skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know that. Neat. Then maybe iOS will get this one day.

I would like some kind of reverse Ctrl-click, that would force links to open in the same window as the one I'm currently in. I just don't know how this should work, if I click a link while I'm filling in a form. :-/
Is the Internet Killing Creativity?
I took up penmanship as a hobby about a year ago, and now carry fountain pens and write down most everything I would have previously typed.

It's actually a well-known thing in the fountain pen community that writing notes instead of typing them aides in comprehension.
> I always assumed this was because I engage more areas of the brain

Or could it be just because it's still hard to draw things and write formulas using a computer.
Yes. I said that in my comment as well.
I am actually not sure that this is true. I used to think exactly like you, that rotations are just piles of small translations with time varying directions, but there is a problem with this, linear momentum and angular momentum are two different conserved quantities. If it were the case that rotations are just translations then you should be able to get rid of angular momentum and its conservation and explain it in terms of linear momentum and I don't think that you can do that. Linear momentum is tied to the homogeneity of space while angular momentum is tight to the isotropy of space. You could actually do the exact opposite, say that translations are just rotations about a point infinitely far away, but I think that won't work either. I really don't know for sure, I mean I am not really, really, really confident about it, but as far as I can tell rotations and translations are fundamentally different.

Unaccelerated translations make only sense as relations between two objects but you don't need any reference to detect acceleration, you can just release an object from your hand and see if it drops to the floor because of gravity, hits the wall behind you because your space ship is accelerating or flies away tangentially because you are on a carousel. Rotation requires continuous acceleration (I am avoiding the term constant acceleration because only the magnitude is constant but not the direction) of all the particles towards the center of rotation or otherwise they would fly away tangentially. But if rotation requires continuous acceleration and you can always detect acceleration without reference to some other outside objects then you can always detect rotations and that is not true for translations, you can not detect unaccelerated translations.

It is the difference between velocities and accelerations and the fact that rotations always require accelerations that makes rotations more than just a pile of translations. You won't notice any difference if you translate everything in space by the same amount, you won't see any change if you rotate everything in space by the same amount, there is also no difference if you change the velocity of everything by the same amount but you will immediately notice if you change the acceleration of everything.

Or maybe that is at least partially nonsense, unfortunately I haven't yet mastered that topic myself.
Don't think many have said it here, so just fyi, to me this does not seem like a big 'breakthrough' in AI so much as a good demonstration of smartly combining existing current ideas. Quoting from a developer of a monte-carlo tree based GO bot (http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/huge-leap-forward-com...):
"Coulom agrees, but he notes that there isn't one key new invention that makes the whole program work. "It's more like a great engineering achievement," he says. "The way they put all the pieces together is really innovative.""

Not to disparage the result, but just saying it seems inline with the progress in recent years of using deep neural nets for reinforcement learning with games.
I had to do the following to get this working:

- install scikit-learn (http://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html)

- install nltk (http://www.nltk.org/install.html)

- download data set: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/data/convote.html

- put data set in convote_v1.1/

- fix the path in demo.py to point to the data set (you might have to change backslash to forward slash depending on your environment)
> What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?

Increase the range of opportunities that are within an ordinary person's budget. Nowadays it's fairly simple for the average Joe to buy or sell things online, create a blog, or rent small amounts of server time.

Give people something they can do, and a way they can get paid for it.
Dad Arrested for Taking Daughter’s Phone as Punishment
Yes, there are tens of submissions about the story, but very few links to the actual source material.

Thanks for the link to the discussion - shame people don't actually rootle about, find the primary sources, and submit those instead.

Hence my two submissions, one to the research paper describing how it works, the other - this one - to the program's home page.
People who retire earlier die sooner; for each year earlier that one retires, life expectancy is shortened by two months (and the results are robust against different assumptions).[1] This would lead one to believe that working is good for your health.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/2012/05/17/retirement-kills-a-new-ma...
Thread with bulk of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981679
I know that the article itself doesn't take sides as to which one is "better", but I'm curious to know which one is more popular. Does anybody here have a favorite? (and why?)
HFT already pay a small fee for every transaction. Any additional fee they will just price into the spread like they currently do.
> I think basic income is important to do but decreasing the cost of living is a critical component as well.

I think startups should focus on the second, not the first. The reason is that the second is a technical problem, or rather a lot of different technical problems, all of which are exactly the sorts of things that startups can tackle and succeed in solving.

