skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> step 5 is untrue over large distances such as across the Sahara

Yep. Focusing on local, social connections makes this less relevant.

> Step 6 is true, but does not necessarily lead to mass adoption.

Yeah, there's more scope for growth in places that don't already have abundant internet, where the pull is practical. But there are also a growing number of enthusiasts for whom the pull is principle, and they can help make mesh networking viable for poor people in rich cities.

> Step 7 is feasible, but costs a LOT of money at scale.

Step 7 is what you and I are doing right now :) — using the existing internet. This point was supposed to mean: the existing internet, can co-exist with and compliment mesh networks. Staltz's [Multi-modal connectivity](https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25OryfD6hGpjiqwFkKyFnhVPZMPsZF...) puts it more eloquently.

> it seems highly unlikely that people in developed nations are willing to accept drastic slowdowns in their connections.

Never underestimate the value of cheapness! I know some people who don't have home broadband; they just use their phone's data connection. It's slower, but it's adequate, and it's cheaper.

Mesh networking doesn't have to completely supplant ISPs. I want it to become a viable alternative, suitable for certain people depending on their priorities — like Linux!

> Caching might reduce this a bit, but is by definition not effective for "long tail" content.

If we're talking about data storage here (the flatbed truck — as opposed to data delivery, the series of tubes) then HTTPS can still be a highly-available option of last resort. If you want people to see your content, and no-one else is interest in replicating it, you can host it yourself or pay someone else to. Maybe use hashbase.io; they seem generous. If you mean data delivery, the packets have to traverse the internet somehow; it's just a question of whose box they go via.
Because SVN is painfully slow, bloated and almost nobody uses it anymore. You'd be doing them a disservice by teaching them a technology they most likely won't be able to take with them to their next job.
How do I block an email address in mac mail?
Scuttlebutt?
Why would the taxi be 3x the price?

The '03 Crown Vic has long since paid off it's capital costs and the cab company gets to blame the driver if things go far enough south for lawyers to get involved.

Until some mythical future where self driving cars are so good and common that the "progressive" states start providing financial disincentives for people to operate their own vehicles (which would be a pretty major about face the vast majority of all transportation and infrastructure related regulation to date) I don't see where the driver-less taxi has a cost advantage in the foreseeable future. Your insurance premium is in large part based on the presence of everyone else around you.
this noise is commonly referred to as coil whine and is made by any high voltage electrical component. The sound comes from the electron gun which has very high voltage passing through it. If you cant hear it you have hearing damage because most crts make the noise just on the edge of human hearing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically_excited_ac...
Watch tutorials by Kelsey Hightower, he's been helping folks understand the differences and the models.
e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlAXp0-M6SY
They actually say on the website that they're not redeemable.
Kaspersky sues DHS over federal blacklist
We used to have a bread maker and I would agree with your assessment. Not to mention; is it really that hard to make bread by hand? Genuine question since I've never made a loaf by hand. But I do make biscuits (American) fairly often and they're not that hard.
What's your personal blog? I'd love to take a look. Also, what you can do, is link out to separate pages that included the math formatting stuff. So you can have a pure HTML page, and link out to MathML specific pages. This probably wouldn't be worth it, just throwing it out there.
You would be surprised to see what motivates people to do the things they do, even if it's just a child (https://kotaku.com/grand-theft-auto-blamed-after-eight-year-...) or a teen (http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/02/16/lawsuit-grand-theft-...). And this is just one video game so you can only imagine what all those violent sports and a whole lot of other video games can make people do. Common sense, after all, is not that common.
It's from the University 'Newsroom' department, and AFAIK these are pretty notorious for over-hyping University research. It essentially is a marketing department for the University.
On Code Review – Glen D Sanford
That's why you can still duel with someone you dislike. /s
Another strong case for the legalization of therapeutic psychotropics
Journalism Predictions for 2018: The Year of Resilience
There's a such thing as good violence?
I stopped following Musk after he made this childish remark. Glad to see it's getting noticed more widely.
There is a big difference in the perception of internal versus external criticism.
I assume that was meant as a joke. Universities regularly put out utter nonsense in press releases (the marketing departments at universities are often ground zero for the most atrocious exaggerations that end up in the press). And I doubt universities in Australia are specially immune from this.
+1, not having to use a mouse is great. I also use zsh's inbuilt git aliases [0] which I can't recommend enough -- I've found using git CLI without them a pain now that I'm used to them. These together have me productive and happy.

[0] https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Plugin:git
From Spy Planes to Rogue WiFi Networks: How to Explore the Hidden World of Radio
It's easier when the new thing is more enjoyable than the old thing. Then you naturally gravitate toward it.

