skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is much that I agree with in this comment. However, I need to push back on

> for a stronger example, if I like secular law, it does put me at odds with someone who wants sharia law

I'm making the point that this is only true if you happen to share space with that other person. Right now you're getting along famously with millions of people who want sharia law, because they're safely far away in a different jurisdiction.

Cultural differences, even vast ones, are neither necessary nor sufficient to provoke conflict (although they definitely make it easier). Disputes over limited resources such as, say, Strasb(o)urg, aren't necessary either, but they can be sufficient.

Having said that, I'll repeat that I largely agree with your comment.
I'll have to respectfully disagree as well :-)

Fonts designed for programming typically take extra care of making sure that certain groups of glyphs look different: "O0" and "1lI" for example.

Now I'm curious: what proportional fonts do you use for coding?
This should be titled "Developing Good Code." Not all good software has good code, and vice versa!
> There was an terribly sad update of the "Earth at Night" satellite image showing ND lit up like a Christmas Tree

Why is it sad? The light is from lights in towns, etc, not gas fires.
Contrary to the other two commenters, my guess was going to be that they are optimizing TB/m^3.
Show HN: A Google chrome extension to add a little bro in your browsing.
Skilled vocational workers still make the cash (and drivers for other reasons), but grunts make grunt wages. There are several state grants to get more vocational training, not only for oil but for the extremely short supply of people for infrastructure projects. Due to worker and driver shortages many building projects in the east are delayed or taking much longer than thought.
Excellent! It's far too early to tell, but I'd like to be hopeful that this distribution network could be another nail in the coffin of the old, expensive, dead-tree journals.
I think the counter argument is the Segway, which has probably gotten dorkier
Market Efficiency and the Pareto Wealth Distribution [pdf]
Motorola was ultimately a pawn for Google v. OEMs
perhaps, and Google still won't make a dime on it. incredible really.
I wonder if "optimize my ads" is performing a Multi Armed Bandit optimization approach [1] - which would actually be helpful.

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2844870?hl=en
Transferring Domains – Day 8
I think it would.

It removes sharp cliffs as benefits are removed, which encourages work. It provides people the freedom to actually meet their most pressing needs (and allows competition to meet those needs cheaply and effectively) rather than the set of needs we guess will be most pressing. Those who, per their situation and opportunities and values, have better things to do will be more able to work less, which might make room for those who more need the opportunity - examples might be one spouse staying home to watch children and keep house, or someone pursuing their art or music, or volunteering at any of the remaining important causes.

All that is aside from the basic dynamic of "taking more money from those above the mean and giving more money to those below it" inherently pushing a bit toward more equality.
I whipped this up in a couple of hours as a fun project.
Amazon to Offer Kindle Checkout System to Physical Retailers
I'm not sure what point you're making with the first sentence and chart. (Not trying to be obtuse, just not following so I'd appreciate elucidation).
I know in my C.S. courses most of us guys/girls wont put down our gender on surveys so the 4 or 5 females in the room can maintain anonymity.
Great part:

While it may seem trivial, the author of JSON.org “politely refuses” to amend the clause.

"the author"...as though there's any point in pretending it isn't Crockford, right?

EDIT: Also, the "don't be evil" license pretty much precludes it from being used for PHP, right? I mean, just on moral principles?
This seems a bizarre claim. If there is an end to time then even in flat space-time, if the region we can access starts out finite and grows at a finite rate, then when time ends it will have a finite maximum volume.
There are a huge number of double-precision NaNs in the absolute sense -- there are 2^54-2 of them. But they are a small portion of all of the doubles (roughly 1/2048) so omitting them from the tests does not help significantly with saving time.

And, skipping testing of large numbers and NaNs can lead to missing bugs. One of the fixed ceil functions handled everything except NaNs correctly. Implementations that failed on exponents beyond 63 or 64 are easy to imagine.

But, testing doubles requires compromises. Testing of special values plus random testing plus exhaustive testing of the smallest ten trillion or so numbers should be sufficient -- better than the current status quo at least.
"Capitation is inferior to market pricing in many ways and not "required" to reduce costs."

Don't confuse markets with incentives.

"Another solution is to force providers to charge a single posted price to all consumers, instead of practicing price discrimination."

Not mutually exclusive.

"This achieves the purported benefit of single payer, while still allowing for people to choose how much they want to spend on medical services."

Until there's price collusion, an oligarchy, natural monopoly. In other words, the exact situation we had with the "free market". (The healthcare exchanges have introduced competition.)

"Tuition costs rose as subsidies increased."

What subsidies? State funding for higher ed has fallen thru the floor. Given the current trend, most public universities will be 100% tuition funded in a few years.

