skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked in many places. There are plenty of off-brand dumbphones in India with wifi and bluetooth. In many places I've been, the poorest people still have two things: a cellphone and access to satellite tv. A satellite receiver in Ghana costs $50. And that's also how much I paid for one in the rural Morocco.

Google Loon is not going to be a free service; it's paid internet--which is important, but $25 a month is still out of reach for many.
Maybe Microsoft wasn't so bad afterall?
Money is the oil that runs the firms. Kickbacks, favorable contracts, consulting opportunities, (legal) protection and maybe business intelligence from the most well funded vehicle on Earth? It's a cushy deal.
And at the same time, HTML/CSS typography is in the stone age compared to LaTeX. No microtype without manually tweaked <span> soup, awful justified layout, CSS regions and columns are a work in progress, and all of this is unusable for print because there is no concept of pagination.
Your input would be invaluable. Feel free to start a thread at https://discuss.outernet.is. You can see a very early alpha of the user experience here: http://librarian.outernet.is/en
> I think some people are just irrationally upset about perceived threats to something that is very important to them.

Some opponents of systemd seem to think that a move to systemd is an irreversible move in the wrong direction -- that once a distro moves to systemd, there's no going back, because systemd is large, complex, and monolithic, unlike the simple and modular SysV init system. If one is strongly attached to Debian, and feels that the distro is moving irreversibly in the wrong direction, I can see why one would strongly oppose such a move.
Game journalism is traditionally very weak, with journalists routinely feeling beholden to game manufacturers who use both positive reinforcement (expanded access to demos, invitations to special events, access to interview subjects, exclusive prerelease info) and negative reinforcement (especially the withdrawal of previously described perks) to coerce games journalists into providing very favorable reviews.

Only a very small minority of games journalists are truly unbiased, as the vast majority depend on access granted voluntarily by publishers to get the info that drives the traffic they need to make a living. They're often little more than an extension of game publishers PR departments.

Unfortunately it's very hard to solve this problem, as there's no way to force a publisher to share helpful access to critical reviewers.

Also, one time a game publisher had sex with people in the game industry which proves that all women are whores.

Oh man, I was so close.
Chileans invent a 'bike that can't be stolen'
Instructor here. I'm finishing up the course in the next few days. But I'd welcome any feedback as I'd like to continue improving the content as much as possible.
I get your point, yet I also see why that would be impossible from the GamerGate point of view considering how the media for the most part covered GamerGate in a biased one-sided way.

Don't get me wrong, I don't support GamerGate (or the other side) at all. Yet, all gamers aren't women-hating misogynists, despite the reporting.
I agree, but QE is not a dumb idea per se, it's just the way that it's done is severely lacking. What you want is inflation, which means you want to increase the amount of money in circulation. A simple way to do that is for the central bank to make money up and give, say, 20000 yen to each citizen every year until deflation went away. This is called a helicopter drop in finance-speak, and seen as very radical. Deflation should be cause for celebration: It means the central bank can print money without hurting the economy. The money thus printed could be used for all kinds of good purposes, but it's not done.

I guess the reason helicopter drops are not done is that it kinda breaks some illusions people have with money. People generally don't know that central banks buy second hand government bonds, basically giving money to those who hold that kind of asset. In short, there's no law of physics that say you have to work for money. I guess they don't think the plebes would respond well to knowing this.
Yeah +1 that makes a lot of sense. I eat meat 1-2x a month.
You probably thought you were cover, but if you were at all honest or smart you'd know that I wasn't trying to rebuke all claims of flaws. Hell, I didn't try to rebuke any such flaws. I didn't even deny them.

I was just pointing out that in the marketplace of societal organizational schemes, the nation-state has been winning for a long time now. You have your excuses as to why, but many competitors have been tried, and they're nearly all total failures.

Also, only a truly nutty religious zealot would claim that any system is flawless. That's the sort of shit that nut jobs like you say about your religion. It's not the sort of argument that any sane person makes about anything. The rest of us live in a world where we don't have all the answers; you're the only one in this conversation who thinks he knows absolutely everything, and who thinks he has the right to demand that I can't live in the society I prefer.

Thank you for being a truly cartoonish individual. You never stop making me laugh, you hilarious little asshole.

edit: also, LOL at how fast you responded. you really, really need a life.

edit2: seriously. you're fucking HILARIOUS. such a joke.
While I respect your decision to throw out the CVs of people engaging in hatred and death wishes (of course... I think most people would do this), I'm not sure many of these people will be applying to your Australian web strategy company.

In other words, your post came off as a bit self important.
We could do 10 GB per hour, easily. And that's just one transponder. A twin tuner for a set top box costs $8. To a slightly larger dish and a bit less error correction, a receiver could pull down 1 TB a day.
Be that as it may, the other option, to export their way out of this is not going to happen. They are not a cheap-labor based economy --and they don't have known viable reserves of natural resources. So, what are they to do?
Good justification/hyphenation requires Javascript, yes. That's still an existing weakness. But there is absolutely pagination control.

