skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the claims don't sound right. 99% of all international communications are carried on undersea cables? I imagine a lot more than 1% of international traffic is between countries in continental Europe, for a start.
Back then things weren't as clear-cut and I believe a lot of money changed hands when corporations realized that they need their website right now.
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I take issue with the comparison. The barriers to the internet were many times lower than the current round of innovations (3d printing, virtual reality). The only thing that comes close is bitcoin and the relative cheapness lasted only a few years.
What does it provide that other options like zathura doesn't? Just asking; no offense intended.
I am a fan of [Zathura](http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/) from pwmt.org. Far faster at rendering large pdfs than Reader of Evince. Vim-like shortcuts as a bonus.
In theory that is why each agency has an office of inspector general. they are supposed to police abuse, fraud, and waste in these agencies. However however they still report to the head of that agency and ultimately the AG and president.
Most worthwhile research is about the mundane. One of the first research projects I did required painstakingly adjusting and modifying conditions to the point that I could actually start collecting data. That process took weeks, but the day it worked was insanely satisfying. In the process I became a master at making small incremental changes, recording them, and learning exactly what didn't work. Years later, as a computational scientist, the process was much the same, except that there were no pipettes and beakers involved.

Any worthwhile work I have ever done has mostly been about grunt work. Along the way there have been cool things (after all Leno made fun of our research [1] once) and insanely fun times. I may not be in research now, but every day I apply the lessons learned from patiently repeating and iterating.

1. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=723226...
Outside of UK I've only been to Paris, never seen this kind of thing in London/Manchester but I've read about the same thing happening in Rome and Barcelona.
I do! I have both tmux and vim configured so that <C-{h,j,k,l}> will navigate through both kinds of splits.
> Couldn't they claim it was copyright infringement?

No, though they could claim trademark infringement (which is an important difference).

Trademarks can (but do not need to be) registered in order to be protected, and an unregistered trademark can trump a registered trademark if it precedes the registered one, if it is in a sufficiently different "category", if it is geographically distinct, or for a number of other reasons. One interesting example is the Burger King in Mattoon, Illinois[0].

The USPTO is very clear to note that registering a trademark is not a guarantee of validity of the trademark, and they do not issue refunds on the application if the trademark is successfully challenged and invalidated later.

In this particular case he'd be less likely to win against McDonald's, especially if all he's doing is domain squatting.... but you never know - take a look at http://www.chaseonline.com .

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_%28Mattoon,_Illino...
> 1) Because humility dictates.

Even assuming the validity of the maxim, that would still only be valid if "philosopher" were a value judgement and not a value-neutral description of a vocation. "Philosopher" isn't an honor being claimed.

> 2) I have no problem someone calling themselves an 'academic philosopher' if what they teach and publish is philosophy. That still doesn't make them a philosopher though, at least not to my mind.

I think its fairly obvious that the set of "academic philsophers" is a subset of the set of "philosophers".

> Also, if you have studied philosophy but don't devote a good proportion of your life to philosophising you are not a philosopher.

Sure, that's a defensible standard for describing any vocation, but not a reason someone else would be better situated to judge it. I know what I spend my time doing better than anyone else does.

> 3) Maybe I do need to distinguish between philosophers of the first rank and workaday philosophers... I'll concede that :)

That's not something particularly unique to philosophers. Every field can be viewed to have a (usually highly subjectively defined, and this is certainly true of philosophy) "first rank".

> 4) The boundaries of what a philosopher is are far more nebulous than those of other 'professions' or 'callings' due to the very nature of philosophical pursuit and practise.

I don't think that's at all true.

> 4) Would you designate Eckart Tolle a philosopher? How about Kahlil Gibran? Or Paulo Coehlo? Or Alain de Botton?

I wouldn't reject the designation for any of them.

> 5) Allow me to demonstrate to contested fluidity of the subject: Derrida, a pillar of continental philosophy is not even recognised by some[1] as a philosopher. `Some analytic philosophers have in fact claimed, since at least the 1980s, that Derrida's work is "not philosophy."'

There are quite a lot of fields where members of some particular subschool deride those of other subschools as not being in the field, that is neither special to philosophy nor something that makes someone else more qualified to judge your vocation than you are; in fact, it illustrates a pretty big weakness in such external assessments.

> 6) I would prefer to say that I 'do' or 'study' philosophy... :)

And that's great, but we have a nice noun for people who do or study philosophy...
Also, the governmental opportunity to revoke non-desirable citizens the privilege to make commercial transactions.
The people that use Linux are generally OSS enthusiasts who are not going to be willing to install a privative software. They problably didn't have that many users, and was not worth maintaining it.
The rental option is not at all compelling in NYC (where I live). If you want to get away for the weekend, you are looking at a $275 to $350 rental if you go to Jersey to pick it up. Going to Jersey is an extra hour (and $7.50 per person ferry ride), plus once you're over there, you're going to take a taxi to get to the rental place. You could rent in Manhattan, but then you're looking at $500 for the weekend. With all of that, you have to get to the rental place before they close on Friday, and hope the location you are returning to is open late on Sunday.