The first problem, however, is a political problem. Startups are not the right tool to use to address political problems. That's not to say that startups can't play a role: they certainly can. But the role they play is to solve the second problem, and thereby make the first problem a non-problem. If all of the necessities of life were essentially free, because they were no longer scarce (for example, if food were as easy to obtain as air), then there would be no need for basic income because there would be no need for income. So startups can't solve the political problem in the usual sense; but they can "solve" it by making it no longer exist.
Honestly, I don't think that people sitting around is the problem with basic income - it's funding it.

Say you are going to give each of the 320M inhabitants of the US $10k per year (that's about the poverty threshold). That would be a cost of $3.2 Trillion per year, or about 50% the total government revenue (federal, state, & local combined). I just cannot see a future where the US raises taxes by a number that anywhere close to 50%.

Source: http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/current_revenue
Nothing is possible with that attitude.
Yes and thankfully the US congress just made it even easier for foreign $$ to invest in US real estate!

http://www.wsj.com/articles/congress-eases-curbs-on-foreign-...
How is a chance of having a rootkit worse than definitely having a rootkit?
Only those human psyches that insist on being at the top of some hierarchy.
There's a more trivial alternative to "equally credible alternatives to university" - just ban education based discrimination.
Same way US so nicely enforces regarding race or martial status. Make it illegal to ask.

Simple change with 100% guaranteed positive outcome.
"send them a cheque for $10,000 and increase their taxes by ~$10,000" which (suprise) just wastes people's time and money.
Woah, you created a new account a couple of minutes after this article was posted just to upvote this article.
Courts OK with FBI's Occasional Stints as Child Porn Distributors
I think the idea has merit, but any good idea also has to stand up to criticism.

Your 401k comment gave me an idea for one potential tweak that would make a big difference. If there were a plan to collect a small yet reasonable tax over the course of, say, 10 years or so, to build up an initial pool to draw from, then it might be able to generate enough interest to sustain a continuous payout. Once payouts have started the initial tax might be relaxed or eliminated, though it would depend largely on population growth and how quickly the pool compounds.
Indeed, I'm skeptical of anything that promises to free people from work. I think of it as a mobility scooter for healthy people - the idea of not having to walk and be tired might sound appealing, but the actual use will leave you in much worse shape.

Japan seems to have one solution to this problem. It's a culture that highly discourages idleness, yet also aims to look after people's welfare, so they have a very large number of (practically speaking) quite useless jobs - crossing guards on parking lot exits and streets with no traffic, platform attendants, park attendands, etc. It was quite weird seeing this at first, but once I started thinking about it as a socially acceptable form of welfare, it made a lot of sense.

I don't think their system will work here (serving people is seen quite positively there, whereas here it is often looked down upon here), but it is a good working example.
Sorry, I am Russian, this was the first thing that crossed my mind.

American, UK and Australian analogues are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar
> Some stay busy zoning on TV/internet.

That's a big part of what I wish I had more time for. My list of things I want to watch is long and growing all the time. If I were retired, I would love to be able to sit down and finally watch The Wire or Sopranos.
Ah, then that explains it.

While your experience certainly isn't exceptional in your community - or worldwide - it would absolutely be exceptional in the US. There have been cases of parents being prosecuted for allowing their children to walk to a local park less than a mile away.

Seeing a child alone in the US is exceptionally rare. This extends to age 12-14, I would say.
Yes I agree, but it is an interesting choice to ask the user to send a picture even though he didn't yet have the chance to see who else from his contacts is using Snapchat.
For the record, the Telegraph is a right wing newspaper.
In networking terms...Analogous to having to send and receive traffic from localhome after each external packet received, no?
Uh, are you sure? No one will starve to death in Sweden and thei businesses are internationally quite competetive.

I would claim Maslows hierarchy is a pretty good model of human motivation - people strive for great things just to be admired and for the love of the art. Not everyone - but those that wont will not turn into Leonardo da Vincis through starvation.
Nation is the sum of private individuals and companies.
Interesting to see Facebook make these types of decisions. They're in an interesting position because as much as they want to react to emerging behaviors to create for a great user experience, they're one of the few companies that has the ability to manufacture new behaviors on their platform.
I'm really interested in what happens if the basic income isn't used wisely and doesn't change outcomes. What do you do when half the population is obsoleted by technology in that case? PR campaigns and cash rewards for getting a vasectomy?
on your last point, I've wondered if it would be within the scope of 18F or the US Digital Service to create a local.gov site/platform that is a repository for all local government information and vector for engagement. Figuring out who all the locally elected officials are and what they are supposed to do is nearly an impossible task.
> Why is this a problem?

