skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If P2P were a "first-class citizen", the initial handshake wouldn't take longer--it would be faster!

Suppose that my city's newspaper (or TV station) monitored the (socially accepted, widely adopted) P2P networks for reliable mirrors of their own content, then sent each user's browser hrefs to the mirrors, rather than their own site.

The more popular the content, the more likely that your next door neighbor's P2P system can stream it to you.

Since running such software is socially acceptable in this hypothetical future, your P2P software doesn't have to go through the 'discovery' step. One of your hostnames is 1234.main.st.ci.lincoln.ne.us (see http://owen.sj.ca.us/~rk/howto/usdomainname.html) and one of them is mirror5.journalstar.org.ci.lincoln.ne.us. Everybody on Main St already knows your IP address, and if you mirror a lot of content, they might even have an existing active connection... you see where this is going? :)
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While yoga is beneficial, the same can be said about any type of exercise. I think this article just highlights this western culture's obsession with eastern.

td;dl Exercise is good for your body and mind. Do it often.
I purchased a Bluetooth one from Amazon ($10.99) and an Android app (Torque Pro, $5). Great tool for $16 all in. Plus the ODB-II adapter can be used to configure some "quality of life" stuff in newer cars (e.g. the constant cabin backup beep sound on the 2014 Prius).

You will need an Android phone already, but these days that is pretty common (particularly for technical people). Just get the error code and Google it, it becomes pretty obvious what it is.
First non packaging grocery store opens in Berlin
Apparently 'centillionaire' is already taken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centillion

"One centillion is a number, which is equal to either 10^303 or 10^600, depending on the system used."
Since the article is in german, here another article by the huffington post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/15/zero-waste-grocery-...
Cheetahs today, Skynet tomorrow.
According to this story [1], in 2012 airlines made just $0.37 per passenger trip. So, while I think the inefficient pricing is in need of repair, to say that prices are too high, is unfortunately not true. I hate paying for transcontinental flights as much as the next guy, but what other way can you cover 3000 miles that cheaply and quickly?

[1] http://online.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-fo...
There is a large population that doesn't code, that has problems that do not deal with programming. Hard to imagine in this current technology hype, but yes.

Even developers get divorce. You would rather have your rights ensured or to be able to talk about Ruby with the lawyer?
I would suggest actually reading about the facts of the case before commenting with such unfounded confidence. Empirically, sealing off the area has been working so far. The wonderful folks at the MSF were not outgunned - they had resources that seemed adequate to the task - if you read the article I linked, it explains the actual reason things got out of control. And this disease has the potential to rack up a nine digit death toll if we fail to contain it. Allowing that to happen would be the crime against humanity.
O'Reilly – Designing Data Intensive Systems
I'm using Plex for comics. I don't worry about where the metadata is stored. There's an interface to enter it manually, and an API to write an agent script that grabs the metadata for you.

Trying to shoehorn it all into the filesystem as directory names seems... destined for disappointment.
Your last sentence got me thinking about the differences, and it's interesting.

In terms of poor now versus rich a couple of centuries ago, I think it comes down to creature comforts versus power. A poor person today can summon a symphony on command. They can view plays at will. They can travel to the next city in hours. If they're financially smart, they could even take a vacation on another continent every few years.

Yet, they probably don't have very good food. Quantity is fine, but quality lacks. If they do have good food, they almost certainly have to cook it themselves. Servants, in general, are lacking. They have to buy their own clothes. They have to wash them, too, and while machinery makes that way easier than it was, it's still more work than letting a servant handle it.

Furthermore, the lives of the modern poor are fundamentally uncertain by comparison. If they're working poor, they can be unemployed on a whim. Their landlord can raise rents beyond what they can pay. If they're on benefits (either employed, or supplementing income from work) then the political winds can easily change next election. By comparison, a rich person from 200 years ago almost certainly owns land (and, in many places, people) and can be fairly confident that they will remain there, if they choose to, for a long time. They almost certainly have political power as well, so barring a violent revolution they won't have too much trouble with the state.

Medicine is one place this breaks down, since we've decided (in the richer countries) that the poor should still have access to the services of doctors, and those far exceed anything anyone could get 200 years ago. That would probably be the deciding factor for me, at least, if I had to choose between the two situations.

It's also interesting to compare with a rich person today. If they're not ultra wealthy, they probably still have no servants, still wash their own clothes, may still cook their own food, still drive themselves around, etc. If they own substantial land, it's probably as a luxury rather than a productive asset. Many still work for someone else.
would be amazing if they elaborate on the open source components
I don't think it's really about getting more life out of the existing battery. I think it's more about better integration with people's lives. E.g., I don't want to have a fit of beepilepsy every time I get a text or a calendar notification. Glancing at the watch is way better.

