skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is possible that the current tech used in robotics will somehow form the basis for the work over the next 1000 years or so, either directly or via some tangential discovery by researchers working with current tech.

Without the benefit of hindsight it is impossible to tell with certainty what techs are worthwhile exploring and what should simply be discarded, the idea of discarding is of course based on the false assumption that techs that are later unused never had a use (e.g. we may solve a software problem with current tech that will form the basis for future robotics software).
"but it does not give some people a systematic advantage in the primary elections."

Gerrymandering can be used for many reasons. Generally you're correct it's used to maximize general election seats. It can and has been used to make districts even ________-er though and it has been used for other reasons such as to force two incumbents from the ________ party to run against each other.
It's not really a game of chess, it's more like a game of basketball. There's not very much calm, focused thought, but there is skill and strategy.
Heh...

The people benefiting from gerrymandering in the State Houses would then need to propose the convention though wouldn't they?

Article V still depends on elected officials... it's just that it depends on officials elected in the State houses.
Redirect from what? The fact that motor vehicles are incredibly unsafe compared to other means of mass transport (trains, planes)?

Fact is, there are thousands of people who die every year in motor vehicle accidents. Gas tank leaks and fires are a nonzero portion of those accidents.

A battery fire, especially one where the driver walked away unharmed, is only news because it's the first one for Tesla. How is putting things in perspective to be construed as redirection or deflection?

In the meanwhile, Car companies are notorious for denying anything's wrong:
http://www.southcarolinalawyerblog.com/2013/06/chrysler_refu...
Apples to apples: how many car fires are started because the car is old and not in good repair? I'll bet the rate is much lower for gasoline cars less than a year old. We'll just have to wait to see how 10-year-old Teslas hold up.
> a vast majority of techies, and a majority of the working class and underclass consider drug use and trafficking to be less of a crime than double parking

Citation badly needed.
I'll pretend your question is genuine. It's because of his thoughtful explanation of how the CEO role changes as startups become established businesses. (Not because of the notoriety of his business-- which I assume is the source of your sass.)
You've helped people with porn addiction? Can you explain more please.. thanks
> They're not even the same part of speech. The correct word is a noun, the misspelled word is (or can be) a verb.

The incorrect word is an adjective; it isn't a verb.
As long as it runs on Linux, it will probably run on SteamOS. The question is "would valve block LoL from Steam", and I can't see them doing that just because they have a competing game in that genre.
Once, I saved up and bought myself a long sabbatical. It was the most productive time of my life.
Still don't believe you.
Only if you're a 5 year old. It's immature, unhelpful and generally pretty pathetic.
We're offering another flavor in this same "value add static hosting" paradigm with BitBalloon.

https://www.bitballoon.com

So far we don't deal with the authoring abstraction layer. Our focus is on solving deployment by automating performance optimization like asset bundling, caching & CDN integration.

The big vision is to provide static hosting for the programmable web. We make HTML forms work and provide an API for sending the input wherever you want. This OAuth2 based API also handles deploying sites, injecting code snippets, and updating individual files.

The real moonshot here is developing a standard similar to JSON Patch for updating HTML via PATCH requests. If Harp, or anyone reading this is interested in this idea, we'd love to collaborate on developing a spec.
The mess we are in today can be avoided if we didn't have the legislative contrivance of a 'debt-ceiling'. [1] If our representatives have voted on appropriations, then that's money that we have already committed to spend. The source of that money should be already debated and taken care of in that measure, so there's no benefit to having a separate check in the form of a debt-ceiling.

How does it make sense to vote for appropriations without a way to fund them? All it does is provide for the kind of legislative blackmail that we are seeing today where the funding is not provided unless some unconnected amendments are included.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt_ceiling#Legi...
Please continue to call these things out on HN. I will continue to do so too.
684.62% jump in TWTRQ stock
Relevant. http://xkcd.com/386/
If I understand correctly, the problem is at the state level. The national congress doesn't draw district boundaries, mostly state legislatures do (though there are exceptions who have independent redistricting committees).

As the state-originating path to a US Constitutional amendment requires the participation of state legislatures, it's unlikely it could be used to fix the problem.
On the topic of tax evasion... what if they arrest somebody and find many thousands of bitcoins in their possession, but that somebody claims that they mined them themselves (and the block-chain confirms they weren't transferred)? What if they were all mined when they were basically worthless?
This sort of logic completely baffles me.

People buy hardware to use their advertised features. If you are the type of person that only needs 2D rendering and video then you should use an Intel GPU. I would assume people who buy a state-of-the-art dedicated GPU want to use them for actual 3D acceleration.
Using partitioning like VoltDB allows you to keep joins. I think Google's Spanner/F1 partitioning/relation scheme also allows joins.
Seriously?

You're a stripe cofounder and you seriously can't see the difference between Salesforce, SAP, Oracle and a minor OSS DB?

