skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am highly skeptical of anything coming out of Accenture. What do they even do in 2015 ?

Last time I heard - they operate on the margins of global inequality - outsourcing anything they can get their hands on to pay pennies on the dollar for the same job in developing countries.

"Our job as leaders is to create the right environment "

Nicely sums of their viewpoint - they do not want my generation to became leaders. Millennials are not there to enrich you - they are in the business of destroying your business model.
This seems like a great service, especially if it does something to block the handful of trackers reported by ghostery on their own site.
Another nice electromechanical hit counter: https://vimeo.com/119746422
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Thank you for your positive attitude.
I used to follow him Twitter, G+, Blogspot and LinkedIn. Within minutes of the article being published all his accounts have been out (disconnected?). Only LinkedIn is still up.
I think it's hard for these experiments to yield answers to important questions about basic income because of the fact that participants know it is an experiment.

With a 2 year length, people aren't going to adjust their long term plans regarding the expectation of how much they will have to work. The extra cash is just a windfall. Reaction to a long term political commitment will be different - once people trust that the basic income will "always be there."

Similarly, some local landlords and businesses may raise prices to soak up the extra disposable income, but they know that their actions will be scrutinized and publicized. Is 2 years of marginal extra profit worth the loss of good will? Again, I think the answer is different once there is a long term political commitment.

The answer to this last question is important, because it likely leads to the basic income being adjusted for price inflation, and then an inflationary spiral or price controls. To me, this is the central problem with basic income (I think the "motivation to work" issue is a red herring), and I don't see how basic income experiments can shed light on it.
They live in neighborhoods away from crime, keep liquid assets in banks with plenty security, keep majority of it in forms crooks can't easily coerce them out of, and have insurance against common risks. I'd say they take plenty of action to protect themselves.

And they are the elites that make money on the system's corruption and schemes, some even attending Bilderberg. Why would they worry about elite get-togethers as a threat to their life if they're playing ball in a way that makes them money and power? Unlikely.
Yes, speaking of experiments, I don't see why the U.S. doesn't run a large scale experiment to see what the effects of a basic income are. Select a small but not insignificant demographic. Pay them a not-means-tested monthly stipend. Since this is only a test, you should be able to pay for it with a modest tax on paychecks for the rest of the citizens. Then wait a while, and see what happens. We would want to make sure it cuts across a broad swath of society, so that special interests don't wreck havoc when interpreting the results. So we'd want rich and poor, of all races, etc.. We should then be able to look at the recipients, and tell if they were more likely or less likely to be employed. And we should be able to see if they spending their time creating cutting-edge art, and new innovative music, while writing inspiring novels, and discovering new scientific facts and mathematical theorems. To be doubly sure that we aren't merely papering over any medical insurance issues (what with medical inflation and all), we might also create a separate medical payment system to cover their medical expenses. Of course, this should be a long running experiment, so that any short term economic and societal effects will have time to average out. Let's propose to run this experiment, for, I don't know, maybe 80 years.
In Lytro there is a mask, but of a different kind - of lenslets. See e.g. this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/cameraculture/3-intro-lightfields
> But it handles the underlying development of their browser, and as important as it is, it only goes so far in really making a big impact on promoting an open web

Rust's safety features are designed to enhance security of Web browsers, and its parallelism/concurrency features are designed to enhance Web performance. I can't think of many things that are more important to the health of the Web platform than security and performance.
"Fuck you, you'll buy it anyway" is what happened.

Nobody that has to worry about competition from the Logitech MX decides to put the charging port of a wireless mouse on the bottom.
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If you're Google, sure. Most of the startups here aren't Google.

People are prematurely optimizing if they fear is "but but but mah datamoose".

Also, it's not prohibitively costly if you do even slight batching of the events, say batch load between every five minutes or an hour.

I'd love to hear somebody with war stories chime in though!
Sure, except Sesame Street and it's impact is incredibly well researched and this article is based on one guy's book and Kotaku trying to generate page views. I'd rather read the studies.
I don't see how that, without any data, isn't just "the grass is greener". No one is surprised that Stockholm isn't London, that doesn't really speak to the different ecosystems nor that you can raise money across borders. There can be issues with "per capita" measurements, but that pretty hard to discuss when you didn't bother to include your reasoning.
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The interesting thing about these claims is that they tie so many parties together, I think ongoing investigations will be able to figure out whether all of this is true.

