skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Won't that lead to anarchy or civil war, eventually?

Yes, hopefully (though hopefully not at the scale you may be imagining). Cops have turned into thugs in this country and something needs to be done about it. Maybe legalizing drugs would fix everything. I don't know. But cops in this country aren't even accountable for the people that they kill. There are no logs on how many murders are carried out by police.

Yes, they can take our property, including cash, for no reason (something like 90% of dollar bills test positive for traces of cocaine). And in this case all the officers had to do was say they smelled weed. I have been a victim of this "smell like weed" abuse myself, in which everyone in my vehicle was pulled out and searched. My vehicle was then searched without my permission. They found nothing and gave me a speeding ticket for going 5 miles over the speed limit.

But seizing our property means nothing when they can take our lives without the public knowing about it.
1. I know many people who've had significant salary increases into their 40s, at least.

2. Management is not automatically higher-paying than development, until you get into the higher reaches of management, which not everyone will.

3. To the extent people are flatlining, it might just be a case of starting high; if you're hitting a wall with a number that's in the top 5% of individual income nationally, well, you're doing better than 95% of people out there, so consider that it might not be so bad after all.
There has been a lot of down sizing and loss of mind-share at Yahoo over even the past 5 years...
Off topic, but is crushing houses fun? It sounds like it'd be a lot of fun.
This is a good point. It's important to remember, though, that local and state governments think in the short term. In the short term, gas vehicles are going to be around for a long time. The average age of cars on U.S. roads is at a record 11.5 years, according to research firm IHS Automotive.[0]

That is to say, if 2015 were the last year anyone could buy a gasoline-fueled car, we'd be looking at 2027 for that last batch to age out.

[0]http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-ihs-average-c...
Ask HN: The Art of Computer Programming, Overrated?
Am I the only one that thinks so? I'd take a hundred other books before TAoCP. I've always had a feeling TAoCP was pretty pretentious.
I just test drove a TSLA car today. I "summoned" the car from its parking spot. I then drove around town (in insane mode). Turned on autopilot and the car drove down the highway by itself (changing lanes when directed). Went back and then car perpendicular parked itself.

So, ya, it's basically a software company.
> How much did the Canadian currency just lose in the last [few] weeks?

Huh, that is a really interesting question.

It's not as trivial to calculate as it is for Bitcoin, where you can multiply the moneys held by the change in exchange rate -- essentially no prices as denominated in BTC, while most prices most Canadians deal with are denominated in CAD. For most Canadians, the ratio of their income and rent or groceries will stay the same, so in some senses they haven't lost anything. But the price they pay for imports, like computers and oranges, will go up, so they have definitely lost something. I wonder what the balance comes out to.
> Since you have the experience I am very curious about one aspect of this, does the fact that some fellow contributors are paid have a noticeable effect on volunteer contributors.

I realize now that we're talking about different meanings of the term infrastructure. My organization offers co-location and hosting services to a variety of open source projects. You can think of us as sysadmin to the open source community. And for all the talk about funding developer time, discussion about the operations side is notoriously quiet. There's a few good actors that help us out, and we're trying to raise awareness of the issue.

Within our org, we try to contribute to open source as we go, and we have a software development team, but we're not paying people to write software for specific external projects. AFAIK, nobody is demotivated by our existence. You just don't see a lot of volunteers to get paged in the middle of the night when the website is down.

The open source software we fund development of is largely to suit our operations team needs. They're not the sort of software projects you'd expect people to volunteer for, which is why we allocated student developers to start them. It's hard to separate the compensation effects on volunteers from the general 'I don't run this software' effects, and since we didn't inject money into existing projects, there's no debates about the inequity.

There's another unstated funding challenge: if you want to maximize value your money brings to open source, you want to find someone who can escalate their contribution. If you assume the Steve Hansons of OSS are already spending all their time contributing, handing them money supports the status quo, but handing money to students who would otherwise be flipping burgers brings new faces, and additional effort to projects. In a sense, it matters whether your charitable goal is to reward lifetime contributions, or to gift the community better software, and in small ways these can be contradictory. Especially if continued funding relies on demonstrating return on the gifts, merely perpetuating the status quo is a problem.

> I'd also be interested in how you'd feel having a donation of skilled engineer 20% time compared to money to hire someone less experienced but full-time.

So our model is to hire student employees. They're cheap, and we can be flexible around their schedules in ways other potential employers cannot. We participate in GSoC, and are open to contributions, but generally speaking what we develop is not relevant for home use. On the operations side of things, we participate in the Chef ecosystem, but there's a level of access and such that open source infra teams prefer to control access to. Do you want to publish what exact version of nginx you're running?
>Maybe...consider changing the law, eh?

