skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's just a problem people moved on from awhile ago. There were a few years when building a forum-solution (as a wordpress plugin or a standalone solution like VBulletin or PHPbb) was good business. But these days, who would you be building it for exactly? Many of the popular forums are either perfectly happy with their old solution, or are running on something completely custom.
I'm thinking I might have that same issue. Can you share what works for her?
This is Nick Carr's "The Big Switch" in reverse as I predicted years ago. It used to be the case that centralized distribution was cheaper, than, as described in the book, every factory having its own water wheel power plant. The technology is getting good enough now though that each endpoint can be self-sustaining, and even provide services - just as the internet should be - every endpoint providing and consuming. This trend will be massively disruptive, and expect centralized services to do just about anything they have to, to protect their dinosaur business model.
> anyone is free to decide whether they follow the teachings of said religion or not

Everyone that has enough mental power to escape the mantra of " you are going to hell and burn for all eternity ". Many, many people truly believe that they are going to hell for the use of a condom so they are not as free as you think. They will be punished if they don't obey. That's how religion works, do what we say or you will get eternal punishment in a fiery pit. (but as George Carlin said .... god loves you)
What I find interesting is that no matter how hard I google, I can't find this joke anywhere. Heard this story before and to this day curiosity is killing me.
+bump
Eben Moglen: Why Political Liberty Depends on Software Freedom
Agree...OP you are more likely to find a remote developer job for a big corp than a start-up IMO. GL
That sounds amazing. Can you recommend a brand, dosage? Are you saying it cures the cough or just suppresses it?
You're such a moron it hurts.
That last quote in the "article" (PR release) is far more informative than the rest of the words combined. Welcome to phase 2 of their strategy to infuse artificial confidence in Bitcoin so they can cash out of the $11 mill in BC that have been stagnating since they purchased them back in 2013. Winkdex was phase 1.

I mean, I get it, one doesn't need an Econ degree from Harvard to connect the dots on this scheme that adds absolutely zero value to the world at large. There has to be some sort of Wall Street Wheel-of-pump-and-dump in finance/econ rings where they spin to decide which "investment vehicle" they want to use to transfer money from retail investors into their pockets.
I couldn't resist curiosity and had to analyze that apod image just to see...

Average Color (rgb): 62, 45, 51
Average Color (hex): #3E2D33
Average Color (visual): http://i.imgur.com/xDBeHqu.png

Source: http://pastebin.com/vckL3AP6
Credit: http://charlesmartinreid.com/wordpress/2012/08/python-image-averaging-and-color-averaging/ (with some cleanup)
To Migrate from GitHub to BitBucket
So the emails appear to be sitting on a third-party server or is this just using the Gmail API? Also how is that secured on iOS if someone in the video was able to read without issue?
You can't run a boycott campaign if you have no bit of data to tell you whether or not it worked.
The ad-lib appears to be included in the provided PDF.
500px founder giving away a bunch of free photos
One could potentially try to exploit the high framerate of such cameras.

(For example, imagine 10 LEDs arranged so that each LED illuminates 1/10th of the license plate, where 1 LED is on at a time. If the frequency is high enough, to human eyes it'll appear as though the entire plate is illuminated equally, but any photo will have one spot (or two spots) illuminated much more than the others.)
It depends on whether you're classifying based on intentions or on results. When you're using the word "bad guy", it implied the intentions to be bad/evil. However, it's easy to see that a complex system can't (normally) be assigned an intention. But even if every actors within the system is acting in good faith, the emergent behaviour can still have bad result.

In the case of government, it's definitely not complicated to classify the aggregate behaviour as unqualified bad (in term of result), regardless of the intention of the individuals working within the systems.
Please don't be insulting. Debate this. It's important.
The data suggests that even the most fit today would not compare to ancestors, the farther you go back, the more fit they are.
This would seem to be a great database for the police to watch for juicy civil forfeiture targets to stumble through their jurisdiction, to seize a car or its possible contents.

