skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also ignores the possibility of accidental nuclear war. Once ICBMs became common and warning times dropped to minutes, so much of the machinery of war had to be automatic (whether with actual machines, or with people given pre-baked orders and procedures) that setting it all off by accident was a serious possibility.

Actually, is a serious possibility. That stuff is all still there.
Architecture is Politics
This goes to show that even seemingly ridiculous (from the layman's POV) technology can be eventually used to create tecnology that can directly better our lives.

This was originally designed to detect alien life on other planets, but was converted to look for heartbeats and breathing under rubble.
Websites absolutely do lose money when you block their ads. Regardless of what one chooses to do, you should be aware of the facts.
> I doubt a good-faith disagreement over monetary policy would do it.

Right, but the idea that the Fed is allowed to debase the currency at-will, with no repercussions because it's a "good faith disagreement over monetary policy" is precisely the problem. Just the language there attempts to steer the debate by hiding what is actually happening.

The idea that banks are too big to fail and bailouts will always happen and whatnot has led to a tremendous buildup of risk in the system. Profits are privatized and losses are socialized. Heads I win, tails you lose is great if you're me, awful if you're you.

In the absence of a "guaranteed" bailout (if you're too big to fail, anyhow) we might enforce some restraint on the banks but it might take a very painful recession where a bunch of them fail to do so. Or the government could break them up and say "nobody is too big to fail now, so good luck!" and institute some kind of rule about deposit insurance and banks' total assets under management.

Ultimately I'm not so much a "gold bug" who loves gold irrationally as I am someone who wants some kind of restraint on the government. There are probably other ways to do it, but at least by using older methods you get the benefit of a lot of history to read and to draw conclusions from. I'm open to other avenues of providing restraint, but they need to be distributed and not subject to the vagaries of elections. The people have precious few ways to directly influence the government given the way that politics have evolved, so any way to return some power to the people is a good thing in my mind. To me it seems like commodity money is a way to do that without turning the whole world upside down, but it wouldn't surprise me if we differed on that point.

Anyhow thanks for the conversation, it's been nice to engage with someone on the issue rather than just get downvoted.
Show HN: New job search site for hackers
I distinctly remember Tom Clancy writing about this type of technology near the end of Rainbow Six (published in 1998) -- He always seemed pretty well informed on what was undergoing testing if not what was actually in use.
Memories of supporting subscriber CPEs and having to go through Drum to analyze the data coming out of logged SNMP traps/notifications are flashing back. Thanks for that. (:

But, yeah, assuming that the nodes in discussion here are not amd64 machines but are instead subscriber CPEs, that's a totally workable (and, frankly, agreeable) solution.
To understand the picture the machine should reason like this.

First: Look for focus, detect zone in which eyes are looking. Result: The focus is on the man at the right since eyes are directed at him.

Second: Sentiment Analysis
Whatever he is doing people find it funny.

People like to play jokes that make you experience strange things that you can't understand at the moment.

Hypothesis:
The man B near the main character A is interacting with A. It seems that the foot of B is interacting with the machine M. So B interacts with M that interacts with A.

Generated question: What kind of interaction could be exerted by B on M to cause M get A confused?

Hypothesis: B's foot is making the machine to malfunction in such a way to give a false message to A.

Hypothesis: To make this image more noticeable the men are well known people or famous people.

Data: The more serious the role this people play at society the more funny is the image, since their behavior is more unexpected.

Reasoning like this the machine could get a plausible hypothesis of what is happening in the scene:

A famous man B that probably do a serious and responsible role in society is playing a trick on a man A by making a machine M to malfunction in such a way that it gives a false message or information to A. The malfunction is caused by putting the foot on the machine. To make it funnier, the main character can't see that, ...

Having a general context like this the machine could look for machines and people which could play such a role and give a heavier weight to those that make the joke a better one.

The next generation of machines could modify the image to make the joke better since it can understand perfectly the context and purpose of it.
So ahh when are they going to lower prices on the "professional" dyno pricing? AWS has only gotten cheaper and heroku has only gotten more expensive.
It is even easier than trying to empty your mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Fa50oj45s&noredirect=1
Does it matter where the person using the exchange is? or only that the exchange be physically located in NY?
Isn't that the exact purpose Divshot aims to fill?
> Do HNers use these when they are programming or studying?

I mean, focus is focus no matter how you use it.

For anyone who wants to consider Adderall or Concerta, please do yourself a favor and look into Vyvanse. No crash, no jitters, much smoother delivery - at least for me.

I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone has about (any) stimulants.
A Break from the Past: Saying Goodbye to ActiveX, VBScript, AttachEvent…
I agree with your assertion that many things given "speech" protections aren't, like campaign spending, etc. I don't believe protesting to be, though, because it's a medium through which actual speech is communicated. So too is any published forum where actual words are used, like say books or the internet.

