skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Likewise, music has been around forever, but the chances of someone like Lorde, a 16 year old from New Zealand, seeing such success was much less likely before the Internet democratized music for listeners and creators alike.

You know, I see this argument a lot and I'm not buying it. To paraphrase Nate Silver in "The Signal and the Noise": just because the internet provides an exponential amount of information to the public doesn't mean everyone is smarter, because with every increase in total information there is an increase in bad information. The solution is basically better curation. Curation, in today's world, is still run by individuals and people in positions of power. Music, just like information, has seen an explosion in data points since the advent of the internet. All of this becomes democratized until it doesn't. In other words - these markets go from non-democratized (the CD world), to democratized (YouTube), and the back again (Spotify/Rdio). Cheaper access to art creation only means the market is more saturation. The signal to noise ratio (i.e. chance) stays the same, it just means a lot more noise exists.
Some data indicates there is a 23% higher level of drug use among blacks than whites

My quote was "whites and blacks are known to use use and sell at about the same rates" - your link shows 8.7% of whites use drugs vs 10.0% of blacks in the past month, and 15.9% of whites used drugs vs 18.7 in the past year (and when looking at lifetime use, that usage flips) - I think "about the same rates" is a fair characterization of that data.
Windows is still by far the primary platform users (maybe not devs) use, and yes, for any serious project, it is most definitely a requirement. I didn't get the sense from the website that it wasn't going to come to Windows, just that they haven't had the chance to get it working yet. I don't find the devs attitude lazy unless they actually come out and say screw it we aren't going to both to support Windows.

And this attitude being displayed toward Microsoft is just lazy (and very likely the province of the young), because while they did give us a crappy browser and Webforms for way too long, and they are fun to poke fun at, they've done more than most companies to push both the computer revolution and the Internet as a whole forward to what it is today. So give them a little credit, pull your head outta the sand and actually take a look at what they do once in a while also. You might be surprised what you find.
You should check out the Browser API in Firefox OS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Using_the_B...

Is a similar concept since all apps on Firefox OS are built on HTML, including browsers.
Yeah, I'm not sure either. I'll look into it.
> Netflix and YouTube

And multiplayer online games, and others that have been mentioned in this thread, and... The basic error you are making here is to think that the set of applications with these bandwidth requirements is small and easily predictable. It isn't. And it will get less and less so as time goes on.

> Why should people who don't use Netflix and YouTube pay for the upgrades that help only users who make use of these things?

They shouldn't, and they aren't. They just buy a cheaper, lower bandwidth Internet plan from their ISP. They're doing that already--certainly I am. I don't want or need Netflix so I don't pay Comcast for that level of bandwidth.

If your reply is that that money still ends up going to pay for network upgrades that I don't need, first of all, if that were really true, Comcast wouldn't have had to try to charge Netflix for the privilege of faster connections, because, as I said before, they would have actually been using the monopoly rents they've been extracting for the purpose for which they were intended--network upgrades to keep pace with demand.

But more importantly, network upgrades that increase aggregate bandwidth benefit everybody, not just Netflix or Youtube users. Except for the "last mile" connection to each individual house (which is not affected by deals like the Comcast-Netflix deal), everybody's traffic travels over the same network, and network upgrades speed up all that traffic. Which is precisely what net neutrality is trying to preserve, and what Comcast charging Netflix for faster connections does not preserve.

In other words, your claim that passing the costs on to users will make everyone pay for Netflix will only come true if we allow ISPs to privilege Netflix traffic over other traffic. Otherwise everyone is just paying for increased aggregate bandwidth from which everyone benefits. And if everyone pays just for the bandwidth they need, what's the problem? Everyone then contributes their fair share to keeping up the network that everyone uses.
Two odd things about this story 1)That nobody noticed what I have to assume was a significantly larger number of selective service notices for the state of Pennsylvania being sent and 2) That any of them got actually delivered to anyone who could even respond to it. My great-grandfather fits the criteria - born in PA in the late 1800's - but he's been deceased for decades and had at least four separate addresses as an adult - none of which are places where family members live today.
Usb candom comming soon
Convergence in Language Design (2006) [pdf]
We have RCD on the main loop for outlets.

Having the fuse on individual devices plug is just handy.
The original is in Plan 9 and Plan 9 from User Space. http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/grap/
Ask HN: Can you pay down a YC SAFE like a debt note?
Yes, the pay is low if you're still a student. It goes up if you've already got a degree, and even more for a graduate degree.

