skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point we're producing more food in the US than we need to feed the population of the US. That's why we can divert portions of our food production to non-food products like plastic or fuel. The problem has always been and will always be making sure everyone has enough to eat, and the biggest problem there is not everyone has enough money to afford even the cheapest, nastiest food. Giving the poor more money might not be the only or even the best answer, but it is an answer.

No one in the US is starving because we can't produce enough food. People starve because their access to the food is artificially hindered. In fact, we're producing so much food the the US government pays farmers to not produce food so that prices will remain high enough to make a profit.
I'd be interested to see which thread it was.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3172273
The benchmark requirements aren't specific about durability requirements of the database. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=code

This is where a difference between Redis and other databases will exist depending on configuration.
Google Chrome doesn't even like HP's security certificate (using SHA-1)
How do you search for and verify one of those vehicles without a computer?

Also, I haven't bought a new car in many years. Is there something like a EULA buried in the small print? And I don't imagine buyers on the secondary market sign anything. Or will it become illegal to sell used cars because the software license doesn't allow for transfer?
Okay, let's me phrase it this way then. It's a big piece of weird code that isn't intuitive at first but become relatively easy to work with once you understand what's happening (give up on the why, half the stuff makes no sense). The current version is going to crumble, but hopefully Magento 2 will be built to last.
That is a ridiculous argument. The more content we produce, the more quality and diversity you can get in the corpus that you will read; the more choices that you can make. There might be infinite insight in the contemplation of cat pictures. :)

Or from another angle: why don't we destroy half of the content of the world? Surely we have enough with the remainings. If we were to find tomorrow another intelligent species, would you be interested in their culture? Or won't you have time to read it?
I found it more stressful. The biggest place where delays are caused at an airport is at security, so when I arrive at an airport, this is the first thing I want to take care of, and cannot relax until I've passed through it.

To be told I cannot go through security until a few moments before the flight departs (because it is not even open, or the gate not even assigned) means that anything that does go wrong will cause me to miss my flight.

Not to mention the expense of having screening apparatus at every gate seems a little inefficient. It means everyone on the flight tries to cram through the one line at the same time, whereas if it were in advance, it could be spread out in time and over more lines.
Older versions of iOS had a bug where zoom levels would mess up when device orientation was changed. For a while disabling zoom was a reasonable alternative but it's not justifiable anymore

On the other points I think it's because a lot of companies are still treat their mobile UX as an afterthought, even the ones who wouldn't like to admit it. It's a lot of work to handle all the variables well and few are willing to commit the resources in the right places early enough to implement a good mobile experience without awkward technical workarounds later.
Thanks! Fixed by adjusting my release notes.
> Applying concepts from one scientific discipline to other disciplines does seldom fit.

I find analogies useful. I also find the utility of Science to be valid but limited at times, particularly in complex systems that evolve.

> I think it is more a sign of pseudo-scientific trickery to back the own thinking, that is most often used in unsound economical theories.

You are assuming that my motivations are different from what they actually are, but yes, I agree it does happen...
I'm also not trying to make a "sound economic theory". Observations & analogies are still valid & useful, though. YMMV.

> It is a fact, that while monopolies are good for the monopolists, it is bad for societies at large. And no "ecological" concepts can convince me from the opposite.

I'm making an observation that the "free market" is an unstable system. It probably only exists in theory. IMO, the difference between the theory & reality limits the utility of Capitalism, or any imposed economic model for that matter.

> With your "ecological" theory, someone also could argue, that dinosaurs are better than mammals.

It's hard to find "better" in all circumstances. It usually depends on context. i.e. Dinosaurs were pretty well adapted for their environment & lasted millions of years (much longer than humans). Too bad they didn't consider that asteroid...
Wow this looks great! If the whole online payment system thing doesn't work out for square the engineers there should fire the entire management chain and pivot into a developer services company, because the projects and libraries they publish are just stellar (particularly the Android stuff).
No, the DHS enforces the ICAO standards for flights entering the US. For example, the press release regarding the Venezuela issue: http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2008/09/08/tsa-issues-advi...

>Under Title 49 of the U.S. Code, Section 44907, the Department of Homeland Security is required to assess security at foreign airports with direct service to the United States to determine compliance with standards established by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
>In his world, the creators of things starve.

How so? The entirety of human history has shown us that we create no matter what. Art, music, tools, stories, technology, etc. Creators have been making (and eating) for eons, well before modern IP laws. Look at the patron model, or commission based production, used for centuries. Or look at creation during leisure time for leisure (and its close modern cousin, large portions of the App Store).

