than that: if I don't have the security that I can leave, I won't dedicate time to use this.

I am happy to pay for the convenience and to try to create MVPs or proofs of service etc.

Anyway, it hardly matters what I think. Imagine what all the students and start ups think when they see it.
Haha, yes my goof up. I disagree that they will rewrite though. Nobody is willingly rewriting millions of loc.
Actually, yeah, I do do that with laptops and desktops and monitors. My entire family uses laptops that I once owned. And I'm using a laptop (as a server) that my parents once owned. My old monitor is now my nephew's monitor. etc.etc.
I love Django and flask. I'm an expert at both. I train people at both.

But come on. 6 minutes with DB, responsive design, registration (including social auth or AD) and online deployment ? I can't top that. No even close. Even with boostrap and pythonanywhere. And I know the freaking API by heart while most people are just trying to figure out what's going on.

This stuff is amazing for somebody who just want to fiddle with a CRUD app. The ratio investment / return is crazy.
Well, what I meant was zero-rating of services, which is what this discussion is about (rather than based on actual operational costs).

And actually, arguably, that is not necessarily against net neutrality.

Net neutrality ultimately is about whether anyone can send traffic to the ISP's customers under the same, non-monopolistic, conditions. As such, making a geographic distinction isn't really that much of a problem, if it is not used to also implement other distinctions. The question is: Could anyone who would have wanted to send traffic to those customers bought transit on the open market at market rates in order to deliver traffic to within the reach of the zero rating?

It's a problem if you can buy special interconnects from the ISP in order to have your traffic zero-rated. It's not really a problem if the ISP says "any traffic delivered to this exchange (that is well-connected to many competing transit providers) is zero-rated".
OpenGL Renderer Design (2016)
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were untruthful. I was instead asking if the same sentencing would apply to a case like this. I assume there's not much precedent for sentencing a case like this in Denmark. Honestly this seems worse than Palle Sorensen, who shot police officers during a chase, and didn't plot their deaths or torture them.
That's exactly what you can do! If you open up a Server Module, you'll see a drop-down in the top-right. That will allow you to select a Python 3.6 runtime.

The client-side code is Python 2 only for now, but we're already upgrading our Python-to-Javascript compiler to include Python 3 syntax.
Styled-components – Mastering the fundamentals through practice
Climate change is sadly, totally irrelevant. There are so many other types of pollution that are completely ignored due to the emphasis on CO2. In China there are factory cities with giant lakes of sludge. They expense is to make our semi-conductors, flash memory and other electrical components. There is a tremendous amount of waste from the batteries (although Li-Ion batteries are cleaner to produce than the previous generations; and Musk is building a plant in the US at least).

The true problem is consumerism and planned obsolescence. Phones should last 10 years. They should have standard components like a PC. There should be one kernel that runs on all of them, like a PC. Old laptops should be re-purposed. We need to actually be able to recycle a Pentium 3 instead of shipping all our e-waste to Africa and China where kids pick through them for inefficient amounts of metals.

We need to stop consuming as much stuff. We need to pay higher prices for components that last longer, have a more complete recycling cycle and companies should actually be praised for not meeting sales targets if it means their old stock is simply lasting longer and no longer needs replacement. You shouldn't buy a new laptop if the old one is "two years old and running slow."

I'm not saying CO2 isn't a problem, but the sole focus on it is saddening because it's not the problem itself. It's a symptom of an extremely consumerist society. You cannot replace every gas vehicle with an electric one over the next 20 years. We simply don't have the resources. There are 4 barrels of oil that go into ever set of tiers, not to mention all the plastic and trim. We are getting more wind turbines and solar to better power those cars, yes .. cars that will simply never be built.

We need to reduce cars, have better train systems in every city, live smaller, consume less and make things last. No amount of CO2 emission reduction will solve the actual problem of increasing mass consumption, not until our population starts to curb.

Unfortunately, I don't think we'll see any real changed in the developed world until the next bubble bursts or the next major collapse.
it still decays to things that release that CO2, plus burying things uses a lot of energy. If this a serious proposal you should be thinking grow it, wait for it to dry out and burn it - the fire will not be hot enough to turn all the carbon into CO2, the remainder is elemental carbon (read charcoal) in a form not usable to life. That carbon is also biochar which is actually useful to improve the soil.

This is most easily done in forest, but note that you need regular forest fires, otherwise the fire is hot enough to run all the carbon into CO2 and we didn't gain anything. Thus most of the forest fires you read about are bad - but if we change our policy after the fire and burn those forests often we can make them a net negative CO2.
Its not just a generational issue, its also a religious one. A massive barrier to acceptance is admitting that humans have the ability to render earth uninhabitable, something that God either A) wouldn't allow to happen, or worse B) is allowing to happen because its part of the end times.

Why try to fix the problem if we aren't the masters of our own destiny?
I think driving is a good example -- if your phone is mounted on a holder on the dashboard, you can easily and reasonably safely unlock it with your thumb, but face ID will be fiddly and dangerous.

They probably figure that people should be using CarPlay, though.
> Property is a social invention, maintained and enforced by government, whose laws are controlled by the people.

Yup.

> We have free enterprise not because freedom is absolutely right or an absolute right, but because we've determined that's the best way to get a decent outcome for the most people.

False. We have free enterprise because there is no freedom without the freedom to exchange labor, goods, and services. It's the natural order of things to trade, always has been and probably always will be. It's not about the best outcome for most people, never has been, and never will be. It's about the right of self determination and autonomy.

> Should free enterprise start oppressing the people, we'll change the rules. Because we made the rules.

