skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, someone said it. I see a "Libertarian Utopia" quickly devolving into an oligarchy run off of slave labor. Anarcho-capitalism...yeah, great idea.
Yeah, it's obviously natural for a young man to start with smth along the lines of:

10 PRINT "chicks"

20 GOTO 10

:)
Funny of the Week #1 (Totally Socks)It's So Wrongggg
Word.

Any nations ability to operate independently is a function of their conflict with other nations in the same sphere of influence.

International law is largely a joke of a construct since the only way to hold a nation accountable if they violate some "law" is via sanctions or military action. Even then, a nation doesn't have to bother itself with seeking approval for its actions against another if none of the others cares enough to make a stink about it.

Right now the US is straight-up executing people in foreign lands via drones. They sent a team of foreign soldiers to Pakistan and conducted a raid deep within their territory. What did Pakistan do? What did the international community do?

Nothing.
I agree with 1-3 but "Backers of the project weren't ordering anything" is just plain wrong.
Surely a lot of these problems would be solved by having a 'backing ceiling' - once this amount is reached, that's it, no more pledges accepted. It seems to me this would stimulate funding (so people feel they won't 'miss out') and also avoid the problem where suddenly someone has way more money than they wanted, and hence has to address production (of physical objects) in a completely different manner. Sometimes too much money (and hence responsibility) can be a curse.
This really stood out to me:

“good designers start with the data“

Only when you deeply understand the structure of information can you present that information in a meaningful way. In other words, a good designer turns data into knowledge. And to my mind, the key point of good software design is starting with good data structures. In general, the model shouldn’t need to change—a changing model is an ill-defined domain. Once you understand the domain well enough, features are just algorithms.
RhodeCode 1.4.1 Mercurial and Git web management system
I think that it is legal to record someone else's conversation without permission if it is in public, since there is no expectation of privacy in a public place.
Instead of overwriting, I would recommend sending the drive a ATA_SECURITY_ERASE command. That will wipe all areas of an SSD,as well as reserved space on normal hard drives etc.
cell signals are encrypted, though, aren't they?
I created this! thanks for posting guys, let me know what you think!
The Euro experiment about a completely mobile and unhindered workforce is very very unpopular in western Europe (esp. the UK).

The same principal is the enemy of the Honduran policy to allow autonomous zones within the country. Either the agreement to guarantee Hondurans residency within these enclaves will be ignored/suppressed, or there will be clashes if the enclave is successful - people without jobs move to where there are jobs - just so they can eke out a living.

Possibly the end-sum will be like the rich neighborhoods in US ciites which basically use the nearby poor areas as cheap labor pools and crime sinks.
What other countries in your research have come close to Chile? Any in Europe or SEA?
Blessing free printable - Cardigan Way
It would seem odd if there were multiple utility companies offering to provide the service and Google got an unfair advantage. If nobody else was offering anything then what is wrong with a government agency working with private company to provide service that is helping people?
I'm not clear what you mean by realtime systems? It uses Server-Sent Events. Real-time enough for me. The project was more for research and demonstration purposes anyhow.
Agree with the others -- solid piece. I get asked about SEO all the time, and I think this is the best explanation while remaining concise I've seen of late. Will definitely recommend this to people before I attempt to explain things.
This is absolutely a true statement, and its wrong :-) Until the proposals for energy proportional computing [1] bear fruit there is a lot of 'sunk cost' going into the infrastructure. So finding useful work to do with that sunk cost is a net win.

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub33387.html
It's not the "way to good to be true vibe", it's just that people in the US think that they have the best of everything so how can we have something out there so much better for the same. When in reality the US is far behind in infrastructure in a whole. So why this upgrade looks amazing the truth is its the only thing on par with the rest of the developed world.
I had to laugh here because sometimes my wife will tell me I have worn the same jeans and t-shirt all week and it is time to get out something clean/new. She then reminds me to shower.

