skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know for a fact that eating mobile bandwidth would be a huge priority for some (as far as getting it fixed). For example; I live in Canada and my mobile plan is only for 8gb. If I go over I have to pay a premium, and it is not a cheap premium. I don't think unlimited bandwidth on mobile is popular (at least here, I suspect other places cough India cough) as well.
that's a great observation. thanks for the recommendation.
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BestCrypt sounds like it's cross-platform, at least.
That's not how an RSS feed works.

An RSS feed is not a push. It's exactly the same as any other web page: you must pull on it to get the new content.

Sure, from the point of view of a user of an aggregator, the aggregator went out and did the work automatically. Whether it is pull or push is not obvious. But the fact remains, it is all pull.
I don't give a shit
Labour costs. TBMs are amazing but they are slow and require a whole lot of infrastructure. It's not just a case of sticking them in the ground, turning them on and waiting for a nice tunnel to materialize. For instance, what do you with the excavated dirt? To give you an indication of the sheer cost here, London's crossrail project runs at approximately £4m/day - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail
I disagree with Sustrik's assumption that software drifts to become a collection of non-reusable components. His observation is an interesting theory but I think it breaks down because it could only really be a "law" if it is true that reusable (does he mean replaceable?) components are always switched out for irreplaceable ones.

Most projects I've worked on start out hairy messes and if they are cursed with success new requirements will eventually justify the cost of replacing the irreplaceable. Well designed components aren't quickly switched out for poorly designed ones because developers don't want to let that happen. Its not safe to assume that poorly written components are better suited to survival... to the contrary, they are the most likely targets for removal in the first place.
Looks like an awesome start-up. They've got Macs and there is a picture of a girl diagramming something with "Web" in it. The future is now.
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Yep! I built a significant amount of it while I was at Recurse Center.

Proud to say that it all happened in RC's inaugural batch too. :)
You could also hide it as any kind of regular static resource. I still don't understand how it's any worse than, say, hiding a massive image in a webpage. Bogus websites are going to be bogus no matter what, I can understand browser devs not wanting to guess arbitrary limitations for some resources when an hostile attacker will have plenty of other opportunities to achieve the same thing.

What would be the point of adding a limitation to the favicon size really? Protecting users from websites where the webmaster is silly enough to put a 1GB favicon by mistake? Doesn't seem common enough to warrant the extra code IMHO.
This immediately reminded me of the early days of steam when, very similarly, at Rainhill a one mile test track of railway was constructed and people were invited to compete their different locomotives. The winner was Stevenson's rocket which amazed the large crowd by travelling at a heady top speed of 30mph.

An "also ran" was the amusing cycloped, the only non-steam entry, a horse on top of a treadmill walking the carriage forward.
Parker's book on the topic is a good one-volume cover of the history from a global perspective. The climate data are pretty clear on how weird things were, with no shortage of "most extreme ever" events from China to England:

http://www.amazon.com/Global-Crisis-Climate-Catastrophe-Seve...

Concepts--all concepts--are made things, and the edges we draw around them are the edges of our attention. People draw those edges in different places, or not at all, depending on their priors. As such, a certain type of person will argue that there wasn't "really" a "general criss" in the 17th century because the panoply of events aren't enough to trigger their edge-detectors, and they feel that their edge-detectors are arbiters of reality. Arguments of this nature are rarely productive. The events happened regardless of what you call them.

That the global climate underwent a statistically significant excursion in the 17th century is hard to argue against. That that excursion was also economically significant is likewise difficult to argue against. Unprecedented multi-year runs of poor harvests aren't really something that can be wished away with ideology. Finally, that the economic excursion helped drive political decision making should be relatively uncontroversial, unless one were to argue that politics happens in an economic vacuum.

Parker does a good job of emphasizing the contingency of outcomes. People made decisions for reasons that seemed good to them--often of the form "God loves my country, so if I do X, Y will necessarily and certainly happen!"--and results followed for unrelated reasons (often of the form, "Luck.")

He also argues that something like 1/3 of the human species died in the crisis, which is fairly astonishing, but given the death tolls for the places where we have data, not entirely unsupportable.
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> piracy regulation in venezuela doesnt exist

Is that literally true like in Iran, or is it simply not enforced? Venezuela signed the Berne convention.
Not necessarily disagreeing with you. But the practical meaning of that is that, in the case of New York, this means the entire island of Manhattan becomes a playground for the wealthy and the people who keep that playground humming are relegated to the outer boroughs.
Newbie here. It would be interestering to know if Nick Szabo studied the Nash's papers.
Yeah this has come up and it's reasonable, although it's a tricky/laborious migration in practice given a wide variety of things emitting stats.

