skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need an onion protocol for the torrents:

you -> [encrypted data] proxy peer -> destination peer

In this case, unless all the proxy and the destination peers are controlled by policing actors they can't know who's downloading what.
Now someone needs to start a project to find a large, documented subset for which ANGLE(ToGL(x)) = x so we can all get rid of this historical two-standards-that-do-exactly-the-same-thing nonsense.
The single biggest failing in my mind was the inability of low income folks to purchase one of these laptops. My Atari 400 and the magazines of the era (e.g. Byte, Antic, Creative Computing, Dr. Dobb's Journal) provided a lifeline to the world of technology. With the 8-bit era pricing long gone, I had hoped OLPC would be this generation's Sinclair.

It wasn't to be. OLPC operated "programs" and the times they let normal people buy were at twice the price (one for you, one for someone else).
I've read similar stories, but I figured for the price I'd try it out. I'm only on month 4 of using them and I don't have any horror stories to share yet.

Although, I do only have 1k daily users and I sit behind cloudflare.
We should create a fork, without these 'features'.
Ask HN: Linux/bash configuration in a regular file vs a dotfile?
Why not put shell configuration (i.e. .bash_profile or .bash_rc) in a regular file instead of a dot file?
They learn more about computers by using them. That was, I thought, the point. This whole "teach math, science, history, literature, etc. -- but better because COMPUTERS" crap was always overblown, in my opinion. I supported OLPC because I never thought it was about that. It was about bringing technology to children around the world and seeing what they could do with it. Maybe they had to shift their focus to get governments and teachers on board?
If you want to read about OLPC, start here: http://planet.laptop.org/

It includes the article above, but also includes posts by people in the field deploying laptops -- still rolling along. As 'themodelplumber' pointed out elsewhere, this is just some blogger (who has invested a lot in the community) claiming the project is dead for unknown reasons.
I've gotta believe, give a valuable 1st-world electronic device to a child in a 3rd-world country: how long are they going to keep it? "Hey child, gimme that!". 10 seconds I would guess. Then its on the black market, which arguably might do the child more good (more discretionary money in a poor family)
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I'm a physician. While musing about clinical reasoning based on robust tools like Kanren and miniKanren, I wrote a few thoughts that parallel the article:

"Much if not all of the current talk around clinical software unfortunately stops at electronic health records (EHR) – the paper chart (with all its limitations) mirrored in various incarnations of ‘the cloud’ (with the additional disadvantage of confidentiality rot). For all the endless effort put into EHR, it was a problem solved long ago with nothing more than punched-card-fed mainframes. All we are seeing now is the iterative pursuit of competing data interchange platforms."

"Physicians and researchers need software that advances the goal of making routine things routine beyond just the level of data storage and retrieval…to decision support, data discovery and visualization, unsupervised ontology construction, and scripting of reasoning agents."

http://apps.keithflower.org/?p=238
> For instance, if you've only ever generated 2 8's, then you know that you've had 4 4's

You know you've had at least 4 4's, but you could have had more.
Why is this impressive? It's not made out of paper. I see plastic lenses, LEDs and batteries. I can buy a microscope on eBay for less than $2 (http://www.ebay.com/bhp/pocket-microscope). Why is it better for the housing to be made out of paper than plastic?

Here's my 2 cent microscope "made out of water": http://citizenscientistsleague.com/2013/08/29/the-instant-mi...
I'll presume you're not intentionally misunderstanding...

glesica and I believe that the OLPC didn't do near enough to actually try to TEACH. Multiplying 0 teaching times a force-multiplying computer yields 0 teaching.
I disagree completely. It's not about solving a the problem of not being able to "download a torrent file", but adding a new functionality to an established protocol.

I find the idea very interesting, conceptually and technically.
Is there a way to stream it over DLNA?
I tried both Raspbmc and OpenElec. I didn't see a significant difference in performance. Using Raspbmc now. Unless they made some significant changes to OpenElec the past 3-4 months they are more or less the same.
But still no Age of Empires source code Q_Q
paying $10 for this article isn't gonna make me any more handsome
Confirmed with WireShark. This app is a GUI around YIFY.

