skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow I would absolutely hate this.

I'm not doing 20% time to trend shit for YOU on GitHub so that YOU can feel like you're doing something as a manager; intruding on and micromanaging "free time" until it's anything but "free".

I'm doing it to answer a burning question I have about something and do some exploration whether YOU think it's useful or not.

And before you whinge and bitch that I'm there to serve the company, a) if that's what you want then don't fucking act like its free time because it's not, and b) irrelevant disconnected ideas and the curiosity to pursue them are not only the indicators of your smartest and best employees they're also a precondition to keeping them happy and keeping them at all.

This time benefits me. There have been plenty of HN articles that breakthroughs come from tying together these previously thought irrelevant ideas. And in my experience researching some side project always comes to provide needed knowledge somewhere else eventually, always.

Just not perhaps in the short 30 second timespan and timescale of an idiot clueless irritating manager.
Stop using VPSes, start using dedicated servers.
The Darker Side of Aaron Swartz (2013)
If you look at it on street view, one of the kids is sitting under a tree on the front lawn. :)
This. With other sandbox container solutions, you just start it. Docker's is mixing a sandbox, a deployment solution and more together. This might be useful for large deployments, but for smaller one it's too complex.
It was present during the diggsplosion, which is when it mattered.
The original developers ported it to iOS. Spin Doctor by Revolutionary Apps LLC
https://appsto.re/us/X06_t.i
Origin of life research: Understanding how life arose on Earth or can arise on other planets would be one of the biggest breakthroughs in all of science.

[Sociology/Psychology] How to effectively promote reason, rationality, and critical thinking among the masses.
Root needs access, but creating a pseudo-filesystem to access an area of the system with metadata, etc that doesn't map well to a filesystem, especially given the number of very buggy implementations of UEFI out there is just asking for trouble. There are properties that have settings to be visible only certain times during the boot process, there are settings that involve changing guids, etc. Access is better served through tools that better understand UEFI's confusing properties, not hammered at with general filesystem-level tools.
Agreed. I like the cut of your jib. IMHO denying orders to focus on what you're told rather than what you know is important is not only a hallmark to a good employee, nobody cares that you pissed off some random boss at work when you have something worthwhile on the resume (assuming you have a good reference though).
It doesn't matter. It is the captain's job to not sink his ship. It is the captain's job to not damage the pier, the reefs, etc.

The same rules apply when flying a plane. It is the pilot's responsibility to not be in a collision -- no matter what else is happening, or what someone else is doing.
I have been thinking robotic environmental cleaning a lot over the past years too. Along with raising awareness this is critical to implement in order to get back to a point where existing pollution is negligible.
Apple Watch Tutorial: Download Files to Your Device
Stared at that for a while, wondering why it was all highlighted as a comment. Then it dawned on me: \r line endings.
Well said, amen!
I get the same feeling from a lot of design magazines. I was looking at a slideshow of "five affordable prefabs" or something like that, and one of them was offhandedly mentioned as only costing $500k to build and furnish. Sigh.
What the... For Mac app design concepts, these all suuuure look like Windows!! Where's the brushed metal, the shaded orbs, the soft drop shadows?
It's nice seeing very straightforward C code. I miss that, and I too learned to program on the Mac and CodeWarrior was my IDE of choice.
Hey I'm not sure what contract you're referring to, but from a Parse point of view I think you should feel free to go into details about what didn't scale for you about Parse. There is definitely a tradeoff between "ease of use" and "ease of scaling" in many places and using a "backend as a service" won't be the right thing for everyone. I would rather that people be honest and open about what works well and what doesn't.
LHC upgrades require careful removal of 9,000 cables
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The Corporate Tax Dodge Continues
Gabriel Pulecio Captures Infinity in a Box
20% doesn't even work at Google. The reason being, if you care about your career, it ends up being 20% _on top of_ 120% you're already putting in. And I don't know about you, but I'd rather the company did not know about anything I do on my own time and with my own resources, so that they couldn't lay any intellectual property claims to it.
Also, slightly off topic, but for similar reasons I can't figure out why bosses want IT workers that mostly sit at their desk on a computer to work at the office (instead of remote locations) for a full 40+ a week. It's like there is distrusting management who thinks if they didn't walk the hallways once per week at random and see people staring at their computers then the same work wouldn't happen. Let these people work alot more wherever they want if their work isn't location dependent.
thanks! At this point I dont have an idea on how to make money, as my app lives entirely inside Slack it could be tricky but I can probably build a set of features and sell a PRO version or something around those lines.

For the icon I took the basic from here http://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/checking-item_65778 and then I drew the container.
Pardon if this is a naive question, but are there languages designed with static analysis in mind?
> Humans need more lifespan, badly.

