skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't move the goalposts.

That said, there is the upcoming: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150831183826
We can play a game of anecdotal evidence all day. My experience is totally opposite to yours, welfare was though and no way in hell did we have more than our peers. Welfare was also something you didn't talk about, it was embarrassing and my dad yearned for a job, not for the money, he got that on welfare, but for the human dignity, the social contact, the respect, instead he was paralysed at home. Incentives played no role.

But we're in agreement on your final sentence and I do acknowledge that there are people who game the system. But the issue I feel with the welfare debate is that it's usually a discussion about reducing it (to increase incentives to work), maintaining it or expanding it, with most people leaning towards one of the first two options. When really there are genuine cases of welfare where incentives play no role, and they're being squeezed hard. The debate should be more geared towards reducing fraud, catching dishonest recipients and supporting them in their dependency, not squeezing dishonest and honest welfare recipients all the same.
Is there a fundamental difference between Pandora and Spotify Radio? Do they pick songs somehow differently?
Superb response. Deeply informative.

I am very excited about the potential knowledge engineering possibilities opened up by this large structured datasets.

I believe that at the very least we're going to have within a generation a machine-generated ontology to rival Kant and Aristotle. Then we'll have to figure out if this tells us more about how we've digitally organized the knowledge we have or whether it does in fact reveal something about reality and being.

Besides 'subclass of' and 'part of' are there any other taxonomic ways for concepts to relate to other concepts? There are parallels here of course with object-oriented-programming. It's funny, I only within the last year or so started reading up on mereology[0] but as soon as one starts thinking about concepts and there relationships one ends up there eventually. 'part of' is like encapsulation. 'subclass of' is like inheritance. Is there more?

[0] (from the Greek μερος, ‘part’) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/
Bias against women in science persists, even in egalitarian societies
Apple's Trading Volume Is Exploding Today
Thanks. This is all client-side code, which was my entire goal. The visualization itself is built with the InfoVis toolkit (which I'm not sure is being maintained any longer.) If I were to do this today I'd look at D3 probably. The Wikipedia API is nice. It just requests an article by name and parses the result trying to get the first link. Getting that link can be a bit tricky though since there can be all sorts of metadata that needs to b ignored. Luckily Wikipedia seems to stick with some standard patterns. So basically it just recursively follows links until it either hit Philosophy or one that it has encountered before, in which case a branch is made.
As Jeff Hammerbacher said[1], "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."

[1]http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/magazine/content/11_17/b42250609...
> "he sure sounds math literate"

This is the standard ESR parlor trick. Eric took several courses in math and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/interview-with-eric-raym...
"As a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania Raymond was immediately marked out as a potential math prodigy. Having found school insufficiently stretching for his above average talents, however, he lacked the necessary discipline or emotional maturity to cope with the demands of an undergraduate course, and after suffering a "math burnout" left without a degree."

I'd put my money on phk. Every. Time.
“Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn’t sound like a news robot but, in fact, sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/fashion/npr-voice-has-take...
How would you run this on a mobile device? Since it's written in Python, you'd have to run it with something like Kivy.
Read Strunk & White: Elements of Style

http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/d...

There are many examples about how to write clearly.
A mission statement for free real-time communications
Another interesting piece I read recently on Ellis Island, and why, contrary to common misconception, immigrants’ names were not generally changed at Ellis Island:

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/07/02/name-changes-ellis-islan...
What matters is the state that you are making the recording in.

So if your state is a one party consent state and you are one of the parties it doesn't matter what the rules in the other state are.

Now what could get interesting is if you are in a one party state and you are calling on a cell phone and you hit a tower in another state. So then you claim that you are in State A and if they were to put in the effort to check or cell records they saw you hit the tower in State B then I would guess you would have to offer further proof of actually making the call in State A other than your statement that was the case. (As opposed to a land line where it's clear where you are located).

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-co...
Fixing the ride sharing problem
I've built a ride sharing marketplace. After polling the target customer bases, I'm more than certain that the problem exists and that RideConnect can solve it.

Today, people are able to call a car service with Uber or Lyft. People can drive for Uber or Lyft and can earn money from it.

Neither of those services allow people to coordinate rides with one another.

When you want to go somewhere, and your friends or friends of friends are also going to a similar, or the same place, you have no mechanism today to coordinate with them to travel together.

Organizations, clubs and groups have no way to coordinate the transportation of their guests to their events today with a smartphone app. They can work with Uber or Lyft, but generally speaking, that's no different from asking for a line of taxis to go about picking up anyone and bringing them to the events.

With RideConnect, we provide a mechanism by which anyone at all can announce their ride needs on a central board, and people in their extended social network can offer them a ride. People can look at the announcements on the RideBoard and decide to offer a ride or ask for a ride.