How would they know that you have good stuff inside the car? Other databases.
Do me a favor and figure out what you're complaining about. Is it that the interviewed HEMA "girl" enjoys the fact that size is less important in her sport than in some other sports? Is it that her sport is not as "real" as your favorite HBO program? Are you instead complaining about getting downvoted for those obnoxious opinions? Maybe you don't like my opinions about sports I've played? Perhaps you'd like to put some words into my mouth? Oh, now I see, you're an iaido fan. After all the other stuff you've said, that's just cute.
And Hawaii has taken off even more than California. It thrives wherever electricity is overpriced and there's enough sun.
This is not a constructive comment. If he is wrong, explain why.
Can we all agree that a minimum, they are intentionally misleading their citizens?
Next step: sue Coinbase for stealing the idea of creating a US-based Bitcoin exchange.
this guy is whats wrong with corporate america.. screw you and your cubicle..
Is he supposed to be shunned for making that argument?
Probably something like regulatory capture is at work, but here it's the overseen agencies that have captured Congress.
Someone told me red is shorter so we see it faster -- is there any biological evidence for this?
Sure, I think it'd be fairly common to make your business-plan available to investors upon-request. (These are a big topic, I'd recommend grabbing a "how to write a business plan" book from your local bookstore...the kind with lots of examples inside). Besides that, I don't think you need to go too far outside the box here; typical stuff like cap-tables and earnings reports should do fine. You just want to document anything important that has changed since the business-plan phase.

I would shy away from writing a "dissertation" though, I think most investors would prefer the majority of your time and effort go towards the product instead. They're going to conduct their own market research and such independently regardless. Also...people don't read. So the shorter your message, the more likely they are to actually ingest it.
Get your local/public IP addresses in JavaScript
Oh so that's the one, and that's this same presentation... Interesting. I for one, find the kicking out hardly justified.
How can I learn algorithm from scratch
I had started with C programming on UNIX system about 3 years ago. Currently, I am comfortable with system & network programming. However, the biggest problem I face while coding is my lack of knowledge in the area of algorithm. A few weeks back someone suggested me a book named CLRS, however, even this introduction book is getting heavy now.
I am very poor at mathematics. There are tons of experienced folks out here, so I would be very grateful if you guys can let me know how I should start on my way to be good at algorithms.
Thanks.
If they wanted out why wouldn't they just sell it on the open market?
It's on page 30 of the PDF that the HN submission links to.
Of course we're going to reinvent the wheel using tech-industry terms here on HN. :)

One of the points that DFW is getting at in this speech is that this is exactly what a classic liberal arts education is supposed to do for you (ideally). But both the ideal and the practical reality of that education have suffered terribly at the hands of social institutions that see education primarily as an industrial input and higher education as a credentialing tool. And it's a bit of an uphill fight against some of the less-enlightened sides of human nature to begin with.
What about capital costs?
You should move to Singapore. They fixed their gum problem, without impeding the right to bare arms.
Thanks, I never really make decisions that lead to malware so I have stayed oblivious to this new trend. I'll contact him as long as the site is legit.
In Australia, your income covers your healthcare, education, etc. etc.

You mean the income tax (taken out of your income) pays for healthcare, education, etc, etc?
Am I wrong in thinking a VR movie would be something like the experience in 'Being John Malkovich'? Even without a compelling narrative I can see that being quite enjoyable; especially for things that are difficult to do in real life - extreme sports, driving a stupidly expensive car or a tour of the ISS.
In your case I'm preaching to the choir, but this might help:

There is only one fundamental right, and it is to not have force initiated against you. (Why? Simply because that is in the self-interest of each rational adult human.)

Ergo, the government cannot properly stop you from air travel, moving about freely in the country, etc.
Using a VM was common for text adventures of the time; check out the Z-Machine used by Infocom games: http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/

Like this game you describe here, the Z-Machine also stored characters in less than one byte, packing three characters (plus an extra control bit) into two bytes (http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point1/sect03...)
Until the early 1980's, C was highly unusual.
I think the best analogy is that general equilibrium theory is a zeroth order approximation to reality, and optimal (Pigovian) tax theory is the first order approximation. You might think a priori that no simple model can tell us much about sociological issues. All I can say is that I was very skeptical before I studied economics, but the theory is actually very compelling. I would recommend looking more into it (e.g. textbooks on micro or macro).

There is this strange disconnect where educated people who don't know much economics believe that economists have become tools of the ruling class, and therefore don't need much consideration. And economists are so stuck in their bubble that they don't believe that any educated person would completely reject economics (e.g. I specifically asked them if they thought that reasonable people could disagree with my original post, and they said no).
That's why we have to build decentralized backend systems to follow them around and store their data. We also need to focus on ease of use on the frontend of those systems. It's not like they are going to do this themselves. We have to do it for them, for all of us.
I fail to see what sugar mills have to do with the absolute idiocy of corn based ethanol. I would also be interested in the ratio of sugar mills that actually power themselves versus those that just run off the grid.
Heh, true. I've seen too much time thinking of computer security, and neglected to think of real world security.
Please point out where I said, or even hinted at, anything like this:

"If you are stating that current poverty should be made worse ... "

Raising electricity prices a fraction of a percent on poor people who are already receiving subsidized utilities, is not making their poverty worse. As you noted, solar isn't widespread, and thus is obviously not raising electricity prices in a meaningful way.

