skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily; there is sometimes quite a lot of surface water in poor areas of the world, but no reliable way to disinfect it. So you get wells dug next to rivers, because the well water is clean and the river is not.

Rising living standards create the capital, infrastructure, and stability to build water and sewage treatment plants to make better use of surface water.

In the developed world, much of the "population" problem is the location, not amount, of people. Lots of people have moved to Phoenix because of air conditioning and groundwater wells. Its population growth has been driven almost entirely by migration, not birth rate.

One potential solution there is to allow accurate market pricing of water. If it becomes progressively more expensive to live there as water supplies dwindle, people would stop building water-hungry golf courses and stop moving there. Unfortunately, control of the municipal water supply is often in the hands of the local government...who is not going to willingly vote to raise the price of water on their voters, and shrink their own city.
Thanks for the feedback!

I know, the spinner looks terrible! I just haven't gotten around to making it look better since most people will probably use the bookmarklet if they use it at all. Same with the I'm feeling lucky button, just wanted to make it easy for people to see the proof of concept without going to twitter, copying and pasting.
Well, we should consider moving away from lawns too. They are the largest crop grown in the US.

http://scienceline.org/2011/07/lawns-vs-crops-in-the-contine...
> If he was even a little bit "reasonable", free software would have been nibbled to death by ducks by now.

If he had been flexible in the 1980s and 1990s, maybe.

Once the practical case for free software was established by facts on the ground, free software has been on a pretty secure footing whether or not the Free Software movement (or the FSF and Stallman) was flexible, or even present.
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I would consider them part of the global south.
A lot of sites are still supporting old browsers like ie7/8, which means they have to lower their tech to the lowest common denominator. So it's not too surprising that it feels the same, especially if you happen to be browsing in one of them!

Having to support old tech lengthens development and testing time quite a bit. We need more browser features so we can write less code, only write it once, and distribute self-contained components.
Our population should cap out at 10billion: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_g... and the ethical thing we can do to encourage that is to pull people out of poverty and give them education and tv.
> The Ocaml standard library is pretty shitty

Oh come on, it's not that bad, it's just minimal. Usually I can get pretty far without having to reach for something like Batteries. That's a good thing, especially when writing reusable libraries where you don't necessarily want to pull in an entire stdlib replacement.
So it's an ethnocentric worldview, right?
> Why does wanting the commission also entail not helping your audience? You're making a conclusion that isn't valid here because you assume that 100% of affiliate links (because they are placed to earn money) add no value for the visitor. Smart affiliates know that if you want the commission, you have to make it valuable.

I think you may have accidentally skipped this part from codingdave's comment:

>>> What I mean by this is that whatever your site is, if your audience has a legit interest in specific products, and the next logical step in their personal workflow would be to buy something, go ahead and put in some affiliate links. It makes sense, and everyone gets what they need/desire.
We never want there to be a situation where a founder doesn't come to an interview because of money (or any other) concerns. Contact us directly when we invite you to interview and we will do our best to help you.
Funny that the Truant Officer's name is on the bottom along with the board of education.
This has nothing to do with using water for agriculture, industry and showers.
that's a somewhat misleading stat - you can be an American and still be born outside the US
The few times I've caught on-load viruses was when visiting big sites. Turns out their ad networks often get compromised and suddenly reddit or facebook are loading exploits.

Virtualizing and sandboxing the browser in a secure way is the only way out of this. On top of an eventual move to memory safe languages.
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Or they don't mean the specific definition of "free" you've concocted. Free can definitely mean "without payment" which one could easily infer from context and it's what GP meant.
Hey, thanks for the heads up about the spelling.

I honestly didn't mean to give the impression that I had jobs lined up. However, I'm working on building a two-sided platform and decided to start with the side I know best.

No fees at the moment. I'm not even sure what business model I'm going to persue. I'm currently just emailing people who signed up and seeing what they're looking for and how I can add value.
I've gone through 30x500 which is kind of what shifted my focus to products. I haven't really taken any action with that yet though but it seems to work for some others.
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Ask HN: Why don't governments defend citizens and corporations from cyber attack?
Good point. I didn't read that right. Thanks!
My experience has been the Bus Pirate is good for ad-hoc sending/receiving data over various protocols when you are working at the level of single recieve/response commands (i.e. you have a data sheet for a part and want to test it out). full-on logic analyzers or USB analyzers are nicer for capturing an entire conversation or trying to understand how data flows relate to each other.
I just wanted to state that I for one welcome our virus overloards
There's a lot more to birth control than just dropping off boxes of condoms or the pill. You need a culture and a religion that allows it. You need women to have the freedom to employ it. You need men to allow women to make those decisions. You need men who are willing to accept the reduced pleasure of sex (from a condom) in order to prevent disease and unplanned pregnancy. You need education so people understand the connection between their individual actions, and the broader trends and problems of the society in which they live. Etc.

