skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same thing that would happen if we all decided to never go to war.

Yes, the outcome would be great, but the hypothetical is not a solution. It merely assumes the solution has already been arrived at.
That is correct, they were ubiquitous in various research organizations but fairly rare with people who were doing research on network protocols.
Do the images fail to load for anyone else?
What's the fuss all about? A lot, but please bear in mind the time this was developed. We are now in 2014. We are talking about something about 30 yrs old. A good way to really compare is to go compare with an Apple ][.
Version control and speed are two reasons why I prefer local editing rather than writelatex.
+1 for the reality that an untested backup is potentially no backup at all. it's easy to have a false sense of security about these things
That should be part of Uber's driver acquisition marketing literature.
Can I ask if this is NYC?

If it is, and you throw in the cost of a medallion and the per trip fees, as I suspect Uber or Lyft will one day need to pay...that'd probably wipe out 100% of that income. [$2500/month + $.50/trip]
There are quite a few smug replies to you, but my siblings are missing that the interesting thing about memristors is their potential for putting dynamically configurable computation (using implication logic) directly inside high density storage.

Taking advantage of such systems will not be business as usual, it'll look even more foreign to us than CUDA does to a Javascript developer.

Sure, you can use an interface and use them just like a regular storage device, but until and unless you can get the cost per bit below flash it's not interesting at all.

If that was all memristors could do, it's not even clear that they would be in active development - this is a moon shot by HP (no pun intended).
The to-do list’s original sin
The section "When Does the Three O'Clock Parade Start?" (I'd quote the whole thing here but it's too long) is a great articulation of the kinds of problems I'm referring to when I tell people that I'm frustrated with the communications skills of people I work with. Understanding tone, context and audience, both as a deliverer and receiver of information, is not just for providing customer service. It's amazingly useful for simply getting along with other human beings. I have no problem with people that misspell words or use poor grammar - what kills me is the people who autopilot through their interactions with other people and who aren't bothered (or don't even notice!) when a conversation flies by them and they haven't developed or elicited even a flicker of common understanding.
Debian is currently considering shifting it's default desktop to XFCE, as guh-nome has taken some ridiculous turns for the worse. It'd be a good step for XFCE, as it'd start getting a lot more attention to the areas where the integration is lacking.
Note the whitepaper is outdated. We are in the process of rewriting it. Its a better description of Metadisk, which is one of our front end web apps.

The metadata for the file is stored in a blockchain. The actually data may live on a centralized or decentralized source.
If I had no college degree, I would go to a state school and obtain a zero-debt degree in computer science (maybe dual-major in math or stats) with it. This is a good investment.

If I did have a college degree, I would get a job and stuff the money into an automatic "growth" stock index and ignore it until time came that it became needful. Possibly in a retirement fund, possibly in a house fund, possibly in a "children's college" fund, depending on life priorities. For pure bang-for-the-buck long-term, an IRA wins here.
"Facts" still being taught in school that have been proven to be false
Funds suggested by patio11 are very popular index funds. They're broader than S&P 500 but it's the same principle.
Sorry!

I also think it's a bad rule, because as a society we should be rewarding you for driving a fuel-efficient car, rather than effectively giving higher tax breaks per mile to those that drive less efficient cars.
The 10 tools Start-ups Should have
No, it's not NYC. It's in California, where TNCs have their own regulatory category. Moreover, a large part of the cost of medallions is having jurisdiction-approved-and-calibrated taximeters to ensure that the passenger isn't being stiffed. That's really not an issue with rideshares, since everything is tracked by GPS and there is a pretty straightforward way of challenging an unfair charge. Moreover, as Uber and Lyft increase their marketshare and revenues, their ability to exercise political leverage on bigger jurisdictions, anyways, will increase.
$40/hr?