The absence of strong, modern IP laws has never meant (and never will) "creators of things starve". It may mean varying levels of overall creation, but it gets hard to quantify what that would mean, especially when many components of our current strong IP laws work against and damage creation of IP.

>Stallman can ignore this side of the equation because he is a tenured academic.

You kind of lost me with this attack on him. This is just a lazy cop-out that gets you out of considering the counterargument on its points and merits. You're not debating his argument, you're attacking his character. Incidentally though, he is getting paid, and he is using the ancient patron model which is entirely consistent with his views.
RootPipe vulnerability is still exploitable on OS X 10.10.3
Not yet. Currently the user has to make sure to save that link. There is no recovery if they delete the cookie and have no access to the secret link. This idea originated from NightChamber which refrains from asking for any kind of user details to maintain anonymity. But that might have to change with my implementation because of the social network like features.
Emailing the secret link seems good, now that I think about it. Thanks!
Would like to see "gallery" of what the different sites (ie professional vs creative) look like as well as what is and isn't customizable / configurable.
I'm a little late to jump in but I've been watching this project with interest over the past couple of years:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41422.25

It's not complete yet, but most of the pieces are there.
The politest put down ever?
Thanks, very helpful.

I'm not sure I would have any inventory, the idea is pretty specialized and I would be selling it to a limited number of large institutions.
Which probably means it expires in 2016.
I feel like the term "lease" isn't appropriate unless there is a viable way and underlying plan to eventually return it. When I lease I car, I have to return it. They don't sell me the car under the auspices of a lease, with no way to ever return it, and still restrict my rights on what I can do with it.
"Mike, how about chicken salad?" "Urgh".
> The more food we can make per unit resource, the more food we have, given that resources are finite. Giving the poor more money does nothing to change that.

In the real world operating under market rules, there's not one rule that determines how much food we have. It's a function of how much you invest in the operation -- land, tractors, farm labor, irrigation, livestock feed, food processing, et cetera. People know how much food to produce and how to produce it because of PRICES. Higher food prices are encourage people to reduce food waste (by making it more expensive, making concepts like "leftovers" or "canning" more attractive) or divert resources towards producing food (e.g. by starting new farms, buying better farming equipment, or starting a garden in their backyard). It also discourages inefficient forms of feeding people by raising the price (e.g. making meat more expensive because it takes a boatload of resources to feed a cow). Lower food prices reduce the profit of farming, discouraging the over-exploitation of the land or over-investment in expensive capital like tractors.

In a subsidized environment, the real cost of things is detached from the sticker price at the supermarket. Food is still expensive, but it's not the consumer who's paying for it -- it's the taxpayer. So farms buy more heavy equipment than would naturally be efficient and burn more gasoline than is efficient, food processors waste more food than is efficient, people toss food in the trash more than is efficient, people grow rice in the California desert instead of importing it from somewhere that actually has rain, and midwestern farms destroy more prairie lands and Nature than is efficient, because why not? Taxpayers are paying for it, all crazy-indirectly, and they'd have to go through Congress and go up against big agribusiness lobbyists to get any of their money back. (Then the taxpayers find that they can't pay for other nice things they might want, because of the money going to taxes, and the economy suffers.)

By giving people who need money, money, instead of giving producers a subsidy, you avoid all that. Everyone eats, farms produce the right amount of food with a sane amount of tractors, big factory farms aren't given money that funky forest-culture farms aren't and so each style of farm prevails on its own merits, people with backyards start gardens and make preserves, et cetera.

TLDR: screw with the market's price mechanisms and you screw everything up

Postscript: This is all the fault of the FDR administration when you get down to it.
Teaching tykes to program robots
Darktrace Honored as Best Security Company of the Year
> Up/Down voting on HN and most other sites makes me think of the Yo app, where there are simply too few choices to express what you wish to say.

If you wish to say something more than up/down votes, that's what the "reply" function is for.
I just realized that I'm basically saying that RMS himself does not function in good faith, and I think that's the root of my distrust of him. He's the kind of person who likes to assemble elaborate ideologies over time. He doesn't seem like the kind of person who is instinctively skeptical about his own perceptions. I really don't get the sense that he ever plays devil's advocate with himself or actively tries to come up with the best arguments against his own beliefs in order to strengthen them.

