skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any business opportunity, currency, financial instrument, etc. that makes enough money is absolutely 100% going to be regulated for two reasons:

1. Consumer Behavior Requires It

2. Large Companies Thrive On Regulation

To point one, if you have anything that is making people a lot of money one way or another, there will be scams and fraud. Once there are scams and fraud, the government gets involved and has to clean up the mess. Then laws are made to stop the problems from happening in the first place. Eventually you need business licenses, certification, etc. to transact business because too many people got ripped off.

To point two, regulation and rules actually end up favoring the entrenched companies. Usually regulation creates barriers that reduce competition. For example, to trade securities, sell insurance, or sell real estate you need to get a license. To get a license you need to take exams and pay money to be certified. Most people won't go through that effort and so the larger companies make a lot of money from the lack of competition.

Rules and regulations might be annoying, but they are a sign of maturity and growth in many cases so it's not all bad.
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>white Americans had nothing to do with slavery

If they lived in America, they did. It affected the the prices of the goods they purchased and affected the price their labor could bring. It affected who they voted for, and years later where they would live. The fact that simply by virtue of the state of being white, they were immune to being enslaved within a culture of slavery affected their relationships to each other and to free black men.

>only the top 1.5% (1) or so of Americans enjoyed any of the benefits stereotypically ascribed to "white people."

Bullshit. If you can get a cab and a black man can't, you're enjoying "benefits stereotypically ascribed to 'white people.'" If a job application is turned down because a name sounds black, you're enjoying "benefits stereotypically ascribed to 'white people.'" Not recognizing that is just a sense of entitlement.

>Blaming all whites for slavery is much like blaming all Muslims for 9/11.

Muslims didn't get to vote (and take up arms against each other) to support 9/11, thousands of times in thousands of contexts over hundreds of years, and they didn't get the economic boost that comes from a large proportion of the population existing to serve.
There is only one monument built to commemorate the end of the slave trade (through the British Empire). As it happens this monument just so happens to be at the entrance to the school I attended. Consequently we learned more about the slave business than most. Our education was a bit more nuanced and not entirely pious.

It is easy to focus on what terrible times slaves had - 'wasn't it terrible' - but the more interesting stories and the bigger picture are elsewhere. For starters, it was not the slaves that freed themselves (Haiti being an exception), the campaign was a Quaker thing, an understanding that God would not have thought it right. Beyond that there was also the economic picture, indentured labour from Bengal (India) was more cost effective.

At least slaves could see their chains. They had to be fed and watered, it wasn't as if they had to find the essentials for staying alive out of a paycheck. Those doing the same toil as indentured labour were living that bit more precariously.

What I find most interesting about the slave trade and slavery is how analogous it is to the arms trade. In the days of slavery members of parliament would own plantations, councillors would have shares in slave-trade related concerns and every aspect of power was corrupted by some link. If you were against slavery it was hard to clothe and feed yourself without buying slavery products. Think of today and if you wanted to avoid things made in China for some ideological reason - near impossible.

So anyway, today's arms trade where all politicians seem to take some back-hander from it is so like the slave trade/slavery in how it corrupts. Equally, nobody thinks or cares about banking with a bank that services the arms companies, or buying something as small as a paperclip from a company that gladly sells to the Pentagon. It was the same in the slavery days. Nobody cared except for some Quakers.

That is not entirely true, a lot of factory operatives in places like Manchester realised their struggle for fair pay for fair work was tied into the slavery thing.

I particularly like stories that challenge the narrative. In the UK during the post war years a lot of people from the Caribbean were invited over to blighty to be cleaners, bus drivers etc. That is what we like to think. However, some did make it over here to be judges, teachers and other professions. These contradictions and the nuances to the story are what make it interesting for me, and, personally, I think that our history regarding slavery deserves to be more thought provoking than the testimonies provided on the slaverystories.org website.
I really want to believe this comment is a joke...

Everything that you mention that needs to be "regulated" is already regulated by the bitcoin protocol itself. In fact, the whole point is to replace regulation with strong cryptographic proof.
This seems like a genuinely awful idea. "Never trust the client" is incredibly applicable here - the ability for me to send data to your car that can remove control from you, the driver, seems like an insanely bad idea. How exactly will you confirm that the telemetry I'm sending is legitimate?

Gives a whole new meaning to "wardriving".
I can't clearly remember my psychics class, But I think I'd fall a bit faster, as the movement through the pipe is considerable as well.
No. Because copper isn't ferromagnetic, it will not be magnetized by the magnet, and consequently the magnet and the copper will not be attracted to each other. (In fact copper is diamagnetic, so it will actually slightly repel.)

Source: I am a magnet scientist.
I don't think this is the case.

