skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing to me how people keep being so ignorant about the likely most troubling issue for the next two centuries. Climate prognosis for the next 80 years keeps getting worse. The most recent studies suggest one degree of warming per decade on average, assuming that CO2 production levels out just about now. Until humans are CO2 balanced, every ton we blow into the atmosphere simply keeps raising temperature with some time delay. 8 degrees warming on average worldwide means that some outlier regions, potentially the ones where raising temperatures are the most damaging, will see a temperature increase of 15 degrees.

We're the frog inside the heating pot, except we even steer the gas burner - and we're still discussing which way to cook ourselves would be the most economical.
Quark Xpress and Adobe inDesign are two I have seen being used. In the past Corel Ventura was wuite popular too.
Sorry but infrastructural parts of fracking count as fracking. It's not like people are complaining solely about injection or leaking. Or the constant convoys of diesel vehicles, the expansive works they drive to and from.

In this case one tower is highlighted, but the process the tower is involved in is... Fracking.

Would it be different if it was a municipal water tower? Yes, since the man's job is to promote drilling and pumping hydrocarbons, not piping municipal water supplies. Of course it would be different.
Teaching algae to make fuel:
Rules like "only fund Harvard dropouts under 25" screen out big hits.
The clue to the difference is here:

... but this time, every prisoner must follow
the same set of rules.
Often text-only google cache works when normal google cache doesn't. Maybe try that?
What those people will do that we can not create machines that do it cheaper, faster and better?
Bram Moolenaar response to Neovim:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/vim_dev/x0BF9Y0Uby...
Pretty good analysis from Simon Wardley in these two posts:

http://blog.gardeviance.org/2013/12/once-more-unto-breach-de...

http://blog.gardeviance.org/2014/02/if-i-was-sauron-odf-vs-o...
> '"Now I want each of you to flick Switch A to the "On" position twice, and only twice. So if you go in there and Switch A is already on, that doesn't count. I want each of you to actually flick it "On" two times. You got that?"'
Look at the date, the article is from 2009.
I'm actually kinda surprised there's no nyud.net-style automatic cache for links posted on Hacker News yet. I'm tempted to buy a cheap used PC and set one up at home... Is there some open source code to implement this aside from curl?
If you want to ignore all the details in this discussion, how much power each company has and how much they're willing to leverage it.. sure, go ahead.

The whole net neutrality discussion is a power play between content providers and fiber owners, nothing else. The discussion about freedom and competition is awesome (and right!), but at the end it's these two huge groups fighting each other while we are screaming "think of the children!".

What Netflix would be losing if a subset of their customers on provider X is already getting crappy service and it can't do anything about that? At some point they will have to decide what to do about all those complaints and refund requests.
9% of 300 million is a freaking huge number.
There are two differences. The first is a minor difference in the way it's formulated: in the OP’s version, the prisoner is obliged to flick one switch or the other when he’s sent into the room, whereas in this version he has the option of doing nothing.

The second difference is the one that makes this problem genuinely difficult, though: “Ah, but this time, every prisoner must follow the same set of rules.” In other words, the agreed strategy has to be the SAME for every prisoner.
Very, very well said.

Let's do some simple math to prove your point.

Assume Comcast has about 10 Tbps of traffic at peak, single-counting all traffic that transits AS 7922 (Comcast's national backbone network). [1] Now assume that a full 50% of that traffic is originated by Netflix, and the market price for transit is $2/mbps. The percentage is likely quite lower than that, and given 5 Tbps of traffic volume and coordination between the two networks to reduce the number of miles the bits need to be hauled by both networks, the per-megabit price is almost certainly quite a bit less.

But even with these obviously flawed guesses, we're only talking about $120mm/year in costs. Netflix's worldwide revenue in 2013 was $4.3b [2]; Comcast's 2013 revenue from their US HSI business alone was $10.3b. [3] If 50% of Comcast's $10.3b business was in jeopardy, don't you think they'd find a way to absorb that $120mm?

