skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes - were it not for municipalities' ability to enforce monopoly rights we would often have multiple landline, cable, garbage, electric and other providers competing on quality and cost.

You are conflating different types of problems.

Things which are natural monopolies are phone, cable, internet, electricity, water, etc. It is needlessly expensive to lay in multiple cables/pipes to a house solely in order to provide competition. Oddly, cable/internet is one of the few places where this actually isn't completely true since pulling a single fiber is almost as expensive as pulling multiple fibers.

I don't know why you cite garbage collection, though. Garbage collection is completely different. I know many towns that have multiple garbage collection services. You don't have to lay in an infrastructure in order to collect garbage.
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What I have is not "gluten intolerance" or "gluten sensitivity", it's a GLUTEN ALLERGY and a quite debilitating one at that. I find it absurd how casually people act about it, like it's NO BIG DEAL. Restaurant personal who can care less, some I believe even taint the food because they think it's funny and that people are faking it. I avoid going out at all costs, unless there's a good sushi or thai place nearby. I always make sure they don't add soy sauce and don't even mention gluten. I'm tired of the eye rolls, I'm tired of explaining it, I'm tired of not being taken seriously. This isn't the minor inconvenience of lactose intolerance, I can't just pop a benadryl and muscle my through this. I get food that's contaminated and there goes a good 2-3 weeks of my life. I never find out until about 1 - 2 hours after eating the contaminated food. I suspect it is once it hits my intestines.

I through stupid luck and 35 years of suffering figured out what was making me sick, had I never gotten worse I never would have even known there was a problem. I would never have known how much better it is to feel "normal". I never knew what normal was. My normal was miserable.

I forgot to mention, my pollen allergies are incredibly mild now. No itchy eyes, runny nose. Just need to blow my nose a couple times a day when the season comes around.

This was much longer than what I intended, I think I wrote this because it would be nice if it helped someone else who went through what I went through. Most doctors will not help you, period. They just want to give you some pills and get you out the door. They don't want to fix the root cause just treat symptoms. 99% of doctors know NOTHING about nutrition and food allergies. If you don't swell up like a peanut allergy it must not be real as far as they are concerned.
I swear I've had to install it before on Ubuntu. This would have been awhile ago though.
Thanks for the response. How do you plan on sparsely distributing data across nodes? I read the whitepaper but that part has not been filled out.

You'd need to make sure that repo's are safe against attack - if not every node has all the data you are moving into highly innovative territory. I'd be interested to know what sorts of solutions you are considering.
How would a German official break up Google?

Search separate from everything else.

but in that bad case scenario, Google would just lose some small fraction of its business.

Germany is in EU, so Google would risk losing roughly 50% of their business. But not really, in theory you could see "Baby Googles" being setup with different properties. Will they stand a chance on their own without being thrust on top of Google Search? Who knows
No, NASA spends billions to send laboratories weighing a metric tonne to Mars to send you pretty pictures. Even with insane risk aversion NASA carries out dozens of missions a year and support a lot of critical infrastructure.
GM, Boeing, Tesla, none of these companies would exist without the financial industry. There would be no such thing as large enterprise because no one person or institution can take on that much risk other than the government and we've seen what happens with centrally planned economies.

So, yeah, finance is more vital than any other business.
Did the luciferin/luciferase metabolic pathway get elucidated? AFAIK it has not been.

You'll probably have to supply exogenous substrate for this to work. Additionally might need a super long exposure.
There is a library that still has Watson & Crick's paper in their Nature archive. It's in the stacks. Despite my repeated urging that they place it in special collections. The same library has a Galileo, but no one knew, in fact they laughed at me, until I pulled the card and made the special collections "senior librarian" pull it. Something about databases and excessive purchasing (leading to wanton crewing) seems to have removed many a librarian's sense of ownership.
'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered
You'd think somebody would learn from Microsoft's long, hard struggle with Windows Update, and make consoles do the same thing Windows now does: download the update in the background at low priority while the console is on, then install it when you shut the console off. (And, for added effect, make the console actually look and sound like it has powered off while the updates are still installing. Windows 8 does this.)
TextTeaser (https://github.com/MojoJolo/textteaser). It's an automatic summarization algorithm I created.
If I am not mistaken, you can't do dedupes on media files, right?
Awesome project. I think it is pretty imaginative. What about the idea that sending a bunch of rocket payloads up there would add to the space debris already up there though?
I play tictactmux at pomodoro intervals with clock-mode panes representing state. Roll d9 at turn for next move.
web fonts were available in the late 90s... long before css3
Maybe they can create an incentive to create new antibiotics? I've heard there are few if any in the pipeline since they are not profitable to pharma companies and resistance is increasing alarmingly fast!
How Not To Get Your First Freelancing Client
I was a grunt developer at 'one of these places,' and my experience was in complete contrast to your description. I was never in any way required to 'supplicate' my superiors. My input was evaluated on content and how well I argued, not on my lack of seniority.