The binary you download from Mega.co.nz uses "YIFY Torrents" website yts.re exclusively. Github code seems to be actually used. So it all runs via this single webserver (+Google analytics). Just to verify what a installed binary blob does on your Linux box. The ease of use is impressive, a new level for P2P-ish work since Napster/Kazaa/Limewire days.
Thinking in Redis (Part One)
That question has been answered: we have had plenty of piracy for years now -- and do we still have plenty of film/TV/music/book production? Yes!

So piracy (at least, as we have known it) is not harmful, in fact it seems almost certainly beneficial economically -- more goods are more widely available.
Monsters from the id
This app is fantastic. It really is a huge win for usability. I downloaded the app and was watching "12 Years a Slave" in less than 30 seconds.

I hope they add TV shows with a nice interface for browsing seasons.
Show HN: Slap – a command line client for Github Gists
The spies will spy. This is nothing new you cant fault them for it. Put someone on trial and maybe things will change.
Because "dot files" are normally hidden when "ls" lists a directory. So unless you change things to always show them, by having them "hide" you don't have to look at them in your directory listings every time you list the directory contents.
Then just don't read/upvote/post in this thread, the community already has the necessary tools (upvote and downvote) to decide whether it is the place here for this type of threads or not.
Convince your customers to use self-hosted analytics software instead. Of course you understand the danger of a single entity (google-analytics.com) tracking almost every website you visit.

I block it with Ghostery.
If you're interested in node, I highly recommend poking around the source files. Pretty amazing what's possible in a small amount of code.

While the frontend is all Backbone, the real magic happens in its backend dependencies like peerflix (https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix) and video.js (https://github.com/videojs/video.js/).

Edit: And, of course, the remarkable (undocumented?) API provided by subapi.com. Check out http://subapi.com/popular.json !

Double Edit: The API appears to be developed by the Popcorn Time people, as per https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app/issues/294
Regarding "get outside": take a look at the abstract for the study "Beneficial effects of sun exposure on cancer mortality". It starts with "For more than 50 years, there has been documentation in the medical literature suggesting that regular sun exposure is associated with substantial decreases in death rates from certain cancers and a decrease in overall cancer death rates". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8475009
Welp, not sure how I managed to write soundgarden when I obviously meant rosegarden, sorry!
bitbucket project page can be found here

https://bitbucket.org/crowell/slaprb

can be installed with "gem install slap"
>Assuming that there is avaliable internet for your internet connected laptop

>Assuming there is available electricity for said laptop

>Assuming there is clean water, fresh food, good shelter/lighting available so the proprieties lie in developing with said laptop.

Technology is an amazing force for positive change. However, I think, as I believe so does the parent, you get more for your money if you first develop the surrounding infrastructure, then help provide the technology. No one is implying that the people living in these areas of the world are worth nothing. The implication is that the foundation around them is minimizing the potential gains via technology.
It sounds like there is demand for a p2p system for distributed streaming, but breaking BT doesn't sound like a nice way of achieving that.
From the paper: Study 2 (the gender study). We recruited a nationally representative sample of 521 Americans (46.64% female) over Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (www.mturk.com) to participate in a study.
First, the headline number comes from 64 25gbps fibers in parallel.

I found more interesting this little bit buried in the bottom quarter of the article…

Intel is proposing an Optical PCI-Express (OPCI) protocol for use on optical wires.

I cant find this protocol, or any clarification if it is an open protocol. The article kind of feels like it is protocol intended for widespread adoption.

Cost effective, space effective optical connections would be nice. (No pricing in article. Not terribly encouraging hints.) A clean, open, PCIe protocol for fiber would be huge.
I've discovered programming approaches in Clojure that I'm now looking for in other languages. For instance, two of the things I looked for straight away in Julia was if there were immutable types and map functions, since I've come to really appreciate them in Clojure. Haskell is on my list of languages to try out after Julia.
GitHub, that's a crappy move.

