skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very interesting. I read some, skimmed some, and saved the doc.

But I wish the author had a section that attempted to explain electricity in a simple, yet accurate way. He complains about the problems that prevent it from being understood, but never tries to explain it correctly.

Fair enough for him to make that choice, but I'd much rather read a correct explanation than a list of why all the other explanations are flawed.
Not everyone works for money. In fact most people I personally know (no, I'm not sure that's a good representation) don't. What is quite common though among large groups of people is that they get extremely bored and lonely without their jobs. It is frightening to talk with people and find out that they would have nothing at all to do if they would not have their jobs; their hobbies (if they have them) don't give them enough satisfaction to do them longer than a few hours a week.

I don't have to work but I find myself working more as I enjoy it even though I have hobbies to keep me busy.
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I have OwnCloud running on a RaspberryPi. It works fine, and allows me to hook up a 1TB USB drive.
>Believe me the problem is real

I guess we should all go ahead and believe him. I mean he did write a comment on the internet which consisted of some form of empty hearsay. That's all the proof any of us should need.
That's a lot of assumptions and scaremongering that have nothing to do with the article.
I'm sure YC benefits tremendously from the information they've gathered about all the companies they've funded. Probably less so for the applications... I suspect those are incredibly noisy signals and the effort required to extract meaning from them would be prohibitive.

On the other hand, YC Fellowships might be pretty much the "infinite valuation investment" idea I mentioned -- while there's no formal information rights attached, I'm sure they're getting a strong signal for which companies they'll want to fund.
Lots of assuming going on here:

>"The majority of schools require faculty to apply for tenure after 7 years. I consider one year before and after the 7th year to account for people who go up for tenure early or late because of a leave of absence, for example. I put universities into bins of 3 based on their ranking and assume that an individual is denied tenure if that person moves to a lower-ranked university group after 6-8 years. For example, a person who moves from Harvard to MIT after 6 years is not assumed to have been denied tenure since he moves within the same bin of schools. Someone who moves from Harvard to UCLA after 6 years is assumed to have been denied tenure since he moves to a lower group of schools. As another example, a person who moves 5 or fewer years after his initial appointment is not assumed to have been denied tenure since he moved before the tenure window (years 6 through 8 at an institution) starts."

Arbitrary binning of universities, using a change in employer as a proxy for getting tenure, using number of papers published as a measure of productivity, fitting lines to a relationship that does not appear linear (and in fact cannot be linear since fraction getting tenure must be in the range 0-1).

This issue may exist, but I don't think this analysis is capable of producing anything convincing.
This could be like specializing in a technology used professionally by a couple of shops only, with many prominent individuals already working there. If a somewhat abusive culture develops over time, how much would you be willing to put up with it, or even embrace it, knowing that resigning could mean never working with that hard-learned technology again?
That makes more sense, thanks!
May be just app developers integrate something like this to their apps? I believe that people spend most of their times in one-two applications.
sure we'll just go ahead and believe you, being that you were so specific and straight forward with the proof. I mean you weren't vague at all with your friends alleged experiences.
Could you explain me what there is assumtions? And what there is scaremongering?
"This use-case" indicates to me a single message encrypted with a single passphrase.
I am living in Germany, the removal of the German minimum wage in the postage sector resulted in effectively more companies providing post service, but for the end user, the price has not changed at all. But you see a lot of people bringing the mail in nearly destroyed cars, with the look of miserable people. I am all for competition, but in this case, the net benefit for the end users is zero and it created extremely low pay jobs.

The competitors of Deutsche Post are now using special structures not to pay the minimum wage to people (they are contractors) and this pushes Deutsche Post to do the same.

So, for this case, it was not good. In fact, the people in Germany pushed to get a minimum wage for all employees and the right wing government accepted. It shows you how bad the lack of minimum wage was for the people.
It's illegal to have a forward-facing red light at all (for one example)... even if it's not turned on.
You realize that "politics" only works because drivers drive like idiots and generally ignore speed limits? If they were responsible, the operating speed would always be less or equal than speed limit.
Yes, TEA is less broken than RC4. This is not to say that it is inherently more secure, just that no effective attacks on it are currently widely known the way they are with RC4. But this could just be because no one uses TEA and so it has received comparatively little cryptanalytical attention.
I wonder if it would be feasible to do this automatically when the top story contains the word "died" or synonyms thereof.
Star wars or star treck?
why??
Claremont McKenna College Dean Resigns Amid Student Protests
This Is How Driverless Cars See the World
4000 euros is a lot; most people who make enough to pay that have had their tax advisor 'restructure' things so they pay less. If you are paying that after restructure I would think you can save enough to add 3 years per year (you might have to live slightly more frugal than you do now).
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It wasn't the source code, it was an XCode project with an unsigned binary.

f.lux isn't open source.
Pretty sure it hasn't changed.
> Did you host OwnCloud yourself?

