skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of, there were a few more frames added after the "The End" frame, but it has been stuck at 3099 frames for about 2 hours. Considering that they were updating hourly for the past few months, I'm betting that the last frames were Randall's way of making sure that if you goto http://xkcd.com/1190 you wouldn't see "The End".
I think the author agrees with that concern, which is why he talks about needing a whole new "operating system" of approaches to actually accomplish this. Let's all just stipulate though that places like Haiti do in fact need fixing.
Yours is the snarky one actually.
Good luck finding someone to work for you for free.
> Do you remember the day they said that drones would never be used against the population, but only for military targets?

No, I don't.
Thanks -- it turns out the the update checker on my version wasn't working (for whatever reason), so I mistakenly thought I had the latest version.
Current standings, in case you're intested: level 0 (8490), level 1 (675), level 2 (193), level 3 (67), level 4 (64), level 5 (42), level 6 (62)

(Each is people currently at that level).

We're still donating for every person who actually finishes.

Level 7 should be out ~nextweekish.
Why wouldn't a reasonable person assume that, given the historical trend? The gov't has been steadily implementing the strategies laid out in the book 1984, my whole longish life.
If something is in the public's interest, it generally makes sense to disclose it to the public.

For example, if a car manufacturer (or bank) makes public claims that their system is secure, yet they use 56-bit DES keys to encrypt data, then I think the public should know.

Your "account number" analogy was off because it's is generally not in the public interest to reveal a private citizen's account number.

However, if an account number (email address or ip address) was being used frequently to commit crime, say in an advance fee fraud, then it makes sense to blow the lid on the said account number. That's what I meant by "in the public interest".
For people like me that wasn't aware of the story behind the comic
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1190:_Time
"Florida v. Riley, 488 U.S. 445 (1989), was a United States Supreme Court decision which held that police officials do not need a warrant to observe an individual's property from public airspace."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Riley
> The Go version may in fact be faster, but I don't think that's necessarily fair either: if the Go version adds features to be more comparable to nginx it would definitely slow down.

Good point. That is often how alternative parallel implementations are started. A small example is written. Benchmarks are published. The new project is hailed as better than predecessor. Many jump ship. Request for features comes in. New features starts to slow down the product. Someone new comes, writes a simple benchmark and so on.
Samsung is definitely a software plaform company. It had Bada that it used in its Wave product line (which surely accounts for a small percentage of their profit) and it will soon have Tizen.

Android is definitely one reason, and one could say that samsung AND google won against Apple. That what i meant when i said the business is much more complicated as it requires to be excellent and competitive both in hardware and software.
Any recommended CAs for S/MIME for personal users? And is it possibly to transparently use both, e.g. sign all outgoing mail with S/MIME by default, but also encrypt with, say, GPG if you happen to have that contact's public key?
Or:

- You are randomly interested in the world.

- You are bikeshedding, following Sayre's law
Another thing to consider is that just because an org is a non profit, does not mean the people working there are making social worker salaries. One of my aunts makes over $400K/yr as an administrator at a non profit, and she's still technically on the bottom half of the management totem pole.
Yes, and there the banks running those tax exempt savings make a killing through their large profit margins.
Show HN: A bespoke betting exchange 
This has been my side project: a betting exchange that allows for bespoke bets and odds setting.

The betting exchange format has really caught on in Europe as it enables users to trade a market (by backing or laying a specific outcome). I'm hoping this is interesting for people who like to 'make markets' on events (basically challenge friends/colleagues to make odds on events that are relevant to them).

This is a MVP, so no real money/BTC functionality.
How does adding a VAT to a wealth tax offset the immediate consumption incentives? Either way, you are taxed when you spend the money. Additionally, if you don't consume immediately, you are taxed some more. Hence, immediate consumption incentives.
There is no global warming. Period.
Humans are not geological force. Period.

living organisms mass= 6,57×10^18g
humanity mass = 2,27×10^14g
total biosphere mass = 5,2×10^25g

Humans are not geological factor, I am afraid.

Globally plants and CO2 concentrations are in homeostatic relationship. Forest ecosystems of the temperate zone are very (very-very) resilient to average temperature changes.