If students ask you to do their projects for them, you can always refuse.
Nah, everything comes with a plug for the last couple of decades or so.
Wait. I might not get my bite of potato salad?
"all of them have" ... "in my experience". I posit that you don't have experience with everyone who's lost money on kickstarter and uttered that particular phrase. And not knowing the sample size of your experience, I don't really trust your opinion on people, except that some are oblivious and some are jerks. Some are. People's oblivion does not stun me anymore. I don't expect drivers to stay on the road. People do things that are terrible for their health, and can generally be counted on to make objectively bad decisions, especially my mother. But the thing is, if you get all the human souls in a room, and get them to guess how much a mountain weighs, the mean average is consistently closer than any individual guess. So I guess some people's idiocy is a counterbalance to the wise people. I hope I've filled your heart with hope just a little bit.
This system was disabled.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Police-deactivating-contr...

http://seattletimes.com/html/latestnews/2022269628_spdwirele...
FTC sues Amazon over purchases by kids
I would draw that parallel.
PlanOut: A Framework For Online Field Experiments
I used to run my own website and blog all the time. Then I stopped and jumped onto the whole social media bandwagon, because i thought it would be easier and I lost my domain. Now i've gone completely in the opposite direction and decided to write my own framework for my own site and as a result I still don't blog but at least I have my very own half-baked framework.

Meanwhile i'm still surprised the 'independent web' is a thing. Like people 'rediscovering' static html sites. Makes me feel old.
I meant the board itself rather than everything. They're using a specific form-factor which might be unnecessary for people who aren't interested in longboards?
Isn't it much more likely that they're building this network for their own internal needs? Police cars have computers, fire department personnel sometimes need to download building plans on site, etc.
The glitch, it turns out, originated with the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation during a transfer of nearly
400,000 records to the Selective Service

No drivers license, no problems.
I'd love to see a live video of cops raiding the kid who made the prank call in the first place.
Because of this:

White women live in a consequence-free environment until they don't.

While absolutely true in North America, it's one of those things you're not permitted to say:

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

Hence, the downvotes.
He uses MetaPost. See http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/preprints.html for examples.
Seriously? JS is crap but it's the only option for running stuff on the client on the web. When you're literally the only game in town you don't need to be good. And because it isn't good, people spend a lot of time trying to layer stuff on top of it to make it less obnoxious.
You can massively fuck with stores trying to track people, and infect their databases with fake MAC addresses, using Pry-Fi - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.p...
Your perception is mostly based on TV.

Crime correlates to poverty. People with nothing to lose roll the dice and do dumb shit.

I grew up in NYC and a rural part of Upstate NY that were about as opposite as you could get. The small town still had "bad" neighborhoods, they were run down trailer parks with old trailers and poor people. They committed the same types of stupid crimes, like robbery, vandalism and fighting. The drug trade was there, but mostly centered around smuggling and growing weed. (There are only so many drug users in a town of 2,500 without a major transit route, so the retail business wasn't great!)

In the inner city, you get the added instability of the retail drug market. IMO, population density and the retail drug business are the reason why black males get arrested more. Desperate white people are just as desperate as their black equivalent.
A point often missed is that for green threads to work really well you have to pull most of what the operating system does into user space to eliminate blocking syscalls. That is a lot of work but if you do it competently it will greatly outperform (by integer factors) the same design going through the operating system. This is how high-performance database engines are designed.

As with all such low-level hackery you really need to understand what you are doing to get a good result, but if you do understand what you doing the results can be excellent.
In the mid 20th century the polio virus was a serious health problem. But then came several different simple vaccines. They were highly effective, and polio quickly disappeared.

Now, after 50 years of incredible advances in medicine, we're still struggling to eradicate HIV. Incredibly tenacious bugger, isn't it?
I could agree with that. I use instagram as well and like it for the reasons you mentioned. But what your hitting upon is that it's not necessarily photography, but more a social experience. As you put it:

>A different art form altogether.

So I don't think it should be categorized as photography. And you mentioned that looking at it was a good way to learn how to be a photographer. Which I still don't think it is.

The greatest photographers (those who we should be studying) did not use instagram. And for the highly skilled contemporaries that do use instagram, I highly doubt they post their best on the service.
I'm http://twitter.com/smayzes I usually tweet mostly about web development, devops and sometimes a little bit of hockey.
> The only thing better would be a VM I could spin up that let me self host an instance of this.

Yeah, we'll get on that.
> I mean to say that there is no such thing as what software folks think of as the "internet": the sort of idealized network that you think of when you're dealing with sockets instead of edge routers. Obviously "internet" exists as a marketing term

So what you're saying is, Verizon's selling a product ("internet access") that doesn't exist—and that it's not their fault that they can't provide it, since it doesn't actually exist? Maybe they shouldn't be selling it, then.
Java succeeded with "run everywhere" on the desktop. A java binary written on a Mac will work in Windows or Linux.

