skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are reading too much into this. Obama is merely adding this phrase to protect himself from those that will intentionally try to twist his words. When you hear anything Obama says, you must remember that there are literally thousands of hacks and an entire media empire out there carefully examining his words and thinking how they can twist them or misrepresent them to make him look bad.

If he did not put that phrase in there, there would be a story on fox news saying "Obama supports child pornography".

Regarding having ISPs police users, I do not know why the government would do something like that. The government already tracks internet traffic all over the US thanks to the patriot law and you know how the government hates giving up its functions to private parties.
How is it stable if it is based on an inherently unstable currency? And what about people who don't live in the U.S., A.K.A 17/18ths of the world?
No, it's RDBMS proponents who are hostile. Their attitude is "you will be assimilated, resistance is futile, we already won, so shut up and obey". This cannot and will not be tolerated.

I was pressured many times into giving up doing things the right way and adopting RDBMSes, and that was not pleasant at all. In some cases someone else who picked up that projects tried to move to RDBMSes (from hierarchical or document-oriented storages used before) and failed miserably.

So, again, I never came across anything that would need a relational storage. Not even when I was doing heavily distributed HPC (which is as "networked" as it gets). Yes, of course I did a lot of things that are relational naturally - but all of them were in Datalog, with no storage required.

Btw., wtf is "devops"? I've heard this a number of times recently, but nobody could explain the meaning.
Last month, I posted an analysis of all 5.6 million Hacker News comments at the time: http://minimaxir.com/2014/10/hn-comments-about-comments/

It should be noted that during the aforementioned six month periods, both the number of new comments made monthly and the average score for a given comment decreased, although this post claims a 30% increase to Hacker News traffic due to changes in the comment system, which is interesting assertion of causality. (in fairness, the decrease in number of new comments could be caused by the increased moderation of bad comments.)

It would be helpful if this article in this submission clarified how to flag comments, as that action is unintuitive (you have to click the comment permalink first) [EDIT: looks like this was added to the submission]
I feel like I used to know the difference but now I don't. What do you folks do differently on a CV vs a resume?
1) The technique you're describing is going to lead to very long journeys, so this makes manned flights impractical. Or am I wrong?

2) Getting something to a Lagrange point is only useful if it's at near zero velocity (relative to the point) when it gets there -- otherwise it falls off. So, either it gets there slowly or it burns fuel to stop at the right spot.
Instead of [deleted] it'll say [flagkilled].
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>>> Second, the government itself is made up largely of agencies which are outside of the ability of the democracy to affect.

Obama has been at work long and hard to make that the case. Since he has been unable to build any relationship with the Congress, and even holding majorities in both Houses his legislation and nominations had hard time going through, he has taken the decision to leverage his regulatory powers to circumvent the Congress as much as possible. It is not something that just happened - it is a deliberate policy which Obama chose. Of course, not him first - many presidents did the same, and some - like FDR - went a lot further than Obama ever did - but Obama is among those who believes in the Deep State and uses and intends to use it to the fullest extent possible. So if there is to be effort to rein them in, Obama is not your guy - he is the opposite of your guy. Of course, the blame does not lie solely or even primarily with Obama - it started long before him and undoubtedly won't end when he retires. But he is contributing as much as he is able to the raise of the power of the regulatory agencies and their ability to conduct policy completely independently of the Congress.
You could set up a separate profile for that¹. You can also use the Profilist² extension in your main profile for easy switching and creation.

1: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-re...

2: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/profilist/
That's so far the best counterargument of this thread.

This is why I'm not a fundamentalist. Human economic systems are unbelievably complex, full of feedback loops and paradoxes. Anyone who thinks they can take a system like that and reduce it to some set of laws culminating in a series of absolute fundamentalist diktats that will always work is delusional.

It's even possible that the system is dynamic at the meta level -- that a series of economic rules or practices might work for a while and then stop working since the system has adapted to them.

What I don't accept is the naturalistic argument that since understanding economics is hard we should just throw up our hands and take whatever nature gives us. In the realm of medicine that gives us short lives and death from communicable disease. In the realm of economics it seems to give us any number of pathological degenerate states that are undesirable to anyone except some randomly selected group of casino winners.