My colleagues were lively, extremely competent and collaborative. They were far from bland office drones who only got excited at March Madness brackets or whatever the stereotype is.

A lot of them definitely read HN, and that brings me to the most memorable frustration, which was the inability to respond to comments about what it was like to work at the company.
"Up there" often doesn't mean a stable orbit.
U.S.-Russia tension could affect space station, satellites
Why HTML5 is superior to native for mobile apps
In other news a few dozen attorneys cancelled their yacht orders.
I think you misunderstood my argument, b/c you are making the same one.
This makes sense. I don't write a lot, but when I do, I actually use Evernote on my phone or TextEdit on my computer. I find the smaller the space to write in, or the shittier the tool, the better. Basically limitations are actually a good thing. You're not compelled to write anything beautiful, and so there's no pressure, and you just write anything that comes to mind. You can always edit later...
It took me a second to remember where I knew your name from. :P I used to always tell people to go to your site, once we put it up on a giant projector at a LAN party until nobody could take it anymore.
It's not a raster display. The beam is driven by two voltages for X and Y, so really what those numbers are actually saying is that it had a pair of 12 bit DACs (hardly shabby technology in 1961, but not a 4k monitor either).
Voters love tax increases and municipal debt so raising the money should be easy compared to finding enough qualified contractors for a large scale project like this.
Just make the Intern do the testing.
How to start a legal world war against the biggest enemy (China)?
1) They were spying us.
2) They are killing our people.
3) They bombed our ship.
For the justice and revenge!! easy job..
Dogecoin bites the Power via telnet; little 1st world anarchy on the all in one
Google buys written language translation startup
It is really unfortunate the tone you have chosen for this thread. You raise interesting questions, but your argumentative and uncharitable tone overshadows your content and sours the reader on your perspective. Your certainty about what you perceive as unambiguous faults in the IEEE standard is not justified given that your experience on the matter is much less than the person you are so rudely criticizing.
Interesting how we sometimes prefer restriction to full-fledged freedom. Similarly, many of us find Twitter more pleasant that Facebook, which puts no limitation on post length.

I suppose the minuscule details of life are better left in the hands of others (or software, for that matter). When spell checks, word counts and the like are left outside one's realm of thought, it's easier to focus on what's truly meaningful - in this case, the content itself, rather than grammatical intricacies.

Premature optimization is an enormous problem in both code and prose. This tool's core purpose is to remove that temptation, I guess, though I'm not fanatic about the concept. If modern word processors are too distracting, and their advantages aren't necessary, I'd prefer to write on physical paper instead. It brings the same "don't look back" mentality.
The version I learned is that it's a historical artifact from dial-up Internet.

You had the phone lines from the phone company (natural monopoly, common carrier), and completely separately you had an ISP with a modem bank hooked up to an Internet uplink (competitive, information service).

Then you had the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (I turned twelve that year!), where the phone company had to allow the ISPs to use the phone lines at wholesale rates. So you get ISDN and later DSL with that same split between who controls the wires and who controls the Internet uplink.

Then you get cable Internet. Which does not use common-carrier wires (I assume this is related to not-so-modern TV being entirely one-way). And which end up classified the same way as potentially-unbundled Internet that runs over the phone company's wires, despite being controlled by the same people as the wires it runs on.

Then for whatever reason all the independent DSL providers disappeared (or at least shrunk to where they can't afford noticeable advertising campaigns). I don't know if the phone companies found a way around having to share their lines, or put less effort into maintaining lines used by independent ISPs to discourage people using them (I know I heard this suggested back when it was new, no idea if it was reasonable or just a conspiracy theory), or just out-competed them based on there being a single bill and a single point-of-contact (and no finger-pointing) for problems. I guess it can't be the first option, since I've heard that a few parts of the country actually have more than 2 choices (cable company & phone company) for Internet service.
> When people invoke SRP a priori they sometimes end up with one class == one method in a theoretical a priori way.

That's... not really what SRP means. This (http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/05/08/SingleReponsib...) was on HN just a bit ago--Mr. Martin being the guy who gave us the term. Let me quote the essential bit:

> And this gets to the crux of the Single Responsibility Principle. This principle is about people.

> When you write a software module, you want to make sure that when changes are requested, those changes can only originate from a single person, or rather, a single tightly coupled group of people representing a single narrowly defined business function. You want to isolate your modules from the complexities of the organization as a whole, and design your systems such that each module is responsible (responds to) the needs of just that one business function.
You should see some of the stuff that's in the Bitcoin blockchain... one day the community is going to have to make a decision on how to purge that data.
Ada was complex for the time it was developed (1983), due to hardware constraints for compiler development.