Like all of the others charge for everything they do, have massive market penetration and one of them's fairly small can't charge for much? The OSS DB one?
I agree that the bar chart is misleading, especially horizontal scale. Pie chart can show which department is being affected the most.

http://vida.io/discussion/WgBMc4zDWF7YpqXGR

NASA, HUD, ED are the most affected, not DOD.
Why wouldn't you take payment in bitcoins if you were an attorney with a potential client with $80 million of them? Maybe you charge them an extra few $100k, but you take the business.

As for everyone having a reasonable suspicion which bitcoin addresses are used for silk road, I would assume Silk Road taint is rather like cocaine on US cash; it's everywhere.
This is true, but I fail to see the relevance here. This post just comes across as a "any chance to mention Free Software" type post. This thread is talking about if this decision by Nvidia makes sense. Trying to inject "well, we could all just ignore Nvidia if you were using Free Software," doesn't really contribute much to that conversation.

> That's a binary blob on your machine.

On my machine? It's less likely than you might think.
Would careful accounting actually help in practice? I don't imagine they would be all to impressed with your careful bookkeeping.
Mongo shards are not the answer:
http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb

Per the article, Mongo picks just P out of CAP ...
This is crazy. If I had known that I could gin up money for a crappy database I would have written one. This seems unfair, but we'll be joking about this in 10-15 years.
Look clearly you have zero understanding of how enterprises work. And given you have added Hazelcast which is a distributed in-memory solution in there shows you have a poor understanding of technology as well.

It is all about support. Big companies have operations teams who manage infrastructure and deployments. They aren't experts in databases and so want to be able to ring someone who can help them when the times get tough. 10gen understands this and have a great support story to talk about hence their popularity. Most OSS don't.
Typical useless Svtle post. You outline the problem (and it's a real one), get my attention, pique my interest, and then just stop before you add the slightest bit of useful information. Was it too much to come up with even one useful idea about how to solve the problem?
Hi pm90, I work on the facebook network engineering team, I can explain at a high-level some of the reasons we made this change.

You're correct BGP was originally intended for inter-AS routing, however, those AS's don't necessarily have to be different ISPs. They could be different divisions in a company, or different racks in a data-center. They can be any grouping where you might want different policies applied. You can also use BGP between devices in the same AS where a common policy makes sense. There's no technical limitation stopping you from using BGP inside the data-center, so it comes down to pros and cons of the various options out there.

Our main goals were scalability, reliability and simplicity. When it comes to scalability BGP is essentially the best, this is because, and why it's used between AS's where the routing tables can grow quite large. When it comes to reliability, we previously had a layer2 architecture, but there are a lot of challenges with that at scale, some examples:

* Split brain: In a layer2 world, you still typically have a layer3 protocol running between your upper layers. We were using BGP and VRRP at the time, and issues in one wouldn't always be communicated to the other, in some cases that's not possible. So VRRP may think everything is fine, while BGP is down, the result is black-holed trafic.

* Scale: Running an all layer2 network requires devices that have large enough CAM tables to support all connected devices, many vendors newer full line rate cards were coming out with smaller CAM tables, as such layer2 simply wasn't an option in some cases. Additionally, many of the other protocols that were options are computationally expensive to deploy at a large size, you either end up slowing them down, or deploying relatively complex designs.

One of the many significant benefits BGP brought us came in the form of ECMP. In a layer2/VRRP world, balancing traffic is hacky with two destinations, if you want to do more, which we did, it becomes increasingly complex. With BGP it's built in, we can consistently and easily balance the load to 8, 16, 32 or more destinations depending
on the hardware and software in use.

BGP is also readily available in the software from the major network vendors, as well as within OpenSource solutions for the servers. This means we can use a common protocol everywhere. Which in turns makes sourcing and deploying new equipment much easier and simplifies the configs, policies and tooling needed to support the deployment.

There are many other reasons that layer2 wasn't a good choice for us, and that layer3 makes a lot of sense. I'd be happy to discuss more of these as well.

Hopefully this helps to answer your question.
Apparently, John Grisham works for the NSA, naming its programs.
Alaska National Weather Service office begs “please pay us” in secret message
what about the nonsense on the quantum system? i think the reporter left some key info out.

why does speed is a factor to mitm attacks? the slide shows a proper mintm diagram... or is this quatum thing exploiting a package arriving before the honest response? and why they would need to do that if they are in a position to do a proper mitm attack and not expose themselves for someone who monitors man-on-the-side attacks?
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I wasn't aware the museum technology culture was even a thing. It definitely seems... quirky, though: just look at the list of domains for the JFK museum:

thesixthfloor.jfk.museum
dallas.jfk.museum
dealey.plaza.museum
dealeyplaza.kennedy.assassination.museum
dealey.plaza.assassination.museum
dealey.plaza.jfk.museum
I've worked at enterprise companies with MongoDB deployments.