Just look at the U.S., where birth control is cheap, plentiful, and legal...yet there is still incredible social pressures working against its availability--even basic stuff like sex education, family planning, and condoms.
(Slayer and Pantera, too. See http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_music for one plausible breakdown of "inspirations". The "Bobby Prince is a Filthy Thief" compilation, too: http://www.doomworld.com/linguica/doomcovers/)

The soundtrack didn't make a huge amount of money, and wasn't highly visible, would be the real reasons, as far as I can see. Also, arguably, the Blurred Lines lawsuit sets a new precedent for this kind of thing.

The story goes that Bobby Prince, being a lawyer, knew just how much he could copy without infringing, but that seems pretty tenuous in some of these cases.
Yes, the separation of west, east, and perhaps one or more additional categories is one based more on differences in cultural values and norms than purely geography.
They're even more expensive in New Zealand. Packs range from $15 to $20, or $40 for 30g of rolling tobacco. The government increases the tax on them every year.
But that's assuming that unpleasantness per individual is a continuous function always distinguishable from normal human experience, rather than something like a line eventually rising from the discontinuous murky soup that contains all the constant minor annoyances of being human (itchy nose, wedgies, the feeling of the back of your tongue against the roof of your mouth, one shoe being a little tighter than the other, etc) that the brain is well-optimized to tune out and rapidly forget about after the fact.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IKeUHpUR7g

Pwn2Own 2015: Day 1 Highlights --
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I doubt he got one year or any deadlines in his mind. Most of the hackers do this because they know that there's an exploit somewhere.

Come on, how many bugs do you produce, while writing code? Do you bet 500$ that you are bug-free? Do you bet 500$ that the libraries that you are using are bugs-free? I don't.

In this sense I think guys like him are having a way of thinking more similar to a gamer : "I need to do this and I come to the next level, but the experience playing is more important than the next level!"

So... I doubt he thinks there's a 50% chance. He's just too good "gamer" and he knows the games so good that he actually won the four different versions of it.
MuseScore developer here.

I'm not sure if we can call both MuseScore and Lilypond native format open... It's a matter of definition. MuseScore and Lilypond are both GNU GPL and so libre software. The fact that the project uses "Open" Well Tempered Clavier is indeed probably misleading but for most people they get it: The goods are released directly in the public domain and in formats that can be read by software with libre license, and than can be converted in many more formats for different usage.

Lilypond is an amazing piece of software. I still use it from time to time. It's great, no dicussion about it. But...

1/ Where is the specification, parser implementation and source code for reading writing lilypond format? MuseScore had once a Lilypond exporter and importer but nobody could maintain it any more because of the lack of such a spec. And this is perfectly understandable. Lilypond is powerful and need a powerful language and it's extremely hard to document in a formal way. As far as I know, only Lilypond can read Lilypond files. MuseScore format is not documented either, except in the code source. For both software, Also it makes little sense to document the file format since a lot of details in the score are not in the file format. For example, the position of the accidentals in a chord is not encoded in MuseScore or Lilypond files. However, they can provide export filters in documented formats MIDI and MusicXML.

2/ Ever tried to render a Lilypond 2.18 file with Lilypond 2.10? it will fail the same way that MuseScore 1.3 (probably the version in the repositories) will fail at reading MuseScore 2.0 files. And it's probably true for a lot software still in development. I guess that Blender or GIMP native file formats are not forward compatible either. Does that make this format not open? Maybe, so what? In any case it's perfectly understandable, format needs to be upgraded to support new features.

3/ The standard "documented" format for music notation interchange is MusicXML. It's proprietary but under a royalty free licence. There are ongoing discussions to make it a W3C standard. MuseScore import and export MusicXML files. Anyone can get the MusicXML file for the OpenWTC scores. This file can be imported in Lilypond. Unfortunately, Lilypond cannot export MusicXML though. It's one of the oldest feature request in the Lilypond bug tracker...

In the end, there are two more works in the public domain in a variety of formats that can be used for many different use cases. It's open the good word for it. I don't know. But I want more of work like this!
AFL is a breed of pet rabbit that is fuzzy (fluffy).

