skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The justice system is "broken" only if you believe that it's ultimate goal is justice.

The truth however is that it's simply double-speak. 1984 illustrated this beautifully. The Ministry of Truth was in charge of fabricating lies. The Ministry of Love was in charge of punishing and torturing dissidents. The Ministry of Peace was in charge of conducting perpetual war.

In our case, the justice system is in charge of injustice, for example by making sure that rich people remain in power and that their wealth and property are protected (from the poor) and ruthlessly prosecuting anyone who threatens the social order -- especially minorities.
async != an incorrect system.

Very correct! Most of the mysql problems derive from it being statement replication and not log shipping. A proper postgres replication setup will be less prone to having data inconstancies.
Since methane is worse than CO2, it's actually better WRT the greenhouse effect to burn it and produce CO2 + water. Water's also a potent greenhouse effect contributor, but the atmosphere's already saturated with it, so the excess will just rain back down.

Here's an interesting site found through Google:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/evidence/methane.shtml
> The real question here, which is more or less unrelated to inflation: why do we want to shift resources from investment to consumption?

Putting aside the question of whether a basic income would actually shift resources from investment to consumption, there is a very simple way to offset it. Raise the money using a consumption tax (ideally VAT).
I think at some point, we do.

People like this format. GIF, gyfcat, Vine, and now this. Instagram and WebM on 4chan also have things keyed to this behavior. But the thing that GIF has on all of them is that it works everywhere. It plays in a browser, in an email, on the desktop, in an MMS message, etc..

We need a full stop replacement for the GIF that uses a modern encoder.
Could the author of this post offer some specific examples that they would consider abuse? My feeling is that while what he describes happens, on average, good comments survive and bad/unhelpful ones are buried.

The hard problem is keeping the benefits of the current system while also improving it. Perhaps a 'worstcomments' list that could be periodically reviewed for abuse, alongside 'bestcomments': https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
Google (and others) has a simple solution to this: encrypt everything end-to-end. If Google can't know what the user's data is, then neither can the US government (supposedly). That should increase the trust other countries put into Google and other tech companies.
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Moving to a VPS. A story about how great is DigitalOcean
Why we built a fertility “Fitbit”: The purpose behind it all
Ovatemp was born around the idea that we need to take better care of our women. Science and technology need to offer women a better way to take care of themselves. To understand their bodies and to be able to make life choices that won’t damage their health in the long run. There are two scenarios that need to be approached in a more holistic way. The first is women who aren’t ready to have children or simply don’t want to. The second are women who are ready to have children and are encountering difficulties with their ability to get pregnant.

Lately, the long term side effects of hormonal contraception have made women turn away from it, not to mention the very annoying short term side effects. On the other hand, the financial burden that assisted reproductive technologies can bring is a cause of concern for many. This is why we believe that the fertility awareness method is a perfect fit for everyone. No matter what your choices are. This is why we want to make it easy for women to practice it. This is why we believe women should give their bodies a chance. Nature is wiser than we believe. Let’s work with it and not against it.

Recording your temperatures every morning into your mobile device is such a hassle. My wife had this 80’s looking apparatus that took her temperature and saved them so that she could later input them to whatever app she was using at the time. One morning, in a fit of frustration she just screamed at the thing and asked if there was a way to connect a thermometer into her smartphone and forget about manually inputting temperatures. My enthusiastic entrepreneur spirit just said, “Let’s do it!”

This later evolved from being one tiny thermometer into developing our own app to sync it with and offering women personalized fertility coaching through it. We figured, if we are going to do something, let’s do the best we can do.

We have encountered bumps along the way, but we have never stopped for a second. That’s why today, after two years, I am happy to present to you the thing that started it all: Ondo. An oral basal thermometer that will sync with your smartphone and facilitate the practice of natural birth control and/or pregnancy achievement. We know this works because it worked for us. We did not start out wanting to make money, we started out trying to solve a very real problem we had. We used it both ways, to prevent pregnancy and later to achieve a very desired pregnancy after two years of trying to conceive. We want to share our solution with women all around the world.

It’s been a long journey. One with ups and downs, and lefts and rights, and any other direction you can think of. It’s been exciting and stressful. It’s not over yet and hopefully it will continue to bring as much satisfaction to you as it has to me. There is always room for improvement and rest assured we are constantly looking to improve. In the meantime, let us help you listen to your body.

Daniel Graf

Cofounder @Ovatemp
Carl: Hmm... I think I should sell my apple shares... but who would buy them all...?