The statsd design choices here are mostly explained by the fact that Etsy uses it to collect from PHP. PHP doesn't afford a great way to aggregate in the client. (These are design choices that serve PHP well systemically, although it's limiting here.)
It sounds extreme, but it works in the UK and other societies. Why wait till someone uses a weapon or harms someone? What other purpose is a weapon used for? It's for offense, or "offense is the best defense", which I disagree with.

Disarm everyone, civilize this place a bit. We should be following Europe's lead here.
Yeah, I said this in a general context, nothing against the linked project.

Last bit is interesting, animation can convey useful information, but mostly they're attention grabber. They have a place, but care is required.
Sure, his generalization regarding "nicely with two cars" might have been overstated, but your link supports his notion that "at some point all those things have eroded," at least in the case of car ownership per household.

Now, I understand there are lots of different factors at play, some of which would actually have positive overall quality-of-life impacts correlated with decreased car ownership. For example, decreasing urban sprawl, increased livability in cities and decreased noise/air pollution. But a drive-by posting of a link, with no explanation, and with a "just plain wrong" comment is a little over the top.
I know two people who went to do this (and have stayed on past their initial six month terms). I think they're insane, but they are fantastic engineers. Even at the top of the GS pay scale, they're making ~half what they were in their prior industry jobs. The government just doesn't pay that well, and as far as I know the pay scale is congressionally managed.
If people who run ads were ethical users wouldn't resort to ad blockers.

See how easy that was? It's called bullshit logic.
I don't see how PayPal can track anything other than what I've spent money on. My bank can track that too. There's no control over this. I'm not sure there are any viable alternatives to Amazon or PayPal for what they do. There's very little inconvenience to run adblock, it would be a huge inconvenience to boycott major sites to avoid them knowing what kind of shampoo I buy.
I kind of wish they wouldn't have changed it years ago...I feel like (as with just about all software 'updates' these days) they continue to remove useful features (like the ability to actually browse with a modicum of filter options) in favor of 'curating' results for 'you' and new graphics.

I'll continue to use InstantWatcher and other 3rd party resources when I want to find something / browse and then back to Netflix when I know exactly the search term I'm looking for.
I read it, I'm asking pragmatically; although in theory using worker pools can have problems at the edges, in practice erlang's message processing speed is quite high, and, e.g., worker_pool in production at many thousands of messages per second is working great for me. The latency of a single message pass is submillisecond. You're having problems, despite that?
Yeah, we can probably do some sort of commit hook. It's not an impossible problem, just annoying.
Every stream manager is connected to every other stream manager. k managers = k^2 connections.
Is the paper online? If someone can produce a standard URL for it, we'll change the link in this post.
If tunnel boring was that cheap, why is it costing the city of SF $1B to bore a tunnel ~1 mile?
Some folks use cell (direct or tethered) on our laptops.
It's funny how they don't even give a damn about your copyright. If you did this with Apples content you would get shit left and right, but since it's Apple doing it to you this time they can just assume your consent by implication.

Glorious!

The state of copyright. Right, Fucking, There!
Somalia being a post-apocalyptic wasteland qualifies as a mesofact[0], I guess. Whether it actually ever was quite that bad I don't even know. I think the idea is mostly fed via movie tropes.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1173845
They are also "paid" in name recognition and political access, and those retain some value after that person has left the office.

Furthermore, the base salary does not include the value of various benefits available to the government employee, which varies wildly by the office to be filled. These often include immunity from prosecution, defined benefit pensions, service discounts, medical benefits, protections against arbitrary dismissal, and others.

Even so, those barely obfuscated benefits are probably not nearly enough to match the usual differential between a competitive market rate and the government pay scales.

Just a few years ago, I was asked by an Army officer to consider a job with the government. She said, "The government needs good programmers." As I politely disengaged, I thought silently to myself, "Yes, well, that's because the government only pays for awful to mediocre programmers."

Unlike some other positions in the bureaucracy that may be indirectly monetized, the only truly remunerative route I see on this proposed team is to work in it for a few years, writing obscure arcana into the code, then quit to become a consultant in working around the quirks in the very same code you just wrote.

I don't know anyone who works as a bureaucrat who does it out of a sense of patriotism.
It is true in Baltimore, and Simon specifically references the fact.
link: http://mithril.js.org/getting-started.html

The "Learn" section (the blog, actually) is also very good.
At 600MPH, I'm not sure I'd want to see the ground speeding past a few feet below...
I'm excited to see they're trying new things, and it does look slick.

That said, I just wish they'd get rid of the stupid horizontal scrolling list of movies. It's just not efficient and it works poorly. They could have use these same effects in a vertical list or even 2D grid that has normal button/wheel-controlled scrolling, zooming in when you clicked on a specific movie. But the 1D horizontal list that you can't scroll normally is really limiting and makes me avoid the website.
fingers crossed this fixes the netflix recommending me things I've already rated before.