But as a side effect, I think moving a bunch of watch-friendly things to a watch will let you make the phone bigger. That won't reduce total power usage, but it will increase power availability.
As far as I could tell it was by identifying the type of traffic.

I was primarily torrenting various linux distros, and I tried a wide variety of them on various clients and systems. It was fairly consistent behavior, even if I torrented a 'buntu distro on my phone and throttled it to a few KBps my TV's Netflix would stutter, degrade, and ultimately drop out entirely within a few minutes. If I stopped the torrent the connection would resume normally a few minutes later.

One thing that really bothered me, though, was that every time I experienced this problem I could go to speedtest.net and run their tool and get consistently good results every time. Even when the rest of the internet was bollocks. It makes me wonder if they intentionally toss speed test traffic into one of their "fast lanes" to trick people into thinking they're getting faster speeds than what they're actually getting.
I used to work with Martin before he left LinkedIn. Just thought I'd post this here since this book is going to be awesome (I've had access to a few of the drafts).
How is this different to Tresorit(https://tresorit.com/)?
did anyone else find the background music inappropriate and distracting from the awesome research and results?
Their song is pretty decent, their problem is simply that they repeat it constantly instead of making more.
> What's funny (for some definitions of fun), we will actually need to do that - given how our current economy pushes automation to replace humans everywhere, we can either accept that people should be allowed to live and thrive without having to earn for the living, or we'll see a massive increase of poverty.

Most likely, such a realization will occur, if at all, only after (1) we do see massive increase in poverty, and (2) the people subject to that massive increase in poverty violently demonstrate their displeasure with it, and even then the realization will be far from universal and a matter of lasting controversy.

See, for a historical parallel, how we got from the industrial revolution and how long it took before there was significant effort to provide even basic protection for workers from exploitation. (And how frequently people still argue that some of the basic protections adopted are unnecessary and counterproductive imposition by government on the rights of corporations.)
I am pleasantly surprised to hear that him speaking in terms of the metric system.
He's not called the "Dark Knight" without reason.
Works fine for me, weird.

[edit] nvm, it just doesn't work over HTTPS. http://owenversteeg.com/min-bootstrap-plugin works. I'll have to look at setting up https for that.
I just checked out Dune2, looks good thanks for the recommendation.
Here's a site that lets you search for these flights: https://skiplagged.com/

I've used it many times, usually saving around 50% on flights. I never check bags anyway, so it works out well.
9v+7805 is fine if you're playing around, but if you're making something to use and especially if it's to be powered continuously, you'd be better off with 4 AAAs and a low-quiescent low-dropout regulator. 9v batteries can't supply much current (a guideline of 20mA is mentioned in the article). The first 7805 datasheet I came across specifies it's bias current at 4.3mA typ/8mA max. So just by powering the regulator, you're drawing a significant load from the battery even if the rest of the circuit is doing nothing.

Funnily enough, I've never seen a stacked 9v as pictured in the article. The few that I've opened up have had elongated cells laid out like a six pack of beer.
and a (Nate Silver) tag
Octobox Is Going Open Source on Assembly
Well, presumably the really sinister outside forces can bring to bear a lot more resources than one nerd-friendly anthro professor. The upside for me is in public understanding. The vast bulk of humanity has no idea what to make of Anonymous other than seeing it as vaguely sinister. We fear what we don't understand.
This is a fearful way to look at things, especially given the context.

Mojang is being sold for 2.5 billion dollars. In reality, Minecraft is being sold for 2.5 billion dollars, because I'm sure Microsoft doesn't give a rat's ass about Scrolls or Cobalt. Notch founded Mojang, and wrote Minecraft.

Notch wants to do the things he wants to do. Of that 2.5 billion dollars, I'm sure he's going to be getting a reasonable portion. A person who goes to school, works hard, and finds a good job making $100,000/year for 40 years, might make 4 million dollars over the course of their life. A Persson who writes minecraft, and then sells his company for 2.5 billion dollars, only needs to to get 0.16% of the sale to be in the same situation as the person who worked for a six-figure salary for his entire life. Given that he was the entire power behind Minecraft, I'm sure he'll get more than a few million dollars out of the deal.

The parable is about striving for excess without considering your needs. Certainly there's an amount of saving for a rainy day that's prudent. But you need to know when to slow down. Sure, if you have a billion dollars you can go and get 2 billion. You can work your hands to the bone and make 4 billion. You can exploit people and make 6 billion. But if you can live a happy and carefree life off a few million dollars, or have a terrible exhausting hurtful life with a few billion, when do you stop?

If you write a game and someone wants to buy it from your 22 person company for 600 times as much money as a pretty-well-off person makes in an entire lifetime, you can pretty much afford to say yes and do whatever the hell you like.