Campaign finance, however, is not. I fully support someone's right to speak about who they support and why, in a medium where that speech is communicated as actual language. That is the line, as far as I'm concerned.

Protest, books, the internet - they're all transfer mediums FOR speech. I don't see much difference between limiting publishing and limiting speaking out loud, which are both word-transfer-mechanisms.
Ghostery reports Omniture(Adobe Analytics) on the ACLU homepage, and additionally Adobe Test and Target on their donate page. On EFF, Ghostery only reports Piwik Analytics on their home and donate pages. For comparison, the NYTimes homepage shows 35 trackers.

Personally, I don't have a problem with this. I am concerned about overreach in government policy, not nonprofits trying to learn a bit more about their supporters.
Elon Musk, Climate Hero?
What do you gain by blocking adverts? An extra 150K from your data plan?

Quicker page loads, avoiding seizure inducing ads that are designed to attract your attention in an overly aggressive way, better visibility of text because it's not surrounded by flashy pictures, animations and videos. Plus avoiding Flash/Java/JS ads poisoned with malicious content.

And, oh yeah, and ~150K that won't hit my data plan.

For the record, I don't block all ads. I have sites that I allow them on because I am a frequent user and their ads are not too obnoxious to deal with. If my page views (never clicks though) help them then great! But I surf with the blocker on by default for the reasons laid out above.
Really, "with no reason"? There were plenty of reasons. You can debate whether they were good or bad, or justified what was done, but to just dismiss it all as "no reason" is ridiculous. Even people who think that dropping nuclear bombs on Japan was completely reprehensible will still say that there was a reason for it, like putting a fright into the Soviets.
New Googleplex will be built by robots
Well, once you're one of the people in power...you'll have a staff of people whose sole job is to ensure you stay safe.

Everybody else? Something about eating cake, I think...
Bring back the "This Machine Kills Fascists" sticker for laptops as well!
Join the Engineering Leisure Class
I'd rather just die than keep worrying about it.
Twitter has become the definitive source for breaking news, rumors and off the cough analysis in Sports. Scoops always appear on Twitter considerably faster than ESPN, etc. During free agency periods, all of the rumors and news breaks on Twitter first because all of the top traditional journalists and bloggers use Twitter as their primary distribution channel. If I were running ESPN, I would have tried my hardest to head this off years ago, perhaps by emulating the StockTwits strategy or something, but at this point, Twitter is the breaking source for Sports information, not ESPN. And that's why I use it multiple times per day on the web.
On the flip side of all of this, I think its important to recognize that Twitter has - of most of the large social media platforms - been the best with regard to resistance to censorship and propaganda initiatives. Twitter will take down specific accounts, but as far as I can tell this is the state of the art for them - they do not have automated reasoning that 'accidentally' prevents spreading unwelcome news articles and leaked documents, etc. This of course makes Twitter a viable target for propaganda efforts by AQAP, ISIL, Russia, Israel, the US and others - but it also frees the service from being controlled by any particular group (I suppose either is bad).

It is likely that with a change in leadership these policies will also change and Twitter will become another Facebook/Reddit.
Amen. This, plus remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl on my Macbook Air was a life changer :)
Seemingly small, arbitrary selection of stories. Nothing on Bill C-51 for instance.

Allowing user submissions and linking all the submissions together would create user-interest rather than whatever being reported as focus areas.
The supreme court has numerous times affirmed limits to free speech.

My assertion is that this is an affront to the Constitution. I thought I made that clear, but if not, SCOTUS ruling that a law abridging the freedom of speech is Constitutional is blatantly and obviously wrong, until an amendment is passed changing the 1st, which is why we have an amendment process.
It's times like this that really make me miss Groklaw.
The US and CERN upgrade their relationship
Neovim won't be preinstalled for a long time. Possibly it never will be. Also, writing Elisp is not far from writing Guile Scheme, and there are many tools that embed Guile.
Agreed, his part is fascinating, and of a completely different tone than the rest and your usual appellate court decisions with their narrowly drawn exactitudes. His reads more like an essay than a legal opinion in places.

And yes, he is essentially saying that the FISA court is fundamentally flawed as it does not allow for all relevant parties to have their arguments heard.
Investigative Report on “Deflategate” Released [pdf]
If you're interested you can join in! http://www.openworm.org/
Surprised no one's mentioned this yet -- ideas are very common on HN or Reddit, but not from the submissions.

So very often I find people posting very long, well-cited articles as comments on Reddit, and I wonder why they're just giving that content over to a very small subset of folks who might be interested. The entire concept of /r/bestof, for example, is in an effort to highlight well-written comments.

