skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I happened to work on some of the decentralised computing and networking projects in Barcelona. Guifi.net is the largest community network at the moment that among others lets users share and publish their content including internet access [1]. Last year I worked in Clommunity [2], an effort to build the first large scale community cloud. Guifi.net users can just install the Clommunity distro [3] on top of and use its service discovery and decentralised cloud management tools to contribute and benefit from marginal resources. I think it's a cool idea that we will keep revisiting in the long future...

[1] http://guifi.net/
[2] http://clommunity-project.eu/
[3] http://cloudy.community/
Cute idea. I like it.

Dress up your page a bit and drop it on product hunt. Im sure people will love it on there.
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Getting upset over a term like "the hivemind" is exactly the kind of thing that turns off true rational debaters, and sets you on the path to a self-reinforcing validation box.

Uncomfortable truths will always be unpleasant. Spot on criticism will always make people feel stupid. You cannot be nice and be right all the time.

Furthermore, experience has shown that there are in fact a bunch of topics that are anathema here, which may not be debated, not even with correct citations and rational arguments. Hint: it's pretty much the entire "women in tech" debate. It's apparently forbidden to do anything but "listen and believe".

Good bye HN, I always thought this place would be astroturfed into oblivion, but instead, it's the feels crowd who killed it.
The paradox doesn't go away if you assume that the Predictor is occasionally wrong. In real life, the people who know you best could probably predict your answer to the question with some accuracy better than chance. (For example, maybe your belief in free will biases you toward the two-box answer because you believe that your decision can't be predicted). This is just a thought-experiment that takes that real-life situation to its logical extreme to make the paradox more apparent.
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Why do unique devices need to have their own PID/VID? What prevents us from having one PID/VID and "driver" for all USB devices, and then chainloading to a device-specific user-mode driver based on some user-mode UUID?
I just came across Filecoin on their Github readme FAQ and it sounds like a great idea to me:

"What is the relation to Filecoin?

Filecoin is the sister protocol of IPFS. While neither protocol depends on each other, they are perfectly complementary. IPFS handles high performance distribution of objects; Filecoin handles incentivizing the world to backup/seed objects."

Cryptocurrency backed by real, useful, and valuable commodities (storage and bandwidth).
One book? Not much. Effective storytelling helps a lot, but only for fiction.

The trick is to read many interrelated books. Same topic, different words. Those variations on a theme let you quickly uncover the core message behind authors' styles. The repetition, with slightly different editorial choices, drills into your mind. Variations on a theme are what makes play so effective as well.

Take notes in a fixed ritualistic manner. Choose the ONE notebook you'll use; Write down the most important passages by hand in a slow, precise way. Most importantly, write a summary of the whole book and FIND CONNECTIONS between concepts from different books.

I have no scientific paper to show you. I read +-50 books every year and this is only my personal experience.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a service that..

Oh, someone has already built it, of course:

http://certalert.me/
Those are nice chips, yeah. Have you tried out any of the new DDR4 CPUs? I'm very curious as to how the combination of higher memory bandwidth and higher memory latency affects real-world applications. My first guess is that it turns out the same as DDR3-1866. Anyone benched it?
What I think you may be missing is that he is saying that bitcoin is not, in pragmatic observable fact, a distributed consensus protocol.

It is, instead, led and managed by an entity indistinguishable in form if not in intellect from every other governmental federal reserve.

This entity responds, 100% correctly for the health of the currency, by issuing fiat mandates, just like the US government did when, e.g., real-world counterfeiters came up with supernotes and began flooding the world with fake $20 bills, mandating a switch to new notes.

Although this behavior is correct, it does conclusively prove that the emperor has no clothes, and that bitcoin is a ponzi scheme run for the benefit of the early BTC holders.
A classic in the field. And of course, the reverse, "Do Politics have Artefacts" http://sss.sagepub.com/content/29/3/411.abstract
'I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.'

~ Maya Angelou
Your node only retrieves content you request, which can be manually purged.
It depends on the book and whether or not I was impacted by it.

Just reading means I will recall something about the book, it's coverage domains, and maybe some higher level details.

If I work with material in the book, even once, what I remember is significantly improved.

Impact can be from that, working with material, or it can come from relevance to things I'm focused on. Sometimes, I read a book, and some parts of it end up being very relevant and I think about it and make connections.