I got so annoyed when family members would say "just rent a car and come down to visit us". It's not cheap, it's not easy, and it's not fun.

Renting a car in Stamford, CT is cheap, ~$70 a day.
Ph.D. allowed for some things:

- You can deepen your studies and study the state of the art of a given area

- You can work in some area with all the support needed (equipment, etc)

- Networking

However, what's happening is:

- The latest journals are a click away

- A lot of experiments can be done in a computer setting nowadays

- Evolution in some areas do not depend anymore on experimentation, and/or the cost for it has gone down.

- Things are getting more complex and interdependent. To build the first integrated circuit you needed to know less about heat transfers and EM interference than today.

Hence, I believe even the Ph.D. model is getting challenged, as specialists in a very narrow thing won't take things very far as they once did.
I think your parent is alluding to the fact things could be automated in biological research but aren't because of the disincentives; and that at the same time things in tech are more amenable to automation and often parts of it are indeed automated.

Yes, it's all a means to an end, but how much time one wants to spend in the "means" (which can get extremely repetitive, apparently) is what counts for the parent (I'm supposing).
Worth noting that we're really meter-based in the US too. The legal inch is a defined quantity based on the meter. Many modern measuring devices such as the position encoders on machine tools use "whatever" units internally, that are converted by software to inches or mm for display.

(Written after looking for a #29 drill for tapping #8-32 threads for an electrical terminal fitting 14 gauge wire.)
Yes, I understand. Yes, "you have to see the Eiffel tower" (I did that as well)
Additionally, in my Japan experiences, if you politely ask someone for help in Japanese (no matter how terrible your pronunciation / syntax) they will go out of their way to help. I had the exact opposite experience in France.
I think that this article, and many of the comments, show a misunderstanding of what robbing houses is really all about. Not that I've done it, but it seems pretty obvious when you think about it from the robber's perspective.

Anything to do with locks is not really relevant to robbery, since virtually none of the houses in the world have good enough security to resist anyone even moderately determined and willing to break things. Why bother with some elaborate charade to copy keys when a crowbar, or usually a boot, will get you into any house?

What is actually relevant is information about the house and what's in it. First, information about whether there is anything stealable in there - stuff that's easy to transport out and can be sold in a grey market for a good price without being easy to track back to the thief. Most houses don't have a lot of stuff like this, and there's probably a pretty stiff haircut on the price you can get when moving stolen goods through fences. I'm guessing that you'd want trustworthy information that there's stuff you can take and move for at least $1,000 or so to make it worth your risk to break into a specific house.

You'd also want solid information about who can be expected to be at the house, and when. Any chance at a confrontation is going to add a lot of risk.

Threats like the valet copying your keys don't really make any sense. Yeah, he has the keys, and information that could lead to an address, like registration and license plate. But he doesn't know anything about what's in the house or who's there. Why should he care that, after going through a complex and risky process to get a copy of the keys and the address, he has slightly easier access to a house of unknown quality?

Worry instead about people who have access to that information. Repairmen, exterminators, maids, anybody who has a legitimate reason to go around your house. And be wary of letting untrusted people know when your house might be empty for an extended amount of time.
Courtesy of our brilliant past governments heavily subsidizing diesel vehicles. The air is now filled microparticles causing asthma and general respiratory issues.

It's awful.
How we access the internet has changed (mobile, smartphones, pervasive broadband), and businesses effectively provide great services connected to the Internet (Amazon in particular), but for me, the only real changes other than those from ~1992 to today are mixed:

1) Lots more people on the Internet

2) Lower barrier to access

Sure, it's prettier, but USENET, IRC, etc. basically covered what we do with the Internet today. USENET was still technically superior to most discussion tools today; the web was a big step backward overall until the mid/late 200Xs, vs. native clients.
Ideally, I should be able to download an untrusted binary application from the internet, run it on my local machine, and be able to trust that it won't be able to steal my passwords, read my contacts and pictures and documents, use my camera and microphone, drain my battery, use up all my CPU and RAM and network and disk resources, freeze my system, or do any other nefarious thing without my permission. OSes have failed so misererably at this that web browsers have had to pick up the slack and the web is slowly morphing into a bad operating system.
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Investors may have lost 1 Trillion US$ due to Russian policy
The bigger question is how exactly does Rand Paul and his constituents benefit from this?

