skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That one reminds me of the system I worked on years ago that wouldn't accept credit cards that expired in August or September (of any year).
That is because different cultures have different customs.
In some cultures it is acceptable to hug and put your arm around someone you have not met before, in others, even non-western ones, it is seen as extremely rude.

My language teacher when I moved here was telling our mixed nationality class about how in her perception, as you moved further north from the Mediterranean, the personal space people have increases, and how this does not mean people are not comfortable with people near them. This was in the same lesson where we started covering different gestures and how offensive in one is fine in another.

Two arms length is a farther than I usually have, but coming within an arms length if I do not know you, especially at a party, unless to tap my shoulder for attention will make me feel uncomfortable. Two arms length requires me to raise my voice to talk to you, which I consider ruder than being close.

That aside, the OP reads more like a "How to social engineer" than a how to be polite.
About 4 years, why?
Alarm when phone gets out of range, so I know when I just left my phone in a cab.
> You know that study that showed that people wearing seatbelts drive more recklessly, effectively exactly compensating for the increase in safety provided by the seatbelts?

Err, the first part of that statement may be true, but I don't think anyone ever put forth a claim backed up by data that they cancelled eachother out. People may drive more recklessly with seatbelts, but the law undoubtedly saved a lot of lives. You may be thinking of motorcycle helmet laws; which seems more plausible given that high-speed motorcycle accidents are much more likely to be fatal regardless.

As for the "global passive adversary", I tend to side with the term "state actor" since the only entities with the power to collect data on that scale are governments as they can legally force every telecom company in their jurisdiction to install taps while keeping their existence classified.

You're probably right about the risk compensation here; with the caveat that anyone who rises above the level of a "common criminal" would simply not trust online communication at all. Islamist terror groups use a known-courier system for all planning and communication because they just assume all electronic communications are being monitored.
Citation needed. My understanding is that Netflix offers as many boxes as the ISP needs. This makes sense since each box is supposed to save money for Netflix and for the ISP.
Instead of writing your own parser wouldn't you rather want to use a lexer like flex and and a parser generator like bison?
New species of pterosaur found in mass grave, 47 specimens
Original paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0100005
There are many ways to give '3rd parties' a chance. A simpler one is, let folks vote for ALL acceptable candidates, not just choose one. E.g. vote for your party AND for the compromise candidate. This could drive candidates toward the middle.
I just meant that if you're going to allow law enforcement to be armed then you need to have lawful ways for citizens to also be armed. There has to be a checks and balance system in place.

In reality that's what most of the US constitution is based on and why the Bill of Rights puts so much power back into the hands of the people because the power of government was not something to be taken lightly.

I'm not advocating that people go out with guns and start shooting at police.
Not to mention the cost of the car! A really rough estimate of what I spent on my car in the 9 years that I owned one in California:

$11k: insurance ($1200/yr, a bargain for a 20-something male)
$8k: depreciation (bought at $18k, sold at $10k)
$4k: gas (~50k miles @ 35 mpg, ~$3/gal)
$3k: maintenance (very good luck on this one)
$2k: tolls, parking, etc. (infrequent for me)

Works out to about $260/mo. Not terrible, but a noticeable part of my budget. And I managed to go 9 years without a single accident, major maintenance issue, or run-in with traffic cops, any of which could easily have caused things to add up to a considerably higher number.
Exactly. “Security through obscurity should be an _extra_ layer, not _the_ layer”.
I think the main reason for the success is that it's simple to use. All the hard technical work getting books and getting things fixed and updated are done by the grandsons. This is good because now the grandsons really have a reason to visit (OP doesn't even need to come up with a reason and I respect that, but in some other people's cases they simply need A REASON to do so).

It is a win-win situation.
Original paper linked in article: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
If you're a net neutrality advocate you should seriously consider whether this sort of peering arrangement should be tolerated. This kind of peering is a de-facto QoS arrangement that gives Netflix a performance and cost advantage over other video providers that aren't big enough or rich enough to justify and pay for direct peering with ISPs. It also gives bigger ISPs (that do more than 2Gb/s of traffic to Netflix and agree to peer, apparently) the same advantage over their smaller competitors. Isn't that exactly what we're trying to avoid with net neutrality?

