skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you not look at the comic in the post you're replying to? The broader argument is that the topic at hand is not actually about labor to sustain yourself. It's about a system designed to actually deprive you of access to naturally-existing wealth and resources so that you are then forced to labor for someone else in order to gain sustenance.

In other words, there was at one point fresh water and land and berries and such just available in the world. People had to labor to get them, but they were there. We've made far more value for society overall such that we have resources to support far more people, and it's mostly from a long evolution of technology and science.

There's tons of productive things to do to keep things going. But since we have an attitude of "you deserve your share of resources only if you labor" we have a ton of make-work bullshit that people do that can even be counter-productive. We're not all working on things that actually add value to society. People who skim off the system such as high-speed traders get a huge share of the resources while laboring in ways that create no value whatsoever.

So, we need to get rid of the "work to eat" idea because it leads people to do whatever to eat when they are desperate. We'd do better if we focus on promoting things that provide the most value, and we get that better if we provide other motivations than "do whatever it takes not to starve".
>It's pretty trivial to collide MD5

...
collisions=/=second-preimage attacks

>SHA1/2 at least, but preferably a gpg signature would be much better.

SHA1/2 isn't any better, you're never going to get hit by file corruption that magically also is a md5 collision.
How does this play against a companies fiduciary duty to shareholders? If your competitors can use these legal techniques, aren't you also obligated to stay competitive?
> Which means the company in the US made $1, the company in Germany made $1 and the company in Ireland made $999.

Any reasonable judge in their sound mind would find it to be a tax avoidance, because it is!

I'm very certain and can put my $100 on it, that US courts know thousands of cases where same scheme has been put in works and people in charge put behind bars.

But not Google...
I'd like someone to explain to me how this is not tax evasion. This is a US incorporated company that developed its IP in the US. It has its headquarters in the US and it trades on a US stock exchange. Moreover, a good portion of its revenue comes from the US. This business of paying some sort of technology license to a subsidiary you own in Bermuda to avoid taxes seems like outright tax evasion. Whether that is US tax evasion or European tax evasion where the earning were made. If Google is reporting billions of dollars in earnings to Wall Street and they get the benefit of that from the market, then Google should be paying taxes on that and not funneling it to a jurisdiction where they have no actual or tangible business.
I agree, for the most part, but as others have said, parking "legally" can be quite impossible for many. I can understand private parking and stuff, but there is really no excuse for having non-digital parking systems in the 21st century. I hardly ever carry cash, much less coins, so I have zero tolerance and respect for systems that literally nickel-and-dime me. I gladly take my credit card out and pay for parking in the downtown area of my city, because I know I'm not "entitled" to park there. However, a customer willing and technically able to give money (i.e., a person who has the money, but not the form of currency that the parking meter takes) should not be ticketed simple because they do not carry cash.

I have qualms with even digital systems too. The one in my downtown area is digital, but you still have to pre-pay for parking. Sometimes I don't know how long I'm going to be at a place, and it's ridiculous to expect people to come down from the top floor of a 6 story building just to "add more" money to a digital parking meter. Why not sign in once when you park, and sign out once when you leave, and just pay for the time you are there?

Anyway, that's my rant.
Ooh, thanks- just added this to my wish list.
FCC RULES YOU CAN GET CABLE THROUGH APPLE, GOOGLE, AMAZON, AND ANDROID
I would not be surprised if fish have feelings or even emotions.

The link is worth reading. Despite being short, it summarizes several reasons why non-humans are likely more similar than not to humans that have been developed in the past 2 decades, with no published counter-examples.
The Data Portability Fact Sheet (2011)
What is wrong and immoral is that a single company is considered immoral for not paying an additional $2,400,000,000 in taxes.
"I often find myself in a pub, without pen or paper, trying to persuade someone to try Haskell."

Heh, I have to ask it -- in a pub? How often does this end in getting beat up? ;-)
If nothing else, it's practice and exposure for you. If your talk's truly worthwhile, you've raised the value proposition for others. If it fits the mold, well, there's that then.
For some reason good music[1] with vocals that I haven't heard to death add a sort-of distraction when I'm working so I choose to listen to music that I've heard enough to have memorized the vocals or music without vocals at all. Since it gets annoying to listen to songs I've memorized, I'll pick acoustic or unique covers of that music (I've grown fond of odd piano covers - I found five tracks that are piano-only versions of My Chemical Romance songs -- a band who's music I generally don't enjoy but when done in piano, it's just ... oddly interesting).

When I'm in an intense bit of code, rapidly writing implementation, I like to pop in Progressive Rock of any kind, the longer the track the better. I'll often pick something by Dream Theater, though sometimes the metal-ish sound is a little much for me depending on my mood.