I'd like that question answered before I supported such a bill.

Make no mistake, the rights of the poor and disenfranchised (as noted regarding civil forfeiture in another comment on this post) has rarely been a reason for Congress to move, and most of the time when governments move for it they are working against those people. No matter where on the spectrum those people lie.

So can anyone come up with a scenario as to why Rand Paul would bother with this?
Perhaps worth noting that there is a difference between MinGW [1] and MinGW-w64 [2] - namely, the latter supports building 64-bit applications. In combination with msys2 [3], its pacman port [4], and mingw-builds [5] the toolchain has become very easy to install, and quite pleasant to use.

I had previously commented [6] on stability issues using mingw-w64. After some snooping using vmmap, Dependency Walker, and PE Explorer, I found that disabling the Windows Superfetch service dropped memory usage significantly. It turns out that this has been observed by cygwin devs [7]. I also disabled the Program Compatibility assistant, and my system now stays stable even after rebuilding LLVM and OpenBLAS multiple times.

[1] http://www.mingw.org/
[2] http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://msys2.github.io/
[4] http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/
[5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7740930
[7] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-12/msg00058.html
That's because the financial services sector sucks all of the air out of the room. Look forward to dismal growth for the next two generations as universities and the people who pay for people to go to universities start to raise entrance standards and prices in order to cut down on the supply.

Higher education will get out of the reach of most people again, like it used to be.

edit: I think specific marketing/financial/information services oriented programming/engineering jobs will survive well during this period. Other sciences are going to have to rely on stock fads, bubbles and scams to get any investment.

edit2: It's sad that we're wasting our best performers and best minds like this. You can't have growth if you produce superior minds and squander their potential for making new discoveries or coming up with innovative designs or methods. China is run by engineers - just saying.
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>the food was great and inexpensive

I have never been to Paris proper, but I do enjoy French cuisine, and so was hoping that you might be able to add a quantitative dimension to this comment (as in €X for Y)
Only one pix was taken during winter. No pix of commuters during precipitation. No pix were taken in hot weather (at least the majority in pants not shorts).

For the 1% or so of the worlds surface that never goes below 40F or above 70F and only rains at night, walkable architecture sounds pretty appealing.

For the other 99% of the worlds surface, as soon as economically possible for to own a car, they're going to want a car to get out of the weather.

I say this as a guy who considers hiking/backpacking and walking the neighborhood to be "recreational".

I wouldn't want my livelihood and lifestyle to depend on walking in a heat wave, a cold snap, a snow storm, a thunderstorm. Its fun for recreation but not serious stuff, like living.
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Not for long. As of this week the official government line is that forms should be implemented on the web rather than in PDFs.
I just bought a car because I took a job in Greenwich, CT that is only accessible by car. For years I prided myself on not owning a car. I don't like that I have to have a car to get to work, but now that I do I'm making the best of it. I love that my office in Greenwich has a door that closes and a window that opens.

I pay for monthly garage parking. Right now I pay $150 a month in Battery Park City for nights and weekend parking. I will probably end up paying $400 a month in Hell's Kitchen. The thought of driving around looking for a parking space seems like an incredible waste of time.

To be honest, I don't use the car that much to go out of town. Probably every other weekend, I definitely don't run errands with it.
Russia used to be a BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China), now the trillion dollars is a DOG = Discount for Obnoxious Government.
You could try emailing him. I'd be willing to bet his address is something like walker@teespring.com.
I, too, have fear of the future. Specifically in terms of the unstable world we live in. In some regards we're very lucky in that certain things are much more difficult for the world to let happen, mostly due to the speed at which news (and outrage) travels.

But, at the same time, I'm forced to admit that if it comes down to it, we really are very much powerless. This is specifically why I'm an anarcho-capitalist, as I believe that the state is the single most dangerous entity we can conceive of; and we've gone ahead and given it near-absolute control over our lives with what lately seems to be very little oversight.

As an aside, the article is indeed quite motivating. No time like the present, I say.
You can be too late, with respect to certain windows.

For a while, people made significant money selling highly desired domain names, including to big companies.

Now, those companies just "take them away" via trademark infringement claims. The legal structure for doing so has since been constructed and tested by them.

One of my concerns is that more and more such windows are being closed. It's not the isolated case, but the overall trend towards a corporate and corporate state restricted "push" implementation.

I.e. the end of "open".
New people (I am one of them as you will see if you go to my page) do not have the ability to down vote. From what I understand, the assumption is that by the time people get to the magic number (currently 500 I believe), they will have been here long enough to understand what to down vote.

I'd say the best recourse we have available is to set showdead to yes. I think it is quite obvious that we are not supposed to down vote things just because we disagree.