I've toyed around with the idea that the nature of the economy might need to oscillate between winner-take-all and redistribution. During the 70s, we arguably had a supply-constrained economy with insufficient funds available at the top to fund expansion. We had an oversupply of fundamental innovation and an under-supply of entrepreneurship, etc. Now we seem to have a demand-constrained economy with an excess of wealth at the top chasing a diminishing number of opportunities and an undersupply of fundamental innovation-- the total inverse of the 70s. This looks more like the 20s, or the "long depression" of the late 1800s. Keynes and other left-ish economic thinkers were wrong in the 70s-- their policies just created stagflation. Maybe they're right now. Maybe they'll be wrong again in 30 years.

Economies are dynamical evolving systems, not static physical systems.
The string [flagkilled] is put before the title.
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Can anyone comment on the reasoning behind the lack of a mobile style sheet?
> Kaspersky performs good malware campaign analysis without sensationalism.

Did you play the video?
> My question to Obama is: why now?

Because it will never pass with a Republican majority so he can pretend to take a stand for the public without any actual effect that would upset business interests.
> What innovation could be done for basic utilities?

I think even asking that question leads us down the wrong path. If 15 years ago, the "experts" had gotten together to brainstorm about new ways to communicate, we never would have gotten anything as disruptive as our current social networks. Instead let new people enter the market and let's see what we get.
Are you seriously trying to tell me that for some people it's impossible to have career goals because your job won't let you?
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I've never understood why Soylent get's so much attention on Hacker News given that it's a food product.

A simple google search indicates 488 mentions of Soylent on Hacker News, to be precise [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
Whatever. You can call it anything you like : act, interpretation, change, results are the same. If President signs piece of paper that restricts your liberties, then he has power to change the law, and that power is substantial - that was my point.
Ask HN: Where are the blogs of System Analysis?
Frequently i see here (and in others sites and feeds similar as HN) various informations about software development like: New frameworks, new libraries and programming languages. Only in few times i saw something about software analysis.
Why isn't there (internet at all), or we don't see, the energy of the "dev-world" in the "system-analysis-world"?
> All shipments leaving our facilities now contain the updated formula.

I just ordered another 30 day supply last week. I've not yet received a shipping notice for that order. So I am hoping that it will be 1.2 rather than 1.1. I wasn't too fond of the idea of the added enzymes in 1.1.

And, while I'm not vegan, it sounds like the oil blend change will make things simpler on their end by no longer needing a separate sku and/or packaging process to eliminate the fish oil blend for vegans.
Hacker News is supposedly undergoing a redesign soon, which would assumingly include a responsive layout.
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-Various bug fixes
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> I'd only support that if the ISPs started fucking up the internet massively.

So, say they propose a fast lane for the internet. Or don't invest in the connections to level 3 to be able to provide Netflix to users.
> The ads lose value without the tracking. The two are inextricably linked.

[citation needed]
Should I be the first to point out the irony of creating a social media site for people who value personal privacy and hard cryptographic solutions to common problems?

While I'm at it, your home page doesn't support HTTPS? Does the rest of the site?
What's your demographic? Power users who understand terms like "PaaS" and "repository", who know Javascript, and who are not daunted by "____JS"? Actual end-users who want a WYSIWYG-style builder (a la Squarespace) and don't actually know HTML+CSS+Javascript (or else they could do things themselves)?

What does "Web 3.0 ready" [sic] even mean? I've not heard anyone use the term "Web 3.0" at all, let alone in any meaningful way.

How do you define "User programmable" [sic]? Who's the user here, and what can they program?
A third experiment didn't go so well: we briefly made the software kill comments that had been sufficiently downvoted. Many users objected, arguing that killing downvoted comments is too harsh a punishment for unpopular opinions, especially since downvoted comments get faded to begin with. We heard that and reversed the change.

Good to hear they decided to roll that back.

PG opened a pandora's box when he said that downvotes were acceptable when you merely disagreed with someone, instead of doing so for civility. There is no end of sadness and bullshit caused by that remark.

It'd be nice to see an official policy statement changing that position, but I don't think it's likely. In the meantime, we will simply have to stop assuming that downvoted comments are actually, you know, bad.
> With all that said, companies like Edison and PG&E are regulated monopolies, so at this point in time they don't have much incentive to innovate. You can't unsubscribe from your electricity provider.

Yes, exactly. Instead of competing, they are in the business of compliance. I want my ISPs to ruthlessly compete for my business and not check the boxes provided by the government required to keep their monopoly.
'Like TechCrunch articles, bullshit offers are a vanity metric, not an actual measure of success'

Thank you for putting techcrunch where it belongs
Hi, I'm curious how many bits of data you collect to represent a signature for your heartbeat?
So, Justin and or YC, maybe another guide and or a short post that would be helpful to entrepreneurs would be...

