skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of those topics I listed
are supposed to be good
at taking data and
saying how to "make more money"!
I am convinced by your argument that Eric Rescorla is indeed a respectable person and not working for NSA secretly, but your flagging the question is too much. The Snowden leaks slaps every one in the face who sees every conspiracy theorist as a lunatic, so it is perfectly reasonable for people to question even the slightest appearance of NSA infiltration.
> Anything illegal

Illegal where?
> I bet he seriously regrets that now but, at the time, there was no hint that this was bad.

Before the recent whistleblower revelations (2013 - present), there was very little evidence that the NSA was overwhelmingly nefarious. If they had given me a job offer back in the day, I probably would have accepted it. Nowadays, even associating with them can kill your brand (for good reason) and I'll give them a blanket refusal.

This conspiracy theory / slander towards ekr seems ridiculous. Guilt by association doesn't apply here.
a ten minute drive on uber near me was around 7 bucks.
brownian.js
And considering they use four identical boosters for each, that's 60 to 80 cores per year. More than one per week. If they move to RD-193 engines that are used by the Americans as well, even more economies of scale.

Encyclopedia Astronautica posits that the Soyuz design is a multicore version of the German-designed Gröttrup G4.
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/g4.htm
> About time.

My objection to this comment is that it treats it like it's a simple thing.

For starters it bans harassing lets say The Nazi party or ISIS or a pro abortion doctor killing group.

I don't think this is wrong, but it's a fair enough complication.

But more importantly it sweeps under the carpet how to best get free speech on really important issues. Everything comes at a cost. This will hurt free speech at least a bit.

Once again it's not just 'About time' it's something that needs to be considered.
How to get around Uber Airport bans: Take a taxi ride just outside the airport and from there get an Uber ride. It's still much cheaper.

Perfect Example: Orlando International Airport, is a jail. It has no sidewalks leading in or out of the airport. It's about 1 mile of 60mph road and ramps leading in and out of the airport with NO shoulders and NO sidewalks. Look it up on Google Maps. It's impossible to leave. After 11pm I arrive and the buses are not working, friend can't pick me up. A 6 mile taxi ride is $55 dollars! Uber ride is about $12. I try to hop on the Parking Spot / Rental car shuttles to get just outside the airport ban radius but they've caught on and no one will let me on. I'm not paying $55.

So I just grabbed a taxi and had him drop me off just outside the airport at a Denny's. Cost: $13 for 1 mile. Grabbed an Uber for the remainder of the trip which was $11. Paid $24 instead of $55.
I'd say kill it before it causes irreparable damage.
This isn't even a coherent narrative about the NSA's role. The NSA isn't alleged to have "discovered" the relationship between curve points and the security of the RNG. They're alleged --- at this point credibly --- to have deliberately invented PKRNG as a key escrow mechanism.

And what this says is that you don't even know what BULLRUN is, but are happy to chime in on a thread about how EKR was an NSA plant. I feel bad singling you out, because I'm pretty sure the person who wrote this idiotic post doesn't know the backstory either.
However, he did draft Extended Random which made it much easier to exploit Dual_EC in the context of TLS (which he is an expert of).

This is not evidence, but this is a reason for casting suspicion.
Does he float?
Question is totally valid. NSA is a terrible organization and anyone associated with it needs to deal with the consequences.

They should have all done what snowden did.
Ask HN: What are the greatest modern space-opera style sci-fi books?
I'm interested in stuff written in the past twenty years where the setting is in space or other worlds.

My favorite is probably Excession, which also has an outstandingly good audio book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession
Yes. This question could have been asked without pointing out a specific individual. There was really no need to put his name in it at all.
Ask HN: Startup ideas for developing countries?
I would like to know what could possibly be a good tech business in developing countries in Africa or in Latin America, could just copying Silicon valley's startups works there?
thanks
Hacking the planet
Using logs to build a solid data infrastructure (or: why dual writes are bad)
As usual, The Onion has this covered (2012):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=w8c_m6U1f9o

"The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital - Onion Talks"
The most useful thing in it is the ability to load an image or video inline in the page. A single click and the image is there, and resizeable by dragging the mouse.

It does other things too, but the images is the most important IMO.

Without it you have to keep clicking back and forth from page to image.
This feels like a circle cover up. NSA was awful. Why didn't ekr speak up like Snowden when he had the chance? Anything associated with NSA should be carefully analyzed.

Unbelievable! A valid line of inquiry. How soon we forget wtf the NSA did.
> Despite all these taxi regulations which are supposedly there to protect the consumer, all they did was create an entrenched oligopoly

Economists call this phenomenon "Regulatory Capture". It is one of the most important things to be aware of if you want to understand modern society.