BitDeli, well played with the phrasing of your notice.
Speed :) On one project we were able to get MySQL onto an embedded system where Postgres kept choking. Also replication is dead-simple with MySQL.
There is an enormous amount of randomness in what makes it to the front page of HN.
Popup? Frontend Apps – A New Frontier
Popup frontend applications are typically completely driven by third party backend services (e.g. mailgun, firebase, userapp, stripe).

Is “Popup Frontend Applications” the correct term, well, I’m not sure. What do you think?
Thanks for the reminder link. As well, I had forgotten about olpcnews entirely until this popped up.
It's not adding more errors; it's just choosing a less familiar accent to imitate so that you are less capable of noticing how the imitation deviates from the correct way of speaking in that accent.
Many of the movies people torrent are new releases so that they don't have to pay the high price of going to the cinema to see it.
More questions on Android than iOS on Stack Overflow?
https://github.com/gjvc/etc and/or google for "github dotfiles" -- many people keep their set up there.
Tell him MySQL is PHP/MongoDB of relational world.
There's no actual news here -- just an opinion site from the always-OLPC-hostile olpcnews.com claiming that OLPC is "dead" in some metaphoric sense because the original device (XO-1) is no longer the flagship device (the new flagship being the XO-4/XO-4 Touch), and because the headquarters is now in Miami instead of Boston.
The only problem with a limited number of custom fields attached to the table is that they aren't necessarily optimised for sorting, might extend past the row size limit of database tables (this is a pain!), can't be reliably typed and a client will always want one more.

EAV is a sort of inner platform thing I agree, but the correct solution i.e
a document store with full field level indexing that works with enterprise loads doesn't exist (yet). CouchDB was promising on that front but didn't go all the way.

XML is fine. Just don't stick it in database columns (my favourite chunk of pain!)
If a company is in an incubator (except for YC), it is because they weren’t good enough companies to raise money the regular way. I have heard this from various industry veterans including VCs and angels. It is a stigma, not a badge of honor.

This is it. And what matters. The people I meet at incubators are, in general, not impressive. YC is somewhat of an exception. About half of YC founders impress me (some highly) and half are in that "really?" category. For other incubators, it's closer to 10/90. It's not that they're young and inexperienced; there are plenty of young people with potential whom I'd hire and mentor in a heartbeat. It's the talent level. Most incubators have a "no one good would be, or stay, here" feel. They're not the big leagues.

The "cool" startup scene is a halfway house for immature 22-32 year-olds that looks sorta like college, enough to prevent the reality shock of becoming an adult and having to show up somewhere in a single-digit morning hour.

At some point, you start to realize that you don't give a shit about "free dinner" (you'd rather eat with family or friends) or nerf guns. What matters are personal success, interesting work, reputation and compensation. These are all highly correlated with joining a good company, not a "fun" one staffed and run by boys.
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Not even that. Its an always-hostile blogger continuing to be hostile.
'Cloud'
And this is unlike moving a small business to large how? This is like saying; I shouldn't start my own company or try to grow it because the complexities are too great to overcome. If you know the right people, this is why you bring in a master brewer from Sam Adams who wants to have his own stake. It's all about business, and not about brewing at some point in the game - and you need to put your SKIN in the game if you want to grow. Sad that people put the idea of opening a brewery down because of how "hard" it is. Pull up your big-girl pants and bring in a skilled person or two and go to the next level. Takes initiative. :) I say this with love, mind you.
You mean like Warp3D (Amiga) and QuickDraw3D (Apple) ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitfrost
Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Congress
There's a lot of comments here that OLPC was a failure, and while true, I think people forget what an audacious and pioneering idea it was and where the OLPC "experiment" was a success.