The value proposition is highest for companies, students, schools and groups, who wish to remain private but at the same time, need to travel. Rather than having 10 cars arrive at a bar, an event or school with one person in it, with RideConnect, they'll be able to coordinate and go in 3 cars.

We need to get the basic app tested as it's working in the shop. I'm not sure how to go about getting beta testers, and so I thought I'd start here.

The Beta sign up page is http://beta.RideConnect.com.
Recording Phone Calls and Conversations
[2008], the author has quite a few more specific papers in the field as well (just remove the filename from the URL to see a list)
Generally speaking, people who give talks have them prepared beforehand. They practice speaking it, to make sure that it's clear and understandable. So to say that it's easy to write a transcript for a planned talk isn't really saying anything. It's already been written, and writing the transcript of the presentation is just a rewrite. Not all talks are prewritten, but almost all of the good ones are.

I'd also like to note that presentations are very dissimilar to conversations, and some interviews. Conversations are at least a two-directional flow of information (more directions with more people), whereas the bulk of presentations are a one-way flow of information.
I used to measure Pandora channels in TTC or time to Coldplay. Every station would get there over time.
Yeah and the ratios are already limited by exchanges and the SEC tracks it nicely:

http://www.sec.gov/marketstructure/datavis/ma_exchange_cance...

Some exchanges have a far higher ratio. Instead of ~10 (90%) it's ~150 (99.3%). But there's probably a good reason for this.
Save bandwith by disabling TCP timestamp
The Manchester Baby
Was also think about Minecraft. He knows about it from some of his friends and used to play "Toca Builders" - a kind of Minecraft for juniors.
Fair enough. (I hadn't actually looked up the statutes; I just believed him based on all of the hoops he jumped through to try to do it.) There does appear to be a ban on commercial imports; even though the ivory in question was legally sourced and sold in Germany, he can't get it into the US.

(Though this was probably 15 years ago...it looks like the law might have changed and he could get his keyboard now!)
I'm not sure it's true they must be programmed to kill. In general they will be programmed to avoid killing anyone. I imagine in situations that they do kill people it will be because the systems failed rather than by calculation.
It is but it seems that all of the security features of their software rely on their "Distributed Adaptive Firewall" which can collect data and push automatic updates to the router, they also can remotely modify the rule set of the FW which runs on the router trough those updates (works like a signature update for any AV or IPS/IDS appliance)

Neither in their site nor in what documentation they have does it appear to say how can you disable data collection and or updates so it seems that to get the designed functionality of this router you have to use their software which collects data and allows them some level of remote access that can manipulate the configuration of the device.

Now I'm not saying that they have any nefarious intentions this isn't any different than a signature update for your AV, or system updates but it just doesn't sound like it's the best approach for a device that is supposed to be an "open" platform which operates like entry-level enterprise grade edge network appliances.

Automatic updates and collection should be on an explicit opt-in premise and not implicitly enabled on all devices, I understand that they need to collect traffic in order to identify new attacks but as far as threats to SOHO/SMB/SME users go that might use their software and are unlikely to be targeted by an overly sophisticated attack (which most likely will not be detected in the first place) running even a small scale traffic collection operation using local chapters of organizations like OWASP and IEEE, academic institutions and willing participants should be more than sufficient.
What do you mean by "build a website"?

There are plenty of off the shelf website services. I have done WordPress. I have done self hosted HTML files with includes files. I currently use BlogSpot exclusively and like that. But it actually took a bit to understand the degree to which I can customize it and what all I can do with it. Initially, I thought the templates worked like the templates in WordPress work. Nope. Not remotely.

Nothing is without a learning curve of some sort.
Ask HN: Co-working spaces in Bolivia (santa cruz)?
I will be in santa cruz, bolivia for a month and need a place to work with decent internet. Anyone know cafes or office space I can rent?
From what I could find ESR's work is funded by ICEI, which is funded by an NSF grant and a CACR grant. Am I missing something?

http://icei.org/activities/ntp.html
Sixth grader sells artisanal Diceware passwords
What's the value and novelty of writing an OS in Rust?
TV's are completely different to fridges in this discussion, I'd say. One is pure entertainment, the other has functional uses that help reduce costs, as well as improve health by preventing food from going off.
many "enthusiast" home routers have support for cellular USB modems I got a 4G stick plugged into my ASUS AC-97 which provides a WAN fallback if the main WAN connection goes down.

It works pretty damn well and it's seamless as long as you can get a true IPv4 address over your cellular connection and not some piss poor NAT.
No -mno-redzone?
I'd like to see someone re-implement the QNX real-time microkernel in Rust. That would be useful. We need a QNX-like OS for embedded devices. Linux is really the wrong tool for the job. Too much extra stuff which allows attacks.
Is it possible to write a book about my experience?

