skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm having a hard time understanding why you describe working for a living as being coerced. The resources required to continue living (food, shelter, etc) don't magically appear. So if you aren't making an effort in some way to get them (barter, labor, personal relationships) then you are just living the life of a dependent, something that we usual reserve for children and the infirm.

There is also a huge difference between providing assistance to ease the efforts required and simply removing the need for effort entirely by providing 100% assistance (i.e. dependency).

Taking a 'basic job' in order to live seems like a reasonable trade-off and a starting point for something better. To assume that people should be able 'to live' in the absence of a basic job (i.e. to live as a dependent) just because they don't want to work is problematic.

For the purposes of this discussion, I'm assuming that 'basic job' is not something inherently hazardous, although I also think that individuals should have the freedom to make an informed decision about taking on personal risks. So even hazardous jobs should be available as long as the hazards are disclosed.
>social and technological infrastructure

The question I am yet to find a good answer for, with regards to the Long Now proposal, is this: why?

Like, if you know you're going to have a situation where this immensely important information is going to have to be re-discovered, some distant time into the future, because .. after all, entropy is the natural state of things and who could expect we'll still speak English/C++ 100,000 short years from now .. so we'll teach them again, some day way in the future. But, why? Is it merely to fight the entropy, and say: no matter the light, here is the shadow we cast today, and millions of days, millions of years into the future?

Because that is some mighty high pretense.

However, perhaps you have a better answer, as a more coherent observer of the Long Now technological/social infrastructure? Is it really just to challenge time in a technological sense, or .. perhaps .. is this one area where secularism is becoming what it resists, and indeed such foundations are a new religion/cult/etc.?
I'm sorry for your loss.

FWIW, I anticipate (hope) that addressing the needs of the mentally ill will be the next big civil rights movement, at least in the USA. Mostly due to increased awareness, for better or worse, thru social mediums.

Just like with homosexuality before, I had no empathy because I couldn't relate. But then when you discover that its your friend, your family, your loved ones who is affected, I learned "Oh, they're just people, just like me." And then someone shares their story, like you just did, and I learn "Oh, it's not just me and mine."

So I thank you for sharing. All the best.
C++ isn't 'memory safe', but what it does is give you the ability to write memory and resource safe types, and then lean on the type system as a means of ensuring memory safety.

C doesn't let you do that. It's just incapable, and it's a handicap that leads to bad APIs and bad client code. Take gethostbyname() as a historical example. It returns a pointer to static data, which avoids memory leaks at the cost of being thread-unsafe. Want a fix? use gethostbyname_r()... ok, great, except now you're dealing with a function with six parameters and have even more ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Ok well, they're both deprecated anyway... use getaddrinfo()... just don't forget to use freeaddrinfo() because this function allocates a linked list. So don't forget to check for null pointers as you enumerate it. C++ brings value semantics, iterators, and RAII to table and these problems largely go away.

All this is why C++ is better than C. In C++ you can have memory safety, thread safety, type safety, and a simple API. It's not perfect, and it's not easy, designing APIs never is, but at least it's a remote possibility.
That's weird, it looks like they didn't even try something like photorec.

I wonder how would they handle full disk encryption.
If you plug in a non-FAT/exFat/NTFS drive to a Windows machine, Windows will act almost as if the drive is empty and needs formatting in My Computer.
LO should basically never crash, ever - the stability work is stupendous. If it does, there's something deeply wrong with the system.

If the crashes are reproducible, do be sure to file a bug.
I just pulled Baudolino back off the shelf this morning, going to try to make it through this time. I love the idea of the untrustworthy narrator, and the writing is excellent, though dense. like Foucault's Pendulum, I find Baudolino hard to read straight through, though I'm sure it will ultimately be just as rewarding.
Yeah I just posted but saw about 2 more as a scrolled down. Will delete mine now.
is there anything on the other side of the PCB? it's nice that there are all those labeled test points on top, wonder what the UART interface is like.
(Or have no desire to)
How would that set off an evolutionary arms race? Isn't evolution a passive phenomenon - initiated by random mutation effected by chance and one that should be unaffected by external circumstances like how many predators there are.
Is a basic income meant to cover healthcare needs?

If yes, what incremental steps could be taken in the US to start reducing healthcare costs down to a level where we can even think about providing a stipend on top of the free healthcare?
That seems overly dismissive of experience, while overly optimistic regarding the creativity of youth.

Way too many times the young dismiss existing conditions simply because they feel constrained by them, and lack the context for why said conditions came to be. End result is that they rebel against everything just because its there by (learned) reflex.

Yes, as one grow older one fall into patterns. But i think quite a bit of it is because of the work pace of modern day rather than some condition of age.