It's harder when the new thing is less enjoyable but will eventually pay off.
I have this too. Sadly I think it's more likely due to the fact that some of the largest websites have a speed limit per connection.
On mac I can recommend Gitup. It's fast and easy. Also vs code has quite nice git integration. I just use it for making commits though. Everything else is faster from CLI.
Virgin Hyperloop One raises $50M, Branson becomes chair
It was 5th with 1.8 million people, and was 4th in the 20s, 30s, and 40s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_in_the_...

Perhaps you could use Wikipedia to satisfy your curiosity
Your experience is a real shame, truly. If Kubernetes could fix their horrendous documentation and onboarding story, I think you'd have a much better experience. After bruising past that battle, I found Kubernetes to be the perfect mix of sanity and opinionated architecture. I think part of it is also due to how rapidly it's evolved over the past 2 years, so hopefully you get a chance to revisit it once some of those rough edges are smoothed over!
In Ottawa, I know very few people who regularly carry cash. I easily haven't made a cash transaction in 6 months.

When I went to the States (NYC), I was surprised at how hard it is to get around without cash (restaurants, hairdressers, tolls, all cash-only or EZPass) and eventually caved in and took out money for the trip. I think America is just slightly behind the times in terms of cashlessness.
Pretty much the only important part of this (tremendous!) message is the bit at the end:

> "The real point is that if somebody like me with no previous hacking background was able to do what I did, then somebody better than me could've done far worse things to the Internet in 2017."

One person.
Overwatch is shockingly playable on a laptop without a dedicated graphics card
Neural Machine Translation Framework in PyTorch
Does American prefer Germany/Japanese cars or USA cars?
And tup for the last 10. Lots of people in this thread complaining about Make's syntax might want to check it out; it has a nice, simple "inputs |> command |> outputs" syntax, a similar "output the DAG" mode to Cr, and defaults to parallelism.

http://gittup.org/tup/
Beautiful! The author has a great voice. I’ve always loved the dark, ever since I was young. I’m greatly anticipating the spring, but in the mean time I relish in the dark; spending time with family, friends and loved ones.
Nope. That link has been posted around here since about 7 years ago!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2453713
Why is it only the server's service that you get to pay what you feel like?

This steak is nice, but it's not $17 nice. I think I'll just pay $14 for it.

These new tires for my car don't ride as well as the old ones. I think I'll only pay $50 for them, instead of the $75 asking price.

It was a nice concert, but I don't think it was really worth the $90 I paid. I'm going to pay $50.

There was a bit too much traffic on the bridge today. I'm going to only pay 75% of the usual toll.
"a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform" [1], also referenced in the article.

[1] https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
True, but irrelevant: the Israeli media doesn't have the problem of acquiring and maintaining support for a foreign country.

On the opposite, the fact that criticism towards Israeli policies is much more pronounced and direct inside Israeli media than it is in the media of a completely independent country, is a clear sign that the debate is artificially stifled.
I'm really similar. I hit a point with multiple monitors where I realized that the extra space was more of a distraction than a help. I now use a single monitor/full screen 90% of the time.

I use Contexts.app to search through all of my windows and so that task switching becomes more consistent/muscle memory-ish, which was really nice for staying in flow. I also use Spectacle so that I can easily window arrange for those times when side by side windows is useful.
Slippery slope. How many rappers will get banned for promoting violence through their music? Guns, violence and misogyny are part and parcel of rap music these days.
> physicians hate them, and many blame them for the massive increase in physician burnout over the last few years

It's funny, I assumed the same. I then asked a few who used the product, and was surprised to hear praise for Epic. I wonder if the product has actually improved, or if users have simply conceded.
I upvoted you even though I disagree with your final statement since I saw you were being thrashed down. Hope this comment doesn't get buried because “does some weird stuff” is a pretty perfect summary of the borderline-criminal behaviour of that particular exchange.
Database handles the shared state in a heterogenous environment. We need it to be centralized to keep track of money, the apps can't do that, two independent databases cant do that either.

Why can't apps "keep track of money"? I'm assuming you're referring to transactions. Apps can create transactions and you can share transactions across apps using distributed transaction (I'm not saying distributed transaction is a good idea).
SOCML (Self-Organizing Conference on Machine Learning) is really nice. Open discussions and interesting people. It's not the classic academic conference.
Case in point, this comment.
But remember the caveats about using the same key pair for multiple transactions: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address_reuse
Well, self defense is a generally accepted case of good violence.
Let's take a look at wells fargo.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/wfc/financials

Interest income: 53.66B
Interest expense: 5.91B
Net interest: 47.75B

Net income: 21.94B

so already, we're working off of closer to 40% net margin.

