skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>since to avoid violence you have to make people believe you are ready to inflict it.

So basically... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butter_Battle_Book

If this is truly all the human race is capable of; living in a perpetual stalemate of attack-power then we should just stay on our earth and perish.
Although I am not a huge fan of this, I believe that eventually we will end up using this.
It might take 5 - 10 years but soylent-type will be used in our daily life.
Today with our busy life's cooking something simple takes an hour to complete. Soylent is ready to go in an instant.

Although it will not completely eradicate normal food, as eating is as well a bonding. Here at least in Cyprus, we will have a weekly sit down on Sunday, of 10-20 if not more of family and relatives. This is very important time.

It will take years for population to actually adjust to the idea of drinking there food.

On the plus site, this will eventually be used by astronauts I believe and Mars colonization plans.
[video] Realtime cellphone interception
As the motor city, it would be interesting if Detroit reinvented itself as the first American post-car city. i.e. Take roads, which are the most significant public space in most American cities and take it back from cars and give it to pedestrians and bicyclists.

I would love to see any city in the world take this architects proposal for São Paulo (a major concrete jungle) and run with it.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/12588351@N02/sets/721576231926...
How I improved my page load time by over 27% with less than 10 mins of work
What does "some traction" mean? Do you have any market share numbers?
Their fundraising site, Crowd Supply, seems like quite the underdog. Should I root for them?
We unbanned it and changed the url to there from http://www.cnet.com/news/next-microsoft-surface-pro-intel-sp....

Submitters: please don't post stories that just point to something else. Post the something else instead.
Nope.

I'd like to live in a world with less advertising. Free services are of lesser concern. In terms of game theory it is absolutely, directly in my interest to promote systems that kill the effectiveness of blanket advertising and hopefully make it become a pointless exercise.
That will be why "baltic" is used as a slang term here in the UK for "mild maritime and Mediterranean climate" :-)
Exactly what I thought as well.
Solar Scare Mosquito
And browsing without adblock means theat those who really pay for our services—people buying online ads—are being robbed.
They paid specific amount for a specific number of impressions. Ok, I browse without ad-block, buty I never click on ads. That means that all those impressions on the pages I visited are wasted. Sure, their owners get their money, but that's pure waste of money for the advertiser.
If majority would browse with ad blockers, well, maybe the price for ads would increase, I don't know. But putting the blame on ad block users is lame, all add block does is to stop wasting the money.
no, i am not suggesting anything. I just had a question so I asked. Sorry, if i was not clear.
You can allow everything by default too with HTTPSB (it still will use blocklists and protect you), so that you won't have to enable stuff for a website to work.
You must be unaware of the famines raging in 2014 and just about any year before that in other parts of the world. The Dutch certainly had a hard time of it in '44 (my grandmother's diary is amazing reading) but it does not in any way compare to some of the stuff going on TODAY and on a MUCH larger scale.
I found a page where someone made a case on why it might make sense to fund the project and buy novena system. Here it is: http://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
The Asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs
Ok, improving the Bessel functions is now the first priority thing to fix :)
Micro-payments are a bad idea because making decisions costs mental energy, and the energy cost declines more slowly than the amount, so if you have to decide to pay a couple of cents to read an article, you end up spending more than a couple of cents worth of mental energy making the decision. It's a dead loss. Advertising is a better business model all around.
Well it's up to the user whether they prefer privacy or better user experience.

You can easily whitelist sites you visit often/where you don't mind about them tracking you & prefer the better user experience..
The Creeping Danger of Conspiracy Theorists
Sorry, hard to explain. This acer tablet is on display at MS store so if you have any nearby - please visit to experience it.
Agreed. I managed to solve it, but only after I got to know the keyboard controls. Much easier to manage. http://www.google.com/doodles/rubiks-cube
And you could argue that tulip bulbs are nicer to eat than Soylent.
Replaced my Latitude 6230 with a Dell Venue Pro 11...which i am now using as my primary dev machine.

love it, Dell took the surface and imrpoved it in several ways, notably the dock/keyboard options.
down voters - care to share the reason ?
I never have perf issues. My machine is not the newest, I run win7 and have serveral applications running next to it. I also don't see much difference between the sum of chrome processes and the single FF process (both ABP installed. FF full with different addons).

I switched to Chrome when it was new and everybody was telling me how slow FF was compared to that. I came back to FF because there was no relevant difference and I missed several AddOns as well as the oldschool win2k look I could give it. Today I use Chrome (adn Opera) as reference but it'll never become my main browser. The people who made me change, came back to FF, so I guess it wasn't such a big deal for them also.

Edit: I started to hate Chrome when I had to remove it from my parents PC every time I went there. I guess it's the Java Updater or something similar...
The supply-side has defectors too.

