skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"1) why shouldn't Apple collect the very same data?"

How do we know they don't? Has anyone read the privacy policy lately?

I mean, the only reason anyone flipped about Microsoft's privacy policy is because they took the unusual step of making it understandable to the layman. And they were crucified for that.
What justifies the purchase?
Gates did and does. Same for George W. Bush, Trump, and millions more. Darwin is interested in that subject and has some things to say!
Every Computer Engineering undergrad is rejoicing somebody just did their project for them.
yeah, it falls out of how the brain functions i think... there are a bunch of classifiers in there, and its not always easy to map what they do to reasoning. there are loads of fuzzy concepts like this with day-to-day utility which are very difficult to define accurately in a way that unambiguously communicates intent to another person.
"It's a plain cash grab at my expense."

It is absolutely not.
> When Wikileaks leaked the locations of covert soldiers in foreign countries, we had many people here on HN saying it doesn't matter if they even get killed..they shouldn't have been there in the first place. I was down voted and silenced for saying anything contrary to this or even having an opinion on it that didn't fit the narrative.

Because that would be misrepresenting the narrative.

Link to the "many people here on HN saying it doesn't matter if they get killed"?

The closest I've seen was people calling out and asking for any evidence that even a single soldier was killed because of these leaks. Because there isn't any. If it were, we wouldn't have heard the end of it in the mainstream media.

Any few comments about people actually arguing (these) people's lives do not matter, I expect to see at the bottom of a thread, flagged and with heavy downvotes.

While I strongly agree with those asking for evidence, I spit on the latter.
This is not written in Verilog/VHDL. I doubt they will be able to pass this off as their own work.
Ah, you just know the truth. You should apply to become a judge. It'd speed the court system up.
Updated Explainer Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkhswlJivMg

I believe that there is a missing button on most social share toolbars to send stuff to yourself, later. I made this and want to know what you think!

This works by providing you a JavaScript file that you can put on your page. The file looks for a predefined element class, then turns those elements into a "Remind To Read" button.

When clicked, the button accepts an email address. After input, the button defaults to sending the user a reminder email in 4 hours. The users can also manually set the delay period.

The email itself is meant to be designed by the site owner. The email can be used to promote other content, call-to-action functionality, etc. By default, the email also contains "snooze" buttons, to trigger another delayed email.
I suppose this could have something to do with it...

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

(There's no page for 10 yet but more features were removed.)
From the installation pdf:

"3. NO ACTIVATION.

To prevent its unlicensed use, the software contains activation enforcement technology. Because the software is licensed for testing use only, you are not licensed to activate the software for any purpose even if it prompts you to do so."
I completely agree. I'm a lot more drained on days where I'm jumping between small tasks, getting distracted every few minutes and generally being unproductive than I am after a day of full concentration working on a project.
I can't remember where I read it (probably reddit, check out /r/basicincome), but I believe many proponents of basic income suggest that it will replace institutions that provide income to people such as social security, but not benefits such as medical benefits as you described above, or benefits provided to soldiers, et al.
Don't underestimate how inefficient benefits systems can be - an IFS paper in the UK from 2005 suggests that for every £1 a benefit recipient receives, £5.30 is required - that is, of every £10 that goes into the benefits system via national insurance or what not, £1.88 actually reaches someone who needs it.

The principal cost is staffing for the vast number of people needed to means-test, scrutinise, shuffle paper and rubber stamp things - were you to dispose of much of this apparatus by going for a straightforward "everybody gets £x/month", your efficiency would rocket.

That is, of course, if the actual main cost isn't money being siphoned off into politicos pockets.
Will and Ariel Durant: The Three Lessons of Biological History
Surely income tax would only apply to additional income. e.g., the higher tax rates would apply only to higher brackets.

e.g., 0% on first $20k, 30% on the next $20k, 40% on the $60k after that, and so on.

I think in Australia, the tax-free threshold these days is around $12k.
it would be worth to mention in the README that this is only for browsers what support srcset attribute
Seems to normal with Infrastructure.

All want to use it, but noone wants to invest to build it.

On the other hand, there were those frequency auctions, where providers lost a fortune and mobile internet got really expensive.
It might have been a joke.
Except if you do badly at business, you have to lose everything before they help you. If you have anything that can be turned into money, or your spouse does, you have to use that first.

Another facet of the Nordic system, and not great for entrepreneurs.
Generic nodes in network emulators
A lab-grown brain organ grown in a petri dish is not a fetus brain. It's the size of one, but it is not.

Labeling that tissue as a fetus brain can encourage many people (I hesitate to say which groups, though you can guess) to start their warbling even if they're wrong.

