skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, so the new check recipients will be people that were otherwise capable of sustaining themselves, as those who aren't are already accommodated. I suspect that the 'human capital' liberated by basic income will mostly find its way to level 400 World of Warcraft Death Knights and 40 000 word critiques of Breaking Bad episodes.

Should the legions of working folk try to actually use their new liberty for anything with more impact we'll ban it.
How to Patch and Protect OpenSSH Client Vulnerability
If you have Firefox, install this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...

"Simple add-on for allowing collapsible comments on Hacker news. "
Uncanny Valley
This is something people have been asking about for years[0]. The staff has said it's on the way, though, and will arrive at some indeterminate point in the future.

[0]https://hn.algolia.com/?query=collapsible%20comments&sort=by...
Sorry, I copied more of your quote than I had meant to. I'm quite familiar with VPNs. I meant to ask how does one find a tracker that one is reasonably sure their bots can't find.
Finding Meaning in an Automated Future with John Danaher
Kids at school begging me to join their Usurper team is what brought me in to BBSs. :)
Non sense. It is not necessary for the agents in a decentralised system to be selfless in order for the system to self organise.

Edit. Drunk and offensive. But my point still stands.
Hacking inclusion by customizing a Slack bot
Haha, it tickled me that using php in the process apparently warrants an explanation nowadays 8)
The people shamming the system have the ultimate incentives not to have income. If you are shown to be able to work, you have to pay back all the income you've ever received from it.
> Standardization provides endorsement.

Indeed. Standardizing an unethical practice sounds like a very bad idea.
If BI isn't enough to replace existing welfare systems, then it isn't enough. You can't half-ass something like this.
TECHNOLOGY AND 2000 – MOMENTOUS RELIEF; Computers Prevail in First Hours of '00
Thank you for that spectacular TL;DR.

No rational investor wants to invest in something that will absolutely not give them a return. Most open source infrastructure tools lack a business model to capture revenue from its users.

So one of several things will have to happen in order for open source infrastructure to get funded:

- Investors will part ways with their money, full knowing that they
will not see a return. (Unlikely to happen.)
- Investors will strong-arm infrastructure projects into restructuring
into a for-profit model. (Unlikely to succeed.)
- People other than investors will have to step up. (Plausible.)

"People" here can refer to independently wealthy individuals, successful companies, the government, or a flash mob of donators (crowd-funding).

(Note: Return means capital return, not "social good" return.)

For the record, I contribute a little here and there to open source projects (usually in the form of vulnerability reporting) and started several FLOSS of my own (including several cryptography projects for PHP developers to use in their projects).

To date, I've made $0 from any of it, and I don't see that changing in the near future for me.
When people are able to pay more, businesses charge more.

Also, demand is affected, because people will have the means to buy more, at least until inflation kicks in.
Yes. I've noticed this too on other threads talking about AI safety. The recent advancements in machine learning that are creating all the hype and industry interest have all been through the complete opposite approach that MIRI/AI safety researchers is taking. These advancements have been largely driven through empirical research, incremental engineering, trial-and-error practice, and rules-of-thumb (I am basically describing the state of deep learning research).
> There's no doubt taxes would need to increase to fund such a program, of course.

Who would pay them?
I've seen discussion of this issue in the domain of pilots with commercial airlines. The suggestion was made that because so much of flying is now done by autopilot, pilots' ability to react quickly and appropriately in a real emergency when control is handed back to them has significantly declined. And that we may soon go to completely pilotless airliners which are taken over by ground control in case of emergency. (This would also have the side-benefit of significantly reducing the risk of hijacking).
The Old People's Guide to DJ Khaled
Etsy stock has lost 76% of its value in 9 months
You are correct, and I beleive I mentioned in my comment that the sole purpose of Stage I is to asses the minimal tolerated dosage.