It is replacing Oracle databases which everybody is sick of. And given that most companies aren't clustering it is pretty much a simple drop in and replace scenario.
I'm a big fan of Elon but I think he may be way off with these numbers... :S

If you read the reports from the National Fire Protection Association they do estimate the number of "highway vehicle fires" at around 150 000 per year [1], but they also explicitly say that 'the term “highway vehicle fires” is used to describe the type of vehicle, not the location of the fire' [2].

If you look at fires caused by collision or overturn (which I guess this would be classified as) that's only 4% of the total, or 6000 per year.

1. https://www.nfpa.org/safety-information/for-consumers/vehicl...

2. https://www.nfpa.org/research/statistical-reports/vehicles/v...
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He's 12 months, and I am absurdly lucky he has slept from 8:30 pm - 7 am since 7 months. He is really intensely physical at all times while awake, which I think wears him out.
Poverty is not a hurdle to creativity but it's foolish to say that it doesn't affect the realm of possibilities. You can't build a new rocketship if you are on welfare (Elon Musk). You can't architect buildings if you lack the money to acquire the necessary formal education and certifications. You can't build electronics if you lack the money to own a soldering iron.

Yes, you can do other things, but maybe those other things won't be as fulfilling, as profound, or as meaningful.

Consider that if Newton, Galileo, Michelangelo, or Da Vinci were born into poverty we might never have heard of them.

Certainly many people use the excuse of not having the time or the money to follow their passions, but that doesn't mean it's never a factor.
Well here's a thought. Don't become dependant on support. EVERY company who sells to enterprises makes their revenue from support. It's been this way for decades.

So if you are unhappy paying the money then invest in dedicated people.
Who is "they", why do "they" even suspect the dumpster? "They" find fingerprints on it, and no hard drive (you used Tails, remember?)

So after all that work, you link a guy to touching a smashed laptop. Not very helpful.
Until Apple introduced iPhone nobody thought it was possible to make smartphone like that. Six years later many of us carry access to significant portion of human knowledge in our pockets. My hypothesis that at current technological level we can have full stack mining/refining/energy generation/assembly of new robots done by robots. Trick is putting right pieces together. Why is it not done yet? Not economically viable yet. It is far cheaper to design a simpler system with human controls, that assemble full stack robotic implementation.
Design-Based Media Queries
For all those news agencies who misinterpret technology.
I'm not going to argue that the asset forfeiture laws in the US are completely fair, but that's not how it works.

First off, you can't just arrest anyone without going in front of a judge and getting an arrest warrant (unless of course a police officer has evidence you committed a crime). Second, they need to identify your assets and then prove that they are proceeds from illegal activities. Do they just say "all of it is"? Probably and the onus is on you to prove otherwise.
Ask HN: Posts dropping off from homepage?
For a while now I've noticed a lot of my posts dropping off the front page as soon as they start getting a few upvotes.

It just happened again with this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6498675

I'd really like to know if:

A) There's a problem with my posts.
B) There's a problem with HN.
C) Stuff happens and I'm just being paranoid.

Has anybody else noticed this happening to them?
I got to the end and thought I skipped over something accidentally. Read the article for a second time to confirm that there is not even a hint as to how to solve the problem...
$1200 Titan?
Because he was warned repeatedly about that behavior, investigated previously due to that behavior, and yet never bothered to change his behavior?
That's what I was thinking too, the female equivalent of guy is gal. I've seen other people suggest "person" but that sounds stiff. I say we just use "individual" or "particular individual."
Why does a "free" society take away my right to eavesdrop?
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They will be demographically better if they're older, simply due to experience. If you look at insurance, the ridiculously expensive demographic is the male <25-year-old segment. If tesla drivers are underrepresented here - likely, since they're a luxury car at the moment - then yes, it's pretty safe to say that tesla drivers are more experienced, safer drivers.
Steve was good, but not magic. One thing counting against this deal is that people have seen what happened to the music companies and the phone carriers. Carriers still hate the iPhone, they don't make much money from it, but are in a position where they have to sell it to remain competitive due to consumer demand.
In my understanding, buttons and tabs are skeuomorphs, no matter if they are rendered flat or pseudo-3D. In a true digital UI (e. g. CLI shell) there are no such things. I am not trying to say that we should get rid of buttons everywhere, my point is that making UI flat is not enough to make it non-skeuomorphic: it may be flat but still based on imitating real-world objects (now doing it badly).
Not just subverting the budget process, but inflicting economic damage targetted at not just a single party or a single individual but all of us.