It will be very short: "I decided to make a tool for my needs. Work. Work. Work. I liked the result and I added multiuser. Now I am struggling to find a way to show it to the world."

I will contact you.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6820

> A couple of stories by Charles Babcock and (my coincidentally old friend) Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols have mentioned the existence of an ‘NTPsec’ project being funded by the Core Infrastructure Initiative as an alternative and perhaps eventual replacement for the reference implementation of Network Time Protocol maintained by Harlan Stenn and the Network Time Foundation.

I confirm that NTPsec does exist, and that I am deeply involved in it.

https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/faq

> The Core Infrastructure Initiative is a multi-million dollar project to fund and support critical elements of the global information infrastructure. It is organized by The Linux Foundation and supported by Amazon Web Services, Adobe, Bloomberg, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, NEC, Qualcomm, RackSpace, salesforce.com, and VMware.
Hypothesis: All mind-altering substances precipitate the onset of, and worsen the symptoms of schizophrenia. The strength of the effect depends on interactions between the substance and brain systems we do not yet adequately understand.

There may be nothing special about nicotine except that it is psychoactive. We will need to learn a whole lot more about the brain before we can figure out why nicotine might have a more profound effect than, for example, caffeine.
Good point. Sounds obvious now that you point it out but I hadn't thought of it.
Every good writer has a copy of Strunk & White within arm's reach.
The crux of this argument was explored with more eloquence and substance by Orwell in his essay Politics and the English Language[1].

I also agree with some of Orwell's critics, that these rules only hold water for pursuasive and/or [mildly] polemic writing, which is largely the style of tech blogging. Personally I would like to see more tech writing in the Joycean tradition.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Lan...
In past lives I’ve raced snowboards, jumped out of planes, and lived in the jungle

I'm so glad the author added that line, signalling his credibility. I'm even more impressed by Medium's stack when I know the guy responsible for it skydives. The coolness of this dude is overwhelming me now.
Evangelicals aren't any easier to brainwash than so called "Progressives," Libertarians, White people, Asian people, Athiests, Republicans, or any human being categorized by any social group, demographic or other criteria you want to pull out. That said, just like all human beings they can sometimes be deceived, blinded by bias or just not put enough thought into their beliefs. 'Because, you know, we're human just like you and everyone else here.
Then maybe the GOP should start listening to issues that tech cares about? They seem to oppose pretty much everything that tech people care about except maybe lowering taxes (but does that ever happen anyway?).
I thought the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine meant that any evidence that is found by examining evidence collected illegally still cannot be presented. The problem with parallel construction is that the police/NSA lie about the origin of their suspicion and avoid the "poisonous tree". (I should mention IANAL so please correct me if my understanding is wrong)
>Are you assuming that the philosophy of science is a done thing?

Quite the contrary - I am giving an example that is supportive of the view that, while philosophy was instrumental in the development of the scientific method, it is no longer playing that role, and has not for some time. The second question is another example in the same vein.

>Now, how about answering my two questions?

You haven't discharged your burden of proof - all you have done so far is to talk around it. In fact, that is all you have done with the two questions I posed, rather than answer them directly.
already being discussed here: (bottom of frontpage right now) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10447010
This one felt like it was about myself, seems I'm about the same age as the author. I've had several different titles on my business cards over the last 35 years including management, but I've come to realize that I'm a developer by heart. Being able to make a living from something I enjoy doing anyway is simply awesome!
Very interesting... as far as I've read. I've saved it for later reading in my Pocket account. I wonder what the author thinks of me.
Sure but is there nothing else to target? Different patterns in cancelled orders? If not, is it really causing harm, if there's no actual difference in these orders? Intent seems such an inelegant thing to attempt to limit. After all, the orders are real orders - they stand just as much chance to execute, right? (If not, then what feature makes them less real? The rapidity in which they are cancelled?)

Edit: There's probably a good reason they are regulated this way. Most things probably make sense at some level in trading, as there's too many smart people with money for it to be otherwise, right? (Though I still don't get why anyone would ever use a market order.)
Look at Actiontec modems, they got a small factor single port DSL modem/router (router part cam be disabled, will support PPOE over the "LAN" port), ZyXEL's "Prestige" line has a few tiny modems as well.
I really like the description of ntimed, but I'm worried there's been no blog updates or code uploaded to GitHub in months. https://github.com/bsdphk/Ntimed
PG is writing about getting people to read your nonfiction words. There is a place for other things, but he's talking about getting across a simple message, or making comprehensible more complex ones. In this, the advice, old as the hills, is sage and useful.

