skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The motherboard of that machine doesn't support more than 3 GB RAM.
So what you're saying is Net Neutrality mostly makes sense if you don't believe in property?
The nature of the internet leads to this kind of shitfight. You get the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory [1], mixed with the potential for false flags, and no real way to verify that anyone is who they say they are (in the vast majority of cases/without a lot of work), or believe what they say they believe.

Actually, if you combine it with [1], Gabriel Morton's "Man Covered in Shit" [2] theory covers it pretty well.

[1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O57lehnWUFI
Thanks for this comment.

Seems to me a localization scheme should be open if it ever hopes to get traction.
You specifically referred to "letters", which is what I was responding to. Obviously the "casting couch" phenomenon is not a good thing, but it's an entirely different phenomenon from one's own community doxxing them and continually sending them abusive hate mail and death threats until they don't feel safe in that community anymore.

Your sarcasm and tone are really unwarranted, and I'm surprised to see it from someone whose comments are usually informative, interesting and respectful.
As someone who doesn't vote, let me explain why. It's not because I'm cynical. It's because I'm fine with whoever wins. Both parties are pretty close to each other on the issues I care about. Neither party will dismantle either our military or the welfare state. Taxes are not going to fluctuate more than +/- 5%. Nobody is going to dismantle Obamacare. Abortion is here to stay, legalization of same sex marriage is inevitable, etc. And I think these are all good things and I have no pressing incentive to vote to change the status quo.

I understand that other people don't have the same views and want to see fundamental change. But I think most people really don't want fundamental change. They maybe want to move the needle a bit one way or another, but they're basically okay with how things have evolved to be.

There was a great graphic on reddit the other day showing voter preferences by party. There is little difference between peoples' priorities with the exception of the military. Everyone cares about jobs and social security. Nobody cares about the environment or infrastructure. I find it difficult to look at the US and think anything other than that it closely reflects what your typical voter wants, or at least represents the inevitable compromise between what subsets of typical voters want.
At least you can use chip&pin :)
The NSA is primarily controlled through the executive because that's how Congress wants it; they've gone out of their way to establish laws that provide either sweeping grants of power to the executive, or regulatory/rulemaking procedures that keep Congress from having to make specific decisions about intelligence collection. It's an obvious and deliberate strategy and one that congresspeople are indeed culpable for.
This Lego particle accelerator should be the next brick separator
I wonder what the motivation that a nearby location have a completely different name.
It is hard to know if two places are close just by the name.
It's much better to be so far away you know it's wrong at the searching stage, rather than 3 miles away as with similar postcodes, co-ordinates etc when you don't know it's wrong which often results in delays/wasted journeys.
They got me all excited and yet left me hanging when it comes to finding out MY w3w address. Where's the link to look up my address and discover my 3 words?

What it's bad at:

- Sharing it with people. Where is snake.delta.chair? Dunno. It gives an offline human no info as to weather that address is even in their country. Normal addresses tell you the state, city, street name and other valuable info. W3w doesn't.

- It's not accurate. What about PO Boxes? Suites and apartment numbers? Duplexes? Office buildings? Skyscrapers? What if the w3w square has 2 or more houses on it? It's good for only rough estimate geo-coordinates.

- It simplifies the memorability of addresses, but destroys an addresses ability to be descriptive.

What's it perfect for:

Sharing your w3w address with computers. Geo mapping using human words rather than data coordinates. You can quickly leave your home / business geo-address on your photos (if you want your photos tied to your address and not the current GPS coordinates of your camera) or blog without having to remember a long string of number coordinates.
Starting with the Girl in the Mirror
Microsoft and Apple have a much, much longer track record of playing well with others than Google's, which is practically nonexistent.
Still, $4.60 a day? Even when shopping steep sales and eating vegan, I'm not sure they could make that work. Oranges and apples are sometimes (like right now) less than a dollar a pound, but generally they cost between a dollar and two dollars a pound. Nuts and seeds are up over $10 a pound. And if they want to buy processed foods like pasta, the quality will be no different than they could get elsewhere for much less money.

I think the amount of Link card (the payment mechanism for SNAP in IL) use we see at WF is actually the byproduct of fraud or wastefulness. I remember in the 90's, in an inner-city property complex that one of my friend's parents owned, that food stamps (which were much more like food cash than pre-loaded cards) were traded amongst residents and other community members for either drugs or cash. I assume that, at the top of the line in those transactions, some well-off group of people ended up with several times the monthly allotment for SNAP and would just spend it like a typical price-insensitive rich person.

