skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're living in an increasingly efficient, automated, bountiful, and wealthy world; why do we have to stick to any "historical system" that sucked for 99.9% of all humans who have ever lived?

There is nothing in the universe that implies life was ever meant to be anything but a struggle to keep surviving. Mainly because the alternative is considered worse (the fact that considering otherwise is often brushed off as mental illness indicates how embedded this attitude is). Your initial assumption seems to be that life is about being happy, and the only things you do should make you happy. I question where that came from?

If reality isn't soul crushing[1], well, you and I see a different reality. Simply wishing it weren't so won't change it. I'm unwilling to accept statements of "the world will magically become a place of fairy tales where no one goes hungry, everyone enjoys their days, and life is fair." I'd be frankly shocked if we could even manage the basics like "No one should die of diseases we cured in the 1800s".

I don't think depression plays a part, I don't even think it's naivety per se. It's an attitude thing really, I'm pretty bleak. However, I believe my position to be consistent with the world as it is, rather than as we might wish it to be. If wishes were wings and all that...

[1] No statements of souls being a real thing was meant.
Because its not true :)

There might be some 750GB disks using 1TB platters, but the difference is never x10.
Don't know why you're being downvoted; Dropbox was very original in that it was

1/ completely platform-agnostic

2/ completely automatic

None of the previous attempts at this were even remotely addressing those two (simple) concepts... and they still aren't!!
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Axact's response (lol): http://www.axact.com/defamation-response/
Join a co-working space, work from cafes (can be hard too) or rent an office with friends. Why? Keeping the work at work and enjoying the time at home will be a good strategy against burning out.
Of course it will take you some time to commute or be more expensive than just staying at home, but it's a good way to stay sane. Maybe you can also create your own office in 1 room and be at home in the other rooms. But you might be tempted to work longer than what is healthy.
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There's plenty of uncomplicated, adfree software. For Windows, I'm partial to Miniget (which supports both HTTP and Bittorrent): http://www.miniget001.com/
Yeah, it's like he's set up for failure!!! Oh wait
I followed almost exactly the same logic as sgreben, but without the notation.

First, I assume there is an answer, and at least a moderately interesting answer.

There is no way they can communicate information post-flip, therefore they must be able to cover every possible option.

They cannot cover every possible option by deciding what to write in advance, therefore they must decide what to write based on the flip. In fact, they must both decide based on the flip or they will not gain anything.

If you decide what to write based on the flip, there are only two real choices per player: write the same as what you got, or write the other one.

That leaves you with 3 overall options. Both taking the same of these choices won't work (I skipped over the calculation because they're not interesting solutions), so they must agree to take opposite choices.
That would be damage control doing their thing. First response to leaking is defamation and denigration - make the source look like a complete and utter tool, like an idiot, like someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.

I for one can vouch that much of what he's said harks true, from the horror stories a friend who serves on these boats has told over the years - apparently being a submariner mostly comprises wading around in (occasionally electrified) sewage with a headache, waiting for something to catch fire or break.
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Looks nice and easy to plug in, just at a quick glance I'd prefer to see some of the visualisations or output that it produces. Lot of stars for ten days on github.
Thanks for the details about torrada, I'll check it out!

Seems that for peer apps on mobile, we need to make it easy for the user to understand their bandwidth-usage - indeed in my testing I never run the app where I don't have solid, unlimited Wifi. For these classes of apps, I think the presentation of this problem to the user is going to be important.

>ipfs port

Its more of a harness than a port - basically, its possible to use Go on iOS, and so I have a project set up to include Go, cross the bridge between Obj-C and Go runtimes, and so on .. and, then I've built a Go app with ipfs, running on iOS. There aren't any features yet - but the harness is done, so, TODO: write Go, use ipfs framework, interface with iOS-GUI normatives, etc.

When I get actual ipfs functionality coded, I'll put it up on a repo .. too much futzing around is required right now to see anything actually functioning.
In torrent clients that support it, you can simply add a webseed to an existing torrent. Works great for linux dists.
https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Arobots.txt

Not that I agree it should be further divulged, mind you.
I'm assuming by BC you mean Vancouver? There's a few Canadian cities that Craigslist opened up sections for back when Craigslist was new and getting lots of media coverage, and Craigslist continues to do well there. But kijiji allowed posts from anywhere at the same time as Craigslist was restricted to a few cities, so kijiji dominates almost everywhere.
So, Emacs running in a lisp interpreter running in python inside vim?
So I'm a web developer. A few months ago I went through the job hunt process, and asked myself "What could be better about this?," and I came up with Hire Anonymously. (cool story; I know)

The basic idea is to help tech talent control their identity & ascertain critical job details like pay & location info before starting the interview process.

