skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that it's particularly libertarian at the core "laissez-faire good, government coercion bad" sense. It seems like it embodies an ethos where corporations are the ones pushing innovation, while governments either stand by, or become cheerleaders for them, or are impotent archaic dinosaurs trying to impede brave private enterprise. All of which seems vaguely Objectivist. It's a far cry from the sort of close, symbiotic collaboration between government and private contractors in the defense industry, or say in the '50s and '60s during the Space Race.

Why the focus on corporations? I think it's just another generalization- when we talk about libertarian innovation, it's often about Objectivist-looking titans of industry singlehandedly shaping the market and keeping the big bad taxman away, as opposed to autonomous small-scale hacker collectives, or the little guy in a private workshop.

I'd just prefer to call it "cyberpunk."
Forget Bitcoin vs Fiat, Welcome the Hybrid Economy
Where do the calories to burn come from in those cases? If I consume 1500 calories per day and burn 2500, where does the other 1000 calories come from if not from fat stores? I guess at extreme caloric deficit the body would start breaking down muscles but that would still cause weight loss.

Any chance you can link to some of the research that shows where the rest of the energy comes from?
Well played, sir...well played.
>I thought KitKat was supposed to block apps from automatically sending SMS messages to premium numbers?

From the analysis posted, it's trying to bypass that by not sending an SMS to a premium number. It's sending the phone number to a website, and whatever it is that is running on that website is subscribing the user to a premium service.
6 is Vertices - Edges + Faces = 2

For example, a cube: 6 faces, 8 vertices, 12 edges: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_characteristic

15 is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy#Definition

16 is kind of a cop out to call it "Chaos", it's one specific case, this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map

17 is in Finance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_scholes_formula#Black.E2....
On Internet Regulations
So you admit there is no research?
>Which is funny because most people in power are not libertarians.

A profound understatement.
Unable to have reliable VPN access over Wifi as you travel across several states? That's hardly a complaint. There's no way to travel that would give you that.
Yay, another macro compiler. Man... finally a Class implementation for a language without classes.
How could coffee/live/gorilla not solve all of these "problems" already? +1
Yeah, and people think Einstein invented the "Atomic Bomb". You see it in the media, movies, popular culture, etc.

Sometimes you have to talk the talk to get your message across.. And it's delta-m (the 'mass default', pardon my English).
Ask HN: Most productive devtools/API for a Hackday?
I m trying to gather a list of the most useful devtools/APIs to bootstrap an app to focus the maximum on the UX and not on the implemtation, for Hackathons mainly.
I will write back a blogpost about it on HN at the end of my quest, to share what I will learn with you.
Any feedbacks?
Why Buffer is the new 37Signals and what it means for the startup culture
Are you thinking subway or? The train experience I had was amazing. More legroom than I knew what to do with and when I got bored I could go to the dining car, observation car, and I think there was a bar car, but I was too young to drink at the time. AND THIS WAS IN THE US! I've heard wonderful things about trains elsewhere so I can only imagine.
This looks pretty cool as an idea.

The pseudonyms and cartoons for all the developers is somewhat concerning, as a naturally suspicious person. I've been happy when I funded game projects by known successful teams (UberEnt, Garriott), but I'd be reluctant to fund someone who didn't have a track record or a real identity.

(I just noticed if you dig into their FB page and such, you see stills from French TV interviews they did, so it's a bit less concerning, but still bad marketing IMO.)
The point is that we do have areas with high population densities. People seem to forget that HSR is available and has been available in much of the world. China is simply being very aggressive in building. Spain also has added a lot of track in recent years.
And they've written so much... that I can't even make sense of what it's all about.
How is it not? Certainly, one can't overgeneralize about such a huge continent. But it's neither South Africa, nor is it Somalia.
I hadn't really thought of that. There's something going on with those addresses today! http://www.reddit.com/r/MtGox/comments/1zsw9l/90000_bitcoins...
They do go slow, but that's not often the point, and that's what this campaign is trying to help. They are trying to point out a different way of looking at it. They are pointing out the romantic-relax-enjoy side of trains rather than the hurry-up-and-move-move side.
I was born in USSR and my first computer in 1985 was YAMAHA MSX II with external floppy drive and great color monitor. I still own a class of MSX II KYBT: teacher's computer with two floppy drives and color monitor plus eight students' computers daisy-chained to each other via RS-232 network. Everything is still in pretty much decent condition and can't resist to play Knightsmare or nostalgically run Turbo Pascal. :)
Interestingly, around the same time the book these equations were originally collected in (as pointed out in another comment, this is Ian Stewart's In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World), the book Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers also came out. They were actually published ~5 months apart, but I remember them being close together on Amazon recommendations, list of other books people viewed, etc. at the time.