Do we? Or do we need more realistic perspective about death? Why quantity over quality?

Seems there's a lot of quality improvements that could be made [1]. For instance, I read recently (can't recall source) that San Fransisco's homeless is the least happy in the world. Also that the top 1% in the world make over $35K a year, but there are far happier people than exist in middle America living in poverty [2]. Looking at populations that are happier - but in poverty - is perhaps an interesting study. Imagine a cross disciplinary study between (perhaps) techniques used in epidemiology/health informatics & anthropology / the humanities.

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[1] Notice that cancer, heart-disease, Alzheimer, etc research also falls into this category - allowing people to live with less suffering.

[2] Yeah, 3 assertions, no sources, sorry - just my word & unreliable memory of something someone said in a book once folks :)
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Oh cool, another crack pot physics post on hacker news!
Wars, potentially including cyber wars.

I can see a lot of similarities with the basic income questions, e.g. what would people do if they couldn't worry about their lives?

Broader awareness could also be a side effect of the research.
It looks like that kid becomes an adult, and eventually realizes that adult life is full of compromises.
Ok, so this article says:

> The EM drive is so thrilling because it yields enormous amounts of propulsion

Yet IFL-Science says:

> What it actually does is produce a tiny, tiny amount of thrust via a method that’s not entirely understood.

I know which one I trust.. Can this be down voted for not been factual.?
Autonomous Organizations

Blockchains are nice and all for automating paperwork, but they're only one component of a much broader set of technologies.

Building the infrastructure of an organization solely through programmed economic incentives makes it possible to seamlessly draw on talent from anywhere in the world without being subject to the limitations of personal bias.

AOs also present an existential risk given that once they're up and running as a distributed network, it can be effectively impossible to hold them legally accountable for anything they do. Imagine someone trying to sue the bitcoin network.

Current work surrounding Ethereum is one place where the field is developing quickly.
“Screw it, I'll make my own” – The story of a new programming language
You should build an experimental city that has zero laws and regulations.
A better question is how many bugs does it find by inspection. I could easily see this as a step in a code review where it has the chance to flag potentially buggy code prior to committing it.
I imagine the cost coupled with the timeline of other experiments. It's certainly not a trivial thing to do.
there are indeed universal properties of
correct code that you can learn from one
set of applications and apply to another
set of applications

Pardon the speculative thought, but wouldn't a program that detects "universal properties of correct code" be equivalent to a program that detects whether another program will halt? Hence, impossible?
Quite Interesting.
Have you looked into autonomous organizations?
Alas, I joined after the damage was done.
Can we get a [2015] tag?
The enormous is likely referring to efficiency of the mass to work.

Ion engines are similar in that regard. They're great in that it is a constant thrust even though the impulse is low.

Now as to why this may produce thrust, I'll wait until we validate it with physics.
The buck stops with the captain. Fairness has nothing to do with it. It is the captain's job to train his crew and keep his ship safe -- no matter what.
There is a small downside: there is the potential for learning less of your mistakes. Especially when one doesn't barely do any code review.
Linux is just source for a kernel that the userland for the various distributions are built on though. It's already largely on people's phones with Android. In fact, Chrome OS is based on Linux.
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If they changed it to "ro" by default, people would complain as well if it breaks something.
Its not issues its just what people are used to?
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Dawkins's style is more poetic. I don't think it's worse for it. In the Blind Watchmaker, Dawkins writes about a tree shedding its seeds to the wind, and he talks about it 'raining information'. That's an image that has stuck with me. His coining of the term 'meme' is precisely the same kind of metaphoric play.
tiny, tiny amount of thrust during large, large amounts of time = enormous amounts of propulsion...

I know article is awful, sorry about that; submited only just because I wanted to read more comments about EMDrives on HN as I think they are cool; and the way HN works old threads are never seen again by most users...
> Yahoo and AOL aren't hiring these days
If I may ask..how do you know this? And can you provide some detail?

Bottom line is - hiring (or lack of) is a leading indicator of a company's financial health. A company that doesn't have any open jobs for a sustained length of time (3-6 months to a year) is in belt tightening mode - which comes right before layoffs or worse, closing shop.

Btw - Yahoo is already doing layoffs or 'downsizing'. If Yahoo wasn't hiring during the past 3-6 months, that definitely was an indicator of this.

Yahoo Downsizes In Latin America, Closes Mexico And Argentina Operations
http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/28/yahoo-downsizes-in-latin-am...

Here are some news sites that track layoffs. I recommend keeping a close eye on things.

http://techcrunch.com/tag/layoffs/

https://twitter.com/search?q=layoff%20OR%20layoffs%20OR%20%2...