At least our girls get it :-)
In principle, the first one of those is not intrinsically bad. There are plenty of peripheral benefits to cheap high speed internet that people will reap even if they aren't using it. That's the whole idea behind subsidies.

The second part is what troubles me.
> ...have perpetuated the "free state project" for the past decade by ignoring the fact that the math doesn't work.

Ignores the numbers...sounds like politics as usual.

> I count Sealand as a win,..."

I observe that the bar for "win" is very, very low.
What really is the difference between a FLIR gun and a wifi card in promiscuous mode?

Both do nothing more than pick up non-visible light and are widely available, but both are still magic to the layman. Hell, a FLIR gun is even easier to use, you just point it like any other camera. Is the important difference to you really price?

Yes, unprotected wifi can be trivially snooped. But that is now what people expect.
Ironically, they have a "Preorder on Kickstarter" button on their page.
So even the projects are keeping the backer/buyer confusion alive.
Writing a Successful Ruby Gem
This is the truth but —to continue the analogy— ebay profits are double that... every month.

It is definitely a choice and differentiation is much, much easier when you're snobby about your merchandise but are they going to have enough product to sell to keep the doors open indefinitely? Are there really that many A* candidates in major tech firms and positions that want to move job?
Actually, doctors do have order-of-magnitude tools for improving certain metrics, such as recovery and infection rates: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...
It's not even slightly amazing. Kickstarter terms dictate that "backers" are supposed to get any products listed in the description or a refund.

In fact, Kickstarter is most easily compared to pre-ordering a product that is under development. It's not even similar to investing since you are not getting ownership in the company. In your case, I suppose you could liken it to philanthropy which also sounds incorrect.
The Louis Vuitton Inspired Doggie Bag
This seems like a step backward. The iframe-based communication, as hackish as it seems, allows cross-domain communication without resorting to completely unsandboxed script tags referencing a remote server. Meanwhile, JSONP uses a script tag, and nothing forces the response to actually conform to JSONP (JSON wrapped in a specific function call) rather than running arbitrary Javascript code.
Awesome. Been looking for something like this for awhile now.
> Nothing overt.

Probably more accurate with this qualification.
Wait, I think I know what it is..... Hmm, what's that word.....? Oh yeah.....

Privatization!

Of course it's less than ideal! In a perfect world, we'd have had a nationwide gigabit deployment years ago. Internet would be a global human right, yada yada.
We didn't find the lack of relational queries an obstacle at all. The model in Forward handles relationships in a way that makes it feel easy. Model fields can be defined as a callback:

// class Accounts ...
'orders' => function ($account) {
return get("/orders", [account_id => $account['id']]);
}

Get an account, access the relationship:

{get $account from "/accounts/123"}

You have {pluralize "{$account.orders.count} orders"}

{foreach $account.orders as $order}
...
{/foreach}

This also works as expected:

{get $orders from "/accounts/123/orders"}

It would be cool if you built your platform on Forward. Just sayin' :)
Why do so many great people pass away so young, and evil people like Dick Cheney live till old age even though they have 100 heart attacks?
Of course Google is "doing this to upset the status quo". The status quo makes a lot of money providing a crappy product with crappy service. Google wants to disrupt that by providing a good product (probably with crappy, but better, service, if they hold true to form) so they can become the new status quo.

And if KC invests in this and can see some knowledge worker jobs come to the Heartland, that seems like a true investment and not a dole.
Interactive Google Doodle celebrates Star Trek's 46th anniversary
Sales Funnel Backend
There's a difference between "inspired by" and "shamelessly copied from".
Actually, its "underscore-CLI".
mlvljr, for some reason your post is showing as "dead". I'm not sure why??
Having a few copies of something that fits you well is a great idea, find something great and buy a couple in a couple different colors as well. But have a couple sets of shirts so people don't notice and, as you said, scratch their heads looking at you.

> but other things are much much more important. Integrity, getting things done, an inspiring and/or knowledgable personality..

