skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your parent didn't claim government was the most efficient way. Your parent just claimed the public has more control over government, than a company operating as a pseudo-government serving similar functions.

Does government's decisions about roads reflect the desires of the population? I haven't seen any data, so I don't really know, but I would suspect the answer to be mostly no.

Well, if that isn't a convincing argument...
> completely outside of our reach, as hard to grab as a god or Russell's teapot.

I agree! As in my other comments here, as long as there isn't any scientific result, I also won't regard the products of the proponents of such "interpretations" better than you.
> 1. I never nap for more than 20 minutes. If my body goes into a deeper level of sleep or relaxation, I get up feeling groggy and disoriented.

> 2. Properly nap. Force yourself not to think about work. Focus on other things such as the weight of your body sinking into the chair/couch, the distant sound of traffic, etc.

I think these are the most important, and they should be considered together.

Set a timer for 15 minutes, and lie down. Even if you don't fall asleep for those 15 minutes (I probably end up in deep sleep for 5-10 minutes), get up when your alarm goes off. Even closing your eyes for 15 minutes can be beneficial.
> So you had to write your own compiler, operating system, and runtime libraries too?

I tried that line and it did not work.
Can we get an explanation of how not wanting to have your servers handling more requests than necessary compares to breaking into a library and setting it on fire?
I don't see the relevance. All I'm getting is a lot of criticism of some comment Scalia once made which seems to have nothing to do with whether things should be called entitlements.

Further, if that was somehow your point, bear in mind that "everyone" in this context is pretty clearly something like "the vast majority". I could find traces of evidence of people trying to redefine the term, sure, but no evidence they're being particularly successful. Even the NYT calls them entitlements with no apparent irony. Call them mainstream or call them leftist, either way, it's evidence on my side.
Why didn't you just contribute to Martini and fix the parts that sucked? It just feels odd to me to re-invent a web framework, utilizing the same interfaces so it's the same to people who use it, yet it's a completely different code base and project.

It seems you could have just helped codegangsta along instead of "yet another web framework in Go."
The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway
We changed the url from http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality to be the original source.
I think broad names like that are always contentious, but if the packages which own them are genuinely good packages then it's a net win. I'm personally not hugely opposed to `lens` or `rest`, tbh.

You guys just better earn your keep on that name ;)
I'd say it's probably just the world slowly but surely becoming less dependent on the U.S. economy after the entire world economy was destroyed in a War.

And, yes, birthrates and longer retirement are probably relevant.
I think pekk meant that if he deletes a blog post, the IA is still going to serve it. "Pull down" refers to deleting content, not bandwidth usage.
Microsoft has been doing more and more of this stuff lately, and it does start to worry me quite a bit. The last time they worried me was when "Microsoft shut down a million-strong Tor botnet, by uninstalling Tor from the computers".

I don't want Microsoft to have that kind of power, let alone use it. Worse yet, they make it sound like it's some kind of PR win for them. "Microsoft the hero, takes down evil network". But they usually try to hide how they did it. Very few articles mentioned they were uninstalling Tor from the computers the last time around. Most were just churning Microsoft's press release and the hero narrative.
Data Doesn't Need To Be Free, But It Does Need To Have Sex
What about, say, the solid-state transistor?
That may be so, but I think it's not a little pernicious for someone with standing and reach to say "Hayyyyy, so, I'm sure everything's FINE" when everything is not at all fine. Sloppy and counterproductive.
I certainly meant those three paragraphs to be connected; perhaps I'm just poor at explaining. As I mentioned, the shortcomings of the Copenhagen Interpretation are subtle, and I originally linked to Yudkowski's treatment because I believe he does much better job of explaining it than I ever could.
Smalltalkers used to complain that:

Smalltalk uses less code to do the same thing.
Smalltalk lets you offload bookkeeping to the runtime.
Smalltalk code often runs faster for actual business workloads.
Smalltalk lets you add features faster with fewer bugs.

Why Java? Because marketing.

But doing this is was a waste of community time and energy. A better thing to do is to build cool stuff.
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198142925902
No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown
isn't this how all lawsuits work all the time? there's a finding of fact where each side presents arguments.
The FAQ question isn't very clear about it, but it doesn't look like it's possible: http://celery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html#does-celery...
Farming with Dung Beetles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
Distributed DNS is the only solution
Saw the tweets about the scrobbling feature in the meantime. Thanks, it's working now. It looks like it's not using the "Now playing" feature [0] though, any specific reason for that?

Another question: Is there a reason why it's not possible to resize the window? Some tracks are cut off and it'd be more comfortable to have a little bit wider window because the long track names are not scrolling by so you never see them.

Apart from that, enjoying the app so far! Thanks.