Making a point of saying "lab-grown brain organ," or organoid (though it sounds kinda like 50-ish pulp sci-fi), helps keep them docile.

Not splitting hairs or arguing for fun. When posting science articles, accurate descriptions are important.
> Whatever kind of post-scarcity economy that will ultimately put an end to needing things like copyright, which primarily exists to help intellectual creations function in a market economy, is nowhere in site.

There are solutions, but no solutions which will make people into lifetime millionaires for having one hit-single promoted and pushed worldwide by a monolithic music-industry.

I'm sure there will be some people who argue that this is a major problem, but those who still make art for the sake and appreciation of art itself, they can probably cope with that loss.

Movies are different, and certainly more expensive and collaborative projects. So how about them?

Movies have gotten increasingly expensive over the last decades... Maybe that's just a pendulum swing gone too far the wrong way, fuelled by a misguided copyright-regime?

With crowdfunded movies like Kung Fury making due with less than a percent of a regular hollywood flick, maybe maybe it's time Hollywood start looking into what's driving their costs.

Basically: Maybe it's time for the pendulum to swing back?
I'm genuinely amazed that anyone still buys the argument that competition in a capitalist economy will improve quality. It does nothing but encourage corner-cutting, box-ticking, de-skilling of the workforce, and the extraction of revenue away from the electorate by monopolies who covertly cooperate to game the system. It demotivates, impoverishes, and homogenises. Truly dreadful.
Should the people that wrote libsass have decided whether or not to write it in C based on whether or not you would have to install Visual Studio to get it working on Windows? As a C library, it allows linking from several different languages, so maybe their motivations were getting a non-Ruby Sass implementation that could be used in whatever language you need it in. Maybe then the people that wrote the JS to link against the C library are the people that burdened you with this hardship then? Should every person that wants to use libsass from JavaScript be deterred against creating that JS library linking against libsass just because it might cause you some sort of "software installation hardship?"

I'm really confused what you feel the "ideal world" of your rant is. That the libsass people should have written it in JavaScript? How then would (e.g.) Python compile Sass? By installing Node and calling out to run the JavaScript libsass? Wouldn't that just lead to more people saying things like "Why should I have to install Node just to compile some Sass?" I'm sure the initial implementation of Sass being in Ruby was great for Rails developers because Ruby was already a part of their toolchain. For other projects that were not using Ruby though, Sass required an install of Ruby just for the purpose of compiling Sass.
Hey Edent-

I added a pricing page http://remindtoread.com/pricing

Free up to 50 reminders/month. First paid plan starts at 2$/month.
A question and an observation.

1. Can anyone name a company on par with Amazon/Uber/SpaceX/Goog etc... where everyone is working 9-5? Not doubting they exist, it just seems like all the major high growth big vision companies have this same ethos. Maybe they are successful despite that, but that would seem anti-pattern

2. There is a subset of people who do not lose productivity after 40/50/60 hours a week (full disclosure I think I am one of these as my work weeks look closer to 80-90) and I think that is who these companies are optimizing for. Amazon doesn't care if it burns out 10 people if it can keep one that is super passionate and can work like a madman.
Win the rat race and you are still a rat, perhaps the race is not worth winning.
A quick look at the Win2k source (2004)
That does blow a hole in my argument... but what lead NYT to observe that Google was 'flouting dotcom tradition', if stocking up with (and being lead by) CS PhD's was the norm?
Because in replacing various forms of welfare, you quickly find the budget for it.
This is the clever bit:

- The data:image in the srcset attribute shows transparent image and prevents loading the image in the src attribute in modern browsers

- The image in the src is attribute is used if the browser does not support the srcset attribute or when the page is scanned by social networks and read-it-later tools.
Since first making this, I have put together those two things!

The pricing scale is meant to help the service pay for itself. You can see it here: http://remindtoread.com/pricing

You can now sign up for your own account and set up.
I don't use spotify and I usually don't like social anything (except HN, of course). However...

Surely there are reasonable explanations. Let's break this down.

GPS and motion sensors. Why could they want this? Maybe they will switch up your play list when you go for that run. Seems plausible.

Contacts. Ok, everything is social, so maybe they want to send your current track to other spotify users in your contacts. Seems plausible.

Photos. Not sure about this one.

Sharing your information with partners. Does spotify play ads? wouldn't this be a standard part of sharing data with Apple and Google's ad network?

I'm not defending them, but this is the social world we live in. You either find alternatives or deal with apps that pack social features in.
The difference is that a basic income is supposed to persuade non retirement age people to continue to work, hence "basic". A state pension is supposed to be enough to enable every retired citizen to be able to live without working with a sufficient sense of dignity even without any other form of pension. It is almost always higher than the equivalent unemployment benefit.
Now it could be combined (as Finland currently does) with a mandatory pension scheme system in order to provide retired people with an additional income source, but then you're getting beyond a basic income only. See - it's hard!