Or better yet, keep an eye on the Dice jobs number which is prominently displayed on the Dice.com home page.

As of today, January 29, 2016 that number is 84,201. My take is that if this number goes below 60,000 then the bubble is bursting.
This gives credence to the concern that having all knowledge in the public domain is not the most beneficial way for a government to operate.

The point is that perhaps Israel did not know that their feeds were compromised and the West was able to have a better understanding of the situation in that part of the world because of it. If an Israeli leaked it, it would have been beneficial to the US because that might have indicated the Israelis knew something that the US did not.

It is of no significant interest to the public, but it _is_ of significant interest to the Israeli government.

This is almost a textbook scenario of how nation states justify the need to keep secrets from the public.
IT's a nice change of pace from the crackpot economics posts that normally fill the homepage.
Well there are use cases where you'd want to remove an EFI variable.
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I'm not sure how you can call any of this "Mac App Design". To boot, none of it follows Apple's interface guidelines. At all. And beyond that, none of them can be using standard Cocoa UI elements. So they're all highly unfeasible.

Beyond that, none of them are good. It probably seems harsh to say that, but none of these really do any important thinking about how interfaces are supposed to work. Design isn't just making stuff pretty, it's making stuff work well. Most if not all of these apps are basically a fresh coat of paint on an existing product or the envisioning of a new product as it is similar to the current form.

To summarize:

- None of them look like Mac apps

- All of their interfaces are superficial

- Most of their interfaces are difficult to replicate in the native Mac development environment without extensive custom work

- None of them actually exist beyond being pictures!

How do you know that any of these ideas are actually good without trying them? A picture's worth a thousand words, but if it looks better than it works it's worth a huge loss in customers.

Sorry if this sounds grumpy, I just don't really understand the point of this at all. Everyone who's interested in pie-in-the-sky conceptual app designs that are more focused on eye candy than usability has dribbble already.
Psychohistory. (Less than half-kidding.)
In your #2 example, you'd have to pass the semantic meaning to it somehow. It doesn't look like a simple document database. There is logic and semantics. There is a total cost fact, which you'd update by saying total cost excludes employees that are "is:Quit" "is:Fired" etc. All the facts and queries on top of it would then work.

This is a similar idea and there is a long elaboration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voG5-15aDu4
While synthetic identity fraud happens (you can use fake SSNs!), this isn't intended to stop that kind of fraud.

This is intended to stop people from using other peoples credit cards, not their own cards they just applied for as someone else.
Sadly there's an economy of scale to performing a Sybil attack on MaidSafe as well as any other autonomous organization based on resource sharing that uses a global reputation system (Safecoin in this case) instead of a localized one. Another knock is using something like IPFS with an incentive layer on top is a significantly more flexible approach to distributed and decentralized storage.

That said, I think there's a huge amount of promise in the field.
It was added after about a year or so, and there was two real driving forces behind it. The first was that people started using 'tags' in their submission titles to do things like "Ask Reddit" and also that the main page started getting overrun with Ron Paul tributes because apparently he was the second coming of Christ and would be the panacea that the US needed.

And since most of us started visiting Reddit for the tech/programming/science content people saw that stuff as spam.

Still, the subreddit system is really the only reason I still frequent Reddit. The smaller you go, the higher quality the content becomes and the better the community is (in general).
Delegative democracy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegative_democracy
A functioning massless drive is arguably as unlikely as a perpetual motion machine.

It's not really worth paying attention to claims that someone built one other than perhaps as entertainment value.
The US has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. With more restrictions and taxes, things like this will continue to happen.
Elder care. Demographics is destiny and with declining birth rates — especially in the developed world — the population will inevitably be graying. How can we provide them with effective and humane long-term care without crashing our economy or occupying a huge fraction of our labor force?
Breaking your laptop's boot list will happen more often with it mounted RW anyway. So it's good it fixed it for you, but I doubt the number of cases it's fixed something/been useful outnumbers the cases where someone bricks their system using what is probably the most repeated Linux command on the internet: rm -rf /.
My favorite is the completely illegible IM concept with nearly-invisible white text over a bright green (#3EFF8C) background. I suppose if I'm really prone to saying things I regret, I might find it useful not to be reminded of anything I've ever said...
> Why quantity over quality?

That’s a false dichotomy. Please disregard my one-liner, and watch one of de Grey’s talks instead — or read his “When Quality and Quantity Do Not Compete”:
http://online.liebertpub.com.sci-hub.io/doi/abs/10.1089/rej....
Disclaimer: I work at Docker.

> Nobody who built containers before Docker came along shipped an operating system in the image. Now we have gigabytes of Ubuntu alongside nginx thanks to Docker. Cool.