OTOH, I'm surprised Google, after being the victim of known hacking by an intelligence agency (in pursuit of a religious extremist group, presumably), consisting of malware, targeted malware/spearphishing, attacks on staff (presumably inserting trusted staff into Google in various roles), etc., didn't include bulk encryption within its network as a way to compartmentalize things.

They certainly pulled out of the world's largest Internet market, locked down their employee workstations across the board (essentially banning Windows, IIRC), adopted 2FA internally, and generally have better internal security than banks or virtually any large enterprises. On the customer-facing side, they're leading in cert pinning, "ssl everywhere", etc. So not doing bulk encryption between datacenters was an oversight -- it's technically expensive to implement, which was probably a major factor.

(In case it's not obvious, this isn't Google v NSA)
I guess I'm more likely to believe the climate scientists of the IPCC rather than "some predictions".
This started off being about discussions about Netflix shows, and then turned into a philosophical article about life.

Nice! I'm glad that I can watch House of Cards all at once, and that this article exists.
"The most important thing in life is to be free to do things. There are only two ways to insure that freedom - you can be rich or you can you reduce your needs to zero." (John Boyd)

edit: for more about this interesting man, read "Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art Of War" by Robert Coram.
If a group of people want to be on the same page so they can discuss it, they can choose to watch it at the same pace. Just because a broadcast network isn't forcing them to do that, it doesn't mean they can't still watch it the "traditional" way. Now they have a choice!
Okay? Why even bring this up unless trying to cast a disparaging light onto global warming? You are, in fact, denying human caused global warming in your last comment, "I'm just saying that correlation does not equal causation." Every time I see this argument it's usually the first statement in the 'human's aren't really causing global warming, so we shouldn't try to fix it' circle-jerk.

What is the worst thing that happens if we try to address global warming, human caused or not? We get to keep the beneficial conditions that we've had since the beginning of humanity as we know it? Our children get to inherit a functioning and healthy planet? Society can continue on the way it has for many, many generations without plague or famine?

Stop it.
So why did the Apple menu go along the top with the finder thing in the top left?

On HN you can't just say 'this is no better than that' without providing some reason, even if the lamest anecdotal evidence.
> at the moment I think making a language "look like python" is the safer bet for a new language

Why Python? Clojure and Elixir are two new languages with growing communities and they look nothing like Python.
That assertion's got more holes than emmental.

Maybe, but your counterexamples don't seem particularly convincing.

Where does Python fit?

Originally, a readable scripting language.

More recently, a language for back-end web development that doesn't ram OO down your throat.

Also carving out something of a niche as a general purpose scripting language embedded in other applications instead of a custom macro language, like Lua but many more people have prior experience programming in it.

C#

Similar strengths to Java, but with a lot of useful extra features, without most of the limitations that should have gone away a decade ago but didn't, and with a runtime environment that is available by default on Windows.

The reasons [Lisp] never took of is a combination of little advertising/pushing ... and highly fragmentary communities ... leading to no corpus of code.

Also, a highly uniform and generic structure is not always an advantage in a programming language. Sometimes it's better to have things that are different obviously look like they're different.
Summary update to Poll: Developers how often are you contacted by recruiters?
Thanks to everyone who responded.

Original post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7171442
When operating at thin margins, if those margins disappear the only way to stay afloat is to cut costs. The "easiest" way to cut costs quickly is to reduce your labor force. It is much harder to cut operational costs like buildings and infrastructure without incurring extra cost or taking a big loss.

This is one reason why operating a high margin, low cost business is probably better for both the owners and the employees.
how could this be rapidly improved?

Add more data to OSM! Placenames, neighboud names, road names, add pubs, restaurants, venues, with their names and addresses!

I wonder what the legal perspective would be if everyone crawled "their" data (i.e. the data they personally entered) from Google maps and forwarded it to OSM.

That would probably be against Google's ToS. However if the knowledge is still in your head, then you can just manually enter it into OSM.

The 'search' box on the front page uses Nominatim[1], a programme for turning lat/longs into addresses (and vice versa). If there's a bug or the output doesn't look right, feel free to submit an issue.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim
The effect works just fine with thinner tubes and smaller magnets - I've done it using 15mm 'plumbing' copper pipes.
A kg is about $7 at the moment it seems, so suppose that's 5 kg then $35.
As long as it isn't a magnetizable substance like iron.
I encourage us to adopt clean energy and reusable resources either way. Please don't straw-man me without knowing my feelings on the matter. (I put this in the edit above for clarification).
That's an interesting way to put it. You're basically saying that Bitcoin will be regulated, either because the regulations will be good for society (in which case society will advocate for them) or bad for society (in which case society may not advocate for them, but those with political power will).
Yeah, and publishing a book all at once kills discussions too.

