skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like a very nice product (along with most of the other products). It's a little disappointing that they seem to do only the very minimum wrt the GPL:

http://www.mikrotik.com/downloadterms.html

I mean, sure, asking for 45 USD for a CD with the source is technically complying with the GPL -- but it does seem a bit strange in this day and age. Not to mention that for the source code to be useful, one would hope one could build a working routerOS image from it -- and it doesn't appear that the CD will enable a user to build a running image -- and therefore not facilitate changing the product.

But apart from that, my first thought was -- can this thing run BSD -- because pf is quite a bit friendlier than iptables (even if the latter has gotten a lot better lately).

Does anyone know if there are any recommended alternatives to soekris for running a bsd switch/router (preferably running at ~gigabit speeds) ?
Off-label use is scary because there is often no evidence base. You have doctors prescribing meds because they "know it works".

When we look at popular off-label meds and the eventual evidence we often find that they're not very useful, or even actively harmful.
There is a fair amount of casual broad-stroke stereotyping, armchair economics and calls to patriotism in this post and throughout the replies that I don't find very appealing. I have seen this type of post increasingly often and it's starting to worry me. Is this the type of community that HN attracts?
> The same is true of insurance, yet few people consider the purchase of insurance to be intrinsically irrational by the same argument.

The offsetting argument for insurance is that it provides risk management against unaffordable, catastrophic expenditures -- it is a trade-off of a certain expenses, against the risk of a much larger uncertain expense, with an expected net cost in financial terms, but that it is rational in some cases given the decreasing marginal utility of net income (which, conversely, means that there is an increasing marginal cost of high expenses.)

Of course, the trade-off in the lottery is you are paying a certain, low cost for a chance at unlikely larger payoff -- this has not only a negative expected financial value, but -- given the declining marginal utility of income -- an even larger expected negative utility in most cases, considering utility of money on its own.

Of course, it may be rational if the utility provided to a particular player by "playing the lottery" (the entertainment value, etc.) exceeds the expected net disutility associated with financial expectations.
The difference being that making an Android build is not an illegal activity.
I build them on AWS now, mainly since it takes me 5hrs to download the source compared to a few minutes on AWS. Anybody who knows of a better cloud building service? I consistently fail to estimate instance costs.
I've been casually looking around for data-only plans with no (or really low, at least) monthly fees and pay-as-you-go per MB data... I'm not coming up with much, but roamline [ https://www.roamline.com/roamline-sim ] might do the trick. No monthly feed, twenty eurocents per MB.

Truphone [ http://www.truphone.com/us/consumer/sim/ ] is another one I've seen pop up. No monthly fee, $0.09 per MB in the US.

Does anybody know of anything else? This seems like a market that typically buys access for thousands of devices at a time, pushing just a few MB per month. There's not much out there for the hobbyist looking for just a SIM or two.
> Does the fact that people open lots of issues in C++, Rust and Scala make you more or less inclined to pick one of those for your new project? Why?

I have seen "There are two thousand open issues, do they ever fix any bugs?" on a few occasions.
I used to buy one powerball ticket a week. About ten guys at work would pool together and buy ten tickets on the pretense of splitting it if we won.

We saw it pretty much exactly the way the article described. There'd almost always be an hour or two talking about what would be an interesting use of that much money, or talking about how stupid we were for playing the lottery, and it'd come back up over the work day.

We were paying for group amusement, and I still remember having a lot of fun with those conversations. I don't regret it any more than I regret spending money on a soda here or there during the same time period (long term health wise I regret the soda way more :) ).
Former Math Professor wins lottery 4 times

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kiriblakeley/2011/07/21/meet-the...
The same logic can't really apply to insurance - one is an investment with expected return, the other is risk mitigation.
> The US government spends more on healthcare per capita than countries with "socialised medicine".

That's true of US public expenditures in total, but that's not just "the US government", it includes healthcare spending by non-federal government entities, as well.
Threat indicators are generally a lot more specific to groups conducting attacks and specific campaigns than CVE which tracks vulnerabilities. I'm not super familiar with the space, but it tends to include things like domains, IPs, file hashes, potentially network signatures or anything you could use to detect specific attackers.
> Someone who's already been delayed twice.

Yeah, due to weather and technical problems. Obviously there's no way of getting around those. It would be a much bigger deal to the customer to delay just because "SpaceX wants to".