Back in 2005, when the OLPC project was first announced, a $100 for a laptop price point was virtually inconceivable. I don't think they ever hit that price, but they introduced a lot of interesting funding vehicles that are pretty normal now, like buy one to give one. It also opened up lots of discussion about low power devices and the suitability of traditional screen tech for low-power use cases like e-book reading. The ideas were so good and so ground breaking that one of the partners, Intel started a class of consumer computers around them and the conversation for portables switched, for a time, from "expensive and high end" to "low power and inexpensive".

Moore's law, and the global shift to smartphones eventually overcame lots of this focus, but I think it definitely set a vector for a while that still informs the industry.
<joke>Or bring some democracy.</joke>
A few thoughts:

Anyone here who is stating categorically 'this' or 'that' cannot/must happen is uWotm8ing you. There is no compendium of mistakes. The systems layers of a modern jumbo jet are so fantastically complex there will be unknown bugs for a long time. The things cannot be flown or landed very well with out a computer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HuGYrbSSP4

The concept of flight is still enigmatic. Like Zicam, it is known only that it works most times. How things fly is still a bit of a mystery.

If we are going to use '70s era analog blackboxes, where are going to keep having these '70s era horror stories. I am completely miffed as to how NSA can gather so much data from a relatively cheap and simple device, but blackbox tech is still where it is at.

If you have the time,look into the US Military's crash record [if you can find data...]. on the face of it, it would appear the war branches of american diplomacy are slamming expensive gear into the ground almost daily. Are their pilots shitty? Are the aircraft obsolete? No and yes, but the second one is super interesting because even in the face of massive obsolescence the wreck rate is relatively low. Also, the more shit you have up in the air, the more likely it becomes that something will hit the ground. No matter the skill of your Operators, if you fly birds constantly you will have constant issues.

If there was one thing that would change this particular situation, it would be telemetry, but the facts of the matter are that there are places on our planet that are unreachable, there are bugs and errors of which we are unaware that we are unaware, and if you use outdated tech you give outdated info.
right you are - that's what I meant.
5 Steps To Launching Your Startup
Nope, but there is a pull request for Chromecast support. I hear the Chromecast SDK is still a bit buggy, though.
First step is done:

https://github.com/neuromancer/popcorn-app
What you said is contradictory. Either they "can't be faulted" or they can, and need to be charged.

However, it doesn't make sense to say "spies will always spy". So are you saying they should have the power to spy on anyone? Even Congress, the president and their overseers? That doesn't sound very good for democracy to me. So if it is legal to do that for them now (which I'm sure it isn't), then it should be made illegal anyway.
If someone is _solely_ working at company because their friends work there, it can be a fragile engagement. What if one or more of their friends leave, or worse, are fired?

(Notice the emphasis on solely; obviously having your friends working at a company is a plus, but should not be your complete basis for working somewhere)
Would it be easy to sell a more advance EHR to hospitals if you could show it would cut down on malpractice? Sounds like all the comments are saying penetrating the hospital market has huge barriers. But if this is obviously better, and could save time & lives, they should use it.
Gmail Productivity Hacks
Baselight, IMHO one of the best film non-linear grading systems, was developed and runs in Linux.
Reduction in energy cost as well as hardware costs.

Saving say 1 watt per hour power blade, scaled across a thousand servers (with 100% up time) is something like 8.76 Gigawatt-Hours of power per year (not counting cooling). At average California power rates (15.2 cents per kilowatt-hour), your saving 1.3 million dollars per year in power costs.
Blockchain powered democracy
IPhone 6 release date, news
The part on how to avoid detection was particularly useful for me.