"What to do when tech companies come knocking at your door?"

For example we are a small start-up on the east coast. We have had oodles of tech companies reach out to us. One invited us out west to demo, saying would you let us buy it from you, please come out and demo your tech. Then when we get there they treat us like dirt, bait us for how we accomplished our tech and after we tell them they quickly show us the door.

Following that demoralizing event others tech companies reached out asking how we accomplished X. Well after being squashed by one company, we don't take any other companies minor advances seriously.

Thus, before spending the thousands of dollars to go out west (filed a provisional & some travel costs) we wish there was a resource to have helped us say ... Umm, no do not go out to the valley they have not offered you a term sheet. We did reach out to our network, it's not too small and those in our network said, "You should pursue it and or sorry I've never been in that situation before."
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I am questioning whether the definition of the heuristics influence the outcome. Self fulfilling prophecies and such.

Specifics are necessary because it can determine whether something is a fundamental property of a thing, how it influences the definition of a thing, how that definition influences the perception of a thing, and the relationships that thing has with other things.

A heuristic requires specifics to be defined, in order for it's definition to exist.
I think there's a ton of truth to that; for example, the Jews provided a very convenient excuse for the loss of WW 1 and the overall current (perceived) plight of the German people.

But I think this common explanation oversimplifies what was clearly a complex issue. Hitler may not have had a concretely defined notion of what was Aryan and what wasn't, but he did have a strong notion of superiority and inferiority, as did most of his followers.
> Honestly I think lisp would gain a lot just by having more choices of paired delimiter.

Many lisps either allow alternate paired delimiters in general or demand them for specific constructs (or both -- Racket and many Schemes do both, and all Schemes do at least the latter.)
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> It would be helpful if this article clarified how to flag comments, as that action is unintuitive (you have to click the comment permalink first)

So that's how you flag! Thank you! This definitely should be more noticeable.
I hope they have something because Spotify's existing 'music discovery' is awful, I get by using the 3rd party apps (especially Last.FM's recommendations). And I don't see how removing the most useful functions of the existing desktop client (especially for paying customers) is a positive.
From other comments, it's ~aurora (pre-beta) but it may get new tools from nightly much sooner, very soon after nightly and long before they move to beta.

So the browser itself should be pretty stable, but the devtools may not be.

It may also gets developer-specific UI customisations which never get merged into the beta/release channels.
> There have also been some good examples of taking RPi out to remote areas in Africa

The people subjected to that probably wondered why the silly Westerner had such a primitive computer...

Mobile phones pioneered Internet connectivity through most of Africa, and are probably more useful ( being self-powered and self-contained ) than a room full of RPis + monitors + PSUs + keyboards + cabling etc etc

A user can shove a Nokia 109 into their pocket and pull it out to check the weather forecast and local market prices for crops. Can be charged from a solar panel, too. That sort of phone can last > 1 month on a charge, with light use, and can withstand a light rain shower or drop onto the ground.

GPRS ( and even 3G! ) connectivity is also more widespread and reliable in most parts than fixed-line.

RPis don't really have any role in that sort of environment.

Source: personal experience, I did some work for Bank of Nigeria a few years ago.
As Weird Al wrote, if money can't buy happiness then I guess I'll have to rent it.
If an adversary compromises php.net server then naturally the files will be signed by adversary's keys. In both cases, all you need is the ability to replace files (the package files, signature files, html instructions), nothing else. I don't see how gpg is __a lot more__ secure here.

You need some other channel to communicate what keys should sign what files. You need some other channel to import the keys. Catch 22.

"trust-on-first-use" do you mean something like the certificate pinning?

Let's consider https://www.torproject.org
It uses GPG signatures for its packages.

If SSL is compromised as you say then all I need to fool you is to give you files that are signed using my keys (unless you know that you should use 0x416F061063FEE659 key (magic secure channel) and you've already imported it (again the magic channel) and tor never changes the key.

Where should I go to check that 0x416F061063FEE659 and pool.sks-keyservers.net are correct values (google?) if we assume that the key and the key server (and the connection to it) are not compromised?

Ask yourself: when was the last time that you've tried to check that the instructions that show the key fingerprint, the key server to use are genuine?

