skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's counterbalanced by this one:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140729/10593428044/uk-go...
And that's a great thing. Look at the mess Egypt's government has become over the past two years. Keep that shit out of the US please.
Get into hacker mentality. Do what you need to do to get what you want! If you want job and job will come by marks, then focus on marks. If you want marks and marks will only come by rote learning, then focus on rote learning.

If you believe there is another way to go about it, you should try doing that. If getting depressed will get you there, then go at it otherwise you are wasting your time and energy by getting depressed.

Focus on things that you can control, focus on influencing things that you can influence. But if things you can't control or influence then either hack it or don't worry about it.
That's an ridiculous and totally unnecessary set of qualifiers. Ever hear the saying "perfect is the enemy of good"?
Nice one. Adding Kanye right now.
I believe you're right, I'm just saying to the grandparent poster that storing your data in another jurisdiction didn't automatically put it off-limits to US litigants even before this ruling.
I am not sure how it is not relevant. Tmobile is owned by Deutsche Telekom, a German company. T Mobile operates in the US and many other countries. If this offer goes through, T mobile US will be owned by Free, a French company. But it will continue to operate in the US.
That's a good idea. I think his default message will be "That's a bold strategy Cotton. Let's see if pays off".
the original claim 1 [...] had not claimed a computer. The examiner correctly issued a rejection, saying the claim was abstract and thus wasn’t something that could be patented. In response, the applicant added element (g) (“providing a computer, the computer performing steps “a” through “f””). And the rejection went away.

I see this happen in peer-reviewed research. A reviewer rejects the paper/patent based on a flaw that is perhaps not as gross but is at least concrete. When the flaw is removed (in this case the use of computer), the reviewer almost has no choice but to accept it. Can't the reviewer reject it for other reasons?
that's exactly my point. Looking at this habit of "email address with multiple digits" alone seems correlation rather than causation. Making an anti-fraud algorithm by including all or most of these habits might point to causation and help solve the problem though.
How did I not think of Kanye?! Adding him to the built-ins right now.
Wow, this a thousand times. It's so incredibly frustrating to have discussions about stuff like this with people who don't have the same knee-jerk mistrust of the patent system that I do. I'm not saying my reaction is right, just that it'll be nice to have something to point too and say "told ya so...". Of course, the people I know who don't think that the patent system is broken are probably the people who don't necessarily know/trust the EFF.
I don't know where you got those numbers from.
Momentum of an object is equal to mass times velocity. Change in momentum is equal to impulse, which is force times time. Therefore f * t = mv, and change in v = f * t / m. Plugging in the numbers, (0.00005 N) * (3600s/hour * 24 hours * 365 days) / (722 kg) = 2.18 m/s
How is "water intensive farming in arid areas" not a root cause?
How does this compare to letting Firefox remember my passwords and sync them via Firefox Sync?
Is there a "secure" way to get a KeePass file onto an iPhone if Dropbox isn't safe?

I don't need realtime sync, I'm happy to manually copy it across when I make changes, just curious what the proper way to do it is, if not via Dropbox.
We could eliminate most of the current water issues if we reduced our meat intake. According to the USGS, a single 1/3lb hamburger patty requires 4,000-18,000 gallons. How much of this irrigation is being used to grow cattle feed?

(I say this with a heavy heart as an avid carnivore)
Here's some for <$700/.25 acre, but it's 2.5 hours to anything remotely urban (Scranton).

http://www.landwatch.com/Tioga-County-Pennsylvania-Land-for-...

Not individual .25 acre lots, but a committed developer can probably get it rezoned however they need.

It rises rapidly the closer in towards major cities.

If you're a large scale developer (of the sort that the county would hit up to help with transit development), you're probably going to buy a few hundred to a few thousand undeveloped/agricultural acres and get it rezoned.

This is a little better, $500/.25 acre and only slightly further than an hour from Pittsburgh. That's commuting distance for many people.

http://www.landwatch.com/Somerset/Cambria-County-Pennsylvani...

And here's some just an hour outside of Philly at $825/.25 acre.

http://www.landwatch.com/Montour-County-Pennsylvania-Land-fo...
Is there some sort of incompetence charge? That way later when he claims not to have direct knowledge he must be dismissed immediately on the basis that anyone who is the executive of the CIA and doesn't know that the CIA spied on the Senate Intel cmte, isn't fit to run the CIA.
I share your sentiments entirely. However, it's important to remember that this is a global issue. I travel a lot, and it is my distinct impression that a rapidly increasing number of people (many of them young and educated) around the world are becoming increasingly aware of the problems with the established systems, in some cases openly protesting and in others merely refusing to participate. Think Argentina, India, North Africa, the Middle East, China, Russia, Iran, Thailand, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal. The global social climate has never been better to try out new solutions... solutions that remove centralized control of communications, finance and political power. We are getting to the point where there are viable offerings and where state-level actors are throwing their lot in with development: look at Putin's response to Mastercard/Visa on ATM networks, India's response to US+Israeli segregation of Iran (their major oil supplier) from SWIFT, or China's quiet and unrelenting expansion of their own alternative financial networks across the world (especially Asia) as they push for the RMB as a regional reserve currency.