The software is a fuzzer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Fuzzy_Lop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing
It's a North Atlanticist worldview.
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Outer space is very, very far from thermal equilibrium. The temperature of the interplanetary plasma is different from the temperature of the redshifted-big-bang-light (CMB) which is different from the temperature of sunlight. The temperature of a black body depends on how much of it is exposed to sunlight vs. CMB.
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dumb question: "more ht2000 lines of code" - is that a typo of "more than...", is "ht2000" something I don't know and can't google, or are are these hacks in some way related to an antique motherboard?
I once had an idea for making a site for non-profit teach swapping. I need a teacher to help me improve my guitar playing. I can't afford to pay for lessons. But I could offer teaching someone mathematics or programming in return.
That does not affect security significantly. If it did then it would totally defeat the purpose of noscript existing.
Sure, sent!

sama@ right ?
Yet Knuth is one of the greater optimizers of all time with his combinatorial work. I ran into this myself writing a muscle tremor filter to run in real time in an ECG data collection system in 1970. The point was to drop the phone call from the patient's bedside if there was too much tremor interference from the patient.

There just wasn't enough CPU bandwidth to handle very much processing. So the first version tried to be quite fast. But it turned out that it gave false positives as well as false negatives. No shipping of that sucker. I made up a rule for performance-critical software: "First, make it right, then make it fast".

I am curious what about the article suggests that the optimization is premature? Do you mean to say that one should never worry about optimization?
Grow up. There's a world of difference between being a zealot and pointing out that Torvalds didn't clone the Unix system in a year. He built the kernel, he did it well and he deserves credit for it. For the same reasons he deserves credit the GNU project deserves credit for their contributions.

edit: Really. This is a thread celebrating 10 years of Kubuntu. Kubuntu's downstream from Debian, probably 1/2 - 3/4 of their packages are untouched from their state in the Debian repositories. Debian was sponsored by the FSF (Richard Stallman's foundation) back in the early 90's. Good for Kubuntu, I wish them the best. I also think it's important to recognize the others who have made projects like this possible. It takes nothing away from Kubuntu.
We have funded many companies where cofounders are married or cofounders are dating. The fact that they are married / dating doesn't generally impact our decision. The same things apply that we look for in any founding team - ability to get stuff done, determination, drive....
The guy that made the music (Bobby Prince) was a lawyer, so I bet he knew exactly what you could and couldn't get away with.
> Go become a startup founder yourself.

The issue isn't me. And, I might already be a founder. That's besides the point.

I'm happy for your friend. That's excellent, to be able to negotiate well. Most people don't. And most people are TOLD, repeatedly, that 1% is an "excellent" percent even as the earliest joining a company.

The word "exploitative" is as tricky today as in centuries past. If the employee doesn't want to work for peanuts, why not go somewhere else? The market will eventually correct, compensate everyone fairly (by some definition of "fair"), etc. Well, my argument is not that the market itself is broken, because employees enter them under free will. My point is that engineers (early and otherwise) should not accept that their contribution is worth so much less than the 2-3 people on top. This is especially true for the first engineer, who joins at 1% next to the founder at 40%, but it applies to every after as well.
What you said adds pretty much no value to the conversation, I didn't mod you down, and I didn't look to see precisely what field you work in, just the same, cloud is pretty much an obfuscation for on-demand co-location and shared-hosting services.

While you may not like the trend, and some providers have better options than others, and you may require some operations over others... but very few businesses can afford to manage multi-site infrastructure that can dynamically scale. Most are probably served just fine with rented servers, traditional colocation, or don't even need more than one VPS...

That doesn't make the technology bad, and only makes you seem ignorant in your prior statement.
It is not style. It's just a way of saying, "we are above all the philistine modifications that have damaged the English language and its orthography for over a century".

Style occurs when you use word choice to impress the reader, not when you place some outdated droppings over a letter which you regard as compulsory.

They use the diaeresis because they regard its absence to be incorrect. Which means that they regard everyone who writes "cooperation" as committing an error. Hence, snooty.

I wonder, do these pompous pricks tell their children to write that way in school? Or answer that way in spelling bees? I can just see it: "Hey Johnny, spell cooperation!" "Cee, oh, oh-with-a-diaeresis, pee, ...". Or maybe they feed them crap like, "Johnny, at school, just play along and use the dumb spelling okay? But between us at home, we know better, don't we! We write it as coöperation with the two dots." "Dad, you mean among us, don't you?" "No, I mean between. Mommy left a note that she won't be coming home any more, so it's just you and me. Pardon me, you and I."
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http://www.meghantelpner.com/blog/the-soylent-killer/
I'd agree easily that China and India are at least a big of a threat to the US position as top economy. There's nothing, other than inertia and maybe cultural influences, maintaining the status quo. I say maybe, because I don't know a lot about Indian and Chinese culture.