I recall a lot of this, and do so in detail.
Do you think the commercial version of Qt would have covered what you needed? I would also be interested I'd anyone else here is in a position to compare Xamarin and Qt. It's very hard to compare the two from the outside. Thanks.
The role of a manager has come to its end
I was thinking that the only possible effect that this policy could have is the complete removal of outsiders (I consider myself one, rarely chiming in on HN), and eventually even insiders will simply migrate elsewhere for meaningful discussion that is not happening on this website.
That's only a way to avoid getting sued by privacy trolls. Other trolls will still find a way to sue you. Once you are majorly successful, you will get sued regularly. Period.
Let me tell you what I know about gender and CS (2013)
I guess not. But it's going to be tough to use normal Ruby gems on iOs that aren't aware of the ref counting.
Ask HN: What's your stand about react.js patent clause?
I have started using react.js + flux and I really like them. But I wanted to check what is your stand about the patents clause. Are you using it for your startup or are you steering clear? Also if you are a consultant/freelancer, are you using it for your client's project?

I fall in the second category and I am not sure what should be the things that I need to consider before I start using it for my client's work?
The concept is nice. People at Product Hunt tend to appreciate these kind of things well. Hope you are on track with posting on PH as well.
I know a fair number of old-timers that still eat dandelion greens and fiddleheads and pigweed. Fortunately, New England is a place with few very poisonous things, although it is important to check that you are picking fiddleheads and not wood ferns...
Is there any good information about the nutritional content and popular weeds and what they taste like?
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If you know React, I'd suggest looking into ReactNative. It's a new tech but what I've tried and seen it's VERY promising. No Android support yet but it's coming soon.
It sounds like pull instead of push though, so the user presumably is only seeding things they have looked at, so a flag/delete/block button for them to remove and block something from their node might be good enough.
Story time: I'm from Germany, co-founder of a company that builds lasers which are marketed toward users in biomedical research. So when selling into the USA we've to deal with the FDA twice: Because the application is medical and because these things are lasers (little known fact: The FDA also oversees laser safety regulations and enforcement).

In February I attended a conference in San Francisco and at the end of the week came down with benign infection; anyway I was headed to a pharmacy looking for some remedy; the first thing that had the label "FDA approved" on it I took. Why? Because I know firsthand how strict the FDA is and that they are a no-bullshit agency, so I knew that this thing surely was safe and be effective.

BTW: Getting a new medical device FDA approved is not a very time consuming process; at least not for diagnostic applications. It can be done in under half a year, if your paperwork is thorough and your testing solid.
In a pedantic sense, the PID/VID are required if you want to use the usb logo to advertise compatibility. It isn't "USB" if it doesn't have a valid (in the sense that it is licensed) PID and VID.

It's also user friendly for a device model to have an identifier (because this is the typical way to match up the driver).

I don't think there is really any technical enforcement of it (but that's based on what I remember from briefly fooling around with a non compliant device).

Edit: [I had something here that was wrong]
Whatever it means, the reporter was implying he's full of shit.
You need to know how the sentences were constructed then. In their Turing-test-lookalike webpage you get to guess based on the final sentence, which is kinda pointless without the conversation part of the test which precludes canned responses/format strings.
Cheese changed the course of Western civilization
I believe the premise to be false, while it is true that you can eat many different "weeds" I cannot find any methodology or theory where that doing so increases the efficiency of land use. There are some key things like nutrients in == nutrients out and digestibility in humans which is not a given.

That said, there were some interesting recipes for what are nominally weeds in the Foxfire[1], and Euell Gibbons books[2] which were certainly edible although nothing I've tried really struck me as exceptional. As Boy Scouts we got a merit badge for creating a meal out of locally harvested plants, that was fun.

[1] http://www.foxfire.org/thefoxfirebooks.aspx

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Euell-Gibbons-Handbook-Edible-Plants/d...
When you find a technological solution with those properties, let us know.
It should be pointed out that US operated as a democratic republic for over a century on the gold standard - which bitcoins shares a lot of properties with, except that bitcoin can be transmitted at distance easily, whereas gold cannot.
If by 'attack' you mean 'say mean things' - then sure.

I mean, you're absolutely right about how business people seem to really really hate people who make commodities, even though it's in the buyer's interest to buy things that are sold as commodities (e.g. goods and/or services where switching vendors is easy)

It's a lot like how business people get all hostile when you talk about competing on price. "It's not about the money!" they shout, like overdressed, aging hippies. But it's a transparent lie, and I think largely harmless.

but... yeah, as far as I can tell, the hostility starts and ends at saying mean things (and, you know, not giving you money, but I don't really live in the universe where investors give you money, so likely that is observer bias.)

I think it's just the general kind of hostility you get from co-workers, in most industries when you make them look bad by working harder than they do.
I'm pretty sure the reason for that is just to make sure you spend money for more cartridges. It's hard to do counterfeiting in black-and-white.
You need to printing QR codes for that, not just the plain text URL.
A book shapes the mind and allows us to ask more questions, pushes creativity new directions. Very rarely does one want to just download a book into the brain. We want to synthesize it, as you say, eat it as food.
No, we are making them first class. When we have a bug that breaks one of our three build queues (Windows, Linux, Mac), it will not be acceptable to break any of the platforms.
Cellphones isn't a company; is there a monopolist provider? Where I live, we have three plus a few MVNOs.