[1] http://as7922.peeringdb.com/

[2] Netflix Q4 2013 earnings release, http://ir.netflix.com/results.cfm

[3] Comcast 10-K filed 2/12/2014

(edited: formatting)
Well that's persuasive.
You could solve this by creating an order of succession for the designated counter in your original meeting.

If no announcement is made when someone dies, however, you've got a problem.
I've always wondered if some programming tools couldn't help out in the legal world.

It seems to me version control and diffing tools could be very applicable. I wonder if the concept of branching could help for very complex contract negotiations.

Also library dependency management. Contracts often include well established clauses that can change incrementally over time. Maybe even transitive dependencies?

From what I've seen the legal industry kind of sucks a technology and they tend to brute force things with hordes of junior lawyers and microsoft word.
Upon hearing this, the GP was enlightened.
> Services like Netflix that send massive amounts of traffic in a single direction violate this assumption.

Netflix does not send any data. Comcast customers request lots of data from Netflix. Significant difference.

Another example (just in the other direction): A backup provider needs to pay up big-cable because their customers are uploading a lot of data?
You get it back as tax from the non-poor so you don't actually spend the money. Though if they have a bad year or decide to start a business, or write a novel they are assured that I'll be there for them.
Most Winning A/B Test Results are Illusory [pdf]
Sounds like it's about fracking.
Can you provide a source for Ghash.io double spending? I've not heard about that before, and it seems unlikely.
Bram Moolenaar responds to Neovim
This is all terrible advice. Please stop giving it.
You might want to add "with a high number of iterations or work factor," at least. PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA-256 is just as useless as 2xSHA-256 if you just do one iteration.
You might be, but Gruber wasn't -- the evidence he linked to was a powerpoint slide which was specifically about PRISM. Which means that it is not relevant when trying to determine if NSA introduced this vulnerability or not.
Yellowstone Supervolcanoe begins de-gassing rare Helium 4 isotope
Ask HN: Dying with debt?
What happens when all of the Americans (etc) with tons of debt start passing away? Will the new customers make up for all the losses to the credit card companies?
They don't pay their ISPs to get their packets all the way to the customer. They're reliant on somebody else's property to get them there.
That was meant to say the percentage of authentic users goes down, not up. Too late to edit the comment unfortunately.
That has never been how the internet works. You pay a part of the costs, the other party pay a part of the cost. When the other side opts for a cheap, poor quality connection (like Cogent), you suffer no matter how much you pay, and it's not your ISPs fault.

It's not Comcasts responsibility if Cogent did not have peering arrangement or had paid for sufficient capacity to handle their end of the connection, that their customer was paying them to provide.

If it was, I'd love to provide Netflix connection much cheaper than Cogent. I'll provide it over my 10Mbps uplink, and blame consumers ISPs when everything falls over.
I was halfway through my post when I reworded it to avoid this point. Not really sure how hn likes the doom talk yet, but seeing as you brought it up.. I watched a ted talk a while back where the speaker basically laid it out like this:

2 degrees c = screwy weather patterns, extreme storms

4 degrees c = sea level rise, no real seasons anymore, just a big swinging mess from extreme drought to extreme storms

6 degrees c = mad max

8 degrees c, he basically said humans were long gone at this point.

Remember, 1 degree average = massive localised changes.

Hmm now that I've written all this, I'm not sure, were you speaking in celsius or fahrenheit?

edit, specified celcius, also I think this may have been the guy but not quite the same talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznsPkJy2x8
Arctic Harvester Proposes Large-Scale Hydroponic-Farming Near Greenland
This raises an interesting question: should a country applying to YC use the regular application form or the nonprofit one?
Unfortunately people will get angry when heavy jquery-based apps run like shit. JavaScript is very quick, but the way people write and use it makes it slow...
TestFlight for Android
Any link where we don't have to login after reading the first three lines?
You may find a study of history to be interesting. What you describe sounds like the European post-western-roman empire dark ages not utopia.