I'm not sure that's even possible now, but what I've found with government programs is that no matter the lengths they go to to insulate themselves from fraud, that in the face of creative people who are incentivised to cheat the system, it never seems to be enough to actually protect themselves.
I tried switching to BSD (PC-BSD) from Debian and then went back because I couldn't find out any better performance from BSD as compared to Debian.
Well, they need about 38500 words, so it seems possible to do without having to use both "lamp" and "lamps", but it's probably not possible to avoid every pair of similar seeming words, eg "principle" and "principal".
Not that it impacts your argument in any way, but classifying Hyde Park as "white" is a little off. It is white in that there is a way higher white population in Hyde Park than in it's surrounding neighborhoods, and that the white population is the biggest racial group, but the white population is not a majority in the neighborhood.

What is accurate to say is that compared to the neighboring areas, Hyde Park is phenomenally affluent and educated and Englewood exists on the exact opposite end of that spectrum.

In any case, it stands, having a Whole Foods in Englewood will not attract Hyde Parkers (especially as they already have 1 high end grocery brand, and are getting a Whole Foods).
So, let's set aside from the people vehemently disagreeing with what is basically someone reading TvTropes and applying feminist theory to it without conceptualizing the terms she uses, like patriarchy.

For example, is this harassment? https://medium.com/@cainejw/dishonesty-feminist-frequency-pa...

What exactly is the harassment, and is it widespread? A school shooting threat that is being handled by the FBI? That the FBI advises not to publicize, yet Sarkeesian did so against the recommendation of the FBI? Inviting copycat harassment to materialize. As a result, she's doing the rounds on cable TV channels.

I believe the fundamental point some are making here is disingenuous, that critique and disagreement is enabling harassment to flourish. That critique and disagreement is "protecting", serves to cover, the harassers.
Minute: Useful app to track how much time you spend on your phone
Simple and lightweight but accurate to track how long you spend on your phone! It will bring discipline!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tardibee.minute
Yay my address, when translated from French, is something like "throat.shame.cutting". I'm eager to share it with friends!
The last words of a dying war veteran to Dick Cheney and George W Bush
Great, my house is borderline inappropriate. Before seeing that, I thought this was a neat idea.
Clever, but not very practical. Addressing and city/state/country names are very well ingrained into our culture and have real-world meaning. We can understand the general location of an address just by reading it. w3w takes all context out of location names, and forces you to map it with a tool. I don't see how that will improve anything.

As you can purchase a one word name for a specific location, this really just looks to me like someone trying to quickly make a buck with a clever idea, similar to the "milion dollar homepage".

If they did have a more meaningful intent, it is not communicated well enough for me to have received the message.
The Middle School Plunge
> But the goal of the project is not to make money but to give the opportunity to population of countries like China and North Korea (and many others) to access information otherwise censored in their country.

This is a laudable goal, but if this became a threat then wouldn't their governments just jam the signal?

For example, China already does this with shortwave radio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming_in_China

As this could completely undermine the project in large regions of the world, it seems like a huge operational risk.
Context is being sacrificed for a very slick auto-correct system (in beta, going live v soon). When similar sounding 3 word combinations are shuffled around the world, it's pretty clear based on user location which result is the intended one. As a result, you can misspell pretty badly and the system will still handle it. Most exciting is that processing of voice input of 3 words is virtually 100% accurate using the same auto-correct algorithm - also coming v soon.
I will say this, from the perspective of someone who has been around online communities for approaching 20 years and moderating in various online mediums for 10+ years - women get harassed online far too much in most communities. The extent some of the harassment goes is mind boggling.

One of my good friends had a beastiality erotica written about her as part of a campaign to defame her, where the people involved went as far as taking the ip addresses of the moderators and redirecting them to a harmless image whenever they attempted to load the actual image. The primary reason is because a group of people didn't like how she acted, including dating the founder for a short while of the site the community was based on.

Another member of the community was naively coaxed into sending someone else some pictures of her naked, which was then gathered up and used to slut shame her - she was not even 18, which made it distribution of child pornography.

I have had to ban countless harassers who would go on a public TF2 server I run and immediately try to harass the women who had the gall to use a microphone - I take a zero tolerance attitude towards this behavior, harassment of any kind is unacceptable. Whatever positive contributions some of these people might have, it certainly isn't worth accepting that sort of behavior as the norm, driving away good people who did nothing wrong.
Often, especially in the DC metro area, police do not live in the same jurisdictions that they work in.
That's not really true at all, is it? Read Reihan Salam's piece in Slate about conservative objections to the ACA. The ACA didn't pass because it was close enough to conservatively acceptable to limp through as a "moderate" reform. Conservatives hate the ACA and see it as a radical reorientation of entitlement spending back to big-budget redistributive federal spending.

So Obama and Pelosi got lucky (thank god) and got a guaranteed issue health reform bill passed. That was a huge change, and it just happened a few years ago.

