skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capture the music around you and share them with the world to help you find the right song name.
> You underestimate the laziness of countless spoiled children

Not to mention that many people underestimate the laziness of themselves given infinite free time. Posting to HN is a significant indicator. :)
I suspect it is a sensory-processing thing. I'm reading waaaayyyy too much into this, but people on the Asperger's syndrome spectrum--even slightly--and more likely to be in the HN commenter crowd--have peculiar sensory issues. Often you see it with things like aversion (or preference) for certain food textures, so it doesn't seem out of left field to hear that anticipatory auditory and sensory stimulus (like the death rattle of a showerhead, or the subsequent burst of lukewarm water) would be a trigger. And that it would be passed down genetically or by behavioral role models...
I don't understand your point. Can you clarify?

For reference, when I speak of "marginal effective tax rate" I mean the marginal effective tax rate after including (1) welfare payments to you, (2) the tax you pay and (3) any basic income you receive, although (3) does not directly contribute to the marginal effective tax rate, since it is zero.
Texas Orders Health Clinics to Turn Over Patient Data
I enjoyed reading this. I understood possibly none of it. I still enjoyed reading it.
Apparently there's a framework for experimentation at Twitter, but it looks like few experiments actually succeed to turn into new features. What goes wrong there? Or is Twitter really a prime example of analysis paralysis, as others suggest here?
There are a few things that have helped me deal with social anxiety:
1. Talking more with people that work in stores when I'm paying for something - Cashiers are great people to practice talking to. You don't have to do it for very long, and if you say something stupid, you rarely see them anyway, so no harm done.
2. Noticing what socially adept people talk about - I think about the subject matter that social people bring up after I've seen them engage in conversation. I've realized that most of the time it's pretty trivial stuff, and that most people don't hold that against them.
3. Avoiding people that hold you back - people that often say that I'm shy, or coming out of my "shell", just make me more self-conscious and awkward. I'll end the conversation quickly with such people and will not pursue interaction beyond the bare-minimum pleasantries. Even if they are well-meaning, they have a negative effect on me, so I'll avoid them unless they are closely related.
Eric Schmidt CS183C Blitzscaling Video
That so? I'm Czech and Bavarian police is famous here, for years, for targeting Czech cars and bullying the passengers (stops without probable cause, extensive searches under false pretenses, picking all CZ, and only CZ, cars from traffic, the list goes on). "Respectful" is not a word we associate with German cops here.
Debugging a Debugger
Very cool frozen parody
Where? Every country I'm aware of that dipped below replacement fertility has not been able to recover.
New scala compiler, dotty, compiles itself for the first time
It'd be cool if MOSS could return funding Mozilla's own Persona hackers to work on a next gen open identity platform.
I compile everything so I can learn how pkgsrc works. I hope to be able to contribute as a maintainer some day.
I read the whole thing. Honestly, so what? You're beautifully awkward. You drum to your own beat. Thats actually cool. Unlike you, I consider myself very socially adjusted. Just because you're not doesn't mean I wouldn't want to chat with you, or be friends. In fact, I'd find you more interesting. Most people aren't judging. If they are, its a reflection of how critical they feel others are of themselves. Own it
I am not a sociologist but I do believe the strong should assist the weak but handing out cash to a set of people who may have disabilities, addictions, severe IQ deficits or otherwise may be a "fast curtain" to a "bad second act."

I believe offering free food and shelter would be far less expensive and a better investment.

Example: 25% of the homeless suffer from mental illness, what would they do with free money? http://www.studentsagainsthunger.org/

40% of the food supply in the United States is wasted and thus could be possibly reclaimed or reistributed: http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/food_waste_the_facts

The Federal government has plenty of land. Micro houses would be a one time cost and shelter should be built very inexpensively. A Finnish micro house costs under $11,000 http://www.gizmag.com/finnish-micro-house/22580/
The closest thing I can think of is maybe a bunch of vines will come out and grab me or something.
Neat writeup, and very interesting that they haven't found it to be enough of a performance win to turn it on in production yet.

I was actually most interested to hear about HHIR and their general compiler pipeline. I'm reminded of Rust's recent initiative to rearchitect the compiler with a Rust-specific IR of its own (MIR). Here's an overview of how the compiler devs expect rustc to operate once this work is complete: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1211#issuecomment-128... and here's a comment expanding on this overview: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1211#issuecomment-130...
If you have a SQL query that takes 50,000 core-seconds, it's probably more useful to execute that query using 10,000 cores in 5 seconds rather than 10 cores and 5000 seconds, especially if cost is the same. Even better if you never have to spin up a VM or worry about scale. This benefit is tangible and applicable to anyone who runs SQL. The reason this isn't prevalent is because it's economically and technologically prohibitive. BigQuery tips that scale in the other direction.