The price of coal moving up or down 1% does more to impact the price a poor person pays for electricity than all of the solar tax credits in the first world combined.

It's clear that the poor in the US are not going to pay a lot more for energy. They're going to receive higher subsidies from the welfare state to compensate for any price increases. Given the poor are already running a negative tax basis, it's accurate to say they're not paying for electricity at all to begin with. And to make this point easily clear: show me the negative tax basis of the average poor person in the US, and then show me the average poor person's electricity bill.

If one actually cared about the poor and their electricity bill, the only meaningful place to start is the Federal Reserve, putting an end to their 40 year debasement of the US dollar and this chart that it has caused:

http://i.imgur.com/LG2LTTT.jpg
It is supposed to be both. In fact, you need far fewer resources to start doing math than you do to start programming.
>But soon, unsubsidized solar will be cheaper than our indirectly subsidized fossil fuels

It kind of already is, which is why the fossil fuel industry panicked and got Obama to slap tariffs on cheap Chinese solar panels.
well, I agree with the poster you're replying to.

remember, it takes a magnitude more effort to refute bullshit than to create it. it is just tiring to see asinine comments like the OPs.

as if the US or any country ever was a beacon of light and justice. slavery? genocide against the natives? two unnecessary nuclear bomb attacks? anything that ever happened in latin america, in the last 100 years? guantanamo? iraq 2?

same for any other empire, they're all built on blood, racism and delusion. the brits, japan, china, the romans, the soviets. it does not matter. it is all the same bullshit.
How can Zuckerberg say "Je Suis Charlie", and then censor the very kind of content that Charlie Hebdo published?

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101844454210771

If you take the position that it's necessary to build censorship machinery into Facebook, then say that.

But when you build tools that enable surveillance and repression, and when you collaborate with autocratic regimes to limit free expression, you can no longer claim "I am Charlie".
Is your (programming) language unreasonable
Through out the day electricity demand fluctuates rapidly[1], talking about a 30-50% fluctuation between 6am and 6pm. I really don't understand your post, the need for reactive plants would still be needed (and used) without solar power generation. The limiting factor is to make sure that solar fits within the band between the baseline constant load and dispatch provider power. As long as Solar isn't forcing Nuclear plants (or whatever the baseline is in your area) to ramp, it isn't a big issue. Gas plants will ramp through out the day due to our usage patterns, regardless of solar production. Only way impact this is storage.

I've also seen people argue against solar because it means that plant will have to run at variable temperatures, meaning less efficiency. This is also not true because gas stations usually output around 200MW a piece, and when you have 10s of these plants scattered you can stagger their shutdowns, allowing power plant operates to run efficiently longer.

[1]http://media.cns-snc.ca/ontarioelectricity/ontarioelectricit...
Radical transparency would be good, so long as it's not exposed to everyone in the world. We often forget the multitude of wickedness in the world, and while the US government smells, there are actors on the outside that wouldn't hesitate to manipulate/destroy us the moment we free up information.

Undoubtedly, the power between the people and the government is unbalanced, but unrestricted transparency is not a one stop solution to the problem.
I don't really think that is accurate? It is my understanding the work of installation is under warranty for 30 years. This covers roof leaks, etc.

There is not really much to maintain in a standard residential solar installation as there are no moving parts. Except for the panels. They need to be kept clear of debris, dust, shade, snow (depending on geography).

It is my understanding that SolarCity does NOT maintain the surfaces. They will let you know of current degradation or fluctuations but it's up to you to debug / clear the problem.

In places with non-optimal solar climate I imagine that clearing the snow will be a pretty labor intensive job?
I was thinking recently that the best thing that could happen to Internet privacy would be for someone to build a Palantir clone with an open API, such that anyone could dox anyone else for $0.10 a pop. Being able to dox yourself (like Googling yourself, but PRISM-er) in real time would basically give you an OPSEC REPL, perfect for figuring out how to reduce your exposure.
Looks like they state it pretty clearly in their User Agreement: (https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement)

"(e) Authorize Coinbase to, directly or through third parties, (i) make any inquiries we consider necessary to verify your identity and/or account information, and (ii) request and obtain any consumer report, credit report or similar information relating to you and to take action we reasonably deem necessary based on the results of such inquiries and reports, and hereby authorize any and all third parties to which such inquiries or requests may be directed to fully respond to such inquiries or requests."