But yeah, Java as a desktop development language per se has had mixed success. Minecraft did okay :o)
It'd also be interesting to see what IPs from the FCC and NSA's ranges edit.
Right. It's essentially a ceremonial piece of paperwork, dating from a more militarized time (USSR etc) when un-computerized governments didn't have many other ways to keep track of its citizens. Nowadays, no human being really cares if you register anymore, because there's no draft, and if there ever needed to be, they could require registration again and track down the delinquents using computers.

So it'll probably be required forever. Wikipedia says the agency gets $24 million a year.
The N.S.A.'s Spying on Muslim-Americans
Except they are still broadcasting SSIDs... so not so disabled.
you are clearly not a [paranoid] american.
Eh, I feel like if you can concisely highlight a metaphor's shortcomings it only makes for a stronger, less ambiguous, metaphor.

For example, it hadn't explicitly occurred to me that it would be easier to separate the colors than it would the numbers. Before reading these comments I was assuming that the factor I was missing had to do with separating the numbers becoming exponentially harder of a problem as the numbers grew larger. Reading about the discussion of this metaphor in the comments helped me realize that I was missing a deeper and essential part of this puzzle that I've been yearning to understand concretely for years.

Totally agree that the metaphor is an excellent start for the layperson.
> The vagueness of the laws are a different problem.

It's not really that separate. One way to have a very restrictive society with a high incarceration rate is to have a clear set of laws that are explicitly strict and strictly enforced. Another way is to have a set of laws so large, complex, and vague that it is literally physically impossible for anyone to know whether he or she is breaking a law by performing any given action, or laws so broad in scope that everyone is almost guaranteed to be guilty of something. While there is certainly some of both, I think the latter is a more accurate description of the United States.

> As soon as you have a private prison or a defense contractor selling military-grade equipment to civilian police forces, you create the incentive for those organizations to lobby for more "customers" through broader prohibitions, tougher enforcement and harsher penalties.

You don't even need "private" prisons or defense contractors in the sense you're probably thinking. Even organizations that are operated directly by government are subject to those personal incentives, because it's still individuals who rely on the government funding, both laborers for their livelihood, and higher level officers for career advancement, prestige, and power. Heck, even politicians who are elected directly often have perverse incentives, because the actions required to get reelected are potentially quite different than the actions which would accomplish the traditional goals of "good" government (like upholding law, being fair, increasing prosperity, etc.).
Controlling the GitHub contribution history for fun and profit
"Sellers shouldn't be shocked that projects should fail -- and so shouldn't offer rewards that depend on success to be deliverable."

This is actually an excellent point, but...

The reasoning behind this "pre-sale" approach is about the perceived value of the reward. An traditional gift might be acceptable (T-Shirts, etc) but there is something unique about being offered something that's not on the market yet. It makes the customer feel special, something they might be able to brag about if the product is a success.

Something akin to the concept of "Collector Edition" in the game industry.

That will add value to a reward, will attract more customer an in turn increase the chances of a successful campaign (even though successful campaign does not mean successful product).

It is a good way to kickstart a business.

Riskier? Yes.
Short sighted? Yes and no (Actually no).

Short term cost is 0 (great), long term cost is your manufacturing cost + distribution cost (ouch).

That doesn't seem right?
Actually it is.

You're actually paying for:
+ User acquisition
+ Early product validation (Lean Startup)
+ Momentum
+ Beta testing for the whole product pipeline and the product itself

I think that as a company it is definitively worth the risk.
You have to be able to take risks sometimes in order to be successful.

My 2 cents.
I'm at https://twitter.com/Archit

Serial Entrepreneur and Web Evangelist.
I'm sure that is part of what they are building it for. But given all the data from Aruba about the system's tracking capabilities, and the department's dodgy answers about its intended use, I think it would honestly be a stretch at this point to think that's all they are building it for.
I currently live in Seattle and, in the past, I worked on mesh networks for another city. In that other city, the motivating factor for their public safety people was entirely ensuring connectivity for their personnel (making sure that in the event of a disaster, when cell systems might be inoperable, the first responders can still use their devices). Nobody talked about surveillance.
So TL;DR - Slang is a weak Python-esque interpreted language that's old and horribly outdated, but holy cow would I like to know more about SecDB and the inner workings of what sounds like an incredible piece of software.
That was poorly phrased. Let me see if I can do better.

Simply being out late is not sufficient reason to be stopped or questioned for most people. It gives them a reason to stop and question people who are out late and may be up to no good. If you look young enough that you might be out after curfew, that's reason enough for them to stop and ask you for identification.

Obviously, if they see you doing something illegal, they're going to stop you. But simply "being suspicious" can involve a wide range of things, and curfew laws give the police a reason to, at the very least, ask for identification if you look like you might be underage.

