skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you are saying they are against web apps that replace native apps such as Google Docs and thus it was not in their best interest to make the browser powerful. Interesting.
> Where employees refuse to pay enough for a human to live on, the government picks up the slack

This would be the perfect system, but the current system is that the difference between the maximum employment wage (low) and minimum wage (high) is paid by the company, not the gov, causing unemployment.

A negative income tax is the preferable system here.
> AWS describes Lambda (their implementation of Serverless) as the way how you’ll do think post containers.

Is this sentence was written in double speak or did I just have a stroke?
Awesome, was hoping for something like this ever since reading up on QUIC. Looking forward to experimenting with it, TCP just hasn't kept up with today's internet and QUIC looks like a well designed replacement.

EDIT: My enthusiasm may have been a bit premature, the src/ directory is 325MB (!). Seems like it still has a lot of Chromium dependencies and isn't quite as standalone as something like libutp.
Panama Papers – Tweet their hash, now
https://twitter.com/joantune/status/717083848153108480

I think that this is the only way to make sure that in the future there won't be any omissions from the leak.
Yes, I have a system with browser and mobile ui, based on zwave, 433mhz and modbus devives. The software I use is symcon, which has existed for 5 years at the least; but there is also eg openhab for those insisting on open source only. I optionally have internet integration too, but strictly optional.
Python team at MS now has a code of conduct for all projects
DJI, 3DR, Parrot and GoPro form new drone advocacy group
People still donate to charity, don't they? Or voluntarily sign up for insurance programs? If the programs were effective in reaching their stated goals, I wouldn't expect them to be entirely chipped away. If instead the programs revealed some perverse disincentives on the other hand, I'd expect the result you described, and rightly so.
One of my friends with a Tesla described it in exactly the opposite way: "I never have to think about it because I never have to stop for gas; the car is always just ready to go." He drives somewhere, plugs the car in, does his thing, drives somewhere else, plugs it in, etc. The charge level never goes to zero, so he basically just drives it and the charging takes care of itself as long as he remembers to stick the plug in.
Because it keeps desperately poor people unemployed and outside of productive society.
How is that different than today?

The very point is that less people will be in this situation because getting your basic needs met is shown to make your more responsible. Se further up in thread for some of the studies.
It is, so we've buried this one.
Walt: A device for measuring latency of physical sensors and outputs
Could local building regulations not be used to require the existence of a heating system that can be turned on when mains electricity/gas is available i.e. some kind of manual over-ride to any digital control system?
A talk about blacklistd from NetBSD
Book Summary: Don't Shoot the Dog
Really great read about what it's really like to be an activist. Constant running around hoping that 10 people show up and constant wondering if you're getting anywhere.

Also, a brutal reminder about the devastating personal costs that we so often forget about.

As a climate activist here in the US I had it easy, but still so much of this resonates.
Take a look at Netguard on Github. It emulates the hostfile via local loopback vpn and is able to fully adblock your android device without rooting it. It's also available on the playstore, but that functionality is disabled.

Their releases:
https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/releases

To enable adblocking:
https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/master/ADBLOCKING.md
I'm wondering the exact same thing.
Increasing capital gains taxes back to historical levels doesn't actually get you very far. Maybe another 100-200 billion [1]. Forcing corporations to pay taxes on all money earned in the US instead of tossing it offshore would get you another 90 billion or so [2].

Realistically, almost all of the revenue has to come from increasing personal income tax, probably mostly on the top 5% of earners, but realistically everyone would have to pay more. I haven't yet done the calculations, but it seems like we're talking double digit percentage increases.

[1] http://people.opposingviews.com/percent-irs-revenue-comes-ca...
[2] http://www.americansfortaxfairness.org/tax-fairness-briefing...
And he was probably not paid $10,000,000. But he is damn hilarious in that show
On the other hand, I learned quite a lot through many stage 1 installs. Don't think I ever would have grown so comfortable with a command line and Linux if it hadn't been for stage 1s (and screwing them up).
Part of the problem is that restaurateurs generally come up through the 'system'. A system where they're treated like shit by others, paid poorly, and told that various costs and inputs 'should be' X and Y. They accept shitty pay, never really accrue much capital, so when they do finally decide to start on their own, they are at the mercy of various dubious investors imposing exceptionally terrible terms.

I had the good luck of working with several chefs who wouldn't accept the 'status quo' of food cost, labour cost, ideal markup, etc... Including one who paid off all his debts (he was smart and didn't let investors take any equity) in about 2 years. We're talking capital investments well over a million - paid off in 2 years.

And then there's the whole 'Bistronomie' movement in France and Europe, propagated by guides like 'Le Fooding'. By contrast, North America is running restaurants like Europe did 15 years ago. Some are making great profits, but too many are controlled by their investors, leaving little profit for the workers.