Yes, I prefer to self-host anything I can. I'm lucky to have a gigabit FTTH connection and moving lots of data around is no problem. I still prefer to use a remote VPS because some things are best left to the pros.

> But you didn't trust the software with your files? In what way is the SeaFile solution you are running now more trustworthy?

Seafile has a much smaller attack surface (no PHP, MySQL not required, etc) and handles the client-side encryption itself. We are discussing degrees of trust here, so while I was happy to trust ownCloud and the VPS to be there for a request, and to not corrupt my data, I didn't trust that my sensitive data was safe if the server was compromised. EncFS was a workaround, but it cluttered up Nautilus with extra drives since every encrypted directory had to be mounted as a drive. Now I'm comfortable trusting Seafile to do all that because an attacker would need to compromise both my VPS and my local machine to gain access to sensitive data. This is orders of magnitude less likely and for me is an acceptable risk, especially considering the simpler software stack.

And I'm definitely checking out radicale, thanks for the tip. If it does contact photo sync (annoyingly not currently supported my FastMail CardDAV) I'll give it a try.
This looks like what I need. Many thanks!
> I don't see why he didn't just pay the 99 USD and distribute it via the app store

If I understand correctly, they can't do so since they are using undocumented APIs that they are not allowed to use in store apps.
I am trying to come up with a target market for these boards at these prices.

The development board could $500 or could be $1500 that is understandable, the big question is where is the market for the actual devices with the $300 board inside.

Some sort of gaming kiosks or maybe some sort of industrial use?

Most embedded users do not need that sort of GPU performance.

The people doing GPU computing would be using desktop hardware
Never seen this guy before, but I love him! So enthusiastic.
I thought I recognized your name so I looked at your post history. Half your posts have the word "nonsense" in them - it's present a total of 7 times on the first page alone, in forms such as "extremist nonsense", "absurd nonsense", "utopian nonsense"...

You sure like to call whatever you disagree with nonsense. Common theme in every single one of your post is you provide zero backing for any of it. You're just sitting at your chair on your front porch and yelling at passer-bys.
Well, if you want to go down that route, there's no reason they couldn't just submit the login form at https://appleid.apple.com/ to test your credentials.
There is a substantial bike 'boulevard' network of side streets made safer for bicyclists

NOT that is segregated from through traffic (as opposed to Bryant St, in Palo Alto, on which car through-traffic is blocked every couple of blocks.

Best route I found parallel to El Camino was Church/Latham to the Palo Alto border, then a slight jog over to the pedestrian/bike bridge behind the shopping center (was Tower Records for years, forgot what it is now). Then, work your way to Bryant.
Interesting idea. In theory it would be possible to port a scene description language like the one used in Persistence of Vision across to something like this. That might be fun.
> Would those signs mean much to you, or would you trust your two feet, sense of balance, and situational awareness to find the right speed? People do the same in cars.

Except people don't have speedometers, and cars do. They are there to be used.

> A small subset of people, I believe it's about 5%, follow the sign regardless. These people create traffic problems since they move at a different speed than the rest of traffic. I read a good article about how traffic planners are re-evaluating the idea that slow speed limits are a good thing or beneficial for safety. (...) The takeaway from the research was that if traffic planners want people to drive more slowly, then they need to create smaller, narrower roads.

Society is fixed, biology (or in this case: external conditions) is mutable. It's a sad but I guess unavoidable outcome - since people under given conditions behave predictably like morons, it makes no sense to ask them to be responsible, so let's redesign the roads instead.
Nokia had a project to charge mobile phones from ambient radio waves. But they had real engineers and scientists and even though it actually worked they reported how badly it worked. That is, the charging rate was so low that only the simplest mobile could be charged with it. I think they used a modified Nokia 100 or something similar. See this 'article' on Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5285565/nokia-developing-wireless-accesso...
Amdahl sales people telling customers "this mug will get you a $1m discount if you ask for it" is not the same as IBM instructing sales people to discount $1m if they see the mug.

Obviously, knowing that your client is considering a rival company would make you consider dropping your price, but unless you have a better source I'm going to assume it was just nice spin around that fact from Amdahl people, not an actual IBM rule.
Robotics has moved from science fiction to reality
Never used Xcode and it was simple to side load onto my iPhone.

It's a great app, keep pushing and apple will see sense.
> until there's no disincentive in doing it for free, for the experience or the kicks.

You say this like it's a bad thing. Study after study show that people perform their best creative work when it's decoupled from extrinsic reward.