Can you explain how uber pays better?
Amazon Said to Be Close to Unveiling Music Streaming Service
It happens in the US (where I live in New Jersey, anyway) as well. And its one of the numerous reasons I refuse to take cabs, as long as Uber or an alternative is available.
Would be good to bring it back to Windows, so that we can test our web sites. However last time when I was using it on Windows it was making my hard drive to make strange noises. I think that it was using my hard disk constantly.
I think it's covered under Week 5 - textfiles.
Every study cited in that wikipedia section is at least 10 years old, and the headline survey is 35-years old.
Not necessarily.

Calling attention to divisions may reinforce the behavior -- like telling children only what not to do.

By removing that reinforcement the behavior would be extinguished.

Of course that assumes we can trust everyone to do the right thing...not a great assumption, I'll admit.

Then again, I am not great at inter-personal psychology which is probably a big part of why I got into tech to begin with.
There's no technical info in the article. This one (link from the article) seems to be more resourceful on details: http://engineering.bittorrent.com/2013/12/19/update-on-bitto...

The interesting part is their claim they somehow made DHT public key to IP discovery (mapping) "encrypted" and "secure". Sadly, I hadn't found any further details.
The industry would be 80-85% men in perpetuity? I can understand the author's desire not to have gender be such a big issue. But it is a big issue whether we talk about it or not, and if we don't talk about it, we'll never fix it.
I vote for a megaphone of some type
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It's quite interesting to read Turing's original article (A. M. Turing (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind). I don't think he would have been that impressed by Prof Warwick's claims.

http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf

In fact if you read it, the whole claim that you can call more than 30% of the judges getting a test wrong one time 'passing the Turing test' is rather contrary to what Turing actually was saying.
Why we're suing the CIA
Yep, doesn't load for me either.
What does 'sharing' mean here? Are they going to deny coverage if you carpool, and organized it on a carpool site?
That's an interesting idea. I vaguely remember coming across such symbol somewhere to convey the idea of sharing but I cannot remember where.
Now THIS is "Hacker News". Perhaps a slightly unlikely source (does businessweek usually have this quality?) but v interesting article and discussion here. Sorry not to be adding more substantively to it, just glad it's here. :)
YouTube for now!
> So the words for a calculator ... and the word for computer ... are the same?

No no. We have laskin ("calculator") for calculator and tietokone ("data machine") for computer.

If you don't know any other language than English, you'll be surprised about how many different ways different languages have come up with for words for modern things, like the computer. The etymology does not necessarily resemble that of the English language.

> arvioida

That is "to estimate".
Those don't look like icons of the 1990s but of the 2000s.
Well, I'm doing this while the IRS is approving 501(c)(3) status for my research nonprofit (details in my profile). In the meantime, it's a good opportunity to improve "people skills" (although I was probably on the upper curve of that with respect to the pool of scientists to start off with). Finally, there are plenty of cross-promotional opportunities that I intend to explore (beyond just getting the fact that my nonprofit exists out there).

You're being awfully judgemental about what you think is sane. In my 11 odd years of being a scientist I have seen completely insane and wasteful use of taxpayer money left and right. I'm fairly sure that the median scientist (note the difference between median and average here) is not contributing positively to society. I'm not even certain that what I have done cumulatively has been a net positive.

And as a lyft driver, I am helping keep drunk people off the streets, so my median day, in which I drive around 10-20 drunk people home from drinking, has done society a favor.

Meanwhile, the IRS is taking their sweet time and not 'sanely' allocating their resources in approving my nonprofit. I sent in paperwork last May and they still haven't gotten back to me (average unprocessed application was submitted back in August of 2013), so if you want to give them a ring on behalf of me that would be swell.
>See, this is the problem with this virulent strain of Scientism making the rounds right now.

We have a very good understanding of the fundamental forces and particles that govern the brain and our everyday experience. That doesn't mean that we'll use the vocabulary and mathematics of fundamental physics to explain brain processes, just as we don't use particle physics vocabulary when we model Hurricanes or explain cell processes. Nevertheless, whatever model or explanation you come up with for Consciousness better square with those fundamental physics otherwise you're going to be in the crackpot territory. That's not Scientism, that's just a fact.