How do you intend to consume if none of the consumers have money anymore? How do you intend to trade if the market is polluted by expensive middlemen and centralized .gov pre-selecting the winners and losers? If the standard of living were better in a non-monetary economy in theory, how come it never works that way in practice? Opportunities require money and power to take advantage of them, without either they will not be lost.

Why wasn't the (first) Great Depression a paradise on earth? No one had jobs or money. New high technology all over the place. So why exactly would the second Great Depression be any better than the first, if its of basically the same form? Even worse, recall the interesting economic hack used to "fix" the first one? All you need is a world war, and for the survivors, its gets better.
Feeling like a kid again – The joy of 3D printing
I'm saying that the environment issues A are exactly equivalent to the decrease in land value B. The statement I was disagreeing with was stating that A != B whereas I was thinking that A == B.

But you're correct that in the quote in Puer's comment the article was talking about water contamination and safety issues.

To be clear I believe that Mr Tillerson is acting in a self interested hypocritical manner and I hope that the big fracking companies lose a significant portion of their real profits to compensation if it turns out that people's health or land values have been damaged by their activities.
Not sure why this is relevant to HN.

When someone dies, their debts don't disappear - the debts are paid from the assets owned by the decedent before heirs/beneficiaries are allowed to inherit.

Credit card balances can be negotiated down after death - but that happens pretty frequently with living people, too, through bankruptcy or otherwise.

Lenders don't expect that every debt will be repaid in full - it's part of the business model.
Interestingly, Boulder forced a few years ago the electric utility (Xcel) to bring fiber to the vast majority of houses in town, but the fiber sits unused because it was intended for realtime metering solutions and the town & utility gave up on that goal.

Imagine if that fiber were used as a community network! Unfortunately, the town is not planning to do this -- they've excluded the fiber from their plans to take over the Xcel infrastructure.
An app to store and spend pocket change. 
What are your thoughts on a mobile app to store and use all your spare change? Are there still enough cash transactions to render such an application useful? Could this potentially lead to an increase in cash transactions knowing you wouldn't have to carry the coins around in your pocket?
I second many of the books, but in particular "Sutter/Alexandrescu's C++ Coding Standards"
the "coding standards" is misleading, its more like a "Code Complete" for hardcore C++.
Almost nowhere does Comcast actually have a monopoly on broadband.
What I really like from WhatsApp/Telegram/Apple's Messages is their simplicity, no over-engineered app for msging, an app that even my dad can use. I want to use the app that any of family members can use.

Unlike, for argument sake, Path, which requires me to register with them, makes me use a "complex" menu, unnecessary status wall, tell me how many connections I should have, etc.
I do this professionally as my sole job. This is one of the very few papers I've read that seem completely legit to me. I especially love their point on necessary sample sizes to get to a 90% power.
Are those all some form of DSL? Is there a big choice of phone companies? I know in the UK, its BT and a couple of resellers. Do you still have to pay for a phone line rental to someone else?

In the US, you generally have a choice between one (two if you're lucky) cable companies and DSL.
Awesome! Thank you for such great news!
Ironically, the most cost efficient way of acquiring BTC today may well be to go out into the world and earn dollars (e.g. a job) and then use them to purchase BTC from an exchange.
You're worried about credit card companies going bankrupt? That.. does not seem like a very wise worry to have.
Kinda sorta not really. Abstract supertypes currently behave somewhat like an interface. But because multiple inheritance is still an open issue [1], it doesn't really fulfill the requirements of an interface.

But it looks like it's definitely on the roadmap [2].

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5#issuecomment-330...

[2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4935#issuecomment-...