What you really have to be afraid of is the new Ice Age. It happens regularly and suddenly.
I think the problem is that forests cycle a lot of carbon, absorbing and then releasing a lot throughout the year. If the size of that reservoir goes down (implied by the article), then there is more 'free' carbon to go elsewhere in the system.
I was relieved the map showed Israel as a hub instead of India (which was cited as the "source"). if you think Asiana scored it for "culturalism" then this here could win the whole game. First disclosure: not an Indian.Second disclosure: before clicking on the link I was expecting India or Africa. You know, some tropical third way place? Maybe I just have the wrong kind of paranoias. Bill Gates really needs to use his stature in India for this. If anything is hard object versus immovable force, this is it.
> Davies, the United Kingdom's chief medical officer, described CREs as a risk as serious as terrorism

This is a descriptive strategy people need to use more often to put things into perspective for the average person and taxpayer. Many diseases pose risks vastly more serious than terrorism, but receive far less attention.

However, if you're aware of the actual risk of terrorism, something that is "as serious" as terrorism is really not very threatening.
A quick check with Google (indian pharmacy antibiotics) confirmed my understanding that they're basically unregulated (http://www.nature.com/news/india-moves-to-tackle-antibiotic-...):

"[...] antibiotics are readily available over the counter at pharmacies...."

"Last week, physicians moved a step closer to their goal when India’s drug regulators announced a plan that would put tight restrictions on the sale of antibiotics. Carbapenems and many other antibiotics are already on a list of 536 drugs in India that require a prescription. But studies have shown that such drugs are easy to purchase at retail pharmacies without a physician’s signature...."

This article from a bit less than a year ago then says the new measures will be adding red labels and surprise inspections....

Lots more hits where that came from, including plenty from India.
It isn't solely Microsoft.

The idea of convergence is a seductive ideological fabrication of Eurowestern making.

While seductive, there is a tremendous body of history to examine to reveal the fallacy of the position.

Automobiles, cellular phones, portable cameras, pencils and pens, floor coverings, building designs, gardens, aircraft, etc. Every single example grows in diversity and complexity away from their base initial forms.

Design appears to begin at a singular starting point and grow in diversity as needs evolve[1].

Only a superficial study of design history would struggle against firm historical evidence of divergence.

“…these examples reinforces my thesis that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function.” - Bill Buxton

[1] Apologies for the apparent forcing of Eurowestern metanarrative arcs onto phenomena where no such arc may exist.
Apple is still better positioned. They have better control and less fragmentation.

Samsung does not control the complete stack. They have to rely on Google for the OS. They are forced to comply with Google's licensing agreement. Samsung is really trying hard to find an alternative by pursuing Bada, Tizen, etc. Samsung was really clever at creating TouchWiz - an overlay on top of the traditional Android. Users will get use to this interface and Samsung can eventually swap out the stack underneath it (already attempted with Tizen).

Google is a fool for letting Samsung get too powerful - to the point where Samsung can dictate terms and at the expense of Google's other partners. It's clear Google knows Samsung is a problem because most of the Nexus devices are now made by LG, Asus. However, LG also owns WebOS.

Android is proven and the hardware has matured, Google should start producing it's own hardware as its partners are looking at alternatives.
There's a huge literature on optimal tax policies, usually focused on more specific questions, so I'm not aware of a good survey paper on what economists think of wealth taxes generally. However, two specific questions you could look into, each of which have significant supporters on both sides:

1. What are the relative merits of inheritance taxes and wealth taxes, from the perspective of economic efficiency and/or intergenerational egalitarianism?

2. What are the relative merits of wealth taxes vs. capital-gains taxes? Roughly, is it preferable to tax capital annually based on its current value, or to tax realized gains in capital at the time of realization?

The current real-world situation is that inheritance and capital-gains taxes are fairly common, while wealth taxes are uncommon, and there's some disagreement over whether that is the right choice.
Nice try NSA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/503224.stm
This is the equivalent of saying "too much of x is toxic". The tautology arises from the fact that the line between "not too much" and "too much" is what defines toxicity.

Saying "power simply must be limited" doesn't do justice to the individual-collective trade-off. Yes, power must be limited, but deciding at what point and to what degree is the whole debate. Simply stating that power needs to be limited at some non-specific threshold doesn't add to the conversation.
There is a pretty clear link between amount of social spending and poverty: http://www.epi.org/publication/ib339-us-poverty-higher-safet...

I'm not sure what graph you are looking at, according to Chart CO2.2.A there are only five countries with higher child poverty rates: Chile, Turkey, Romania, Mexico and Israel.

This is their methodology for determining social spending: http://www.oecd.org/els/soc/SOCXAnnex-DescriptionProjections...
99% of sites are CRUD apps, but we're math heavy financial software. We store a lot of reference data in configuration for performance reasons. This needs to be decimal format.

JSON is a subset of the ECMA JavaScript standard which declares only floating point.