It incentivizes breeding. The more resources are freely available the more our population will grow until we reach equilibrium. Although we usually overshoot and end up with a Malthusian outcome.

"Yet in all societies, even those that are most vicious, the tendency to a virtuous attachment is so strong, that there is a constant effort towards an increase of population. This constant effort as constantly tends to subject the lower classes of the society to distress and to prevent any great permanent amelioration of their condition".

— Malthus T.R. 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population. Chapter II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_the_Principle_of_P...
Yes--driving down the cost of housing is one of the things I think about the most. It seems so critical to the whole equation.
I think this story goes along with the narrative of the state (and government officials) abusing their power and having unlimited resources at its disposal to inflict pain on anyone who wishes to challenge them. There was a story about how its really difficult for anyone to get a fair trial when the government can just break you financially.[1]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/allenstjohn/2016/01/24/the-40hr-...
Depends on which inflation figure you count. When I think of inflation, I think of the largest costs first -- housing, which can easily be 30 to 50% of your earnings for most people. Check out the Housing Price Index -- does that look flat to you?
http://us.spindices.com/indices/real-estate/sp-case-shiller-...
Would be funny to have competitions similar to the boat race between Oxford & Cambridge.
HTML Tidy seems like a powerful tool although I am having a hard time to find from their docs whether they do simple validation (I guess it does given that you ask the question).

This html5validator gives you a simple yes/no answer whether some files are HTML5 valid. It is based on the same backend that powers https://html5.validator.nu/.

It can be integrated in continuous integration. The README contains example configurations for TravisCI and CircleCI.
Was this law something that existed in isolation or part of a long list that regulate the taxi market? In contrast to US, courts in Europe put more weight on the intent of the law makers than the law text itself, but the description in the article does not seem to cover that angle.
For those of you who can understand French, be sure to check out Bernard Friot's work on that subject.
One big difference between basic income and negative income tax is who receives them. Basic income is given to everyone, and negative income tax is only given to those below a threshold amount -- creating two classes of people: givers and receivers, us and them.

The negative income tax experiment in New Jersey showed that the negative income tax created a disincentive to work, and increased family breakups. [0]

Negative income tax, by virtue of being tied to the tax system, operates on a year-based system and pays retroactively. Regardless of whether the year's overall income would qualify for negative income tax, the individual still needs to self-fund any time off. A negative income tax does nothing to help those who are temporarily out of work, or who only want a few months off to help with childcare, learn a new skill, or address an illness.

[0] http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/NegativeIncomeTax.html
> it's silly to complain that some open source thing might stop being maintained when by default what you write yourself is also not actively maintained ;)

I certainly agree to a large extent, but there's a lot that mitigates this as well:

When it's code you write, you have control over feature creep, documentation, comments, etc.

If you write something that only does what you need, you reduce a lot of the attack surface vs. off the shelf plugins, and you are in a position to make sure that the code commented and well documented. You don't have that sort of quality control over a third party plugin, and you may down the line be in for a rude awakening when it's no longer developer and has a breaking problem, and you open it up and find the code is a completely undocumented mess from top to bottom.

Of course if you're rushing something out the door, you might not produce anything better - but if you're a software shop with solid engineers, you have a high chance of being able to get better quality code out there than a lot of WP plugins.

(That being said, WP today is a lot more secure itself than it was in the past - the right option might be not writing the CMS from scratch, but writing any plugins you need from scratch)
The $40/Hr Defense Lawyer: Attorney Discusses the Economics of Innocence
i found this bit really depressing:

> Our technology group tends to work thematically, meaning that we try to focus on how tech is changing our readers’ work and personal lives. Google is the main focus of my reporting, and it is a brutally competitive beat. It takes me an hour to go through the day’s headlines each morning, and there are dozens of competitors and talented journalists on the tech beat. That means I’m often scooped, and the scrum of daily news can make it hard to see the bigger picture.

if the new york times cannot take an extra day or two to get a good, comprehensive and well-put-together story without worrying about the churning techblogs scooping them, who can? there has to be space for slower-moving newspaper articles, without having to fall all the way back to magazines.
Yep--I'd love it if we could fund some high-density housing work. I also think it's a (for me, other people prioritize different things) good way to live.
That is awesome. I love that there is a fountain pen community!
Slightly off topic:
You make an interesting point about Square.
In the context of Apple Pay, the move to take away the headphone jack suddenly makes a lot of sense (for Apple).
I didn't downvote you.
IMHO, the JSX as used in this example is pretty obvious if you know ES6 syntax. The only "weird" part is curly braces for data interpolation, but even that is pretty semantically obvious.
This is exactly wrong. The cost basic goods would increase. Basic Income would immediately have an inflationary effect as the money supply for these good would be expanded drastically.