There might be a more utopian concept of paying everyone enough that they don't need to work at all, but that isn't what is meant by this Finish scheme and what is meant by "basic income" normally.
I THINK, and I could be totally wrong, but I THINK that on at least some platforms, when an app requires access to information stored locally on your phone, it's an all-or-nothing thing. So if Spotify needs permissions to local media files (which it obviously does) then there's no way to grant that without also giving it access to your local photos, for example. Could be totally wrong, I don't know, but I remember hearing that several times.
No. I don't think a person who is living at a bare subsistence level would be said to be living a life of leisure.

Also, a person could have a seemingly easy job that pays a lot, or a hard job that pays little. In my view your distinctions are wrung to fit the point you're trying to make.
Cirru -- the syntax I created is beyond 200..

I think CSS and PHP are tricky. HTML file are sometimes recognized as PHP files. And CSS, it hardly a general purpose language.
In my mind the default git log graph (and most other git UIs) are very poor at rendering the graph itself.

Somehow, even a moderately simple repository which has been heavily co-authored will look like garbage; even though there _are_ two distinct mainlines that you can follow.

One of the best visualizations for revision control, IMHO, is fossil's timeline view:

https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline?y=ci

It's clear, compact, and tries to maintain different lineages as straight lines. git tools, by contrast, just shift everything on right.

Not even github's network view is really usable, since the network simplification they perform destroys the locality of the changes.
Consider it ignored.
Not really. Brews is covering topics like privacy, so the updated policy and the additional permissions might have peeked his interest. http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/
So the answer you get is the same as you've typed in (27). Hardly "can't divide" ...
This is a case where a bit of skeuomorphism (gasp) might have been useful. The momentary screen refresh flash on old-style LCD calculators helped indicate to the user that the input had been acknowledged. In the iOS calculator, the subtle darkening of the "=" button (which is also almost entirely concealed by the rest of the curled thumb in right-handed users) is just not enough feedback on its own.
Currently I am using http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/index...

And there is some degree of variation between different sources, for example this is the NOKSEK exchange rate from yahoo.

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from...

And since the variations between sources is limited I believe that getting a rough idea of the rate (which differs from bank to bank as well) Is beneficial especially in currencies like NOKSEK where the difference can vary between 0-10%
I don't think having trade negotiations in secret is defensible--I think they should have to make this sausage in public view. But the express purpose of this process is protecting the interests of rich American corporations abroad. We want to expand the market for American products, hopefully creating jobs in the process domestically, while limiting access of foreign companies to our markets.
Test Automation for Magento (and other e-commerce platforms)
I see lines like this sometimes, and I never speak up. So here goes. You work 16 hour days and it's just fine? You are saying that in your post. It's right there. 80-90 hours. You expect someone reading your post to believe you work 16 hour days, it's fine; you're a rock star who loses no productivity by the 79th hour on Friday evening?
The LICENCE file looks like standard MIT to me. Where did you find this info?
Gee, I just recently hated upon Qemu/KVM for not having the equivalent of Hyper-V differencing disks! Great to know this exists as this will save me quite a bit of disk space on my CentOS VMs.
$45k is way too high. A basic income is per person, not per household. Median personal income in the US is only about $24k (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...). About 20% of adults with income currently make less than $12.5k. And if children also receive a basic income payment (which seems to be the case in the parent post's calculation), then no one will be starving at $12k/person.
I wish it were easier to get this past employers. "Look, I'm more motivated and productive if I work max. 40 hours, preferably 30."
New screencast series for Neo4j.rb project
A one-time fee incentives them to not pay late, but once they are already late, there is no more incentive since they have already incurred the 5% fee.
The Web After Tomorrow
I'm really happy to have finally released this. The first three episodes cover basic setup and usage (should be more or less familiar to anybody who's used an ORM before). The second three cover how the ActiveNode module allows you to easily create deep and complex queries using Neo4j and Ruby
You've hit on the underlying problem of this entire discussion; the way employees are judged. Regardless of what annual review process paperwork says, or what ideals we all pay lip service to, the fact remains that many (in the US, at least) businesses do not actually reward employees (salary, promotions, better projects) based on output and productivity. Between political games, friends helping friends, back-scratchings galore, and very different workplace experiences based on who your direct manager is, the system is seemingly FUBAR.
I think you need to do an import first, so it is faster to just rollback to a snapshot than re-import each time. I prefer snapshots so I can configure the network as needed for our corporate environment (saving me from doing that each and every time).
Why not negotiate with the boss to work an off-hours shift if your friend was going to "sit around all day" while the boss was out? If your friend was an hourly worker, the IB was wasting money.
Not to mention that if the browser was separate from the OS, as it should be, you could just install all of them side-by-side.
I think the chart about perceived productivity is for you :)
I think you've missed the joke.
Yes you are right. I also thought about this.
UNLOQ.io increases the security of your digital properties through a distributed authentication system that doesn’t require your users to remember any passwords.
But still valuable. It's also obvious from the comments that a few people here have never seen this before.
I find it amazing that Ubuntu 15.04 is still under 700mb, but I suppose you have to install a lot of packages on first run anyway. I do doubt that it's 5gb worth though...
How Shenmue 3 Can Apologise for the Quick Time Event
Makes sense to me. You can test absolutely everything without having to activate.
Lazy loading is a waste of time in my opinion. Yes it can save bandwidth but it actually creates an awful user experience.

