skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes actually you do get to pick which street you park on. Unless you have one of the new fangled diverless cars. If you are traveling in winter and could be home for weeks on end, don't leave for cat in a place where it might get towed.
At the risk of being too ambitious, I would absolutely love to see YCR fund research on terraforming Mars. Based on the recent climate change data here Earth[1], this is important for 2 reasons:

1) We might be in a position of needing a new home sooner than expected

2) Humans seem to be better at affecting global environments than we originally thought

It can only help us to have a better understanding of what a realistic budget and timeline for terraforming would be.

[1] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201513
> Sometimes the interests of our genes and our memes align, such as when we invent antiseptics and antibiotics. Other times they conflict, such as when we invent birth control.

One of the most important concepts to take away from The Selfish Gene is that the idea that genes have "interests" is just an interesting thought experiment to explore how gene selection can lead to what appear to unselfish behaviors like cooperation, sympathy, and sacrifice.

Dawkins does not actually believe that genes are selfish, which IIRC he says right at the beginning of the book. So to say that the interests of genes and memes align (or don't align) is a fundamental flaw. Neither genes nor memes have interests. They just are.

And further, to believe that birth control is somehow harmful to the propagation of genes is also to miss an important concept from the book: that there is more to evolution than a strict numbers game. If birth control permits parents to invest greater resources in each child, then each child will have a greater competitive advantage in the population.

Finally, there is a lens through which genes and memes might someday be comparable, and that is information theory. However, we're a long way off from the theoretical and computational footing to try such a thing.
Open source voting machine software and hardware.

The status quo here is embarrassing. Diebold & the like should not be trusted with such a cornerstone of our society
I didn't know if I'd like testing or not. But I thought I would try something new. Comparing my daily work with the coders around me, I still think I'd pick testing because they literally just glue too many shitty api's together into an AngularJS application.
Your post is very short, just two lines. You object to literally 3 lines out of 18 (short) paragraphs. (I'm not sure why you say "block quote"? I don't get what you mean by using the words "block quote".)

Yes, I do not think that the US intelligent establishment plants double agents in Israel. I do not think the CIA or NSA or what-have-you does this.

But regardless of whether they do this, I outline a logical argument for why countries should not do this, why it is morally wrong.

Most of my post makes a very simple argument: that it is a waste of resources for countries to be spying on other spy agencies. In other words, just as stated, I vehemently disagree with the GP, I disagree that it is a good use of resources to attack other countries' agencies.

Regardless, my post was at 3 Karma before being flagged. I vouched for it from my usual account and now it is still at 3 Karma. You can vouch for it by clicking on the Timestamp and clicking Vouch. If you have any follow-up questions I am happy to talk about them.

It is immoral and a waste of resources for countries to spend resources attacking other countries spy agencies. It is a good thing and a good model that California spent $0 in 2015 spying on Masscahusetts, and vice versa. it is a good thing and moral that the European Union's countries do not spy on one another, that the EU exists.

It is moral for spy agencies to exist. It is immoral for spy agencies to spy on other spy agencies.

At the moment the CIA or NSA do not have double agents in Israel.

We can discuss all of these facts if you have any follow-up quesitons. I received only upvotes (this account is at 3 or 4 karma) and encourage anyone to vouch for this comment by clicking on its time-stamp and clicking Vouch. If you have any follow-up questions I'm happy to address them. This is not a sock puppet account.

The reason I made it is that I very strongly disagree with the idea that agencies should be spending resources on waging war on other agencies.

I realize that the philosophy I express is xtremely dense, I am I am happy to continue to participate in earnest or answer any of your questions.

I repeat: it is wrong to for spy agencies to spend resources on double agents. The correct model is the fac that California last year spent $0 spying on Massachusetts.

It is moral and correct that agencies exist at all. Happy to answer any of your questions if you have some. The rason for this account, again, is to counter the idea that it is correct ofr countries to spend resources on other countries.

