skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if you combine vertical farms with nuclear fusion the skies the limit.
A friend has one of these compact models from China, and it works just as you'd expect. It will completely kill any and all cell phone connections (or WiFi, or Bluetooth) within a large room. Apparently it can run for several hours on battery, or the length of a long movie.
I know of a dentist who has one to stop patients using their phones. As someone who works in a hospital, I can see his point. People answer their phones in the middle of procedures. Some even make calls during them.
Do you know of any good books about this "projection of modern concepts onto a historical figure" thing? It's something I've been thinking about for a while.
C'mon, people need to know better when reading stuff like this. There are R&D costs. Tooling costs. Multiply that by the number of scrapped early revisions. There's all kinds of costs that just don't show up when you get the luxury of adding up the finished parts with Digi-Key open in your browser.

I see a bunch of pretty complicated tight-tolerance plastic parts in there[1], not to mention the optics which need to fit pretty precisely. What did tooling cost for that alone? The article itself mentions that this isn't a simple injection-molded piece:

"The Glass display, for example, is only a few millimeters wide, but boasts quite high resolution and could have been tricky and expensive to design and manufacture."

[1] http://www.catwig.com/google-glass-teardown/teardown/glass-t...
Who is saying that we're inevitably doomed because we're guaranteed to continue on our current course?

The doomsayers are almost universally saying, we need to change course to avoid catastrophe. That's the complete opposite of being guaranteed to stay on course.
Content or concept?
OK, I've fixed both of these ISBN issues and pushed them to production. So both 014242417X and 978-0142424179, and similar ISBNs, should be no problem.
You can compare the maps here, but that of course ignores a huge amount of "hidden" data:

http://mc.bbbike.org/mc/?lon=13.38885&lat=52.51703&zoom=11&n...

Then there was a small analysis in Germany in 2012, but obviously a lot has changed since then.

http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/1/1 (Or just have a look at the images on the German article: http://neis-one.org/2012/01/osm-germany-2007-2011/)
> But you can't use them for what they are actually intended for?

Patents aren't intended for racket and stifling innovation.

> A patent holder doesn't "use patents for encouraging innovation"

Oh, really? Then take a look at the patent law again, and the reason why limited time monopoly is given (as patents). If using a patent prevents and slows down innovation, it goes against the reason it was given in the first place and is usually a good indicator of patent trolling / aggression and otherwise abuse of the patent system, as well as indicator that patent system is broken (or not well tuned).

I.e. normally patents shouldn't exist (monopoly is normally bad). But, they are granted to boost innovation. If results of patents usage is the opposite - something is wrong.
Abuse in the Freelance Industry
Love the 9 errors game.

I've never seen 'Learning by Proofreading'.
I think if you combine vertical farms with nuclear fusion the skies the limit. As long as we can get fusion to work. otherwise we better hope solar and battery prices drop enough to leave coal in the dust.
The bugs are very easy to kill - when not in a person.

The bacteria are also less competitive, so all you have to do is stop using the antibiotics and you will make it less likely for them to survive in the hyper competitive farm waste.

As long as you stop making them the resistance will die off as "not worth it".
Have a look at Sentry:

https://getsentry.com

For more enterprise solutions, New Relic:

http://newrelic.com
Well that's taking it rather seriously. I had no intent of taking it to the level this guy did and merely wanted to experiment with it.

:shrug:
Yeah, and if we zoom out far enough, every crime is really about people being selfish, so really, it's all the same. The point was that he's not complaining about copyright infringement, he's complaining about attribution. Moral conclusions aside, a lot of people do confuse these two concepts, and they are in fact different concepts, and it's worth distinguishing them. That's all I was saying.
How Adobe Is Moving on From Flash to Embrace HTML5
I love AWS but I can't imagine using this over something like Parse or FireBase.

You get object storage with S3 but I'm not sure what else this SDK gets you. Not sure that's compelling enough for many pure front end developers.
Sure, but perhaps the development of the Scandinavian languages would be closer to the most likely outcome (speculation), with their general European influences, rather than the wider, and better preserved Nordic variants.

There's a brief comparison of Old Norse and Old English in the blog post mentioned, if interested. They were very similar, almost mutually intelligible, and so only major outside influences would have caused their divergence (as has happened). Without those influences, though, who knows, maybe Icelanders and the Germanic-British could still converse in their own tongues.
> Want to really help solve it? Don't eat meat. Get others to stop eating meat.

Why not just get meat from farms that treat their animals properly (no cramming, free-range, etc)? I don't think it should be this extreme.
Total win for the user though. Short of using their javascript to spy on the webpage you're on they don't really get any usage data anyway?
I'd argue that the test has value if it's central to what you're doing and will save you time in the long run. Not every test falls into that category, so it's a cost-benefit analysis.