The fact of the matter is, the US's present position is an untenable anachronism.

Open source everything is about the five billion poor coming together to reclaim their collective wealth and mobilise it to transform their lives. There is zero chance of the revolution being put down. Public agency is emergent, and the ability of the public to literally put any bank or corporation out of business overnight is looming. To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, you cannot screw all of the people all of the time. We're there. All we lack is a major precipitant – our Tunisian fruit seller. When it happens the revolution will be deep and lasting. - Robert David Steele, ex-Marine, ex-CIA, Open Source Intelligence expert in The Guardian, 2014-06-19
It is a cool idea but seems to have serious scalability concerns. One truck can only hold so many items, you'll need drivers with CDL endorsements, insurance, fuel, etc. for every truck you add.
>The US is fast growing in population.

No.

Google: 'US births per woman'. In the US, that is ~1.7. 2.1 is considered the replacement rate in developed countries.

After that, check out: 'world births per woman' Currently (2011) @ 2.41 down from 2.67 in 2000, 3.23 in 1990. Do you expect this trend to suddenly flatten or reverse?

In the future, longer life expectancy will likely have a larger impact on population numbers than birth rates. In specific developed countries, I would also expect immigration to be part a large part of growth.
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I asked these questions on a previous thread but didn't get any answers. I'm seriously interested in actual responses (i.e. these aren't rhetorical).

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If you use AWS, is all the data (S3, EC2 filesystems, RDS data+backups, etc.) now a business record of Amazon?

What about renting dedicated servers at your local datacenter? You're basically renting bare hardware at that point, but the hard drives are still technically owned by the datacenter. Is the data on those hard drives business records of the datacenter?

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Not being able separate the owner of the hardware and the owner of the data on the hardware seems like it would have a ton of modern consequences.
Because quite often in such cases, focusing on the real root cause would mean reducing population to 10% and basically rolling back the Industrial Revolution - which is not going to happen, so we're stuck with workarounds if we want to move forward.
Isn't that the root cause? If we shifted agriculture to areas where water is more readily available (easier said than done), wouldn't that solve a lot of the issue?

I'm ignorant about the topic, but is there produce that can only be grown in those areas and not in other parts in the US or even Mexico, or is the concentration of agriculture there mainly due to increasing returns?
I wish you luck, but I don't see how this is sustainably profitable. People think their junk is worth way more than it is, and "minimum price" will wreck this.
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I interpreted that differently - that Google's private, secret v8 repo is hidden from their partners as well. Therefore they decided to unveil the work publicly so that their partners can access it, start to work to port turbofan to the other platforms, and so forth.

As to who the partners are, you can see commits from Intel adding x87 support and Imagination doing MIPS, for example.

As to why not develop in the open sooner, good question - this is the second time v8 does this, after CrankShaft (third time if you count the initial unveiling of chrome and v8). Maybe it's just how they work.
Sounds like a moderately fun video game?
I suppose that "Josh Bloch Fights a LIDAR Speeding Ticket (with Science)" is a bit more link bait-y than "The Lowdown on LIDAR". I would also argue that the former compactly explains the entire content of the article, much more so than the latter, especially given that the author claims no expertise on LIDAR.

Regardless, I still would have preferred the original title. Perhaps removing the reference to Josh Bloch (and, perhaps, the parenthetical "with science") could have been dropped to reduce its link baity-ness.

As an addendum, I clicked on the link and read the article after the title had been changed to match the article's title, so perhaps my stated preference, as an afterthought, is completely unfounded.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
BAS here. I am pretty active in the TypeScript community. I'll be discussing JavaScript. I'm going to be talking about `this` and explaining the beauty (and simplicity) of prototype inheritance in JavaScript. It's going to be pretty code focused. I've found this to be the most mis-understood section of JavaScript. Also you'll understand why there is bind/call/apply on function prototypes (how they simplify your code). What's up with `constructor` and the simplicity of `instanceof`.
I saw the title and google link and thought it would be someone from Google talking about the LIDAR system they use in their self-driving cars. I'd actually just read an article that said they cost $70,000 each so I was thinking "Maybe they have a way to drastically reduce the price or are going to say why they can't".
This has always been a problem with Adaptive Payments, just not always so severe. Paypal's Express Checkout product has the best solution to this in that a payment cannot be completed without an explicit API call by your application. This makes the payment confirmation IPN redundant.