Find a topic related to your business, visit the subreddit, read the discussion in the comments of an interesting submission, form an opinion on either the submission itself, or the ensuing conversational topic, and post that as an article on your blog.

An example might be the "unlearning helplessness" submission currently on the HN front page. The discussion in the comments section has a few opinions about what is missing from the posted article. Perhaps you could write an article on that topic, providing some of the missing practical examples folks seem to be looking for. Also mentioned is the concept's relationship to stoicism. If that interests you, instead of commenting, write a blog post about it.

Another example might be this very comment! If I were to expand more, provide additional examples, and punch up the language a bit, we could see ourselves at 750 words in no time flat.

It took me ~3 minutes to get to 250 words, we could say it'd take me ~30 minutes to come up with a passable 750 words with a few citations -- I'm sure you can do about that (if not better), too.
P.S - my current favourite solution would be a 2 phase commit when the mobile client does 2nd API call to commit the booking. Server rolls back the booking if no commit received within N seconds/minutes.
At Georgia Tech we got a very small server space which was used in a few CS classes, it would have been large enough to run hubot. Your university might have a similar setup.
Does anyone else feel like calling your massive infrastructure software "Borg" might be tempting fate? I mean, I'm not superstitious, but I would be weary of calling my satellite network "Skynet."
Can anyone explain how MapReduce is built on top of Borg, when Borg doesn't support scheduling with data locality? I'm having a hard time reconciling that. One of the principal use cases of the MapReduce framework is reducing data movement...
> What is the advantage of using Sourceforge these days when github and bitbucket are free for open source?

I imagine the author figures that moving is a pain.

Don't forget, Sourceforge was the Github of yesteryear. I imagine in 10 years we may very well be asking the same of some old project hosted on Github.
That's interesting that Transferwise are making a loss given that they are charging a commission. What is their monetisation strategy?
More than likely he'd be prosecuted for computer crimes, not violations of speech limitations.
Why not use GitHub Pages? It's free, supports static sites only and has Git based deployment.
I've taken Uber to OAK and other airports from SF dozens of times.

You had a spot of bad luck with cancellations—they're in fact extremely rare, and I've taken hundreds of trips. On top of that, drivers cannot see your destination when a request is made. Go ahead and ask them.
Same here. Privacy issues are something that boosted Berlin's (and German in general) startups or at least gave them an opportunity for easy marketing -- "we are not in five eyes". Now it's kind of awkward.

By the way, the pictured building (new BND headquarters) is in my neighborhood; I cycle past it nearly every day.

On the other side of the building there are two conspicuous palm trees; really tall and green, they even survived winters. I always joke these are actually antennas in disguise but who knows.
They could use scrubbers or switch to a different fuel when they're near a heavily populated area.
Does MongoDB still sacrifice sanity and reliability for speed? Can't tell from this post.

Also, I inherited a Parse-based project and have been running it for about 2 years. It's insanely inconsistent and unstable. I wonder how much of that is because Parse is solving a pretty difficult engineering problem or because Parse is using MongoDB.
have you tried something like tmuxinator so create/restore sessions?
v1.0.0#specification reads:
> Or another implementation could fuse the operations to the final consumer:
> nioSelectorThreadOrigin | map(f) filter(p) consumeTo(toNioSelectorOutput)

Having control over how to fuse a chain of functions is very interesting. Do any of the implementations allow use of mutable state when fusing a chain of functions with the same signature.
Or even when the answer is going to be yes? Snowden shouldn't need a pardon for what he's done. Any federal prosecutor that would even consider laying charges should be removed from office immediately.
Becoming a Socially Optimized Business
It used to be an expert was anyone at least 40 miles from home. I've always wondered how to frame that comment on an internet scale.
>the poor don't vote to redistribute--that's why they're still poor.

Why are they poor? They didn't vote to redistribute. Why didn't they vote to redistribute? Because they're still poor.

I'm not disagreeing with you, just saying that it's disingenuous to claim "poor people haven't tried because they're poor".
Because as the author of the article stated, learning by "teaching others" is one of the best ways to learn.
Does Kubernetes use chroot jails like Borg, or has it advanced to LXC containers? Nowadays LXC isolation seems strictly preferable.
The gravitational binding energy (what it would take to turn the Earth into a collection of floating, unbound gravel) is equivalent to about a week's worth of the Sun's total output. (Not a week of what the Earth receives, but a week of the entire output. Quite a lot.)

The energy required merely to sterilize the crust of all life is vastly lower, of course. But still many orders of magnitude greater than the world's nuclear arsenals.