However, he omits to say that for other purposes, and other audiences - like this one, for example - if you want a nuances, thoughtful and colourful conversation, exploring more layers of meaning and implication, don't just use the ten hundred words people use the most often. https://xkcd.com/1133/ For if you do, once the XKCD comedy is over, we end up in a very dull Newspeak place indeed.
Not one mention of Strunk and White: "Elements of Style" in a piece about writing ? Paul Graham does not know shit about writing.
Rideshare passenger demographics study
Their hypothetical situation seems a little dubious, and it seems unlikely a self-driving car would ever allow itself to get into a situation like that in the first place.
I first heard the notion from someone here on HN: instead of doing what you love, love what you do!
Of course you_can_do_everything_in_assembler.

Nobody discuss about mystical or special in debug a debugger, but everything is about to invest lot of energy and time. Even launching GDB is a pain. And theres's a reason why many research live debugging using Smalltalk. When you debug a debugger you want as much as reflection as possible and Smalltalk has reified almost all of the internal machinery (see for example Moldable Debugger).
Does Divestment Work?
Spoken language is backed by other optional channels of information:

* Audio: speaker controls tone, speed and emphasis

* Video: body language

* Feedback: listener can acknowledge reception or ask for repetition

Written language has more time to be composed and it usually has the possibility of being ammended before submission.

Therefore, I always considered natural the difference between spoken and written language styles.

On a less picky opinion: agreed, complex ideas should not be written in complex language.
A lot of things are easier when it happens with other people's money. A lot of those projects didn't necessarily have the expectation to make/turn a profit.
Does it change the perspective of anything else they've done, e.g. They could be viewed as more willing to do non-murder crimes? It of course shows they definitely don't like the guy, but that's obvious when they were trying to take out his company or whatever.
So more precise than all of the clocks in the world once you exclude "the most precise clocks in the world"?
Yes, MC#2 is a hydrogen maser clock. But you failed to mention that it is driven by an ensemble of 41 clocks, 4 rubidium fountains, 19 hydrogen masers, and 18 5071 cesiums. And if we are talking about NIST-F1, don't forget F1's new friend, NIST-F2, that is three times as accurate and soon enough the Italians will have there very own version IT-CsF2. And then there are the lattice clocks from JILA...
Just guessing, but the label probably became an address on compilation, so one branch of the fork would return in the usual way, the other would jump to the label/address
No it's not that bad. Most places in city are like some areas of New York city more or less in terms of security. Surprisingly, people are more helpful and friendly in Karachi than in NYC.
While I don't particularly like your tone, I found the inclusion of that entire paragraph surprising. The paragraph immediately before it states:

> Where the quality of the idea matters, not the author’s qualifications.

It is then followed by the paragraph you talk about, specifically meant to showcase the authors's qualifications.
Amazon Announces AWS Mobile Hub and It Makes Parse, App Engine Look Tame
If you define "market failure" as "failure of the market to be sufficiently biased in favour of politically important constituencies", perhaps.
I think the approach is different, so it results in a different experience.

In Pandora, your only option is to start a station by seeding it and that is saved as a permanent artifact. The perception is that you've created something, but your only way to mold it is to rate songs. I tried for a long time to create a station for "Female Vocals J-Pop" but could never get it to stop playing male vocals.

On Spotify, things are presented as a playlist. They have a set number of songs and the idea is that they were curated by someone -- Spotify or another user. When you seed something from an artist or song, it creates a playlist with a limited set of songs. That playlist barely stays accessible through the UI unless you choose to save it, and then you have access to curate it.
> value

Well, Rust is a systems language, and so it should be a good fit for OS development. We're still working on bits of it, but it's a stated goal of the language, so testing that out is valuable.

> Novelty

Well, Rust is still a fairly young language, so there aren't a ton of people doing things with it yet, relatively speaking. And for OS dev, which is kind of a niche subject anyway (as much as I love it), there's naturally even less. So it's basically novel by definition.
Publish the code you have written on GitHub to build a portfolio. Then see if you can get a remote job at some company. In the beginning you want to take whatever you can get. Once you get the hang of it you can start being picky.
Deceptively simple old tools are often full of gems.
NEURON's incredible backwards compatibility
Pretty sure it's possible: http://xmodulo.com/run-program-process-specific-cpu-cores-li...
Watch a Dog Battle Two Wolves
Has anyone sold their company, then regretted it from a time investment standpoint?
America seems to be unfixable.

"The 11-mile East Side Access tunnel in New York City, for example, is 14 years behind schedule, and the tab has grown from $4.3 billion to $10.8 billion. Boston's 3.5-mile Big Dig was finished in 2007 — nine years behind schedule and at nearly triple the estimated cost."
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