Point is, higher-level cloud-native services unlock very interesting use cases that are applicable for both small-scale startups and large companies, use cases that are impossible with just VMs.
Why would being a servant be considered ugly or unappatizing? Is it different really than any other service industry job? So instead of being a fry cook at burger king for minimum wage they prepare dinner for someone that is more affluent and that is somehow lacking dignity as more than the former, how?
"This sounds great, I haven't had any time off since I was 21 through 24!" - Phillip J Fry

Seriously though, I'd wager the vast majority, if not all of the world's greatest inventions of the last millenium came not from those who inherited great wealth but those who had to struggle, worry, pray and perhaps cry about their fate before their survival instincts threw their imagination and determination into overdrive. UBI on the face of it seems like a noble idea but we are far too confident in what we think we know about the human spirit and our own nature to on average, try to follow the path of least resistance. It can certainly work well in small groups that have strong moral and ethical backbones but I fear it will ruin a land's people in direct proportion to how far it tries to implement it.
On the surface, comprehensive, coordinated, and centralized PMR sounds like an appealing notion. It plays into the idea of Big Data to produce better healthcare outcome, and also empowering consumers to make informed decisions.

Much of the frustration stemming from lack of PMR is rooted in the the way our de-centralized and privatized healthcare function. This isn't something you fix through better technology; it's something you have to fix through legislation. Our healthcare problem is mainly a legislative one.

Some are tackling PMR because it appears to a contributing cause of poor healthcare, when in fact is a symptom.
It is ridiculous. The content companies don't have the right to pay money to people in Congress to change laws to benefit them at others' expense. And should we give I.P. producers preferential treatment in form of guaranteed profit on good works for lifetimes that the rest of us don't get for our work? And which mostly benefit those same companies above?

Doesn't seem right.
Out of curiosity, roughly how old are you? You describe me at an earlier age, and while I can't say it gets BETTER...it gets "better" as you age.

The other thing I'm really interested in is a deep examination of your comment "When I have a choice...due to fear." Is it always due to fear, or due to preference? That could be a breakthrough for you, to examine this...there's a difference between the two, and a lot of times I would ascribe that feeling to fear, it was actually preference...a choice to avoid the fear. If I could push through that--rarely by my own will, but more often just by circumstances--the fear would subside and I would realize that the preference was what was broken. Not that it is fixed now, or anything...
Every kind of redistribution must sum to zero across all people.

Only if it has no impact on monetary velocity. Redistributing money from people who are not going to spend it to people who will (or vice versa) is not zero sum.

Lemma: redistribution is itself a monetary policy, given the velocity differences of different money holders.
Well, humans are interesting to dolphins. Dolphins are reasonably intelligent and none of the other marine life can communicate or play with them.
Hmm, I don't know that show by name but it's possible I may have tuned in just to see something horrible scene.
Even if she doesn't this is still a very interesting read. Many of her anecdotes have been seen and confirmed by so many different people that they are undoubtedly true. And considering these are true, they are very unusual and interesting to hear.

I am not aware of any other wild animal that behaves like this. Both in terms of friendliness, and in terms of intelligence as in knowing what people like and how and when to help us.

Obviously you cannot include domesticated animals, such as dogs or cows in this. These animals have been domesticated for so long, they must certainly have obtained some human friendly genes through natural selection. Even a "wild" dog carries genes that are the result of thousands of years of domestication.

But a dolphin has no natural selection reason to be friendly to humans. And given how cruel nature is, and how cruel humans often are, it is rather amazing, they display such inter species friendliness.
it's possible :p
Nope, this really is well known. It doesn't happen to everyone, but it happens to lots of Czechs and Poles in Bavaria. To the point of causing diplomatic incidents on occasions.
DOJ dismisses Apple's arguments against decrypting iOS communications
These are great tips.

Classic cashier talk at movie theatre or game:

Cashier: "Enjoy the show/game!"
Me: "You too!"

Me, later: D'oh!
So what?

Because it's incredibly exhausting and frankly depressing to spend years worrying about why nobody likes you.
I was one of them. We had many spirited discussions. TA was completely transparent about what was going on and we tried hard to find an angle to make it work. I look forward to future hacking with the others.
I'm kinda libertarian, and I kinda like the idea of a UBI, because it means we no longer need people in power to make decisions about who gets welfare and other social support, and all the gaming and corruption involved.

I've come around to the idea that there can't and won't be zero public social support, so UBI seems like the fairest, least-overhead way to take care of it.