While so much seems 'too good to be true' and potentially a plant, it is quite incredible that someone would put this all together after the fact to make a perfect fitting story. Either some ends won't meet, or we'll have the answer at long last.
What's FinCEN? Is that the Australian equivalent of the USA IRS?
The overwhelming majority of tech in Texas is centered in Austin, a very liberal thinking island in the middle of Texas. So culturally yes.
Eh, shit happens. Everything can't be perfect all the time. Especially in security.
> He added that in the past decade a few other planes, mostly smaller aircraft, have been abandoned, with one that was left in the 1990s eventually being bought and turned into a restaurant in a Kuala Lumpur suburb.

That sounds fun. I'd definitely visit.
Niklas Zennstrom could probably be put in that company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomico
Chemicals linked with severe respiratory disease found in e-cigarette flavors
Don't forget a reasonable gap can significantly increase your fuel economy and how long your breaks last. Remember every time you break that's costing you money.
I spent years on Twitter having both friendly and professional discussions. I loved the IRC-like nature of it, and for years I put up with trying and failing to understand their ever-changing rules about who would see what tweets and when.

Changing retroactively the stars to hearts was a small thing, but it was the final straw for me. I haven't logged in in months. This news only justifies my decision. Clearly they won't ever stop editing and curating the message stream.

Let them go the way of Orkut and Myspace.

It was fun while it lasted.
Function definition order is certainly meaningful, at least to a human reader. Suppose co-worker 1's function is related to func_before, and co-worker 2's function is related to func_after, and the VCS flipped them around.

Or alternatively, I go in by myself and re-arrange the order of functions in a file to improve the clustering. If the VCS thinks the order of functions is meaningless, it won't recognize the change.
Does anyone have source code of Nick's from around the time period of what Satoshi submitted? Satoshi's style is so weird that Nick's should be the same unless the style was itself an obfuscation.
Signal v. Noise moves to Medium
Design for selective manufacturing: topology optimisation of a structural node
> Learn how to debug

I recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Debugging-Indispensable-Software-Hardw...
If you expand the "leave a gap of 2 seconds" rule to instead follow the car in front of you by 3 seconds, then someone cutting in should only require you to add 1.5 seconds of distance to the new, smaller gap. And since the car cutting in will often tailgate the car in front of you, it's often really around 750ms you'd have to bleed off, which shouldn't require much speed change.
It's going to be really funny if we find out he, too, tossed a HD full of Bitcoins in the trash thinking it was nothing. ;)
There is no such thing as an unbiased scientist. They are human, after all. Whenever you read about scientists reporting on X or discovering Y, you should absolutely consider their motives, especially in contentious subjects such as this one.

And your analogy is only comparable if Hawking already had a history of reporting about seeing Jesus in black holes.
> Will Happer has long made his position on climate change clear

We cannot know what his original view on climate change might have been. Even if he was on the conservative side to begin with, there's a large spectrum from "Earth might be getting warmer, but I don't think it's anthropogenic" to "CO2 is actually good for us!"

Perhaps some of his previous papers were paid for by others with similar interests as well. Judging from the way he tried expertly to hide the source of funding and avoid proper peer review, it certainly doesn't sound like this is the first time he's done it.

Moreover, humans are remarkably good at changing their beliefs in the face of cognitive dissonance. Someone who is repeatedly paid to advocate a certain point of view might honestly come to believe that the bullshit he's been spewing is true, and gradually move to a part of the spectrum that is much more radical than where he started out.
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Here's some evidence that creating those wide gaps does help.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/transport/2011/10/rolling...
It also doesn't matter if you are actually the one taking the test.
Good for him! Glad to see people fighting the good fight.
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I submitted this because I'd like to voice my frustration with Microsoft's new strategy as applied to Windows 10. For me as a software developer it's a true nightmare. From one major update that affects my software every few years, to a new surprise every (second) month. And they do crazy stuff like completely change default printer behavior from one day to the other. Now I can waste my time on hundreds of support calls of customers whose regular print jobs end up in the label printer after using my software for making some labels. Microsoft screws up and it ends up on my plate. I can't really keep my customers from upgrading either, since Microsoft is already pushing rather aggressively and intends to push even harder next year. What is your experience with this? What can we do to stop this craziness?
How to Execute Brokerage Trades with the Tradier API
Does the city own its electric company?

This was part of the selection in a lot of the cities, since fiber can be run alongside existing electric supply lines.
Satoshi is two people - Wright and Kleiman. Kleiman was responsible for the public Satoshi writing, and he doesn't have any of his own writing samples online that aren't co-authored to make a stylometric comparison against.
> Stockholm suffers from extreme housing shortage.