I haven't read that one either. Looking at the index quickly, it doesn't look like Simplex is in there.
Sidebar; I have never seen super script in URL before. Didnt even think it was possible.
Yes, because mobile users are entitled to his presentation right?
If it gets any worse just send those pics to sfgate or TechCrunch. They will make a fun story out of it.
I think it's more about working backward from goals to things you can do now.

Your goal is to lose x pounds by y date? You can't really control that. What you can control is what you eat today, and how you exercise today. (Which could be based on what you did the day before)

It's a little like the "goals vs systems" thinking from Scott Adams.
Ask HN: How to prepare for interview for frontend developer?
I am a software engineer with 2 years experience in startup. I am looking for a change and want to have a job profile of frontend developer . I have a good experience of working with html css and javascript. How should i prepare for interview?
It probably sends a non-premium message too then. There must be some kind of check in the network so that it's not possible to charge someone just by knowing their number.
As a grad student in physics, I'd vote for the inclusion of the Dirac equation or Klein-Gordon (can't put the whole standard model in there) and may be the Einstein Field Equations.

Other than that, I agree with most of the list. I haven't heard good things about Black and Scholes, though.

EDIT: Oh, and I thought of another. No doubt:
[X,P] = i h/2pi
Definitely more important than Schrodinger.
It's really fun for me, being from Utah, to have it pointed out that this is a stunning scene. I was pretty disappointed when I clicked through—it honestly just reminds me of boring car rides. Thanks for helping me continue to realize how much I've taken the scenery of my home state for granted.
Open source is a purely pragmatic issue and does not offer any moral and ethical guidelines concerning freedom in of itself.

Someone could say the same of free software. Who in your opinion has the authority to define terms?

Is it because "open source" is more marketable?

Could be. But since the video talks about more than just software, I find open source somewhat more fitting. Yes, it still refers to source code and therefore software. On the other hand, it's easy to take it as to referring to blueprints, recipes, etc.
This article definitely makes some good points addressing the paternalist and potentially disconnected attitudes that foreign companies have towards Africa. But it doesn't bring up enough examples of local African companies, individuals, or initiatives that are pushing for their own solutions to Google's (and it seems, Facebook's) plans. He mentions CCHub, but that's about the only name.
I don't think that this, or Google's balloon project, are supposed to be free. Cheap, sure -- they have competitors on the ground. But for something like this to stay aloft, they'll need to charge enough money to at least have a plausible chance of recovering their operating expenses at some point.
Yes, I'm capable of looking them up. I was only pointing out which equations were hit upon during my education.

Actually, one thing your post made me realize is that I did touch upon equation 6 in a fourth year algorithms class. I didn't know it as related to polyhedra, as we used it in relation to vertices, edges, and faces in complexity analysis of geometric algorithms.
I had to travel by Amtrak (forced, I lost my passport and I couldn't board a plane) from LA to NYC via Chicago once. ($230)

Not only I got to see a lot of places, but I truly accomplished more quality work than I normally do in a similar time-frame. Nearly zero distractions other than the occasional beautiful sight and the rest breaks I took, I had the chance to visit the surroundings of the major stations the train stopped at.

Perhaps it's my ability to sleep in the weirdest places, but I found the sightseer lounge car couches very comfortable. I went to bed 1hr or so after dusk, and I woke up with the morning lights. That's about 8h of sleep or so every night.

PS: Make sure to download a metric shitton of music before you do this. The sightseer car (the only place where one can truly work comfortably in the train) is usually a noisy place.
I understand your point but AOL still makes money off of dial-up subscriptions. According to this article they make the majority of their profit from their approximately 3 million dial-up subscribers.

http://www.techspot.com/news/51589-aol-dial-up-users-account...
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It seems that Secret.ly financial infos are not as secret as the messages inside the app.
First:

> Something can still be open source yet proprietary (or "predatory") at the same time, as in Microsoft's shared source models, or GitHub's Atom editor.

Actually, according to the Open Source Initiative, Github's Atom editor is not open source; nor are Microsoft's "shared source" licenses[0][1]. (Amusingly, the definition of "Open Source" is almost exactly the same as the "Four freedoms of software" - the only difference is the ideology that is used to support it.)

That aside, I agree - this video made me cringe.

It's one thing to use the term "Open Source" in the rest of the video, but if they agree that "it all started" with "a guy named Richard Stallman", not even mentioning the words "free software" is rather disgraceful. While RMS respects the end goals[2] of the Open Source movement, he very strongly and very vocally opposes their principles.

It's like calling Malcolm X a supporter of Martin Luther King, Jr and the 1963 march on Washington[3]. In some sense, they stood for some of the same things, but Malcolm X would be rolling over in his grave if you said that[4].

> A revulsion towards the FSF?

It's more specifically a revulsion towards Richard Stallman, I believe. As evidenced by the comments on almost any Hacker News post mentioning FOSS. there are a lot of people who direct very personal dislike towards him, and then project that onto "free software" at large.