That's not very helpful if the people enforcing (and writing) the law are the ones who are breaking it.

>Won't that lead to civil war, eventually?

That's the idea! Or hopefully not even that, since many servicemen will revolt as well.
That sort of system isn't DRM. Limiting access to data is just regular access control, which is common and works decently well. The unique thing about DRM is that it provides access to data but attempts to limit what you can do with that access, for example allowing you to view it only on certain devices. That's much harder and less useful. I can see how it could help prevent bad actors from causing trouble here, but it's secondary to having proper access control.
The same could be said for any form of cash. Probably you wouldn't keep large amounts of money in any form where you don't trust it to remain safely.
I note that any incident that involves a gun is assumed to be caused by the gun, as though no unarmed person ever were assaulted or committed suicide. That tells me everything I need to know about how conscientious the research is.

Don't even get me started on how suicide has been redefined as pathological, as if nothing in this shitty world could ever lead a rational person to take her own life.

If these researchers cared about public health they would have helped us end the damned drug war a decade ago. As if.
Does anyone know a similar but BSD-like instead of GPLv3 licensed fs?
The big drawback to the consumer is the speculative price. Of course, this attracts the scum of the Earth, but that's another r story. Bitcoin can be saved by applying the concept of a Currency Board [0]. All speculator will leave and only the serious players will stay and then regular folk can jump in. Of course, you can't make a million dollars from a single bitcoin you bought at $400, but you won't make it anyway if things go the way they've been going! Well, I know you can't apply the concept to Bitcoin, but just wanted to give some food for thought.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_board
It happened to me. I was flying out of San Francisco once on an international flight.
And at SFO some of the international terminals go through these long corridors to connect to that moveable tunnel that connects to a plane.
I was fixing some bug on my laptop and decided to wait till the last minute to board (though I was sitting right infront of the check-in desk).
When I went past the check-in desk and into the corridor, two police officers approached me and asked me if they could ask a few questions.
It felt suspicious right away why they were stopping me as there were hardly any people around - there was no one behind me, and everyone had already gone through the corridor.
They took me aside into a small room and asked me where I was travelling to and for what purpose. But then they repeated
a number of times that it's illegal to carry more than $10,000 in cash and if I was carrying over that amount and that if I was it would have to be confiscated.
I told them I wasn't and I think I only had less than $500 in my wallet. They went through my wallet, went through my bag pack, even flipped
through my Clojure book and then they let me go. But I kept having that feeling that something didn't feel right. Later I wished I had asked for the officers names or if that would have gotten me into trouble with them.
Won't happen, vendors just won't be able to sell in NY, so residents will have to buy elsewhere. And when the NY 1% can't buy their iPhone because Apple protects their privacy, I think any such law wouldn't last long.
Box is probably a little undervalued since they are trading at only 3x their revenue, despite beating analyst expectation for every quarter since IPO. The rest of the cloud/SAAS sector are trading at about 8x-10x in comparison. Dropbox, on the other hand, is valued at 25-30x their revenue, so entirely different animal altogether.
Appears to be on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8197B8DEF93FC7D9
I make over $200k most years, with a liberal arts bachelor degree. I work in a comfortable office with reasonable hours, no one yells at me, I don't have to get dirty or put myself in physical danger. I take several weeks of vacation a year, I very rarely work a late night, and I have recruiters reaching out to me on a regular basis offering me new opportunities. While I don’t love all aspects of my work (who does?), I also can’t say with a straight face that I don’t have a drastically better situation than most people. If you ask me, software development is a pretty damned good field to be in.
many potentially relevant comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10897460
The most insulting things companies do is offer 'vanity' perks while slashing real perks. My last gig had fancy parties, free dinner (no lunch interestingly), got itself ranked as a "best place to work" etc. It could market its employees as entitled, spoiled developers for sure.

However, there was no 401k matching. No tuition reimbursement. There were multiple weeks of uncompensated 24/7 on-call rotations throughout the year, many for stressful legacy applications the company refused to invest resources to actually maintain for real. Basically, if you couldn't market the perk to 20-somethings, they slashed it.

Meanwhile I'm told that my very existence screws over the poor working class police officers and firefighters, who make 80% of what I make but have job security and lifetime pensions awaiting for them. And they get paid for overtime.

While I absolutely feel like I'm privileged in many ways to work in tech, the industry has many incentives to make tech workers look more 'spoiled' than they are, and so they work their PR engines to do exactly that.