Do "100!" on wolfram alpha and find me a parser that will load that as an example.
Here's 1 map by the EFF (click the red link at the end of the article for the map by Google):

https://www.eff.org/foia/faa-drone-authorizations
Well just use xtyle instead: http://xtyle.xchema.com

It's smaller and uses CSS property names as class names. You know CSS you know how to use it.
I think your explanation is too generic to get good advice. You should expand on what you want to do if possible.

I think the best way I can explain it is that this feels the same as contacting a caterer and saying "I have an event with people, what should I serve?" Any good answer would require knowing the type of event, the venue, dietary requirements, number of people, budget etc. Same with you task, but we need to know more about skills, specific functionality, goals, etc.

The actual answer, in my opinion, is that hosting, software stack and secure storage of data aren't a big concern at this point. You have an idea. Turn that into a plan including all the features you think you need to launch a first version of your app. Remove 50% of the features. Remove another 50%. Talk to potential customers. When you have a solid plan, then you can start worrying about how to make it happen. Then build it using whatever software stack you know best.
How can I view the debate that apparently is being held about some frames on that site? (It may be that a browser plugin is blocking it for me, but I could not find out which or how.)
Unity is passably good. It is usable. It is a step forward from where Linux interfaces were years ago. But it is awful compared to just about anything other than TouchWiz.
> Do you remember the day they said that drones would never be used against the population, but only for military targets?

It was drone strikes. I'm confident that's coming against the domestic population, with concomitant "oops, we didn't mean to hit the playground" events.
This?

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/amplifying-invisible-vide...
Almost every time I see a really big political event held outside, I wonder if it will be the one that starts a wave of automated drone assassinations. Then again, really big events might have a Centurion C-RAM or two secretly parked nearby.
I follow this issue to some degree and unfortunately have to say this article suggests more that it's a product of Britain's infamous and ancient Antisemitism than something that reflects reality.

Or more precisely, it's politically necessary to not blame India, since that country's reaction to the discovery of the terrifying New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (the first β-lactamase to incorporate a metal ion, it's really good at what it does) was terribly counterproductive. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Delhi_metallo-beta-lactamas... for the basic story.

And I'm not at all surprised that by slight of hand they moved as much blame to Israel as they could (what's in the article doesn't really support it).
I turned ClearType off and it looks like that too. All text looks better with ClearType on. I don't know why it's not the default setting.
I disagree. The whole philosophy Apple bring to the mobile computer world is vertical integration : you own every layer so that the experience can be perfect. And every people that ever designed any system knows that : if your system needs to integrate with only one other, life is great. Integrate with two,and you're in trouble.

Now, as i already said here, the problem isn't that they need to get better at service, the problem is that they need not to be absolute crap, and get some culture.
If Apple Maps was only just as good as bing map, they could have made it. If iCloud was only just as good as dropbox, they could have made it. If "Ping" was only as good as... just any social network you could think of, then it could have leverage the other great apple system.

The problem is that their server side is so bad, it can't even leverage other Apple strengths.
I came here just to make this comment. I'm quite sure this concept appears in most of Sklansky's books, probably right back to the Theory of Poker (c1987). (I haven't verified that, but I know his more recent books like Small Stakes Hold'em, still more than a few years ago, covered ranges.)
The same line between wiretapping in the analog age and wiretapping now: impossible to use on a mass, routine, and suspicion-less basis.
This has been my side project: a betting exchange that allows for bespoke bets and odds setting.

The betting exchange format has really caught on in Europe as it enables users to trade a market (by backing or laying a specific outcome). I'm hoping this is interesting for people who like to 'make markets' on events (basically challenge friends/colleagues to make odds on events that are relevant to them).

This is a MVP, so no real money/BTC functionality.
Yes, the fundamental problem of the Matlab language is the namespace problem.

The hilarious thing is that basically every feature added to the Matlab language since the beginning has been an attempt to control the namespace problem, and they still can't solve it. Besides subfunctions, nested functions, and anonymous functions (and does anyone using them actually understand all of their scoping rules), you have old style classes, new style classdef, packages, and sometimes case-sensitive and sometimes case-insensitive identifiers.

It's a mess. And I don't think it will ever get fixed.
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Enlightening, thanks for posting.

"[LISP] has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.", that's pretty profound ;-)
Also http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/
Applied Cryptography taught me several new modes of thinking about software design (which is not directly related to crypto at all) and provided a good overview of things that someone probably solved or failed to solve with cryptography. Plus, it has a decent historic overview of some algorithms failing. What else could you ask for?