Is that much worse than Silicon Valley (legitimately curious, I've never looked into the housing situation in Stockholm)? 1brs go for nearly $3k (if not more) in many of the more populated parts of the peninsula and SF.
"We can make...wallpaper that’s actually a camera"

Uh oh.
> This reminds of psychological study about superstition. They studied fishing habits of South American Indian tribes; the tribes that fished in lakes, had consistent and reasonable rules about when/where to go fishing. However, the tribes that fished in the ocean, where you cannot predict the catch, had rather random and superstitious rules about when/where to go. This is due to our brains seeing patterns in randomness.

Thats really interesting. Would love to read more about it if you have a source for that off hand.
It's a U.S. organization that goes after financial crime world-wide. I just gave it as an example. Point being, many types of money moving require careful laundering to prevent traces for financial or other prosecution. It's why most crooks focus on trying to steal straight cash if they're here in U.S.. A guy with an easily-moved, unregulated, semi-anonymous stash of millions is a much easier target and the government might not be able to help him. So, more risk than usual and varies depending on his location.
> Programs and no-direct money were very important to the left (for the US definition).

As someone who also spent a "bit of time in the 1990s doing the whole political thing", that seems distorted. To the extent that was true of the party usually associated with "the left (for the US definition)" -- i.e., the Democratic Party -- it was largely because much of the Democratic Party was in a mode of strategic political "triangulation" by which it sought to mitigate traditional right-wing objections by presenting policies that could be sold out the gate as compromises, and also in part due to the fact -- especially after 1994 -- of resurgent Republican dominance which made it difficult, preference for triangulation aside, to get any traction for benefit program changes -- especially new programs or benefit increases -- that couldn't be sold as somehow instituting new limits or controls on the duration, kinds of people eligible, use of benefits, etc.
I used to live in Santa Rosa (working for Agilent). Do you work remotely or have a job up there? The North Bay tech scene isn't as good as you think it would be.
There's always a wide range of gaps in stop-n-go traffic. Anything from a car length to 1,000 feet. It's the 1Kft gappers that seem to bring out the crazy in other drivers.

Tangent: how about the drivers that think we should all be merging one entire mile before the merge point and therefore start straddling two lanes in an attempt to prevent passing in the empty lane?

We're supposed to use all the pavement and then zipper merge at the merge point. This would be even easier if traffic would be consistent about gaps.
The population figure seems pretty off. In school it's always been 1.5M, and Wikipedia says that it varies between 900k, 1.6M, and 2.2M, depending on what you define as Stockholm.
You can't really "try the other details randomly for small amounts till you hit jackpot" - merchants who do that (or if their service allows others to do that) get simply kicked out of the network, pretty much every acquirer will monitor your rejection rates closely.
Nope, and I'm not criticizing his work based on this article (I defend him elsewhere in this thread). But the GP's comment was over road to the point of being nonsensical. I just wanted to point that out.
>>I'm genuinely unable to fathom why when it comes to solving the diverse, expensive and very real problems a social safety net is designed to capture, that "give everyone a fixed large chunk of cash each year" is so widely perceived as the "most efficient" solution on here.

I don't know if it's the absolute most efficient, but I suspect it's a lot more efficient than the current collection of social safety nets - especially assuming the tax agency is already decent at doing it's job, giving everyone a few hundred dollars a week is pretty easy to administer, and can be taxed back from higher earners easily. If instead you have multiple decision trees about who gets particular benefits and who doesn't, you suddenly need a bureaucracy, and those are always expensive.

Fundamentally I want my society to feed, clothe, and house people who can't manage to do it themselves for whatever reason. At that level it's not that diverse; does it matter if someone is disabled, drug addicted, chronically unemployable, a single mother with no support, a refugee, whatever? They can't come up with rent and food money, let's give it to them.
That's why it's helpful to find and maintain relationships with the good recruiters. Really good recruiters are a very rare extremely valuable thing. They know how to find companies that are a good match and understand the time investment on both sides on the hiring spectrum. They are also good at identifying qualifications and requirements to avoid wasting time when it shouldn't be.

Good recruiters very much care about their reputation, because a sale isn't always a sale when either side ends up unhappy.
Guess there's no DMV for airplanes?
With Thunderbird at least, the repo is open and available.

Does the same stand for Persona?

Perhaps instead of asking Firefox to do the legwork we should be contributing some of our own time to the projects we want to see succeed.
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The scrap value of the jets is quite possibly less than the parking charges they've accumulated, unless there's a fair bit of life left on the engines and they can track down the technical records for them. Which if they can't track down the owner...

(In the last couple of years I actually did have to deal with a different airport client considering repossessing some 747-200Fs)
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I think this really depends on your definition of appealing. Machines are already capable of _mimicking the aspects of songs which are currently popular_. I highly doubt that a machine could, say, invent a new genre of music that had widespread appeal.