Hoping to get feedback from the tech community on the concept, so I thought: "Why not Show HN?"

Would really appreciate any thoughts you all have!
Its all in the name.
>Long or short sandbags are filled with on-site earth and arranged in layers or long coils (compression) with strands of barbed wire placed between them to act as both mortar and reinforcement (tension).

Is this really patentable?
What's with the domain name? it says thiébaud.fr but when copied/pasted it becomes xn--thibaud-dya.fr

Edit: Thanks for the links! :)
In the US they aren't allowed to.
And he's also wrong. I assume he's French, and French law specifically says that any unwanted access to restricted parts of a "data processing system" is punishable by a hefty fine and/or prison time. For example, I think bug/vul bounties programs are illegal in France (but IANAL).

A relatively famous French blogger was convicted once in trial for having publicly reported that a governemental agency was letting GoogleBot index confidential/restricted documents : http://bluetouff.com/2013/04/25/la-non-affaire-bluetouff-vs-... [FR] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/french-journalist... [EN].
That looks to be just for converting to and from half-precision floats.
It's an IDN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
That's how internationalized domains work.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator#Inter...
> you walk into the individual’s office, close the door...

I wonder how this works in open spaces -- which, regrettably, seem to be the norm nowadays...
Right, and using a well used library improves your chances of avoiding such issues. Optimizing compilers should be the one to decide when to inline function calls and the like. Source code is for people.
96% of secure connections to CloudFlare are using ephemeral EC Diffie-Hellman
[Citation needed]

It might be not enough if you have a lot of filters and doesn't want to care about their ordering/gains etc

If you have something like 16bit exponent and 48bit mantissa (64-bit) that's absurd
I share your values but I don't consider myself to be a romantic. On the contrary, to my current knowledge building a sustainable non-profit org or social enterprise that has a chance to benefit a large number of people is more rewarding and meaningful than building a profitable startup. After a certain threshold happiness doesn't increase with income, so treating success as something multi-dimensional is perfectly aligned with self interest.

However, startups are optimized for high returns for investors(higher priority) and founders(lower priority).
While some startup business models do have positive externalities it is usually a instrument for financial success, not a goal in itself.

Sucess or failure of a startup should be judged by its goals: profits for the stakeholders. The value generated by the startup should be assessed by the same criteria. Thus it's technically incorrect to say that a startup sold for $50 million produced nothing of value.
> I'll give you that, as a somewhat tinted perspective on the governments views, but I'm not sure where you want to go with it? Every government aims for minimal unemployment, it's one of their key tasks - to get people into work. I'm not sure you'll find anyone willing to say "You can work if you want to [you can leave your old friends behind], otherwise here just live on other peoples taxes".

Every government also knows that we will, in the foreseeable future, have unemployed people and that their numbers will increase. (Mostly) not because these people don't want to work or aren't the entrepreneurs they should be, but simply because we are constantly rationalizing and automating our societies and less and human work is needed to keep the machine running.

So, the question is: how should we treat this pool of workless people that will always exist? My suggestion is: not like shit. I'm in Sweden, and seen from an international perspective (although I'm not content) we are quite helpful to these people. Basic income might be a solution, but that will most likely make dirty and simple work look extremely unattractive. It will drive up the prices for the kind of work that we are normally used to paying next to nothing for. That wont be politically popular at all.

> Please do define for me a system where the jobs are all lovely and nobody has to do anything they don't want to do. There seems to be this theory that everyone should be happy, it's pure myth. Life never has worked like that for the majority of the population in any historical system.

No, but please remember that there is also a lot (historically) that hasn't worked the way things work right now. The technical advances and rationalizing potentials are gigantic and have the potential to reduce working hours drastically.
I believe that only services hosted on the French ground are eligible to the French law.