> how could delaying one more day be worth more (ie cost to SpaceX) than the value of the recovered rocket times the probability of recovery. And the correct answer is ... it would be a delay of over a week, not just another day

No, even if they had a launch window tomorrow, they would not have delayed another day. The correct answer is that the price of delaying just to conduct an optional test is decreased confidence from potential launch customers that their payloads will not be delayed due to SpaceX's whims, customers who already question SpaceX's ability to launch on time. When someone pays you tens of millions of dollars, you don't get to delay their flight just because you want to test something experimental - it doesn't work that way. SpaceX will have many more opportunities to test their landing procedures, it's not worth pissing off a customer just to be more aggressive on the recovery timeline.
Thank you for finding that - a surprisingly readable source. Para 23+24 spell it out quite clearly, as does "Powers to charge those not ‘ordinarily resident’ were introduced through the NHS (Amendment) Act 1949, but were not enacted through regulations until 1982. These charges were and remain only applicable to hospital treatment."

Really doesn't seem that complicated at all.
So much this. I'm really proud of Microsoft for the strides they've made lately, but like you, I switched to Mac specifically because of the underlying UNIX layer. Too much of our world is in POSIX land, and I like it that way.

Alternatively, I'd be happy if .NET were truly cross-platform, so I could use my Mac to develop apps for the Windows Phone I'm typing this from (without a VM).
I felt the A-story / B-story narrative split in "Banner Of Heaven" made the read a little too disjointed for my taste. Just when the A story is getting good, the B story comes along and stops it dead in its tracks. Then, vice versa. Incidentally, I also found the historical narrative infinitely more fascinating than the present-day narrative. It is exceedingly hard to pull off an A/B structure when both A and B are given nearly equal weight. One of them needs to be subordinated to the other. Krakauer does the equal-weight A/B better than most, but in some ways I think it's just a fundamentally suboptimal approach.

"Into Thin Air" is a fantastic read. It's got its flaws, but they're very minor and quickly forgotten.
Donald Knuth, IIRC, once said, "Be cautious running the following code; I have only proven it correct, not tested it."
Gakken EX System
It was just a rhetorical device. I was evoking hyperbolic images of actual anarchy to illustrate how different they are from the conditions in the article.

This wasn't anarchy at all. It's even a bit insulting that they decided to call it that. It's almost as if management folks resent the ability of development teams to finish things without their guidance/interference, and wish to poison the well with loaded prejudicial terms.
It's not really command-line since it relies on ncurses. I thought it was something different like where you're literally sitting at the command-line within some short of shell like:

toxuser@toxbox:~$ tox send pg "Hi, YC looks cool!"

Or maybe even crazier like that Zero project thing (I forget what it is called).

That said, good stuff. :)
APT: estudios demuestran que sus desarrolladores son rudimentarios
YouTube flags cat purring as copyright infringing music
Technology has a delayed effect. As in what was high-tech back then is low-tech now. Computers have finally become low-tech.

Apple is top heavy, the ones in charge are the ones that scraped to the top and didn't retire or leave. They have with them the ideas that came about and pioneered in the 60's and 70's and are only finally now being in the position and getting around to implementing them.

Underneath them is a cadre of management that grew up and holding on to ideas from the 80's and 90's and only are now in a position to suggesting them to someone else with more power and abilities and getting the okay to try them.

Apple is really a stack of computing ideas from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's. Starting with the Macintosh derived from the mother of all demos to now we're finally getting around to implementing the idea of a central mainframe with diskless devices accessing it.

A "cloud" with black mirrors everywhere giving you value? Oh, my, that sounds like what Larry Ellison saw as the future with the Network Computer back in 1996.

I'm old though. Accepting this new reality that this red-headed stepchild of a computer we used to argue about during elementary school recess about which is better turns out to become the most valuable company in a world and is finally in a position to push through something as magical as instant access to computing everywhere.

That is freakin' amazing.
I honestly don't understand why more people don't create Github accounts and use that to distribute, or at least use their ISP's free web space.

The (pseudo)anonymous aspect of not having a fixed identity which could easily be linked to something else is both convenient and valuable to privacy?
What Clayton Christiansen Got Wrong
ODF also uses compression.
sorry, i wasn't actually in a funny mood.
full disclosure. I actually didn't notice the oscillations myself.

However, I was just very absentmindedly skimming, It's a little more unbelievable for the author, the one doing the calculations, to miss this.
I don't think there's anything wrong with buying a lottery ticket if its cost is a trifle for you.

Buying one when the expected value is positive is not a sound gamble however. Suppose there is a jackpot of $300M and you have a 1 in 150 million chance to win. It's obvious that you have an edge, so you calculate how large part of your bankroll you should bet with the Kelly criterion[1] and get:
f=3.33e-9

Oh well, if you are a centimillionare you can buy a ticket and be rational.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
Many people view foraging for food in the wilderness to be a perfectly adequate plan for having a food supply. If the theory is correct, he didn't starve to death because of poor planning, he starved to death because he ate something poisonous, which then prevented him from foraging for food.

You seem to be implying that foraging isn't an OK way to feed oneself in the wilderness.
The Stanford Undergraduate and the Mentor
I have seen precisely this kind of national soul searching before.