I use webscraping (https://code.google.com/p/webscraping/) + BeautifulSoup. What I like about webscraping is that it automatically creates a local cache of the page you access so you don't end up needlessly hitting the site while you are testing the scraper.
We're working on something similar for younger learners:

https://onebillion.org.uk/malawi
Move Aside Smart Watches, Smart Rings Are Coming
And her actual speech here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/transc...
A package is more loosely defined. You can have the same Apache package installed with vastly different configurations. A configuration is a lot more specific.
Would someone be willing to share with me their impression of Senator Feinstein? I have thought quite highly of her because every time there's been an issue I care deeply about, I have noticed her name as one of the Senators who wrote the relevant bill or supported it very early on. I recently mentioned this to a friend who had nothing but horrible things to say about her record and it seems she isn't so popular on HN as well (and the politics of HN and those of my friend differ greatly - hence my curiosity about what her reputation is). I feel like I must be misinformed about some other things :)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent – Ectogoo – FIRST MONSTER ENCOUNTER 
So scary, it's puzzling?
Terms like "straw man" imply that I'm trying to debate, but I'm not. You asked how correctness could be contrary to pragmatism, and I tried to provide an example.
Show HN: Boost.Compute – A C++ GPU Computing Library for OpenCL
How do you compete when the same content is readily available, instantly, for free, and in a usable interface?
PSGL is barely OpenGL, it is OpenGL ES 1.0 with Cg for shaders.

Not much that code is portable across the respective OpenGL flavors.
I still bought a Mac, just not a used one. A reliable machine so far, can't say the same about the charger cord.

Perhaps the used prices are propped up by a high number of units dying.
I use SomeoneWhoCares.org:

curl http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
Many in the music industry who've seen how it looks now vs before MP3s and high bandwidth came along would disagree.
Yeah, good advice. Took me about a day of playing, finally won with 21276 points.
I also do some Gosu coding, besides other stuff. You must also be a Guidewire user.
What I'm saying is that the new movies are not available in DVDs so there are no quality pirate releases (only unwatchable camera rips) unless there is a leaked copy of the movie (very rare).
To paraphrase Bender, "This is the worst kind of spying: the kind against me!"
A package is a product, a cooked thing like Nginx. A configuration is ephemeral and site-specific, a dynamic thing like ~/.bashrc. You can claim the two are really the same, but no one else will understand what you are on about (is he saying we should hard-code more stuff?). We don't need exactly two categories here, but that seems the most idiomatic, and has done for decades.

Individual users may benefit from versioning their config files, but usually not their programs. Big business might do both, or just as likely screw it up and version code but not configs (I'm looking at you, crontab).
Interesting link. Will read that this evening. Thanks for posting.
Why are brands faced with huge product content problems?
So they are getting charged under the Espionage Act, right? Or is that reserved only for whistleblowers now, and not for real spies, spying on their own country? Just wanting to make sure.
Secrets of a Silicon Valley marketing technologist
Show HN: Fin – Wearable Ring keypad
If there is one thing I have learned through blogging it is that it's better to simplify your claims unapologetically and then in the comments refine.

I have tried to define X and it had absolutely no effect on the "pro/con" comments I had.

Its not what you write it's what people put into it.

I wrote this way back

http://000fff.org/getting-to-the-customer-why-everything-you...

Check the comments and I even went through the hassle of defining it.

Someone even made a presentation about how I was wrong (and called me a tool :) )

http://www.slideshare.net/joystik/response-towhyeverythingyo...

So I say. Better to simplify (within reason of course) and then add details in the discussion.

But each to their own.
I guess that is the original reason...but I seem to have to edit it quite often (or at least some environmental variable) so I thought perhaps it'd be useful to have it visible.
I'm not a native English speaker, but I think in colloquial terms, "limited" means "smaller than you might want" or something like that.
Ask HN: questions about TextSecure
So i had a post a while back about a strange loop i encountered in TextSecure [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335907 ] and now i have another question/error report.

Every time i get the initial text from a Group Message [betwixt iPhones and 'droids] i must re-enter my password. Is this intended? Also would reeeeeally appreciate an answer to my OG query.
No interpretation, I just pasted the Google definition.

I see, so these accelerators are talking more about "specialized experts" (the mentors) vs "generalists" (the startup founders)?
In Netherland, we pay a "home copy" fee on harddisks and smartphones, which makes it entirely legal and ethical to download movies.

Only downside: uploading movies without permission from the copyright holder is still illegal, and bittorrent uploads while it downloads, so this may still be illegal.
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