I go on a blocking-spree for any site which (A) serve malware (B) unexpectedly plays sounds or epileptic animations (C) trashes site performance through a billion third-party loading items.

Even if it's just a lack of vetting by the ad-network, N-levels removed from the author, it represents a breach in that same completely-unspoken contract which I will take steps to protect myself from.

Finally, let's not confuse game-theory with "justice" or with our normative beliefs about how things should work.
If angular or ember make it difficult to follow best practices, are they the best tool for the job?

Less trollishly, although I have no experience with angular or ember, I have built a progressively enhanced application with knockout and I thought it went quite well. As with any progressively enhanced application, it requires that your back-end is set up to respond with both markup and JSON responses, but the data- attributes responsible for binding behaviour are just ignored by the browser when script is not running.

Perhaps my experience is too simplistic, though. Can you give me an example of the kind of things that angular and ember make difficult to progressively enhance?
For most of your comments are getting greyed out, I might think that there is some other people that'd back my words.

You're Google employee, right? You lot have gone quite cheeky nowadays. You're exploiting the monopoly you hold in the search market, to make people adhere to your standards, instead of adhering the standards the internet community naturally generates. I'd suggest Google engineers to go develop better algorithms instead of telling the internet off.
Ridiculous that these things are allowed in the US. So for all your media needs there'll basically be only two providers some day - at&t or Comcast. Pathetic
It would be interesting to see if you can use the Myriad option to swap it for a Ath9K, and use it as a WiFi card instead. I presume that the LM6002D is going to be wired to the shared FPGA. It'd be neat to have a 100% open firmware wireless card too.
When somebody reports a performance problem with Firefox, the first question is always "do you have any add-ons installed" precisely because a lot of them do impact performance significantly. That's not necessarily bad -- e.g. I happily use ABP despite the memory and speed hit -- but there's a reason why it's always the first question.

Having said that, as a Firefox developer I'm sorry that people didn't believe you when you had problems. We're certainly aware that Firefox's performance did compare poorly to Chrome's, which is why numerous performance programs were introduced to fix this difference. MemShrink is the one I started about three years ago: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink. It has resulted in many fixes, both big and small, and it is ongoing. (Indeed, Firefox OS might not have been feasible without it.)

As some others have said, Firefox's performance is a lot better now than it was a couple of years ago. If you want to try it again and you have an old profile hanging around, I suggest that you "Reset Firefox" (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fi...) to clear up any lingering problems in that profile. Or you could just create a new profile. If you do try Firefox again, I'd be interested to hear how it goes. Thanks.
Ghost vs. WordPress
Ghost managed to get quite some buzz lately due to it's increase in features and the beautiful minimalist platform for bloggers.

The question remains if it is able to be a viable competitor for WordPress on long term?
It's... "closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It's designed for users who care about Free Software and open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features that facilitate rapid prototyping."

More than enough reasons for me. I'd buy one in a heartbeat, if I weren't broke right now.
Value of good advice
Cooking is enjoyable (even if I suck at it) and eating together with others is an important social ritual.

Soylent takes all the enjoyment and the little bits of social interaction still present in our lives out and replaces them with 'fueling up', a hyper-optimized model for an already stressed to the hilt working life.

But that's why slowing down a bit is actually good. Take your time to cook, chew your food and talk with your fellow human beings. Share your meals, every day.

Sure, preparing and cooking food takes time. But you know, that's actually a good thing and I'm saying that as someone that would probably spend a lot more time still on the computer if cooking and sharing the cooked food would not be an important part of my daily schedule. And I'll never give that up. So I guess soylent isn't for me. I prefer my foods to be fresh and tasty, and I think I can do that for roughly the same amount of money that this goop costs.

Variation is good, social interaction is good, I can't see the point in soylent, not to mention the interesting question of what will happen long term healthwise if you switch to a mono-cultural product like this for any significant fraction of your diet.

Best of luck to those that are going down this route, meanwhile I'll spend some time with my friends and family with salads, sandwiches, pastas and other foods over here.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7618850.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.zhoubug.n2...
I think it's because there used to be a really bad alt-coin called Bytecoin, and the stigma remains to this day.
The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 explicitly forbids the placing of nukes (or any other WMDs) in orbit around the Earth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

Also, I'm not sure that having a weapon in orbit would actually be any better than existing ICBMs.
Surely this is a massive competition concern and should be blocked on such grounds?!
Longitude Prize to be relaunched
Fair enough - I've just seen the contradicting stories as well. Would this fall under sensationalist or link-bait then?
Aren't Jane Street mainly based in London? Being a UK based company may explain the 'below market rate' salaries.
Since no-one runs the code I write this is not going to matter.
You'd need to tweak the server for this to actually work. By default, remote forwarded ports are not accessible from other hosts, and non-root cannot listen on port 80.

http://serverfault.com/a/133440/1726
http://serverfault.com/a/285617/1726
I must apologize, because the only knowledge I have so far of bytecoin is that it started out as literally a DIRECT COPY of the bitcoin source code. They didn't change a single thing whatesoever, until they realized that that motive was fruitless and positioned themselves to adopt something/anything that differentiated themselves from bitcoin.