True, but Google and Facebook and Amazon aren't oppressing anyone, so your point is moot in this conversation.
I don't use Chrome, but this hyperbole. You may not mind that Google gets your info but still dislike that every ad network out there does.
A Masscan Tutorial and Primer
She's not a teenager - she's a grown, married adult woman.
Anecdata and not what you're asking but relevant.

I saw a talk by David Battisti (Univ Washington professor). He had attended a FAO meeting about climate change and agriculture.

It looks like it is increasingly hard to engineer wheat/rice varieties that can reach peak yield with rising temperatures. The outlook for say, Indian river production, is not good at all.

From what I remember, we are currently in the temperature sweet spot for rice/wheat production.

If someone knows a primary source for this kind of thing, please comment
Snarky one-liners aren't good comments for Hacker News. You can always say something substantive instead, and then we have a much higher chance of an insightful discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
From where comes your confidence that you are not "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller"?
Co-mingling of inventory is why i'll never buy anything vaguely counterfeitable from either. I previously had fake Sennheiser headphones sold by Amazon themselves.
Docker is also a registered trademark. What is the point you are making?
In the US "defense" is a general term for military. We call it the "Department of Defense" and companies that contract with the military are "defense contractors."

With that said (and I've worked at a defense contractor as my college internship a decade ago) the name is intentionally misleading. Most reasonable people wouldn't support the "foreign war budget" but "defense"? What person would be against defending your country!?
Simple question. Is there a way to reverse engineer the app or sniff its network traffic (to find clues) to find out if this is real or not ?
> (seriously, SML syntax is better than Ocaml syntax in almost every way)

Except that for the most part, that's subjected, and even more importantly, there are plenty of reasons to prefer OCaml over SML even if you don't like the syntax.
We’re headed that direction anyway as the tech curves for wind solar and storage mean that fossil fuel energy generation is likely to be more expensive in 15-20 years.

We could have gotten here sooner if we had invested more heavily, sooner in these technologies. As it is we had a few forward thinking states like Germany to thank for where we are, with spot prices of wind and most solar being cheaper than coal, and often cheaper than natural gas.

This totally upends the few existing players that were once thought to have unassailable power. But now that companies that are heavily invested in natural gas are treating coal as their competitor and enemy in the political landscape, things are changing. Those natural gas heavy fossil fuel companies are actually asking for a carbon tax!

As solar and wind become bigger economic forces, we will likely start to see more consolidation and see fewer player with stronger political force to compete with natural gas. The nuclear industry has no power here, they let fossil fuel driven companies control their fate, and they have no industrial savvy to build an industry, and instead spend all their time tilting at windmills of weak political forces, and unable to build and deliver reactors when they do have eager customers.

It will be super interesting to see what happens with Perry’s coal NOPR that’s being evaluated by FERC right now. Has FERC been stacked with enough coal partisans, or will the rest of the energy industry win out?
Decentralized crypto versions perhaps?
Im still suggesting the webapp exists, just in the form of webapp.com/db, to which you POST with the field query=SELECT%20*%20FROM%20table

So the one page takes any arbitrary query, and forwards the query on the client's behalf, and returns the dataset to the client.

Im not sure how the provided api is better than what ive suggested; they seem to me equivalent, but xmysql a lot more annoying to write, and xmysql is doing a lot more work for what looks like no benefit
Yes it would be but how are they particularly related to Madden? Musk and Bezos aren’t just inventors, they are CEOs and highly successful inventors whose companies have an ongoing and huge influence on HN’s world. Madsen is not particularly well known as an inventor — certainly his achievements in morbid crime have made him more famous than his submarine.
US:
Hulu, HBO Now, Google Play
Pages load fast without bloat in iOS thanks to both the reader view and iOS's built in support of content blockers. What are the chances that Google will allow for third party content blockers and a reader view in Chrome that blocks all ads including theirs in Android?

And the pages aren't hosted by Google.
Yeah, 0.6 ppm may sound like a very small amount, but I thought the problem is that the effect over time / harm as a function of concentration levels is convex; i.e. +0.6ppm today means a huge difference 10 years from now.
Yes, it's unlikely.

What he had on his hard drive only shows that he would be the guy to enjoy to behead someone (at least as a fantasy) -- not that he was also so stupid as to plan to do it inside inside a small tube in the ocean where others knew he would be alone with the victim.
Don’t manipulate votes on Product Hunt by attempting to link to a search page instead of the project itself.
> We're talking like 0.6 part per million

You dismiss this increase as if the small percentage of the total atmosphere that CO2 makes up is a relevant statistic. It's not - you're using big numbers not related to make it sound like the situation is smaller than it is.

Are you expecting it to get to 1 part per thousand, or something? That's not the risk area - the risk area is here, at ~400ppm.

> If you look at the graph in the article, it's basically in-line with the past 60 years.

Actually it looks like a steep increase to me from the last 60 years. Also, these are numbers we'd like to be doing down, not increasing even faster.

The situation is dire.
> Jean-Michel Claverie, a microbiologist [..] could have caused this scenario twice. In 2014, Claverie thawed a small sample of Siberian permafrost in a petri dish and discovered a dormant virus that [..] could infect amoebas.

Wait, it looks like we should stop scientists from experimenting with permafrost in the first place.
This is not an unreasonable ask though. You should certainly think twice to pigeon holing yourself with any technology that you do not have full rights to and will be lost without a specific provider.

It does make figuring out your business model more complicated, but having SOME story for what will happen if you go out of business or start being a bad actor is something you need to figure out.

It isn't impossible though, our SAAS is Open Source and we survive, though yes, some customers do choose to self host. You just end up with fewer enterprise customers and more smaller clients.