What I meant by the sentence you quoted is that because of the unknown human physiological consequences of the drug, it is usually only used on those who have no other recourse. Patients that have a clear course of treatment undergo those clear courses, and do not assume the risk of a Phase I drug.
Wrong URL. Someone else submitted this a few minutes later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10912164
Except Wikiwand isn't a Wikipedia redesign. It's explicitly a Wikipedia reader, and even advertises itself in that way.
I remember reading a paper on this topic many years ago (sorry I can't find it now), but the participants were at higher risk getting to the trial site than anything that happened during the trial.
There goes stack overflow. I'm not going to track and provide attribution of every snippet I ever read, sorry. I'd rather just not go there at all.

I'm all for providing attribution for things that are non trivial and substantial, but a typical SO post does not warrant the effort IMO.
He didn't say we need inequality, he said that some inequality was an inevitable byproduct of a robust startup ecosystem and technological progress. In other words, inequality itself may not be desirable per se, but it is a side effect of things that are very desirable.
How to be a Programmer
They've also moved to Ireland recently, so the information posted is no longer valid as far as I know as they're no longer a staff member according to the organization's web site.
If a single person can average 30+ delivery's an hour then the numbers change. For a classic example of this think newspaper delivery by a paper boy. I don't think intra building office delivery's rise to that scale, but they are probably fairly low labor when you consider someone can drop off more than one cup on a trip.
Not in every case and not in every country.

I receive a government payment every month in the form of child support allowance. Everyone's entitled to it in the country where I live, as long as they have children.

I hold down a job and don't believe I'm pre-selected for failure because I claim the welfare allowance I'm entitled to.
What is the evidence with regards to the benefit or detriment of the fear of starving?
Ask HN: When to notify employer of security vulnerability?
I stumbled upon a recent zero-day for Microsoft Silver Light (CVE-2016-0034 or KB3126036). Checking my work system, I can see it hasn't yet been patched. It's not my job to keep systems secure, I'm only a developer/analyst but ultimately I want to work my way into information systems security + do the right thing. What do you recommend is the best course of action? Do nothing? Wait? Report it immediately?
> How widespread is this, quantitively?

Anecdotelly, I work in online retail, fraud is always a problem and we turn away business to avoid iff'y situations because of it and get attacked by streaks of stolen cards from time to time. Fraud is a real problem for merchants; you can't fight a charge back, you're out the money and the good and you just have to eat it and say thank you while getting killed on credit card fees. Credit cards suck for merchants, we accept them because we must, everyone prefers cash.
Nobody who is so lazy that they won't work a job is going to go through all the challenges of legal immigration just for welfare. It's a basic logic issue.
What's the difference between OSS and FOSS?
Those noises didn't come from copy protections.

Copy protections access the drive in much the same way as a regular RWTS, even those protections based on physical features (e.g. spirals). I'm not aware of any copy protection based on fast and wide movements of the reading head. Copy protections read nibbles normally, they just process these nibbles differently from regular disks.

The noises you remember are most likely from the boot sequence which reset the head 100 tracks or so (so much more than needed) and as a consequence, that head would butt against some internal mechanism.

I've never quite understood why it did that myself. Regular disks have 35 tracks so moving the head 36 tracks should have been enough to reset.
> You'll be poor.

Most people are poor.

> Most ambitious people

Most people are not ambitious.

> Personally I think a minimal basic income could go a long way toward eliminating bullshit jobs

Is that something we really want? I read an article a few months ago about a government program that literally created bullshit jobs for willing, unemployed people to go to so they could keep up their skills.

People who went through the program reported increased feelings of well-being from the conjured-up sense of purpose.

Personally, I'd prefer a bullshit job over no job. Hell, even in a non-bullshit job, there are plenty of things that come with it that are bullshit.
Helping people get around the Great Firewall was one of the main reasons I started working on Streisand[1]. OpenVPN (wrapped in stunnel), Shadowsocks, and Tor (with obfsproxy) are all still highly effective. The setup process is completely automated, and other connection options are available too.

1: https://github.com/jlund/streisand
sighs When I said "the work is very localized", I meant that neither it nor its effects reach beyond the US - there are other countries.