HTML + CSS isn't perfect, of course, but the difference between HTML and professional typesetting is much, much smaller than the difference between Word and professional typesetting.
This is a pretty hilarious nerd fight. Unlike GamerGate this has no relevance to anyone outside this little bubble and really sounds insane.

Init daemons, people!
I agree that Japan (and the US) would benefit from more immigration for a lot of reasons. But if you can only grow your economy by adding people, you aren't really increasing per-capita income, at least for the working class.
So now replying is 'stalking'.

The fact that you aren't banned is 100% proof tat dang is a completely gutless and worthless moderator.
Immigration is painfully unlikely due to cultural issues. It's oft suggested by non Japanese people looking at the problem but at least from what I can see, the majority of the Japanese voting public don't want immigration. There's reasons if you want a fun read. Particularly interesting is the history of people of Korean decent who are native Japanese residents for a generation or two.
And breaks custom HOSTS configurations.
See, you stuck up for "GamerGate", and now I think you're one of those people who believe that Zoe Quinn's private life is everyone's business because "ethics in journalism".
It should be obvious to anyone that RedHat has a vested interest in making the vast majority of Linux distributions dependent on technology it controls. Linux is its bread-and-butter.

It appears RedHat has realised that, through systemd, it can readily provide preferential support for its own projects, and place roadblocks up for projects it does not control, thus extending its influence broadly and quickly. By using tenuous dependencies amongst its own projects it can speed adoption even faster.

Once it has significant influence, and the maintainers of competing projects have drifted away either out of frustration or because they are starved of oxygen, RedHat knows that they can effectively take Linux closed-source by restricting access to documentation and fighting changes that are not in their own best interests.

At this point, they can market themselves as the only rational choice for corporate Linux support -- and this would be perfectly reasonable because they would have effective control of the ecosystem.

Linux (as in a full OS implementation) is an extremely complex beast and you can't just "fork it" and start your own 'distro' from scratch anymore -- you would have to leverage a small army to do it, then keep that army to maintain it. It's just not practical.

At the same time, Linux has matured to the point of attaining some measure of corporate credibility, and from RedHat's point of view, it no longer needs its 'open source' roots to remain viable. RedHat also, understandably, fears potential competition.

Through systemd and subsequent takeovers of other ecosystem components, RedHat can leverage its own position while stifling potential competition -- this is a best-case scenario for any corporation. It will have an advantage in the marketplace, potential customers will recognise that advantage, and buy its products and support contracts.

I hope you can understand why many see this as an extremely compelling case. Arguing that RedHat has 'ethics' and would 'never do such a thing' is immature and silly -- RedHat is a corporation, it exists to profit from its opportunities, just like any other company. To attempt to argue that it would not do so is contrary to what we can assume is its default state.

It's no 'conspiracy theory' to assume that a corporation will behave like a corporation; arguing that it is just makes one look like a naive child. systemd is one large step toward RedHat gaining the ability to reap what it has sewn -- for its benefit and not necessarily ours.
I dunno why this is getting downvoted.

The elephant in the room here is that this is behavior that is largely people imitating Linus's "personal style". Although he doesn't resort to death wishes, the tone he's famous to setting on mailing lists pretty much inevitably leads to other people thinking "this is OK".

It's not.
Demographics. Fukishima. China. Japan faces enormous challenges. Aging population means increased healthcare costs supported by a (temporarily) declining workforce and decreased tax revenues. Fukishima's costs are incalculable but impact broadly healthcare, manufacturing, farming and fishing. Much Japanese manufacturing has moved to China and adding to that expense is Japan's need to increase its defense spending to provide a small measure of balance in its territorial disputes with its neighbor. A wave of investment and entrepreneurship is required in Japan that I'm not sure the country is capable of fostering at this time. Bearish.
It seems like this was only the first domino to fall. Russ Allbery is resigning from the Technical Committee:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/11/msg00071.html

Russ was, to my mind, a voice of reason through this entire process. Losing him is a bad, bad sign.
I didn't mean to downplay the impact when I used the word minority, there certainly are a lot of people on that loony bandwagon, but relative to the total community of gamers (not just the subset of those whose public internet identities on YouTube or whatever self-identify as "gamer") I would have to assume they are a very, very small minority since a lot of people are gamers, and most people (while sexist to varying degrees, as are we all) aren't abusive women-haters, in my experience.

Also, it looks like you might be getting downvotes (due to the coloring of your comment when I viewed it anyway). Wasn't me, I upvoted you fwiw.
There are plenty of ways that designers get their hands dirty in production, but this is enrichment to improve their design capabilities, not skills they will put 10,000 hours into. I guess I'm not so much against "designers must know how to code" as I am against "designers must code on the job and be good at it." To me, this de-values design itself and takes away valuable cycles from its practice.