I still rest behind my case.

I have not invested a single penny in bytecoin and probably never will.

Do they have professional cryptographers working on and vouching for their source code like zerocash? Please, inform me.

I beg of you to tell me the next great crypto currency to invest in. But for now, I am investing most of my diversification fund into zerocoin.
Since I never click on ads, is there really a difference? I don't think so (assuming "pay per view" ads are rare).
Not everyone is sociable and finds the company of other people conducive to their thought processes like Feynman evidently was. Some people work best alone, and there is no shortage of good work (including from the IAS) to demonstrate that. Personally I find talking to other people only occasionally helpful for work.
Scientists design a collider that turns light into matter
Wow, ok I didn't even bother to check this fact.

I was assuming the entire time that "bytecoin" was referring to the group that literally copied the bitcoin sourcecode entirely, and left it at that.

What is "the new bytecoin" then that you are supposedly referring to?

It seems very naive of the "new bytecoin team" to adopt a name that has been associated with fraudulant activity in the past.
A web site can be Javascript-heavy[0] without being a web application[1]. There's a big difference.

If you just need auto-completion, modal dialogs and similar features then you shouldn't build a web application, and you definitely should make your site work without Javascript.

On the other hand, if you are building Google Maps, then you should build a web application. Google Maps doesn't work when you disable Javascript.

Supporting clients without Javascript in web applications often doesn't make sense. If it does, you should consider building a standard web site. Just imagine building Google Maps without Javascript. Or better yet, imagine using a version of Google Maps without Javascript. I'm sure that there are people that could pull that off and still end up with something good but it's not the case for most teams (not enough time, resources or skill) building web applications.

[0]: What's considered Javascript-heavy anyways? I think that including support for standard stuff like auto-completion, modal dialogs or even just including bootstrap's javascript these days makes your site Javascript-heavy.

[1]: By this I mean a single page web application that uses Javascript for state management/routing, rendering, communication with the backend, etc. You should be able to deploy an application like this on S3 and it should work. That's not a requirement but I'm just trying to point out that it's an application built completely with Javascript, with no backend support (except for the api that it communicates with).
I didn't mean "that I used" to sound egotistical, more a proxy for more serious adoption. MySpace was mainstream, but Facebook was a more serious consideration because (at least as I remember it) it didn't allow the quagmire of horrific CSS crud MySpace did. It felt mature and accessible. I remember the 'social media marketing' of Heroes S1, where the kid characters had MySpace accounts and the politician had a Facebook account. Equally millions had used DOS before, but Windows got to people who didn't want to touch the command line. I can't speak to why that isn't also the perception for Apple's GUI OSes.
is this some sort of costly competition to space x in a way ?
Came here to say pretty much this as well - since the Surface came out I was interested in it especially after trying it out with the pen + OneNote; being able to have one device that does the tablet stuff like touch/pen/note taking and the C++/C#/Virtualbox cross-platform development stuff sounds like a dream to me (which makes me guess I'm probably in the target group for the device).
Expecting MS to come with an update I was waiting a bit though and the Pro 2 came close already, but mainly due to coincidences I haven't gotten around to get one. Plus the specs were still not on par with my current laptop's it seems. Now this Pro 3 however: extremely tempting. While at the same time makes me wonder if I should wait another couple of months for yet another, faster update :]
Nintendo shutting down Online play for Wii, DS games on May 20
Do you mean live TV, or just having cable at all? I don't think I've watched live TV in 10 years.

I'm looking to cut my cord, but the problem is that nothing legit is as convenient as the cable+DVR setup. With those 2 things I have access to practically every TV show on the air (minus Netflix exclusive stuff).

To have access to that wide of a library without cable I need Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, iTunes (and Pirate Bay for the stuff that's just impossible to get). There is not a single (non-computer) device that can play those all on my TV. So it's a bit of a hassle, screwing around to find what service on what device has what show and then remembering when the new ones come out.

Compare that to the stupid, but venerable, DVR where every show I want from whatever random channel just shows up when it comes out in one clean interface.

I want to kill it so bad but from a UX perspective, it's just so much better.