> Of course not, but you can't deny the fact that restaurants are extremely risky investments.

Tech startups are as well. It's just that founders are generally more insulated from the risks. Restaurants likely have a higher 'success' rate than startups, considering how many live off venture capital for years.

I could rant for hours about what's wrong with restaurants (I did work in them for most of my working life). But that doesn't mean the 'industry' as a whole isn't booming.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-14/americans-...

For the right entrepreneurs, the money is there. They just need to operate more efficiently.

David Chang himself demonstrates what's wrong with his model. He's not charging enough. He fears that what he's creating isn't worth more than he's charging, but he can't make a great profit. He should either charge more, or change his product to something he can charge more for. He's right - no one will pay $27 for ramen. Many restaurants specialize in ramen. He can't compete with that. I haven't been to all his restaurants, but it does seem as though he's become more and more conventional as his enterprise has grown - his first several ventures were definitely off-the-wall sorts of places. Looking at menus at his new places - they're far larger, more complex, and more conventional in format, even if the dishes themselves are quite interesting.

IMO, the future is in smaller restaurants. Less workers. Limited menus. No investors sucking up profit. In many ways I see Japan as a glimpse into the future - entire neighbourhoods comprised of restaurants that are the size of a closet, with one artisan creating your food/drinks. It's not necessarily a 'scalable concept' like American investors like. But it's a way for workers to make a good living, and still create art and an 'experience'.

And I would venture a guess, if one were to look at statistics, that the average restaurant is getting smaller...
That's alright. I didn't know about the gorilla case until I went looking for it there, so that's something I learned.
> You have to figure out a development loop, deploys, configuration management. There is nothing built-in to help coordinate lambda deploys across regions.

https://github.com/serverless/serverless solves (upon my initial read-through) every one of your requirements, including multi-region deploys.
I'm trying to explain (perhaps poorly?) that the change is not simply semantic. No one who is part of Google proper has any say in what nest, glass or those other companies do at this point. None of the culture, support etc... transfers over. The CEOs of these new alphabet companies are free to do as they please. What you're seeing here is this in action.

Saying Google are somehow accountable for nest or glass is like saying that dropbox are accountable for the actions of reddit. They are literally that disconnected now when it comes to how the businesses are managed.
Not surprised. Also not surprised at most of the stories told by the panama papers. Corruption seems to be part of human nature. There is historical evidence of corruption from every era and every generation if you look carefully. I wonder if anything will change now that some light has been shed....I hope so... I wouldn't be surprised if nothing changes though. Power is addictive and righteousness is relative. If every person of power has such stories of corruption, would the following people of power have similar stories as well? I would say highly likely.
F* the DMCA! That's not my stupid law!

Signed - not a US citizen!
Or some countries will take advantage of these fleeing westerners and keep their tax rates lower than the US
As an american I can't own property or a business in _most_ of the world, without a local proxy.

We also have programs that will give you citizenship if you commit to investing money long term and taking an allegiance to the United States.
Why we should care about these super low productivity jobs anyway?
Gig work that works would be smarter than both. One of the problems with basic income is that decouples work from income entirely. One of the things paid work accomplishes is encouraging certain kinds of human behaviors. From what I have read, every society that ever tried to promise that "we will take care of everyone, regardless of their contribution or behavior" had to reneg on that when it backfired on them.

Decoupling income from being the work equivalent of "chained to the stove" is a great idea. Gig work that is well designed allows both people of low productivity and of high productivity to participate on their own terms. If someone who isn't very productive is willing to accept a de facto lower than minimum wage hourly rate, they should be allowed to make that choice. It empowers them in ways that welfare programs do not.
It's worth noting that the average age of a minimum wage worker is 35, and the majority are women [0]. Middle-aged women, not teenagers, are the demographic which the minimum wage affects the most.

[0] http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/upshot/minimum-wage.htm...
The "authorized copy" being the important part, unless you're clicking "buy" and then getting an e-mail the next day when your copy of the film, as digitized at your direction, is ready to stream. Which would make it pointless, so I'm almost positive they don't do that, and even if they did there is no streaming license of any kind in the whole scenario, so...

Good position to be in for them, though, because any type of enforcement will (a) rally a large portion of the community that company represents and (b) start a copyright-vs-family or copyright-vs-church or government-vs-church war, which will be a fountain of bad PR for all involved. (Not that MPAA cares.)
Another example might be robodialers if they hadn't been preceded by actual people making calls, which was preceded by people not being able to dial that many calls (rotary phone dialing is slow) and before that even needing an actual operator to complete a "sales" call.