Absolutely. I didn't mean to imply that dressing well was actually important in that sense. It's an easy way to have people think you have more integrity, are more knowledgeable/inspiring/interesting, get more things done. Do with that what you will, your competition will.
I promise I won't.

You seem to be a very talented writer. Have you ever considered using your powers for good instead of for evil?

:)
She did an interview with another accelerator three years ago, that makes her biased against YC? She's a tech journalist who's done a lot of interviews.
Which means that anyone using an advertising-based revenue model would allow "others to profit from [tsahyt's] work", which is not what tsahyt wants.

For example, "without cost" would allow a radio station, or a streaming system like Spotify, to play it without monetary compensation.
There are things that a civilized society values that a free market does not value. Things like minority rights, the rule of law, not letting sick or injured people die preventable deaths, etc.

And that's not even getting started on the whole "tragedy of the commons" thing.
Samsung secretly blacklisting independent bloggers
Pre-ordering and backing are the same thing, else what is the point of rewards and a 100% funds raised threshold?
Reading the 'takeover' [1] and all following posts, I have

- no idea why people can get worked up that much

- the general impression that your case sucks, it's late but _even now_ in hands that try to fulfill all promises

But yeah, the 'backers' are really disgusting in that project.

1: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schuyler/lockpicks-by-op...
Yes, the fact that there are so many Kickstarter backers who think they've "ordered" a watch is completely intentional, and is really the main reason behind Kickstarter's success. This group of underinformed consumers is the engine behind Kickstarter, and is a great boon for the successful projects, at a cost to the people who unwittingly back failed projects.
Well, they're not even delayed yet since the initial _estimate_ was September.
Also, if you add random Debian packages they are also entitled to run arbitrary programs (as root!) while installing.

The only thing wrong about this title is that it does not read "https".
Isn't it very normal for cities to support companies that they want to come into their city?

Whether it's a factory or some other sort of service I don't see what the problem is. If the city government thinks it is a company worth doing what they can to help out that's fine, it's up to their judgement. And if the citizens that live there disagree with the city's government then they should elect new city government when elections come around.
How is GrubHub valued at over $300m? Can someone walk me through that? Where do you even start?
Personal partner. She was right too.
There are five co-official languages recognized in the various regions of Spain: Castellano (everywhere), Aranese (Catalonia), Basque (Basque Country), Catalan (Catalonia), and Galician (Galicia).

In addition, there are several localized languages, that are not "official" but "recognized": Aragonese (Aragon), Asturian (Asturias), and Leonese (Castile and León).

And there are countless dialects of each.
> The kicker, and the truly poetic part of all this, is, as Graham hints, that all these valuations are made up, anyhow.

Of course they're made up, everybody knows they're made up. They are a response to market demand to invest in companies at that stage (especially ones that come out of YC). The same is true of companies entering Series A, IPOing, or publicly available.

I'm surprised at VentureBeat's reporting here. If you're experts in "Venture", I would expect you to know that valuations are always made up, without needing PG to hint it for you.
Good luck talking about this. A private law society is too radical for most people and few are willing to even skim a book on it. Most likely, they will mis-interpret the idea just most people mis-interpret libertarianism.
When Bill Met Hillary
Demo Day Live from the Starter League
Haha, that's true for sure. Back when I was young and a freelancer I went to a networking group with mostly non-technical people where the dress code called for a suit. I wore bright red skate shoes with my suit.

I came across as "that young technical wizard" before I even opened my mouth. You should totally use those stereotypes to your advantage when you can.

I thought about adding my thoughts about not overdressing when you need to come across as technically proficient because of the stereotype but thought that would have muddled my point.
"To get that in writing, that’s 91.58 Mbps down and 35.01 Mbps up."

No. That's how fast speedtest.net is. Google Fiber is much, much faster. Try it again with http://speedtest.googlefiber.net/
Haskell already has the capability to write type-level representations of numbers, so we can have types like

zipVec :: Vector a n -> Vector b n -> Vector (a, b) n

where Vector a b is the type of a vector of elements of type a that is of length n. The above function will therefore only zip together two vectors if they have the same length; otherwise it's a compile-time error. Right now, people usually roll their own representations of numbers, but this new extension means not only do we have a standard one, we can now write something like myBuffer :: Buffer Int 256 where 256 is a type-level number.