Also, showing the link but not the content is a smart move because it doesn't prove that the author looked for the content of these documents, when the robots.txt is obviously a file you should be able to consult.
Without video of the typing it is difficult to believe these assisted communication methods. It seems harsh but in the long run it isn't doing the child any good. This RPM thing involves a lot of fees, and if it isn't the real deal then it's horribly exploitative. Recent paper:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17489539.2014.955...
Ok, let me give you an example, where my instinct would be to copy and then modify:

We have a library that requires initialization, action, and then freeing of resources. Initialization involves creating and filling in a struct and/or passing parameter values to an initialization function. After that it is necessary to check for success/failure. That's for initializing the library. Then something similar is done to initialize an object we want to manipulate.
I would begin with the copied code, replace the appropriate values in the initialization, replace the error handling, replace the action, and keep the freeing of resources as is.
Always, always, always:

Simultaneous captures on both client and server. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The truth is on the wire. Once you got that, you can walk your way down with captures on intermediate devices until you catch where the packets are dropped.

Once you're there it really depends on the product/OS/service/filter that's dropping the packet.

If you're really experienced you can start building the house from the roof, i.e. trying by changing this or that as in your head the symptoms match other case you've seen before. If you're not, just do baby steps and you'll get there sooner than what you think.

Of course you can check basic connectivity first, but when I hear "network problem" I understand that has been checked already.

Edit: by the way, your problem might look like dark magic if you don't actually want to really know what's going on. Do you know how a packet is delivered to a host in your subnet? I guess not, but just so you know your machine will first try to learn the destination's MAC address (again, if it's inside the same subnet). Can you confirm you resolve your gateway's MAC address when you try to ping? Can you confirm the resolved MAC address is the correct one? There might be someone spoofing it to intercept all the traffic exiting the subnet or maybe you've got a pair of routers/firewalls and their HA setup is not working as expected. In any case, go a layer down and check that.
UBI is bread and circuses to allow the present economic system to continue a little longer.

End of the day, we're making lots of technological advances that aren't advancing people in a meaningful way. We've already devastated the working class so much. Truck driving is a key "success" job for many people. Take that away without prospects for something new, and you're going to have an uprising.

People need an occupation. 50 years of the welfare state should have taught that lesson.
At least in TeamCity, I can tell it what version of an artifact I want, it's even possible from within the VCS with some powershell magic. So a non breaking change like a bugfix, will update the buildnumber, but not the rest. If the fix includes breaking changes, I want to adapt my code anyway, and then update the reference to the newest version anyway.

For our .net projects, I've set up an internal NuGet repo to handle internal dependencies.

This honestly sounds more like the best workaround because the tooling isn't good.
The article does not mention it but where are the kids when the mother is at work? More than likely this is in day-care rather than in the home of another family member (most likely the grandparents). The likelihood is that the kids are in a richer environment, materially and socially. When you mix in the added benefit of parents not having spent all day dealing with the childens' needs then it's no surprise that generally they are able to devote more attention to them.

None of this is the direct benefit of a parent being at work. You would probably see all these advantages if one of the parents simply stayed at home, while the kids were in day-care. But where is the money going to come from for that.
Ditto. My favorite name is /porn and then see who visits it. Mostly bots, though.
David Burns made this point quite clearly in the self-help book "Intimate Connections", which came out in 1985. Still, I guess it's good to see the message get out.
At first glance, I thought the keys were the same. I'm undecided if this was deliberate or unintentional. If this was unintentional, perhaps by corruption, how likely would the result generate such an easily factorable key?
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The domain name is being converted to PunyCode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode). This is a defence developed to prevent spoofing of domain names using indistinguishable characters from other character sets than ASCII. Before this was fixed by browser developers, it was possible to execute an IDN homograph attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack) and spoof sites using characters that looked like e.g., google.com/paypal.com when they rendered in your browser address bar, but were actually a completely different domain as far as automated systems were concerned.

Edit: typo.
A week without Google
Yes, it is definitely a success (if the acquisition price exceeds the total expenses)
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I really hoped/thought this was going to be a doorbell that somehow incorporated the creepy video from "The Ring"
I love Kijiji. It's extremely popular in Ontario. Everyone I know uses it for buying and selling anything, myself included. It's free, simple to use, and there is a huge amount of traffic on the site so you can sell things quickly.
People use to use AutoTrader but no one I know uses it anymore. They seem to have lost their market share to Kijiji long ago.
Why not? This seems like the kind of idea that patents are made for.

* It's cheap and easy to implement and copy
* It seems obvious once you tell it to someone, but apparently it took space exploration research to come up with it.