[0] http://opensource.org/osd

[1] http://discuss.atom.io/t/why-is-atom-closed-source/82/9

[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.htm...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_a...

[4] As noted in the FSF essay linked to above, the main difference in this analogy is that the FSF and OSI agree on the end result, but not the means, whereas most political groups that disagree (esp. in the 1960s) disagree about the actual end goal as well.
Technically, once you count capital expenditures, Amtrak is not profitable in that corridor.

Also, finding a taxpayer in the middle of the country that wants to spend tax dollars making it easier for people to get to work in Washington DC would be a bit hard.
One could argue that with i^2=-1 and the taylor expansion of sine and cosine and the exponential, one get's that.
obviously anything that is stuck in the 60's works - and well, or it wouldn't still be used.

author's point is that we could do better using today's technology.
I'm sure everyone in Africa who is suspicious of the west will be enraptured at the idea of permanently ceding rights to their sovereign airspace, having drones permanently circling over them, easily monitoring all their communications and maybe taking photographs too.

Everybody in Africa trusts us implicitly, and why shouldn't they?
URL parsing is done by the page server after the domain is forwarded. You could put any kind of data you want in the url (assuming the server can handle it).
This was flagged off the front page, which is rather unfortunate.

From the "Gender and Performance" chart, the distribution of the values appears to have a correlation of 0, so I'm not sure how a positive correlation is inferred.
If the drone technology succeeds, it will succeed as technology rather than as charity. Describing the projecting as bringing something to Africa is indeed dumb but this is a comment on the hype, not the project itself.

Just consider, wireless tech is inherently more efficient over time than wired tech for a huge variety of applications. Wireless phones are replacing wired phones in the Western world and given sufficient advances, it seems logical wireless will replace the Internet duopolies and monopolies in the Western world.

It seems just as logical for wireless transmission points to replace wired transmission points. Hence mobile, wireless drones seem a logical step. Africa is a logical place for this, not because of the great needs of the po' Africans but because the infrastructure is not fully developed, because transmission points are especially expensive there and because the market is fairly open.

We know that Google and Facebook are companies that make their money giving stuff to the consumer for free. So these companies offering drone-based Internet to Africa sounds like a logical business step - if/once the tech is ready and working well. And of course these companies us the litany of "we're hear to help the poor benighted Africans" but that's for the consumption of the Western public who can't imagine Africans as paying consumers.

Altogether, I'm by no means uncritical of the present unbridled advanced of every sort of tech but ordinary African cellphone providers are far, far back on my list of folks whose suffering I might cry over. Plus I'd expect that given an African demonstration, the drone tech would let a figurative Google drone army surround Comcast's Dark Tower and figuratively burn it to the ground using affordable rates.
The author claims they would be free at a couple points in the article.

On re-reading, that's precisely one of his complaints: providing a free service deprives governments of tax revenue.

"Carriers, some of them foreign but some of them local,
have been in many of these markets for years, providing
for a fee services that companies such as Google and
Facebook now want to provide for free. And they are big
local employers (in Ghana, I was told Vodafone was the
largest private employer), as well as taxpayers.

[...] Essentially, these companies are trying to reap
the reward of encouraging more people to use their
services, such as WhatsApp, without doing the messy
work that carriers and handset makers such as Nokia and
Samsung do; that is, actually setting up businesses on
the ground, paying taxes that help fund development and
social services, employing and training that nation’s
citizens, not to mention building real relationships."
Google developing SDK to make Android the standard for wearables
My favorite version of this:

RUSSIAN TANKS STEAMROLLING THROUGH NEW JERSEY - Details at 11
Yeah, I don't think the material is actually bad. It's just that the problem isn't with the material, it's actually doing it.

Issues #2 onward should be "So, are you doing what we told you in issue #1? Because if you did, you wouldn't be looking for more."
Playing Mario Bros Music by Violin
Prior art still works, right?
Not sure why anyone would post a blog about the fact that someone is going to use less link-bait titles in future under a link-bait title to hacker news.

This is one of the many situations in which the preference for article titles as headlines on HN doesn't work well. Other situations are when I need some context about why I should care (like who is saying the thing in the title), when the title is really boring or obvious by itself, or when the title has only the vaguest relationship to the content.
Yeah, it reverse bills the SMS. Android can only block your device from sending premium rate SMS, not receiving them (how could it? It's up to your network operator to handle that side of things).

The original idea with reverse-billing was that users could subscribe to services such as weather updates, which would automatically send a message once a day/week, and the user be charged upon receipt. The problem with reverse billing is that it's clearly open to substantial abuse.
I haven't checked, but I think it isn't a superscript, but an Unicode superscript character (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_superscr...)
What does random or urandom have to do with "long lived keys"? I don't understand the point you're trying to make.
These are equations that changed the world, for better or for worse.