Carl: I know, I'll get apple to buy my shares!
All computer security relies on obscurity, because all computer code can be numerically represented, and numbers are not secret.

TLS? SSH? They are considered "secure" because the numbers they use are really, really, really obscure. So obscure that it would take too long to find them through any kind of naive search, to be useful.

Security is not binary, though. Anything that extends the naive search time extends the security. Even if hiding the source code only doubles the search time for an exploit, that's still an improvement.

Where people get in trouble is by overestimating the time extension. For example, by assuming that secret code can never be exploited because it's secret.

That's where the scorn for "security by obscurity" comes from. Not because obscurity is useless, but because the value of obscurity is so easily overestimated.
How valuable was your high school education?
I had two classes that I felt helped to prepare me most for life after graduation, Money Management and Entrepreneurship. I remember soaking up as much as I could, knowing the knowledge would come in handy one day. Since my 2009 graduation, life has been about everything I didn't learn in school. How to compose a resume and prepare for job interviews, how to build credit, how to incorporate a business, how to achieve good health, etc. I can now vouch for the statement, 'Google taught me more than school'. I didn't go to college, but I am attending the university of life, where every course is self-taught.

After that sentence, some of you may itch to debate how much better off I’d be had I gone to college. That isn't the point here.

Basic life lessons were not provided. Individuals are graduating high school, without a clue as to how to navigate the real world. Something is very wrong, and pushing for fundamental changes within an archaic educational system is a pipe dream. I feel the best we can do is take change into our own hands and supplement the education of our youth.

So, I am looking for feedback for an idea of mine. An app, LifeLesson, where both students and graduates can go to view short video clips and/or audio recordings on topics such as credit, business, health and so on. Content will be divided into two sections, experienced professionals and peers offering advice. There will be a feature that allows the student to add LifeLessons to a Notebook.

While available to everyone, I feel it is key to target individuals 17-25. They need it most and if that age bracket gravitates to it, I believe it would be a tremendous success. I haven't yet worked out how it would generate revenue as my heart is in this and for the moment, money has to take a back seat.

I'm here for you to pick my idea apart. Please bring up anything that comes to mind.

If you'd like to discuss this idea with me privately, reach me at saphiresumpter@gmail.com.
I feel especially bad for local restaurants that have sites built all in Flash. When I look up who designed their website, it's proudly hosted on the only local dial-up ISP left in town, designed by a "company" which is really just a high schooler who took a digital media class once.

I know there is no way that site is being redone, and they're now completely at the mercy of Yelp.
I don't recall ever being asked that. Is it only for non-citizens?
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When the man behind PayPal and Facebook talks, we listen
The search engine didn't find profits. The ad platform did.
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> An example of where this excess bloat would be bad is in a microservice architecture.

Django is pretty easy to slim down. Yank the middleware you don't need, stick to what you do. No need for stuff like context processors if you are using DRF. You don't have to use models or the ORM at all if you don't want.

I think the line count would be very similar for many cases. For example, if your flask app needed DB access, you'd end up pulling in and boilerplating an ORM anyway. Ditto for sessions/authentication/etc.
The Washington Post is deeply tied into the political and government establishment of Washington and has been for decades. This sort of thing really doesn't represent a change in tone.
I don't think I'm advocating unsignalled. Just put the signalling into a distributed system into the trains themselves. Since those vehicles can actually see what's in front of them, that should be a lot safer, since signalling systems are effectively blind (that's where the disasters tend to happen. The central system wasn't aware of, say a broken connection that put a switchboard into an unexpected position).

I'm convinced this can be made safer than central signalling.

As for the vehicle sizes, I'm sure whatever size vehicle is necessary could simply be constructed, and the article on wikipedia for mentions that you could have battery-powered vehicles with rapid charging at stations, negating the cost of having and maintaining dynamic (moving ?) electricity connections throughout the tunnels.
If you're having jack configuration options, you are not using a modern distro.
With the advent of Cadence and it's suite of tools (easilly installed in Debian/Ubuntu/fedora/arch/gentoo), JACK configuration is brain-dead simple. In fact, if you enjoy the masochism that is PulseAudio, you can have it installed and make it a slave to JACK. Then all your PA-aware apps can be used in any ladspa-compatible DAW (or even via wineASIO - FL Studio anyone?).
This is disappointing as this is almost definitely converging on a local maxima.
There is no "worstcomments": all comments which hit -5 are autokilled.