Edit: Again from personal experience, i have come to think that people need to experience something to really get it. So if you tell someone young that drinking is bad (in excess), they may or may not listen (and may just ignore you because you are old). But let them experience it under relatively controlled conditions, rather than some random binge hidden away somewhere, and maybe some synapses will connect up (and quite a few destroyed most likely) and the message will be received.
All of this anger is not about the wage the employee agreed to, it's a result of the perceived expectations that were set.

Maybe OP was stupid to believe the employer or maybe OP completely misread the expectations from the get-go. Regardless, it is BEST for the employer to ensure proper expectations from the start so they don't end up with a mess like this.

If there are not tons of opportunities and room for growth, employees will still agree to work for companies! I had similar expectations at my first company because I was told I could have them. I do not have similar expectations going into my next company, but my job search was filled witch a barrage of recruiters and hiring managers saying they want someone to be committed to the company for long-term and there's lots of room for growth.

I'm taking a job based on what is great in the here and now with expectations to move in at least two years. I think it's a better way, but was painful to learn.
Its not about 'idiots'

It's a battle between the Idealogues and the Transactional/Machine politicians, for both parties. The latest "The weeds" podcast is lengthy, but breaks it down pretty well.

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/12/10978874/the-weeds-political-re...
Or rather, how the feds took down FIFA once they spared a second to give a fuck, and even then it was just simpler to do away with all the newfangled investigative wiretap powers and that stuff, pretend its 1900 and give someone a sweet deal for telling them the story.

Remember the Garcia report in 2012 was forced on the FIFA as a result of many many years of grassroots investigative journalism and activism, when the FBI or any other law enforcement body simply didn't bother.
1. The truth is, I make far fewer queries than the average web user. Because I have the IP addresses I need stored permanently. And I only update those files periodically. Today's websites and graphical web browsers (that I do not use) perform astounding quantities of uneccessary _daily_ or _hourly_ DNS requests that I never make. Maybe you think I am resolving every registered name in existence? If that were true, then yes, I think that is unreasonable. But the fact is I am only resolving the names I need, which, in the context of the total number of names registered, is very, very few.
however scans.io and other scanning projects do not seem to be labeled as "unfriendly" nor the target of "hate"; perhaps your views are not based on actual exerience?

2. This is a personal solution. I am not writing software for anyone else. I do not have to use TCP for DNS queries and I have never found an authoritative server that refused to accept a UDP query. dnsq does not do TCP queries; I guess you could complain to the author he's violating some rule? If I am not mistaken, amplification problems happen because of ideas like open resolvers and enormous UDP packets, like those required for EDNS0 and DNSSEC. I am not a user of either of those ideas.
Freedom 251 $4 Smartphone is Sketchy as Hell
Wonder if not British reader will get "half-inched" :)
Yes, but if you look over the comments, you'll see that the critics of BI are all either confused, ignorant, or have invalid world-views. ;)

(wish I had an emoji for only-kinda-tongue-in-cheek, i.e. saying something kinda unfair with self-awareness to be half-joking, but actually kinda asserting it anyway)
You're going to go through the trouble to get a warrant for a raid and then apply such gross incompetence to the seized evidence? When was the last time you pulled a hard drive out of a functioning machine, found it to be empty and didn't immediately think, "huh, that's odd" before throwing it in the trash.

I guess it depends on whether the hard drives were the target of the raid or just a collateral of "grab anything that may be useful" mindset. They could already have gathered enough evidence without needing to waste time/money on digital forensics. Hard to say without specifics.

The fact that they went out of their way to assure him that his own hard drives were empty reeks of manipulation.

Color me highly skeptical.
They wouldn't have to delete them, just nofollow or something.
"Most of the officers I talk to are motivated by a strong sense of right and wrong."

is total opposite of

"There are plenty of calm, humble, balanced police officers."

Its a coinflip wether you belong to the right or the wrong end of the scale dependent on environmental factors shaping the police officer.

Preferrably you would want someone who can think for themselve. Which a police department absolutely doesnt want, hence they screen against high iq.

hierarchy and balance dont mix.
What you're describing already exists. RFC 4941 defines a standard method for regularly "rotating" IPv6 addresses on a client machine, which is implemented by most major operating systems.
No, my TODO list is on my phone and whenever I need to sign something I slap my signature bitmap on the PDF.

For me, typing (be it on a keyboard or a touch screen) works well. I never understood why people even consider pen based entry methods. But everyone is different, I guess.
mjg59 has been trying to get this clarified for quite some time. Ubuntu has had plenty of opportunity.
This banned TED talk is all you need to know about TED and where their motivations are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g

Peak TED is actually this video on how to use one paper towel when washing your hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMBSblpcrc. You mean if you shake your hands and fling water all over the bathroom then you don't need as much paper to absorb the remaining water? How revolutionary.
Since labour would have won (by one seat) if it weren't for libdem voters coming back to Labour and thereby handing 12 threeway-split seats to the conservatives, not to mention the places that Labour to UKIP defections would have came back to them as second votes, a replay with the same votes but different rules wouldn't have been a con-ukip coalition government.