I did take a couple of minutes to look them up further before commenting, but I was not aware it was completely forbidden to comment on first impressions on HN. You'll forgive the confusion, I see a lot of first-impression-driven comments around here.

You seem to be aggressively defending them - Why? I have not attacked them. I'll take you at your word when you said they're doing good work.

Does this answer your question on why I made that comment? It is pretty distressing that I have to defend myself making a comment on an internet forum.
Report it immediately.
Perhaps it's a step along the road to a post-scarcity economy.
Searching "Tyler Cowen Belgium Canada" isn't being helpful. Could you post a link?
You need to use a compression format that has sync points. For example, if you need to seek to 1GB in the uncompressed file, the compression itself needs to have recorded where that corresponds to in the compressed file.

zlib apparently supports the `Z_FULL_FLUSH` sync option which you can use at compression time to provide sync points. (I haven't used it, and it doesn't seem to be exposed by GNU gzip.) Other compression formats might have something similar.
I'll be honest, I really have no clue what those graphs represent, even after reading the page a dozen times.

What is a 5-minute compartment?
It sounds as simple as sending an email to IT saying "it has come to my knowledge that there is this security vulnerability in the Silverlight version that we're using".

And then, probably, forget about it -- being too pushy about demanding an fast resolution may lose you the points that you'll gain by pointing out the issue.
Haha.

Well, let's cross that bridge when we get there.
One caveat with coroutines and fibers is that all the code that runs on them must be fully aware that they are running on said coroutines and fibers.
I'm more speaking to what I believe is the inevitability of some people making bad decisions (like buying a bunch of powerball tickets or betting your money at the racetrack or something.) with the money they receive and then not being able to afford the basics.

There would obviously be many people who are benefitted by BI, but my question is more wondering what happens to the percentage of people that end up still needing extra help.
Not strictly relevant question : I've heard (British) women address a group of women saying "Hey, guys!"

Is this common in UK/US/rest of the Anglosphere? Is it PC/anti-PC/neutral?

PS: in case it isn't obvious, I am not a native speaker.
40-somethings get momentarily nostalgic and excited!
Workers? It's not like everybody would stop working. The number of people content with $1,000/month is going to be pretty low.
I would post to an online discussion, to obtain community feedback.
The question is how much inequality. Some is probably good. I definitely think we don't need more. The rewards for startup investors and founders are already plenty.
asan and valgrind are complimentary tools; AddressSanitizer catches memory errors and is fast enough that you can keep it turned on and kind of forget about it, but it doesn't catch leaked memory. Valgrind has been indispensable for leak finding for me, and asan hasn't replaced it.
The actual article seems a bit better than the title, which misconstrues pg's point.
'I think the right initial metric is “do any users love our product so much they spontaneously tell other people to use it?'

Question - is this a valid metric when talking about B2B companies? I would imagine there are plenty of B2B solutions which became huge, but which don't exactly have companies rushing out to tell everyone to use them.

I tend to think sama's question is only relevant for B2C, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
As much as I respect you for The Silver Surfer, that 5th issue was a very silly mistake.
Good argument for a hardware mouse :)
This doesn't bode well for other publicly traded B corporations, unfortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
>Beyond having a rainy day fund and moderate retirement fund I don't really see the point in saving.

Earlier retirement. If you lower your lifestyle, not only can you put more into savings, the amount you need in savings to maintain your cheaper lifestyle in reduced. Financial independence is a great goal to work for.
> You seem to be aggressively defending them - Why?

I defend anyone who is attempting to effect positive change in the world, aggressively.

For the record, I have no relation or affiliation to 18F, or the USDS.
That's a good point, but then again you also wouldn't fit into the original point that people receiving government benefits aren't accomplishing things.
For better or worst, I prefer to write my own memory leak checker for most of the projects I worked on.

After did it a few times, it normally take less than 1 days to put in the code - basically wrapper for malloc, free, etc, new, delete. Add some table code to track bytes alloc/ free per filename/line#.