[0] http://www.last.fm/api/scrobbling
An Algorithm Is A Curator At The Sept. 11 Museum
Community Will Get Its Sixth Season On Yahoo
Not a physicist, but I don't think this is much to get excited about... There's no faster-than-light communication happening -- you'll note in the second paragraph that Alice must send the outcome of her measurement to Bob. It's a step towards impressive quantum computers, which will be cool to have so we can do things like Shor's algorithm or Grover's algorithm, but there's still a long way to go.
(Apologies in advance if I am misunderstanding the complaint -- I'm assuming 0 prior knowledge on your end, so my write-up below may sound obvious! Sidenote: I've written a JVM, so I've gained an appreciation for some aspects of the JVM, including class resolution [0].)

In Java/the JVM, file names unambiguously correspond to your package/module/class names. Given a full class name (e.g. java.lang.String) and the class path (a list of folders/JAR files), the JVM is able to locate the specific file with the implementation of that class. This feature is crucial to how the JVM performs dynamic classloading, as classes can reference other packages/classes with a simple string, and the JVM will fetch the relevant class dynamically at runtime.

For example, in the parent comment, gov.nasa.arc.spife.core.plan is the package name, which translates to the folder /src/gov/nasa/arc/spife/core/plan/. This package name, while verbose, makes sense for NASA, as it corresponds to that organization's hierarchy. gov.nasa corresponds to NASA, arc = NASA's Ames Research Center, spife is probably the project name, and then the rest correspond to packages in that project. This hierarchy makes it clear who has the right to modify particular hierarchies of the namespace, allowing employees to make new packages within their levels of the hierarchy without worrying about name collisions.

As a concrete example, it would be troublesome if every research lab decided to use the gov.nasa.util package name. Or worse -- just 'util'. If both of these are libraries, it's feasible that a client application might use both of them... but then the application will discover that it is unable to use both due to a simple naming conflict in library code!

I agree that it appears cumbersome and wasteful to those used to editing on the command line (as the files are scattered all over the file system), but it's less visible when using an IDE that coalesces empty folders together.

[0] https://github.com/plasma-umass/doppio
That would work if personal/residential consumption used the majority of power production but industrial and transportation uses far outpace the demand of consumers: http://www.nap.edu/books/12621/xhtml/images/p2001b2d5g186001...

The costs associated with throttling/halting these sectors far outweighs the cost of overbuilt infrastructure. Electricity is already sold by the megawatt in "day ahead" commodity form so businesses have already priced this information into the market.
I've always thought something is definitely wrong with the way we think about roads when car pool lanes end up just as busy/gridlocked as the rest of the road.
The velocity is dependent on the vector, which you do not know since it is dependent on where the user is. If the ground station is a known location perhaps, but otherwise you cannot predict the vector. For commercial LTE at 700Mhz, the offset is 5Hz, above that the error rate starts to exceed the specs. It is pretty tight for OFDM.
Justice Isn’t Blind: It’s Cranky By 5pm
I don't think they have html parsing in the standard library for this reason:

http://golang.org/pkg/

They have HTML templating (which is pretty useful), but AFAIK html parsing is in an experimental module which may never be included in the stdlib because of the reasons you mention, it is over here:

code.google.com/p/go.net/html

But I don't see this mentioned in the rant.

Re the rant linked, it doesn't strike me as very useful or informative. Compile time is a huge issue on many projects, even ones which are relatively simple - I've worked on a few involving C++ and many of them had compile times in the minutes, which was pretty dispiriting and definitely got in the way - on much larger projects of course this is a bigger problem. That golang compiles far faster even on large projects is a definite plus. Bash isn't the only choice at all for systems programming or munging data as he implies, there are lots of other better tools.

Re his call for SIMPLE GUI PROGRAMMING I really can't agree at all - the best ecosystems let the tooling get out of the way, and some of the worst tools make a point of making you click around a confused trainwreck of a UI to perform simple tasks (Apple's Xcode or Eclipse come to mind). That's not progress.

The section on operating systems is similarly wrong-headed; talking about adding a huge number of abstractions (and APIs to go with them), which would lock programmers in to the ecosystem they choose even more completely and be a huge block to cross-platform work. That's a rather dystopian future - I'd rather leave the OS as a collection of badly debugged device drivers (to quote Andreessen), and let other systems build on top of it. There are some really good ideas in unix, and some nice ideas in golang, and the focus on simplicity is not only for the compiler writers, I think that's an incorrect assumption.

It's much easier to denigrate than to actually create, and if the author really cared about any of this, he'd take the time to do something about it, but has he attempted any of the points on his list himself since?
Ask HN: What Books Are You Reading?
Just finished Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter.

