skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's interesting to me is that the real tipping point is when we are able to produce energy easily and cheaply in a virtually unlimited fashion, without relying on scarce resources.

It will accelerate our means to produce virtually anything locally, making the whole chain of production much less vulnerable to disaster. You could build vertical farms driven by technology (eliminating the need for pesticides, or huge land resources) and optimize food production. We'll be able to produce enough of what we need 10x over and with a small ecological foot print.

It's really interesting the things that become possible and economically viable once you have virtually unlimited energy. If there is one reason to keep living and be excited it is to see that day. It will be monumental. It will be bigger than the printing press or the electrical grid and maybe even the advent of the computer.

With unlimited, cheap energy, just imagine what we'll be able to do. Just imagine what the human race has been able to do in the 19th and 20th century with the advent of factories and machines. We built amazing tunnels, skyscrapers and road networks.

Imagine what we could in a different context, with different objectives. What if cleaning up the environment and creating beautiful buildings, parks and infrastructure again became the equivalent of what used to spur the economy on in the 19th and 20th century.

The cool thing is it could potentially happen in the next 30 years. There are so many different promising energy production technologies being worked on right now. It is only a matter of time.
He said 'bigger than Intel', not 'bigger than Intel's same department'
F.C.C. Votes to Clear More Airwaves for Wireless Data
There is not just one way to go.
Macaw has been released
Simple 2048 Compilation Site
Very odd that there was no mention of IP and the monopolies that copyright and patents bestow.
> This ruling really just makes cars heavier, and as a result, less efficient.

Adding a backup camera, wiring, and video screen is going to add a small amount of weight, I'd guess around 15 lbs and that's including any additional mounting material for the camera. It's going to have an insignificant effect there.

One trend that's making this less pointless is the increasingly tiny back glass on modern cars. In order to give larger trunks and a more streamlined shape the back window is shrinking making it harder to see out of. (In a lot of cars I see)
Why argue oranges when I'm describing apples? (dividends)
Samsung launches 28-inch 4K monitor for just $700
There's a fundamental difference between goods and services composed of bits, and those composed of other forms of energy and matter. The marginal cost of many physical goods will never be zero. At least not until we have limitless amounts of energy to recompose molecules as we wish. I think that's a long way off.

What Rifkin isn't really analyzing is the role of free. Why do people provide free goods and services? It's usually for the same reason grocery stores and heroine dealers do: to let you test the merchandise, so they can make money if you want more. "Free" is simply a way to lower the friction points for consumers, and draw public attention.
Can I suggest that feature is a distraction from your core offering and a really big negative perception problem.

Almost everyone who will use this for the first x years will be technically savvy - for example having heard of PGP. And as such they will have seen a hundred "secure" sites that try and keep passwords and keys on the server - do not associate yourself with that level of security obfuscation.

Cut some code out of your codebase, keep your marketing message small and tight - and offering to also sync keys across devices is not a tight message.
JG (jon gottfried) is the man!
erm, and also the fact that MANY MANY open source projects are not on github? Linux, apache, android, some of the most influential projects are missing. This should be titled, "the fastest growing open source project by people who are not too important to be hosting on Github".
Also see: http://xkcd.com/1102/
Eating is trivial; charities can feed people for <$1000 per day. Living space is also cheap; the only reason you need more than a 2m * 1m * 1m horizontal cupboard is a combination of government restrictions and psychological factors which are arguably waning. It's really medical care that's the huge elephant in the room IMO. That's the big problem, and the one I haven't yet seen too many projects try to tackle. I have a feeling it'll come in due time, but it'll take more advanced innovations like chemprinting and nanotechnology to get there.
Libertarian != anarchist.

(I am not either of these, just pointing out that this is a straw man.)
You can literally just type 'apt-get install mariadb-server' into Ubuntu (once you've added the sources) and you won't even know MySQL is gone. You can even still type 'mysql -p' to log in to MariaDB locally.
Please stop hindering cool stuff just because you have a sucky driving experience. You'll have a sucky driving experience regardless - assholes exist everywhere, Google Pokemon or not.

Edit: I see I'm being downvoted so I'd like to elaborate: Frankly, the behaviour of people on the road is and should be of zero concern to the developer of an app that has nothing to do with driving. Should the original dev behind the port of 2048 have stopped to think how many deaths his app would cause because idiots would play it while driving?

Maybe I'm biased because I find that too many people solve the transportation problem with cars when their use case is covered with bikes or public transports at lower costs. (Translation, I think that driving is stupid unless you got an excellent reason. Please don't list your excellent reasons.)
The end of scarcity, which is a necessary condition for reducing the marginal cost of non-digital goods to zero, is still a ways away.
Ok, well, keybase is less than a month old. You are refusing to use bleeding-edge software because it's not supported by your Linux distro. That means you're probably not the target user for what is described on the website as alpha software. Doesn't mean you won't be at some point when they've added functionality and extended the APIs, but for now you don't feel comfortable using it.