It must have a very concise high level table dump memory alloc/free associate with file:lineno.

file:lineno: #Alloc_ByteCnt #Free_ByteCnt

Advantages:
It works very well on app that need to runs forever. One can easily track memory usage/leakage over time, but adding a trigger to dump the memory table without killing the app. The trigger can be TestAPI call or external URL.

If you have a full functional regression test coverage system in place (All my projects has them), one can easily trigger the memory table dump along with certain test points. Fairly easy to ID memory leak associate with very high level functionalities such as

* certain image load trigger 200K leak per test loop.
* Certain URL access trigger file:line leak 64 bytes per test loop
* , etc

Once all these setup in place, memory leak are fairly trivial to solved. I have not seen any user space memory leak that take more than 1 hours to solve and verify.

The most complex memory leak I had to debug was the EGL app that trigger EGL kernel driver memory leak at ~20MB per over night testing. To debug that was much harder.....

Because that was the kernel/system memory is leaking not just user APP memory.
What are you trying to prove, that it wasn't profitable? That the government's bank account was not a higher value higher after the bailout than it was before the bailout?

Because that's a fact, and not an opinion. You seem to be equating a lot of "is" with "should", and I'm not dealing at all in the "should". It is a fact of this universe that the US government made a profit off of the bailout, not mater how many links you provide (that don't provide a contrary point of view).
Python Library for Quickbooks API
I have been working on a python library for the Quickbooks API to use in my own Django project. You can view it here: https://github.com/sidecars/python-quickbooks

Any feedback is welcome.
I generally prefer coroutines myself but this article doesn't cover some points well.

'Fair scheduling' - nobody writes single threaded programs that process requests sequentially. It's either a thread-per-request system vs. a coroutine-per-request system. Threads are generally going to be more fair at scheduling since they are preemptive. Most coroutines are cooperative (Python, Lua) - so a long running coroutine (stuck doing some CPU cycle) will block all other inflight requests and cause latency variance. Some systems are preemptive (Erlang) so they don't suffer from the variance.

The benefit of coroutines is you can have a very large number of coroutines, probably orders of magnitude more than the number of threads - so coroutine-per-request models will scale much more than threads-per-request. The article is spot on about the context switching cost - it's so much cheaper to switch between coroutines.

You can also use multiple request per threads and use async IO, but that's the same as using coroutines with a much worse programming model.
What math problem with an elementary solution was unsolved for the longest time?
Excellent insight and description; thanks. Going to use that as needed. Now that's an idea worth spreading!
Angie's List: from $28 in Jul 2013 to $9[0]

Box: from $24 in Jan 2015 to $10[1]

GoPro: from $87 in Oct 2014 to $11[2]

Groupon: from $26 in Nov 2011 to $2.60[3]

GrubHub: from $46 in Apr 2015 to $21[4]

Twitter: from $70 in Jan 2014 to $18[5]

Yelp: from $97 in Mar 2014 to $21[6]

Zillow: from $121 in Feb 2015 to $22[7]

Zynga: from $15 in Mar 2012 to $2[8]

0: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ANGI

1: http://www.google.com/finance?q=BOX

2: http://www.google.com/finance?q=GPRO

3: http://www.google.com/finance?q=GRPN

4: http://www.google.com/finance?q=GRUB

5: http://www.google.com/finance?q=TWTR

6: http://www.google.com/finance?q=YELP

7: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:ZG

8: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ZNGA
Alphabet Shakes Up Its Robotics Division
I fail to see how that could possibly fly, politically. Everybody who works has to pay for everybody who doesn't want to work to just fuck around.
Two people evidently missed the point.
The "short version" of Paul Graham's inequality essay is much better than the original. (http://www.paulgraham.com/sim.html)
Do you disagree that Y Combinator encourages people who wish to work on interesting technical problems to do startups?