Brief intro: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulatory-capture.asp
Well, we have the usual insults about Republicans: racist, crazy, bigots, stupid.

> The GOP can't run a black guy. The rift between voting Republican and maintaining baseless hatred for minorities would cause too many voters' heads to explode.

> You're talking as though the republican electorate has a memory.

> Can you all just admit that the entire republican party represents the ideals that this guy embraces (hating gay people) and what Donald Trump continues to spew (hating immigrants and hispanics).

The specific baseless suggestion for this post: Ben Carson wants to kill gays (because he accepted an invitation).

> Ben "Compassionate Execution" Carson

> i.e. gays are like insects? Wait, best not to give Carson any ideas...

A random suggestion that Ben Carson is a drug abuser:

> I can't comprehend how a Doctor that graduated from John Hopkins and Yale turned out the way he did.

> ...

> unfettered access to the best drugs?

Some random insults:

> Bobby "Stupid Party" Jindal, Tom "Tehran" Cotton, James "Senator Snowball" Inhofe, Bobby "the exorcist" Jindal

> Alas, it is true...Ben Carson does not have a neocortex.

All fairly typical for a political discussion, I know. Still disgusting. (Speaking as a liberal-leaning independent.)
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If we're talking about "undocumented legacy code doing crazy casts," static_assert is probably not an option.
You should bump it up to five; the ham sandwich theorem references a "pancake theorem" involving the bisection of two layers instead of the ham sandwich's three.
The Lyft iOS app is now 100% Swift
I disagree. A lot of code that does very little.

I prefer sklearn like https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/master/skl...

A lot of code that does a lot.

Bottle is nice on the web dev front.

https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle/blob/master/bottle.py
> How to get around Uber Airport bans: Take a taxi ride just outside the airport and from there get an Uber ride. It's still much cheaper.

Free hotel shuttles work just as well.
Super cheap airline fares lure in lots of fliers, but most shell out to upgrade
See: Fuck Sears - https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBookofReddit/comments/h3pm9/i_hi...
My dad is in Westchester so I fly in to LAX and have the exact same problem! It was so ridiculous the way cab drivers would give me so much attitude for a short fare that I was being hugely overcharged for. I eventually gave up and started walking 20 minutes to In N Out, and getting an Uber from there. Glad to see the tides are changing!
I randomly picked up Peter F. Hamilton's Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained when they were first published in the mid 2000's, and was pleasantly entertained. I was a very upset teenager when I got to the end of Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained hadn't been published yet.

It is not "hard" sci-fi in the classic sense, but has larger-than-life characters, mysteries, politics, criminals, and a good sense of humor.

The tone between those two books is different, but enjoyable.
Ask HN: Get options/stocks/futures market feed via API?
What free or paid API provider lets me stream derivatives and stock prices for my web application?

Basically I want to build a simple options profit calculator with real time. I might use Meteor.js
Checkout the Nginx source. It's pretty damn good.
Thanks for the insights. Chung seems quite doable at my current level. I skimmed through it sometime ago. I borrowed a copy of Neveu and it seemed a bit harder.

Care to share other references you like. Real & complex analysis and algebra, in particular, are most welcome.
Disagree. It's unfortunate he took a job with NSA and I sympathize with his situation. However, you are all underestimating his influence. He isn't just some background nerd, he has fundamental power. People in such positions need to be carefully vetted both privately and publically.

If you ask me, he has way more power than elected politicians, excepting US senators, state governors, party leaders, cabinet members, and the president.

Ekr is a keystone in global cyber security infrastructure and being in the spotlight is appropriate.
Just Let Reddit Be
You're not the only one! The dev Branch has this fixed so you can pass your own epsilon.
I'd like to see Haskell vs C# code that demonstrates this. In my opinion Haskell just fits more code onto a single line and is much less readable.
ITYMTW "most people do not go look at..."
That is only a subset of the banned content. Almost none of the below stuff is illegal and was alos listed in the post's banned list.

-Spam

-Publication of someone’s private and confidential information

-Anything that incites harm or violence against an individual or group of people (it's ok to say "I don't like this group of people." It's not ok to say, "I'm going to kill this group of people.")

-Anything that harasses, bullies, or abuses[2] an individual or group of people (these behaviors intimidate others into silence)

-Sexually suggestive content featuring minors
There is elaboration on what this means if you read the linked blog post [0]:

> We define harassment as: Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation, or (2) fear for their safety or the safety of those around them.

This clearly has a lot of wiggle room for interpretation, but this pretty clearly seems to exclude e.g. "minor criticism."