In experimental prototyping situations, you'll see designers learn the non-design skills they need to build their prototypes and express their ideas. That's great, but we must never mistake prototypes for products (prototyping is a distinct activity from production with different goals). So a designer might code, but they might not test well, or write comments, or any of the other million things you need to do for production-level programs.

I've been in hiring situations before, and I often find those who identify as "designer programmers" to be neither great designers nor great programmers. There are of course some great designgineers out there, but they probably won't apply to our company :(

Disclaimer: I'm a self-identified programming language designer whose niche field necessitates programming (since we are designing for programmers...duh!), but I have a lot of design studio experience working as a prototyper (never as the designer) on more conventional areas (web, mobile, even old-style surface when it was a table and not a tablet). Not Irish, just typical mixed up American with Scottish and Irish heritage (among everything else).
> But quantitative easing lowers interests

Interest rates have been low -- very close to zero -- for a long time now (two decades?). Real interest rates have been negative over the same time period. Interest rates can't really be lowered in any way that is meaningful to the middle class.

If you talk to "regular" people, overall economic confidence is extremely low. People with super-secure jobs (e.g., with the government) are rat-holing their money away while it earns little interest and negative real interest. Many folks don't consume even within their means due to the desire not to appear to be a conspicuous consumer to their peers and/or irrational economic fears (e.g., losing their unlosable job).

Said another way, the velocity of money in Japan is extremely low, and it doesn't show any signs of recovering.

> If your point is that Japan needs more production and less consumption

I don't want to speak for the OP, but the reality is exactly the opposite -- they need to consume more, and there is tons of excess capacity right now.

> lower interest rates also allow businesses to borrow and invest at lower rates.

So few businesses are borrowing money compared to those in a healthy economy. Investment is often put off until (or past) the time it is needed due to the perception of economic uncertainty. Any investment in a business that can be delayed or done cheaply (i.e., penny-wise pound-foolish) is delayed or done cheaply... no amount of low-interest money can incentivize them more. They need to see real signs of a long-term strengthening of the economy before they are willing to take the long-term approach that Japan is so famous for.

The one potential "good" outcome for QE is that the yen will weaken (e.g., I fully expect ~180 yen per dollar or more to happen) and this will make Japanese manufacturing extremely competitive internationally. The problem is that this weakening of the yen creates other forms of turmoil and uncertainty in the rest of the economy.
Microsoft has a thing for very long names though – possibly its greatest achievement ever is

Microsoft® WinFX™ Software Development Kit for Microsoft® Pre-Release Windows Operating System Code-Named "Longhorn", Beta 1 Web Setup
Australia did one and it worked wonderfully. We rode out most of the brunt of the impact of the 2008 'GFC' with little disaster. The worst of it for most of us was that getting a home loan got a bit tougher, but really this was more a case of returning to earlier norms than really getting "harder"
This headlines drive me nuts (I'm from Uruguay).

I'm not even arguing whether Mujica has done good things or not (I think he has done), but, think of this:

"USA's Beloved Obama who spent his presidency fighting for a more fair medical system in the US and has advocated LGBT rights is retiring to be more with his wonderful family."

Yeah, right, politics are much more complicated than that aren't they?
It doesn't subsidize it, such data "products" are a new revenue source for the ISPs. While I don't think it's wrong for them to want to make more money, it is wrong to alter a paid service and go directly against the best interests of their customers.
Can anyone from Uruguay comment on the public safety situation there? I'm a Brazilian living in the US, but I have Uruguayan citizenship because my dad was Uruguayan. I've always tried to keep an eye on the country as a place to maybe move to if things get too dark where I am, but I hear little about public safety issues. Brazil is awful in that regard (in any almost city there's a good chance you'll get mugged even in broad daylight), I wonder if Uruguay is a safer place to live.
Yes, but benchmarking appeared to be step one of one total.

I kid! My quantum computation friends had much more success, for a while.
> antimatter engines are probably a prerequisite for relativistic space travel.

I think I'd prefer micro-blackholes as a source of energy. Seems um..."safer" than matter-antimatter, and (probably) a lot cheaper, too.

http://io9.com/5391989/a-black-hole-engine-that-could-power-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_starship
In art, it looks like people on the outside think of "talent" as something you either have or don't, but people who are artists themselves and involved in an art community (online, in a school, etc.) tend to focus on practice much, much more.
I can verify that I am not a little square.
Pixact.ly: A web-based game to see how pixel-perfectly trained your eyes are
Kenneth Regan et al have done comprehensive and persuasive work on rating the intrinsic performance of chess players by measuring move strength itself. From one of their papers: "We have shown multiple, separate, and novel pieces of evidence that the Elo system employed by FIDE has remained stable in relation to intrinsic skill level."