All of the above certainly made it less annoying than it is today. Noting that there is no "do not call" list for businesses.
Probably a better idea to repost your original Show HN. We'll email you a repost invite.
That's how I use JavaScript!
Aren't these statues commissioned by the state and publicly owned?
If a piece is written with a confusingly inappropriate tone for the subject matter, you can't solely blame the reader for being confused since it was the expressed intent of the author to instill that state.
Which FPGA would you use? High-end FPGAs (and FPGA software) are very proprietary and locked down.
We're strangers to each other. Don't call me "dishonest" ("ridiculously biased and unfair" is fair game, though, obviously, I disagree). I'll similarly refrain from doing the same to you.

I've read both of Yarvin's Medium posts. I think perhaps you only read one of of them. Given the degree of stridency in your objection to my comment, I'm guessing you also haven't carefully read the Mencius Moldbug posts that kicked all this stuff off (that's fine: he writes in a deliberately obscurantist fashion in order to foment exactly these kinds of misunderstandings).

A few weeks back, one of the most ardent supporters of his Lambdaconf talk (who went on to raise a not-insignificant amount of money to help sponsor it!) reported attending a Founders Fund event with Yarvin. In person, Yarvin was evidently so flagrantly racist that he was ostracized by other attendees.

Doubtless, Yarvin would respond by objecting to the concept of race, or to the assertion that "suitability for slavery" is a bad thing, or that intelligence is generally a good thing, or by juxtaposing some ridiculous bit of pop culture ("do you believe in the Holocaust? Well, I mean, you're saying the Holocaust as portrayed in Inglorious Basterds...?") against the circumstances of Epictetus, or whatever the fuck else is in his tiresome bag of rhetorical tricks.

People aren't making this stuff up about him.
How Pair Lunches Encourage Diversity and Bring Coworkers Together
In reality, it was the Mubarak and Sisi regimes that have killed and tortured civilians in the thousands. There's a bit in the article about how Morsi issued a presidential decree making his actions unaccountable to the judiciary. This is a judiciary stacked during the Mubarak era that has sentenced dead people and infants to death in these political cases. Sisi's justice minister said that only the elite should keep controling the Egyptian judiciary and in his words, "a cleaner's son" has no right to be a judge. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/18564-denying-...

Activists and journalists should investigate and bring to light the misdeeds of everyone including Morsi and the MB, but it is incredulous at this point to believe that the real problem with Egypt is not the corrupt elite of the military, crony businesses and the state apparatus. It wasn't the Muslim brotherhood, the left, or the liberals who were firing on crowds from helicopters, killing thousands in the streets. It was the military.
It was lost on me, yes. Thanks for clearing it up.
There are people willing to do valuable work for less than the minimum wage - they're called volunteers. A lot of work done by volunteers is more important than work done by minimum wage workers, but involves no commerce.

A basic income provides the opportunity for people to find healthy, fulfilling things that do not pay money.

I'm absolutely OK with some types of paid work going away entirely. Our society leans too heavily on the ability to pay someone else to do something at a rate that is usually more than we would like to pay and less than we would like to make. It is essentially a way of saying that we are more important than other people and that's lame.

Food delivery, for instance, is convenient, I take advantage of it, but I tip far more heavily than most people, and I could live without it. Some people who deliver for a pay service today may end up, with basic income, volunteering for meals on wheels. That's a better allocation of society's potential energy than to bring me a burrito when I don't feel like leaving the house.
> without our noticing it?

Nobody noticed the bad heartbeat packets being sent to openssl for a long time.
California: Although there are some exceptions, almost all employees in California must be paid the minimum wage as required by state law. Effective January 1, 2016, the minimum wage in California is $10.00 per hour.

http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_minimumwage.htm
Reading the book (on operant conditioning, with particular emphasis on how it can be used to train dogs) was transformative for me. Operant conditioning is such a major force in shaping our behaviour. I learnt an awful lot of things from this book which should have been taught in school; I see the principles around me in action every day, but they're just not the kind of thing one habitually pays attention to.
> And you can't ignore the fact that the FBI just tried to get Apple to do something pretty damn similar.

I was very against the FBI's reasoning in the Apple case (and in fact, I'm against their existence generally).

But I don't think that bypassing an unlock retry limit is "pretty damn similar" morally, legally, or technologically to a solution that can arbitrarily execute code remotely, on demand, and with root privileges on nearly any PC and game console in the world.
Damnit. If you're going to remove my ability to use it after 18 months, then just sell it to me on an 18 month contract for $20/month and let me decide whether to sign. It's already clear I don't own the hardware, so why not make it official?
> a Freescale iMX ARM was like $4 per 100 units last time I looked it up.