I think that's a fair stance to take on early-alpha software.
Historical ranking data seems to show this isn't true. Sales started to drop at the end of February and did not recover when 2048 came out. It's still doing pretty darn good though.
The majority of the cypherpunks behind the development of the crypto in Bitcoin are libertarians, that's just the unavoidable fact. Hal Finny, Nick Szabo, you name any of the heavy hitters of the original cypherpunks list.

Then, if you move on to look at the Bitcoin Talk forums, you'll see they're infested not only by libertarians, but crazy right wing gold-bug types.

Maybe as bitcoin goes more mainstream, you can claim it outgrew these sensibilities, but you can't ignore the disproportionate number of rabid anti-government types who are the early adopters.
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It's almost as if that sentence itself were pieced together by some kind of blagosphere-mining machine learning algorithm. I guess that's kind of what writers do?
What I'm advocating is not that a committee that determines the value of software, but that government does take an interest when a likely monopoly starts reporting really usually enormous profits.

> Bear in mind that if he hadn't created Windows...
An alternative vision is one where a plurality to vendors are in a competitive market where standards allow OSes to interoperate. In such a market, the Windows product would not have been nearly so lucrative.

>He's not keeping it under the mattress
I understand that money circulates, but clearly it's benefits mainly accrue to the owner of the money. If it really did flow around benefiting everyone as you suggest we could just give all the money to one person and it would make no difference. There would be no profit motive at all if money really worked like this.

>Finally he turned over the bulk of it to charity
I think that's extremely wise and very generous of him. I also think that it should tell you something about how he feels about his fortune. However, I don't really want to live a world where individuals can become so unreasonably wealthy, and then we cross our fingers and hope they give most of it away. Just like we don't want to live in a world where tax contributions are voluntary.

Ultimately for me there would only be sufficient inequality to persuade everyone to contribute as much as they can. That means paying some more to some very talented people to persuade them to work hard. Some people might end up 10 times richer than others, perhaps more, but no one has to be motivated by being paid 1000 times average salary.
For whomever voted it down, this story mirrors similar concepts presented in Mike Judge's _Idiocracy_.
So many original content posts have been nailed by the voting ring detector. I can almost guarantee that many of those "friends asking friends for votes" usually have no connection to the original author at all. Maybe it's just friends sharing things with each other... I really wonder how accurate training / testing data could be gathered for this classification task. Maybe it needs to be refreshed.

Anyway thanks for bringing original content back to HN. Anyone know if there's a demo page for this library?
Well, no, my concern is still to tell people to stay away from Keybase.io, or if they have to use it, to not upload their private key even though it seems to encourage you to, or if they have to upload their key, to use a really strong password and not use the key for anything else. In that order.

I think that asking people for their private key is a bad thing that bad sites do.

A password derived key isn't random, and no amount of key stretching or pretending will change that.
Regarding the "register" keyword, I'm pretty sure I was reading books in the 90s which described it as a historical curiosity that was ignored by all modern, right-thinking compilers.
Wow, really impressive set of features. Never really used MySQL a lot outside Epiware and KDE but it sure looks like things have started to shape up quite nice for MariaDB. Multi master replication, built-in sharding and ability to access Cassandra data inside MariaDB are some things that should make Enterprise users more comfortable using MariaDB instead of Oracle.
In theory... We do have the technology to work _a lot_ less if were just to get by.

And when you think about it, it's rather strange that we are still working the same amount of hours as they did in the early 20th century - given the amount technological progress since.
I was working with Capistrano almost a decade ago when it was called SwitchTower, so yeah -- it is kind of old school considering most "startup" developers are under 30.
Wouldn't it save the user one click to select what card they've got?
The Online, Freelance, Globalizing World of Work
Germany bans managers from calling or emailing staff after work hours
Hey, if someone working for CircuitHub is here:

Your homepage [1] has a typo. Scaleable should read Scalable.

[1]:https://circuithub.com/
remove one w from your url
The screenshot might be more compelling if it were of something like a tooth chart. Based on my interactions with doctors, I'm not sure they care about what their schedulers' screens look like.
Some of the community is like that, sure. But it doesn't follow that the technology as a whole was created as a political vehicle, nor does it follow that it will necessarily serve as one.

A technology cannot possess sensibilities.

But there are plenty of people willing to assert otherwise.
I have two cars with backup cameras, the first I got in 2007. I have never experienced this to be the case.
This is a great list! Also, check out this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/cs50/comments/1nx2au/life_after_cs50...

It's another really good list of courses :)
I can second this, it's a drop in replacement.

