skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While the author acknowledges in the abstract that the internet has improved people's lives, I still see the tone implying we should all be directly working on more worthy causes if we really want to be doing stuff that "matters".

Er, no. Again, you are engaging in binary thinking not warranted by what was actually said. He doesn't say or imply "we should all" be doing any one thing, he very directly says that "society needs more people working directly on problems that matter."

Note, particularly "more people" (not "we...all" as you would present it), and "directly". That is, there are plenty of things that indirectly matter, and plenty of people working on those, but, in the author's view, not enough people working directly on certain important applications.

The judgement you are reading into it that everyone not working in certain preferred areas is doing something less-than-ideal and not doing stuff that matters is simply nowhere in the text.
I'm not quite sure what you are trying to draw a parallel to here. What does this final report represent?
Ask a local CPA. They'll know what's required where you live. My state doesn't require any kind of license or filing from sole proprietors, nor does the federal government. Income from the business is reported on your personal tax return. In other words, there's no startup cost in terms of money or paperwork here, or in many other places. Once I decided to form a separate business entity, an LLC, I had 3 pages to fill out and $150 in fees to pay: a 2-page certificate of organization with the state, and a 1-page business license application from the township. Each form took a couple minutes to fill out: all they asked was the business name, office address, and list of organizers/officers. I'm rather curious what city you're in that it would take weeks to organize a small business.
Ask HN: If Greece defaults, what effect (if any) will it have on startups?
I think this is referring to bribing foreign officials, not officials of the European country. See, e.g. the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
One 9 lines function, nothing more was copied.

The only other thing were 7 test files that were not part of the implementation
Alternatively:

The orbits around galaxies fail to follow the law of gravity of ordinary matter. The orbits are as if our gravity calculations, which seem to work well otherwise, are flawed.

Something in/near galaxies causes them to bend light as if gravity were different.

So, for that region, call it a flaw in the theory of gravity. Seems simple enough.

"Unseen, never-before-detected form of matter which doesn't interact with any other matter except gravitationally?" Maybe, but that seems to be the hard way to get an answer.

This is tongue-in-cheek of course, but it's hard to trust intuition in these realms, especially when one person's intuition is another person's "hard way" :)
Great work for a first year project. It was completed in 3 weeks according to the thread. I wouldn't have been able to pull it off.
> "society needs more people working directly on problems that matter"

This does not imply that "we should al be working directly on more worthy causes". My impression was that the author was simply making an observation about the relative distribution of labor (specifically: that there are not enough people working directly on causes that "matter"), which should by no means be reduced to the absurd by saying that all people should be working on those causes.
You can get a government contract. Normally this would not be available to you even if you could handle the work because of how contracting for the government works. What I will find interesting is if they solve the contract vehicle/payments problem. That is, the U.S. government isn't great about prompt payment. For a large contractor, they can afford to wait 3-6 months between payments. However for the small vendors being targeted with this, that kind of pay delay may kill their business.
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Which as recent FDA actions can tell us, are often worth the paper they're printed on.

Sign up now, give my credit card, and to cancel I have to call a phone number which may or may not work and talk to a person who's entire reason for employment is to make it difficult for me to cancel with no assurance that anything has actually been cancelled until the next billing cycle.

When I take over the world, it will be a law on pain of summary execution that any recurring billing which can be signed up for online must be cancellable online :/
Wonderful new addition!
Any idea on how this affects their alliance with OpenStreetMap? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing
fwiw to @justonepost's point the wsj pointed out [1]:

"U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli responded with a brief that urged the court to sidestep the case, particularly because the fair-use issue hadn’t been resolved in the lower court. Mr. Verrilli also said one of Google’s main arguments against copyrights on the Java packages was without merit."

Times like this when I miss groklaw.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-denies-google-appe...
I suggest you also look at GCE for network performance. It is something that the Google networking team has been working hard on and, because of the unique network fabric at Google, should scale to lots of VMs.

Also, you can get equivalent "IP per container" using advanced routing with GCE. Flannel has a GCE specific back end where it inserts routes for each subnet assigned to each range. That will eliminate the extra level of encap.

(Disclaimer: I started GCE but am no longer at Google.)
it's not raycasting though
I understand, the website is limited to coding - but what are the features that make it different from twitch.tv.. until now, I would always look at the streams on http://www.reddit.com/r/WatchPeopleCode/ to watch people code.. I dont see, this being any different from twitch
Do you have a smartphone connected to this setup? Do uyou use a password over SSL to authenticate your email clients?
All feedback is greatly appreciated, thanks :)
There's a global move to create a standardized format amongst several EU, US and Asia-Pacific companies (and govt organisations) run by the International Parcel Corporation (http://www.ipc.be).