In general, I think these laws are intended to deter gang activity and what people might refer to as "anti-social behavior" elsewhere (petty crime, graffiti, etc). As a result, I'm betting they are more heavily enforced in inner city areas rather than in suburbs or rural areas.
I don't get all of the outrage.

Owner uses Ellis Act to declare he is getting out of multi-tenant rental business. Plans to sell and/or renovate. Tenants, who don't own the building, are no longer able to rent said apartments and notified of eviction.

Why is the owner a bad guy?

Because SF rental and real-estate markets are out of control?
How is that the owners fault and why should they have to keep renting property when they no longer want to do so?

If the tenants are so shocked they are no longer allowed to rent an apartment, why didn't they buy a place?
Too expensive? Move someplace else.

I would love to live in SF but I cannot afford the cost of living difference so I don't. I pay 1/4 what my colleagues in SF pay in rent and I'm BUYING a home.
You can probably request a copy of their grant proposal via FOIA. Having seen similar grant proposals for other cities (admittedly not in a few years) I would guess that their primary rationale is ensuring connectivity for first responders even if the cell network is down due to a disaster or some other event. I would be surprised if they considered surveillance to be a factor.
I don't. It's just a wrapper around UIWebView.
Now this sort of post is why I came to HN in the frist place.
It would depend a lot on where he/she would be moving from how "insane" it would be.

Though I agree there are better jurisdictions than the US to move a business to.
It'd be interesting to see if their annotation allows for exporting to their original documents. It's similar to what http://www.notablepdf.com did but only for PDF documents. Their export functionality for MS Word is quite interesting, and would actually work extremely well for lawyers who constantly use tracked changes.
Interview with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's future
Thank you! Also, wow, I don't know why I never thought to just look for some of his papers in tex form. In what I'm sure is some form of irony, I think I actually already have some. Every now and then I just try to google "what does he use" and never got a good result.

There a reason other folks don't use MetaPost? He really has put it to really great use. I can't imagine quality is what keeps others from it.
That line also caught my eye. It sounds insane: isn't it much more reasonable to recomend books based on their quality rather than the language they are written in? I agree with you that "Le Langage Caml" is a pretty good book, but I disagree with what you say at the end about advising people who don't read French against reading it. I would instead just advise everyone interested in Ocaml to read it and people who can't read French will automatically ignore my advice without me needing to say anything about it!
Why not both? If they just needed tracking and internet for government personnel around the city, wouldn't it be cheaper to just give them all a GPS device and a mobile hotspot?

And even if the primary purpose is their own internal needs, it's entirely possible for this system to track people the way the article mentions. Even if it isn't used, it's kind of creepy that they have the capability to do that, and that we can never really know for sure that they aren't.
Women isn't drafted?
$8k annually for 650 users is about $1 per month per user vs a $15 list price. Is that right?
Sorry, but I'm going to disagree.

linux-vserver is not contemporary with zones. If you think that it is, you haven't looked at Solaris zones technology very carefully.

linux-vserver requires the kernel to be patched; Solaris zones does not.

linux-vserver has no clustering or process migration capability; Solaris zones in combination with LDOMs gives you a path for live migration.

linux-vserver networking is based on isolation, not virtualization. This means each virtual server can't create its own internal routing or firewall setup -- Solaris zones can.

linux-vserver doesn't fully virtualize the system; clock, parts of /proc and /sys are not virtualized.

So no, linux-vservers are not equivalents.

Yes, docker offers containerization -- but not sufficient containerization. Certainly not sufficient for security purposes as have come up repeatedly in recent history.

As for the "weight" of zones; I don't know what "weight" you're talking about. Solaris zones have almost no overhead at all. They use some disk space, but we're talking less than 300MB if I recall correctly at most in a default configuration. And Solaris Zones give you several advantages that Docker doesn't provide.

Regardless, I'm certain that for some specific use cases, Docker will prove an appropriate technology.
Sorry, it is not true.

For instance, you ought to visit some rural areas sometime and see the "consequence-free environment" in which white women there live.

If you want to talk about middle-to-upper-middle-class white women in urban and suburban areas that is a different story, though "consequence-free environment" is still a bit of a stretch.
What struck me about this was the emphasis on the business market. Even though Nadella denies that they'll be focusing more on business than consumer, every time the interviewer tries to ask about consumer products, Nadella immediately starts talking about dual-use products, how important he thinks it is for MS devices to be usable for work too. It looks like, if you just want something for your home and aren't interested in bringing it to work, Microsoft doesn't want to know you.
I do think that Kickstarter is a famly type project. We saw one's idea. And his plan.We back him.And there are many backers so each of backer will not loss much money. We backed a dream together, we share the risk. And we do wish a success fund project can reach their goals, build a great company.