He talks about fiddling with UI elements which is sometimes a one-time thing after you get it setup. Writing tests for that is sometimes a waste of time.

Now, if you have code that's going to do some form of complex screen manipulation and it's a big piece of what you're doing, it makes more sense to automate some tests.
All those forms output through an "in-page pop up" ("pop over"?) window that dims the rest of the page. It doesn't correctly display on any of my Android browsers. Mobile vs desktop page request doesn't matter. Can only see part of the results, and can't scroll over to the close button so I have to leave the tab all together.

I see this kind of brokenness all the time. Is there a well known way to fix it on my end? Is this just bad web design?
Why is a husband and wife talking to each other in a grocery store so vexing? Is it only if one is remote, or have you also looked into the ramifications of muzzling fellow shoppers? Is it that you prefer to hear both sides of stranger's conversations?

I ask in a flippant way, just to highlight the incongruence, but I'm sincerely curious.
Any solution that tries to pry people from their amazing magic boxes is going to fail. They're too damn good and only getting better. We just need self-driving cars and VR(/AR).
Allergies to penicillin are extremely common.

They have nothing to do with eating meat - especially because meat doesn't have any penicillin it in.
Thank you for that. And from scanning the titles of the papers listed there, it actually does look like interesting reading.
Do you know where I can find the documentation for this API? I got MLA style working, but I can't get Chicago/Turabian style working. Once I get this working, I plan to switch to this method for DOIs. Thanks!
How would cookies solve it considering that they are temporary?

Even if the cookie expiration was set for 100 years, it's going to disappear the moment someone switches their browser, gets a new computer, clears their cookies, etc.
Zuckerberg to Obama Channel Jobs in Search for Alone Time
In my (admittedly short) experience accepting bitcoin, our customers keep coming back. It's not much data, but we've had 25% retention these 3 weeks.

I think being able to spend bitcoin places people actually visit every day is going to be huge for adoption / stability. How often do I spend at Overstock.com? Now what about the corner coffee shop, or the grocery store?
By default I assume law enforcement is exaggerating for effect, but lot of emergency radios are on 800Mhz, AT&T (as one example) uses 850Mhz, so it wouldn't be hard to imagine a radio transmitter that cuts a wide swath (e. g., jammer) and interferes with other radios.
> The worst case scenario for global warming is that it's an extinction-level event and civilization ends.

WHAT?? What kind of nonsense have you been reading?

The worst case is coastal flooding, some people have to move inland, and some plant and animal species go extinct. Perhaps some areas become desert (but people live in incredibly hot areas now, so those places will still be habitable).

Other plants and animals will move into the now vacant environment niches. Yes, it's a loss of a species, and yes, a loss of coastal land.

But civilization ends??
"...it is superior to gold is almost every way"

Except for the part where you can actually make things with gold: it is shiny, easy to work with and highly conductive. So worst case, if the value of gold plummeted you could still make some awesome jewelry, electronics, dental fillings, etc.

While it may not be proportional to the current price, gold does have intrinsic value: Bitcoin has none.
> I'm the first employee at the company and AFAIK also the only person at the company that browses with javascript disabled by default (ironic, isn't it?), and one of the things that most excites me about the API-ification of the web with thick web clients, is the possibility to create server side frameworks that a static representation (basically pure HTML and minimal CSS) with javascript for famous apps.

This is absolutely exactly what I am talking about, and what I am dying to get back to. I find the idea of the content actually being the content, in a straight one paragraph/aside/article after another... with no floats or what not.... I find it completely fucking liberating.

I was absolutely blown away when i discovered that this is how you do responsive layouts in famo.us :

if (contextSize[0] < 480 || contextSize[1] < 480) {
dimensions = [2,8];
} else {
dimensions = [8,2];
};

How much time and energy was spent to build non-turing complete declarative DSL's that are all just there to try and avoid writing that single if statement?

I'm authoring lots and lots of content these days, and I just want to get on with writing the content, and then be able to add stuff like interactive figures, that only kick in when needed.

I also prefer links to lynx. I use it on my open pandora now and then, and whenever I am on a remote server.
Political Preferences on Social Media Sites
Causing interference is generally covered by regulation, and the FCC enforces it. See some examples for violation of amateur radio misuse: http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/AmateurActions/Welcome.html

edit: I don't work for a wireless service provider, but I'm into amateur radio.
While it certainly seems like it does you no good, I can definitely see a legitimate use case for it.

Suppose you're creating a site -- let's call it Hacker News -- that requires a user to log in, and all you care about is the part where they enter their username and password.

From there, you're able to assign the user a unique ID and persist their preferences (e.g. header color) across sessions.