As for CCs, are you really forced to have one to succeed in the US? According to a Gallop poll, 29% of Americans don't have any CC, though I assume that correlates pretty well with the poor and dispossessed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317003 dup. this was up on front page yest.
Right place, right time, right plant. Don't eat weeds from places where they may have been sprayed by pesticides or pets. I put dandelion (literally "teeth of the lion" or dans de lion in french) in my smoothies weekly. It's pretty bitter and tastes of the earth, so if you make a smoothie use copious amounts of lemon juice and/or orange juice to make it taste a little bit better. There are all sorts of little-known health benefits to dandelion. They are PACKED with all sorts of nutrients. People even grow them deliberately in gardens in Europe. Some people also make dandelion wine and dandelion coffee. Google this stuff - you might be surprised. In an abstract sense weeds are a bit like startups because they take unwanted resources (heat, light, soil, space) and 'add value' through unique processes e.g. photosynthesis to turn them into something else. In a strange way I find weeds inspiring.
A check by online service SSL Shopper shows one of the root or intermediate certificates expired on April 4, 2015, more specifically the second certificate in the chain...
> I cannot reconcile this with claims that Bitcoin is 'does not require trust' or is 'decentralized.'"

Aren't these floating variables, not booleans? "Level of decentralization" vs. "how much does it require trust". I would argue that the level of decentralization and trustlestness is better on bitcoin than fiat payment systems.
Medium.com: To record Chopin on a 173 year old piano, for Creative Commons
I feel the same way about a lot of art but then I think about some clever snippet of code I've seen and how to 99% of the population it probably looks like gibberish and realize that sometimes you require experience and knowledge of a subject to appreciate its beauty. I think we're just in the wrong field for this specific form of art.
I don't think the USB-IF had given much thought to the maker community, and makers weren't as big back then when USB-IF put together this program.

I agree with you and hope as well that the USB-IF gives the open-source maker community a break. Although, recently, the Bluetooth SIG (Bluetooth equivalent of the USB-IF) started to charge fees to anyone utilizing Bluetooth in their products, even if you used a module that was already qualified and paid fees. Hopefully the USB-IF won't do the same.
This is an excellent resource: http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/

There's also Chris Allen's guide: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell . You can also go through the (good, but very dated) book, Real World Haskell.

Sometimes you have to find the tutorials and blog posts first. The lens type signatures aren't the easiest to understand, and sometimes its easier to just use things "empirically" without fully understanding them, and then get a sense of the type signatures when you really want to know what the compiler's actually doing. Being able to use lenses is not as hard as understanding why its intimidating rank-2 type signature is the right one.

Finally, sometimes it helps to de-generalize. To replace (Monad m) with IO, for example, and think about what that special case might mean.

For example, the type signature for Control.Arrow.first is:

first :: Arrow a => a b c -> a (b, d) (c, d)

If you're a beginning Haskeller, your reaction is going to be "WTF"? Well "Arrow" is a type class more general than function. (It could be the "effectful function" type or Kleisli arrow, a -> IO b.) If you specialize with a = (->), you get the more concrete type signature:

first :: (b -> c) -> (b, d) -> (c, d)

... and it's much more clear what it does.

As for nomenclature, I don't disagree. I had this discussion with Brian Hurt (and owe him for the insights): we'd be more marketable if we called Monoid "Appendable" and Functor "Mappable". Monad is one where it's hard to come up with a more accessible name for it: it abstracts over computational context (i.e. what do we actually mean when we talk about computational effects) but that would be a mouthful of words and not any more clear.
Why should we expect that 99/100 people have anything insightful to say about government? Even the person who is college-educated and took maybe 1 or 2 government classes is way out of depth talking about it. There are maybe a "handful" of people who could give a meaningful evaluation of government or some alternative governing system... similarly the requirement that someone be literate and have the "chops" to change government is good -- you don't want a person who doesn't even know what congress is trying to make changes to something they don't understand because they read an article on huffington post about it and decided it was "problematic" because it didn't fall quite in line with something they believed rather strongly but without good reason to be true.
I can't speak for mono, but converging makes sense where it makes sense -- if mono has a solid implementation of something they consider core and the MS implementation isn't trivial to port, I don't see a good reason to port it.
One comment almost immediately after the deleted one hardly qualifies as arguing for hours on a subject. And I am of course always free to change my mind and preferences. ;)
The database is Ethereum (for data that needs consensus), your filesystem (for data that only matters to you), and Whisper (for ephemeral data that doesn't need consensus, like messages). You build a JavaScript app that calls into libraries that implement these technologies, and you host your code on IPFS.