This is not a new practice and I'm surprised it doesn't come up more frequently in the net neutrality debate. It's been going on for years -- broadcast.com did it, YouTube and Google do it, and I'm sure others do as well. We've never really had net neutrality -- peering agreements have been happening forever in shady back room deals at NANOG. At least the more recent shenanigans are happening out in the open.
I'm not up to date on everything YC funds - what other non-web companies have they funded?
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You're describing instant run-off voting.
I'd like to introduce you a friend of mine called "humor sense"

:-P
Another reason for corruption is pay-to-play. A full war chest doesn't guarantee winning the elections, but not having one guarantees that you won't get into parliament. And if you do get in your donors expect some kind of return. Campaign finance return is sorely needed, at the moment the system is plainly corrupt, and that doesn't help the legitimacy of whatever government is in power at the moment.
I wonder if maybe the amount of space required between people contributes to a shared sense of isolation and maybe even entitlement.
For all the hand-wringing about ISPs creating an "internet fast lane", OpenConnect sure seems like a step in that direction. If Netflix is allowed to colocate their server in an ISP's facilities (effectively eliminating the cost of their egress bandwidth), how does that not give them an unfair advantage against other internet video operators who lack the leverage necessary to broker this kind of deal?

OpenConnect isn't the first attempt at this sort of business model, either. Back in the 90s, Akami tried this same thing with their "FreeFlow ISP" service model - putting their servers in the ISP's point of presence in order to eliminate their bandwidth costs. Then, as now, major ISPs refused.
> There are no sound reasons for investing in passenger rail in the US now.

There are no viable political reasons to invest in high-speed rail. Americans love their cars, the interstate highway system is in place, that's a lot of inertia to overcome with economic arguments.

In Europe and Japan, on the other hand, high-speed rail is booming. One of the reasons is that the prior infrastructure was substantially destroyed in WWII, allowing more options than we Americans have. Also, it's possible that Europeans aren't quite as crazy about cars as we are.

> Building better, faster trains is hardly a guarantee that they will be used.

That's certainly true, and it's probably a big argument against high-speed rail, especially when you read the recent history of Amtrak, which has always struggled to find riders. On the other hand, Amtrak has always been a "Me too" mode of transport, a niche, a novelty for the curious.

If we were deciding this without an interstate highway system and a huge, well-established car culture, I think it would be a different debate.
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Part of being polite is being able to adjust to different cultural norms. With that attitude you might have a tough time in Galway, and do okay in Shanghai. But it's not hard to do okay in both places.
tl;dr: Basically, it's because the population density is too low.

High speed rail is great for population centers that are 300 miles apart, but not so great for ones that are 1500 miles apart. The competition there is primarily the airplane, and the time difference grows with distance. So does the cost difference. (You only need an airport in each city, no matter how far apart they are, but you need a mile of railroad for each mile of distance.)

The problem, then, is that the US doesn't have enough population centers that are big enough and close enough to each other. The northeast corridor (from Boston to Washington DC) is really the only one that fits.
You're right, government officials never support programs that are economically inefficient. Especially large, sexy programs that get tons of media coverage and often get a politician's name associated with them. Nope, those are the first to get the ax when it's determined that there are more economically efficient, less sexy alternatives.
Can you point me to another company with a public bug tracker that you would reference as the gold standard?

Whilst I know we can always improve (and we always try to), we always end up with some bug that has been open for 5+ years that has the most votes. By definition.

At least with Atlassian you can see the bugs, vote on them, provide comments. If there is another company with this level of transparency that does it better - I'll get in contact to find out how.

Scott, CEO Atlassian
I've noticed this effect in eastern cultures, particularly in eastern cultures that have large native population densities. I work for an Indian company and all of my co-workers are extremely laid-back and seem to have no sense of personal space whatsover. It's really not a bad thing! They often lean on each other's shoulders and are very huggy. They're not afraid to play-fight and it doesn't become an awkward space-invasion thing. It's just human interaction for them.
Awesome! Please watch the VICE news coverage about IS. They are horrendous. Certainly something must be done or will be too late.
My reading of "a Tesla powered by fusion power" was that the electricity charging the batteries would come from a fusion generator source. And indeed, a clean electrical source makes electric transportation much more environmentally attractive.
Yeah as a central European it strikes me as quite weird when I hear Americans ranting about how people get way too close to them in queues. And I can't relate to the anger they seem to experience as a result. Wikipedia says "Personal space is highly variable, and can be due to cultural differences and personal experiences."[1] - cultural differences, yes, yes.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_space
A super lightweight and low friction app for weight lifting that:
- Lets you track workouts (exercises, weight, number of sets and reps, etc).
- Suggests / coaches you on what exercises to do each workout, what weight to set, how many reps, etc. based on your progress so far in past workouts.
- Acts as resting timer between sets and exercises (without having to switch apps or anything). Bonus points for some kind of alert (vibration? sound?) when you have say 10 seconds left.

Bonus points for:
- Automatically counts reps you do based on your arm movements, then starts the resting timer once you stop doing reps.
- Accurately records your movement and later corrects your posture (say with squats, etc).
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There was another good one in science.
http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2014/07/fusions-restless-...
> Beyond that, the traffic densities present are not enough to justify high speed rail

Remember that building transit infrastructure will also create new traffic!