[1] As in, music I enjoy listening to which is usually 70s rock and alternative from 1995-2010. That's not to imply that this is a universal definition of "good music", only that it's what I enjoy listening to.
Feds say there isn't a single safe 'hoverboard'
I can't wait until Lamdu supports something equivalent to standard Haskell 98. Right now, it is hard to do anything useful. For example, I tried to du Project Euler's 3rd problem, but I couldn't, since I needed cons and it is a sum type constructor and they are not implemented yet.
Yeah usually there's a way I can figure it out but if it takes more than 15 seconds it's easier to just clone the repo again.
I almost felt guilty for taking fish oil and eating sushi, but then it's clear that a fever reflex doesn't equate to missing Jane the cute fish next door, writing Leaves of Kelp or being jealous of Henry's dorsal fins, although I must admit they are quite impressive. It might seem anthropocentric (it's definitely anthropomorphic), but Jane was really tasty with soy sauce and wasabi.
Why Bernie Sanders tawks that way [video]
This is very nicely done, but I wouldn't call it a "visualization", more of a "navigator". However, in the best kind of interface design, the data is the interface, and I'm all for that.
Substrings in Streams: A Slight Modification of the KMP Algorithm in Haxe (2013)
IANATL (tax lawyer) but why can't they sell those US developed rights to Bermuda?

Don't hate the player, hate the game.
The oculus forums are the best place to start - hugely helpful and collaborative - if you haven't yet though get a dk2 and scanner best $500 or so all in to see the future :)
This isn't about whether Sacks knows or had involvement - it's about how to repair the situation. Conrad had to be the fall guy and Sacks is the best replacement available: already hired, has leadership experience, knows the business, and has plausible deniability via Conrad.
Thanks! Very helpful.
Awesome, very descriptive!
(or maybe this is just my Americanism showing... :)
Hm, good idea on writing these things down. I tend to keep things in my head, which I know is a bad habit. Thank you!
Hey that's awesome! Thanks for the tip :)
The difference being that this would never fly in a python codebase.
It is easy to accept popular sensational science if I turn off my brain and any critical thinking.
The iPhone in question is a 5c, which does not have the Secure Enclave.
Not my company, but our very similar competitor in SF is moving their call center operations to Reno. I saw they were hiring for my specific job in Reno, at a 20% salary cut. I was tempted, very tempted... I'm sure the COL is so much cheaper there I would come out ahead, and those ski seasons...

Anyway, I thought it was a smart move of them to move their call center operations to Reno, we pay our reps $20 an hour, I bet they can get away with paying their reps $10 or $13 up there, not to mention how much they'll be saving on rent. Also the exec team etc can easily drive or fly up to Reno if needed.

Wonder if they'll have any problems staffing up there?
I suspect if your website is HTTPS only (and HTTP auto-redirects to HTTPS), you'll probably still lose referer headers when people use http:// links to your site.

While Stackoverflow suggests most modern browsers will maintain the referer when following a redirect (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2158283/will-a-302-redire...), I suspect this won't work if the redirect is from HTTP->HTTPS and the origin is HTTPS. However, I haven't found any conclusive information on this, and I'm too lazy to test it from various browsers right now.
If you're interested in this topic, I heartily recommend Carl Safina's Beyond Words. It presents compelling evidence for the thesis that the default in the animal kingdom is conscious & feeling.
Exponentially more fun!
"We didn't fire her because of the letter" ... yet the same night she wrote the letter she is suddenly fired?? C'mon...
Hobbyists hardly use these things anymore, because they require all that external stuff -- resistors, capacitors -- before you get what you want out of them. They're not self-contained.

These days you can just program a PIC or something, drop it on your broadboard, and you get whatever signal you want out of them with software, without any components besides the chip itself, and maybe a quartz crystal if you want better accuracy (although I really wish they'd package a crystal inside the DIP as well to make it even more self-contained).
I don’t know, sorry, although I would suspect they stick to “default”.
The safety potential, I recognize. In this case it's an inconvenience. And this transitional period we're in right now where cars can have major bugs like this, but still aren't autonomous (probably a good thing, in the context of this particular flaw) is something I personally don't want to be involved in. I understand the process won't be free of flaws, and good that Volvo isn't downplaying or hiding the issue. When the software is mature enough that it's not needing constant updates, and we're not concerned about needing an SLA for 10 or 20 or 30 years to keep car computers secure... OK fuck, I'm screwed it's going to be a long time before I can get a new car.
>> It's the equivalent of me donating most of my salary to a
>> "charity" created for the purpose of paying my mortgage. I
>> don't think many people here do that, or would consider it
>> if their accountant suggested it.
Not even close. But, actually people do that. Your example is off-base, because they pay tax on the fair market value of the rent they don't pay as if that missing rent were income.