But seriously, the solution here is the same: form a club. Force yourselves to read/watch at the same pace, and you'll actually have a more social experience than if you all read/ separately and only occasionally managed to start up an ad-hoc conversation.
This is a great site. It correctly addresses the often-dense web spaces that make available many of the narratives. Good to see the modern web approach. And the instructional stuff on github is worthwhile.

I've shared it with the major African American Studies listserv, H-Afro-Am (http://www.h-net.org/~afro-am/)
(but it is still searching the city limits of Detroit, not the metro area).

Not necessarily. It depends on what the geocoding software does. It might use rigid "city" borders, or might not. In Europe, we don't have these rigid "city borders", so lots of software has to cope with that.
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Traffic change during the super bowl
Here is a visualized chart of the responses: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0Apeq0A1yrFZCdF...
Evaluate all predictions critically, whichever side they are on. History has proven the minority right sometimes (again, I'm not suggesting one side or the other is right, I simply don't know who is right because I do not have a crystal ball).
If you recycle anything except metal you are making the problem worse not better.

Solar panels are a poor choice, they help somewhat but they are far too expensive for what they provide.

If you actually want to make a difference then agitate for more nuclear power. There is absolutely nothing else that will help.
The physics of this article was incredible to think about. It must have been like visiting another world.
The number of accounts impacted is a very deceitful number, and don't say anything about the nature of the intrusion of users private data.

Let me try it: Let me run code to sieve through every politician mailbox. I won't go after all of them, so only a handful will be "impacted" on.

And this is only first-order of impact. What happens with second order impacts when a mail account by a person like Jacob Appelbaum is "impacted"? Is every dissident that emailed in danger, and what if their organization is not in favor of current US politics?
You're moving the goalposts. First you said:

AWS really only makes sense ($$) when you can take advantage of the ability to spin up and spin down your instances as needed.

After it's pointed out that other facilities besides EC2 motivate people to use AWS, you can't turn around and complain that those other facilities are useless without EC2. Even if that were true (it's not), such people would be using EC2 not for its load-scaling, but rather to enable their use of the non-EC2 facilities.
It also works with a small neodymium magnet which can be bought for less than $1 and a small copper plumbing tube which costs about the same.
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That's a crazy amount of COBRA/health insurance severance. Not saying its a bad thing, you just don't see it that often.
The levitation over a superconductor was the other cool demo that the professor did :).
It's horrible how climate change is now a religion not a science.

"Deniers and believers".
Worth noting there are several projects working on making crytocurrencies much more private. Matthew Green's zerocoin and zerocash are the strongest, providing provable anonymity.

In principle, zerocoin could be added to bitcoin, but the bitcoin devs aren't up for it yet. Zerocash is so different it pretty much has to be an altchain.
This concept is different but similar to Mr. Money Mustache's ideas. Minimize expenses, because why wouldn't you if you're not less happy for it, and invest all the money you don't spend with your minimal lifestyle. In 10 years, you could retire if you've made a high salary for the past 10 years. The guy publishes his spending every year, and he spends around $25k-$30k per year for him, his wife, and his son. This is with smartphones, cars, and a large house. Because he lived like this, and because he and his wife both made good white collar incomes, he retired in his early 30s and just does whatever he wants now.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com
What was it like to develop Paper?
i'm a devops noob. what tools should i use to log / monitor all my servers?

i don't want to learn some complex stuff like cheff/puppet btw.... anything SIMPLE?
True, and it's a fair point. With that said, that isn't the case with my example -- none of my social circle has read the books.
Actually, "has all of the addresses" doesn't make much sense.

The way most geocoders work is by having street segments that are split at certain points and have from/to ranges of addresses. Here is a SO questions I asked many years ago that explains the logic:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10991330/how-does-the-goo...

In the US, a big chunk of OSM is based on a Tiger ingest. Tiger already had the segments split with the ranges (albeit some areas are not that accurate). In theory, you could still have a nice geocoder for US (the same is true for other countries like Germany).

The current crowdsourcing workflow of how people edit data in OSM makes it attractive for display (i.e. there is no need to split the street segments and add the address ranges for "pretty display"). But it also causes people to not edit the address ranges, snap the edges, etc, which just means that as a routing or geocoding dataset it is arguably actually worse.