Heads up netflix: if I've rated something, I don't ever want it to be recommended again outside of "watch it again."
I have been thinking about this for a while. This lead me to create https://www.spqrs.com

This is basically anonymous twitter where everybody has a generated pseudonym instead of a username. You can follow users, and in addition can follow topics.

If you are interested in trying it out, you can get a signup code at https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=cart;i=1436036;cl=296...

(I have about 90 codes left out of the initial batch)

At the checkout enter discount code JRBFREEDOM to get the code for free.
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That's not the logical conclusion at all. I'm suggesting if you're carrying a weapon, you're going away to some seriously undesirable conditions.

Would you carry a gun in that instance? Not me.
You don't consider motion based on gravitational and spring-mass models to be an application of physics?
Very cool. There is one thing that I didn't see here which was either a bug or a clever tuning of the numeric parameters: overdamping. When solving the equation:

x''(t) = -2a * x'(t) - k * x(t)

(spring force k, linear friction a), the solution is generally a sum of solutions x = C exp(w t) for some arbitrary constant C and w = w(a, k). Plugging this in produces:

w^2 + 2 a w + k = 0
(w + a)^2 + k - a^2 = 0
w = -a ± sqrt(a^2 - k)

For `k > a^2`, the system is "underdamped" and you see sinusoidal oscillations, and increasing `a` will make the system relax to equilibrium faster. But for `k < a^2`, the system is "overdamped" and increasing `a` will make the system relax slower. (If you find this hard to imagine, think about what happens as `a` tends to infinity: there is so much friction that the spring just barely crawls to its final destination. Comparisons involving molasses and other high-viscosity substances might be apt.

When turning the frequency all the way down, I couldn't find a point where the friction started to make the relaxation to equilibrium slower rather than faster.
Interesting to see server-side JavaScript being used as an exploit language.
this is great! -- would be nice to add categories / filters.

Also interesting if each story had a 'stats' page with some numbers so it's not so much a black box.
Uber is using GPS to punish drivers in China who get too close to protests
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Debian does so much it's scary. I guess that's a remnant practice from the past when DVD distribution was the main way to get the debian system. I remember usbkey as a medium too (maybe less expensive for one shot needs), but I'm not sure it was a linux distro or something else.
> I wouldn't be surprised if fancy bike makes you go a lot faster than the old dinky bikes we ride around on.

Most people riding on the roads in the US for transportation are riding 20-30 year old bikes that are just as crappy as Dutch bikes. Think college kids, recent immigrants, or young people. Even rich people who want to commute via bike will often buy a "beater bike" made out of salvaged parts from old bicycles. But unlike the Netherlands, you have to carry a bike lock with you because if you don't lock your bike, someone WILL steal it. I don't think I saw a bike lock the entire time I was in the Netherlands.

The guys riding the fast bikes with all the gear are cycling for sport. Though they may be more prevalent in the US as a percentage of cyclists because fewer people use bikes for transportation over here. Regardless, I wouldn't ride here without a helmet.
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It's spelled paquete.

An interesting sideline to this is the question of who or what produces this product. There's a compelling argument that the government might be behind it, or at the very least have some hand in its production and distribution.

http://cubanotes.com/who-or-what-is-behind-cubas-peculiar-ve...
Didn't CGI (among an army of other large, "enterprise" companies) build most of Healthcare.gov?
https://www.cgi.com/en/us-federal/services-solutions
Quote from OA

"El Packete is a very slow high-capacity Internet access connection; someone (no one knows who) loads up those drives with online glitz and gets them to Cuban shores..."

On the off-chance anyone relevant in Miami is reading this: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum distributes 8GB to 10Gb of Creative Commons licensed classical music, mostly chamber. Might be useful to fill the odd corner of the media over (say) a month or two of releases. Or just put The Concert podcast on each release...

http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library?filt...

...older more classically minded citizens might appreciate the gesture.
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The problem with this is the entrenched culture and feudal turf wars within various departements in gvt will likely need to be addressed, even if you have the top tech talent of the universe working on this ... I wonder how they expect to get everyone to play nice with the new 'recruits'
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Is this a Mac only bug, or have you only repro-ed it on Mac?
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An internet full of paid content is an internet that excludes many children and people in third-world countries, and in general more hostile to the poor than the wealthy. It's also an Internet that incentivizes sticking to a few sites you're used to rather than exploration of new things.