I feel that there's not a lot of concern here about the possibility of falling behind, because we're all entertained to a degree where we just don't care. So many people are always entertained by television, radio, music, sports, infotainment, and as a result they barely take their education, families, and work seriously, let alone global balance.

If we lost the 24/7 entertainment, we'd see a shift in perception and an increase in competitiveness and motivation.
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So long, Feedly, you sucking douchenozzle, and hello, Feedbunch. Add a donate button somewhere, amatriain, so I can give you some dough.
Indeed the very first case that established this right for the government is seen by many as an example of the privilege being abused.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Reynolds for the story.
AFAIK, Ed25519 keys and Curve25519 key exchange, AES GCM symmetric encryption.
What do you look for in hardware companies ? How do you evaluate founders and ideas ?
Why do you think giving them this power is a good idea?

"cyber attack" is a pretty loose term--it runs the gamut from hand-crafted exploits left on USB sticks in attractive areas to people experimenting with curl to just a bunch of people hitting F5 really fast waiting for an update.

Many web attacks kinda are identical to legitimate if malformed traffic, so giving the .gov power over that is basically censorship.
Master of Puppets is one IMHO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdbXIUCUb20
I shall look out for the kickstarter on this project. Is there a mailing list or other notification of the Chopin project?

(Mind you, Cortot and Schnabel where not what one might call purists).
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> He told Childs via translator that not only was it was his first time writing Native Client code but it was his first time dealing with a kernel exploit.

Well, I guess Lee has found a new lucrative hobby for rainy weekends.

More seriously, how can someone possibly own three major browser in two days and on a first try at this kind of sport ? A pretty loud way to shout "Hello World"...
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> Proactive security
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(NetBSD technically did it first)

The best kind of first. Joking aside -- why is so much OpenBSD advocacy backhanded like this ? Do the writers not think that OpenBSD can stand on it's own ?
We built one in Sydney a few years back. It cost nearly 2 Billion, and it now sits idle at a cost of around half a million per day

I guess we'll be laughing in 15 years though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Desalination_Plant
I'm really hoping as I've explored it more and more that the lightweight standard lib is a boon more than a weakness... but to achieve this there needs to be major force to drive useful functionality down into canonical library packages.
I'd say it's a safe bet they meant "more than 2000 lines of code"
The 2x salary average is very misleading. The average for all employees everywhere in the US sure, but it's a sliding scale.

The higher your salary the less your employer is paying as a percentage of your income. There's very little difference in overhead between someone making $100k and someone making $150k. The overhead difference will only be a few thousand dollars more for the person making $150k.
If I agreed that edible insects were a novelty today I might be persuaded that they'll be mainstream tomorrow. Since I believe that edible insects are a source of revulsion to most Westerners (at least) today, I'm doubtful that they'll be mainstream tomorrow. There's a general principle of argumentation here: if you want me to believe your apodosis, make sure we're on the same page with your protasis.
Having started off planning the exact same stack (but for business intelligence event tracking) we ended up dropping kafka for kinesis. It felt like until we got to the scale where it tips in the favour of self managed infrastructure (if ever) then there was no value and only probable pain in managing that part.
The WORST. Imagine if MS had had the foresight to do this back in 91. No Linux.
First thing I entered was the name of a German town. I got "Nein" as response and thought that it's a nice touch to provide localized responses. Then I tried some other cities and saw that it's random. Now I feel a bit disappointed.
Source code is not documentation.

The MuseScore XML files do not contain any link to a DTD, XSD or other XML DOCTYPE metadata, and thus, they are not self-documenting.

By comparison, the MusicXML format is open, because the following documentation is available: http://www.musicxml.com/for-developers/ Those zip files contain a complete and full specification of how to read & write MusicXML files, as I'm sure the MuseScore developers are familiar with.

I wouldn't consider the MuseScore 1.3 or 2.0 format "open" until there is available full specification of the XML file formats, and the ZIP-based container they're usually wrapped in.

Even the MuseScore core developers admit there is no save file documentation and warn against attempting to parse MuseScore's save file format: http://musescore.org/node/13837

This is not "open", and I think it's wrong to sell these engravings as "open scores" in this context.
No Ellen and her Husband being rich are the reason this is getting new coverage.