I mean, yeah, it's an optimistic book. It talks about possibilities. How can someone to treat is as a developer reference is beyond me.
Facebook speeds PHP by crafting a PHP virtual machine
If you see the larger picture of where things will be, why not be bothered by movement down that slippery slope?
I try to read this paper from the perspective of his overall work and writing, and I have read through a lot of the EWDs. There is an abundance of examples that his #1 concern was about making programming more mathematical. Hence I interpret everything that you are quoting as proposals motivated by the need he perceives of proving programs correct. That the industry trivialized his ideas to "don't use goto" does not mean this was Dijkstra's great point. This is in fact excellently summarized in the first link I posted. Meanwhile you make it sound like he was interested in contributing to software engineering like it is done today, which is not the case, he seemed to really despise a lot of the things which are now software engineering best practices, like unit tests.

What I actually hoped for is someone who really learned the way of writing programs Dijkstra advocated to some extent and their experience with it. I can't say I really understand how those derivations look like in practice.
The conclusion of the article presents a false choice, and is flabbergastingly short-sighted:

"Is progress really Wi-Fi on every street corner? No. It’s when no 13-year-old girl on the planet gets sold for sex."

First, wifi on every corner is progress. Second, you might need wifi on every corner to prevent the sex slavery. Third, even if you don't need the wifi, you can have both the arguable utility of wifi for the poor, and stop the sex slavery.

I don't understand how anyone can fail to see the spread of the internet as a big step in the spread of knowledge, fail to marvel at our modern day printing press and all the good it has done. "Internet everywhere" seems like a pretty good philanthropic strategy to me.
> blocked by paywall

It's a very interesting paywall, too. It continues to block me even if I clear all my local state (cookies and localstorage), turn on private browsing, and disable Javascript. But it does NOT block me if I use a different browser. I can't figure out how it works. Anyone here have a clue?
Debated frames are just frames that are close in Yes/No votes on wether or not the frame is 'important'. From the GitHub repository for the project "Debated Frames are frames that have recieved a number of both yes and no votes."
It should be noted that any citizen is allowed to do so, including with quadcopters. Each time the police us arguing to forbid citizen to use quadcopters to record a demonstration, they are working against their own possibility to use drones.

So far, they can't eat and have the cake at the same time,
There's a special hack version out for Mavericks:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gpgtools/GPGMail-Mavericks-P2-hack....

And you need this fix for the latest DP 4:
http://support.gpgtools.org/discussions/everything/9888-mave...
Gumroad (https://gumroad.com) or Instamojo (instamojo.com) to sell pdfs
Just one thing to do. Reinstall Plesk on a new server and restore your data from a clean backup. I would suggest installing some sort of security enhancements in the new server. Personally I use ASL from Atomicorp which prevents most vulnerabilities.
A very important point to consider is that Apple is a lifestyle product. (I hate that word "lifestyle" but it somehow matches well here).

There are people who have tattooed the Apple logo on their body. There aren't that many people who have tattooed Samsung's logo if I had to guess.

Apple cultivated and created their brand (rebuilt it really, as it did go through a rough patch in the past were only true believers were left following it). But now it is the brand people worship.

That is very important to consider when these articles are written. Most likely the writer is a tech savvy enough to personally either be in the Apple cult or not. And people will most often than not defend their own camp against the other camp. Those from the Apple camp who invested thousands of dollars in products will consciously and unconsciously defend it regardless of whatever the market is doing (as we've seen they've managed to twist and reinterpret the news in every possible to still make Apple come on top).

Another point to consider is this. Apple is a luxury product affordable by many. It is luxury because there is not other luxury phone besides it. The riches and most opulent person out there, will probably still have an iPhone or iPad. They'd buy a diamond studded golden case dipped in platinum for it but it will still be an iPhone. And this is the same device that someone who is middle class or below can still obtain. Think about it. What other luxury products are the same. Cars? Nope. Watches? Nope. Clothes? Not really. So that serves to reinforce the cult following. Look I can have the same phone as <myfavoriteactor> or other <famousperson>. That is pretty powerful.
All I can say is that for me the good outweighs the bad: as an end user, I'm much happier with Darwin than with Linux.
This is neat, works well, simple. Definitely not paying $12/year for it.
See: http://www.shelfari.com/
Not connected to Apple, just a very old icon which was never really updated. Might happen in the future though, to avoid legal issues
Is that what happened? It doesn't sound like it is.
The author does acknowledge the good parts of Matlab right off the bat in his first post:

https://abandonmatlab.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/hello-world/
This is true - drones become as big of a problem as wiretapping, once they're mass-produced and flying all over the place. They could conceivably track everyone's movements.

However, at the moment, this is overly expensive and kind of far-fetched, so most people aren't aware of the long-term implications. 30-40 years from now, though?
Yes. When I read that I thought "so, over-hyped and not really a problem, then".