The -4 comments are pretty terrible, though. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IfbSDYVBXiHZCuMdHXgp...
Exactly, the headline turns "the surveillance we are doing and have done" will break the internet, to "being afraid of surveillance" (implying "without reason") will break the internet.
From what I read from him, I can only feel that he's one of the example of what's wrong with capitalism. He only serves himself (Pump & dump, Herbalife, etc.)

He's been a cancer to any company that he's invested in. Check the Family Dollar history. Force owner to sell, then when a serious offer shows up, he sells his share before the deal is closed.
The key phrase in there is "test-based". http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/S...
To stop data theft, pull the plug
I could see where you're coming from, but the two objective arguments I see that argue for the toning down of government surveillance, or at least major changes to our surveillance system would be:

1. The current policies and attitude are [seemingly] going to have negative economic impacts of enormous proportions.

2. Surveillance will always be a cat and mouse game as technology improves, and surveillance will become increasingly difficult, perhaps impossible.
They're not really practical. Land is expensive.
This is the way to do it.

Another way of doing it is to exclude all cookies, and only care about session-cookies.
> Mozilla can't provide base images without licensing proprietary software (for the RIL primarily, although there may be others depending on the hardware).

how do the AOSP/CM11 devs do it?
"Wake me at 6 AM"

"Remind me to check my air filter when I get home"
> Wizard of Oz security: Pay no attention to the software behind the curtain

Definitely going to use this.
I have to disagree... in particular, the point of reference (absolute) is also all wrong. It's not going to teach you much about how to react to a man-over. There really isn't much substitute for actual drills at sea to simulate the real stress, surprise and difficulty of a MO where you don't have time to switch over to your engine. Anyone who is skippering (and most crew) should be able to handle an MO properly.
He's expressed this sentiment before, and has been pressing Apple to expand its stock buyback program since he first invested in the company. See this 2013 article from Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-13/carl-icahn-disclose...
I do believe you're right about it not scaling. Police states never do.

Though I'm not sure republican forms of government (or indeed "democracy" itself) scale too well , either.
Of course it will -- there is no terrorism any more, after all.

Real answer: this is nothing more than security theater. The effective way to fight disease would be health care, and that's the one measure the United States will never take to fight any disease.
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The section of the video where the robotic arm "plays ball" really impressed me due to the kind of playfulness which it exhibited. Beyond being impressed by the fluid actuator system I was just starting to be amazed at the programming involved with making a robotic arm that can show such accuracy to "catch" the ball and roll it back but also do it in such a playful manner..... then the camera zooms out and shows that the arm was being controlled by a human. Damn.

* I'm at working and watched the video with out sound, so maybe I missed as it was explaining what was going on.
Capturing carbon from the air is extremely practical - plants do it using solar power. What is this technological approach trying to achieve, versus just using plants?
he's so full of it. he wants a stock buyback program to boost his own shares valuation. that's all. this guy is a scam artist.
>> "Is Capturing Carbon from the Air Practical?"

There are already widely-available solar-powered redundant distributed systems that do this while producing valuable outputs. Around here we call it the forest (tm).
We have machines for doing this. They're called trees. Let's stop cutting them down.
You can clearly see how silly it is by applying it to reducing the unemployment rate...

Reducing unemployment will increase demand but will also increase supply. So no.

It could be that members of the lower middle class are hungry for an opportunity to start a business and will us the money to invest rather than consume...There are many products for which this relationship is negative. Where there is no practical limit on the number of units suppliers can produce...

So if I'm understanding you right, BI will work because the rich have a higher marginal propensity for consumption, Giffen goods are common and scarcity isn't real? Ok.

It depends entirely on the contours of the economy at a specific time and place and is constantly in flux.

If that is the case then the usefulness of a BI will also constantly be in flux. I guess your opinions on the topic are also constantly in flux? If not, why not?
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If you are both capable enough cooks, what are you cooking regularly at the moment that takes a lot of time, > 1 hour? I cook most of my own meals and have over time found dishes that are enjoyable, healthy, cheap, and don't take too long to prepare or clean up afterwards. I usually revolve around pastas, meats with sides of vegtables, curries and a few others.
"acheivement gap" is a factual description of the outcome being described, "opportunity gap" (when used in the same context) is a (reasonable) hypothesis about the (or, used in a weaker sense, a contributing) cause of that outcome.
Picking out the three points: not highly available, not consistent, and not partition tolerant.

[reverting to non-standard, dummy definitions below just to explicitly define some things]

Redis Cluster is available as long as (50% + 1) of the master nodes are reachable by each other. So, 15 masters will be more "available" than 3 masters if they are deployed across a sane network topology. Your masters will have replicas as well, so if a single master instance fails, a replica for that master will be elected to be the new master.