I am also sick of hearing these 'rumors of one engineer at Google' making millions being cited as if it was a BLS salary report or something.
Hence the modern banking system.
Wikipedia has a nice section on the history and includes this about constitutionality:

"While the 1993 Supreme Court case Austin v. United States ruled that a forfeiture could be considered as an excessive fine, the court upheld the principle of civil forfeiture generally. A 1996 Supreme Court decision ruled that prosecuting a person for a crime and seizing his or her property via civil forfeiture did not constitute double jeopardy, and therefore did not violate the Constitution. However, in 1999, the Supreme Court ruled that civil forfeiture was not permitted if the amount seized was "grossly disproportional" to the gravity of the offense."

It seems the current legal interpretations do not support considering double-dipping like this to be unconstitutional. However, it's also clear that it should be able to be argued that due process is not being followed, and the dollar value of punishment is excessive, which seems to be ACLU's stance on the matter. I hope the unconstitutional elements are removed from this tool sooner rather than later.
> little Irish startup

Are you the owner of Ezfile/Filecloud by any chance? If you are, I'm actually quite curious to discuss payment processors with you. Last I checked, you're using Amazon gift cards and Bitcoin. Have you had any luck getting access to credit card processors? Also, what fee per transaction would you consider to acceptable from a CC processor for your category of website (with the ability to let users pay by subscription)?
You have to remember what the country was like at the end of Carter's term to understand why he's so popular.
Before we get wildly over-optimistic, as every HN thread on AI becomes, realize that neural networks have basically nothing to do with actual biological neurons. There are a bajillion things neurons do that neural networks do not do. And there are similarly many things that are a part of neural networks, that biological neurons do not do. In addition to the fact that neuroscientists still do not have a clear understanding of biological neurons: you cannot expect to reverse-engineer something you barely understand yourself.
There was a google talk about the CS behind astro-bot.

Scale, rotation and translation invarient searches.
Pointerless kd-tree implementation.

http://cosmo.nyu.edu/hogg/research/2006/09/28/astrometry_goo...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10895961
The Amiga Demoscene Mixtape Vol. 1 [video]
$150M is a large number, but so is $1b. At that burn rate they have over six years of runway.

It may be that for every $100M they spend on acquisition, they make $200M over three years in sales, in which case it would make sense to burn cash now to capture the market. They could also be going all LivingSocial: setting money on fire with no path to unicorn profitability.

Anyway, no real way to know without the inside financials.
To start off with a medical resident (meaning a person that has obtained their md, but haven't passed the boards yet) has an average salary of 52k.

That's pretty damn low for that amount of education and hours worked.
See footnote 5 and 6 in https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?client=tablet-android-... and the diagram on pg 196 in https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jD-LAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA196&l...
I been wondering why devs/hackers, with the passionate for disrupting things and tinkering with systems, don't attempt to disrupt labor. Or rather, disrupt capital/management in favor of labor. Unions are too bureaucratic, corrupt, or at least disreputable in the U.S.? No problem. Create a 21st century equivalent.
I object to the idea that we should even concede "new type of product or business model".

A startup is a new business.

There was a brief push to qualify "startup" with "scalable", but the only people that seem invested in this (bogus) controversy are on HN, and HN just assumes "startup" means "scalable tech startup".
> The annualized return on the endowment over the last 20 years has been approximately 12.0% per year and the endowment was valued at $37.6 billion at June 30, 2015.

http://www.hmc.harvard.edu/investment-management/performance...

Huh, but it doesn't specify whether this is inflation-adjusted.
You're making assertions without any evidence. There are other reasons why progressive policies took hold, as in, basic awareness of alternatives to social inequality due to a decrease of it in general. It's not like a plutocratic equivalent of "robber barons" did not exist prior, they were just aristocrats, and so their theft of capital from the lower classes was accepted as a social norm, a part of the "social contract", if you will.

If you look at economic indicators, you will find the numbers do not support your assertions. The best compiled data on this can be found in Schumpeter's "Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy" - income inequality in the US was relatively static if not improving over this time period, and this is in spite of also receiving many many economic refugees from abroad in several waves of immigration.
The sold the securities and shorted them at the same time.
> Second, I'm much more concerned with the foolishness of putting one's life savings ($11,000) in a bag, and handing that bag off to someone, who will hand it off to someone else, who will hopefully put it in the right plane, and then someone else will hopefully pick it up, and that person will put it on the right conveyor belt, and nobody else will just take the bag anyway off the conveyor belt and walk off with it.

There's no doubt about this being an insecure method of transferring money. A criminal could steal it. All the more reason to be disgusted when the thief turns out to be the police.
> However, if you DO have a real need of IEEE-compatible floats for whatever reason, then there is nothing wrong with checking __STDC_IEC_559__ and reporting an error if it is not defined.

Sure - but in that case why not do the same thing for insisting that char be 8 bits?
Having wanted to finish the WAD before commenting:

It's excellent. Not just the technical bits: all the textures perfectly aligned, lots of tight indoors/outdoors, etc., but how Romero uses just a few shotgun guys, pinky and imps for most of the damage. You don't need Cyberdemons everywhere or a hundred bad guys on screen at once, you can get by with clever teleports.