Now let's look at what actually causes the difference between those numbers:

>10.08B	in taxes

Pretax is 32.12B, so there's about 15B left to explain

This turns out, roughly, to be the difference between Non-Interest Income	and Non-Interest Expense - in other words, stuff that isn't really related to regular banking stuff.

I'm not going to repeat this analysis for another 1000 banks, but it seems like, at best, you might double that number if you decide that some of these expenses aren't needed.
Lol. Although many good and seemingly well-reasoned arguments, the author forgot that you can only place a value on something if it is traded for something else. (eg BTC to USD, or chickens to potatoes). It is the ratio that gives the value and also depends on what side of the trade you're on.

"A sudden random jolt downward in bitcoin price prompts many people to try to sell it and worsen the situation,"

This sentence makes no sense because the "bitcoin price" is actually the BTC/USD ratio. You can trade in other ways.

My final, roll-on-the-floor-laughing moment was the description of dollar as a measure of utility:

"If the utility measured by a single dollar fluctuated a lot, that would mean that the number in your bank account would suddenly miscount the utility of all the work that filled it"

This happens every single day. Every government and bank in the world devalues your current bank account (aka inflation), so that you have to work harder (ie, increase your utility) to receive the same benefit.

"If you’re not willing to have a fluctuating bank account, BTC does not make transactions easier. It forces you to make more transactions."

That's precisely why government provided currencies are also worthless! All of us are running around like chickens without their head, hoping to get 'more money' just to survive! Currency is enslavement IMHO.
How can this even happen? How can you misplace 11k rape kits in a way that doesn't disrupt trust in the chain of custody? Does DNA evidence degrade after some time? Are there juristical time limits?

Also imagine you're now happily married to some guy for 10 years and suddenly the police comes knocking. Can't protect yourself against stuff like that. Slow procecution is just all around bad for the society.
Probably just means "Don't let her be interviewed by the guy we all know is a serial sexual abuser but whom we plan to do nothing about until after at least three women have gone viral with their stories of creepy abuse at his hands".
I think this is an accurate assessment of how things play out in the real world. It seems like many people here are attracted to decentralized solutions for ideological reasons, but don't realize/acknowledge that the vast majority of people don't care and will go with whatever is convenient for them.
Oh this is quite clever, we always tend to forget to update the dependencies…
Gitup is free and probably better.
If the market can't clear, the price will drop until it does. Saying bitcoin has reached a certain price carries with it the implication that the market is clearing at the price, i.e. that people are indeed buying.

Million-USD transactions already occur in BTC all the time.
I think you're quite right. Browsers would need to add quite a few capabilities in order to support the world you envision, but those capabilities would be simpler and less generic than javascript support.
Could you expand on your thoughts for Trump trying to bring everything back home? Genuinely curious what your thoughts are and not from a political stand point :) Thanks.
you know what, just kick me off. frankly this site has taken on most of the awful qualities of twitter. your guidelines are designed to coerce people into writing pablum and i've decided i don't want to reduce myself any further. enjoy your echo chamber.
In choose your own adventure style: http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
You did see me preach about all of the capabilities for unit testing without a database dependency, type safety, flexibility (with Linq I can switch back and forth between an RDMS and NoSql without any code changes)?
Does that mean at all times (permanently, like whenever the chip is being used) or just during manufacturing?
> My god, how do you leave over 11k crimes just sitting in a store room...

Because if the police had a choice, they wouldn't have collected the evidence in the first place, so when the law required them to collect the evidence and didn't require them to do anything with it, the results were predictable; that's why the newer law sets timelines for testing.

> Hope it's an isolated thing (but not actually expecting it to be so)

It's not, there's lots of stories about untested rape kits nationally, most of which don't have the “we finally tested them and convicted some rapists” silver lining.
Scaling requires interpolation, but nearest neighbor sampling was good and fast enough for old school rotozoom effect.
This discussion, and the replies to your comment, reminds me of this quote by Jean-Paul Sarte, which very much applies to the rebranded "alt-right" today:

> Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15954137.
22 nm is about 10 years old.
Damn auto correct. That should have been "contention issues".
Any system with a fungible unit of account leads to plutocracy. Discuss :)
What makes people use centralized services is their utility. People will pick up new tools and repurpose them if they find them useful. In theory the web is supposed to be about communication and connection.

I think the emphasis on building a local network is a good idea. P2P mesh is cool but until it provides opportunities that don't exist otherwise it is unlikely to surpass.