You don't need _all_ the addresses to geocode. In theory, you could start with a particular country, clean it up for that problem. But right now, that is not the emphasis of OSM. The emphasis is a pretty base layer. For that OSM is awesome. For routing and geocoding, not so much.
I don't think he can explain more. He's basically predicting the stock market without any insider information.
Yet Another Framework Syndrome (YAFS)
Not technically, but generally in practice. You can open things up permissions-wise but run the risk of folks uploading lots of large files. Keeping permissions locked down and doing a signature allows things like file size, location, etc. restrictions.
Climate scientists are very well aware of this.
How do you handle entire datacenter outages with ephemeral only setup? You can replicate to another datacenter, but if power is lost to both do you just accept that you'll have to restore from a snapshotted backup?
From the about page:

http://warmingworld.newscientistapps.com/about.html

"Surface temperature measurements are not evenly distributed across the globe. So the NASA team interpolates from the available data to calculate average temperatures for cells in a global grid, with each cell measuring 2 degrees latitude by 2 degrees longitude. The analysis extrapolates up to 1200 kilometres from any one station, which allows for more complete coverage in the Arctic – where monitoring stations are sparsely distributed, but where the warming trend is especially strong."
I just noticed some hiccups on one of my Cloudflare-proxied sites. But it's back again (4:45PM central).
I have ideas about a new language since I finished school in 1993. I had many ideas, some of them got implemented in java. Recently, I discovered scala. All my vague ideas are in scala. The only complaint I have against scala is the slowness of the compiler. I have stopped learning about compilers.
Also wouldn't it basically be unprecedented if the climate didn't change?

Of course the climate is changing. Like it has done for millions of years. Big whoop.
I'm just loving Julia. Thanks for the work you've put in.

What is your timeline for 1.0, if that's on the near horizon?
Perfect solution? It works like it was custom-built for my site, is as easy and predictable to implement as Persona's `get()` API, and of course has excellent security, privacy, and operations.

I would have been willing to pay for such a thing had it existed when I started. It would have needed to be proven, though, because I worry about longevity. The exact price isn't so important, within reason; say, less than $100/mo. At the higher end of that range, I'd expect it to have some serious word-of-mouth gushing.
Really? That seems enormously too slow. Even over the internet, I'm within 5-10ms of most things in the bay area.

If you have a dozen slow (100us) switches, three slow (2ms) routers, and 500 kilometers of fibre (2ms), you should still be under 10ms each way. And that's enough gear to cross some countries.

I'm curious how you can do much worse than this in a data center. Maybe some pokey "application firewall" or massive buffer bloat?
3 might not be enforced by the protocol if we're using a broader definition of "valid".
The amount of time, energy and money wasted on this "problem" is staggering to me. Imagine if we put that time, money and resources to better use to solve real problems that affect peoples lives day in and day out.
If I knew how Python or Ruby was implemented, I wouldn't use it? BS. I'd use it if, weaknesses and all, it was good enough to be useful for what I was trying to do. Anything else is posturing.
There's an important distinction between the "regulation of bitcoin" and "regulation of businesses's or people's use of bitcoin".

You could, for instance, say "use of an unregistered wallet is a crime", but it would be very difficult within the protocol to prevent bitcoins from flowing to unregistered wallets.
Wow, didn't know about pre-signed URLs, very useful. I've added this info to my article, thanks!
I grabbed an app called "Avia" which will do streaming of local-to-the-device content. Chromecast support is a $3 in-app (i.e. per-device, not per-account) purchase once you download the app, which is itself free.

It works. Note that the chromecast has very limited codec/container support, so lots of my library has to be transcoded.
Probably because it isn't an official port, there is no reason to learn .NET if you don't develop exclusively for Microsoft.

If you're developing for multiple platforms chances are you already use some other toolkit with platform specific bits mixed in, mono is only useful if you are a .NET developer and then decide you want to port apps.
Not to mention that searching for "Conroe, TX" and taking the first, correct-sounding result got me ~10 miles south of city limits.

The search box on the OSM front page uses Nominatim, which also has it's own website. Here's the search results for that: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=Conroe%2C+TX... You can see the 2 results there http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=4274... and http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=9815... There's a "Report Problem" button to help debug issues like this. Feel free to submit a bug!

I think Nominatim tries to rank things based on how long their Wikipedia article, the the item to the south (that was at the top), is the one that links to Wikipedia. TBH it looks like bad mapping whoever put that there
Who's moving goal posts? After it was (correctly) pointed out that AWS!=EC2 (even though most of the original post was talking about EC2), I asked a simple question - how useful are the rest of the services outside of EC2? It is a legitimate question.

I'm not sure how useful everything in the AWS umbrella is outside of EC2. I was hoping to learn something, not provoke anyone.
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You don't think purchasing of or investment in solar may stimulate that area of the market enough to overcome those problems?
Or zoom in and show the "Data" layer
Significant whitespace is _also_ redundant, just along different metrics. Badly indented Python gets caught before execution the majority of the time, and in presentation, it surfaces to the programmer quickly.

His argument is essentially against something like Lisp or Forth where you have such a paucity of syntax that many erroneously written statements are syntactically valid and make it to runtime.