The world is currently figuring out the best ways to utilize this sort of architecture. Join us.

https://dappsforbeginners.wordpress.com/
It's somewhat dated now, but I picked up Isaac Asimov's The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science years ago at an Elk's Club booksale, and it was a fantastic overview of physics and biology, of course from the 1960s perspective in which it was published.
Nobody is fearful of bitcoin, especially not with regard to the idea that bitcoin will somehow replace fiat money and "devalue my pension fund"

Then how would you explain this irrational aggression in every Bitcoin thread?

As a case in point, why were you so eager to follow up with a strawman of your own:

heaping on volumes of nebulous praise like "transformative", "revolutionary", "world-changing", likening bitcoin to the early internet, claiming it will stop wars, stop corruption, free the people and all the rest

Neither waterlesscloud nor me wrote or implied anything like that.

Why do you attack something stupid that someone else once said about Bitcoin, rather than presenting an actual argument versus my "intellectually insulting" idea that Bitcoin might touch on some mammalian "fear of change", or against any of waterlesscloud's observations?
Care about products, not frameworks
A great little book! I read it last year and can recommend it, too.
Not as much as I used to be, but I used to go anywhere from one to three times a week. I'd usually attend hot yoga classes. It was a great way to get over cold Canadian winters, it helped me stay limber even when running 3x a week, and it gave me much needed time for calmness without introspection. I always felt physically and psychologically better afterwards.
I'm not sure there is any path, now or planned for the future, for moving from e-residency to 'real residency'. Probably you've seen this information, but if not:
http://www.investinestonia.com/en/investment-guide/coming-to...
You're aware the past can only inform the future, not predict it?
How many correct guesses does it take before its something more?

No amount of lucky guesses can result in a proof, due to things like confirmation bias. The plural of anecdote is not data, as they say.

People underestimate the intelligence, imagination, and most importantly memory of 3-5 year olds. The presumption that these things must be true because children are too young to have made them up or heard them elsewhere is unsupportable. It's entirely possible that the child overheard others talking about all of the things they are describing, and/or that those who want to believe will mentally fill in the gaps[0].

One would have to rule out all potential contamination from people, media, etc., provide a testable, repeatable experiment, and provide a real mechanism behind the effect, before any scientific credibility could be given to ideas of supernatural revelations to children.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading
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It doesn't look like that it would be open yet. I went to their github to check it out:

https://github.com/asm-products/buckets
Dandelion greens are a pretty normal "green" in Greece, used in salads roughly the same way that the southern U.S. uses turnip greens or collard greens (i.e. boiled, w/ lemon juice, oil, and/or vinegar). But picking them wild is a different situation than buying them in a marketplace.
I don't know what you mean by "death escaping." I don't know what illegal activities you are referring to in this matter. The Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_States has a pretty complete coverage of the points both for and against the estate tax.

While the gift tax is, in the US, closely coupled to the estate tax, they are distinct things. I made an error in not mentioning income tax as well was the estate tax.

Gifts could be used to get around income tax. If I pay my children to work in my store, then they pay income tax. If however I give them gifts, and they just happen, out of generousness and familial good will, happen to do the same amount of work as an employee, then that's an illegal scheme to avoid paying income tax.

Estate taxes are a reflection of a philosophical viewpoint, which is that inherited wealth is not as good for the country's well-being as wealth from labor. Consider if I were to own 1/5th of the land of Manhattan, and make money from leasing out the properties.

If there were no wealth tax, then I could pass that land to one of my children, who then passes it on to one of my grandchildren, etc. Wealth like that tends to accumulate, and lead to increased economic inequality. The philosophical viewpoint is that a humane society does not have drastic differences between the richest and poorest people. In addition, this would tend to create de facto nobility, or landed gentry, which is something the US has traditionally opposed. If Picketty is right, and r > g, then the death tax or a wealth tax or some other means is needed to limit wealth inequality.
Here's a thread about IPFS from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069836
I read A Brief History of Time during high school, and I thought it was great. Perhaps if I had been more knowledgeable in the topic (I was only familiar with classic physics at that point) when I read it, I might have felt otherwise. But I would say it serves the general audience superbly.
Of course, nobody will connect thousands of USB devices to their computer.

No, but there are thousands of preset IDs in the hundreds of drivers already present on the computer.

For this reason, isn't it safe to pick a random 32-bit identifier?

Devices don't just collide with others on the same computer, but with other drivers on the same computer.

Edit: Unfortunately sillysaurus3 deleted the parent comment. It had an interesting summary of a simulation of the collision problem.