If he had ever written anything in which he talked about how his views have evolved or changed over the course of his life, that would be one thing. But I don't think he's changed his mind about anything over the past 30 years, outside of becoming even more fundamentalist. I don't trust people who never change their minds about anything, especially those who think changing their mind is a sign of weakness. If they are widely known for declaring those who disagree with them as being evil or otherwise morally and ethically questionable, I not only don't trust them but start to think of them as toxic distractions to the real debates that we all should be having.
In fact, I know that several of my neighbours have a corporation setup for each generation of the family farm. These aren't slick city folks or even large businesses. They're every day family farmers that farm the exact same way I do (my farm isn't incorporated). But, like you suggest, maybe it is regional thing.
At the time of these ads, someone created a series of Usenet newsgroups whose names, displayed in a newsreader, spelled out the "YOU WILL":

http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/Yucks/V4/msg00017.html
>(using SHA-1)

You mentioned why - and it's already known why. Not much discussion to be had here... it shouldn't be a huge surprise that no exceptions are being made.
I like how she skipped the part where one of the requirements was: found a company during the dotcom explosion and sell out before it crashes.

Zip2 would've been a complete bust in 2003, and he wouldn't have had the funds to move on to his subsequent ventures. The guy obviously has a lot of great ides, but lots of people have great ideas. Without the financial backing... good luck.
Social networks may be exaggerating risk of news events
How can that be made any more clear than it already is? Pretty much all software a typical consumer ever uses works this way.
Machines are not self-repairing.
DOJ filing: how the Flash Crash was achieved, moment by moment [pdf]
273 out of the Forbes 400 (68%) made their money themselves.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2013/09/18/how-self-...

I'm aware this doesn't contradict what you said. Just wanted to give more detail.
There are a large number of jobs for Magento developers in my area right now, some of them are really interesting companies. Sadly I won't be applying because I can't see myself doing Magento again. Maybe I should apply and talk them out of Magento, so I too can become a rich man :-)
Walmart Files UDRP for Walmart.Horse
> "And good luck. (You'll need that too.)"

I think that acknowledges that luck is also a prerequisite.
Linux ASLR mmap weakness: Reducing entropy by half
"Working with silicon companies to ensure hardware-assisted security" doesn't mean that much though. A MMU is already hardware-assisted security.

https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/introduction/ says "unprivileged containers" as the leading security feature.

Googling for that, there's more info at https://www.stgraber.org/2014/01/17/lxc-1-0-unprivileged-con...
I recently came across this blog post [1] with the same title as that famous paper. But they switched out "scientist" for "programmer" and use a more graphical, less technical approach. It's probably better for this purpose.

EDIT: To clarify I mean "better than the famous paper". The blog post linked in this story is also very good, I'd say these two posts complement each other nicely.

[1] http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/09/what-every-computer-prog...
heads up, in Safari, there is the following error:
TypeError: undefined is not a function (evaluating 'Number.isInteger(parseInt(a, 10))')
Flash Crash discussion begins on page 23.

"SARAO's activity created persistent downward pressure on the price of E-Minis. Indeed, during the dynamic layering cycle that ran from 11:17 a.m. to 1:40 p.m., SARAO's offers comprised 20 to 29% of the CME's entire E-Mini sell-side order book, significantly contributing to the order book imbalance. During that period of time alone, the E-Mini price fell by 361 basis points. In total, SARAO obtained approximately $879,018 in net profits from trading E-Minis that day."
Mathematically, why was the Enigma machine so hard to crack?
We need to learn to live without frequent air travel just because it's energy inefficient. What we need to do is get better at going places while asleep (and trains are great for that). Telepresence means getting places in a hurry will be increasingly unimportant for most people.

Driverless cars will be an interesting phenomenon (and possibly a net increase in our energy use). People will start living in them, doing ridiculously long commutes, etc.
Well apparently HP doesn't know how to update their security, or doesn't care
I really hate how the mobile version removes the ability to view article categories and talk pages.
Very good book on this topic: Against Intellectual Monopoly
can be read online http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfi...
> I see Billy has posted a comment. Jane has replied to Billy's comment, with a dissenting viewpoint, and her comment has subsequently been down voted because people disagree.

Just a note, you cannot see the last part ("her comment has subsequently been downvoted because people disagree"), only assume it.

> I happen to agree with Billy's point of view and disagree with Jane, but if I want to support a truly open discussion about the topic, I have to upvote a comment I disagree with?

Sure, "upvote" doesn't mean agree and "downvote" doesn't mean disagree, though agree/disagree can be one of the factors that goes into upvoting/downvoting. Upvoting/downvoting is best interpreted as "this comment is what I want to see on HN" vs. "this comment is not what I want to see on HN". If you are interested in substantive, productive comments even when you disagree with them, that's what you should upvote.

If you don't want HN to be full of substanceless comments that add nothing even if they restate positions you generally agree with, you should downvote those.

> How does that make any sense?

How does downvoting comments that contribute to a kind of HN you don't want to see and upvoting those that contribute to a kind of HN you do want to see not make sense?
> but what and why?