It is a more complex integration, but our product has been much more stable since we made the transition to Express Checkout.

This does not however prevent other problems with IPN delivery on refunds and other post order activity. Paypal's IPN infrastructure is pretty weak in general, very poorly documented and completely untestable.
> The fix is simple but not popular, start charging for water what it costs to deliver there.

I think articially cheap farming is the whole idea. We subsidize our agriculture market to make us competitive as an exporter (note that we howl in protest when other countries artificially prop up their export businesses, e.g. cheap Chinese steel).
"If your a visual person" <- Just a small mistake in your copy.

I think you should put a bigger Call to Action at the bottom. This post is good and the kind of person who reaches the bottom is going to be more likely to subscribe to your service. You may be losing out on conversions by only having a small link to your home page in the summary.
Read your link in more detail. The 7-virtue noble warrior-poets aren't actually how samurai behaved. That was a turn-of-last-century propaganda movement.
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I think I'm gonna steal this idea and name my company HubGrub.
Certainly. But if we're viewing the scope of the spectrum under discussion as covering the skill levels of the people who play in the NBA - which was pretty clearly my intent in that instance - then they are the two extremes. I'm not sure how anyone could interpret my statement as meaning that the group of elite athletes playing pro Basketball in the US are not exceptional. But if that needed clarification, fair enough.
In practice, however, using BitCoin requires trusting something that is the equivalent of a gateway (an exchange) with your BitCoins if you want to be able to freely trade them.

The fact that this weakness does not appear in the BitCoin protocol, but is rather implied by the human desire for convenience and marketplaces, doesn't make it less of a flaw. One can sneer at everyone who lost money with MtGox for "choosing poorly", so to speak, but on the other hand exchanges are the driving force behind BitCoin's success.
If it ain't tested in a vacuum, it's almost certainly simple coronal discharge.
Fearing crimes being committed against you is a failure of the justice system. An angry mob outside your house harassing you is not legal. Also, you can lose your job for any reason, but only certain reasons can be disclosed publicly. A racist, sexist douche bag can fire anybody he/she wants as long as they say "Sorry, it's not working out" or whatever BS. If you are worried about what you say politically, you probably should find a better job.
Agreed. Over the past 9 years I've had to implement double, triple and end-of-the-month checking on PayPal to be sure that we have some reconciled idea of reality with respect to payments.

What's worse, their system essentially rewrites history over time. This means that rather than keeping a ledger of payment events, they change the dates and amounts depending of payment status / reversal /etc. Querying later in the week and the data is different. For the same charge.

I ended up keeping an event log of everything we ever get from them (IPN, API polling, reports) and synthesizing that into a current snapshot at query time. The code is riddled with comments saying, essentially, "this charge, then return, then recharge and failure means that the payment is OK".
If your business process relies completely on a callback that can fail for plenty of different reasons, then your business process is broken.
They have a existential need for batteries with the Model 3. If they don't get the batteries they need when they need them, they go out of business. Vertically integrating the batteries helps prevent them from being screwed by problems elsewhere in their supply chain. They've had problems like this in the past. For the model S, some suppliers didn't actually believe that Tesla would actually want the scale of parts they had optioned for. When time came to deliver, the factory was ready, but the parts were just being produced half way across the world. Tesla had to pay substantial air freight costs.
So it's not actually decentralized to any meaningful degree? Awesome.
Not sure why I'm being down voted. My understanding is the system works better (at least for currency X to currency Y transactions) the more trusted local currency gateways exist in the network. So if using stellar on the backend makes it theoretically easier/cheaper/faster for traditional money transfer platforms to transmit/receive funds for their clients and having trusted brands as gateways is good for stellar's adoption; then surely that's a win/win and they should have an insider from the banking/finance/forex world advising their board and helping them get one or two well known finance shops involved in a pilot.

Concrete example:

I use XE.com trade for making international wires to people (most of the time it's GBP to EUR wires). Using XE is easier and cheaper than using my bank for this but the process is still painful. After locking in an exchange rate for the trade, I then have to wire my funds in GBP to XE.com's GBP bank account (with a reference number for the trade) and they then wire the equivalent EUR amount to the recipient's EUR bank account. I have to provide loads of bank details for the recipient (branch address, IBAN, SWIFT, intermediary bank etc.) and it usually takes 48 hours before the money arrives in their account (sometimes longer if they have a weird bank). It's also often difficult to work out what fees intermediary banks will extract en-route.

I'd love it if XE.com had stellar GBP and EUR gateways. I could then dump some funds in their GBP gateway, give them the stellar username I want to send the equivalent EUR amount to and hit send. Instant and easy.