>There's this tendency to divide ideas into two camps: "explained by our current understanding of physics" and "magic".

Again, Quantum Mechanics, and the Standard Model (as well as the laws of Chemistry that abstract those) are not going away. Evolution and Natural Selection is not going away either. That constrains the kinds of explanations we will have for Consciousness. If you think understanding Consciousness will overturn either the Standard Model or Evolution, you're going to be very disappointed. Again, that's not Scientism, that's just a smart prediction.

>But telling me that Strong AI will basically solve this issue (and that any protestation is an appeal to "magic") comes across as hand-waving

I didn't say it will solve Conciousness. I think Conciousness is an ill-defined concept, but yet many people have very strong feelings about. I speculated we'd probably see it as such when (if) we are capable of building such a strong AI, probably before that.
Warrantless cellphone location tracking is illegal, US circuit court rules
Off Topic:

Zypper is by far my favorite package manager and find apt-get and company a PAIN. apt-cache search foo UGH!
Well, specifically, it needs developers and it needs manufacturers. As it's an open-source project stewarded by Mozilla, it will likely have developers at least until Mozilla run out of funding, and it might even survive that if they can get enough outside developers involved. Manufacturers are a bit more tricky, but on the other hand, there's always been manufacturers of cheap phones and there likely always will be.
Me likes iOS. It seems to be the easiest for me to understand.
How to set the value of a form field using JavaScript PII
What makes Firefox OS inherently more cost effective than Android? I doubt you'd need a weaker CPU or less memory for the same amount of responsiveness. Or is that it's possible for Android phones to be as inexpensive, but no one's bothered creating a decent one at that price yet (just like no one bothered creating even a decent $130 one until the Moto E).
It's a temporary promotional scheme to recruit lyft drivers.
The Appellate Court ruling: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/q_davis_opin...
Already anticipated that. We can just run the Storj client on your traditional cloud VPS. If there is market need those can be booted up in a couple of seconds by our team or anyone who wants to set that up.

Because VPS providers profit margins are so high vs a typical home user, they will be eventually replaced, but it allows Storj to scale pretty quickly using the traditional cloud as network nodes.
The Power of Inversion Thinking
FWIW, I wrote my own version of it not knowing about BitTorrent chat: https://github.com/chewxy/nanjingtaxi/

It doesn't use the BitTorrent kademlia though. If anyone thinks that should be the case, feel free to send a pull request
I know the colloquy icon on iOS is a megaphone.
I can definitely see that working. As long as you differentiate it enough from a volume icon.
As an Apple user, everytime I see Android's share button I think of the Steam icon (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steam_logo.svg).
Well, you're big enough to recognize it, apologize for it, and edit to fix it. Don't be too hard on yourself, because we often see a lot worse...
http://rssident.com/mash?t=job

http://rssident.com/feeds?t=job
The science behind smart goals. Time to update
The open hand is more like serve or broadcast than share.

The outgoing or upload are nouns that don't mean share either.

The Google Android - three dots approach seems to be the simplest, most logical, where one becomes two (or more).
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/bullhorn/
Is this going to be open source ?
Unless the code is verifiable by third parties and we have reproducible builds then trust is just transferred to Bittorrent Inc.
1. More than 10 per cent of Brazilians live on just two US dollars a day, despite the fact that the country ranks fifth in the world for its number of billionaires.