Postgres is still my preference for a RDBMS. Schemas, Triggers, JSON, Geo, PL, robust data types, it just offers so much more then MySQL/innoDB/MyISAM.
Exactly. What this article fails to mention is that during the same golden decade of the "prosumer", the costs of commodities have skyrocketed.
1 product, 60 days, 150 customers
Correct. But they can intersect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
There's a check digit, so calculating isValidCC should be trivial.
If it's safe for residents to return, perhaps Shinzo Abe would like to move his family there, along with the rest of parliament as a sign of confidence and show of solidarity with ordinary people?

Meanwhile other reports claim that the radioactive "black soil" patches are being found all over the place, many contaminated with plutonium.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201206...

"The highest level of radioactivity detected--about 5.57 million becquerels per kilogram--came from black soil collected in the Kanaya neighborhood of the Odaka district of southern Minami-Soma. In 36 out of 41 locations in Fukushima Prefecture where black soil was collected, the radioactivity level exceeded 100,000 becquerels per kilogram. If that level was found in incinerator ash, it would have to be handled very carefully and buried in a facility that had a concrete exterior separating it from its surroundings."
Several things will work, but the odds are that you will end up learning git eventually and there's no good reason not to learn it earlier rather than later. It's probably not as bad as you think
There is! http://ubervu.github.io/grid/
Landing on the moon was a big success, fundamental science too, and both without a business model.

One particular lack of vision stems from being hypnotised by the notion of markets.
Has anyone used the NoSQL stuff in Maria? How does it compare with Mongo and Cassandra?
The Great Specialization Fallacy
How about using something like Google Tasks?
https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/144246?hl=en

Just create a group calender and away you go.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/1626902?hl=en

This should also take away the need to sign up for a new service as its likely that everyone has a gmail/google account.
Part of the problem with that comparison is while you can make do without cell reception, lack of charging for your car... will leave you stranded.
I've brought up the S-Box strengthening several times before, but it's important to note that the NSA pushed IBM to reduce the key length in DES. IBM wanted 64 bits, NSA wanted 48, and we all got 56 as a compromise; not entirely egalitarian work.
I think a project like Ethereum, which should be in full swing by the 4th quarter of this year will solve this issue. The Ehtereum network can secure against the 51% attack, and alt-coins can be implemented on top of it for just this purpose, and the ease of implementation, since Ethereum comes with a full scripting language. Ethereum isn't an alt-coin - it is a system to create 'smart contracts'. One such smart contract could be the implementation of a coin like AuroraCoin. Any alt-coin you can think of should be able to be implemented on the Ethereum network - and the chances are they will even be more feature rich because of the EtherScript language.
Actual quote from the article:

"Going from a 32-bit to a 64-bit chip architecture means Apple was able to double the speed of its mobile chip..."

Um, yeah.

The source article is much more interesting: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7910/apples-cyclone-microarchi...

The A7 appears to have two to three times the instruction width of competing mobile chips, that is, double or triple the number of logic units per core. If you have 100% efficient pipelining (always a big if) that would mean two or three times speedup at the same clock speed.
"I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth."

Huh? Why does this person think libertarians would believe secondhand smoke is a myth? They might argue against laws prohibiting smoking indoors, but it wouldn't be because they believe second hand smoking is a myth.

This piece is filled with non-sequiturs.
There are valid criticisms and parody of libertarianism. There are valid criticisms and parody of Bitcoins. This article doesn't provide any of that. It's just a big straw man.
Japanese will keep hunting whales, even though they’ve lost the appetite
I used MySQL for all my projects. However I'm following the tide and moving to PSQL. Apparently it is more flexible and has more options to tinker with.
U.N. Court Orders Japan to Halt Antarctic Whaling
That's very cool! Where does all the heat go?
The 'Fountainhead' reference annoyed me, privately funded police and courts are not a real objective as per randian ideology - Rand was an objectivist, not a Libertarian.

The rest of the article is just stupid stereotypes piled one on another.
Is 10 still a drop-in replacement for MySQL 5.5?
Have a read of this: http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else
Invite only isn't something we'd thought of - that's an excellent idea! Taking user interaction to another level. Beautiful!
You could argue compilers are good at making transformations to a program for optimization, but they are in many ways information starved. Cooperating with a compiler in the way http://www.yosefk.com/blog/humans-and-compilers-need-each-ot... describes, implies giving the compiler more information, external to the information that can be gathered from the source code. Type information should be helpful (tho disclaimer: I've never written a compiler), but it's information the compiler already has... That's not really cooperating with it. Just handing it stuff.
Aliasing information is one place the programmer can help the compiler. The 'restrict' keyword in C/C++ is a great example of this. Also information provided by 'const' can be very helpful for the compiler. While both of these aren't strictly hints because they limit what you can do and still get correct results, they do tell the compiler facts that would be otherwise difficult or impossible to prove.
I disagree that there is a disproportionate number of crazy ultra-libertarian members of the Bitcoin community and it seems more likely that the more fringe members of the community are also the most vocal and they tend to drown out the more reasonable and level headed members of the community.
So who needs, apart from the spies from other countries and TPtacek more precise list of the possibly vulnerable products than the one already here? I don't think many people see the benefits in making the list more precise. The companies mentioned have all the incentives to remain silent.
https://www.ingress.com/
Same here. I actually went through the process of putting the stock S4 Google ROM on my S4 and hated it - and immediately went back to Samsung (just a random thing to illustrate - ability to reboot the phone by long-pressing on the power button and choosing 'Reboot').