What do you think the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is? The Clinton Foundation? Donations to purchase buildings at Universities? Donations to your favorite charity? Donations to get annuities?

This is something that many people and corporations do. It sounds like you enjoy it personally, but not when other people do it with greater amounts of money.
Somebody ported the circuit simulator to JavaScript: http://lushprojects.com/circuitjs/
The art of reading, remembering and retaining more books
TL;DR:

At Buffer (the company), they read a lot. How?

Reading faster? Take a test (http://bit.ly/1OkHEiJ). Blog author scored 337/minute. (I, Simone, scored 354).

Average US adult reads 300/minute. Is reading faster a solution? Mah.

Reading fast plus reading a lot is the right combination.

Adults read on average 17 books/year. FIVE ways to read more:

1. Read faster (train yourself)

2. Spritz: you can only read one word at a time, but fast. Also, Blinkist takes popular works of non-fiction and breaks the chapters down into bite-sized parts (like Cliff Notes).

3. Read more by making the time

4. Buy an e-reader

5. Read more by not reading at all (How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read)

You can remember what you've read with: impression, Association, repetition.

There are four types of reading: Elementary, Inspectional, Analytical, Syntopical.

Suggestion: take good notes when you read.
This is a very good point...

We all have jobs to do, and we all face obstacles, limitations, and hurdles...we all face them daily in whatever work we do...

We know that, and yet we occasionally think that the situation is different elsewhere, for other people in other professions...we hold them to a higher standard than they can possibly meet, a standard we, ourselves, couldn't meet...and criticize them openly when they fail...

I am guilty of this myself...I'm working on it...

I have never done any work for an organization that I thought could not be improved...I sincerely doubt that any of us have...but when I think about the reasons things aren't done better without fail I come to the same conclusion:

Humans who want to do a better job are constrained, by reality...resources--manpower, money, will, intellect, time...

Sometimes we humans fail simply because of our human physical limitations...we're tired...we need time off...

I think that it's very true that those we elect (or hire) to enforce laws simply cannot enforce them all... all the time...the resources simply aren't there...

We wish they were, but that doesn't change the reality...
TeslaMotors get Tesla.com domain through arbitration
mac is too expensive to be catholic. Unless you get it from caritas.
There is nothing I can do about sushi.

But you can buy manufactured Omega 3 and 6 from plants.

I alternate between them to minimize the damage I am doing to the planet.
I mean that a lot of circumstances, having a picture/scan/copy only slightly diminishes the loss if the object is destroyed, and the existence of 3D scans etc shouldn't be confused with preservation of the original.

Obviously, take pictures and make 3D scans of everything! It's a great way to make unique objects available (to some extent) across the globe. But they're more aids to study than actual backups. Objects haven't been "saved" by being scanned; they're saved when they're actually preserved. A 3D scan of the Buddhas of Bamiyan would have only kinda sorta have ameliorated their loss.
It's bizarre to me to imagine a city without entry-level jobs. I understand why this is the right business decision (well, except that I still don't understand why programmers need to be physically located in SF), but the resulting city seems extremely confusing. If you grow up in the city, do you move to another city to get a job? If you're designing systems for EAT24, and (your company belives that) in-person contact is needed to understand things, do you not get to understand how some of your employees work and how the systems you build impact them?
which wine do you use to play arcanum? I tried wine and it was so slow as to be completely unusable, so I got a virtualbox running windows 10, which works fine.
To be fair, in no other civilized country can you exploit people like you can in the US (no paid leave, right-to-work laws), or have the government enforce your profits (TPP). Why shouldn't corporations be required to pay more for the privilege of being in a corporate-friendly state?
What? 2006 was the heyday of Rails and the gazillions of startups built on it.
A toy generational garbage collector
If Mac is Catholic then Linux is pagan.
For my basic needs, gimp and krita have been enough
Can you start a Slack community using only emojis?
I'm not an expert on language design, but it seems to me that some of the guarantees of that language are equivalent to actually executing the whole code, which might become really slow from the user experience perspective. Please correct me if I'm wrong here.
You are assuming that North Korean regime is bad for the world.

It is not necessarily the case. North Korea serves as a warning to other countries about what NOT to do.
It works especially well because there is South Korea right next to it.

North Korean leadership learned coexist with countries around it and even let outsiders research itself to some degree. It would be a shame not to use that possibility.
>It is pompous entertainment. But then again, I can't help but think of what else a modern conference can be but that.

Huh. now, I've only been to technical conferences, for open source operating systems, but the only 'charismatic speakers' you get stay on the sales floor where they belong. I suspect that there is an inverse relationship between the specialized knowledge of the conference attendees and the 'charisma' required of the speakers.
> Having failed to establish any, much less all, of the three elements required under the ICANN Policy, the Panel concludes that the relief requested shall be DENIED.