It is certainly true that nowhere in this post is an explicit statement "You should do a startup." But the post is of the form "Given that you are doing a startup, you might run into such-and-such problem", and I would like to dispute the implicit assumption that you should be doing a startup in the first place.
Not that simple.

The rights owner for France is typically not the same as for Spain, or for Brazil, or for Japan. Even if they're all englightened and friendly, the rights holders too are bound by a tangled web of age-old contracts.

A streaming shop I'm familiar with has signed contracts with ten different rights holders for one single film.
Let me try; :)

Hi, I'm John Doe

I saw your ad for Backend Software Developer at LaterPay and was very interested, because I believe paying for digital content should be fast, convenient, and fair. I think people should be able to buy the exact piece of content they want.

As a Software Developer who lives in Slack and keeps code in GitHub, I really enjoy running stuff in AWS.

and so on and so forth :) It all sounds like BS for me
Why does this have anything to do with it's status as a B-corp, rather than other market pressures on Etsy specifically, including Amazon's efforts in the space?
To be clear, it's lost XX% of it's market cap. The market cap is a knowingly-flawed assessment of earnings potential for a company. Its actual value is probably unchanged.
Depends on your values, if you go "cold hearted" and say each life is worth as much, the mathematics are rather simple. Add morality, religion, and philosophy to the mix, and you are out of luck.
That way lies pain, we have to cross that bridge as we get there which we currently are already on; hence the structural unemployment. Self driving cars are going to cause mass unemployment, we're already getting there.
5 applications for force sensing in robotics
I work at 18F, here's my hot take:

It's been pretty well established that needlessly (male) gendered language makes people feel excluded. Actually, that's too nice. That kind of language excludes people. Period.

It communicates that the speaker does not contemplate a non-male audience. I do not know about the communities that you moderate, but constantly assuming a male audience at a place like 18F is wrong factually and is disrespectful.

I've triggered the slackbot by using "guys" many times and I've never felt that this was aggressive in any way. It's usually a chuckle-worthy experience for all involved. And that's why I love the bot. I do understand concerns over "policing" language. No one wants to feel pestered into writing/talking in a way that feels unnatural to them. However, instincts should not be above criticism. And a silly bot[0] is a great way to gently, politely, and humorously help people unlearn behavior that excludes.

[0] We have other silly bots, too. The one we probably love to hate the most is angrytock (https://github.com/18f/angrytock), which will remind us to submit our time cards (using our open source time tracker, Tock. https://github.com/18f/tock).
> he's likely building them to say he did.

Or he's building them because building something from scratch is interesting. Clearly you're not an engineer/developer/tinkerer/creator.
Ask HN: What countries is it impossible to accept payments from?
PayPal does not currently work with the following list of 19 countries:

Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Central African Republic
North Korea
Equatorial Guinea
Ghana
Haiti
Iran
Iraq
Lebanon
Liberia
Libya
Myanmar
Pakistan
South Sudan
Sudan
Syria
Timor-Leste / East Timor
Uzbekistan

As far as I know, it is impossible to register a PayPal account in any of those countries, and if a PayPal account is logged into from any of those countries it will be suspended until further investigation.

Stripe's global page [0] claims that I will "be able to accept payments from customers anywhere in the world" which sounds amazing, but how true is that statement really?

Does Visa even issue credit cards in the above list of 19 countries? Or is it a common thing for a Bangladeshi citizen to have a US-based credit card for online ordering?

I am posing this question because I am re-writing a SaaS website of mine, and I want to block access to my free-trial offer to any visitors from countries that it is impossible to make payments from. I would appreciate any comments relating to this as well, because I am torn as to whether or not that is the right thing to do.

[0] https://stripe.com/global
Are you saying like on an internal company blog or something?
Anyone else's brain about to explode when reading these "responses" to things that PG never actually said.

All he said was that inequality isn't the problem per-se. It's the symptom of a bunch of other issues and if you just try to address equality on it's own, you're going to completely miss the underlying causes.
If there was only an ETF for shorting the startup tech sector...