It isn't. It's highly wrong and immoral.
There was a case of theoatmeal.com a long time ago.

They supported the user submitting content even though it was his own.
It doesn't sound spontaneous.

I don't like rules like "1 minute for this, 5 minutes for that".

But if that works for you, go ahead.
You could research the funding of startups. Or more broadly, how should capital be allocated?

Admittedly I have no idea how something like that could be quantified, and the study of economics has been trying to figure it out for decades. But if YC Research is looking to make maximally impactful investments, it seems like studying investing itself would make sense. There's a high risk of not producing anything useful, but also a huge upside if you get just a little better at figuring out who to fund. YC Research is in a position to bring together people from the worlds of business, machine learning and economics who might be able to make a dent in the problem.

Practically, it seems like navigating the financial investment process is the core skill of YCombinator, so you'd already be pretty far down the learning curve. And you don't have to convince people to adopt your ideas right away, you can try out whatever ideas your research produces simply by making investments. Better capital allocation of all forms could have a really big impact on society at large, if the right systems can be developed.
Stack Risk. We need to know how much CPU power entities have at their dosposal. If statistics aren't available, find data centers and energy breakdowns backout those costs and use sqftage to find amount of servers.

COmputing power growth rate is likely biggest metric tp assess how the tech industry is doing and possibly better at measuring an economy than GDP.

The risk asdociated with having elephant flow like ownership, e.g 20% controlling 80% could be catastrophic for numbers of reasons:

Lack of fault tolerance of core services

Lack of provacy due to vertical stack ownership

Ability to map users on internet

Ability to break cryptography

Extension of above, ability to control alt currency.

Ability to attack networks.

Etc. we need to get a pulse on this and it is a bigger existential threat than ai in short term.
For whatever it's worth, I decided to get linode oh so many years ago because hdm, the security guy, very warmly recommended it to me. Indeed, a lot of very high profile security folks love linode (nmap.org/sectools.org is a good example).

Anyway, personally, I choose to still stick to Linode because their customer support is extraordinarily good. I'm speaking about my experiences in the last 5 years.

Concerning their handling of ddos attacks - I think with this changes made things should be much better.
Weinberg is apparently now of the opinion that cancer research is so full of shit it is not even worth trying a replication project. Not kidding:

>"Critics have dismissed the cancer-study endeavour as time-consuming, out-of-touch with the realities of basic science and unlikely to produce interpretable results. “It’s a naÏveté that by simply embracing this ethic, which sounds eminently reasonable, that one can clean out the Augean stables of science,” says Robert Weinberg, a cancer biologist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-reproducibility-project-sc...

Probably due to all the retractions he had to deal with out of his lab recently:
http://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/06/cancer-research-retrac...

I wonder how much he still believes what he wrote in 2000.
Thorium reactor research!
Combinatorial/High-throughput screening for novel materials. The space is need of innovation, talent, and funding in areas that aren't pharmaceuticals.
Explore game theoretically sound ways to start new companies as "worker co-ops" and to reward participants. The idea being to aim toward a future where there is a large gray area between "employee" and "entrepreneur."

The companies formed don't have to be start-ups per se: they could be as simple (and low risk) as a group of people who build web sites and apps for clients, but would like to have a stake in it rather than just "working for the man."

Since it is research, it is ok if things are explored that would require changes in laws.

I can imagine a site (or better yet, a standard protocol) -- sort of Kickstarter-ish, but different -- where people start projects, gather contributors, "pay" those contributors by giving them equity (or actually pay them, if the company is bringing in revenue).

There would be ways of holding votes (presumably voting power is weighted by how much you have contributed), and various checks and balances to prevent participants from gaming it. Everyone would probably be able to weigh in on the contributions of others, in a carefully designed way that encourages everyone to be productive, cooperative, and creative.