"you seem awfully sure of some counterfactuals"

You mean reality? I worked in healthcare and now higher ed. I'm reasonably sure I know the score.
I've played with goons in multiple MMOs, including a few sandbox /heavily open PvP ones. It's always a very fun experience.
Are modern hard drives not rated to survive very long in spun-down, powered-down condition?
> Perl lacks a type system because that was what made the most sense for perl.

Perl 5 that is. Perl 6 has a (gradual) type system.
Haha, I have the post-it, colored with sharpie to blend in because people pointed it out and chuckled at it.

I really don't see a smartphone detector in the bathroom, but maybe you just turn it off, I don't think the bathroom is an issue. The bedroom maybe, but I would assume most smartphone owners sleep with theirs in the room, among other devices. The overall connectivity of households and their data to "the grid" is increasing rapidly. There will be some privacy, it's not a 24/7 visual feed, but the government, Google, Facebook, hackers, et al. will be doing what they do, and people will be giving it to them.
http://www.jetbrains.com/objc/
AppCode, the IDE that is an extension of my brain. Wonderful inspection abilities at breakpoints. Superlative refactoring and completion. And so very much more.

http://injectionforxcode.com
Injection for XCode and AppCode for hot code injection so that I launch the simulator once and code interactively over many, many changes.

https://github.com/robertwijas/UISS
UISS so I can interactively configure appearance proxies.

Slowly but surely, I will live like in Smalltalk.
Bro, did you give yourself a 5 star review? Not cool.
What they call "image based lighting" (rendering depth/normals into a separate image) is actually called deferred lighting / rendering.

Image based lighting is when you use environment maps (like a cube map) for lighting rather than individually defined lights. Typically you precompute blurred versions of the environment map so you can sample it directly at various apertures.
California regulator seeks to shut down programming bootcamps
Very early on in my career I had the privilege of working with a manager who shared your father's philosophy. The experience left a lasting impression with me, and has led me to seriously consider whether management is something I'd be good at or would even want to do.

Perhaps most enlightening was her stance on promotion. Our department had been, overall, falling seriously behind and, as a result, the other managers hadn't promoted anyone in many years(!). She and I discussed this one day and, to paraphrase her words, she said: "At the end of each year, there should always be someone ready for the next level or getting close. If there isn't then I haven't done my job; I haven't appropriately challenged them. My goal is the growth of my reports, and their success is mine."
Here is an example I wrote about:

http://julianyap.com/2012/03/01/compromised-linode-vps.html
By using dithering. You can see it quite clearly on the guy's face if you zoom in.
Um, Apple? Microsoft gets a lot of flack but frankly it has done pretty well. It makes a lot of money in several different divisions outside of windows and office.
It's a tangent but I'm a little disappointed by this latest executive-level assault on the language, from Larry Page:

> So until then, it’s business as usual. I’m phenomenally impressed with everything the Motorola team has achieved and confident that with Lenovo as a partner, Motorola will build more and more great products for people everywhere.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/lenovo-to-acquire-mot...

"Partner." Yeah...
PayPal and GoDaddy respond to Twitter hacking controversy, sidestep blame
Snowden Docs: U.S. Spied on Negotiators At 2009 Climate Summit
>>But, therein lies a paradox, right? I mean, when you see..ay that companies reduce costs/prices.

There is hardly a paradox. Automation causes small term problems but great long term benefits. I won't go too far in history. But as early 1980's India saw massive protests and Nation wide bandhs to protest introduction of computers(and other automation) in the country. People just could not get themselves to accept that their jobs will be replaced by machines. But that event came to pass anyway. Many problems to people of that era in India, are even unknown to the youngsters in India now.

>>The net result is that profits increase, which benefits a relative few rich, while the quality of life for many is reduced or stagnant at best.

Again, I completely disagree. If you keep changing the definition of poor frequently then its nearly impossible to eradicate poverty ever. Poverty today is nothing like what it was even a century ago.

>> the world's wealth is accumulating to a very small number of people at an accelerating pace.

The world's wealth will always accumulate at places, professions and people which benefit from economies of scale. It doesn't matter which system of economics those people are in.
Even NASA has seen the difference in ND from space.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/fracking/10463494/Fr...
It never had anything to say, it never was relevant. These two facts are only now becoming obvious to more people, hence the shark jumping.
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My password manager is simply for helping me quick access to my password folder.

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I think Bluetooth is a fair comparison with the aesthetic quality of glass. The recording capability is what pushes glass into new territory though, in my opinion.

I can imagine people actually flocking to a glass wearer for attention, hoping they are being recorded and posted online just as they might flock to someone with a cellphone camera. At parties, hanging out with friends, at a club, etc. I can imagine it being a lot of fun. If I were discussing business or a stranger approached me wearing google glass, though, I would probably be hyper-aware that I was possibly being recorded.