The downside is, the argument/power of who to let in the country, or who in the country gets UBI, gets a lot more serious. There really aren't any easy answers here...
It's hard enough to strike a licensing agreement of any kind for a song in a wedding video. Even harder to strike a reasonable one given how copyright works. Hell, Disney used to charge companies up to five digits to sing the Happy Birthday song in a movie.

Yet, anyone reading your comment might be mislead to think that companies are very reasonable about this and there might even be something as easy as Amazon.com to get licenses from. Not the case as it wouldn't make enough for the greedy and powerful as author said. If they want these rights, I think some equally-strong responsibilities are in order in exchange.
If you limit basic income, that's called welfare. I thought the point of basic income is that everyone gets it.

Now sure... wealthy people will pay more in taxes than they receive in basic income. But it would still be a tax credit.
> For some people that turns from harmless social drinking to alcoholism and can destroy their lives.

What I'd give to go back five years and slap 20-year old me around...

I've turned my life around but I have zero friends to show for it- and I don't blame them.
Got to make those self driving cars!
In many (perhaps most) areas of the US, DevOps staff do not cost $20k per month. For example, 92% of Boston rates are less than half that[1].

This implies that a $40k per month bill for AWS[2] could pay for three DevOps engineers and save approximately $10k per month in the vast majority of the US.

1 - http://www.indeed.com/q-Devops-Engineer-l-Boston,-MA-jobs.ht...

2 - derived from your statement that a staff of $20k per month would save "~50% off one's AWS bill"
Yes, it would be. I was going to comment on this, you beat me to it.

Some background on yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10436423

Dan's call to action yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10436366

I personally believe such a project should come from inside Mozilla and not be given a mere 2 years before slashing it away. Persona needs love and funding, and according to Dan there's still design issues to fix. A Persona 2.0 would fit this program just fine.
Thrift is such a broken mess I willingly opted instead to fork and update a Java project that exposes xml over http.

Thrift must have been written by people who though SOAP was too easy to use and that developer lives should be made harder.
You use the term "monetary velocity" as if it was some term of trade, but I have a PhD in economics and I've never seen it used this way. Are you referring to a specific school of thought or author when you use this term?

Redistributing money from people who are not going to spend it to people who will (or vice versa) is not zero sum.

This is the essence of (neo-)Keynsianism but it only applies during recessions. In the long run, redistributing money to people who are going to spend it has zero effect.

Of course redistribution has a positive effect on welfare as defined by the sum of total utility, but it doesn't increase, for example, GDP.
I understand his argument about gatekeepers, but Steam is a poor example. Steam itself provides so much more than a simple storefront as he describes it. By selling on Steam you also get

Steam API, which gives you

- Achievements

- Leaderboards

- Cloud save

- Steam Workshop - user generated mods and content

- Multiplayer infrastructure

Steam community, which gives you

- Forum

- Social network - user generated content such as screenshots, game guides and fanart

- Reviews - endorsements from several thousand actual players sells games far better than a flashy trailer

Whether these features are worth the 30% cut is arguable, but these services are far more valuable to independent developers, who don't have the time or ability to implement these, than to developers under large publishers, who may share these infrastructure within the games they publish.
> I should be able to release a game called Undertale

This is actually covered by trademark law, not copyright. :P

And I believe the author is actually asking you to imagine what it would be like to live in a world where characters could not be prevented from appearing in any other work of art (in any medium) by any artist. I'm not sure if it would be a net good or bad, but it would definitely be fascinating. As a pure thought experiment I've always imagined that were I to produce some popular work of fiction that I'd release all rights to all characters to the public domain and see what came of it, as the seed for a kind of ultimate anarchic remix culture. Who's to say what's canon when nobody owns the universe?
You are confusing copyright and trademark. Trademark is what says you can't release a game called the same thing as someone else's game, in the same way that a random publisher can't call themselves "Tor" and hope no one notices. Copyright is what says you can't publish the same book that Tor does under a different name.
Doubt it. It might not happen until well in Trudeau's term if it happens at all.

They have to create a regulatory framework and all the provinces will want to handle it differently. Ontario government will probably be selling it themselves like they do alcohol and since there's no suppliers of cannabis globally then they'll have to create the infrastructure to cultivate it.

I expect a long drawn out process.
I'm not really disagreeing (much), but very few things fit that criteria. More common are simple problems so overengineered that they sprawl across two Amazon availability zones when a straightforward implementation could serve the whole customer base off a $20 a month VPS. This is more depressingly common than you think. Also depressingly common is a 50000 CPU second operation that could be a 1 CPU second operation with a few indexes and a smarter algorithm. AWS adds a lot of carbon to the atmosphere cranking through crap code. Trust me I've seen it.