You can't keep such an invention secret, but it might have taken a lot of trial and error to come up with it, so in that sense, why shouldn't the inventor have the possibility to monetize it?
MorphOS has got the best graphics driver for PowerPC's. I once tried to play a 720p movie on a Mac mini G4 and only with the MorphOS did it play smoothly albeit with the audio going asynchronous after 4-5 minutes.
When I was in college there was a distinct worry about elliptic curves vs rsa. My professors were intuitively worried that discrete logs over elliptic curves may well have a simple solution, unlike factorization which has millenia of research proving that it is hard. They were worried enough that I just assumed that GCHQ had already cracked it. Is that still a worry?
The $20 billion figure is after inflation. I've seen estimates as much as $28 billion.

In actual dollars it was $2 billion.
"It's too slow" is not a trivial problem to solve. Anything but.

At some large companies the simple act of making a commit takes the better part of an hour. Same with checking out, updating, etc.

This has serious implications for the development style and productivity. At the very least, not every developer can adapt to such a style.
I don't know of any references, most of this is just stuff that falls out pretty easily once you try and do the math, and that's probably faster than reading a book.

I.e., set up maximal likelihood, take logs, and you immediately get least squares for g(x) a gaussian. If g(x)=exp(-|x|), you get l1 minimization. Other distributions give you other things.

The general topic to investigate is robust regression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_regression
> fast food worker salaries can't be raised because it'll kill jobs

There are a number of separate issues here:

1) Could McDonnalds pay higher salaries? No doubt the management could though they'd probably argue their responsibility is to pay market rate and to give profits to the shareholders.

2) Should the US raise the minimum wage? Your link [2] is on whether raising the minimum wage would reduce job opportunities. Probably it would - supply and demand and all that. It's a trade off.

3) Are stock buy backs a good idea? I'd argue this is a separate issue to workers pay and is really down to what the management and shareholders think is the best use of the shareholders money.
>>A large corporation doesn't have the agility or culture to experiment with risky projects. Nor do they want to, because when a bigcorp project publicly fails the PR hit will shave billions off their market cap.

In general I agree with you, but Apple, Google, and Amazon all have very risky, very high profile internal projects in their portfolios. These are also the main companies playing the acquisition game in SV.
For a start, the entire nation of Qatar shares 82.148.97.69.
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That sounds super cool. Any pictures of the process available?
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Is CC0 OK?

http://git.io/vTmEc

I'm not sure if HN will accept the link:

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Note that this was most likely written by his facilitator, not by him. It was written via a technique called "Rapid Prompting Method", which appears to be a variant of facilitated communication, a method that has been debunked as simply being the facilitator guiding the child, either consciously or subconsciously, to type things that the facilitator is thinking, not that the child is thinking.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication for more information. I also recommend the PBS Frontline documentary "Prisoners of Silence" (transcript: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/transcripts..., video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXw8Ksvyt5Y), which does a good job both debunking it, and demonstrating why facilitated communication can be quite harmful; there was a rash of incidents in which facilitators imagined sexual abuse allegations from children, leading to substantial repercussions for innocent parents.
Is cosmology having a creative crisis?
Well, at least it seems to be a fair way to do it. He says to give minimum 6 month of severance package and to give a good reference if everything went well. The thing is even in other situations someone suing his employer is never going to get a good reference out of them so I don't see how he is advising to screw the employees more than others.

I also agree with him based on experience that more often than not Performance Improvement Plans do not work and create stress and further issues on the company culture and on the coworkers.

Also based on the other linked article, he focuses more on Attitude and Judgement Failures and doesn't believe in Stack Ranking which is something I agree with.

By the way, he does mention that he implemented that too in Beos in California...
Do I really have to use LinkedIn? I prefer to avoid walled gardens.
> Enjoy the moment. Relax. Observe your surroundings. It's sad seeing people who cannot deal with lack of external stimulus [...]

This is what I want to do (and will try to). It's not that I cannot deal with a lack of external stimulus though, it's just that I'm too anxious and in my own head. But now that I've reached 30 I've started caring a lot less about stuff like this and think I might be able to (for example) enjoy a meal in a restaurant on my own, or sit and have a glass of wine somewhere, if I wanted to.
How exactly is robots.txt a "restricted part"?
And there is a comment in the source article that claims it was written using RPM, so we know the exploitative RPM. Method was used.

http://faithhopeloveautism.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/world-auti...
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https://www.iedr.ie/register-a-domain/document-requirements/

For personal projects :
"You will need to provide a copy of your Irish passport, drivers licence or a recent utility bill."