[0] http://www.redditblog.com/2015/05/promote-ideas-protect-peop...
You can simply and easily do instant results by using an optical scan voting system: ballots are scanned as they are submitted by the voter to the ballot box.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_scan_voting_system
Predictable scheduling behavior as explained by Dave Butenhof
Traffic control mainly. During busy time, everybody is trying to squeeze to the curb, double- and triple- parking is common. Which is why taxis and hotel shuttles are relegated to their own orderly line.
That's a really good way of putting it. You have the right to walk away or to yell back, but you don't have the right to make them stop talking. That's a really important distinction.
Try Wingz.me or Blacklane.com for pickup alternatives. Both are scheduled, not on-demand, and in both cases the driver actually wanted that fare (they can see your destination and optimize their schedule based on that, which partially explains lower prices than UberX or UberBlack).
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Ask HN: Where did you learn to Meditate?
I'm curious to find out how many people on HN actually meditate, given its 'popularity' with media and how it gets attention on HN.

Also, where you learnt it from, book, online, zen-center, spiritual guru? The specific type of meditation I'm referring to is the inactive, contemplative state where you focus on breathing and not meditative exercises/practices.

Disclosure: I'm thinking of starting a group to travel to a completely remote and secluded Daoist temple in China to stay for a month.
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Yes, of course that's the entire purpose of the justice system. And we're talking about the justice system, and different ways it might be adjusted to achieve better outcomes. And then along come the people I replied to talking about "personal responsibility" which is completely useless to bring up in context.
It sounds reasonable. In practice its been difficult. I've been in communities where one mod is okay with certain interaction wheras another has no hesitation in yanking things.

There's personality, history, friendships, etc. Some mods were likely to tolerate irritants if they knew the person or the person had contributed to something they approved of... Like a movement, cause, etc.

That said, it looks like so far, its been used sparingly and not vigorously. But it's like speeding. You know the chances of having a ticket issued are low, but if highway patrol were to e force to the letter, one would have many more tickets issued.
I'm glad the web has finally advanced to the point where we can finally load an entire page in 1-2 round trips.

Sorry, I'm feeling unnecessarily snarky today.
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I have been in exactly the same situation. I quit that job and now ask in job interviews whether they use Notes for email.

My view is that Notes use is a symptom of much bigger underlying problems. No-one that has to send or receive email would ever make the decision to use it, so why are they in the position to make that decision?
1. It's the same for traditional ballots, "Fiscales" and the table president prevent it. They go one ballot at a time checking if the vote has to be voided for failing with the protocol and adding the votes. Now they just have an automatic medium to double check the count. Each party has an incentive to find anything to void the oposition's votes.

2. Yes there is. This last election a friend of mine got his ballot voided because he didn't fold it while putting it in the box, which would reveal the ballot ("voto cantado").

3. Again, counters go one ballot at a time if one turns double it's voided.
Looks great! Much more client friendly than FeinCMS (which is also awesome).

How do you add traditional django apps to the admin? e.g. To get list view and edit forms for regular objects (like you have under "settings" in the admin for Users).

Apologies if it's in the docs but I couldn't see it.

Congrats on the milestone!
Investors who missed out on great products aren’t to be sneered at. Indeed, Airbnb of year 2008 would’ve looked like merely a toy to most people — something that in no way could become huge. There were too many risks. Even if it grew, it still seemed would not be anything to write home about. That's why people who invest in toy-like products are usually family or friends of the founders. I wrote a blog post about this.

https://medium.com/@sungmoon/the-next-big-thing-53ae218c4b6d
> “The potential for weirdos is too great, and $20 or $30 simply isn’t worth it,” says Julia Schweitzer, a Brooklyn-based startup employee who works remotely.

Hasn't this concern more or less gone away in the wake of AirBnb's overwhelmingly positive testimonials. (I realize there have been some highly-publicized negative outlier events.)

The optimist in me hopes that the "sharing economy" will remind us that the vast majority of people are well-meaning and just trying to get by.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9899548.
Wingz.me is great, I've used it twice and had no trouble.
>I can't wait, so long as voat's traffic increase is coupled with a commensurate decrease in reddit traffic from the same people

Really? Reddit seems to have even more racists and sexists since they all supposedly "left" for voat. But hey.. if that's what you like.
I don't think either constructor theory or any alternative theory addresses anything I skipped.

Either you accept that the initial state that lead to life was constructed, or you accept that it was not constructed and are faced with the problem that constructor theory intends to address. These theories attempt to explain why the initial state for the universe was conducive to life/stars/black holes/whatever - everything I described is long after the fact.
I've had an Uber driver call me and ask about my destination after accepting the ride request and idling on it for 5 minutes. This was very late night, and he probably didn't want to have to drive too much outside of his home base.
Is she kidding, weirdos is what makes this worth while! Anyways, the whole point of the sharing economy is accounts are associated with Facebook / LinkedIn. I just love the serendipity of it.
Thanks. I added these as issues on github[1]. Feel free to watch/star the project to be notified of their implementation.