Even destroying mankind would be pretty tough. Destroying modern civilization is probably doable, but people would endure. Lots of people get by with subsistence farming now, and their lives wouldn't change so much.
And mW != MW
Unless I walk into a writing project knowing an immense amount about a topic, banging out 750 words looks like this:

- Primary research:> I can't just bang out 750 words and have it mean anything, or even be remotely useful. I need some knowledge, I need to form opinions, and I need to read what that particular field's experts have to say. The alternative is a Wikipedia-esque survey, which is okay sometimes, but won't drive much more than kids who will use you in their homework.

- Finding/researching citations:> Assuming that you aren't a complete dickbag, I'll want to make sure that your finished piece has some actual intellectual merit. So, I'll need to find good quality citations. This is more than Googling the topic and linking to the entire first page of results. It involves reading important, useful works and making sure that I understand what the writer is saying enough that I can use it to back up my points. If I don't understand a writer, maybe she is mistaken, or maybe I don't understand the nuances enough to use that point.

- Outline:> My process usually starts with an outliner now (fargo.io is quite good), but I used to write outlines in notebooks. I like to make a list of my points, include citations (or carefully note if this is just my opinion) and start to figure out what the narrative will look like. You'd be surprised how often this stage shows me that I have absolutely nothing to say.

- First draft:> Hopefully this explains itself.

- First edit:> You meet lots of writers who send their clients first drafts. These are either superhuman writers or they never get paid. I have an editor who I send EVERYTHING to. In exchange, she sends me her stuff and we absolutely rip each other apart.

- Second/third/+ draft:> Sometimes I can nail it with one round of feedback. Other times, I'll struggle with one paragraph for an entire afternoon.

- Your feedback:> What you think is a first draft should really be a second or third draft...:)

- Finalize the article, publish and promote:> Some people like my writing and tend to get excited when I email them to let them know about something new.

Long story short, writing 750 words that actually mean something would take me a minimum of eight hours to really polish. For me, $6.25 an hour ends in homelessness...:)
Thus, the government takes the position that the metadata
collected – a vast amount of which does not contain
directly “relevant” information, as the government
concedes – are nevertheless “relevant” because they may
allow the NSA, at some unknown time in the future,
utilizing its ability to sift through the trove of
irrelevant data it has collected up to that point,
to identify information that is relevant.

Just dripping with hubris! I am just gobsmacked at the audacity of such a claim.
Pretty sure you can get a cheap VPS for less than that and it will allow you to do much more.
It depends on the state statute. Generally I've been told that it matters where the customer is.
I didn't like the fact that this installs its own docker that is incompatible with the docker from the official site.
> don't underestimate the effects on brand value, which will come subconsciously, if you look at ads.

This is exactly why I use adblock.
If the government thinks individuals have nothing to hide then as an individual I think the government has nothing to hide.
You must be looking the median latencies. 99% latency was and still > 200ms. You can blame GC jitters for the much bigger variance. They should also show median and 95% latencies for this years number as well.
... there are approximately 3.785 liters
in a gallon, not 4.5461 as stated in the
original article.

Not if you're in Europe. Which I am.
I am a very happy customer of mailbox.org ( https://mailbox.org/en/ )

It's not so obvious but they also support using your own domain.

Good but not super fast support and for me the most important thing, they support active sync so you get push on mobiles.
Last time I tried ansi-term and friends (not that long ago), it was very slow and struggled rendering my fairly vanilla (by some people's standards) shell prompt. Neovim's terminal emulation, by contrast, is a very great deal faster and can run Neovim inside itself with no discernible issues.
It can be hard to let go of the work you have done to let someone else pick up the torch.

And It will be tough because this is your first experience being a programmer and your code confidence will be easily shattered. But the best thing you can do to improve your product, code, and knowledge is to hire someone with more experience than you. A good CTO hires knowledgeable programmers and listens to their opinions so he can make informed decisions. If you try to protect the code you have written by hiring less experienced programmers, your product will ultimately suffer and you will eventually be let go.
Yeah, but you are not imparting actual knowledge through the tweets. You are sharing a link to where knowledge can be found.

You could also share a link to, you know, a blog.

And you are certainly not growing as a developer by tweeting that, where as the author of the article made the claim that having a blog will develop you as a programmer.
Jeopardy! used to work like this. Players would often buzz in immediately, hoping they would know the answer to the question (sorry, the "question" for the "answer" [1]). Since Alex Trebek still finished reading the clue, and most of the players knew most of the answers most of the time, this was a winning strategy. The producers changed to the current design in 1985. [2]

[1]: This has always struck me as an idiotic gimmick, especially since the wording rarely makes sense. No one would ever respond to the question "Who was George Washington?" with the answer "This man served as the first President of the United States."

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!#CITEREFTrebekBarso...
Does this technology have a slippery slope? Assuming that the technology isn't useful for recording conversations, what's the worst that could happen by implementing this in residential neighborhoods?