It's not exactly a difficult project to roll your own login system, but Anonymous Login gives you the added advantage of being able to "upsell" users into providing more information, if they feel comfortable sharing it.
In response to your footnote, this was an interesting quote I read about Germany in WW2 :

"Historians have generally thought of the Type XXI—along with other systems like the Me 262, V-1 and V-2 rockets, and the Tiger tank—as an example of Wunderwaffen, wonder weapons. Since 1945 many have fixated on the revolutionary
military technologies that the Third Reich developed in the last two years of the war. The cultural impetus behind the concept, as implicitly or explicitly acknowledged by historians in the uneven and largely enthusiastic literature on the subject, was an irrational faith in technology to prevail in operationally or strategically complex and desperate situations. a conviction amounting to a disease, to which many in the Third Reich were prone in the latter years of the Second World War. To the extent that it shaped decision making, faith in the Wunderwaffen
was a special, superficial kind of technological determinism, a confidence in the power of technology to prevail over the country’s strategic, operational, and doctrinal shortcomings"

From this: http://www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/dd165021-2812-40ba-847f-d...

When I read it, it reasonated with a lot of the narrative I hear in policy circles about China as a military power. The reasoning goes like this; The US as an insurmountable technological edge over China, todays wars are technology heavy, therefore the US has an insurmountable military edge over China.

Personally, I expect that reasoning to prevail until the Chinese are sending people to the Moon and getting them back alive. Such a situation will deny that China is just "re-using old soviet gear" and "they can't mount a complex technological development program" in one stroke (both arguments I hear from the 'paper tiger' camp). Interesting times.
What JS GUI/Charting librares does Bitcoinwisdom use?
I have always been impressed by the performance/ui of this site. I was wondering whether this is a from-scratch-made piece of software, or it's using some libraries such as CanvasJS or tickp.
Did he ever consider asking his patients to stop?
Not sure how few people we're talking about. Within a couple of minutes of posting this comment it had 10+ upvotes.

I'd disagree too, I know many non-HN people who would be happy to switch to something else but Facebook is the incumbent.

I don't disagree with the idea of a "Anon Login" whatsoever, that is a good idea.
Spend too much time keeping your weapons in development and you may find that by the time they are ready your strategy for implementing them is no longer relevant or, worse, that you have already lost the war.

A good analogy for the importance of getting to market with what works, not what is perfect.
Worth noting: the bacteria at the end are not the same as the bacteria at the start.

Antibiotic acts on a particular mechanism to kill the bacteria. In order to overcome an antibiotic threat, bacteria have to either modify or drop any functions associated with that mechanism.

If any of those functions help them to infect humans, then the bacteria at the end of the process will be generally less able to infect humans.
You raise interesting points, but you make many, many assumptions. It's totally possible that they may all come true, but there is a lot of speculation in your analysis.

Also, you assume that BTCUSD price will rise as bitcoin gains adoption (that is the basis of your analysis). But there is no correlation between price and adoption.

It's not hard to imagine a world where 1 BTC is stable at ~$10K for example. Denominations would be in milli- and micro-BTC, and BTCUSD price would be an afterthought.
My opinion is probably in the minority on this issue, but I think cell phones should be disabled by default near vehicles(Except for emergency services). As a stick-driver and motorcyclist, I see way too many distracted drivers. People will miss lights, swerve, and worse because of their cell phones.

The one thing that will help reverse this trend will be self-driving cars.
Segregation by use into residential/commercial/industrial zones is a characteristic of suburban rather than urban planning.

An alternative to zoning by use is to zone by intensity or pattern of activity. You can consider externalities such as traffic generation or noise or chemical pollution explicitly rather than assuming that e.g., every manufacturing process generates noxious fumes.

The more urban neighborhoods of SF including Pac Heights, Russian Hill, Nob Hill, SOMA, the Mission, the Castro, and Civic Center all include hotels right next to or above or below residential and other, complementary, uses [https://www.google.com/maps/search/san+francisco+hotel/@37.7...].
Reminds me of the uboat in Cryptonomicon, the V-1,000,000.
You could have created another FB account just for these situation instead of waiting.

That's what I've been doing, and I will probably continue to do so since even logging in anonymously on Facebook tells Facebook, and whoever else they feel like sharing it with, e.g. advertisers, that I logged in.
The solution is not only logical, but also an answer to lots of other problems: ditch the car-centric culture and move these people out from their cars to buses, trains, trams, bicycles and other forms of sustainable transport. It's not that hard, takes some time getting used to, but will do good to all of us.
Crowdsourcing for your personal needs
> Since the article doesn't really endorse XTS in any context, I'm not sure your proposed title is accurate.

But it's also not saying that you shouldn't use XTS for full disk encryption. In fact it seems to say it's probably OK for full disk encryption: "It’s certainly better than ECB, CBC, and CTR for FDE. For the crappy job we ask it to do, XTS is probably up to the task."

> I didn't write the article for the front page of HN. I wrote it so that the next time someone says "we're going to switch from CBC to something more advanced like XTS", I can point them at the article instead of writing a long comment.