Though obviously, if the rules changed then everything would change, new parties, new alliances, less tactical vote buying, more democracy.
I'm paranoid ;)

It may be that Apple already fully cooperates with the FBI to unlock devices. And this whole public dispute is just orchestrated.

I predict that Apple wins big and that their victory will be very public and greatly celebrated. The purpose of this is to convince criminals to buy iPhones.
Diphenhydramine isn't great for your liver, but occasionally taking a 25-50mg dose shouldn't be an issue unless you have preexisting issues(not a doctor, this isn't medical advice, etc.)

As far as spiders, monsters, and whatnot, http://erowid.org has good write ups in the experiences section for it.

I've also heard them called "bennies", but you're probably not getting OTC benadryl off the street, so I can't see there being much confusion.
Honestly, twitter to me feels... pointless.

There was a time, when people kept nagging me to enter the social world to pump my startup and whatnot, and I even learned how to install several software to help me manage it (including some that Twitter bought and killed, something I consider a serious mistake of theirs).

I twitted prolifically, got several followers, managed to sometimes interact with famous people, then after all the difficulties in using their service after they killed the clients they bought, I started to forget more and more, until I wans't using it anymore.

Then now years later, I noticed... it made no difference, the only different between using twitter, and not using twitter, is that by not using twitter I save time to do other more useful things, and also more entertaining things, twitter is not good to get useful information, not good to entertain, and not a IM, in fact I have no idea what twitter is for.

So to me, twitter is pointless... Also extremely hard to use (ie: some people obviously saw some effect from twitter, but... HOW? I even used some tracking apps to help, like Klout and whatnot... I scored my "brownie points" a bit, but I always felt lost, what I should write, and why? And to who?

If I as user, don't figure why I am reader other people stuff, how as content producer I figure what I am writing, and to who?)
Is there any actual content in this article? Other than how awesome TED is?

Did they address a single concern or critique of TED in this article?

No... Just that it's 'awesome'.

Well ok then TED organizers... Thanks for reminding us that you think you're so great, you feel no need to listen to anyone.
Ok. But on the other hand if we suppose you do have an agenda, then it just a decision if you write it in original platonic style (I dont know anything, I have only questions, let see where the conversation leads), or in Gallileo style (poor stupid Simplicio...) Of course the second will be more clearly propagandastic...
Show HN: Tweef, Instantly share individual tweets to Facebook
StartSSL and WoSign have been offering free, publicly trusted certificates with one year lifetimes (and the ability to renew for free) for quite some time.

The former doesn't allow commercial usage, while the latter operates in China. That's probably why it wasn't an option for a lot of people. (That, and the terrible UX at least in StartSSL's case.)
I said "professional" athletes and entertainers. I'm not just talking about the ultra wealthy stars. I just mean people who make a living doing that full time.

> Your comment implies that we could have a functioning society if everyone were rock stars and athletes. That's absurd

I'm arguing the opposite, by highlighting this absurdity.
There is a little mention about it being hard to consume one's feed. And that you have to do a lot of work for little information.

I remember a few years back, there was talk that web tools that employed good filtering would be the next big thing.

I only use the default web twitter client, which does make it very difficult to consume the data. I page down on my feed a couple of times and that's about it.

How do other clients let you interact with your feed?

Even flashcards of tweets that I've missed wouldn't be that bad.
"I have no issue with the rich.
I have a problem with the lack of negotiating power that the poor have."

This! It's not about jealousy but augmenting the winner take all dynamics of uncontrolled economic system into something that feels humanely more fair without disincentivizing or creating pathological scenarios.
I remember the day that I realized adults could be wrong: it was while reading a book on pubescence (I had questions, and was a nerd). What the book said directly contradicted what I had experienced (book said no such thing as 'blue balls' and after having experienced them, I had to disagree). It's been a long process since then of learning to discern what is opinion vs what is fact. It's not surprising that Justices should judge based upon their own personal experiences. Things are sometimes less 1/0 than we would like them to be. This does become a problem when we are talking about such things as rights - if they are open to interpretation, then they can be interpreted away, and are no longer rights, but privileges.

It's a scary world out there...
i suspect just like every other large organisation, you have small islands of excellence, spread across oceans of mediocrity.
If you could trivially patch memory at runtime, they wouldn't need this firmware in the first place -- they'd just patch out the lock-on-fail code. If you assume that the chain of trust is compromised such that memory changes can be made, you own the device.
ParseHub is much better at getting websites from shitty, complicated sites. Kimono was great for something simple, but ParseHub is a more powerful and flexible web scraper. https://www.parsehub.com/
I can't downvote your post.