You?
Vienna/Zurich/Prague/Copenhagen/etc are more like living in Portland than in London or Paris

Hmm, interesting comparison. Portland is smaller than Boston, I believe. I have visited it (briefly), but never stayed long enough to really get a feel for the city.
Exactly. Here is another one:

Microsoft failed to secure Windows XP against malware and botnets, so all Windows XP users will now be redirected to Ubuntu.com when they try to access the internet through Internet Explorer.
Technologically it's not that hard (KFC has been doing it for nearly 50 years, remember). I think it's just a little messier. You're dealing with two independent heating/control circuits and on top of that you need to manage a cavity that's at 100% humidity. Most consumer ovens can't handle that much moisture for long before they start rusting from the inside out.

There's a little more CVap discussion here:

http://www.cookingissues.com/primers/sous-vide/part-ii-low-t...
No-ip's official response is here:

https://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-mi...
Its hard to stay calm if you were relying on no-ip's services for very legitimate purposes. Maybe the action coming from Microsoft is whats garbage - not the resulting emotional outbursts.
They also deny Cisco's allegations here.

http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/02/12/cisco-malware-report/

It doesn't compute that Cisco is casting blame on them and Microsoft got a court order when all they had to do is send an email.

It's kind of strange, they're probably unable to keep up with the abuse reports and validating them or something. There are a lot of dynamic DNS providers so why do the bad guys pick them for the most part for their DNS needs?
Another big factor for the communities' explosion was their misuse. The way communities were displayed in your profile page leaked enough metadata that people started using them as badges instead. Some time around 2006 people started creating communities with nonsense names, and it was not unusual to see people with hundreds of them on their profile. Things like "I cry everytime I see Mufasa die" or "Nobody expects the spanish inquisition" were the kinds of titles used in order to display your sense of humor.

In some sense this is akin to Tumblr's hashtags we see today, in which people abused the metadata channel to convey real meaning.
So much <3! Hype Machine is great and this definitely feels like something that would have come from them with the amount of polish and detail.

Keep up the good work!
This is craziness.
OK,

Fine, I've corrected my wording above.

The passage you quoted is exactly what seems like weird apologism to me. If I sell someone something that I'm sure is just as good as what they want and lie about it being what they actually want, I'm "deceiving" but "not predatory".

The claim seems dubious.
A microsoft employee probably.
This is quite outrageous. I've been using no-ip.com for very legitimate purposes and this will surely result with a lot of breakage. Thanks Microsoft. Thanks a lot.
The Regulation Singularity
No, you are right! I completely misread the paper. From the conclusion:

"While presenting a good deal of detail, we have sought in this paper to emphasize a small number of general points. First, the globalization of commodity and financial markets is historically unprecedented. Facile comparisons with the late nineteenth century notwithstanding, the international integration of capital and commodity markets goes further and runs deeper than ever before."

Thank you for pointing this out! I stand corrected.
I'm pretty sure The Changelog asked codegangsta the same thing, in this podcast: http://thechangelog.com/117/.
As a security analyst, Cloudflare is a great friend and a terrible enemy. I've had numerous scenarios where I request information or takedowns of websites hosting blatantly malicious content, and not only do they refuse to cancel service, but they won't even give you the real IP address of the domain even if you have considerable evidence that abusive content is hosted there.

The most they'll do is give you the name of the hosting company, and even then getting that is like pulling a tooth. And of course, once you contact the hosting company, it can become like a chicken-and-egg problem "you'll need to contact the DNS provider so I know what server this is being hosted on." A hosting provider that issues thousands of VPSs and has a big IP space may not be able to find the offending user just given a domain name.

On the plus side, I use Cloudflare on many of my sites for the free DDoS protection, IP anonymizing, and anti-bot features. So far it's been great.
I feel that this project is very different from Martini from the low-level point of view. While Martini uses reflection to find how to use handlers, Gin utilizes a static context system. Reflection being really one of the core properties of Martini and the key part of its simplicity, this kind of changes would get rejected.

In the same kind of Martini-like web frameworks that don't use reflection, there is also Goji - http://goji.io.
Paid maternity leave is an actual expense, if it happens. But you were talking about salary. And it is unfair and discriminatory when equally capable women are paid less than men, regardless of the reason it happens, and there are many other reasons than the probability of a woman having a child.

While those facts are true, they don't improve the quality of your analogy, the situation you're bringing up does not stack up the same way as (theoretically) charging someone per pound to fly on a plane. There might be reasons that charging by weight is discriminatory, but you're not convincing me.
The real advantage is to be able to sleep and rest. Think of all the productivity you loose when you are tired.
This smells like BS, this also isn't the first time that other entities have had to step in to cleanup their crap.

Especially this quote:
"Apparently, the Microsoft infrastructure is not able to handle the billions of queries from our customers."