The idea is that there are a huge number of people out there with talent, creativity, and a willingness to take some risks, but most of them aren't really entrepreneurial types per se. This would be both a matchmaking site for getting people with complementary talents and personalities together, as well as a service for handling equity calculations as people contribute hours (and various other things that streamline the process so people with talent can spend their efforts using their actual talents).

Obviously there is some overlap with what Y-Combinator does, but this is a way of scaling it out much larger, in ways that could dramatically increase innovation as well as increasing job satisfaction.
Open Furby Opens the Furby
But won't someone think of the bats and the spiders!? :O
It all sounds good until someone finds a way to sneak some drugs into one of the packages ... tends to work out poorly for the smugglers in a lot of countries.
IRCTC restricts passengers to book just 6 tickets per month
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIP2RN0NlI8

I suggest listening to Jacob Appelbaum's explanation of this point (and related topics).
13 UX design predictions for 2017
Low cost, high density housing that's safe, clean, and comfortable. I think this goes hand in hand with the basic income research: what good is a basic income if any decent housing is more expensive than the income? (Alternatively: how do we fund basic income when the basic cost of living is so high?)

I think there's a lot of ways housing could be made cheaper via building materials and techniques, architecture, technology, policies, and processes. One of the issues with extremely cheap housing is keeping it safe and desirable for tenants, e.g., dealing with drug abusers and dealers (which frequently make our current low-cost housing dangerous).
I don't understand why this discussion is about entitlement. I thought this was the american dream? You work hard, you make something of yourself. Things go your way. Things are going well enough my way, but I'm not happy. I don't want it.

Hell, give me a lobotomy and erase my education from me. In return, absolve me of my student loans. Let me start over and try again. I can't even do that because I'm in so much debt that switching careers is not even feasible. I have to program to pay these loans. I wouldn't survive without a programmers salary, but I don't even want the money. That's the part that kills me.
How to design a sales page using psychology
We've been living in a world where you couldn't brick the firmware from the OS for a long time, and it's been terrible. I'm perfectly happy to take the risk of being able to brick a board from the OS if it means I never again have to try boot to a dos disk and run a proprietary exe to update the BIOS.

Some boards do have something of a "factory reset" in the form of dual bios so that if one is bricked, the backup can still be booted. But it's not a bug that not every motherboard has this feature.
Start debugger, cause 'freeze' to happen, pause debugger, look at call stack. I touch JavaScript as little as possible, but that's what I would do in any decent language.
Exactly. I take 20% time to make my 80% time at least 25% more productive, whether that's by tooling, using new approaches or frameworks, or just need a small break.
I agree that is why he should be remembered. I disagree that is why he is. Of course impossible to seperate the reasons now. But certainly his notoriety is far more widespread after his death, than before.
Adblock Indiscriminately blocks the css class “follow-button”
I was building and testing some front end for a new project and couldn't work out why the follow button wouldn't show up, turns out adblock doesn't like it and blocks it, along with the rest of these:

[code]
::content #topNavLeaderboardAdHolder, ::content .sub_gplus, ::content .vadvert, ::content #top-social-share-buttons-container, ::content .sharing-links, ::content .page-ad, ::content .btnTwt, ::content #adSenseLoadingPlaceHolder, ::content .rightcol-block-ads, ::content .fbStripeVer-facebook, ::content #footer-google-icon, ::content .sharethis-buttons, ::content .follow-button, ::content #player_middle_ad, ::content #google_ads_box, ::content .widget-sponsor, ::content #ad-extra-comments, ::content .advertisement-space, ::content .sponsor-right, ::content .adOuterContainer
[/code]
Theranos Is Running Out of Time
> The author is clearly an idiot.

Wow. I didn't realize Hacker News folks were like redditors.

The 65k comes from the fact that I had to pay tuition and living expenses. My family is from a small town. The nearest college was 2 hours away (Indiana University). 15k a year adds up fast.