As an example, park and rides an hour out from Seattle are packed full of cars every day. Busses are then packed full of people every day heading into the city from as much as 40 miles out.

IMHO what would be more interesting would be Vancouver BC --> Bellingham --> Midway to Seattle --> Seattle --> Tacoma --> Portland

Of course going across the boarder makes this impractical. :(
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Ask HN: What are your biggest marketing challenges for your startup?
Interested to hear your pain points with online marketing. I've found through personal experience, working both freelance and for agencies, in order to effectively cover the components of online marketing takes a range of skills, time and money if you want it done properly.

As a lot of you are bootstrapping, how are you doing it, if at all?

For example...

- Are you using social media?

- Are you using paid ads/SEO/content marketing?

- Are you delving into your analytics and making changes to landing pages to lift conversions?

Does any of this fit:

- Use Elance/oDesk occasionally, but its more hassle than its worth

- Blog 3-4 times a month but writing is not my passion

- Paid ads don't convert very well and cost too much

- Twitter is all noise and moves too fast without resources to dedicate x hours per day

- SEO has a bad rep and has the goal posts moved regularly by Google

- Don't really understand much of it, whats important and whats BS. Lack trusted connections.

Interested to hear your thoughts..
Western countries are experiencing reproductive failures - folks getting married later or not at all, folks having one or zero children. Germany, Japan and now the USA having this epidemic. Now you want to restrict reproduction?
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Someone suggested I do a Show HN, so I'm giving it a go.
feel free to contact me. maggie@play-tag.com
Safe: With no possibility of melt-down, or hazardous nuclear
waste, fusion dose not suffer the drawbacks that make
fission an unattractive alternative.

Eyeroll. D-He3 fusion produces less neutron flux than D-T, but it's hardly aneutronic-- otherwise they couldn't breed He3 from it. After a decade, the whole reactor will be nuclear waste.

I wonder what the service interval on an installed reactor will be? Or are they doing isotope separation on the produced helium on-site?

(Fun fact: you can get deuterium from water[1] but helium comes from natural gas fields![2] It's literally a fossil gas, which is why we're running out of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium#Occurrence_and_productio... )

1: Commercially, heavy water is a byproduct of electrolysis plants: since deuterium doesn't electrolyze quite as easily as light water, it tends to accumulate in electrolysis stacks

2: The same rock formations that trap natural gas also trap helium.
I know the author. I asked him a similar question and he replied saying that he wanted it to be a learning experience for himself so he chose to write several components from scratch over bringing in pre-existing libraries.
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fusion plant -> mains electricity -> your tesla
Yep. In the US, if we could get a viable 3rd party we could maybe get campaign finance reform. Until then there is no chance of it.
Can someone explain what this is? I don't see that mentioned anywhere.
Reminds me of the recent Visual Microphone algorithm that researchers found, which recreates sound by looking at micro-vibrations of objects (ex. potato chip bags and house plants).
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>> we have a political system in which the federal government, having devolved virtually all decision-making power to states

> That's definitely not true. Just look at the ACA.

The ACA devolves most power to the states, who run their own exchanges, including the ability to not participate at all. Compare that to other countries (which have much less expensive and more effective health care systems).

> We can't build high speed trains because: (1) the government is corrupt, incompetent and beholden to interest groups and (2) the public doesn't really want them.

I disagree on #1, at least in a relative sense. The US government is relatively clean compared to most, including others that build and manage train systems such as Russia and India.

The problem, IMHO, is the demonization of government by a small group. Due to our political structure that small minority can block government from acting, bringing such gridlock that it can't even raise revenues or pay bills reliably. That reduces the general public's confidence in government's capacity to solve problems, not because something is generally wrong with government but because of the gridlock. Until we solve that problem, nothing else will happen.
Multi-party (more than two) doesn't mean that the government is competent or not beholden to special interest groups. See, for example, Italy.
Sort of. That implies ranking, which is unnecessary.
I work at an ISP with local caches from a few of the big players.

We've been contemplating getting a NetFlix OpenConnect device, but as yet it doesn't make sense for us.

The way it works is that once per day, it will sync the ENTIRE NetFlix catalogue to the OpenConnect device, which is an enormous amount of traffic (for us). Even if it's a movie or TV series none of our customers have ever watched, it still gets synced.

Because we only have ~25k internet subscribers, it would actually be more traffic to sync the OpenConnect device daily than we're currently pulling from NetFlix.

Obviously this would be different with vastly more customers, and we're watching the numbers as more and more of our internet customers subscribe to NetFlix.