Quite a few times I fell back, hearing the teleports behind me, then realised I needed to fall back more because multiple stuff was coming from multple directions now.

I still didn't get the rocket launcher behind the monitor/poison symbol.

Mac users: I recommend Doomsday Engine, and the Doom High Res Texture pack: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/k67w2ezieodzmap/index.ht...
It is a limitation of your search engine, not of wikipedia
You're being downvoted you because what you propose is a self-defeating policy - those who gun down cops are enemy #1 and remove themselves from the equation pretty quickly.
why is this a big problem? And why is 'not taking from the rich' a bigger problem than 'actively stealing from the poor'?
Does this article apply at all outside Silicon Valley?
Why is it unreasonable to make 11k in tip money? tips are usually cash.... I have bartender friends who make a ton of cash.

Yea, does seem pretty foolish that he checked it. But how is that related to anything about the police seizing it?
It was about preventing any social application that might conceivably threaten facebook. Personally I think it was a bit of an over reaction on Facebook’s side, but they do seem very paranoid about this.

I have to say I am a true old fuddy-duddy when it comes to Instagram as I can’t think of a single use for it that appeals to me.
On topic of LN, I feel that is the best approach from a privacy perspective. It's unnecessary to make every single transaction in the foreseeable future get appended to the blockchain and it sounds Orwellian.
Chosen-Ciphertext Attack on CoreProc/crypto-guard and an Appeal to PHP Programmers
There have been no successful tools against the war on drugs, only a tremendous violation of our constitutional rights with a few show trials to keep us all believing in the childish fantasy.

If you're going to say something is successful, be clear about it. Yes, it has been successful at locking up more people than any country in the world. Yes, it has been successful at seizing tons of property. No it hasn't been successful at putting any sort of dent into organized crime, which is fueled by the gigantic black market of drugs.
And move your job to China.
Your comment would be true if it weren't possible to list on multiple sites/apps at the same time. Many studies have already shown that the majority of drivers in large markets (SF/NY/etc) keep multiple apps open, and accept fares from whichever one offers the (probable) best return. While Uber appears to be fighting this by modifying some policies, there's ultimately very little they can do to stop this.
So is this the end of Crypsy? Or the beginning of the end.
Recently had an idea for a product that seems amazingly obvious (but I would have never had with different life circumstances), one of those "this has to exist" moments followed by "why the hell doesn't this exist what am I missing".

Still not sure if it's an amazing idea missed because most people who start startups are in a particular demographic or I'm completely insane.

I think I'm going to have to build this one to actually find out...
AirBNBs revenue is over 1.2B, 340M per quarter. http://skift.com/2015/11/23/airbnb-revenue-now-larger-than-c...
Sorry, but even when I can to a degree see your point it sounds like you feel overly insulted by someone stating basic facts.

The US has been pretty bad off when it comes to civil liberties compared to many other other countries for quite a while now.

Next to civil forfeiture the US unlike most other countries still has death penalty, still has a rather big amount of the population rotting in one of the worst prison systems of the western world, still doesn't legalize things like most drugs or prostitution, still doesn't do anything against the decline of education, making it only possible for wealthy to get one, has even when compared with development countries a pretty bad health care system, many archaic laws, has things like the DMCA killing off freedom of speech, has that NSA scandal going on that made KGB and Stasi look like nothing, presidents that are dynasties of families, barely any protection against discrimination of minorities, etc.

I really don't want to talk bad about the US, but your statement of "America remains among the freest nations on earth in nearly every measure" really doesn't seem anywhere close to true. What are you basing that statement on? Or are you purely talking about so called "economical freedoms"?

Oh and not saying country X is better. I just think that statement you made is wrong.
The first faq paragraph has a typo, he probably wanted to say "Traditional encrypted filesystems cannot proctect".
> because what you propose is a self-defeating policy

Once again, I'm not proposing this. I'm answering a question with the honest logical conclusion that some peoples' worldviews take them to.
Wonder how long that'll keep up given their current issues...
I thought police were heavily armed for two reasons: the war on drugs and the programs put in place post 9/11.
The textbook response would be a price war. Raise prices in uncompetitive cities and lower prices in at risk cities. This is one of the tools Standard Oil used to create its monopoly.
You could make this a frontend to an existing system like GPG
Monty Python did a bit about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXW6tfl2Y0.
Or perhaps unplanning. I wanted it to be a play the phrase "planned obsolescence" but its like I said in my post its not a good url. Combining a word that doesn't exist with a word that is difficult to spell probably breaks a lot of the guidance given for good urls. I am open to suggestion.

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