That doesn't explain why. Those are just statements of your opinion of the situation.

Why is it incorrect to shame a CEO and company publicly?
This quote from the article is spot on, "It’s just an enormous time-suck for the amount of information you get from it.”

I like and use Twitter, but I don't see the value for most people. While I like it, it don't suggest others use it.
Patching memory at runtime on an iPhone is not in any sense "easy". If it were the FBI wouldn't need Apple's help right now at all; they could just NOP out the code that implements the increasing timeout and erase-on-too-many-failures code.

To put it another way – if it were in fact easy to patch memory at runtime, there would be no need for the jailbreak community to spend huge amounts of time and effort every new OS release.
there're two distinct senses for the word "work" that're pertinent. let's call it toil when we're given work to do, and play when we find our own work to do. in my experience, i see we're conditioned from childhood to think that toil is the normal way in which we're to make ourselves useful, or rather that it's the normal way in which we're made useful. we're also conditioned to think that play is kids stuff, that it isn't serious. so play becomes stunted, not maturing past kids stuff, and toil becomes serious and responsible, when actually it's infantile.

so, you get laid off and find yourself, first of all under stress because your financial situation is uncertain, but secondly wasting away as a person and frittering you newly abundant free time playing video games. i don't think that points to your deep need to toil, to be given work to do. it's evidence of a poorly developed ability to play, that is to find work to put yourself to.

as for me, i've had a few stints of unemployment and it's improved everything in my life, except my bank account. and when i got work again, everything became worse, again, except my bank account. now, like i said, this is just my own experience, but though i hear often enough that people have a real need to toil, i've never seen it in my actual experience. on the other hand i can see a real human need to play, which most people are deprived of. and, of course, a need for money, which is the only tangible thing people get from their toil.
The microcontroller doesn't need the external resistors and capacitor. If the 555 circuit needs a big capacitor then the microcontroller circuit could be cheaper.
s/expand/transfer/
Seems Google have been able to snag some easy to use IPv6 addresses for their DNS servers as well.

2001:4860:4860::8888
2001:4860:4860::8844
That's not an example of BI encouraging someone to work. If they didn't have the $1000 BI, they would be at least just as incentivized to work.
What you're describing is impossible. There's no such thing as free energy, or a system with perfect efficiency which doesn't waste resources.
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300 years ago, humans couldn't even imagine the way the planet (economy, rules etc) would work in 2015. It's natural, that this cycle will repeat itself again and again. Do not worry about drivers, there was a lot of jobs that were eliminated by time/technology and humans survived. Maybe in 2100 people will not need to work at all. This revolution is coming, it's part of evolution, stop fighting it, embrace it and learn how to live in new reality, because you can't stop it.
Preventative care and the most cost-effective healthcare treatments should be universally available separately from BI. There's no good way for market systems to manage health care well.

As a society, we simply cannot afford to give everyone whatever-it-takes care for end-of-life though. We need to prioritize the health care that has the most impact for the cost, the stuff that keeps a normal healthy person healthy and productive, not the stuff that extends a terminally ill person's life by an extra 6 months. To reduce our costs, we have to focus on managing end-of-life to be a positive experience rather than trying to extend it as far as possible at whatever cost.
For us the free doesn't matter because certificates are cheap. It's the byzantine and insecure process of obtaining a cert (sending us our private cert in a zip in a plain text mail. I mean, really?) that makes LE so great.

Edit: Total brainfart, apologies; The company sending us private info as a zip was a different thing.
Yes, and as long as the squabble stayed internal, it didn't affect their first-past-the-post results.

Traditional political logic was that every vote for UKIP was a Tory vote wasted. In reality, they wasted quite a few Labour votes as well.
International sports and sports bodies tend to be pretty horrible.

This article brands the International Olympic Committee "a foul band reeking of corruption and manipulation."[1] The most recent World Cup in Brazil elicited large protests from the poor who failed to benefit from the development.[2]

[1] https://www.gn.apc.org/blog/meet-ioc-foul-band-reeking-corru...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_protests_in_Brazil
Why was that talk banned? Doesn't seem very controversial?
Should be noted that wine does not run on OpenBSD, just to prevent people making an incorrect assumption about your post.
Twitter makes for an easy way to publish and consume status feeds. And I like the shortform. There are other ways to do the same, but the tools weirdly are still not ready for mass consumption.
You don't need Wine for that on OS X though
Slightly off topic, but it really isn't hard to find partitions. Just run the various software to scan and that's it. I've done it at least twice when accidentally erasing a windows partition (once with fdisk when I misread the output, and at that time I didn't even know what a partition is).
It's not controversial to the working class but it's very controversial to the kind of people who bankroll TED.