Or maybe I've completely misunderstood the purpose of gateways and how they work?
> well, then it seems that employer-based insurance is a significant contributor to the high cost

That conclusion would follow only if employer-based insurance were the only plausible explanation we had to explain the increased cost. Off the top of my head, here are a few alternatives:

1. Pharma lobby has neutered efforts to centralize bargaining for drug purchases for private insurance companies (what is the bargaining power of BCBS Wyoming vs the NHS? Nothing.)

2. Doctor's guild has created an artificial scarcity of doctors by squeezing the training pipeline.

3. Differences in entry-level health plans prevent price competition because the valuation process is too difficult for consumers (allowing insurance companies to differentiate based on ads and such).

> So if the purpose in the free market is to add value, it's pretty much a dismal failure.

No kidding. Sometimes it works miracles, sometimes it falls flat on its face. Here it has fallen flat on its face. Repeatedly. And we keep throwing money at it hoping it will fix itself :/

> employer-based insurance wasn't there for some dream of free market efficiency. Rather, it's a legacy from mid-20th century labor negotiation.

That's the narrative they taught it a health care economics class I took. I don't buy it. Say what you will about the market, but it does not hesitate to tear down economic structures that have outlasted their utility. In particular, if you think that individual insurance plans are more expensive due to cultural legacy rather than due to economics, I invite you to create your own insurance company and undercut the incumbents ;)

> Today, it's a political problem

Yup. The only real question is how long the circus will continue. ACA was a step in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough. Time will tell. My fear is that stopgap solution is the enemy of the good solution.
Meth's most alarming effects are almost 100% due to it being contraband. Desperate people make it in desperate and harmful ways. This makes for lurid images so you can be sold on the idea of no-knock raids and military weapons and vehicles for police.

The real answer for addicts is treatment. The answer for the meth market and "meth labs" is legalization of "soft drug" stimulants.

The Drug War is purely on the cost side of the ledger. It does not save you from the harm of meth labs, it perpetuates that harm and multiplies the cost. That cost is increasingly manifested as a general reduction of freedom due to militarized policing. That's a very high price to maintain a simplistic morality about addicts.
When it comes to film prints it is probably better if they are ignored and not meddled with. The history of the Star Wars prints (http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/05/star-wars/) shows weaknesses of both analog and digital.

Edit: more about that http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/05/could-disney-finally-...
Darn, looks like I can't edit my post anymore, and HN formatting screwed it up lol. First link is for 300, second one is for the sequel.

I guess it is quite subjective, but what makes the second one look better to you? For me the first one, whilst chalked with noise/grain, has a much better rendition of the skin-tone, along with detail in the highlights, and the depth of the reflection in her eyes. I guess it's hard to describe really, but that's kind of why I would side towards the first image.
The U.S. population growth rate is ~.75% per year. Even though the fertility rate is lower than some other industrialized countries, the immigration rate is very high.

Global average population growth rate is 1.1%.
I hear that "very specific threats" is also a workable model.
How many elections were held in Gaza since then?

It might be a difficult concept to wrap one's head around - that someone might come to power via democratic means and then proceed to usurp the power by killing off the opposition & closing free press.

Ie if you want to use the D word, it's not enough to mention it once ('came to power') but also demonstrate that they are staying in power democratically.
They also hand out coal burning fireplaces as a social welfare program. I haven't seen any data comparing the sources of pollution so this might be a small contributor compared to the big plants.
>The Stellar Foundation will actually control relatively little. The creation of new stellars, for example, will be done in a fully distributed fashion

It's not fully distributed. All the decision-making nodes are controlled by Stellar. Just because there is stake-based voting involved does not mean the underlying system is distributed.
The US population grew by almost 10%, over 27 million, between 2000 to 2010.
It is impossible to talk about overpopulation without defining some context first.

- what lifestyle do you want for your population?

- what processes do you have in place to achieve this lifestyle?

It is often mentioned that the US lifestyle cannot be sustained for 7 billion people and that therefore Earth has an overpopulation problem. Of course, given how insanely wasteful the US lifestyle and its underlying processes are, this is ridiculous. The problem lies not with the number of people, but with waste, mismanagement, and general consumerist insanity.

Worth noting is that Japan has ten times the population density of the US (while having a mostly inhabitable country due to its mountainous geography) while sustaining higher levels of comforts for its citizens than the US. One glaring difference is that Japan recycles most of its trash. In the US, everything is disposable and essentially no recycling ever occurs. The same level of complete waste applies to water management, energy management, and so on.
Even with stupid patent of the day I suspect they would have enough content to keep going long after I am dead, even if they only consider patents that were issued up until today... but it would require a lot more effort to find, read, understand and write about them than a once a month thing.
I did something similar a few months back but in NodeJS.

https://github.com/TerryMooreII/HackerNode