The notion of building this for places without internet access is a positive angle but also tricky. Charity is seldom as successful or scalable as user driven initiatives. A lot of mobile phones now exist in places w/o "internet" per se. But from my understanding say converting a 3 year old smartphone into a mesh 1st device seems challenging from a wifi driver and power consumption and app perspective.

Balancing the project of design that is easy for non-technical people with the notion of eating your own dogfood one can theorize about building alternatives to the hierarchical Internet. This is the challenge though, figuring out how to build utility that is superior to the walled gardens and is in the hands of the users to control.
About the only ting i know about quantum computing is it will make current encryption techniques redundant. Is anyone thinking seriously about what that will mean for global e-commerce? There will be a point in time when these machines are not affordable on the mass market, but affordable by governments. At that point, presumably, we are all going to be pwned?
Antifa acts in self-defense? what a joke
you missed the part which the car price reduced by $15000. This concept as some EV buyer worried about the battery attenuation. And with this model, you don't need to worry about that
For practical purposes I'd recommend an offline laptop, maybe running Tails OS and Electrum [0]. Public key is one thing and making transactions and signatures quite another.

[0]: https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/electrum/index...
Oddly enough, I feel American brands are more popular in china than in America. Buik for example. Some of my coworkers at Ms china even drove Fords, something that wouldn’t happen easily in Redmond.
FYI the Demographics of the city of Detroit is roughly 86% black, to put it in perspective, it's not out of the statistical norm of the city's population
I wonder if a slightly more feasible solution of producing and verifying a solution out of simple TTL, so there's no "computer" just a application specific machine made of simple commodity parts which one could trust reasonably easily would be actually worth something.
'Maintained at / in' usually means continuous or on going.I have not read the paper though, so cannot say for certain.
For a while I had a journal, and I would force myself to read the article, and write a summery of how it’s relevant to my life, how can I benefit from it, and how I might be able to apply the information.

I kept this up for about a week.

It cut down my HN usage to about 5 articles a day, and it made me more selective on which articles I would open.

It became a chore and I didn’t stick with it, but it could transform the passive reading experience into a more contemplative activity. Ymmv.
Yes it was meant as a joke but unfortunately my prose was a bit too deadpan, I edited it to add a warning, sorry.
Some (many?) ISPs block forwarding of port 80 specifically. I have a third party router as my main router, with the ISP provided modem/router/wireless AP box in bridge mode, because I can't forward port 80 through the web interface of my ISP's router.

Also, port forwarding is _hard_. It might not seem like it to us more experienced people, but it's a problem that's not very googlable because there's a billion different admin interfaces for routers, and they all do it differently enough that you have to understand what you're doing, not just follow a guide, to port forward.

In contrast, if it was possible to make some simple software which regular people could install on their personal PC, and then they got a WYSIWYG website editor, and that software handled all hosting gave the user a link (ip address) to their website which they could send to friends, I imagine a lot more people would experiment with web publishing. Obviously, in order to run a site 24/7 on a dedicated server with its own domain would still be prohibitively hard for many people, but people would've at least been able to experiment and play with hosting their own simple website which they can share with friends.
I've had a few experiences recently where I was searching for a webpage that I knew existed (because I'd been to it previously), but that was fairly niche and couldn't find it through Google even after trying several different sets of search terms and even fragments of text I remembered from the site.
> government wouldn't let all that space go to waste

Assumptions make an ass out of you and me. That wouldn't even be the biggest waste of resources I heard about this week.

Having said that, it's certainly possible/feasible that the tunnels are being used. The case against would be that these tunnels are in very sensitive areas, and so the security restrictions on any potential use would be very strict.
When was the last time gold was traded for < $10? Not everything that goes up is surely to go down. At least not in a lifetime. Nobody really knows what's going to happen, that's market 101.
It's definitely not true.
I'm not sure what kind of gui did you use but both sourcetree and gitextensions show you the command log.
What would the use case for games be? We already have plenty of graphics libraries which abstract the GPU from the developer (kinda sorta). This is for number crunching.
Yes, sorry, as I mentioned to somebody else I though my sarcasm would be self-evident, but maybe I just dripped with too much caustic fluid... sorry.
On linux you can get a process' memory usage by reading the `/proc` pseudo-filesystem. See [0], which uses that approach when supported.

You're correct that production ruby applications should try to avoid calling fork() at runtime, which excludes all the standard library mechanisms for shelling out. posix-spawn [1] is an alternative that works well.

[0] https://github.com/schneems/get_process_mem

[1] https://github.com/rtomayko/posix-spawn
Get a shepherd dog might be the better option.

I guess you can always argue that the ecosystem used to have wolves (and elks) in Germany. So the restauration is I think a good thing. The only issue I found with this wish is that consequently, probably lions should be brought back to southern europe, etc.