There is certainly issue of bloatware - but you can either delete them (with Titanium Backup) or just hide the icons (in my launcher).
Benita Matofska – An Interview With The Woman Redefining Economy
The link is broken, soneca. It has no trailing slash.
The era in which Google and Bing became what they are is one in which the web was more open. With walled gardens cropping up everywhere it is becoming tougher to create a search engine. Another point against creating an all encompassing search engine is the sheer size of the web today which makes creating a search engine for the entire web a daunting task. Google and Bing started when the web was much smaller and hence they were able to grow with the web.

IMHO there are multiple ways to create a search engine: 1)Mastering search within a vertical e.g. sports, music, etc. and then expanding to other verticals.
2)Go after a limited popular area of the web and provide a more personalized search experience(this limits discoverability of less popular sites but there are ways to overcome this)
3)Enhance the results of existing search engines by providing context, personalization, privacy features,etc. (this relies heavily on existing engines which makes it subject to their TOS)
4)Come up with an algorithm that blows Google's or Bing's out of the water and VCs line up to give you money so you can build the infrastructure to make it a reality (I wish I had this too... sadly I don't)
If it reads 'Capitalism is making way for basic income' it would have make sense. Not that way. Freemium is often paving the way for even more agressive capitalsim by crowding out competitors to raise prices afterwards.
z_{n+1} = (1 - 1/q^2)z_n where z_n are the continued fraction approximations of the square of the Golden ratio phi^-2
I see someone has received millions in funding. Paying for APIs that nickel and dime you will add up eventually.
Calder should be the Kaiser
Seriously, guys.

Calder W. - in all honesty - deserves to be the kaiser of us all.

The world would be a better place, and we need to get this message out.
I can't tell if this is an intentional misrepresentation for attempted comedy, or if the author's only research into libertarianism consisted of jokes he heard at a party while shooting up that heroin mentioned the first paragraph. My bet is on the latter.
Idea Fatigue
Although it's a fork of MySQL, but turns out to be a successful fork
http://news.dice.com/2013/05/22/mariadb-vs-mysql-a-compariso...
I did, and I'm not sure what you are trying to say exactly, but the point I was making which others have pointed out as well is that Tesla issued changes not for an issue with their car, but to improve it and make it better. Other car manufacturers waited until there were either deaths, lawsuits, or media outcry to recall cars. They were all reactive purely based on cost-benefit. Tesla decided here that their already incredibly safe cars that have fared better than most, if not all others; could be made even better. What Tesla did is leagues above what any other manufacturer has done in recent memory.
The conflation of libertarianism with a variety of nonsensical positions is likely a deliberate attempt to discredit the ideology.

It's nonsense.
I was using it for a long time, and then after some update I was completely unable to get it to run on any new servers. Not sure what changed, but using the package manager route was no longer viable. Building from source also failed for reasons that are totally ungoogleable. Surely my incompetence plays a role, but I had to abandon it after every single workaround in their troubleshooting section failed to resolve the issue.
I think the GP is questioning whether that piece of information is even necessary to process the transaction.
And you should have a look at ‘Learn Ruby on Rails’:

http://learn-rails.com/learn-ruby-on-rails.html

It was written to prepare beginners for Michael Hartl's book.
Actually, the Linux kernel, Android, and Apache are all on GitHub, and were analyzed (though the latter two are mirrors, so I guess not purely on GitHub.)

For projects like Linux, while it may have 3500+ contributors, it got that way over 23 years.

We also made the assumption that due to the social nature of GitHub, its meteoric growth, and the visibility that it brings open source projects, the fastest growing open source projects are on GitHub. We presume this assumption is correct, but don't have the data (or even know where we could get the data) to verify it.
Thanks for pointing out this should be "www" instead of "wwww". Hopefully a moderator can fix it. It seems locked.
This is so true. With cheap energy we could re-use/recycle resources down to the Molecular level.
How FireChat Is Using An Obscure iOS Feature To Change Messaging
I what dream world will this happen?
That's different though in that in the case of PyPy you are writing an interpreter and get a JIT that's generated and takes those hints into account.

The authors of programs that are being interpreted by that interpreter are unable to provide any information to the JIT.