Bush and Hastert could have gotten lucky transforming social security into a giant subsidized IRA scheme --- which was their stated goal. The social safety net could have been radically transformed into a government block grant to New York financial firms.

Not to mention: the whole disastrous Iraq war.

I think you should probably vote.
Bad behavior thrives under misaligned incentives -- especially when it goes unnoticed. In such cases, the best remedy is to shine a light on the problem. Accountability, rather than aggression, will garner far better results.
All homophones are removed (where/wear, principle/principal) so that the system always works when people communicate a 3 word location by voice.
The biggest problem I see with these global addressing schemes is that they have nothing to do with the location, and they dont have any locality. Snake.Dog.Rabbit is in a location with no snakes, dogs or rabbits and is right next to Lamp.Chair.Guitar? Theres no visible logic to it. its just easier to say 123 River Road. By the name you know its likely to be near a river, and it will be right next to 124 River Road
Tl;dr DNS (human readble names) for physical locations on earths surface.

It's a nice idea "I will meet you at chair.lion.knowledge" is better than meet you at grid location 123.456.5676

But to be honest I know roughly where in London SW1 2EE is and the amount of times I will need that level of accuracy for an address in Mumbai or LA is quite limited. In addition "chair.lion.zebra" is actually less readable to billions of non Latin script natives around the world than numerical addresses.

Ah well - it's a nice idea.
Yeah. So there's a lot going on with harassment charges. First things first, i'm not a lawyer. I'm just a dude who cares about civics.

The internet makes harassment considerably more problematic. Even setting aside constitutional defenses of speech, just trying to figure out which agency should be in charge of investigating and prosecuting harassment is confusing at best.

Do you go to your local police? Do you go to a federal agency? Which one? Even when you do approach a law enforcement agency after receiving threats, do they think its worth their time to investigate? (Amanda Hess's piece on harassment is an interesting for her interactions w/ the police alone: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/women-ar... )

Revenge porn is an analogous (but not identical) problem, and even in that case, where basically everyone can agree it's a bad thing, it's clear first that states don't have statutes which they can use to prosecute (until very recently at least: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_porn#U.S._laws ), and in several cases some of the laws being written are complete clusterfucks.

The truth of the matter is that you can get away with a whole lot of bullshit before anybody starts trying to drop hammers on you. And harassers live in that space between what is legal and what is enforceable (a lot of other interesting stuff lives in that space too).
Your response implies that you've not read the thread of comments I was contributing to. I wasn't taking a position on firewalls, nor on the current publication/journal practise. Rather, joelthelion tried to argue that paywalls could possibly explain the lack of citations for more recent publications. I gave counter arguments. Not sure what your comments on the right or wrongs on paywalls and journalling practises have to do with this?

> There are researchers at companies. There are researchers with no affiliation. Many have an issue with paywalls even though you haven't.

I never made any comment either way. I really don't see how you can make that comment. Just mentioned that researchers I have known find ways to get round paywalls, if they ever happen to to encounter one, if needed, including even emailing the author of the papers. If you want to publish you can't submit a paper for review without having demonstrated knowledge of the related literature, and where your work fits within that. Researchers will find a way to read and cite the relevant literature that they need to, and thus can't be used an excuse for lower citations for more recent papers.

EDIT: Didn't intend for my post to be harsh.
In a 20/20 special from long ago, Jerry Seinfeld was going off in brilliant, comedic tangents. One thing he said about Julia Roberts: "Julia Roberts. Where would she be without her vulnerability?"

I think he also said that most Hollywood actresses spend their lifetime preparing for their most important role: being a Hollywood star.
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I'd be willing to bet the sub-reddit idea was heavily emphasized since that's arguably the only novel idea that reddit had, but it's a good one that allows it to not turn to shit and stave off eternal september for as long as possible.
You're right. I edited my sentence to include "college town" and split "white" from "stronghold".

Hyde Park is a white stronghold in the sense that it, like Beverly, is a south side neighborhood where white families will happily reside.

"College town" is probably the more appropriate descriptor of Hyde Park.

(I grew up in Beverly, and went to school at Ignatius, so I had a bunch of Hyde Park friends).
Raspberry Pi's trademark violation by Teespring?
I hope that (assuming the demographics really do skew poor and food stamps) that the cashiers aren't mandated to harass the cusomters with WFs bullshit charities.
I used to work at the Palo Alto WF for 4 years, and a couple of times a year there were periods where it was mandatory for cashiers to ask customers about WFs latest bullshit charity schemes-like the Whole Planet Foundation, etc. It was bad enough doing that in rich PAMPA, but hopefully the store management has a bit more flexibility opening up in freaking Detroit (assuming its not a store heavily visited by 28 year old start up employees with obscene amounts of money).
This is stupid on so many levels. What about floors? 3m x 3m in a skyscraper can be an address of thousands of people. And why even allow the oceans?
RHUs are in no way comparable to RTGs: They are basically very small amounts of radioactive material fully enclosed in a thermally conductive container. Think of it as an always warm pebble stone. They are unregulated sources of (almost) constant heat and have no other purpose.