The UK entered WWII the world's greatest power and exited as a small bankrupt island. But did the myth of exceptionalism evaporate with the change in status - hell no.

The UK's leading role in the world derived not from the exceptional nature of its people and/or institutions but from the fact that it was the first nation to fully embrace and benefit from the industrial revolution. If you want to understand the relationship between that kind of lead and innovation take a look at the stream of inventions, discoveries and innovations that the UK spawned at the time.

Similiarly, The US's leading role in the world derives not from the exceptional nature of its people and/or institutions but from the fact that it was the first LARGE nation to fully embrace and benefit from the industrial revolution. Unlike the small island that was the UK the US was large geographically and demographically and rich in natural resources that were readily accessed. The large domestic market enabled the US to steamroller over smaller foreign markets and competitors.

For the first time in its history the US is facing (as did the UK) an international competitor that has a bigger domestic market. This is a massive change.

Will the US do a better job adjusting to the new reality? Hell no!

If you want a good insight into the likely pattern of evolution of US culture study post war Britain.
True, but I figure it's close enough. There is a true CLI client for Tox called Ratox. It's pretty neat. https://wiki.tox.im/Ratox
I don't think your read on Clausen is accurate.

Krakauer's excerpt of Cole's article was poorly done. If you go to the source article, Clausen says,

“First, it seems like a rather remarkably lucky shot in the dark for a person to suspect the presence of a specific toxin on so little evidence," he wrote. "Couple this with the observation that ODAP is only reported in certain plants of the genus lathyrus which is not the genus hedysarum and the conclusions are even more remarkable (though not impossible). I would be much more convinced if I was reading the report from a credible peer-reviewed professional journal such as the Journal of Natural Products or equivalent. I have often heard a key indicator of bad science that is highly suspect is having its results published in the popular media."

...

"Again, I don't make any claims that the report is wrong since I have no data to analyze, but I am skeptical and will remain so until I see a better forum for the results to be published in." [1]

which to me sounds reasonable and, as a professional scientist, sounds just like what I (and I expect, my colleagues) would say. The peer review process isn't perfect, but it is consistently superior to the crap that is scientific journalism appearing outside of peer reviewed journals. Here's why, and why I don't understand why you would hold Krakauer as an example of citizen science.

Krakauer made (by his own admission) a "rash intuitive leap" [2] that an unidentified alkaloid contributed to McCandless' death, based on one of McCandless' journal entries and unpublished preliminary research by Clausen. As an aside, if one wants to piss off a scientist, that's a good way to go about it. When Clausen completes his research and finds the mystery alkaloid theory doesn't work, Krakauer intuits that a mystery toxic mold must have been involved, a theory he announces on Oprah and NPR. This second theory doesn't hold up (as was demonstrated by Clausen, again). Despite your conjecture, it sounds like Clausen actually investigated Krakauer's theories, up to a point. Krakauer then latches on to ODAP, which was close but still not there. His fourth theory may be correct, but Krakauer disseminated a lot of incorrect information along the way. I wonder, did he publish retractions as a professional scientist would?

I'm not sure why you would hold Krakauer's methodology as "citizen science FTW", but I'm interested to hear.

[1]: http://www.adn.com/article/20130917/krakauers-wild-theory-mc...
[2]: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-chris-mccandl...
What else are you going to do when you are at round X, when the original investment could be considered a lost cause? You could sell the assets into a new venture. I've seen that done. Then the original investors take the asset sale revenue, lick their wounds, and move on.

Or, if new investors give a new investor a liquidation preference, they could ride along with an outside chance of seeing some upside. In that light, an investor with a liquidation preference is preferable to an asset sale.
Well piracy wouldn't have been a problem if it weren't for the lawyers.
For England: http://www.ppa.org.uk/ppa/edt_intro.htm
I think in most western European countries this is normal, at least when I was kid (growing up in the Netherlands) it was. However, I haven't lived in Europe for the past 10 years so maybe the messed this system up as well.
If you read "Into Thin Air", make sure you also read "The Death Zone" by Matt Dickinson - an interestingly different perspective on the same event.
Nothing guarantees that anything keeps serving files forever. BT at least distributes responsibility and allows anyone to easily keep the files hosted.
I've been waiting for this since Tyler Bosmeny mentioned it during the startup lecture series. Thank you for sharing!
I don't know how you call that decreasing or flat, I'm seeing up and to the right.
There are a number of things you can spend a small amount of money on with ultimately nothing to show for it but some brief enjoyment. It seems the author is encouraging his (non-addict, non-destitute) audience to reframe their thinking about what the lottery provides as entertainment value rather than simply being 'a tax on people who are bad at math' - even if you don't ultimately play, you don't have to view those who do in a negative light.

That's certainly how I used to feel, but once I started thinking of it as a lark rather than a blight, it just didn't seem like that big of a deal.
I did not know wage slavery was a controversial term.