I honestly didn't NEED the education, I think if I spent 4 years teaching myself I would have been just fine. I just felt that I needed the degree to get my foot in the door anywhere. Maybe I was wrong, but do you dispute that?
Apple Ramps Up Hiring in Virtual Reality
Thank goodness. Knowing NSA spies on Iranian drones, my civil liberties have been restored.
adblock does not. an adblock filter you have installed does.
“We need more, not less democracy” Jacob Appelbaum
http://sens.org/. Humans need more lifespan, badly.

I’d have said AI safety, but it’s already on your list. Excellent.

I’d also have said basic income. Good to know you’re on it.

Meta-research. Academic publishing is obsolete, and knowledge should not be paywalled. How many researchers already make use of https://www.reddit.com/r/scholar or http://sci-hub.io/?

Bacteriophages. Antibiotics are running out, while phages have been tested by the Soviets, and are available as an over-the-counter treatment in certain countries.

Open-source infrastructure. How many ‘unicorns’ were only possible because of years of prior volunteer work? See @nayafia’s recent post: https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet...

Feynman’s and Drexler’s molecular nanotechnology. Smalley muddied the waters, and the National Research Council dropped the ball. We can do better than just nanoelectronics.

See also “Ask PG: What Is The Most Frighteningly Ambitious Idea You Have Been Pitched On?”, paying attention to the Yudkowsky Ambition scale: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509934
Innovative but (superficially) crazy sounding ideas about campaign finance reform e.g. "Voting with dollars"
http://amacad.org/publications/bulletin/summer2004/ackerman....
Did you read the post? I LOVE programming. I HATE programming for someone else as a career.

For fucks sake.
Please disrupt the SF housing market. Or just pay my rent.
We expected to receive the canonical advice to focus on one opportunity. But the YC-partner felt that it was still early enough for us to explore multiple opportunities simultaneously even though they lacked synergy. Also he leaned most heavily towards an enterprise idea that we were going to exclude from our list. Furthermore, we were surprised to learn that some companies are so large that even YC can’t help much in establishing a relationship. This was really helpful to know that we should not waste resources chasing certain accounts and that just because you get into YC don’t expect everyone will suddenly return your phone call.

It is worth mentioning our past 30 days revenue was flat (no growth). If a new founder isn’t careful their mood is directly related to their sales. Our sales were flat, so my personality was flat. It’s tough to break out of this and we wish we had been a little more enthusiastic during the meeting. The OP lecture series will remind you that a winning team keeps winning, so don’t stop focusing on growth and you’ll always project enthusiasm. Barring that, focus on the upside of all the opportunity.
IDEA does some of this.
What SaaS companies need from a product marketing manager
I choose what I work on and no one micromanages me. I have 100% time.
/r/gardening and /r/woodworking is where it's at.
Let me know if you want to take it up :)
Rapid, relevant education.

How can we give people education which maps to real life skills in 0.5x the time it currently takes? I spent a semester of college learning to write a memo...(in 2010).

- software assisted learning plans based on interest and need
- cover personal finance, negotiation, and learning techniques.
The title is a bit off - this isn't so much a blog of Mac app design as a blog of speculative Mac app UI concepts.

Some of them are quite nice in purely visual terms, but they tend to lack any rigorous UX thought. The Slack one is a perfect example: Yes, putting the channels, direct messages, and private groups into their own tabs looks neater, but now I would have to click twice instead of once each time I switched between the two channels I use most often.
Google's solar plane crashed due to wing failure
I had fun with this, and even though I've been using the terminal for ages, I still learned something new. Specifically

$(command -v md5 || command -v md5sum)

Does anybody know anything like this, but for sql?
Agreed. It's a gimmick, but useful since most people talk way more than they should.
Have you tried using Cider under Emacs? Or Cursive? Both of those have debuggers that allow you to add a breakpoint in your code and then evaluate arbitrary expressions. They also allow you to step through each form and see the return value.