However the format they've created is already outdated (and it's taken three years to get to initial draft). Like most large parcel companies, they are catering for slow, technologically lagging suppliers and customers.

It'll take a bleeding-edge integration partner like uShip, EasyPost or GoShippo to create a standardized format. (EDIT: Or the likes of Google who managed a similar outcome for addressing data with the Google Maps API.)

This is really a field that large government bodies need to address seeing as most governments still have a large stake in parcel shipping.
That's often how technological progress works: it's developed to solve either a pressing-but-not-so-noble problem and then someone adapts it so the average person can benefit, or it's developed to solve a trivial and useless problem and someone improves it so it's useful to the average person.

We built radar so we could detect German bombers; we got microwave ovens from it. We built GPS so we could guide missiles and spy satellites; we got turn-by-turn navigation and Uber out of it. We built Twitter so we could send 140-character text messages; we got the Arab Spring out of it. We built the ARPANet to coordinate top-secret military projects; we got the Internet out of it. We built PCs to play games; we got Visicalc, Word, and all sorts of productivity boosts from it. We built computers to break German codes and guide artillery shells; you know where that went.
Thanks for the numbers, you are right.

The charts are remarkably similar for

Greece
http://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/quickview.do?SERIES_KEY=129.RPP.Q.G...

Spain
http://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/quickview.do?SERIES_KEY=129.RPP.Q.E...

Portugal
http://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/quickview.do?SERIES_KEY=129.RPP.Q.P...

But i would still claim that in the case of Greece, the (masked) public debt crisis preceded the asset bubble whereas in Spain, Portugal and Ireland the public debt crisis followed the asset bubble.
Yeah, but AFAIK all the explanations based around adjusting our theory of gravity have failed to match the results, and tend to be pretty complicated and thus prone to overfitting.
Ask HN: Can you compile laws?
Laws are logical somewhat similar to how computer code is logical.

Should we(HN community) make a compiler that can both analyze logical errors and compact laws?

I think Washington is a bit code-bloated, and it would probably be better if it was more nimble.

Thoughts?
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Correct. But it was still copied and it still didn't help their case.
Ok, I think it's reasonable to accept this. However one could equally well describe these open source browsers, as browsers funded by Google and Apple. Perhaps that's why they are outliers.
I was in the US for two months recently with a few stretches in LA. A lot of LA that I saw was fairly low-rise and with character (e.g., Venice). Things like pavement and roads are getting pretty run-down and I got the impression that the country/state/council can't quite afford to maintain everything, but it didn't feel overrun with high-rise development. There were thousands of curious houses/bungalows/cottages with unique gardens and so on.

I imagine if you're trying to cross LA, it's hardly walkable and gets a bit grim, but if you live and play in say the Venice and Santa Monica areas, I could see how that would make for a decent home. (I am however oblivious to the costs of real estate there.)
Love the language, I've been using it (phoenix) to build a more real-time version of my current rails app. But I have a concern with Elixir core's Enum. In particular, the Enumerable protocol has us implementing Enum.reduce for our own data-types, but Enum.map is written as

`reduce(collection, [], R.map(fun)) |> :lists.reverse`

is there any chance Elixir's enum core can take a page from Clojure's transducer idea and, instead of implementing map with reduce and [], implement it with transduce and some function that steps?

I've often had the need to map and filter over strings to achieve rails-like features such as #to_url, #classify, #underscore, and #humanize... but being forced to either rewrite Enum functions for strings or constantly peppering in String.split("") and Enum.join("") feels really bad.
> Looking at this[0] table of least corrupt countries by perception, Europe has 7 in the top 10. Least corrupt. Least.

> Occam's razor: The person who worked in intelligence, and is/was a Washington lawyer lied. Even without data, that surely must have crossed people's minds, no?!
> [0] https://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results

Perception != reality

He was referring to bribery of foreign countries (such as Brazil and Saudi Arabia in his examples) that U.S. and European countries compete to win contracts.

Even according to the PERCEPTION index, they're of tiny European countries not named France. Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. A combined population that's about 9 million fewer than that of Italy.
Check out nginx-rtmp [1] and ffserver [2] (from the ffmpeg team).

[1]: https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module

[2]: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffserver.html
A similar thing does exist and is actively used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers
The way we hope to differentiate ourselves is by being really focussed on livestreaming as an educational tool. Definitely there are many features we would like to develop, but it is still early days yet!