1: https://github.com/nepsilon/hn-comments
The operators wouldn't be tracking the IMEI of the adafruit GSM modules.

The ICCID of the sim card is unique. But it's not hard to buy pre-paid SIM cards with cash. So what is the ICCID going to tell an investigator.

Your argument is in that strange state of being right in spite of being wrong.

GSM hardware is the easiest for law enforcement to track because the protocol is comprehensively compromised by stingray devices.
A normal desktop is already a pretty good hybrid GUI/Command Line interface.
I got the cab attitude at SJC once for the same reason. I had to go to work, which was literally next door (property abutted the airport). Unfortunately there is no easy way to walk and I had luggage anyway.

When I told the cabbie where I was going, he got out of the car and started yelling at the dispatcher. They almost got into a fight until the dispatcher informed the driver that he is required to take me to keep his medallion.

He refused to talk to me for the entire 5 minute trip.

I felt bad because I knew he had waited in the long line, so I gave him $20 for the $9 fare.
I've enjoyed perusing throught this codebase. https://github.com/discourse/discourse
Boring. The point is to hop from place to place and network with new people.
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That's the exact reason why I'm not a fan of them. Most of the posts on Medium are made less forewarning and more a last ditch publicity event.
House for the Feeble Minded.
Has it? In the past 6 months it's been newsworthy primarily due to the worst parts of its community. That may impress a subset of message board nerds, but it probably doesn't do much for revenue.
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aapl and nflx had stock split among others. I don't think they have such a thing like goog\googl (dual tickers). May be it is solely choice of the founders?

GOOG was already a traded ticker so that never had any voting rights? or it got changed after the split?
I really like the API of the framework, unfortunately some of the core elements suffer from being extremely stateful code

The "self.thing = bar" in one function that only gets used in some other function ( or even worse something only used in a companion class) pattern is super prevalent.

Might just be me but I think a lot of the older code suffers from massive locality problems that makes debugging framework bugs super tricky
And the most expensive ads are Super Bowl ads as the TV networks aggressively force the hands ...

So, iow, business as usual.
I love how bizarre yet so serendipitously compelling this is. The people you would meet would be so fascinating.
The 80% and the first timers are mostly the same group, since the 80% only commit one crime during their life. Therefore, when you deal with a first-time, chances are good that you are dealing with someone who will only ever commit one crime. Therefore a lighter than average sentence is justified. Likewise, the 20% and the repeat-offenders are mostly the same people, so you can treat them as one group. So if you are dealing with someone who has committed a second or third crime, you can assume they are in the 20% who commit most crimes. And therefore you should apply severe penalties.

I don't know where you got "more than half of the 20 are first-timers." That is simply impossible: by definition, no one is in the 20% if they are a first-timer.

You can read more about the Pareto Principle here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

From Wikipedia:

"The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes."

This has been proven to apply to crime. Roughly 80% of crimes are committed by 20% of the people who break the law.
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1537
I would not expect less of any company and any company that didn't do so will die.
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This is a problem I've experienced (and partially solved for my self) when working with streams of events on UI's in js.

e.g.

applyStoreFilterStream.recv(function () {
// do some stuff
})
// when either removing a filter or adding a filter
.compose.serial(removeStoreFilterStream, applyTypeFilterStream)
.recv(removeAllElements)
.recv(pager.reset.bind(pager))
.recv(requestProductsStream.send);

This was using an in house streams library (before i'd found Rxjs).

I did find that, because there is only one line at a time within which to express a dependency (from one stream to another) it was quite difficult to conceptualize the graph structure being created. I think perhaps having editors that can interpret this sort of code into a visible graph structure and conversely, compile a graph structure down into this form, would be interesting.
Laptops are mobile PCs. Smartphones are mobile PCs. VR glasses will be mobile PCs. There's nothing post-PC about mobile.
And thus, stuff like: perma.cc

Though it strikes me that with such an extended chain, it'd be better to essentially have ping-backs for each item that referenced or used the data.

At least with stuff like this there aren't privacy concerns, and it's not a low-level web commodity like a picture. EXIF & IPTC data can show authorship, but can also store location data, and whatever crap you (or your software) decides to stuff into metadata. It pisses me off that tumblr strips metadata, but all-told, it's the best course of action anytime people use your platform to post erm.. selfies.
Thanks! I had only done quick searches on the titles.
What Are Bitcoin Transaction Fees?
Because revenue is for some reason the best way to measure the impact of a technology...
How is functional programming not already successful? All new languages claim to be functional, old languages add functional features. FP is seen as the best way to use multicore and keep improving software.

How is it not successful already?