First: I believe shipping the entire distro in each container was in fact the most common use of containers before Docker, since openvz/vserver/lxc were focused on "mini-servers" (to this day you can still rent openvz-based vps). So I think your statement is incorrect.

I also think your (eternal?) anger might be misplaced. Yes, today most people who use Docker build containers with unnecessary distro bits in them. But before Docker, 99% of them didn't build containers at all, and struggled with non-repeatable deployments and dependency hell. Even better, now all these people use a standardized Dockerfile which can be changed and improved over time - for example to move away from a heavyweight distro like fedora or ubuntu, to something like alpine or even more minimalistic.

Incidentay, we have hired Natanael Copa, the awesome creator of Alpine Linux and are in the process of switching the Docker official image library from ubuntu to Alpine. You can help us with pull requests to https://github.com/docker-library if you want :)

Even one such pull request could go a long way to promoting smaller containers, since those images have been downloaded over half a billion times.
FreeBSD generally avoids system calls via filesystem - it's cute because you can change kernel parameters with echo and cat, but it's generally not efficient and prone to unexpected problems such as what this whole thread is about. You can just use appropriate commands which in turn use the appropriate system calls to accomplish the same thing.
Cannabis <=> Health.
It's a machine learning based system, so it's probabilistic. You can certainly write programs that can detect when some other programs halt, just not universal ones. For example, it would be relatively trivial to look for a "while true:" loop that has no end conditions.
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This paper (non-paywall version)[1] is from last August.

It's another one of those phenomenon that's so near the noise threshold that it's hard to measure reliably. They get forces around 70 μN. This is very small, and although they have a balance sensitive enough to measure it, there are lots of effects which can produce tiny forces like that.

The experimental work described in the paper is disappointing, in that the original cavity system apparently had a Q of something like 100,000, but their system only has a Q of 50, because it's mistuned for the microwave oven magnetron they're using. ("Unfortunately, the absorption peak at the resonance we were aiming at was smaller then expected (probably also due to misalignments after soldering).") The highest thrust reported by anybody with this is 720 mN, but that was in air. They're almost four orders of magnitude below that, in vacuum. For reference, the ion thrusters on the Dawn spacecraft deliver 90mN.

If they had hardware that generated 720mN in air, and tried that in hard vacuum, that would be useful. (In air, all sorts of things, such as heating or electrostatic repulsion, can generate air movement and thus tiny amounts of thrust. So results in air are not too interesting.)

[1] http://moscow.sci-hub.bz/ded43880657f12f27fc596f46abbbfe6/10...
0. Bounties. Bounties for specific small step goals. Even bounties to define these. I like to vote with time, which we often exchange as money.

1. Open source advocacy on why it matters (in the end, it's because human brains will rely on software more and more, and if we cant self-inspect 'it'... bad things). In the short term, OS distros that make the user experience slick. Custom distros that wrap all the best astro/bio/fea are excellent to show others what is possible and get people involved.

2. Things that give power to individuals. All individuals. Even ones we label to say they are not us. Dont rely on adding laws to accomplish it. Closed source self-driving 'connected' cars being an almost exact opposite.

3. Open source hardware. Really, not just hardware we can hack, but hardware we can replicate. (hard problem)

4. (to make #3 happen) Bounties (which others can chip-in to) for 100% open small scale lithography (a goal at a time; 8088@home) and biological computing (pie in the sky, but will happen, maybe faster than is generally assumed; 22k Rat neurons can pilot a F-22 sim).

5. Promote information sources that make the raw data available.
Research methods and how to produce quality research.

Also, basic science.

Basic income is an expensive subject, look for some cheaper, but still impactful stuff.
I'm not sure I get the title, or maybe it's the content that I'm missing.

What I understand is the author (possibly the poster too) is saying that Netflix will start charging a premium in the future on the media assets it is buying now.

I'm no media expert but I'd suggest this is wrong (sure they may increase prices but I doubt out of a reasonable scope) because 1) there is ALWAYS competition for entertainment, meaning there is a ceiling in how much they can charge. 2) Piracy is too easy, meaning what they are really competing with is free. I think any price gouging in entertainment is likely to run up against this issue.

If netflix is the only place I can watch House of Cards, and it costs $50, I either won't watch it (do I really care that much?) or somebody else who got it will pirate it. But why would somebody pirate it when they paid $50? Simple, if I paid for it, and I thought I over-paid, you are my friend and you didn't pay for it because you thought it was too much, maybe I give you a copy because I'm a good friend. Of course, you know so much more of the world would want to enjoy it, but don't want to pay, so you make it available to more people.

The price of netflix may be artificially low right now, but is it 30% low, or 200% low? I'd suggest 30% and I suspect we'll see marginal increases in subscription fees over the next few years.