Black-Scholes opened up a whole world of asset pricing that much of the financial system today is based on. It can be argued that it did indeed have a deep effect on the state of the world through developments in modern finance.
Modern airliners are also flown by entire teams of ground crews, among them Rolls Royce support engineers that monitor an aircrafts engines in realtime every second of operation trough its entire lifespan trough the hundreds of sensors embedded in each and every engine.

This way, most problems an engine would develop that would be hard to spot by ground service, are detected and acted upon long before they threaten the operation of the engine and airplane.
Custom OpenCL functions in C++ with Boost.Compute
Everyone would be happier if that was what it did.
It's an analogy, not an equivalence.
Autoland is 60s tech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland.

But TCAS and GPS-aware Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) are 90s, and automation vs maintaining flying skill is definitely a major challenge.
Yep, if anything the Restricted 3-Body Problem (R3BP) should be considered the "chaos theory equation", since it was Poincaré study of chaotic solutions in the R3BP that led to the discovery of sensitivity to initial conditions. Smale's horseshoe map would be another apt equation, since it succinctly describes the dynamics of chaotic systems, through the twisting and warping of the map. The Lorenz attractor is another important example that highlights the concept of deterministic chaos.
If someone posts a brief description to a simple problem without sufficient detail, they're more likely to get engagement because the initial question will be easier to process and read, and people will follow-up asking for additional detail. When the original poster replies with the additional detail, the participants in the thread will feel a stronger sense of social obligation to answer. This iterative approach that requires mutual investment and the establishment of a social expectation before the whole question is posted may be beneficial even in highly focused, highly technical forums.
I loved "Understand" by Ted Chiang; thanks for sharing this one!
Can someone please explain how this is possible/allowed?

Also wouldn't this patent (if granted) be refutable due to prior art, etc?

From the article:

> BitMit was the first successful Bitcoin marketplace (well, second if we count Silk Road) and actually launched its service the same month and year of the eBay patent filing.
Those are the sourceless Maxwell Equations I'm assuming in vacuum. The divergence of H isn't zero either (divergence of magnetic field strength is) unless the magnetization is divergence-less.
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Free software is inherently concerned with freedom and community. Whoever your hypothetical "someone" is, they are wrong.

The free/libre model extends far beyond software, although it is primarily applied there.
LTCM aren't the only ones to ever use Black-Scholes. It's used millions of times every day around the world as of today. Sure, the equation isn't very sophisticated, but it's the standard model for volatility based product pricing around the world. Volatility surfaces are sometimes back calculated from market prices using the Black-Scholes equation and then plugged into various more advanced models. But the vast majority of all derivative trades (at least in the equity and FX space) are still purely based on Black-Scholes.
By that logic we'll have to throw out some of the most influential authors. People like Hemingway, David Foster Wallace, Fitzgerald, Mary Shelley, etc. etc. Their reflections on life wouldn't matter, and the study of what they've thought on life would be meaningless. Perhaps from your POV that's true, but I simply don't agree with that.

An author's personal life is not indicative of their wisdom, or perspective. After all this life is simply a variety of events that just happen, all of which can't be perfect, or just the way you want. Life is just the way it is, and you, as a human being, are molded around it. Cognitively that's how a human being works, we learn, and we grow. See it for what life is, and go with it. After a while you'll develop your own perspective from wherever you stand.

But that's just the way I see things...
What's with this wave of "everything I say or do has to be secret"? I thought SnapChat itself was somewhat an interesting case study of how we've somehow jumped onto this strange bandwagon. Not really sure I get the point of apps like this, but that just might be my lack of vision.
Plex.tv does a great job with subtitles already, and they just opened up the Chromecast support to all users for free.
It is blocked on my home ISP (telecom?) and CMCC and Unicom in Beijing; I just checked and got the dreaded invalid argument message. Blocking isn't exactly consistent between ISPs, but when three of the big ones block something, I'm assuming this is at least a citywide block, what ISP are you using? It could just be a misconfigured selective block, it is a weird error for a true block.

Every way of jumping the wall winds up not working 2 months after you've bought a year of service. I've giving up on trying.
Depends, how many of these 'hackers' are actually software engineers and how many of them are "UX-Experts" (idea people) or "Project Manager MBAs"?
And Knightmare II: The Maze of Galious! Very good early Metroidvania game (only a year after Metroid) with a novel character-switching mechanic (later seen in The Lost Vikings, Trine and various Castlevania iterations).
The stastic you quoted doesn't actually tell us there are less crashes due to human error, though. We could have just as many crashes due to human error, plus more automation-related ones, and that'd still reduce the percentage of crashes that are due to human errorm
How Uber breaks the 2 cardinal rules for startup PR
Logistic map (Chaos Theory)