I can imagine a system like stack overflow where down voting a top level comment takes away like a tenth of a point from the down voter so if the down voter does nothing but down vote, they'll ultimately lose the privilege.
But still, the show in the moulin rouge is absolutely amazing, isn't it? That's what the people are for there...
Studies of behavior of certain types of organizations, perhaps. I'm extremely skeptical that such studies are applicable to "organizations" like the Linux kernel developers. If you have any specific studies that you think would be applicable, please give some links.
And can do merge? This could be great for a sync engine for sql! A way to do branch-merge
Good thing the Israelis destroyed that menacing orchard.
As a french entrepreneur who has hosted dozens of US friends in Paris, some of them being prominent members of the "hacker" community as we call it, I have always been struck with amazement at how little "hacking" these friends would apply to their Paris trip, easily falling for the Tour Eiffel visit, desperately wanting to see the Moulin Rouge (which is probably the worst place to visit in all Paris – and probably in all Europe), still marveling at the shitty 50m2 studio in Montmartre or Ile Saint Louis they were about to rent before I offered to host them and show them my version of the city, etc. How can it be 2014 and people still want to experience Paris by showing up on a Saturday morning at Notre Dame only to stand in line for hours amidst hundreds of Japanese people and their cameras the size of a small Segway.

I am not saying it is easy to "hack" a city you've never visited before, and for the 2 years I spent myself in San Francisco I still believe I coud have hacked my way around much better. But if I were to provide a few advices to anyone about to embark on a Paris trip, that would be:

– Buy the Paris edition of the Lonely Planet and decide to not go to all the places they mention.

– Don't come in August (most of the city is basically shut down during the holidays). May, June, July, September, October, November.

– Most of the most interesting buildings (+ the overall Haussmannian architecture of Paris) are better seen from the outside: better spend 30 great minutes on le Parvis du Trocadéro watching the Eiffel Tower, than actually waiting 3h in line to get "inside" the Eiffel Tower.

– Get in line at museums roughly 1:30 hour before they're about to close: shorter lines, people on their way out. You have less time but it's clearly optimized.

– When in doubt, rely on locals: I know many Americans actually living and enjoying their life in Paris. You're always a few friends away on Facebook from knowing someone who lives here.

– Somewhere in their inboxes Parisian people have crafted for friends and/or received from friends "lists" of insider places to go that they'll happily forward to you once you've made connexion (I made a very long and detailed one of my favorite restaurants once).

– Use local guides. If you're a foodie, following the Lefooding.com recommendations for example is always a guarantee to both eat at wonderful places and visit fun areas where these restaurants are located in. For all the things we suck at if there's one thing the Paris scene is amazingly good at is food & restaurant innovation.

– If you're part of the tech community: damn it, you just need to hit your local counterparts. At the opposite of gross taxi drivers, young french tech people are very welcoming and easy to get in touch with.

– You can definitely hit me up anytime even if we don't know each other, I'm always happy to help.

I'm probably omitting a ton here but there's an apéro down my street with friends waiting for me to show up :)
I upvote this. Especially the Wine option. IMHO it should be advertised that "You can run Windows programs on Linux by using Wine".
>You could pick almost any category X and add some AI to it, put it on the cloud. Few devices had more than one or two sensors in them, unlike the hundreds now. Expectations and barriers were low. It was easy to be the first. And then they would sigh, “Oh, if only we realized how possible everything was back then!”

It's a bit easy to imagine once something's already survived it. A device with a hundred sensors probably survived hundreds or thousands of failed released or unreleased iterations. Every other mature field has probably gone through this same sentiment (and maybe still going through it, and perhaps will always go through it). If only astronomers today could imagine what new, novel techniques are just lying right in front of them with all of this computing power and automated manufacturing ability. Imagine how much further ahead astronomers would be in 2044 if they had discovered thingamajig back in 2014 instead of 2040! I think the greybeards of 2044 would be a bit biased.

But this feels like we'd be backpedaling on choosing the right tool for the right job. Slapping AI onto something and watching it fail is great for our knowledge, but not our wallets. This is when business leaders create friction with development. This is where you get "Just make it work" commands which gets the snowball of technical debt rolling. The value gained is "This solution sucked in reality! Or maybe we just sucked delivering it! Don't do what we did unless you have a good reason!", but that's not what we're really after, is it? We could sit around and brute force a bunch of combinations of ideas and markets, I guess.

And finally, if it was true back in 1985 with domain names, and it's true today with AI and the cloud, why wouldn't it be true for 2044 with VR contact lenses and holodecks? It seems like the future will be like then and now in this regard. So.. there will always be a wide open frontier somewhere? Do we really say anything substantial by saying "Today's an open frontier for internet ideas!"

I think there's a lot less low-hanging fruit than this article might have us believe.