The Employer would not see as much benefit as you'd think as presumably he would be amongst the class of people/entities (including the middle class, upper class, and corporation) which would be paying for this indirectly in the form of taxes.

Alternatively, if Basic income is debt finance (and not financed directly through taxes), incurring more debt also has inflationary effects.
Do-It-Yourselfers Face Penalties Over Their Cut-Rate Health Insurance
This seems a little myopic. What distinguishes basic income from the welfare systems implemented in, say, northern Europe? Seems like there are many countries that have had basic income for decades. Couldn't you look to them and have most questions answered?
Awesome.

A couple points:

Alternatives to patient-present doctor-mediated health care to cover the 80% case in which doctors are expensive overkill; some combination of telemedicine and nurse-practitioners.

We have police departments and we have fire departments. We should have "nurse departments" that are clinics but much more structured as are fire and PD services for each given area.

(I know there is a grey version of this with EMT/clinics/hospitals etc... but this is something that could be made better.)

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Modern logistics-driven solutions for inexpensive high-quality child care.

We talk a lot about "getting more women in tech" for example...

Getting more women JUST TO BE ABLE TO WORK involves insuring child care!

Sending a kid to child care full time costs MORE than many women can make per hour! Its ridiculous.

If you have ever tried to look for child care services on Care.com or otherwise, sitters all want ~$25/hour in the bay area.
I'm not sure how well it would work, but one of my longest-standing justifications for basic income is capitalism itself. If you have enough to live on from what you get from the state, then you'll be content at best, or spin your wheels and with racks of VB at worst. But if your neighbor was in the same situation and works to increase their earnings, and you see them driving nicer cars and wearing nicer clothing, then you'll want to live at that level as well.

Then again, it might remind them of their own failures and they get double drunk that night. I'm not sure.
> I spend my time working on my company on evenings, week-ends.

I could do that. It sounds interesting enough. I do read a lot about startups and business and tech. The friends I have dinner with seem amazed at how much I know about this stuff, despite putting far less time into it.

But when I get right down to it, spending all my time trying to squeeze blood from a stone doesn't really hold all that much appeal to me. Now, if I had capital at my disposal, then I could do all that instead of having a job. But a startup would be too much work, so I'd need my own capital. That's why I'd need to be upper class first.
I live in Scotland so I used http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Additionally turns out I didn't use the census information on it - it was Valuation Rolls which in Scotland listed the occupiers, information about the house, occupations and so on.

I imagine if you get the occupiers via valuation rolls or similar (which are address searchable) you can then go on to census records.
This is really awesome and I am so glad you guys are doing this. Bravo.
State of the Union address decreasing reading level
HTML Tidy is only for Mac?
Focus of html5validator is on continuous integration and Linux is a must for that.
"Emasculating" was a very strange and evocative choice of words for this. Most of the article describes Google's significance and direction, with only this snippet at the tail end having anything to do with the title:

> ....I can tell you from experience that it is really awkward and emasculating to try to interview someone who doesn’t want to talk. You feel like a big dork.
For me, quantity of life is secondary to quality of life.
One reason may be to make it easier to raise money. Most VCs know the ins and outs of corporate law (and corporate law precedents!) in Delaware, making signing a contract there a lot easier, as opposed to learning the specificities of Spanish law.
Yes, The Culture Series has informed my political thought quite intensely as well-- I only heard of it via HN about a year ago.

"Money is a sign of poverty" is the thought that sticks with me the most. Why bother having a currency for resource distribution if resources are vast and there is no benefit to conspicuous consumption?

People in the Culture rightly view money as an abstract type of coercion, and are abhorred by the ability to force people to do things that they don't want to do via monetary incentives.
React is a UI component framework. The testing-in-isolation and composition you can do with React makes it very productive. It's good for reasoning about the fine details in a UI.

Yeah, it would be good to get a router and couple that with React. React is not a total solution for making a web app, and anyone that picks it up seriously will learn that very quickly.

We need lots more libraries like React that focus on one area of development and do that well rather than all these own-the-world frameworks that have both shiny and awkward parts. I want devs to do their front-end library selections very carefully and build a mosaic that fits together well for their app's particular use cases.