Azure DNS, Microsoft.com, Bing. Yeah, all of those already require billions of DNS queries.
I don't doubt things are not working correctly, but insinuating Microsoft can't handle the load just makes their case smell even worse.
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The only difference is Tencent doesn't have the impulse to shut things down periodically.
> There might be reasons that charging by weight is discriminatory

Charging by X is always discriminatory (on the basis of X), the questions are whether it is morally or legally acceptable discrimination, not whether it is discrimination at all.
The Fire Phone at the farmers market
"full control over the internet" is distinct from control over US corporations. Dot biz is operated by Neustar and they are based in Virginia and thus subject to US Courts.

For example, they likely would have had less success enforcing a change on a .ir domain as the registry isn't located in US jurisdiction.
I think the most likely next big growth engine will be drones. However the opportunity will probably go to China, who will make up for lack of innovation with deregulation, meanwhile western countries will be too anxious about terrorism to allow drones to fly about their cities/countryside making deliveries, spraying crops, etc.
> And you’re not going to be able to stop a cook from opening the oven door on occasion—peeking through a grease-splattered window just doesn’t cut it. But designers could prevent that blast of cold air by building a blower into the door frame that generates a “curtain” of air whenever the door is opened, retaining more of the preheated air in the oven. Larger versions of air doors are already in wide commercial use for refrigerated warehouses.

Whoa, isn't this also used in supermarkets when you enter them?
It looks awesome and is based on a concept I have never seen before in videogames.
This sums up my thoughts exactly. The pilot-wave theory "...seems to me so natural and simple, to resolve the wave-particle dilemma in such a clear and ordinary way, that it is a great mystery to me that it was so generally ignored."

I don't run in experimental-physicist circles, granted, but I've definitely encountered countless cases of a clear, obvious, correct solution being brought up and summarily ignored for what proves to be a poor solution. The probabilistic theories have always made for good Science Fiction, but that should hardly matter.
A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine
I have a hard time feeling bad for companies who choose to be "taken in" by a pitch like Barclays'.

The complexity that exists in this small corner of the active financial markets defies simple explanation even by some of the most articulate translators of this sort of stuff (I'm talking about Michael Lewis, who wrote Flash Boys, which reads like an advertisement for IEX, one of the "dark pools" talked about here who has to let in HFTs to make markets). This level of complexity exists across all corners of the market, whether you're talking about derivatives contracts, shorts, HFTs, or any other niche.

Working in this field is not like doing your taxes, where you can hire a professional accountant, and they'll reliably produce a close-to-optimal output given clearly stated IRS rules. It is also not like doing physics or math within bounded contexts with repeatable, testable, and measurable outputs. The closest thing I can think of to doing business in high finance is building a scalable, adaptable model of a human brain - one that can predict what you'll say or think before you do so. Anyone who presumes to know how the market moves, or promises to hedge against all risk, is just blowing smoke.

If you're not ready to "read the fine print" in this industry, you're just putting yourself at risk.
I'm in a town in a ~2,000 square mile county, where the county population is less than 40,000 and the town is a bit more than 10,000. There is a county transit authority (which is subsidized) that runs a couple of buses and a few taxis (I don't think they are subsidized, but labor here is cheap and it isn't a hard place to find your way around).

There's lots of places with lower population density than that, but the viability of something that costs 60 or 70 percent of what a taxi costs kicks in at some pretty low point.
The Future is still Bright
At CloudFlare, we have a Trust & Safety team dedicated to dealing with the abuse of our network. We sit in front of more than 2 million sites. The vast majority of them are not controversial (the site you're reading this on, for instance), but some are not.

The majority of the abuse requests we receive are DMCA requests, but we get other reports as well. Dealing with these requests is a hard problem because a large number of the abuse requests we receive turn out to be attackers trying to get the origin IP in order to circumvent our protection. As I've blogged about before (http://blog.cloudflare.com/thoughts-on-abuse), we've designed an abuse system that attempts to act as a proxy: passing abuse requests to the customer and their host without exposing the customer's origin to attack.

Malware is one of the situations where we'll actually take content down because it is, per se, harmful. However, we also don't think terminating the customer who has malware hosted on their site is a good solution. Since we're a proxy, terminating the customer doesn't remove the malware from the Internet but instead just kicks the problem down the road to the host. Instead, we developed a system that replaces the infected URLs with a warning page to protect users. This has the ancillary benefit when a site is being used for botnet command and control of allowing us to gather data on machines that make up the botnet. This data is fed back into our system in order to better protect our customers and we're talking other organizations about a way of responsibly sharing this data.

Our Trust & Safety team works with trusted malware reporters regularly, including the team at Microsoft that handled the no-ip.com takedown. We will continue to adjust our process to walk the careful line between ensuring our network isn't causing per se harm while, at the same time, avoiding the risk of becoming a censor.

Matthew Prince / Co-founder & CEO, CloudFlare
I resent the title of this article.
So what? It's not their job to help copyright holders, their job is to protect their clients' privacy. Even the cops have to get a court order to find someone's private data from a business, but since it's copyright every man and his dog claiming to be the copyright holder should be handed private information willy nilly?