$4 per 100 units (4 pennies each), or $4 per unit in quantity of 100?
Years ago I wrote some custom scripts to do exactly this. Deploy consisted of having all of the sprocs migrate. At the time I also encrypted all of the sprocs because some admins had a hard time not making changes to live system instead of in source control.
Well you are entitled to that opinion but I frankly don't see where you find the evidence that this is political.

Every country in the west wether socialist leaning or capitalist leaning is experiencing exactly the same problems.

Uber is affecting all countries the same way. Technology is disrupting even the nationstate and it's ability to control it politically.

And yes there are plenty of reasons why you couldn't bring back the jobs because even in China they are not really there anymore.

The Chinese are loosing jobs to the robots in ever expanding phase.

So yes you can get production back but it wont be coming with any jobs.
Thanks! Changed to that from http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/wright-brothers-1903-....

Submitters: HN prefers original sources. When there's an obvious original source, please submit that instead. This is in the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes but there is enough friction with public libraries that that was never an issue. Also noting that many expensive books (or directories) have a market in selling to public libraries. Plus remember that only one person can take out a book at one time (unless multiple copies) and books take time to read so the impact is not the same as with digital works (you have to get to the library to take the book out and there are limits to how many you can borrow is another factor).
This leak was everywhere on Reddit for along time. Your opposition stories don't mean innocent people ID info should be put online..

Your type of comments show how clueless you are and can't grasp personal privacy attacks from politics bullshit.
Work for an open source project
> "Increase employment" is targeting the wrong measure.

What is the correct measure? Sounds like you are arguing for wealth per capita or total wealth.

Even still, wealth per captia is (productivity) * (employment) / (population). Ignoring time.

So even if I agreed with you, more employment is still a good thing even under your 'correct' measure.
The problem with taking these things out of the cloud is that you're then a hardware provider rather than a service provider.

Your revenue would come from selling increasingly inexpensive hardware and/or trying to sell your software to run in a consumer environment where you have very little control.

Very few companies can make money that way. Smartthings is backed by Samsung (800 lb gorilla). They appear to be playing a long game now because they provide cloud-backed service (for free) and cheap hardware. The strategy will very clear shift towards subscription service eventually, IMHO.
hi! some constructive criticism.

i love the idea, connecting developer tools via a plugin to the site is genius. this is a very creative way of doing this, and it's perfect.

the user interface on the site is pretty messy though. i've just tried to fetch my first data and it just got to messy to be worth it. it's currently (for me at least) less messy doing this sort of thing manually than clicking around in the interface, and that should give you a hint that the ux needs some work.

will check back in the future though, it looks very promising!
...but eventually, heartbleed was noticed. And covertly sending large amounts of multimedia content from a PC is far more conspicuous behavior.
Cloud isn't an alphabet company. They are financed as part of Google.
"renewable" energy is a misleading term. It includes renewable (non fossil-fuel) sources such as Corn Ethanol. It is debatable whether such sources have any long-term environmental benefit[1]. Carbon neutral or zero-carbon energy is a much clearer term with much more direct environmental benefits. It's also a higher standard which means less impressive numbers to report which is probably why they did not use it in this article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_the_United_Sta...
CLEANFLIX is a documentary (available on Netflix :) about CleanFlicks, a similar editing service (though they sold physical DVDs of the edited films) that was sued by Hollywood.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1007026/
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My favority is https://www.artstation.com/

So much inspiration.

Hard to beat their Alexa.com traffic growth:

http://alexa.com/siteinfo/artstation.com
42% of the American workforce makes $15/hr or less. http://fortune.com/2015/04/13/who-makes-15-per-hour/
1 Band and 2 of the Worlds Biggest Record Labels Like This Song
Because there are people who depend on them. For spending money, if nothing else.
I'm an employee at VidAngel so I may be able to provide some insight (although my opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer and should not be taken as such).

When VidAngel says that it does not claim to be a moral authority, it is separating itself from the competition (e.g. ClearPlay). It is not going to tell its customers that x is inappropriate or that it is appropriate to view y. All it is saying is that it is up to the customer to decide their moral standing and what they would and would not like to view. We simply tag the content, they decide what they would like to view in their home.

VidAngel is, at its core, a filtering company. So if you are not filtering, VidAngel give you alternatives such as Amazon and Google Play. That does not conflict with its refusal to be a moral authority. It offers the service to filter movies and TV shows in the privacy of your own home, but what you choose to filter is not up to VidAngel.

VidAngel is a filtering company and doesn't offer unfiltered movies--because that is not the market it is after. Within that filtering, VidAngel offers no opinion on which filter is 'morally correct' or not.

As far as 'shadiness' goes, VidAngel definitely doesn't try to hide what it is doing. You can contact VidAngel at support@vidangel.com if you have questions.