There are also a few projects for adding in debug REPLs, but those seem to have fallen by the wayside lately, perhaps supplanted by debuggers.

You might also want to talk a look at Duct (https://github.com/weavejester/duct), which is my ongoing and still early attempt at solving some of the framework problems with Clojure. If you create a template via Duct, like so:

lein new duct foobar +site +cljs

Then you some of the things you're asking for. The namespaces of your application are loaded when you start `lein repl`. You get a `(reset)` function that reloads your code, restarts your application and pushes those changes dynamically to the browser. You also get a ClojureScript REPL that hooks into the browser.

There are also generators, migrations, database support etc., but currently all inferior to Rails. I'm probably going to be working on the generators next, as they need attention.
Bit fiddling: exercise that grey matter
This isn't a systemd problem. It's a kernel problem.

Allowing accidental access to a resource capable of doing permanent damage is dumb. Even embedded processors generally have an "unlock/lock" sequence when you want to write to their flash memory.

The fact that the kernel doesn't require you to write a "magic number" somewhere to gain access is foolhardy.
Meanwhile it's extrodinarily difficult to get a faculty position. Maybe if we required more scrutiny we'd make room for scientists who can actually move science forward, not backward.
Apologies, right you are. This is a default install though, I've never actually installed new filters
>he pervasiveness of these types of attacks has caused hundreds of billions of dollars in economic loss globally.

Is it really $100bn+ ? If so we could do with some government funded research / countermeasures.
Digg was great for bloggers around 2005. I created software to add hundreds of friends per day (I think the limit was 250..and the only way to do efficiently was with software).

I only had to post a link a few times a week and the friends on my list would up vote it automatically (I never had to ask them). This would hit critical mass at about 20 Diggs and I would get to the front page.

Front page at that time would get me about 50,000 unique visitors and a good percentage of other blogs picking up my articles and coming back regularly. The trick was to write good content, not just top 10 lists.

I was just a student at that time and didn't have much business experience, but I was able to sell some custom PHP scripts. I think I made about $1000/month for an entire year.

Eventually they cracked down on it, and I got a job and stopped updating my blog.

I wish I would have been able to capitalize on it a lot more. I probably could have turned it into a much longer-lasting business.
>I'm suggesting that everyone stop accepting anonymous money, then stop accepting money that funded murders because doing so would empower the murderers.

Not gonna happen and should not happen.

>The killers are paid to do the killing.

This is so ridiculous. Money is not the only way to compensate someone or otherwise move them to act. The cartels would still have plenty of soldiers without people voluntarily accepting cash-like (anonymous) money.

If money was not private, armed gangs would know everything about everyone, making everyone less safe. Private money is privacy. If you eliminate private money you eliminate privacy. If you eliminate privacy you reduce human autonomy and security, not just from the armed criminal, but also from the masses.

>Otherwise, those votes will be purchased away, and we can't outspend the wealthy.

The political system needs to be fixed so that money cannot buy votes. You're focusing on the ocean instead of the leaky boat.
Hat tip to the guy who discovered this, but I'm starting to think the situation is hopeless. I'd bet that NSA, GCHQ, et. all already know about this vulnerability and about countless others like it.

Think of it this way. If I'm one of those agencies I ask myself the following:

What applications do people typically use?

How do those applications typically interact
with the Internet?

How can we insert ourselves into that process to
spy on people or to take control of their systems?

What if NSA devoted 10 people full time to looking for vulnerabilities like this? What if they coordinated amongst the Five Eyes and, together, they had 50 full time people looking for vulnerabilities like this?

Could they afford to do it? Yes! Would they find a plethora of vulnerabilities? Yes! So, are they doing it? Probably, what's to stop them (other than legalities of course)?

It's low hanging fruit, compared to all the other, more esoteric stuff we know they are already doing.

When history is written this will probably turn out to be the Golden Age of governments spying on civilians. Robust crypto everywhere just can't happen soon enough.