If you have a bunch of images you don't want to wait to load them until in view especially on a slow connection. If you lazy load the images then that means every time the user scrolls they have to wait for an image. No one is going to wait for your image to load, so they will scroll on. You then cause a bottleneck in your javascript because the user is scrolling and you are using JS to download images which is not optimal.

The experience you want is to load the first image and then load then next image before the user gets to it so that it is ready when the user scrolls. Our browsers do a great job of this already. Don't reinvent the wheel. Our browsers have been optimized to download images the right way. And if you want to save bandwidth then use responsive images and let the browser determine the best size to download.

I've implemented lazy load on mobile and learned this first hand. I thought I needed lazy load, but to my surprise, the browser actually knows how to load images the right way. My app actually had less jank and loaded images faster when I left the images up to the browser.

Stop over engineering image loading please :-)
Shops and restaurants where you can spend over £20 on Apple Pay in the UK
But if you take in account the statistics of how many start-ups succeed, that's not a great deal...
Thank you. The whole thing is driving me nuts - everybody seems to believe that people were dropping dead at 35.
(S)CSS and code quality: take care on code quality
How to Speed Up Magento?
Of course there can be fraud - what if you use multiple identities?
> GPS and motion sensors. Why could they want this? Maybe they will switch up your play list when you go for that run. Seems plausible.

They introduced a running feature a few months ago that does, indeed, attempt to match the bpm of a playlist to your running cadence.

> Contacts. Ok, everything is social, so maybe they want to send your current track to other spotify users in your contacts. Seems plausible.

Share a playlist with a contact. Share a track with a contact. Etc etc. I'm surprised this wasn't already in there if it's really a new addition.

> Photos. Not sure about this one.

Might be related to running. Strava, fr'instance, lets you add photos taken on your run. Or might just be to let you adorn a playlist with your chosen photo.

> Sharing your information with partners.

Doesn't everyone? Isn't this standard boilerplate? Spotify are attempting brand tie-ups in many areas so I can't see this as something out of the ordinary.
"That's just not how it works" isn't a reasoned argument. Tell us the real reason why you insist on working yourself to exhaustion despite solid evidence that it makes you less productive.
Wow such magic. /s
Sorry, can you explain the difference? When I was in the UK that was basically what I paid and never got anything back.
With the default uBlock and uMatrix rules I use, the article just shows a spinner. I have to enable forbesimg.com that loads article thumbnails and the main css, along with 'vendor' and 'scripts' js.
I used to hate Browserstack due to latency but re-tried it recently and it's MUCH faster. If you've tried it before it's worth giving it another shot.
I like Google's UI better. It's more obvious

http://gfycat.com/SelfishNegativeDouglasfirbarkbeetle
Alternative, which works pretty well: http://xilium.bitbucket.org/cefglue/
Isn't basic income really pretty dependent on closing borders? So you have a basic income ... here come the stampedes of African and East European low skilled immigrants looking to get a basic income without having to do anything.

Essentially, also how do you move people from basic income to being ambitious to pursue more than basic income. People become complacent when they become comfortable with their circumstances. I don't think that is appreciated enough in this discussion. People really need to be kept slightly "on their toes".

If you look at the USA, that is precisely what happens here, for better or worse and even to an extreme and unhealthy manner. We have extreme poverty relative to other societies we want to consider ourselves to be peers of, but at the same time we have these unachievable dream motivations in the form of grotesquely wealthy people in the form of CEOs, athletes, movie stars, musicians, etc. that 99.99999% of people will never ever get even close to reaching.
List of fictional Microsoft companies
I haven't tried this yet but where was this 10+ years ago? I feel like its too late for a site like this, but I guess it will still be very useful.