[See also:] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/2248
Doctored.js – XML editor with schema validation in browser
Completely agree with you here. It's time that the United States realizes that it's approach towards broadband was flawed and tries something new.
Why do you think it's useless? Not transmitting the password in plain text is clearly a win, and you can do whatever checks you need on the client side just as easily. (If a user wants to fool whatever checks you have, they can do that whether or not you have server-side checks--it happens all the time.)
I don't believe he'd be objecting were it for another purpose, and is instead using this as a technical means to block it.
One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen
Central Bank of Jordan Blocks Financial Companies from Bitcoin
mocha, chai, etc. I get it, it's a play on java. but are we eventually gonna run out of namespaces for all these different tools and libraries. There are only so many variations of tea and coffee we can use!
> How would you even express babysitting or lawnmower-borrowing as a program?

What if all you needed to do was sent x btc to 13cyfKGfbyyuyiJVLj8S1QZ34x281X1neh which would trigger a lawnmower algorithm [1] to scan all available wifi connected lawnmowers, and send an idle one to mow your lawn - while compensating the anonymous owner for 'lending' you his machine.

The implications of distributed blockchains are so huge that it's very hard to predict how people are going to innovate on the edges. One thing is sure though - bitcoin (the invention) effectively renders centralized institutions obsolete. Banking, notaries, government, voting, legislation, data-storage...

[1] " Each Ethereum contract has its own internal scripting code, and the scripting code is activated every time a transaction is sent to it. The scripting language has access to the transaction’s value, sender and optional data fields [...] " http://cryptonomics.org/2014/02/01/ethereum-turing-complete-...
No one is saying that psychological problems are unchangeable. But it is a useful abstraction to separate mind and body. This will become more relevant in the future when get mind uploading. But even in the present it's a useful concept. You can get a serious crippling disability and still be alive with only limited ability to interact with the world. You can get your body almost completely destroyed and it will still be the same you. This is the point the author was getting at (though to a lesser degree.)
Its silly to pretend that the abstraction is the reality. There is no Internet, just a bunch of private networks connected together. No amount of wishful thinking will change that underlying reality. Now that real money is in play, the fiction of the internet is crumbling and the physical nature is becoming exposed.
The purpose of 1GB pages is to eliminate TLB pressure for apps that use a lot of RAM, not to swap it out to disk.
Netflix to Pay Comcast to End Traffic Jam
Vulnerable NTP Servers Closing Down
If you think National Insurance pays for those directly (it doesn't), you're the reason we've been fooled into paying a second income tax.
But if a person dies in debt and there's nothing in the estate to pay that debt it does die with the person. Unless they deliberately drove up debt just before dying.

At least, this is how it is in the UK.

I'm less worried about people dying with debt than I am with young people having to pay huge debts off, and having to save for old age, at the same time.
Absolutely gorgeous. [2] in particular.
Interesting, but at that point doesn't Docker just become libvirt almost?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=327767.0
That iPhone Security Flaw Is Bad. Update Your Software Now. Here’s How.
Nokia goes Android – Part 2
As someone in my 20s, when theoretically I can afford the risk of entrepreneurship (no financial or familial obligations), Obamacare would make it harder for me. I looked at getting health insurance when I was unemployeed, it was reasonable. Now the cost for me has doubled for comparable coverage. That would make it harder for me to afford living expenses while I trying to be an entrepreneur.

Also, just based on the title:

Perhaps one day there will be Professional Healthcare Navigators. People you actually pay a fee to so they can find you a plan that will save you thousands or more a year. Just like professional tax return preparers once the tax code/law got too crazy.
Makes him sympathetic to me. Arguing with "but you can't park over the line" people is always entertaining. Its some form of real life trolling. Almost like walking across red lights and smiling at the faces on the other side of the road.
Your second example is actually really fascinating - backup and photo providers get awesome deals on bandwidth because that part of the circuit is typically highly underutilized. So, ironically, it's a case where backup providers argue that their circuits should be charged at much less than market rates because the traffic is going in the opposite direction ,and their provider usually has circuits going idle in that direction.