If basic income covers all of your needs and allows you to do what you enjoy for the sheer pleasure of it, what's wrong with that?
+1 on using news feed killer. Really helped as well :)
Indeed, combining the intellectual prowess with the necessary banging on the table is a valuable mix.
I admit that I don't know that much about basic income but had assumed that everyone would be "better off" by the same amount. Others in the thread have kindly informed me that is not the case, and that taxation will take out the benefit for higher earners.

I must say that doesn't sound very "universal" to me.
"Java is dead"-like posts would trigger it.

Also I don't think automatisation of remembrance gestures is a good thing.
Politicians don't think they're smarter than engineers. They just do what politicians do. Pandering to the public and seeking easy revenue, the latter in this case is possible only because drivers are irresponsible and can be gamed for money by lowering speed limits. Anyway, I wouldn't accuse politicians of being any saner than your average driver when on the road.
That section has numerous exceptions, as does the referenced "subdivision (a)." The point is there are many valid reasons why someone would come to a dead stop in the left lane of a multilane 2-way road.

On a limited-access divided highway there are far fewer reasons, limited only to emergencies, and the left lane can be legitimately considered to be the fast lane.
Have you considered open-sourcing your project?
Is Wearable Tech Creating a Data Time Bomb?
"if there is ever a civil war in Russia", "If Russia starts to move Syrian refugees ..." and "Nobody gives a fuck about Syrians in Syria" are assumptions.

Scaremongering: the process of saying or doing something in order to deliberately make people feel worried or frightened
[http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/scarem...]
Not anything to do with this CMU effort, but I've been working on a tool for visualization/exploration of large time-series data sets (where time-series are identified by a set of key/value pairs). I wasn't going to tell anyone for another week or so (want to do a blog post, screen-cast, fix some bugs first..) but it seems appropriate to mention it here.

http://www.datavstime.com/

By default, it connects to a simulation data source which has limited functionality. If you have a prometheus database, you should point it at that (note: I never see your data - it remains local to your browser).

It's still rough around the edges, quite buggy and there is lots of optimization work to do, but it's getting useful I think.
Apple solved this bug. After latest update xcode, not a one build tool will run until you accept XCode license even make wouldn't work.
Death Ray or a dash cam and sensor logs. Let the insurer handle rest.
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Funny things you end up doing when you prepare to go abroad to study(GIFs)
I'm pretty left-wing (I consider myself a libertarian socialist), but I agree with Friedman. Once you have a livable basic income, you don't really need a minimum wage and progressive taxation anymore. Those things exist primarily to guarantee livable conditions for the very poorest, but Basic Income would guarantee those livable conditions in a far more simple and effective way.

Two important effects of this would be:

a) the labour market would become a lot more open and free. At the moment, employers wield all the power because employees need a job. It's not a free market if you can't say no to a deal. With basic income, people can say no if the offer is too bad. But if your alternative is starvation, a terrible job for too little pay is still better than nothing. Minimum wage exists to limit the employers' power to exploit people who have no option to say no.

b) It fixes the unemployment trap. For people with unemployment or disability benefits, getting a low-pay part-time job often means they end up with less money (or the same money and more costs) despite them taking the effort to work, because they lose the benefits. This discourages people from working. With Basic Income, you keep that income if you get a job, so you always get ahead by working, even if it's only a little. There's nothing fraudulent anymore about doing little jobs while unemployed.

I'd probably prefer both the basic income and the tax to be a bit higher than Friedman would like them to be, but that's part of the standard political-economic give and take. As long as the Basic Income is at least enough for decent food and rent, I'm happy.
> The other reason is that eponymy is often a symptom of laziness. Rather than finding a good, descriptive name for something, you end up with an eponym that is not at all evocative of the meaning behind it.

The tongue-in-cheek flip side of this coin is that, when discovering something, one should give it a descriptive but complex name. That way, people are more likely to refer to it by the names of the discoverers than by the clumsy descriptive title the discoverers chose. :)
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"God doesn't play dice with traffic." - Einstein
> problems insiders assume are unavoidable

Isn't that one aspect of learned helplessness?
You need to balance it against the amount of disutility from deaths caused by the line going at speed+5 on a road where they were supposed to be going at speed. You need to also add the disutility generated by that line fucking up traffic flow in the nearby area.

Seriously, this stuff is to be determined from top down, not from perspective of individual self-interested drivers with zero context, little responsiblity and no interest of ensuring optimum flow.

Also, the general culture of aggression and disregard for law is something that is not healthy for neither society, nor economy.
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In what metholodically sound way are you taking into account the financial (and other) incentives (if any) at play that may have played a role in narrating tales of distress?
If solely on advertisements, then you're correct. But if you get some kind of intuition of normal price range of bicycles, then notice add of cheap bicycle, what's the problem?