Redis Cluster is consistent in that each replica is an exact copy of its attached master (by default, each master owns N/16384 of the keyspace, where N is the total number of masters). You can lose writes if the master doesn't have time to replicate before the master fails, but that's the nature of async replication. (You can request your Redis client "wait" for at least N replicas to receive your commands before the command completes; this gives you some assurances.) It's possible for you to get an "inconsistent read" if you read from an async replica after writing to the master, but you have perfect read-after-write consistency if only talk to master instances.

Redis Cluster nodes on the minority side of a partition will, by default, deny reads and writes until they re-join the cluster. Redis Cluster prefers data integrity over availability by default since Redis Cluster has no merge operations. You can optionally allow the minority side to keep accepting commands, but that definitely will not guarantee any consistency of your data when the whole cluster reappears.

Given that better AP systems exist, ones that actually provide things like availability during partitions and eventual consistency mechanisms/guarantees, will Redis Cluster eventually support these features?

The one limitation for each of those features is: Redis is an in-memory database. Riak uses multiple KB of metadata for each object in the DB. With Redis, it's common to have tens of millions (or hundreds of millions) of keys on one server.

Availability during partitions with eventual consistency (if you want more than last-write-wins) requires CRDT-like things, which requires metadata, which requires more memory usage per-key.

Full and usable availability during partitions is nice to think about, and it would be great to one day have the option to maybe have in-memory Redis "better data consistency for smaller, manageable datasets" with CRDT merge operations so you get a Reis-dynamo type thing.

But, since Redis Cluster is already 4 years under development, it's not worth burning brain cycles on until real users start using Redis Cluster and we can see where the needs-vs-features plot falls. (plus, the issue backlog for other Redis development improvements is about 100 tasks long, so speculative improvements have to fall in line with the balance of Cluster vs. Standalone vs. Master-Replica vs. New Commands vs. Improving Existing Commands vs. Bug Fixes vs. User Contributions vs. Doc Updates vs. Evangelism vs. ...).
Ok, so lets take podunk town out of the equation...

How about all the laws the FBI breaks?

How about when the FBI uses the exact same laws podunk town uses to seize money for their officers' personal gain?

How about the ATF selling guns to the cartels?

How about the CIA selling drugs to fund terrorism?

How about your police force being so centralized that your President believes he has the right to summarily execute any US citizen, you've centralized your entire justice system into the hands of one individual, judge, jury and executioner.

The US has centralized police and it's just as corrupt as many other decentralized forces. Also, many nations have centralized police forces that are corrupt. (Federales?)
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Job Title: CTO

This is an opportunity for an experienced developer to help lead one of the world’s most innovative media startups through the next major stage of its evolution.

In the two years since launch, Aeon Media has established an international reputation for high quality digital publishing and big ideas in Aeon Magazine. Now we are taking a major step forward, actively developing an entirely new platform: a hub for expert conversation around the big defining questions of our age. Aeon Ideas is currently in private beta and due for launch early 2015.

We are looking for a dynamic, creative CTO to drive the development of Aeon Ideas and to direct Aeon’s overall digital strategy. Aeon has offices in London, San Francisco and Melbourne. This role will be based either in San Francisco or Melbourne.

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Responsibilities:

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hands-on development of features for the new site and our existing sites

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You will have a minimum of 4 years commercial development experience, including a demonstrated engagement with innovations in digital publishing and social networking. You will be excited by the potential of new collaborative digital tools to help people connect and create the best content on the web. You will be intrigued by the success of Wikipedia, Reddit, Quora and Medium, and you will be prepared to challenge the digital landscape with a whole new approach to collaborative knowledge-making.

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I think skorecky was agreeing with danso, and implying that Hjson is lacking adequate structure.
As a huge halo fan, it makes me happy that Cortana is slowly becoming a well known name =). Having said that, I'd really like to give her a try, I would hope that it would exceed google now on my moto x which for the most part has been very useful while driving.
That's incredibly interesting! If you can treat cells to receive signals on one end, and transmit them on the other, then can you then use some sort of optical fiber to possibly branch around damage along a nerve path? As they say, the internet routes around damage. Can we do the same with our nervous system?
TL;DR: If your success metric is "conversations with a new customer", then you can increase it by forcing the customer into a conversation via your first email.

However, I bet that many SaaS vendors don't consider that metric as their #1 concern.
@antirez, what would you say is the most useful lesson you've learned throughout this process?