Understood. Unfortunately it's on the front page of HN now and I think it (the HN article) needs a better title considering the audience.
>Looking back over the past couple of hundred years of us overcoming challenge after challenge, and drawing the conclusion that it is absolutely certain that can't happen more, is simply an absurd position to take on a rational basis.

Looking a bit further there were society completely destroyed by themself (for example Easter Island http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/News-Events/Latest-News/News-...)

It's good to have both forces, a conservative and a progressive, to maintain equilibrium, it's never a good idea to put all the eggs in one basket

Edit: update link about Easter Island
There are also Journals of Negative Results in a few fields, such as this one: http://www.jnrbm.com/
You would have to also engineer an evolutionary advantage - something that would make them likelier to survive in the wild than their non-engineered counterparts. Building in a 'kill switch' by its very nature gives engineered bacteria a huge disadvantage, meaning there'd have to be something else making them more likely to reproduce.

It would probably be a better use of time engineering the bacteria to be harmless to humans, negating the need for a course of drugs to kill it off.
If you have a lot of heavily-read data distributed across machines, you're probably constrained by available spindles rather than available storage space. So co-locating data that will almost never be read with heavily-read data is effectively free. I would guess that Amazon stores Glacier data alongside S3 data, and the lower price reflects the fact that the limiting factor in their storage system is IO rather than capacity.
Yes it would be, however, you don't need clear big signs, you need a small piece of paper authorizing the transmission from the FCC.

If you have the right piece of paper you can push 100,000 watts. (Note, if you're pushing 100,000 watts, then you do need a clear big sign outlining the dangers of standing near a 100,000 watt microwave)
If these rules are already in leases, then why don't violators get evicted? I suspect the problem comes from laws which make evictions extremely difficult.
Great way to prevent people you drive around from calling 911...
My issue with your proposed title is that it endorses disk encryption. People should use FDE, but FDE sucks.
I also don't think it needs to be said, but I'm going to say it anyway: this type of "anonymity" from Facebook is nothing like the true anonymity you get from something like Tor. So don't buy your drugs with an "anonymous" Facebook login.
That specific article is spreading FUD and perpetuating a hoax. There's no evidence whatsoever that Ms. Presley's case is related to the DoJ.

>Bitcoin on the other hand doesn't care about these things.

Bitcoin certainly has made itself quite a reputation for being the currency of choice for scammers, hackers, drug dealers, online gamblers, and child pornographers. Merchants who consider accepting BTC might care about those things.
It's almost certainly not legal to transmit in cellular bands without a license (other than for the intended use). FCC licenses I've seen have a 'do not interfere' clause, so even if you rigged your handset as a jammer it would likely be illegal.
So isn't David Chiu's proposal, which requires the resident to live there at least 75% of the time, enough?
I think you either misread my comment or I wasn't clear. Obviously you are correct, it's not that your personal resistance will increase, it's your actions that contribute to the overall resistance.
It's a good step in the right direction. I can't wait to see the robot parts broken down further.
> This is a false dichotomy.

It really wasn't. It was a claim about the continued usage of DDT.
It is more expensive, but as an externality. We are all going to pay for it.
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Of course that's an important difference, though most still don't trust Facebook with that information either.
"Agents from the FCC used direction finding techniques to find that strong wideband emissions were coming out of a blue Toyota Highlander SUV driven by Humphreys."

This I find interesting and am curious what devices they had to obtain in order to accomplish this.

I used to work for a telco that, to this day, continues to have this very issue with _someone_ in a remote rural location. By the time the NOC can inform local law enforcement the jammer has left the area, seemingly impossible to track.
> there's a blatant fallacy in the idea that we're inevitably doomed because we're absolutely guaranteed to continue on our current course with no changes until we consume all the resources that we are consuming in the current static snapshot of the world

Perhaps, but it's already getting to the point of "too little, too late" as far as convincing people climate change exists, not to mention our current infrastructure is heavily invested in ignoring climate change. So continuing on our current course is bad, yes, but deviating at this point will only delay the inevitable. There are a number of cascading changes set in motion already.

And while I don't think humanity will be extincted by climate change, we'll certainly get our "hair mussed." As in, large amounts of drought/flood displacing millions of people into already crowded areas that don't have the infrastructure to support the influx...meaning plagues, food/water shortages, etc.

And to say, "technology will find a way to fix it!" is the bigger fallacy. We should be ready for a nice big shitstorm 50-100 years from now that no amount of scientists or computers can fix. After all, as much as we like to think of ourselves as little gods, we're really just apes with shiny toys. We've made it this far, but when you think about it, we've been through one ice age, a handful of plagues, and zero mass-extinctions. Not a big list. We're a blip on the geological radar, and we can disappear as fast as we came. We need to remember this.