Originally adds we're about providing information that was beneficial to everybody. Now that is not true and the signal/noise ratio is terrible. But still adds could become usefull again if targeted enough. But targeting adds can be world hurt too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_order#/media/File:Sears_-...

Imagine the effect of that in a small village with no competition?
Say again? It's already blocked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10556375
I've been looking for that first link for ages, I forgot where I had read it.
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Reddit has a whole community collecting this stuff: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/
There's plenty of evidence, if you are not specifically determined to look the other way. Waterboarding was used not to deter crime or to punish.
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Setup a VPN or some sort of tunnel that you connect to from your home and proxy TLS across it that terminates on your hardware.

Your VPN provider can probably MITM that much like your ISP could but not without messing with the certificates that you're pinning.

You shouldn't have to do that but given the circumstances it'll work. Whether you can be bothered is another discussion.
Framing risk
I imagined without the black bar... It looks better this way. So would the designers have felt.
Redshift was inspired by F.lux. I actually use Redshift since F.lux is not available in linux, but Redshift has no mobile versions.
I wonder if there will ever be some kind of statue or memorial for one of those founding parents.
Ada Lovelace, Alonzo Church, Grace Hopper, John McCarthy, Haskell Curry, Seymour Cray, Gene Amdahl...
I'm sure that list is too short.
Hmm, you're right about hyperbolic deaths.

But I rather like the idea of the black bar being effectively triggered by a consensus of HN users rather than waiting for an admin.
That's true, but consider the amount of extra protection a rider wears in order to mitigate risk of injury.
I think if the vehicle is only able to drive 25 mph it is not allowed to drive on the freeway, otherwise one would need to allow tractors by the same argument.

In most European countries there is a minimum speed requirement when driving on thr motorway (usually between 60 - 80 km/h), and sometimes there are even lane-specific speed limits (e.g. left lane requires at least 110 km/h). All that is only relevant if the traffic actually allows you to go that fast of course.
Ah, interesting way of doing it. Still a bit messy, and the size of the ballot could grow quadratically with the number of candidates.
"N self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services" is becoming a meme.

Here's 43 self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services, with one-click demos you can try yourself!

https://apps.sandstorm.io/

Tiny Tiny RSS, Ghost, Gitlab, and Rocket.Chat are in there.

ownCloud is missing, but you can try Davros, which is compatible with the ownCloud client apps. https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/8aspz4sfjnp8u89000mh2v1xrdyx97...

Ampache is missing, but you could try Groove Basin for music -- it's neat in that you can share control of the playback with other people, to implement a communal music player. https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/wfg1r0qra2ewyvns05r0rddqttt57q...

(But also someone should package ownCloud and Ampache for Sandstorm! https://docs.sandstorm.io)
If you don't have progressive taxation any more, you're either going to be unable to pay for the BI or seriously hurt the middle classes. If the rich pay lower [net] taxes, someone else pays more (assuming you're not on the right hand side of a Laffer curve)
Url changed from http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/12/9725478/fossil-group-acqu..., which points to this.
Also our beloved nasone was introduced in 1874, while common cups were banned in the US in 1912!
I'm not arguing the comment was uncivil, I'm pointing out the irony that a comment was deemed politically incorrect on a story about the problems of political correctness.

I get the HN crowd thinks very highly of itself, but that doesn't change the irony of these comments!
Good point. I edited my comment to reflect this.
RC4 is remarkable because it's so small.

With AESNI, you could probably make a pretty small AES implementation too...
I assumed that I was talking to international crowd. Who don't really care too deeply about Finland, but would appreciate perspective. I really didn't think anybody would be scared, save maybe other Finns.

I started those two sentences with the word "if", making no judgement on how likely they are. Do you suggest that in HN it's not cool to gauge options and speculate?

"Nobody gives a fuck about Syrians in Syria" This is admittedly my personal perception. The only article in finnish so far that actually suggests political action to help Syrians in Syria, that I have read was also written by me.

I have a hunch that you are too a Finn. And that you read between lines bit too much.
Everyone in this thread is writing as though this has never been tried before.

It has been tried at least five times (three in USA and twice in Canada). The results have been re-analysed in recent years and show that the reduction in peoples willingness to work is very slight.

Of course if Finland does it over the whole country then this will be a much larger experiment than the US and Canadian ones.

I think that there are good reasons to believe that it will have a very positive effect. It also gives greater bargaining power to the lowest paid so that it should help to prevent the reduction in wages that is becoming a feature of the low end of the employment market.
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How hurricanes get their names
This makes sense only if we are getting rid of all other welfare.
The government accepted, but with a lot of loopholes for companies.