It just happens to be the case that Notch prefers to write games that might never be popular more than spend it talking about getting a massage at a ski resort in Switzerland.
The Ghost of NFC Future (2012)
Having lived in a non-compulsory voting country for my entire life (US), the 50% turnout rate (more or less) is deplorable.

In my mind, there are two points about compulsory voting that are nice:
1) The government must make voting available (various Republican-lead areas in the US are trying to reduce voting hours to limit voting for poor and minority voters)
2) Employers must make it possible for employees to take the time to vote (no consistent protections currently)

I'd take compulsory voting in the US just to say "fuck you" to the various groups that have been disenfranchising female, poor, and/or minority voters for generations.
OffTopic: This sync library is available?
We're talking about a region with more than 20 million people, and recent research indicates that the disease may become endemic rather than burning itself out. Cordons would just hamper our ability to get aid in and try to keep infected patients isolated. What's needed is immediate and large scale increases in the number of isolation beds available in field hospitals, tons of PPE, and trained personnel. Or perhaps we should ignore the consensus of the entire infectious disease and medical communities.

Or perhaps we should ignore the best advice of both the medical and epidemiological communities and throw our effort behind an impossible and inhuman military containment scheme...
State of Online Private Content Security
Comcast contacting customers, instructing them to stop using Tor
Here's the blog post about the switch as well: https://assembly.com/octobox/posts/octobox-is-going-open-sou...
I think you're missing the point of an introductory post: to be able to update a chart, you have to be able to create one first.
Seems like you bought it for a very silly reason! I bought it because it was a game I wanted to play. I think I spent $14 on the pre-alpha? The first 20 minutes of playing that game (which turned into probably 15 hours over that weekend) alone were worth $14.
Too bad, his claim that he isn't a developer and just wants to have fun playing and tinker makes him sound a lot like the famous Miyamoto from the StarFox development stories. Miyamoto apparently often played with many different implementations, making the programmers throw out a lot of work, but this was done to find something fun. Notch now had the money and organization to do that without worrying about having to push out a release. I wonder if his descent into writing useless things like Doom map viewers is just sort of chickening out. It's fun and easy to write for him maybe, no stress, but completely meaningless for the industry.
Fear Driven Development – FDD
That article was what inspired me to write this blog post.

In short, the key insight of the blog post is this (via untested javascript):

You can define transforming functions like map and filter via reduce (e.g. foldleft or, for Ruby, inject) instead. For example,

map([...], function (x) { return x + 1; });

Can be written as:

// append (x + 1) to the result collection
reduce([...], [], function (result, x) { return append(result, plusOne(x)); });

But notice that, above, we explicitly chose `plusOne` and `append`. If we allow a user to pass in any function instead, then we have a higher-order function:

function mapping(f) {
return function (reducing) {
return function (result, input) {
return reducing(result, f(input));
}
};
}

Now we can do:

var xform = mapping(plusOne)(append);

reduce([...], [], xform);

`xform` is a transducer.
Is everything ok, Nvidia?
How can mobile computer vision have a dramatic impact on the world we live in?
I don't see how this could work for the return flight. If I book Indianapolis to LA to get a cheaper ticket to Denver, I would still need a flight back from Denver, so even if I save 20% on the first flight, I'm only saving 10% on the round trip. Am I missing something?
Have a look at this earlier design by Romanian inventor Aurel Persu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Persu
It had a drag coefficient of about 0.22.
>>Games were still released after the death of Dreamcast.
>>The library of schmups is particularly impressive - Rez, Ikaruga, Bangai-O, etc were excellent games.

Indeed, one Shmup that has been released in mid 2013 is "Sturmwind" - See a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zy2k_iwJDY

Obligatory Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmwind
Apple, the music label?
You need to pay a lawyer to sue, and you need to pay a lot for a lawyer that will win. The US legal system is "pay for play", despite claims and general belief to the contrary.
First thing to do: ditch Java; port the game to C#.
+1 On the Thinkpads, never really looked at them before. I like how you can customize the specs a lot.
That's why the tips felt so irrelevant.

Last time I checked booking two tickets made no difference, kayak and all are all well known and I hope that everyone checks at least if there's not a cheaper alternative with these. Usually I can't find anything that I didn't know about, maybe it's because the number of airlines is diminushing every year.

I must also add that I hate those people coming with huge bags, filling the overhead bins as advised in the article. There's no room in the cabin, the old lady won't be able to lift it on her own or you'll get the bag in the face because she's not carefull. In my opinion only backpacks and laptops bags should be allowed, the way it used to be (not so old man rant).
The thing is that what makes Minecraft strong is its community, unlike Halo. You won't see Minecraft succeeding at being Windows exclusive, or by making Minecraft 2, 3 or 4. There is a plethora of community mods made and being made for MC, you won't see that happening for any sequel, not at the same level.
And then the businessman showed the fisherman photos of hundreds children that survived thanks to his charity donations, and the schools he's sponsored, and all the other ways he made the world a better place thanks to the money he made, and the fisherman was enlightened.
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Minecraft was grown out of the way Notch works.