2. I'm for anything that helps the poor.

3. In America, I'm not asking for a gym membership, but it
would be nice to have Public restrooms? Yes--just a restroom. "No--we have no restroom!" "The closest restroom is in that hotel, but you have to sneak in the back door"
"Why do the Homeless defecate in the pristine park?"
"Mom--did you bring your Detrol--there will probally be no
restrooms." Yea--It's a problem. And I don't want to hear
if you build it, they will come. Exactly who will come--99%
of the people will be there because they need to use the
toilet, and wash their hands.
Postgres-R! I knew about Postgres-R, but i thought it was a research project which had never really gone anywhere. I am highly intrigued to learn that it is still in play. From what i remember, there were some terrifically clever ideas about multi-master databases at the heart of it. I don't think there's anything else quite like it in the open source world.
To get to the Pacific NW, you have to explore and send ships all the way around, right through the Straits of Magellan below modern Argentina. By comparison, the Gulf of Mexico is 'just across the pond'.
> Ignoring the ad hominem attacks

The presentation itself discusses the fall of OpenSolaris and the lack of Sun/Oracle support for it, as though if Sun or Oracle was fully committed to it, it would have succeeded. My mentioning and questioning that, and referring to it as spin, is not at attempt at an ad hominem attack; it's an attempt at a well-founded argument.

> I didn't actually advocate a contributor agreement -- to the contrary, I cautioned against them.

You cautioned against copyright assignments (and thank you for that), but regarding contributor agreements you said (on slide 21) "Corporate entities may (and indeed, should) have a contributor agreement ..."

Have I missed something there?

> And indeed, the reason that this two-year-old presentation is on HN today is because today we did away with the node.js CLA[1]; we're walking the talk here.

A change that's deeply appreciated; thank you for doing that.

Regarding the licensing: I'm not going to quibble over intent, but intentional or not, it had the same effect. The MPL and its various forks were well-known as GPL-incompatible licenses; that was not hard to predict, and people started talking about it right away. Even if you had proprietary binary-only components, you could still use the GPL with an explicit exception, or alternatively any number of GPL-compatible FOSS licenses, rather than something GPL-incompatible. You could also use a dual-license with GPL or LGPL, providing GPL compatibility along with any other license you might wish to use, as OO.o once did (dual LGPL/SISSL).

More importantly, it seems quite disingenuous to release software under a GPL-incompatible license and then complain that the GPL caused the problem and fragmented the community ("Was it the intent of those who licensed their work under GPLv2..."). If nothing else, I'd suggest that we both should make fewer assumptions about intent, and talk about results instead.

Finally, I'm certainly not going to dispute that more new projects have arisen using non-copyleft licenses. That hardly makes the GPL obsolete, nor does it invalidate the large number of existing GPLed projects. More importantly, GPL compatibility remains critical; people choosing all-permissive licenses still tend to choose GPL-compatible ones, Apache being the most notable exception (and it still has GPLv3 compatibility).
Very good coverage, not sensationalist, and really really cool pictures.
When and where I read my email is my business. Well, mine and Google's. But no one else's.
Is it going to be fully Open Source or the same joke as Bitorrent Sync where no peer review is possible?
I think she takes issue with the fact that the organizers already had a narrow topic in mind when they asked her to present. And that the topic was kinda stereotypical (You're a tech woman? Talk about women in tech!). I think the right choice is to let your presenter present what they are experts in. Especially since she offered to speak on a similar, but less bounded, topic!
I wonder how "I don't want to speak on the topic of 'women in technology'" becomes "desire not to have gender".
"Let’s go out on a limb and assume that the median full-time uberX driver doesn’t have fantastic credit and would rather forego the credit check."

A paragraph later:

"Meanwhile, a trip to bankrate.com will reveal that today’s market rate for a 48-month loan is under 3%"

Not that it invalidates the piece, but this bit of handwaving bugs the heck outta me.

The under 3% loans are available to people with "excellent credit", which it was just assumed didn't describe UberX drivers. myfico.com indicates, for instance, that people with a FICO score under 620 are looking at a rate more like 10-15%.
I am happy to see them emerging as an R&D power. They haven't had much to show for themselves lately, so I wish them well on this.
In the US, cities can levy sales taxes as well. Also, the city field in your address does not accurately indicate your municipal boundaries; it's more of an identifier of which post office serves you and which municipal boundaries it falls within.
I guess cron uses a few kilobytes.