Nowadays, Ada is not more complex than most mainstream languages, specially when you take in consideration all the undefined and unspecified cases in C and C++.

To a certain extent, all the older languages still in used nowadays were also backed by the goverment.

Funny anecdote, One of the first IDEs for strong typed languages was targeted at Ada, the R1000 computer system, created by a young company named "Rational Software".
New algorithm shakes up cryptography
Referral growth hack improvement? Opinions needed
Our shop is currently holding at CS6, and we have no desire to 'upgrade' to CC. Unfortunately, customers have been sending in artwork and source files created in CC, so we will eventually be forced into Adobe's subscription plan unless some other full-featured software suite of equal or greater capability comes along.
Run tmux on remote machines too. Assign different prefix keys for local and remote sessions. Has been working well for me.
> Provo sold Google for $1 a fiber network they had spent over $30 million constructing.

I hope the Councillors were impeached for that. Lease it for $1 per year, sure, but to hand over public infrastructure to a corporation in that manner is appalling.
Swiss to vote on $25 an hour minimum wage
In the early sale, there's not enough XiaoMi TV been produced, objectively or subjectively. if you want to buy one, you would have to rush to buy it. it needs some luck.
It seems that multiple files are merged into single vedis.c file. It's good for embedding into application, sqlite does the same, but I think it's better to open original source code and a Makefile to generate embeddable source code, at least if they want to get contributions from community.
In my experience, the key is that the UI makes it clear exactly what you're doing. What I mean is, instead of a button that says "Start Imaging", it should be "Start Imaging of the 12,600 computers this rule applies to". Of course, that's a lot more work for the programmer, so it's never done.
Looks like 1 in 4,515,321. Nice!
> I've never heard that described as the purpose of copyright law. Why would it be?

That's because those who benefit from it don't want you to know the original purpose.

If that's not the purpose, why even have copyright at all? It's strictly a rent-seeking behavior.

> I believe you're thinking of patent law.

Copyrights were originally for a term of 14 years... the same as patents. I'm not confused about them.

> There's nothing equivalent with copyright law.

These are referenced in the US Constitution itself. And yet you're apparently ignorant of the purpose behind them. Why do you think copyright exists? So that random assholes can stake out some arbitrary permutation of ideaspace and collect tolls til the end of eternity?

They included it so that creative people would be encouraged to create works that would eventually enter the public domain.
"As soon as the accident was discovered, the SCCM server was powered off – however, by that time, the SCCM server itself had been repartitioned and reformatted."

Unicast fail.
well that's one way to get ACID compliance...
I'd say 1 in 4,515,321 [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
Apple Sued Over Vanishing Texts After iPhones Swapped Out
I don't have exact numbers but from my limited experience I would say about 30% of the price is the cost of setup and production (human labor, materials, capital depreciation) and the rest of the price minus profit is administrative, sales, and regulatory cost. Silicon design is getting cheaper, especially with FPGAs, and the designs are relatively flexible while the sheer amount of time required to set up a manufacturing line to produce even a single processor is very expensive. Like the RCA 1802 linked above, a single silicon design can be used for decades in mission critical applications as the revenue piles up and the costs to tweak the design fall. When you're the only one buying a setup for a rad hardened manufacturing process and producing only a dozen chips for your client, slipping in several experimental revisions on the mask can sometimes be almost free.

Most compliance issues are barriers to entry but are largely overblown. In fields like aerospace and nuclear weapons the most critical requirement is abundant reliability and lifetime data which is why, regulation or no, you will never put something like an Intel 60nm or lower processor into a critical $100 million satellite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Care_Limited

No, not as interesting as the "Quantum" may lead you to think...

"Quantum Care Limited is a company based in Welwyn Garden City, England, that runs both residential and nursing care homes (see residential care home and nursing care home). The company's head office is 4 Silver Court, Watchmead, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England AL7 1TS. Quantum Care runs twenty-eight care homes, all but two in Hertfordshire."
At least in Europe its use seems to be rising. At least that is my feeling from the Ada sessions at FOSDEM in the last years.