What you are suggesting is impossible. No one, not even Steve Jobs sits down and says "My life mission is to benefit humanity". This is because we really do not know which efforts will have the largest impact on humanity. You could waste a lifetime trying to make a better battery - but it might never happen.

Or you could hack around on a game and watch it explode and impact millions of lives around the world.

In my opinion the important part is that you are doing something meaningful to you as an individual. If it ends up exploding and benefiting humanity all the better. But the world would be so much better off if we just had everyone doing this.
Four Million iPhone 6 (and 6 plus) pre-ordered
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." -- William Gibson

This software/robotics/automation transition (a second "industrial revolution" if you want to call it that) is going to be terribly painful, but it need not be. We just need to reflect on what our values are as people.
> I'd take compulsory voting in the US just to say "fuck you" to the various groups that have been disenfranchising female, poor, and/or minority voters for generations.

Those organizations probably would embrace compulsory voting without making it easier for the targetted groups to vote in practice, because they'd probably see being able to punish them for not voting an extra bonus on top of disenfranchising them in the first place.

I mean, do you think campaigns would stop blanketing neighborhoods expected to vote for the opposing candidate with false information about voting times and locations if the payoff went from "they don't vote, improving our chance of winning" to "they don't vote, improving our chance of winning, plus they are compelled to pay fines for not voting"?
Don't Be Scared of git rebase
And the way you'd work on implementing that change, would be, wait for it... Make a ton of money, and sponsor relevant research / lobbying efforts.

You definitely won't make it happen by being a fisherman.
We all die in the end anyways. Optimize for happiness.
Kickstart a Cassandra cluster with Docker
Why the U.S. might just need a Federal Commission on Robots
I'm sure this guy has been approached by Coleman or other camping related companies looking to purchase the product. I imagine the inventors think "I've had success up until now, I can keep going." And I would agree with them. Why not continue to try and go on your own? The nature of Kickstarter is that you have to try, but if you fail, you don't really owe anyone money.
I am a firm believer Brazilian start ups should focus internally, but be able to be scalable abroad. By being tied to the US market I think we fail to reach the potential our country has.

Instead of simply copying US businesses Brazilians should innovate in markets that make sense for Brazil. Focus on local customers in services that can be expanded worldwide.

To me, simply trying to tie with U.S. businesses will cause Brazil to never develop a strong startup ecosystem as it is seem in countries like India and China.
If you'd followed the outbreak as you seem to claim, you will have seen that they succeeded to a large extent in Guinea, but the subsequent spread to other areas overwhelmed their capacity quickly, and that efforts to contain the spread were complicated by having to work with three (unprepared and weak) governments. Oh, did I mention that Guinea did try closing the borders and was unable to?

I'm writing a dissertation on infectious disease spread, and your comments strike me as uninformed and harmful. The time for massive action is now, and pipe dreams of impossible (and downright inhuman) international quarantine cordons only confuse the issue.
Is that because of pricing or because of company structure/setup though? Ryanair is currently predicting 510M profit on 81M trips in Europe for 2014.

Not saying they are a model company in any way (the main thing I disagree with is some of their employee treatment), but they are certainly proving that it is possible to operate a profitable airline with low prices and high quality.
> I understand the frustration in hearing constant chatter about Minecraft. The amount of energy my kids devote to it is incredible and at times overwhelming

I'm more concerned about what affect this has on my kids, not how much it drains me (they always drain me, that won't change).

> That being said, the amount of positive coming from their involvement in the game is incredible. Doing any large project requires considerable planning and imagination. "Survival Mode" requires resource management. They develop these skills by doing instead of sitting in a classroom and hearing about them. They read about it because they want to, boosting their reading skills. The run through the whole social scientific process in an authentic way (as opposed to the multi-step process taught in schools). And they even use it as an anchor to discuss other things. My five year old was confused about the word "chest" being used as "things that stores", then the eight year old says, "you know, Chest, like in Minecraft!" Five year old instantly understands. Thats just one example..it happens all the time.

Our kids are homeschooled, so I understand the benefit of ad-hoc learning. But I won't make that into an excuse to let them obsess over a video game for months at a time.

I would much rather they learn the same skills by building real things in real life. The benefit is that they can actually use these things.

For example, we are teaching them how to garden. They will get to eat the fruits of their labor. They helped me actually chop down a few of our trees, and they helped me saw them into firewood.

Having done these things with them, and seeing opportunities for even more fun activities, I just can't see Minecraft as anything more than escaping the real world for no sensible reason.
I've always thought this myself, what prevents them from doing so?