A full megabyte on my machine, actually! Still a long way from 35MBs, though.
How would this argument apply to, for example, the issue of women being sexually assaulted at tech events?
Simplenote looks great. Any idea how they make money? On their front page, it says "Backups, syncing, sharing — it’s all completely free."
Every Gnome, XFCE and non-KDE Linux user will also tell you the same crack pipe.

Personally I love KDE apps and I have been using i3 tiled WM.
I am the author of that post - and yes, you nailed it. :)
I returned to this thread to comment on Namecheap. I see there are now a few places I might reply.

The Namecheap redesign originally struck me as "design for design's sake" and it continues to do so. A bit more than just the front/"funnel" pages, it also impacted some of the menus and the cart and checkout pages.

With regard to the front pages, I found it no improvement. Some form of "Bootstrap-ification" or whatever that served primarily to hide things rather than to expose them -- both to me, a longstanding user, but also I suspect to a fair fraction of new users.

Checkout also was initially more opaque, although that seems to have been improved a bit since then. (Among other things, the first time post-design, finding and renewing an associated "WhoisGuard" registration was a PITA game of hide-and-seek.)

I found the redesign to be yet one more example of what I consider to be the current, mistaken over-influence of "Design" and "Designers". Taking "stuff that works" and "prettying it up" while making it: Harder to actually see; harder to actually use; more bug prone; less responsive (as opposed to "responsive"); etc.

There are plenty of good redesigns. But there are plenty of "redesigns for redesigns' sake" that should be stopped before they are started.

The other day, I heard someone apply the Hippocratic Oath to an element of software/systems design, and I found myself agreeing: "First, do no harm."

In Namecheap's case, I can understand the design to update a distinctly "old school" appearance. But, as has been pointed out, the older design worked. Keeping things working, and clear, should have been a primary -- first -- requirement of the redesign. They didn't fail entirely in that regard, but they certainly annoyed.

Also, the redesign did look more than a bit like someone "slapped" a Bootstrap theme or similar onto the site. Maybe it looks better particularly on phones and tablets than the old site. But I didn't/don't find it particularly attractive. If I'm going to devolve into discussing its "Design", I think they could have done a fair amount better.

Anywho, the site is working, and on the rare occasion when I need customer support, they've always been very responsive via IM (integrated into the site).

Setting Namecheap aside, I hope that "the Web" in general, or at least the parts I care about, can get past this apparent outsized influence of... "Design" (/Craig-Ferguson-dramatic-expression-mode).

P.S. While I'm here, I'll just add: Darn it, Namecheap. "autocomplete off" your credit card security code field!!! You got the message about the credit card number field, but this change remains needed and outstanding (and has carried over through the design change).
http://getballpark.com

I've used this for a few years. Great app - lets customers pay on invoices with stripe or paypal.
Also, "I talked to somebody currently working for this company while they're at their job, and they told me it was great" is not exactly a very reliable way to get data.
Call me uneducated, but I always thought that since it featured so heavily in Python, it was named after this Tim. a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDAeJ7eLGGg
The big problem is that your two terminal battery powered op-amp circuit would (1) sooner or later run out of battery power and (2) would have to exhibit it's memory function through some 'ordinary' memory device.

If we're going to use 'ordinary' memory devices anyway then the whole exercise is moot.

What exactly drives 'M' is the billion dollar (and probably many billions of dollars) question...

It's more like the cold fusion of semiconductors, but apparently they have something. I'll hold off any judgment until they do their unveiling, but this had better be good and not yet another promise.
As I am reading it, the problem is not reaching out to talk. It is the assumption that is the only topic she should talk about. Meaning, if you're interested in person enough to give her a keynote, wouldn't it be better to let her actually decide what the topic would be instead of putting it as "you're a woman in tech, so you'll be speaking about women in tech or we'll find somebody else who will!"? That would be much better solution than arguing what form of genitals more appropriate to represent a fixed topic. If you're interested in the person, let the person speak.
Are there functional benefits of blurriness other than just being aesthetically pleasing or "cutting edge," as the author claims?