It's like threatening to blow a hole in the boat you are on with others, or shoot the glass out of an airplane window if x, y, and z demands are not met.
Somehow I find this presentation reassuring. It mainly suggests to me, that the NSA/GHCQ has to do 'honest' traffic analysis, implying that they did not break any of the crypto primitives used in Tor.
I don't think you can use 800k/4m to say government is running at 80%. Some departments are affected more than others. Furloughs can have ripple effect. NASA, HUD, ED are the most affected according to data.
if 100 million miles isn't enough to gain statistical significance, what number is?
>The market always sets the price.

This is rather devoid of meaning. What is the market if not a label we use to reference the extremely complex interactions of individuals with varying degrees of information and rationality in an adversarial system? Of course the actual price to produce a product influences what people are willing to pay for it! This is why companies fight so hard to keep that information secret. This is why I refuse to buy a typical cell phone plan that charges absurd amounts for data and text and stick to prepaid. I influence the market because of my knowledge of how much it actually costs to send a text. The market absolutely reacts to the actual costs of products.
More miles would have been driven, so less. I'd be happy after the hundredth fire. They'll be even safer by then.
After reading the comments here, it's easy to feel like a visionary genius. I mean, don't you guys see how obvious this is? The UI/workflow of the future is nothing like the crap we use today. I'm quite confused by people's ignorance. Seriously.
auto-generated? if so, that's pretty impressive. [edit] huh, so that's TextTeaser? https://www.mashape.com/mojojolo/textteaser#!documentation - i had no idea that summaries of that quality were now commodity apis.
The way I understand it, you can analyze it mathematically. Say one piece of circumstantial evidence puts the likelihood of guilt at 20%/ not guilty at 80%. Now another one has a 15/85 ratio. Take that 15% from 80%, and you now have a 68% not guilty / 32% guilty. Keep going until you have a good enough number, and you have your verdict. Now what that number should be? 90% guilty? 95%?
There is no problem. The "problem"/argument mentioned is manufactured out of pure bullishness toward the current stay of things.
I drive a Tesla. It's a much bigger car and a much more expensive car than my old prius. As such, I am terrified to drive it. I'm neither superior nor inferior of a driver as a result of purchasing and driving a tesla, but I'm certainly more afraid of loss than I used to be -- both the loss of money, and the loss of time I get to spend driving my Tesla should I be in an accident.
People in San Francisco, Manhattan, and London are a major constituency here... not outliers.
Most useful and relevant new summary I've never read. Sold.
"They should also vote to raise the debt ceiling (or better yet, abolish it)."

Well there is. The whole problem with publications like this is that they like to provide answers without explaining the consequences. The Economist is especially bad since its title proclaims it as an expert but if we did we what it proposes there would be no limit to the amount of debt the US could borrow and thus no limit to the amount of poverty we would leave to future generations.

Currently the US accrues 2.5t in tax revenue per annum and spends 3.8t or it overspends 1.3t a year. So it should be clear to anyone with the most basic understanding of math the US needs to cut spending. Raising the debt limit is the exact opposite of that and would be equivalent of trying to lose weight by letting out your belt.
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Out of curiosity, does Google Music not work in Canada?

Quickoffice (the app) also ain't too bad. But I don't know how well it compares to WP8 Office.
It looks like your posts just lose momentum - a couple early upvotes can propel you straight to the front page but if you can't sustain your momentum you'll fall off it in favor of others. Flagging can also really hurt a new story.
> I, for one, would like to hear more of Docker's benefits clearly explained (i.e. less shipping container metaphors, and more talk of IP configuration). I'd also like to hear more about the limitations of Docker (e.g. what kernel versions can I move containers between, on which kernel versions is it secure etc).

Have you browsed the website at all? If you look through the Docker blog (http://blog.docker.io), the docs (http://docs.docker.io) and the user mailing list (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/docker-us...) you will find plenty of resources.

For example here are a few videos of actual people explaining how they use docker and why they like it (Ebay, Cloudflare and Mailgun/Rackspace). http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/docker-hack-day-6-lightning-ta...

There's also an online tutorial which lets you dive directly into a command-line simulator.

If you want to dig a little deeper you can also browse the dev mailing list (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/docker-dev) and our IRC channel: #docker on freenode.

I'm pretty sure none of these resources mention the shipping container more than once.
If Congress had to agree on a source of funding for every deficit-running budget they passed, the budgets (or continuing resolutions, in the case that they can't pass full budgets) wouldn't pass.

The debates over continuing resolutions to fund the government implicitly cover where to get money for the deficits (issuing more debt, obviously). The frequency of debt limit adjustments serves as a reminder to Congress about just how fast they're inflating our currency. Do you really want to do away with that?
Your post went from #24 to #79 in five minutes: http://hnrankings.info/6498675/

It happens all the time. I often comment on one of the top 5 articles, only to come back a few minutes later unable to find it on the front-page. I always thought it was a flagging issue, but considering the nature of your post, I'm starting to think it might be a bug with the HN algorithm.