I can also imagine plenty of scenarios where google glass would make people extremely uncomfortable to the point where you would be asked to leave (nicely or not). Which is not something that would probably ever happen with a bluetooth receiver.
Parent is presumably rooting for North Korea over South Korea based on the famous nighttime photos. ;)
Deport Justin Bieber and revoke his green card
My long bet is that longbets will be gone in 10 years.
> Has any company the size of Google ever successfully pulled of this sort of diversification?

How many companies the size of Google are NOT heavily diversified? Think GE, 3M, etc.
Intel did something even more drastic: they shuttered the division that was making 90% of the companies revenues (memory chips) and completely pivoted to a new business (microprocessors).
In the face of that, this seems insignificant.

C is perfectly fine for this, and anything else, especially if you are very proficient as whoever created this library clearly is. It's going to make it MUCH more painful for people to use though, especially if they don't have gcc on their servers and their desktop isn't linux.
Nice work. Pretty sure Bieber is going to snatch up all the Alleged domains and extensions.
I took a commuter train the other day. A girl sat down next to me with her glass on as I was texting.

My texts aren't always the most private thing in the world, but I don't really want to have to give even a moment's thought to whether the person next to me on the train is recording what's on my screen.

Whether it's even feasible or not to capture adequate quality with whatever version of glass she had (old? new? super-high-res beta?) is not the point. I do not want to have to think about it.

If you have a camera on your head, and it is pointing outward all the time and potentially recording stuff like what I'm saying/doing/reading/writing, people near you are going to be uncomfortable, end of story.
Is it correct to say that if the government demands CloudFlare's SSL cert private key (or acquires it surreptitiously) then they'll be able to decrypt every packet served by CloudFlare? In other words, if the government seizes your cert, then every website that uses CloudFlare will become vulnerable?

I came to that conclusion after realizing that CloudFlare doesn't require websites to set up SSL properly (or perhaps at all?)

Are you using a different SSL cert for each website? Actually, such a thing would probably be completely cost prohibitive even if you wanted to. So therefore it must be true that if someone seized your central SSL key then everyone who uses CloudFlare will lose all security.

This may or may not be an issue; it's my understanding that CloudFlare only serves static, public content, which of course wouldn't be useful to any authorities. But after thinking about it for a bit, I'm concerned about their ability to impersonate users of a CloudFlare-hosted website. Do users' cookies ever get sent to CloudFlare servers? (E.g. my cookies for HN.) That would mean anyone who can obtain those cookies could impersonate any user. Therefore if a government were targeting a specific user and has obtained CloudFlare's SSL cert, then they can wait for that user to log in to the website, steal their cookies, then impersonate the user and download all information from the target website. (CloudFlare itself could do this if it wanted to.) Hence the government wouldn't need to inform individual companies that they're targeting a particular user.

Therefore it can't be true that any user cookies are ever transmitted to CloudFlare's servers, since that would be such a big security risk, right? But then I don't understand how CloudFlare would offer any benefit to a website where the majority of users are logged in. And I'd assume that lack of cookies would cause problems for targeted advertising.

So, is it correct that if CloudFlare receives users' cookies, then anyone who has CloudFlare's cert can obtain those cookies (via passive monitoring) and hence can impersonate any user on any website that uses CloudFlare?

It's entirely possible I'm making a fool of myself with this post, but it's unclear to me how it'd be possible for CloudFlare to serve a website's content without also receiving requests (which contain user cookies) for that website. So it seems like origin SSL certs wouldn't even offer any security if CloudFlare ever receives any user cookies.
NSA espionage was a means to strengthen the US position in climate negotiations
> Courts do not stop thieves. That is done by police.

They do? Granted, I'm sure it happens some times, but it's rare to see a police officer actually thwart an active robbery. Usually police track down the thief after-the-fact and courts take care of the rest. Also, I don't see a meaningful distinction between courts and police (for the purposes of this conversation). They all fit under the umbrella of arbitration.

> You have not supported your assertion that owners can defend their own property in some way that is different from how intellectual property is defended.

If you try to take a piece of my property, I can physically attempt to defend it. It's the nature of reality because it's a scarce good. If you take it from me, then you've deprived me of it.

Now say I come up with this really cool idea, sell it, etc. How am I going to stop you or anyone else from doing the same (short of keeping something a secret)? I can't. Why? Because it's an idea. They aren't scarce. If you take an idea from me you have not deprived me of the idea itself, which is completely unlike real tangible property that is scarce. You might think that I've deprived you of something else, but then it is no longer like property law dealing in scarcity.