Awesome that you are going to try out Livecoding.tv, hope you enjoy it and let me know if you have any more questions/feedback!
So you admit that there was copying. /s

But, in all seriousness, the 9 lines + 7 files are damning. It also shows that the engineers who implemented Google's project had been tainted by exposure to Java.
We need to wait for the lower court to decide if Google's use fell under "fair use". If it doesn't then it is bad news.
Copied from another reply: Yeah it would be good to get rid of it at some point - need to check with my cofounder why we use it but I agree flash isn't great.
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Non-US IT infrastructure companies are guaranteed to have been pwned by US intelligence. That is explicitly what we pay it to do.

It might help "send a message," but it certainly won't make you safer.
I hope that's the ultimate outcome. I'd be OK if we allow copyrighting of APIs as long as using those APIs falls under fair-use.
OAGIS is having some level of success as well. http://www.oagi.org/dnn2/

EDI formats still dominate though, especially in logistics and on the government side.
if you break into the casino and replace all their normal blackjack decks with ones which have twice as many 7s

I've always wondered about this from the other perspective. Why can't the casino remove a few cards?

E.g. in Blackjack in a six-deck shoe the house edge is perhaps 0.5% to 2.0% against a "pretty good player" (depending on exact rules). Remove a few face cards and you would probably hurt the player by another 1% or thereabouts.

But you've now moved the house edge from 1% to 2%. Double the profit!

When is the last time you've ever seen any player at a casino ask the dealer to reconstruct the six or eight starting decks that are in a shoe? I've never seen that.

But I still do enjoy taking the occasional trip to Vegas.
Long-term waste isn't a factor for UPower or Helion.
Really? FIFA was shoving wads of cash into brown envelopes and renting apartments in Trump Tower - for dogs.

Bribery is generally not sophisticated. Especially at the levels the CIA could give a shit about, bribery is an open secret and part of what the ruling classes expect, or at least condone.

Embezzlement- yeah that's hidden. Which is why congress pays whistleblowers. I mean the U.S. Is ridiculously out in front for these sort of things (well officially, I am sure bribery and corruption is still common)
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't there huge criticism of the login requirements when this was first posted on HN? That was the most vocalized feedback I saw back then.

Glad to see you guys have realized it's a bad idea though.
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I'm seeing some of this in NL as well, especially companies that deal with sensitive data.
Hurricanes also produce Terawatts of energy. The question is the way the energy is turned into electricity, and how it's stored or backed up because an economy requires reliable electricity

I'm a supporter of solar, and trying to get it on my house.

But I also did some back of the envelope calculations that showed, just if we had enough Powerwalls to backup US peak demand for one hour it would require 10x the global annual mining production of lithium. And that's just one hour. And that doesn't include the electricity production.

It's generally estimated that US power, with good transmission, would require enough solar panels to cover the entire state of Massachusetts. I think you're right that it isn't the land cover that would have much effect, after all buildings and roads already cover a lot of land. I think it's sheer material production.

Mining is almost entirely powered by fossils, it has to be. And so is most transport. And so is recycling of metals. So the energy density of an energy source really is a zero sum game. If it takes a millionth the material for one source versus the other, that adds up.

Then in maintenance, solar farms are truly "farms"- they require a lot of water to wash away dust to operate optimally. A states' worth of water is significant.

Then in recycling at end of life, and this is why I got so excited about nuclear as a somewhat hippie child growing up around oil companies in Oklahoma, solar is going to require a lot of energy to recycle, while nuclear can produce energy in recycling its fuel.

The main reality check, to me, is: what is the energy density of this energy, and if emitting, how much pollution? Coal is far more energy dense than wind, which is why humans evolved from windmills and wood to coal. But it's so polluting which is why we are all working towards better sources.
Having looked at just the raw data from OBDII on a few vehicles; data format standardization there is none. Not between car makes, models, years or versions (ie 2014 Suzuki Swift vs 2014 Suzuki Swift S) - this would require either months (or years) of reverse-engineering, or unfettered access to auto maker's internal documentation (for some I know it's minimal). (Likely require partnership with the auto industry to avoid litigation.)

If you pulled that together and offered it in a usable format.. Wow.
the US is the exceptional country. Some polishing using double-standards, and it will shine like a brightest star again.
Something to consider is that during normal blackouts, critical things like hospitals have backup power. If this happened, they would have no option but to turn on the generators and pray. Most will lose their backup power unless unless their systems are designed to survive an EMP blast.
My current feeling [bearing in mind that it's been less than a week!] is that Elixir is to Haskell as Python is to C++. If you want to learn a dynamically typed FP language, then I think Elixir is a fine choice; especially from a JS/Python background, plus all the goodies that come with the Erlang VM. I've read it's also good for metaprogramming, so it ticks the same boxes as Lisp, without having to get used to S-expressions!... It's certainly something you can dive into :)