With type-level symbols, we could do something like

data StringWrapper (a :: Symbol) = S String

getUserData :: IO (StringWrapper "unsanitized")
writeToDB :: StringWrapper "sanitized" -> IO ()
sanitize :: StringWrapper "unsanitized" -> StringWrapper "sanitized"
stringLength :: StringWrapper a -> Int

so that writing code like

do x <- getUserData
putStrLn ("Length is " ++ show (stringLength x))
writeToDb x -- forgetting to sanitize

produces a compile-time error because the types don't match up.
"... Would any old-timer care to use the open-source HN code and create a vintage HN by automatically inviting anyone with an age of >N days? ..."

2024 days here @wensing, No.

Being here a long time doesn't confer any special status. All it really shows is curiosity and early adoption. Other than having seen a wider range of technology, topics, discussion and behaviour the one thing I've noted is the number of high ranking stories sans comments.

I'd really like to can articles limited to point threshold with no comments. No comments, no value & shouldn't get the chance to go up the story leader board.
I agree. It's a huge loss.

As an ex-atheist who previously believed in evolution and is now a young earth creationist, such conversations have the potential to be very interesting. Sadly, they end up with subtle (if you're lucky) or less subtle jabs about how believers are all anti-science and uneducated and just want to brainwash people, especially children. And that is generally considered to be the ultimate slam on creationists from which no recovery is expected.

I have a comp.sci degree, spent much of my teens getting excited about meta-physics and still love science, especially astronomy and am loving the Mars missions ... how's that for anti-science? :-)
Yes. If your household fabricator can make arbitrary machinery, you can say "Make me a uranium-235 enricher."
What are the prices of competitors in the US? Here in New-Brunswick Canada, prices are:

80Mbps down & 30Mbps up: $69.95 /mo. for first 3 months then $100.95 /mo.

50Mbps down & 30Mbps up: $29.95 /mo. for first 3 months then $83.95 /mo.

20Mbps down & 15Mbps up: $29.95 /mo. for first 3 months then $68.95 /mo.

Seems to be not that far from Google's prices.
Land of the Lost Final episode
FYI, this article is 2 years old.
Design isn't just "Front End" or "Interface"; Design is everything -- most importantly functionality, process, and model.

"What works is better than what looks good. The looks good can change, but what works, works."
The only new exploit I can think of is domain hijacking, so that an attacker replaces the real
Stripe response with their own. If they can do domain hijacking, though, whether or not they choose to insert the replaced content into a third party page via JSON is a less damaging hack than just swiping your credit card info sent to Stripe.
Google Fiber is supposedly about 10 times faster than that. Presumably, the bandwidth test server was being maxed out. His comparison based on the 91 Mbps result makes current ISPs look better than they should.

> For comparison, where with Comcast I can download a 1080p Breaking Bad episode (1.86 GB) in about a half hour, Google Fiber would get it done in under 3 minutes.

On Google Fiber, that Breaking Bad episode would be downloaded in about 15 seconds at max throughput.
> The Free State Project never got the 20,000 signatories that the idea needed, and so it dissolved

There wasn't a deadline or anything; the FSP is still active.

Sealand doesn't count since it wasn't a libertarian, just an eccentric who wanted to call himself a prince. And he succeeded in persistently squatting on an abandoned fortification in the English Channel, not creating a new society.

I didn't know about Minerva--I was talking about the Seasteading Institute, actually.
This isn't about bandwidth. It's about content. The only thing standing between YouTube and the CableTV providers is bandwidth.

If Google cracks the bandwidth nut, they can essentially replace TimeWarner, Comcast, etc. in one fell swoop because they can easily replace 100% of the services those companies offer at a fraction of the cost.