Money is a tool of control, how do you earn money without being controlled by others and following their standards?

How do you spend money without controlling others? Like you donate someone a blanket, that's their burden now and they can be fined for littering if they don't take care of it properly.

We are tightly controlled and tightly control others. The consequences range from minor inconveniences to death.

Death and violence are less frequent per capita, but the threat and control remains.

Freedom and control are both illusions.

I'm free to quit and starve. All the food and land is owned.
Not sure what problem is this solving. I tried but could not figure out. Sorry
Horrible click-bait title. Why should we fear Iran? O because we keep kicking them repeatedly?
I'm surprised they never adopted to the cloud model of their competitors such as Dropbox, surely they would of had the resources (at least the hardware) to compete. Such a shame.
raTox is a actually really fun to use, but it's less of a client and more of a command line tool in a bash script.
40k unprotected MongoDB databases found exposed to the Internet
This was a very enjoyable and well-produced short video.

Just yesterday I spent 2 hours at the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor in Las Vegas. Nothing could have prepared me for seeing the "Big Piece" up close (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuxQ9jV_N8k). It is both deeply fascinating and profoundly sad to stand just inches from it.
Here's the source (pdf) for the article:
http://cispa.saarland/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/MongoDB_doc...
I realize it's fashionable to believe all of our ancestors were starving all the time, but there isn't exactly any evidence to back this up.

We're a social species with status playing a substantial role. It's far more likely some were starving and others were extremely well fed. Same as today. That would mean there was plenty of selective pressure over millions of years. Look at other primates for evidence.
Oh, I'm not above buying the occasional ticket, either -- for that matter, I like playing Blackjack and view any losses incurred as entertainment.

However, people at the lower end of the income spend a lot more of their money (proportionally) on lottery tickets. [1]

And states are increasingly dependent on those revenues [2], which means in effect we've got a system where our schools become dependent on our lowest income population wasting money on what is essentially a pipe dream.

Note: I'm not saying "we've got to stop lotteries!" As I said: I play myself. Just noting that we are funding our government on the backs of people who are making what is arguably a terrible investment.

In other words: lotteries are a tax on people with bad math skills.

[1] Lots of studies back that up; there's a pretty good list here: http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/category/research-cent...

[2] http://taxfoundation.org/article/gambling-tax-policy-states-...
And 10-line Gradle build files count as Groovy code.
Tesla reports fourth-quarter loss, misses sales targets
Hacker News is a site full of entrepreneurs extolling the virtues of hard work and doing four years' work in one year's time -- how can this be so popular?
Sometimes you need to check and make sure you're not losing it. $57,800. Wow.
Ah, of course. I was misled by wikipedia[1], but it should've been obvious that the same connection could be used for both inifinband and ethernet. So, indeed, there are copper interconnects:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mellanox-3-3ft-QSFP-QSFP-Passive-Cop...

Actually seems the price is finally coming down a bit (compared to what I remember these used to cost, years ago -- but maybe I've just upped my budget ;-).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSFP

"The Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) is a compact, hot-pluggable transceiver used for data communications applications. It interfaces networking hardware to a fiber optic cable."

But it also interfaces hardware to copper cables, as I gather.
Jet.com’s Valuation Nears $600M Before Launch
I cannot say that getting upset over people using jokey memes to communicate ideas (Haskell is more likely to be correct after a successful type-check than other langs) is likely to do you much good.

I like Epictetus for when I notice I am upset about something that isn't within my control: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
I'm not so sure about this, I have done some research on the topic for a book I am working on and it appears that in some cities at certain times, safe water was hard to come by and for that and other reasons people consumed beer/wine as their primary beverage and with nearly every meal. I have studied this in the context of the effects on society of coffee and coffee houses that came with displacing beer and taverns as the main beverages and gathering points of society in 17th and 18th century England.

Here is an excerpt from James Howell in 1660:

"Tis found already, that this coffee drink hath caused a greater sobriety among the Nations. Whereas formerly Apprentices and clerks with others used to take a morning draught of Ale, Beer or Wine, which, by the dizziness they cause in the Brain, made many unfit for business, they use now to play the Good-fellows in this wakeful and civil drink"

And another from the historian Michelet:

...For at length the tavern has been dethroned, the detestable tavern where, half a century ago, our young folks rioted among wine-tubs and harlots. Fewer drunken songs o' night time, fewer nobles lying in the gutter... Coffee the sobering beverage, a mighty nutriment of the brain, unlike spirituous liquors, increases purity and clarify; coffee, which clears the imagination of fogs and heavy vapours, which illumines the reality of things with the white light of truth; anti-erotic coffee, which at length substitutes stimulation of the mind for stimulation of the sexual faculties!"

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=Gbmhwpxe9usC&pg=PA10&lpg=P...