Then, if you find you're really in to the FP Kool-Aid, I would definitely give Haskell (or OCaml) a try as well. It's a completely different ball game, but even as just a beginner -- I kinda-sorta-understand monads -- I would say that it's already improved my general programming skills.
As a result, I've decided to write a perl script that generates random APIs in some API-space, compress the new API and then store it all as blobs to disk while simultaneously filing for a copyright on all of these APIs.
Sketching with Code: Protosketching
Thanks! That should (hopefully) put an end to me having to build both of those things from source (as another user of both OpenBSD and Erlang/Elixir).
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That is a bit of an orthogonal issue, but I would say that it doesn't show that the speed of HFT is a problem to the broader market. For instance as a market participant I largely do not care about the implementation of any given market makers risk configs. In fact, even with all the nasty bits in HFT, it is loads better than the system it replaced. There is an open question about if it can be made even better.

I'd also suggest that your experience (many of which I share) do not necessarily mean that speed is making things riskier, only that your centralized risk management was not as good at lowering the cost of risk as opposed to getting fast. As for the dc energy to spread arbitrage game, that is the result of far reaching policy decisions well outside of HFT and I largely agree that energy is too cheap.

I think that any artificial slowing of the market is likely to have really bad unintentional issues. I'd much rather we incentivize the market to fixate on something we care about (ie price) rather than try to subvert the laws of the market.

One approach that appeals to me is to remove the sub-penny rule that is artificially propping up spreads.
Laws are not similar to code. Laws are abstract and their implementation requires non-deterministic judgement and interpretation, which is why we have judges. They are the terrain of the game through which the modern trial-by-(lawyerly)-combat is performed. That game more closely resembles Mao than it does Go.
Interesting, I always thought of dark matter as just a lot of extra "dust", the dust that clumps to make the stars that make up the universe. The asteroid belt, the extra mass in our kuiper or oort clouds, etc. The dust that blocks parts of our view of the Milky way.

This article (and others I'm now skimming) point out that dark matter needs other magical properties however. Why is that the case? Why does simple "dark dust" not fit?
This was on the front page 6 days ago, but it didn't receive any comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9766492
Losing the power grid is different than going without electricity. Odds are that when San Diego was without power, places like hospitals were running close to normal using their own generators. Taking those offline is a much bigger deal and almost certainly would require sacrificing human lives that would be saved with electricity. It is much harder to make a proactive decision like turning off the power when it comes at the cost of human life.
That implies that the people arguing for effective intelligence agencies are doing so because of expedience. I for one believe that effective intelligence agencies are a net good for the world as they decrease the instance of and shorten the length of shooting wars.
No, when I was working as an engineer. Charity work is of course different regardless of your profession. Nobody is making money off your labor.
Last year there where 279 changes to the federal tax code.

That system handles hundreds of millions of people and trillions of dollars.

Calling it "rather basic CRUD work" is incredibly myopic and/or arrogant.
> Austerity is a religion in Europe

Austerity is a religion among the world's bankers and has been for some time; the US has been no less a subscriber to it than Europe and has been fully on board with imposition of austerity measures as conditions for World Bank and IMF efforts in the past.

Its getting noticed more in Europe because the attempts to impose it in the Eurozone have, unlike decades of IMF and World Bank efforts, actually targeted countries outside of the Third World that First World observers actually notice and care about.
Are you sure that's a good idea? You might inadvertently implement someone elses's API that way.
Lower court ruling, if anyone is interested.
Makes for some intriguing reading.

http://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/cafc/13-102...
How is this any different to selling a debt?
Ok, I'm going to bite. And as I am clearly a dinosaur, it's a big bite, but ... Why?! Could someone explain the benefits to watching someone code? It would be like watching someone write a novel. Mostly thinking?

Could you recommend the best one or two - I should at least watch an exemplar before rejecting this out of hand (never had the like in my day, watch someone punch cards out? like watching this new fangled wireless radio).

I guess It's like people listening to game music, will be mainstream in six months
Inadvertent similarity is only an issue with patents, not copyrights.
Right, me neither, and yet no one would ever use one of Assange's multiple appearances on the BBC as evidence that he's a shill for the British government. (I do concede that giving interviews is different from having his own show, but can't really think of a way that it matters in this context.)

It does certainly seem like Wikileaks is mainly focused on publishing anti-US material, but I can think of a million reasons for that which are more plausible than them being in Putin's pocket (which, in fairness, you've merely implied).

EDIT: No idea why you're being down-voted. I've up-voted in case it helps. To everyone else: I know it's become customary to down-vote for disagreement, but in situations like this it discourages dialogue.
Bill Gates is the most prominent public example.

I also know a number of folks at Google who are very charitably active despite working big-corp jobs. Usually they compartmentalize very drastically, though, so I never heard about their charitable activities at work and only learned about them second-hand, through chance encounters with mutual acquaintances.