Iron and heavy metals accumulate in tissues over time. The tissue membranes accumulate an increasing share of polyunsaturated lipids, which in turn interfere with efficient metabolism. Many ways that biological tissue wears out over time are well understood. It's not just some mystery.
>and he wasn't a master designer like, say, Ive,

You mean, Dieter Rams, of course. Ive, for all his talents, is a rehash of a master. If anything Ive is a great example of a multifaceted non-master who knew how to handle two worlds: the no-holds-barred big business world and the artsy design and marketing world. I really see him as a Jobs-like character. Jobs had Woz. Ive had Rams, indirectly of course.
How a hardware startup solved Silicon Valley's “woman problem”
Nicely written article, but the writer failed to do any research on practical solutions for route planning.

"The result of such an explosion is that problems, like shortest path problems, grow so quickly as to become practically incomputable, taking a practically infinite amount of time to solve."

This is exactly the reason why neither Dijkstra nor a variant thereof is a feasible solution for real-world route planning (we would be talking about hours instead of ms per query). However, variants of Dijkstra are used in the pre-computational steps for the actual routing algorithms like Contraction Hierarchies or Transit Node Routing.
Given the predictions of "2001", made at the same time, the ones in this movie aren't particularly insightful.
That certainly won't work for my aluminum water bottle. Granted, neither do X-rays, and yet I've never had it even questioned going through security.
> Also aircraft security was too much even pre-9/11.

In 1998 I was able to walk onto a plane in Sydney and fly to Zurich and walk off while barely breaking stride (I only had carry-on luggage, and Swiss customs waved me through based on my passport being US).
http://www.nealstephenson.com/news/2015/04/13/seveneves-exce...
Well, to me, it makes perfect sense. If I am on a mobile phone, I want mobile-friendly websites higher.

I am actually quite surprised it's not working like that yet.
A 1668 acre farm around here is a small farm, and is probably not incorporated. But certainly many are. But as you said, incorporation does not make it less of a family farm.
Interview with Steven Fox: Privacy and Its Challenges for the Future
Get ready for the Mobilegeddon
Ha, no I was just kidding.
> As soon as books become computer files, you don't buy them anymore, you lease usage rights... When will it stop?

I don't want it to stop - I think it's a good thing. By making a book impossible to pass from one person to another, the publisher is able to extract an income that is closer to the total benefit people derive from reading the book. In short: authors make more money. And so more books will be written, and readers will have a wider choice of better quality books.

And it's not just that digital books kill the secondary market for books - they also allow publishers to be highly discriminatory. If you are a woman in your 20s you pay full price for the new Taylor Swift biography, but a man in his 50s is offered a generous discount. For the latest Glenn Beck polemic the pricing structure is reversed.

So not only do publishers get a larger slice of the book-value pie, they are also able to grow the size of the pie. Magic!
Initial amdgpu driver release
Fanbase Co-Founders Discuss Their Pivot to Nextdoor [video]
Airships are cool and all, and I love the dieselpunk style, but just for the sake of argument, let's think bigger and more modern.

I want a Helicarrier.
There will always be tinkerers that take outdated hardware and breathe new life into it via new custom software. The problem lies in the new legal restraints placed around the marriage of the software and the hardware. I'll add, when I say "tinkerer" I'm not talking about an amateur hobbyist. I'm talking about the professionals who live and breathe in the world of after-market parts and their repair.
If each framework use different DB, then all results with DB queries are useless (for me). Very frustrating.
Really, any framework with Redis will have HUGE allowance
Previous short discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9375620
It would be really cool if you could add SSL encryption by default once some service like Lets Encrypt [1] which issues SSL certificates if you can prove your domain name launches. Not sure how this jives with their terms of use though.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org
I really wish we as a community just set a date and ported. As it is right now there's almost zero chance that the project I'm working on will get ported to Python 3. I'm not sure what it'll take, but I really wish we were passed this stage.
Notes on Scent (2009)
Yeah but it's approaching SquareSpace cost, and they offer a lot more.
Which is one of the positive effects of financial bubbles - they create irrational local excess of cash that is largely wasted, but every now and again it begets a new life form that couldn't come to existence in a more rational bubble-free universe.
I'm pretty sure the answer wouldn't have garnered so much attention had a normal person (not Elon's ex-wife) written it.
It will in a few weeks!
Supreme Court Limits Drug-Sniffing Dog Use in Traffic Stops
I think we're assuming here that this machine isn't merely security theatre.
2014 World Press Freedom Index(map)
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9391711
I like the simplicity. I think the challenge is how to get it in front of your target market at the right time. Could you partner with GoDaddy (etc) to catch people right after they buy a domain?