I said this in an earlier comment, I think.

This isn't even a controversial claim. Even the courts today in the US make this distinction. That's why it's called "copyright infringement" and not "theft."

> If you are advocating a new political system

I'm arguing that intellectual property requires a coercive entity while property law dealing in scarcity does not. Since I consider coercion unjust, I therefore conclude that IP is unjust.

> Polycentric law is an academic construct.

Monopolistic law is coercive.

> why not admit that rather than making false claims about the current one

Which claims? Why are they false?
"I stayed in Hong Kong for awhile but when that became too expensive I decided to fly back to the safe haven of my birth country, Holland, and wait the situation out. Since Thailand is my favorite place to stay, if that gets unstable, my options quickly run out. Luckily, my parents had a nice place in the east of the country where I could stay for awhile"

Also phrased as: "I ran out of money and went home to Mommy and Daddy".

"The irony doesn’t escape me that in all my years of traveling the world, I haven’t been robbed a single time. And when I come home, it took just 7 days to lose all my stuff."

Please consult the dictionary for the word "irony". This is just unfortunate, not ironic. Also, you travelled the usual backpacker circuit in SE Asia for 9 months. You don't get to say "in all my years of traveling" just yet, poser.
Nest is worth every penny.

As for why Google specifically acquired them? Possibly because a general partner at KPCB (Nest's biggest investor and one of Google's early investors) also holds a seat on Google's board. Nest was one of Google Ventures largest investments and Google Ventures holds a seat on Nest's board. There's nothing like having the seller also be the one involved in the buying decision.

Nest makes great products and has an awesome team. I think they're worth more than what Google paid.
Google's Game Of Moneyball In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7141446
Now it would be great if there was a certain court in Texas that votes in favour of citizens for every Patriot/FISA Act court case, just like there is one for patent trolls.
You have too much data. Archiving music/photos/movies is so pointless in this day and age, which I'm willing to bet what a lot of it is. Delete 95% of the photos and all of the movies. You now have about 100MB of actual, unique data, which fits nicely on a flash drive. It's ok, no need to thank me.
Are Gentoo users really that large a group of people?

In numbers, I mean, not form factor.
This awesome! Thanks for sharing!
In other news - China Global Warming: Made in America?
This post is slightly misleading and also 6 months old, it's a Debian issue not a PHP issue.

Tim, if you had upgraded from the version provided by php.net you
would not have seen a problem. We have not removed json and we
will never release a version of php without json support built in. Any
changes in 5.5 is due to whatever distro packaging you are using which
we have no control over.

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63520
what kind of equipment costs 1.5Mil and can be carried/dropped by a single person?
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There is no single CloudFlare certificate/private key, that's not how CloudFlare works. The certificate for Hacker News is unique to Hacker News. We deal with thousands and thousands of certificates.

Since HTTP/HTTPS requests for sites on CloudFlare pass through CloudFlare so do all parts of the HTTP header (including the Cookies). But since the certificate is unique to HN there's no more danger of a government compelling access to the certificate/key than there is if HN wasn't on CloudFlare (since the government could compel HN to give up the certificate/key).

Additionally, we would fight vigorously against an order to give up a private key. The foundation of our business is trust.

But it's interesting that you bring this up because we are shortly going to announce a new offering where even if the government tried to compel us to give up a private key we would literally be unable to do so. Stay tuned. And, by the way, that product will be open source.
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Perhaps ... "rv menu" appears to perform well because those looking for food menus for when they are off in their RV are interested in just _looking_ at RVs? Did they mainly click the expensive ones? [That's what I'd do, like "ooh, fancy; I'd like one of those"]

Interest, indeed clicks, don't mean revenue will follow unless they were actual sales actions.

Now, it could also be that you can sell RV hire to people researching for an RV trip using "RV menu" ...
In the US, it's becoming that anyone below the 33rd percentile is poor by that definition. So poverty is always with us in that frame of mind.

I think you are conflating the measures of Relative Poverty and the Supplemental Poverty Threshold [0]. Relative poverty is a measure of inequality and is explicitly labelled as such. The supplemental threshold is people whose entire income is less than the 33rd percentile of spending on necessities, and it is not intrinsically true that this group must always exist.

[0] http://www.census.gov/hhes/povmeas/methodology/supplemental/...
Go back to 4chan ;)
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> That means we have more people who can go work on things like curing cancer and colonizing space

Labor isn't 1-for-1 substitutable. You can't take a 50 y/o manual laborer with a high school education who's been displaced by robots and just turn him into a cancer researcher or rocket scientist.
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Social condensing service Slim shuts down
Why don't you email the people you want to meet, rather than random people on the Internet that can't help you?