We wish NetFlix's caching worked like some of the other big players, in that "popular" content is cached, as is anything watched by someone. If an asset is not popular and never watched, it will never move into our network.
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Brave New World was supposed to be a story about a dystopian future, but I always thought the idea of automating production of humans and creating planned societies was a brilliant innovation. Why bother with trying to restrict breeding through coercion? Simply manufacture enough sterile humans using artificial wombs, and eventually they could outcompete the 'feral' population. As a bonus, you could perfectly control population levels and prevent the top-heavy population trees that are occurring in Japan and Italy, for example.
I don't think this applies for all teams. This must be true for the top-6, not for the rest which have considerably less resources.
helium 4 is stable (it's the alpha particle) so fusion with helium 4 either doesn't produce energy or it produces very little.

It's possible that the reactor does two reactions: 1) D + D -> 3He + n, 3He + D -> 4He + p.
Can't find the references now, but yes it does - the tolerance of commute times is pretty static; in historical cases where you improve traffic infrastructure, then after a few years the result is not faster commutes but people living further away; presumably in better or more affordable housing than was previously within their acceptable-commuting-time range.
I wish they would have included demographics for the Bay Area, not just the USA. From Wikipedia - 52.5% White, 6.7% non-Hispanic African American, 23.3% Asian, 10.8% from other races, 5.4% from two or more races, 23.5% Hispanic or Latin. (Incidentally, this almost exactly matches Apple's numbers, except for Hispanic). Comparing tech worker demographics to Bay Area demographics, It's kind of a chicken vs egg about whether the demographics precede the jobs or vice versa, but given how geographically concentrated the tech industry is, this seems like a bad oversight.

So compared to the US, the Bay Area is -27% white, -6% African American, +18% Asian, +8% Hispanic. This makes the representation of white tech workers expected, Asian less overrepresented, African American less underrepresented, and Hispanic even MORE underrepresented.

In non-tech, it's white slightly overrepresented, African American slightly underrepresented, and Hispanic still very underrepresented.

In leadership/executive, white captured most of Asian overrepresentation, and African American are similar to tech workers.

2. SF vs Peninsula/South Bay companies would have been another similar distinction.

3. Curious how MSFT compares to Seattle Metro.

4. I'd also be curious to see how it would look if they broke out demographic numbers by location - e.g. how different is Google Mountain View from Google NYC, and how do tech worker demographics outside of the Bay Area compare to their host cities?
Commuter rail is also a much smaller, cheaper target to reach for. And it would have a much greater impact on the quality of life in urban and suburban areas.

However, the barriers to commuter rail in much of the country are stupid and entrenched. In Raliegh, NC, the main barrier to commuter rail is a county commissioner who believes in some absurd conspiracy theories [1].

[1] http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive....
Thanks for your reply. I'm based in Toronto as well. I always envisioned that have a technical background would be beneficial in understanding/defending/invalidating patents etc. I'll drop you a mail shortly.
Exists, it's called Wear Aware
I think you miss the point of open connect.

It's no different than if Netflix was paying Comcast (or whover ISP) to colo a server(s) in their data centers (you can do this as a normal citizen too).

The only difference, the idea is Comcast wouldn't charge Netflix for colo space since Netflix is "earning" it via cost reduction for the ISP. So they are still technically paying for the colo space.

Perhaps I missed your point though -- because this seems to be a much better way to a neutral net than having ISP's charging both sides of the pipe (which the small guys can't afford even more)
Those keystrokes were one of the first things I learned (same applies to Windows). Minimizing the amount of time my hands spend away from the keyboard has always been a plus. I hate the mouse.
There's a classic essay by Thomas Nagel that makes this exact point in great detail: "What is it like to be a bat" http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf
For your own sake, keep track of how long your happiness lasts before discontentment sets in.
That's cute. Installed.
In a democracy, the people get to decide how much power the federal government will have. You might feel it's too much, others might disagree. It's settled by majority vote.
Regarding "How to social engineer" - I rather read it as a nice way to keep emotional distance to people without being cold. I think I'm gonna try it - I have a tendency to constantly judge people which I want to get rid of anyway.
What? No.
This is the same situation as the company hosted in a DC that grows and prefers to pay for a 1Gbps connection than the previous 100MBps.

Net neutrality means treat all the traffic the same, doesn't matter where it comes from or what protocol it is. That's why "this" doesn't come up more often in the net neutrality debate, because it's got nothing to do with it.
Yes! Prof. John Slough is the Chief Scientist at Helion and the inventor of the Fusion Engine. UW has been leading the field of 'alternates' fusion for decades.
Our 'About Us' page has a short blurb:
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I presume they are syncing via something like rsync -- so besides metadata, you wouldn't be re-downloading 100TB's of video content every day.

But yes, you are right, OpenConnect targets the large ISP's (mainly the Big5)