What Amazon and kin have done is offer developers a new sexy way of over engineering. The AWS stack is the new Java OOP design patterns book. Yes, there is occasionally a time when an AbstractSingletonFactory is a good thing but I guarantee you most of those you see in the wild are not those times.

The real genius was to build a jungle gym for sophomore programmers to indulge their need to develop carpal tunnel syndrome where everything bills by the instance, hour, and transaction. If Sun had found a way to bill for every interface implemented and every use of the singleton pattern they would have been the ones buying Oracle.
He's complaining about the problem with dōjinshi outside Japan.[1] Although Japan's copyright laws don't allow fan works, the tradition in Japan is not to enforce this.

If you really wanted to work on this problem, an interesting option would be to approach the Cool Japan Fund.[2] This is a venture capital fund, funded by the government of Japan and some big banks at about the $1Bn level, to promote Japanese culture outside Japan. (The government of Korea has been pushing K-Pop, and Japan is working on catching up.) They own an anime translation operation, a free anime site (daisuki.net), a TV channel, and, most relevant to this, a content creator training academy.[3] Kadokawa Contents Academy[4] is a training school for anime and manga creators outside Japan. There are currently branches in Taiwan and Singapore, with more to come. They might be able to give some advice on the subject.

[1] http://www.animenation.net/blog/2014/08/12/34666/
[2] https://www.cj-fund.co.jp/en/
[3] https://www.cj-fund.co.jp/en/files/press_150330-1.pdf
[4] http://www.kadokawa-ca.co.jp/
>Ultimately you're going to take some things from some people in order to give it to other people.

You're already doing that with capitalism with land. Take a private beach as an example, no one created it, the state just added property rights to it and gave it out at some point.

Oftentimes in the US you can trace land ownership all the way back to the original grant of a King or Queen.
How much of rr is C++-specific? I know of a few other compiled languages out there that would love to have a tool like this.
Wasn't the money in Namibia given out to some of the poorest members of the community? The articles cited a 301 percent increase in self-employment. The concerns about gaming the system are certainly real, but it seems to me that you will always have outliers who want to take advantage. The question is whether or not a certain percentage of people behaving badly is worth the overall benefits to society, and I believe that is it.

As far as it being more of a burden on the middle class, I would happily pay more if it meant that everyone was getting more in return. Furthermore, why does it only have to be the burden of the middle class? If a corporation sees a 500 million dollar increase in profits because it aggressively automated its processes, why can't we institute rules to mandate they pay a certain percentage of the back into the UBI fund? More money for people means more potential consumers of their goods, right?
Oh not this again. First of all, Friedman advocated a negative income tax as a replacement to the ad-hoc mess of redistributive taxes, grants and welfare programs that exist now. Add a UBI to food stamps, unemployment benefits, farm subsidies, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the problems only get worse.

Second, this doomsday scenario of 50 million people waking up one day to discover there isn't a single thing in the world they can do to feed themselves is such hyperbolic nonsense you might as well be asking how opponents of a UBI plan to deal with a meteor demolishing Texas. Economies change. Sometimes a profession becomes obsolete. The people involved in it go elsewhere and on the whole everyone gets richer. It may sound unpleasant but it's only the same thing mankind has done a thousand times over already with great success. Unless you're mad about the fact that you don't have to milk your own cows anymore. This supposed choice between killing, jailing, or subsidizing millions of people is a false dichotomy that would sound like a joke to me if so many weren't sincerely buying into it. The other and far more reasonable option is to let free human beings navigate a changing world by adapting in the way each of them sees fit. They do it all the time. They don't need some savior swooping in with armloads of other people's money.
> Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory

That's not even close to being what that math is about.
Not to quible, but fully loaded costs and salary costs can be dramatically different.
Linux-based commercial drone autopilot debuts in India
"At IBM, the future doesn't look so bright. Shares dropped to a five-year low after the company cut its profit forecast earlier this week."
Well now you are talking about lobbying which is a different subject that also isn't as black and white as you are painting it.

I don't know what guaranteed profit you are talking about. Most IPs do not produce any profit even 2-5 years after they are created. Mario for example has required millions if not billions of dollars of follow on investments from Nintendo so that the ip is still valuable. Most other NES games do not continue to generate profit.

"....the rest of us don't get for our work" - I don't even understand what you mean by this. Are you talking about the employment contract you strike with an employer? Because that contract varies and some employees do see profits for decades on previous works. I think you need to provide an example here.
I'm just thinking that instead of taxing some other money (primarily debt) to fund the basic income, the basic income itself can be the money (though, additional monies may be desired), which would obviate any need for taxes/reclaimation.
A shrewd move if they do; significantly reducing use of the death penalty would significantly improve Iran's standing on human rights which would likely pay significant diplomatic dividends at zero strategic cost.