Also, If you have paper walls I wouldn't try too hard to make the door impenetrable. It is a trade-off: if you are downloading code from stranger's repository then you won't get much from replacing `curl https://github.com/... | sh` with a gpg-signed (by the same stranger) download.

Security is like onion rings: there are layers but it is only as strong as its weakest link. We know that a real adversary will just hack your machine if necessary.
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It's a food product almost entirely targeted at Hacker News readers, and the company is run like a tech start-up.

This shouldn't be a mystery at all, and I'm suspecting it's not really something you "never understood".
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For those that are interested in a more technical analysis of the malware, infection vectors, and C&C infrastructure check out the whitepaper linked at the top. It goes into significantly more detail than the main article.

Below is a link to the PDF directly (I know the URL looks shady):

http://25zbkz3k00wn2tp5092n6di7b5k.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/f...

If you manage security infrastructure for your organization and want details on C&C URLs, compromised certs used for signing, and relevant file hashes check out the technical apendix they published, also linked at the top of the article (and below):

http://25zbkz3k00wn2tp5092n6di7b5k.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/f...
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Why would power companies upgrade? Their monopoly status has taken away all financial incentive to improve things. And their monopoly status is given by the federal government. That makes them far more interested in keeping the government happy instead of keeping me, the consumer, happy.
The question is moot -- Smalltalk isn't so good.

Back in the 90s we were developing sales force automation software in VB3 (ugh!) which was by no means wonderful. Our stuff ran far faster on modest hardware than similar Smalltalk software running on (by the standards of the time) ludicrously powerful hardware. Delphi, when it came out, was far, far better still.

Smalltalk also seems to have accumulated annoying cruft faster than it got useful. Another large Smalltalk project I was involved in (as a UI designer) suffered from multiple incompatible class hierarchies. I wanted to make different controls that did similar things look similar, but it was impossible because some controls inherited from a 1-bit graphical library and couldn't be rendered in color, others from a 4-bit graphical library and couldn't be rendered in 256 colors, and others didn't respond to certain events in certain ways (e.g. action on mousedown instead of mouseup). It was an absolute nightmare.

The language may be fine, but the implementations of it were slow and bloated, and the class libraries were a disaster area. (Of course, the main company pushing Smalltalk at the time was IBM, which probably says something.)
It was started out as a lifestyle hack in order to save time and money on cooking and eating (something that many busy people don't want to worry about ALL the time, including tech folks).

They also crowdfunded millions of dollars worth of orders, another aspect of the tech industry that gets people on Hacker News interested.

Personally, as someone who is very into fitness, I've been looking for something like this that is healthy compared to all the meal replacements in the store (which are not very healthy in big doses for a variety of reasons and aren't neutral-tasting enough to consistently eat). I've enjoyed my Soylent experience a lot despite not loving the ingredient mix 100%.
> , we were calling Go a "systems language"

And maybe in another 5 years, people will stop bickering over whether that description is/was appropriate. :)
> In the meantime, we will simply have to stop assuming that downvoted comments are actually, you know, bad.

I don't think this is true. Given that downvoted comments become faded, I have a strong reason to believe that the intent is to hide them because they are actually bad
Everything depends on your situation, but in general VCs are influenced by social proof and need a forcing function to make them make a decision. So an acquisition offer can be both of these things in the right circumstances.

The problem with this line of thinking is that if you are getting either serious acquisition offers or serious VC interest, then your company is probably doing very well and you don't really need to sweat it.

But... if you would rather raise VC funding and for whatever reason you are only getting serious acquisition interest, you should probably talk to VCs right away and mention it.
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I applaud experimentation, especially when done with copious transparency and user engagement, as was the case here.
> Like TechCrunch articles, bullshit offers are a vanity metric, not an actual measure of success

Justin; Could you touch on some other vanity metrics that you see companies measuring their success by?
> I'm sure this "shingy" fellow is nice and all

No, I'm pretty sure he's a tool. And he's found a company desperate enough for anything that they'll pay him whatever and fly him over the world and humor him, just in case he's got some hidden magic. And I don't think he does, but it's not like AOL has anything else going for it right now.
If you graduated college, it might be worth 1 line - a few decision makers will filter you out if you don't explicitly say it.

Or, it's worth 0 lines if you think that's not the kind of company you want to work for.

I once had a hiring manager ask why my K-12 education was not on my resume... he said he had wanted to filter out my CV on that basis; then I filtered his company partly on that basis.