Kansas City is essentially giving Google free reign to perfect their rollout and implementation processes. The next city that Google wires up will probably cost them a fraction of what Kansas City does because I'm certain that Google will automate every last detail that can be automated.
These short-sighted comments really annoy me. I would give parts of my reproductive system to get a fraction of a Google branded fibre and people are getting angsty about what Google gets "in return".

No the sums don't add up. Tax payers will subsidise some of the costs and Google will undoubtedly analyse the traffic to deliver yet even more personalised advertising. The local government will subsidise parts of the installation and make it legally as smooth as possible. Google will probably get cheaper offices or easier planning application processes, and who knows, they'll probably have some sway when it comes to local lawmaking, like any major contributing lobbyist...

... But in return Kansas City gets a bloody gigabit network for pittance. Free ADSL for anybody else.

It's practically unimaginable the services you could deliver to people with that sort of bandwidth because for a very long time it's been considered rude to assume anybody has anything faster than a 2Mbps connection. Google Fibre could stream 4k (with h.265). Even being able to assume the user has some upstream bandwidth for once is a complete boon to developers. In the UK the ratio is 10:1 almost everywhere unless you're on a business line (for four times the price) or the new FTTC options that are available in like 2% of the country.

tl;dr: you get a lot in exchange for letting Google in, not least that you will probably become the testing bed for all sorts of snazzy new technology. Stop moaning, pay your taxes and enjoy being able to watch all the porn at once.
lol "copying svbtle" as if svbtle is a unique design in any way.
and also Basque (Euskara), Galego (Galician) and a maybe couple of other languages with a quite representative number of speakers.
Most of the interview is old info that won't surprise anyone following Elon's career. The info on "Hyperloop" starts at around 18m20s into the video and is very brief.
Ahh! Makes sense now. Thanks.
Who remenber Color raising 41M for craps?
I remember back then someone saying: "They invested in the team, that still make me laugh. They funded smart people, now they have enought cash to build something that will make money". I'm looking forward to seing this.

Twitter is such a disapointment for me and i'm looking forward too to see their first profitable year.
If a UX designer produces mocks and designs, they're a designer. If they produce software prototypes, that's called an engineer.

My point is that "UX Designer" is a largely unnecessary job description that is filled by quality execution in more traditional roles.
Last millennium, I wrote software for print manufacturing, eg newspapers, magazines, books, flyers... Tasks like image positioning, color trapping, bindery, etc. Super fun work.

Even then, only the biggest clients spent money. Since then -- post dotcom bust, 9/11, Bush looting of economy, rise of online, decline of advertising, switch from offset CMYK press to digital composite printing (eg color laserjet), rise of ebooks -- there's even less money for capital improvements.

With the benefit of hindsight, I can't imagine printers staying ahead of the phenomenal rate of technical change AND the constantly shifting marketplace.

So I think the print manufacturers have had a pretty good strategy: huge initial investment and then ride that sled all the way to the bottom.

Anticipating the disruptive near term technologies for all manufacturing (eg 3D printing, mass customization), I just don't see a sizable market for 3rd party software coming back.

I've half-concluded that smart software/IT investment money would be for in house development. To out run one's competitors.
Switzerland tops latest World Economic Forum competitiveness ranking
No, it's still a trap. The special economic zone will also receive lots of foreign investment, which means they can funnel in wealth from overseas before nationalizing the lot of it.
It's illegal either way. But to answer your question: GSM and CDMA have weak encryption. GSM at least has optional encryption, and your phone won't tell you if it's being sent in the clear.
you see a lot of people that find bugs, and even serious exploits that never bother going to the trouble to report them, or crow about them publicly.

Just because nobody said anything, doesn't mean that nobody knew.
Not far from their prices - miles from their product. You're comparing 110Mbps for $100/month against 1000Mbps* for $70/month and saying they're near equal.

That doesn't make sense to me.

*I'm judging from a speed test posted on the blog post that the line is asymmetric and down and upstream add up to 1Gbps.