I'm willing to wager that backup providers haven't run into any upload issues with Comcast for this reason.
AngrySkillzz proposed funding BI by eliminating other programs (including Social Security). You're saying we don't eliminate those programs and instead fund BI by raising taxes?
I hear more and more chanting of "correlation does not equal causation!" which is great if your goal is to form a causal model of the world, but there are plenty of insights you can arrive at from correlation alone.

For starters in the world of machine learning and predictive analytics, it doesn't really matter if X causes Y so long as X is a consistently good predictor of Y. Maybe powerlines being over someone's home are not the cause of cancer, but if their presence can be used to predict cancer rates that's a good thing.

More important imho is the idea of latent or hidden variables. Two things that are clearly correlated but also seem to not have a causal relationship (just as transistors and longevity) may share a latent variable, that may be either non-quantifiable or completely unobservable. For either case measuring outputs that share a common latent variable and thus correlate with each other might be the only way to attempt to measure hidden, non-quantifiable causes.

For example employee happiness might be the cause of employee retention. However you can't currently measure or observe 'happiness', but there may be many, seemingly, unrelated employee activities that correlate with retention because they are also driven by this same latent variable. Studying them is the only way to get a quantifiable understanding of this latent cause.

tl;dr somethimes correlation is just as important as causation.
Maybe I'm missing something but why would it be cheaper for Comcast to include TV?
I've noticed that a lot of people seem to think that "cloud servers" are either located in space, or that smartphones at least use some kind of satellite uplink to connect with "the cloud".

I think people are simply mixing up GPS with Internet-based services.

Anyway, it's pretty brilliant marketing for cloud companies. It's kind of poetic to think of your data as being "somewhere up in the sky", light as air -- sure beats the reality of thousands of hot, smelly data centers in nondescript office buildings.
Yep, but Apple really should have increased the limit for updates to match the limit for app sizes. It's pretty ridiculous that you can download as many 99mb app installs and updates as you want, but be denied a 10mb critical security patch over 3g.
Is that true anymore? I've read of some significant improvements in machine learning in recent years with deep learning. Not to mention cloud services with massive super-computers and datasets.
I was talking Celsius / Kelvin. I'm assuming the speaker was referring to Fahrenheit - I'm thinking mankind as a whole might be able to survive +8 degree K iff we find efficient synthetic food sources that work in such a climate (which I assume we will) - however it would probably be at a fraction of the population we have today - whether our civilization could survive an indirect genocide on a global scale to have the infrastructure to do this is another question.

edit: re your edit: if it's true that +6 degrees sets perpetual heating mechanisms in motion which lead to +12 degrees by 2300 (as suggested in the ted talk), yes, we probably wouldn't survive +8 in the long run. it's damn scary, really - if we screw this up in the next 20 years, we basically damn the whole planet.
This assumption is part of the original puzzle: "After today, from time to time whenever I feel so inclined, I will select one prisoner at random and escort him to the switch room."
> I'm not convinced that it is NOT financially viable. Especially in Switzerland where the governance is exemplary compared to other countries.

It's not about the "quality" of your "governance", ie. "how satisfactorily you're enslaved". It's just that all money a government hands out to people has to come from somewhere, and each of the ways of acquiring the money has negative, compounding consequences.

> The fact that you equate taxation with extortion for example, shows that you have a different, not necessarily wrong, starting point than me.

True. But if you think about it for a moment, you'll realize it actually meets the criteria for extortion. You're handing over your money under threat of violence, even if the violence is X steps removed from where you are now.

No one would pay taxes without the threat of violence. If you were just asked nicely: "would you like to support yet another war in the Middle-East with a few thousand dollars?", you'd just decline and go on with your life, and that's exactly why they don't just ask nicely, they force you to pay.
Comcast wasn't blocking or rate limiting Netflix (in this scenario) - they had over utilized circuits with Cogent, who is a transit-provider that sells cut-rate transit of lower quality (and much lower cost) than other transit providers.
Even the Apple TV was patched before OSX...
This story is still #1 on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7286671

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=netflix#!/story/past_week/0/netfli...