Sounds like that is incorrect? As well, I see the following at the bottom of the document:

> Dated: December 5, 2005
I was kidding. Of course I eat walnuts, pecans and other low-water tree nuts; fish, not so much.
one has to subscribe to see the whole article
I took the opportunity to visit a local group simulcast of Thursday's TED presentations -- apparently much the same program Steven Levy viewed -- and took from it many of the same impressions. The "Inside TED" segment was actually fairly revealing and I thought useful. Chris Anderson gave some inside baseball insights, and voiced TED's goals of spreading knowledge (something I've written and mused on at length). The "chopped liver" comment, by the way, came from Stewart Brand.

But the presentations -- the ones I managed to catch -- dragged. Boston prosecutor Adam Foss had a compelling story. Lidia Yuknavitch's talk wandered ... a lot ... though perhaps that was part of its point. Cerfs was ... interesting.

And then because I live in the future, I left to video-chat for an hour and a half with someone an ocean away.

That done, I decided it was more worth my time to tap into another set of experts -- curated books, at the library, where I could tap into 4 million years of collected wisdom (though granted, only about 8,000 of that is preserved in literary tradition).

One of the most obvious characteristics of the TED livestream was an inability to bump up playback speed through slow bits, or to skip to a more interesting talk. TED also has a relevance problem -- really hitting on challenging problems. Part of which is an inherent conflict with exposure: some ideas really need to be developed and discussed within a safe space.

The livestream/remote program was an interesting experiment, but I'd rather have had the option to catch several days at one location, and perhaps _somebody_ in a role as a moderator / facilitator. There was at least one local TEDster, but no clear organisation on top of physical support (video, seating). That, though, was good.
That and The Git Parable (http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.htm...) gave me a wonderful understanding of Git.
In the comments section...

"You can find them at http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/17.3/ also along with signed sha256sums."
John McAfee: I can decrypt the iphone for FBI
It's somewhat disappointing that this blog article is served over HTTP, and it's impossible to access it via HTTPS. How do we know that these new MD5s are to be trusted?
What exactly do you take issue with in the article?
The point of this is to also understand just the implementation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11139918

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11130785

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11125838
Might not hurt to post this in the comments section of the Mint blog.
Of course they are rationally choosing that. But they are irrationally not paying their debt back to the same society that made it possible for them to build the business to begin with.

This is not a company who came out of nothing and created the TCP/IP protocols, the Internet, WWW, the billions of pages and information out there.

It's a company who is building on top of something society invested in. And is now trying to avoid paying that back to same said society.

Legally they have no obligations but morally from a company who used to claim "don't be evil" they do.
Why wouldn't the developers in the security group think about constitutional law? Have you ever seen an internet forum that talked about computer security regularly, yet did not talk about constitutional law regularly? If not, how would those developers have possibly avoided regular reminders about the 4th amendment?
You see 3 hash right. So one would be for my file_1.txt, the other would be for the snapshot created when I commited. What is the third one ? Well because a commit is an object in itself, it is also compressed and stored in the object folder.

Wow, after deciphering this kindergarten stream of thought I came to the conclusion that the author's intellect, which I tower above, was vanishingly small just like the collective intellect of "hacker news" itself.
I like to listen to podcasts and audiobooks to fall asleep. The android app[1] works well for me. Some of the Mark Twain[2] books were professional quality.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=BookDesign&h...

[2] https://librivox.org/author/9?primary_key=9&search_category=...
I missed the part where that was interesting
So, is this sold as a language or as an IDE? Either way there's too little of value that is apparent.
True. Which is why I approve the activist shareholder plans at Microsoft and Google to move their CEO's and global HQ's to India.
Linux Mint doesn't seem to prioritize security in general. No TLS for ISOs, no easily spottable signatures for ISOs, marking security updates untrusted by default...
>seems like you think that it was stupid

Because I mentioned the expression on his face? I didn't intend to convey that I was laughing at him for that - only that he was (understandably) surprised, and I enjoyed that.

I don't think it was stupid. The chemical equation balancing was highly relevant, and I did learn a lot from that. In some sense it was like "testing out" of the class - by mastering a homework challenge that was much harder than any of the class material.

The "million" challenge was interesting as well, and I did learn from it, but not about Chemistry. I knew I had the A less than halfway into the term, so I stopped doing chem homework. That was not optimal if the goal was to teach me Chemistry. In that sense, the first challenge was probably better.
broken/dead link
Excited to launch my first subscription product: Paracord Project Box
correct. They bought it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11134786
But maybe everyone agrees that it's too complicated but it's used. You know, English is way too complicated, but you can't just make everyone switch to Esperanto. People are interested in things that help people understand English and things that help people understand Git.
At last. Where have they been all this time, under a rock? Does it mean they'll start supporting Opus as well?