See http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/papers/pdf/RMH11b.pdf and http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/publications.html#chess
That's exactly the problem. Having worked in telecom/voip space, it always baffled me how an ISP isn't a common carrier.

The common carrier designation solves an entire slew of problems that were previously experienced with other technologies as well. It addresses privacy, liability for what you are delivering, etc.
They do CPR certification, and choking treatment dovetails with those courses.
I'm surprised that is news to this audience. The head of NFL mobile was on a pod case (this week in Venture capital) and he had great statistics about traffic to NFL.com.

IMO NFL.com is a great proxy for a mainstream US sports site. He said about 60% of their traffic was mobile, 10% of mobile was tablet. This was interesting to me: mobile traffic was about 50% their app and 50% mobile web. That stuck in my head: apps are growing, but the mobile web is growing with it.
Dude, take "Skateboard club at Georgia Tech" off your resume. Especially since it looks like you either quit or were kicked out of your role as founder and president after your first year!
Yep, I am. I was being facetious. Cheers!
>systemd haters have gone Too Far.

No, they have not. Some random asshats have done what random asshats have always done. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got death threats when he killed off Sherlock Holmes. This is not some new thing or some internet thing. These are not people who were ever involved in a debate for them to carry over into something more extreme. They were never part of the community. This desire to blame other people for someone else's actions is immoral and dishonest.
Maybe you could try this, but I don't think this is something that any reputable institution's IRB would approve.

I would actually recommend trying what you suggest on cadavers. You'd have to inflate the lungs first though.
Disco is not dead, it's called "House" now.
> free universal education and universal healthcare

Do they have universal education up to the university level? Do you know how their public healthcare compares to the Brazilian SUS (Brazil's universal healthcare system)?
The problem is that GamerGate was created as part of a harassment campaign, explicitly billed as a propaganda tool, and never had a coherent message or structure, neither of which is necessary for a PR operation.

This meant that while the media coverage was generally accurate there are GamerGate supporters who aren't aware of the true origins and now incorrect feel that they were misrepresented — precisely the kind of distraction the original 4chan / burgersandfries cadre were hoping for.
If so, isn't that a kind of huge problem?

Make a web service that "coincidentally" uses the same header for something else, or add it as part of a new feature of an existing popular web service. Of course, it should have an app. Tell its users to complain to Verizon when the service breaks for them/the app doesn't work.
A comment in a blog offers some potential context - namely that the wider crypto field had rediscovered differential cryptanalysis within the last few years. My understanding is that the public discovery of a previously NSA held technique is the type of stuff that the NSA writer was likely fixating on. Likely, the NSA writer attended the conference to get an idea of if the NSA would be losing another trump card.

It's also possible that the NSA writer may have already heard of all these theoretical debates before.
We in the west are a bit too obsessed with moving fast.

What do we call a common trick in fantasy and SF that allows someone or something to move large distances in a short time? Teleportation. Spacetime stays the same, you just move through it very fast, whether physically or electronically.

By contrast, fantasy tales in China, Japan, and Korea, both modern and traditional, often show the protagonists practicing shukuchi [1], a trick that literally means "reduced earth" or "compressed land". Space is shrunk, and then you move through the shrunk space at a normal speed. It's basically warp drive, but imagined at least a thousand years before Star Trek. The guru's eyelashes don't even blow in the wind because, after all, he's just walking at his usual pace.

A change of paradigm indeed opens the door to a lot more possibilities, at least in theory if not in practice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shukuchi
For those interested in coroutines, check out lthread & lthread cpp bindings (disclaimer: author)

Code:

https://github.com/halayli/lthread

https://github.com/halayli/lthread_cpp

Docs:

http://lthread.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

http://lthread-cpp.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Hopefully this means MS is finally willing to support VP8 and hopefully WebM too.
This article sounded worrying at first, but it's not that bad.

Most people, consumers, don't necessarily desire the "open-ness" of the Internet, but rather the usefulness of the tools made by corporations which happen to have been delivered over the Internet. Indeed, this would be why those corporations are so big. So technically, consumers win.

The problem is we (hackers) don't like to hear this. We want to believe in the era where a startup like Instagram can thrive. But it's not like the Internet is going to become dysfunctional. Rather, if the web is indeed dying, it will regress to a state where only the "counter-culture" kind of people use it. For most people, it's easier to just use apps anyway, and that's fine.
A bit of background on his resignation: http://err.no/personal/blog/tech/Debian/2014-11-16-23-55_res...
GODDESS
It does happen to be a positive interpretation, but there's no reason to think that's why it was chosen, since it's also the simplest explanation.
Note that the conference happened in 1992.

Non-government cryptography has come a long way and become a lot more practical in the subsequent 22 years.