I think it is helped by having a FOSS reference compiler (GNAT) and the required increase in terms of secure software quality, specially when human lives are at risk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davide_Cesare

"Davide Cesare, also known as Dax (1977 - March 16, 2003) was an Italian anti-fascist activist from Rozzano (Milano), who was stabbed to death by two far-right activists in Milan, the night of March 16, 2003. Cesare was brought to the hospital but died in the ambulance. Immediately after his death, members of his group tried to enter the hospital but were blocked by the police. This resulted in new riots with several people being injured, damage to police cars, and the emergency department suspending all activities for the whole night."
As part of the MOOC course Paradigms of Computer Programming
(https://www.edx.org/course/louvainx/louvainx-louv1-01x-parad...) I read the initial parts of the book: "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming"
(mitpress.mit.edu/books/concepts-techniques-and-models-computer-programming). The initial chapters provide a good approachable way to get started with functional programming. Though working with Oz (the programming language used in the book) gets some time to get used to, this is an excellent book. I am bit surprised that this book is not as well known, and probably I wouldn't have known about this book if not for the MOOC course.
Losing the crypto is easy. You run a shitty company that partners with Circuit City (themselves a shitty company that just went out of business a few year ago), you go bankrupt, you tell everyone that their DRM-locked machines won't be able to play the discs past some cutoff date (despite them paying to have them unlocked forever)...

Then you shut down the servers. Where does the crypto key end up? Who the hell knows. The servers get traded around by whatever company takes possession of the assets, and servers have a short useful life. Probably sent for recycling.

The people who used to work for the company go on to other jobs. Whatever backups they made while working there get put in storage somewhere, to be forgotten, or to be thrown out and buried in a landfill.

And boom! DivX discs (not to be confused with the codec of the same name) are unplayable.

It's probably some half-ass design, and if anyone clever wanted to break it they probably could. But that is of course illegal according to the DMCA, and doesn't really rebut the argument that DRM locks up works that would eventually fall into the public domain otherwise.
I sometimes wonder about the economics of these activities. Apparently China lets well educated, highly intelligent Chinese work for US companies, to spy on them, rather than working "genuinely" for a Chinese company. So either the secrets are extremely valuable, or they can't do R&D worth a damn at home.
Why Negative Reviews Are a Positive
What we need is a bitcoin sdk, not another 3rd-party rest api that will go down if business does not profit. Open source this!
I'd notice that this must also describe the best shape of a glass to keep a beverage hot. But, unlike shot glasses, tea and coffee cups look very different.
Decentralized systems always centralize in time.
How To Lose $35 Million And Remain A Success
For me, it defeats the vision of Bitcoin as being decentralized. I know some high level API is of warrant nowadays, but we need something that's independent from someone's profits from it.
Word Lens launched on News.YC 1,247 days ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014555

Congrats to the Quest Visual team!

It was the first real amazing example I showed to people about the potential of having a supercomputer (and a-half) in your pocket [1].

[1] iPhone 3GS MIPS ~ 1200 MIPS, Cray 2 ~ 800 MIPS
The thing is you can synchronize tmux selection with your clipboard, there isn't really a need for tmux to "support" your terminal's view of tmux running within.
I put together balancebadge.com, a simple bitcoind related app. If I didn't use the chain.com API I would have had to run a server with bitcoind (~20GB of data), a server that indexes data from bitcoind (recall that a simple address balance is not exposed in bitcoind), and stores the data in an alternate database (~200GB). There is no way that I would have built balancebadge if I had to setup and maintain 3 servers with 100s of gigabytes of data.

Also, should developers who don't want to run a PostgreSQL server think twice about building web apps? I believe that general purpose software that requires server maintenance and state management should be run as a service. App developers should be focusing on the details of their product –not how to keep general purpose infrastructure alive and well.

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Full disclosure: I am one of the creators of chain.com
But then that leads to people automatically clicking "Yes" to the "Are you sure..." dialog. Though even I would pause at "Are you sure you want to reformat 12,500 machines including this one?" ;-)
I hear stories of people in google never getting a promotion in 7 years as a software engineer. Or getting frustrated with promotions because everyone is overqualified for their position with PhDs and so on for positions such as a sales manager and so on. How does one become a top google engineer in their mid/late 20?
I can't seem to make the math for that work. Plant energy generation is around 1 W/kg. Lighting an average room requires around 10,000 lumen. Maximum luminous efficacy is 683 lm/W. Lighting a room requires ~15W w/ perfect efficacy.

Assuming the plant requires no energy to maintain its metabolism, that'd be 15kg of plant. Realistically, you can assume that it'll need at least double that, to maintain the metabolism.

That's a whopper of a lighting plant.
Not hard to imagine. The others likely have specialty licenses and so aren't as easily distributed to everyone. In addition, Adobe software itself wasn't working earlier ;-)
Presumably iTunes is part of their base system image for all workstations, along with Office, Firefox, Adobe Reader, and the like. In other words, a basic set of software to handle standard officework tasks. iTunes is free and IT would probably rather distribute it everywhere than have people trying to install it themselves (or calling the helpdesk to get someone with administrator rights to do it). They then offer additional applications on an as-needed basis to individuals and departments with specific tasks. So the designers who do print publications and the faculty who teach digital art might get the Adobe suite, while people in Facilities who plan construction will get Project. This keeps licensing costs down and simplifies systems according to their uses.