Really, the only thing that gets close to that experience at all is flexget[1] + a private torrent tracker. How sad is that? It really should be a huge kick in the nuts to all the legit streaming services, but I doubt that they even care... DRM just ruins everything. Sigh.

[1] https://github.com/Flexget/Flexget
However, Micropayments are not the only alternative to Advertising, subscriptions are another choice which only need to be done once rather than repeatedly.

I'd like to see more site offer an ad-free subscription, in the way that Ars Technica or reddit do, to allow for an alternative to using ads to support content I'm interested in.

Patreon has an interesting model for creative content and one which I think will work for content producers who already have a good fan base.
Because part of listening to music is that I listen to music which I like, which means Rise Against, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, et al.
IIRC (but correct me if I'm wrong), Youtube works just fine without a login; 18+ content, rating and commenting won't work though.
I am not that optimist for this kind of food. The biggest problem with right now according to the reviews is that it kills social life. And a lot of people does not like processed food and like to spend one hour to prepare their meal.

I think it would the most interesting for the army or missions like the ones performed by astronauts as you said.
> The effect is that implementations must sacrifice either security (by not being able to use public key derivation techniques that improve security) or compatibility (by ending up with private keys that don't have the high bit set and being unable to use the widely distributed fast curve25519 code).

How does that follow? I'm not a crypto expert, but I would think you would derive your keys whichever way you want, except at length one bit shorter, and then add the '1' bit; Or, equivalently, derive it at the length you want and then set the top bit to 1. If your KDF is foiled by reducing one bit of information from the output, wasn't it bad to start with?
Welp, that's new since I signed up. Will be calling them tomorrow - thanks for pointing that out!
> why can't Google just ignore spammy links instead of penalizing the whole websites and all the websites that link to them

You are suggesting an approach where there are no downsides to link spam. Obviously, players of this game would then ramp up their link spam bots, and run them non-stop. Because it causes no damage to the site they want to rank.

Link spam isn't just a search engine indexing problem, it is also a detriment to the general Web user too. It makes the Web worse, not just search.
Xkcd Phone
The mental energy needed to suffer ads is far from zero for many people.
what kind of a question is that? Are you a human being?
What nonsense. What on Earth is the point of your post? Very clearly the GP posts some links which are helpful to someone assessing the written output, world view, politics and mindset of the author of the original piece on academia. Furthermore, have you read the piece on homophobia? I'm not the most politically correct person out there, but really that article is the sort of thing we expect from semi-literate bible-thumping retards from the small towns of the southern USA. It is definitely of interest to this thread that the physics professor in question wrote that.
if every web browser starts using less memory, everyone is worse off

This is gibberish. There's still plenty of demand for denser memory. You don't have to pretend that wasting memory on Adblock is somehow driving the progress of humanity.
Egypt fights looters stealing its antiquities with spacecraft and statecraft
If we make it difficult for services to be ad funded, perhaps alternative methods of funding will emerge. Perhaps alternative methods of service delivery will emerge too which don't require large companies to build their own data centres (peer to peer, distributed).

I don't get rid of ads on my systems because they're annoying. I do it because they introduce massive single points of failure, they add massive centralised attack vectors which have in the past been exploited, and will be in the future too, and because they slow down web browsing.

If you care about security, you use an ad blocker.
Yes but the real figure in the US isn't 3% is it? That was my point -.-
seems like someone is just learning to program...
Yeah, it does forbid nukes.

Good thing it doesn't forbid Kinetic Kill Weapons. The kind of thing you need to keep in-orbit for long periods of time.

No/little launch signature, dynamic positions, and a quicker response than any ICBM.

(personally, I think it's a spy rig)
It's Jebediah Kerman.
They probably want to know what it's like to live on Soylent for an extended period of time. I did see a video by Motherboard/Vice where he drank it at a restaurant which I think misses the main point of Soylent.

Eating the same food every day for a month will make you crave different foods, even if it's Soylent.
The cynic in me feels that much of what they may be determining is from muscle artifact...i've been looking through some (plain old clinical/medical 32 electrode) EEG data and even that has a lot of artifact. Although I suppose it's some behavioral correlation - the more stressed out you are the more you clench your muscles, I suppose.

At the very least if they've figured out how to get clean EEG w/o having to use smelly EEG conductive goop, props to them!
What if someone wants to re-post something that was posted 1+ year ago to see new opinions? I think at the moment it navigates back to old post without creating a new one.
You're only looking at half of the value, though. It's because it has value to others that it's worth keeping the secret. I'm asserting that the normal case is for the value to others to outweigh the individual's value. You are correct that it's asymmetric, of course. And yes, zero sum games would tend to be something of a limiting case. I'm not sure you can find a negative sum game for society as a whole, though you can for some particular group.