The usage of machines in music currently leads to a proliferation of basically glammed out pop rock with pitch perfect voices metronome timed beats and wildly predictable song anatomy. The author mentions that Sinatra's voice has been reconstructed and has released new hits... But isn't 90% of Sinatra's appeal the broken, manly _imperfection_ of his voice?

In short, I hypothesize that machines could adequately "fill the void--" ie. play your running music, play your driving music, give you some background tunes to study or code to. But to anyone that actually pays attention to music it will be wildly subpar. Imagine a machine putting off the same lyrical heat as Kendrick Lamar or Ghostface? How can a machine possibly get on a novel level like that when it's basic coding is necessarily to average the means?
It sounds like you don't live in the Valley.

I interviewed for jobs recently, and I studied my ass off for 6+ weeks, every night doing different coding questions, and spending weekends learning new things and coding algorithms for 6-8 hrs a a day.

It paid off, I got multiple job offers, and am pretty happy with the end result.
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Donald Trump's failed attempt to shut down the Internet.
I agree. This time, the papers are out there, edited by the authors themselves.
Stripe reduces fees by two fold for European merchants or customers
I got this in the mail:

Good news! We're lowering our prices for our European users, effective as of December 9th.

There's no action necessary and we'll automatically apply the new price to your account.

Our new price for users in Netherlands will be 1.40% + 25c for all European cards and 2.90% + 25c for all non-European cards.

We've done the maths: switching over to our new rate, you'll pay 36% less in fees than on your current rate.
When I was a kid I read stuff like Dune or the Foundation series (and everything else Asimov), or the part of the Ender's series that was published back then, or everything Robert Heinlein, or anything Author C. Clarke, or Neuromancer, or Snow Crash, or 1984, or Fahrenheit 451, or H2G2, or everything Philip K. Dick, or A Fire Upon the Deep, or Brave New World, or the Mars Trilogy.

I read all the "good" stuff before I was in high school.

If I have a kid, he/she is reading allllllll of that. If I had a 12th grade reading level when I was in like 5th or 6th grade, so can they.
Instead they get sent over a proprietary system at an exorbitant cost.
This may be due to there being more cars exiting the freeway from the right lane. Also, intuitively, drivers often tend to bear left to get to the "fast" lane, but as they defect to the left lane, it frees up the center lane in a similar fashion as exits free up the right lane.

My compromise in a three-lane situation is to always favor the center lane in congested traffic, especially prior to an upcoming exit. If traffic starts to move, I can move left since after the exit, the missing cars will be starting to merge back in (and to the left, negating the advantage of the center). If traffic doesn't move, I tend to just maintain center lane.

Impatient, frequent lane changers always add risk to themselves and others because they're bouncing back and forth between left (the fast lane and the way things "should" be to them) and the right (which routinely frees up as people exit). They tend make it to where they're going faster, but I don't necessarily think it is worth the risk.
Dupe of:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10691900

Other articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10648506

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10653553
If you want it to be municipal, then you start with your city council and/or planning office. They will let you know what is needed to proceed.

If you want it to be private, then you need to go find funding.
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I don't know if Greenpeace's claim is true but in any way they are shooting themselves in the foot. If the promise of a shaddy payment could push academics to say anything, then what about a massive political, media and peer pressure? What if the only way for research to get funding is to attempt to prove the catastrophic effects of global warming.

Demonstrating that scientists bow to pressure isn't exactly helping the global warming cause.
Doctors are already required to perform continuing education beyond their normal work duties (ie still meet their quotas). These requirements have actually been getting more and more onerous over the years. My mother works in primary care, and the house always has medical related magazines and journals all over the place.

So if you are in medicine, you are required to at least go through the motions of keeping up on things.
Other articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10648506

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10653553
I paid $45 a month with Webpass for 100MB symmetrical when I lived in SF (back in '08) - pretty good deal. Looks like my old building can now get fiber with them.
Java provides less of the benefits of static typing than many other statically-typed languages (even than others available on the JVM), at a much higher cost in required ritual invocations made to the type system.

Yes, there is a value in static typing, but that value is minimized when you have a type system that isn't particularly expressive and/or have to make add a lot of redundant code to satisfy a comparatively unsophisticated type checker.

Java may have gotten slightly better since its poor performance in cost:benefit terms when it came to static typing helped launch the surge in popularity of dynamic languages, but its still not a great poster child for the benefits of static typing.
> he's an egomaniac trying to sell a story

Awesome guerrilla marketing.

Journalists want the scoop of the century - outing the real Satoshi. By back filling history, they gave exactly what they wanted, and they took it hook, line and sinker.
I fear the same may happen here in Chicago.