... I'm not saying that they're awesome for doing this; but I don't think it's accurate to portray their running a credit check as "unauthorized". You definitely authorized it.
Selling $11M in bitcoin on the open market would likely crash the market. According to blockchain.info, the average day sees about ~7M USD of bitcoin traded. Not to mention any of the negative signaling if people got wind of the sale.
Even if you're targeting candidates who are unemployed and desperate, you can still find a way to screen them without requiring them to waste 1-2 days for the chance of maybe getting an interview.

For example, asking someone to switch from a full-time job to contract-to-hire won't work. If the candidate is unemployed, you can hire them for 1-10 days if you want to "try before you buy".

Would this process be less valuable if you paid the candidates $10-$20/hr each for the time they spent? When a good candidate costs $10k-$20k+?
Why has innovation slowed down? (Or has it?)
The cool thing is that if you had asked me a week ago, I would have said return-type polymorphism like this was impossible without types.
I think his model works well for his blog. Not all blogs work well with this model and it doesn't necessarily scale well to a large news org.

For what he does and how he does it, this is a cool model for both him, his audience, and apparently the advertisers.
The only way within the system is I guess the Supreme Court. They have already laid a framework establishing that tracking requires a warrant, even if it's just making the police's job more efficient and it's data they can get from a tail.

If the license plate tracking gets to that point within metropolitan areas (presumably where cameras are most dense) or they start doing it from blimps or whatever, at least there is precedence for striking it.

It's not going to stop the collection but it should at least prevent the data being used against you in court. Of course, parallel construction. Sigh...
The USB Sticks Hidden in Walls Across the World
If you keep the key on the same machine as the data, it might be the specific kind of "security through obscurity" that is more commonly referred to as "DRM."
>If you are stating that current poverty should be made worse

NOBODY is suggesting that.

If you want to fix poverty in the United States, there are several very straightforward ways of doing this - bolstering SNAP, extending medicare, raising the minimum wage, building social housing and creating a job guarantee (as was done during the last depression).

These are, incidentally, all things that anti-solar groups like ALEC are also usually against.

Added to which, solar panels are actually the only form of power generation which is within the reach of poor people, which is why millions of people in the third world are taking advantage of it. Give 0% credit for it (as is available to all big banks in the US to play their gambling games) and literally everybody would be rich enough to take advantage of it.
Akamai CDN is down
Who are the most promising Series A candidates for 2015?
Ask HN: I have 100MM views/month and need to monatize
Hi HN, We created a widget that goes on publisher website. We have been modestly successful but have a few big name publishers. So far our widget gets about 100 MM views a month. We have 154x250 space within the widget to monetize for ourselves. What's our best approach here in terms of ads. Is there a list of ad vendors (other than ad sense) that might be interested in this inventory? We are new to the display/native ad game so any suggestion is welcome. AD's can be displayed within a lightbox (to keep users within the pub site) or just can be directed to the ad page on click. Thanks in advance!
Much like the Constitution you mentioned, I feel we need some sort of document that explains the intentions behind surveillance and the limitations by which it can be legally used. We have no problem upholding the bill of rights, so why would it be hard to create a set of guidelines for future regulation of surveillance? Making it open is not a complete solution (though it's still a good idea), because we're still not setting any limitations as to how this information can be legally used. We need to do more to protect the rights of the citizens involved.

People like Edward Snowden have said surveillance can be used for good purposes. For example, fast forward and imagine auto insurance companies using this traffic monitoring data: Instead of structuring their prices based around age/gender/racial/class discrimination, they can use actual statistics to determine a little more about how safe someone is driving. Or instead of civil engineers having to waste time, money and other resources doing traffic studies...what if they could see the effects of their work in real-time? I think this technology could be used for very good purposes if there was just some transparency and rules surrounding it.
Main is usually a function – when is it not?
Open Design Commons and Distributed Manufacturing
In the post you linked, he specifically says:

"We follow the laws in each country, but we never let one country or group of people dictate what people can share across the world."

And in the submitted link:

"The company acted to comply with an order from a Turkish court..."

They're blocking access to the material from users in Turkey.
No. Your public IP has always been available to a Javascript developer who knows enough to write a one-line PHP script that prints $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] (as an example). This just makes it available via another protocol.

The new bit is that you can now get local IPs. But that doesn't help someone trying to figure out if you're using a VPN.
There's a good chance the tire will no longer work properly, too!