Is that really the internet you want?
That article ? http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/9/2616204/the-condescending-...

very nice read.
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Kudos for releasing the data, even though you are closing the service. You handled it much better than the Echo Nest when they closed theirs. I always thought that using Solr for the index in Echoprint was a bad idea. While I have never tried it, I think you could run the technology significantly more efficiently with a better (custom) fingerprint index.
Similarly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helpful_worm
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"and yet here you are being yet again the odious cunt spewing mindless juvenile idiocy"

I'm not sure where you get this from. I'm talking about freedom of speech here and the only thing you can do is spout mindless pejoratives.

..and Juvenile? I don't think you really know the meaning of the word.

"I should be so lucky"

You are free to leave.

Did you create this account just for me? I feel honored.
I think by physics-based, the author means the motion seen in physical world, such as the example shown in the library page in which the animation resembles the motion of a mass-spring damper, its a second order system, by changing the parameters, one can observe under and over damping.
I don't understand why you wrote (sic) after a sentence of your own creation. AFAIK sic is used when you are quoting another person: if that quote includes a mistake of some kind, sic indicates that it was written or spoken as you have reproduced it. "Sic erat scriptum," meaning "thus it was written." [0]

[0] Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
I hadn't realised the PHP link, things make more sense now.

You're getting into IPC then, which is a fun topic alright e.g. https://github.com/prometheus/client_ruby/issues/9 and https://github.com/prometheus/client_python/issues/30
Same here! It's probably the norm, honestly.

Javascript never should've had C-like syntax if it was to have the feature set it does. Its syntax descends from a tradition of languages that have none of its actual features. Most other C-like languages have block scope[0]. So the syntax PLUS the terrible, awful, no-good very bad name lead you to believe it's more-or-less dynamic Java, when nothing could be further from the truth.

[0] ...and require declaration before usage, and have sensible 'this' semantics, and are class-based, and have function parameters that are more than just syntactic sugar, and have ACTUAL arrays, and...
Yeah when I am being indecisive about what to watch, the scrolling starts to make me feel dizzy.
The Netflix website is a piece of shit. Their recommendation system is crap. I liked a Robert Redford movie, now even his crap ones show up as five stars. They have decent movies but it's impossible to find. Their search sucks. Their foreign category has everything and the kitchen sink. Their scroll gives about ten movies then is done, even though they have a hundred movies fitting the title. If they had a good system, you wouldnt need instantwatcher and whatdoiwatchonnetflix. It's good to know that the major upgrade involves - ooh I dont have to click anymore, how cool.
Not machine readable. There is a rights/copyright standard field, which doesn't influence behavior in an automated way.
There are some motherboards that can store the encription key so that you don't need to type the pasword again when booting. BitLocker supports it. What a great technology. It saves your life!
Yep. I'm aware of at least one market where a popular local radio/TV media outlet created an online presence before Craigslist got there and still dominates that niche.

I'm also aware of a print shopper with great circulation which had upper management that saw this coming in the mid 90s, and went to their top management with plans to leverage their print business to become a CL and eBay competitor. Upper management shut them down... until about 10 years later (obviously too late).

So you're right. This seems to be pretty self-inflicted. But it doesn't change the fact that these aren't just businesses we're talking about, fungible with any other businesses. They're the businesses we bought our picture of the world from. News organizations having a grassroots revenue stream is a really good way to make sure they're not captured in certain ways.
The legal system is a bit flawed in this regard. Biased towards "strongarmers" with deep enough pockets to hold a lawsuit.

While I don't think the email is legally binding unless "signed" (responded to in an affirmative manner) - they could still use it to take you to court regardless over it. Many people would lack the funds needed to defend themselves so wouldn't bother trying to defend and are therefore forced into acceptance. Unless you can find a pro-gratis lawyer or a "no win, no fees" to take the case.

The extra terms are mostly to cover Apple's ass in case your content is illegal. If you get sued for your content for whatever weird, legal reason that might happen and Apple gets listed for providing access to your content through News (would that even happen?) and the case gets through and somehow Apple isn't excluded from the case (even if listed, I don't see how they would be found liable) you agree to pay for them.

Which is definitely something you don't want to do. The likelihood is small/impossibly rare or maybe even impossible. But Apple's Lawyers want to cover Apple's ass "just in case".

Outside of a few restrictive licenses - they can already display content next to ads without your permission. Mikeash would either need to properly license their blog or decline rights to Apple.

By writing his blog he has identified that he has read the e-mail. Although I don't think it's legally binding at that point (regardless if it says he agrees to it unless he opts-out), IANAL. If a lawsuit ever occurs over the use of his content and Apple is involved - attempting to prove he has read their e-mail to try and enforce the terms would mean they have read his blog to know he has read the e-mail, which means they have seen his denial of their terms. A catch-22.
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Here you go:
http://www.nycrgb.org/html/resources/faq/rentstab.html
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