In aerospace engineering, they are used in just a few circumstances to augment the active heaters in a spacecraft: Heater lines, which are resistive heaters in a foil with a PI controller. You need active thermal control since your environment changes a lot (launch, preliminary orbit, transit, orbit) and thus its thermal parameters (some parts of a spacecraft may experience temperature gradients of a few hundred Kelvin within a few minuts). Most spacecraft designs have issues with overheating and thus RHUs cannot be used here.

An RTG's primary objective is to produce electrical energy (at an abysmal efficiency). The excess heat generated by an RTG is seldomly used for thermal control since it can also not be regulated and it emits simply too much heat energy.
ISPs do extensive "manipulation" at layers above IP for operational reasons that have nothing at all to do with favoring particular content providers.
Getting Better at Getting Better
Can we expect the deployment of US troops?
“Every retailer with an online catalogue, every manufacturer with online product specifications, every insurance company with online claims processing, every bank offering online account management, every company with a website–every business in America interacting with its customers online is dependent upon an open Internet.”
I have $5,500 to use for a Title IV School/Program
Just finished up an AmeriCorps term of service and I have accumulated the standard $5,500 education award to use for Title IV approved schools/programs.

I have a bachelors in Crim Justice and a J.D. already so I thought I might want to look into using it for something online that's CS related - but I really don't want to spend anything more out of pocket and see if I can just get the $5,500 worth (even if it's not a complete program). Problem is that I've looked at the full spectrum of classes at local approved community colleges and I'm already far past their most advanced level just having gone through several Code School/Codecademy courses.

I would love to get more training specific to databases since that's my weakest area currently.

Any ideas of something I can put this toward that is 1) online 2) less than $5,500 or droppable once I max the award and 3) higher than introductory but not much higher. It has to be a Title IV program so that eliminates a lot of great workshops/boot camps I would otherwise love to put it towards.

Thanks for any input!
"The research firm Gartner estimated that worldwide, people spent $235.4 billion through mobile payments in 2013, compared with $163.1 billion in 2012. But that number is much smaller in North America"

hm.. I would have thought that the number in North America would be bigger than or at least equal the world wide number. Thank God NYT made this clear.

Maybe they'd made a better point, stating that mobile payments were growing slightly faster in North America than worldwide or that mobile payments were increasing by 50% even before the introduction of Apple Pay?
I'm pretty glad they're not using DTLS. TLS is the sane and (usually) correct choice for normal client-server protocols, but DTLS is not necessarily the conservative choice for group messaging systems.

This isn't a particularly sophisticated cryptosystem --- AES-GCM with keys broadcasted between the trusted participants --- but it's simple and, while GCM is nobody's favorite AEAD, it is at least a formal AEAD mode, leaving not a whole lot of room to screw the basics up.
This is only tangentially related in that it's not using ordinary words. But GeoHash always struck me as a clever encoding for lat/lon pairs. Locations look like "u4pruydqqvj", so gibberish, but concise. The neat thing is geohash is a progressive encoding so you can lop off characters from the right and still be naming the same area, just less precisely. Ie while u4pruydqqvj is a specific point in Denmark u4pru is just sort of in the area of Denmark. More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
Yeah, also a bit useless. I don't think many Dutch people exist that can't read English, or even that don't enjoy reading English. Those that don't most likely don't browse the web much either.
Gravity exerts almost no torque here. Philae has 100 kg of inertia, but it weighs less than a feather.

Even if were in a strong gravity field, that still wouldn't orient it, if there's no force like air resistance to attenuate its tumbling. It can rotate indefinitely in the vertical plane: there's no loss of energy. (In an atmosphere, this rotation is damped by air drag, so gravity can orient things).
DieHard: An error-resistant memory allocator for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
I suppose that depends on what YCombinator considers valuable about HN.

While I understand the desire to optimize a site like this for 'quality', I don't believe it would be fair to gauge the merit of threads like those (the idea threads or the screenshot threads) based on how much of the content generated might be of value to YCombinator, or even (as dang might put it) their intellectual gravity or novelty.

The act of presenting ideas and discussing them is a creative act which adds value to the community, albeit perhaps not to YC's brand identity as a nexus for brilliant thought-leaders and innovation. Not everyone here expects, or even desires, to ever interact with YCombinator outside of this forum.