skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You have a right to not have violence initiated against you

This is a right of outcome. The outcome of not having violence committed against your person or property.

Rights of outcome vs rights of opportunity are a false dichotomy. All rights are a right for some specific outcome and are considered violated when that outcome does not occur.
Just gave this a spin and really loved the ease of use, but I can't quite replace my go-to torrent client (currently Hadouken) with it just yet. Here are some suggestions for future improvements to consider in case they're not on your shortlist already:

1) Ability to monitor multiple folders and automatically add torrents (and ideally the ability to specify a different download location for each)

2) Ability to run as a headless service/daemon with a thin management UI like Deluge/Transmission/Hadouken/etc
The barrier for most health startups are clinical trials and the Fda. How do you plan to manage that ? and does continuous improvement, like you hint in your pitch, even fit with way the Fda views the world?
That's delivery. User accounts, network encryption and Windows support.

I did a couple of interviews with this people; and I can ensure this features have a few thoughts behind them.

Happy to see RethinkDB going on, and very sad I didn't make 100% my best at the interviews by personal issues at the time.

It's a pity that many people here in my country do not know still about RethinkDB. Other mainstream databases are more common knowledge.

I wish the best for you, and I keep a very good impression of each and every one of the people with whom I could talk at the process.

Very curious about the windows port. Has been hard? do you use any kind of framework that did ease the porting of the RethinkDB code?

Network encryption is undervalued in this times. A funny and serious feature. I would like to see the dashboards, thoughts and meetings around this one.

Keep up the good job!
g+ doesn't have a write api so everything you see there is posted by a human technically.

that said i don't post on g+ but whenever i log in my stream is full of "fresh" content with reasonable engagement. so somebody is using g+ although i don't know a single person that does...

could it be that it is more popular outside of US?
Aha, it was origionally proposed to be placed on the Cross Kirkland Corridor trail: http://seattletransitblog.com/2016/03/12/kirkland-st-struggl...
The problem is that the spam - especially LinkedIn-generated invite spam - is how LinkedIn grew.

There are other professional networks out there. You just haven't heard of most of them.

The trouble is that respecting people's right not to bombarded with cookie-cutter emails means that your social network struggles to even attract large numbers of chickens, and the eggs aren't likely to be interested because the same people can generally be reached more easily on the much-bigger LinkedIn.

Don't get me wrong, I think there's plenty of scope for a better professional network site than LinkedIn
(they don't even do job boards well, which is frankly weird given their unrivalled candidate metadata)
But sadly, antipathy to spamming is the differentiator that's least likely to result in a successful mainstream social network.
Yes.. but the problem is what if you need to manage data across a CRM as well as something like an ITSM?

For companies that are managing one specific type of data and that alone-- for example a support desk-- something like Zendesk works perfectly. Those aren't the types people this would be able to help.

It's the organizations that might do many different things at the same time-- maybe one or two people are managing customer requests as well as checking in and handling customer inventory with a special workflow. For example, at the University I worked for we whitelisted the MAC addresses of hundreds of customer devices using a special procedure that changed every couple months.

This tool would allow people to easily manage that work and keep that that workflow up to date. This would cut down on mistakes and make things go a lot faster.
Yes? Diamonds aren't a rare rock anyway though, amazes me they are so expensive
Hi,

I am an aerospace engineer that worked on the Orion capsule in Houston as part of the constellation program. I have a BS and MS in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

We use MS Word mainly because it's there, everyone has a license for it, and everyone just accepts that we use one tool for documentation and others for analysis. We can change that.

The time savings comes this way:

Right now, you design your components in Excel, Matlab, etc and then document them. When a requirement or neighboring system changes, each engineer must then go back and make the necessary changes to their math, their documentation, and their CAD. This can take weeks or even months for small changes as each engineer has to go back through their work.

With our system, the user designs his component as part of the whole system. When a requirement or neighbor changes, the software filters those changes out and the components redesign themselves. This will be true for the CAD as well. Weeks or months of work for dozens of engineers or more then takes seconds.
It's a work humour, not a book of science.

Indeed. I thought it was an interesting experiment. The results make it abundantly clear that 1,000 words are not enough to communicate about science and engineering topics effectively even at an introductory "plain English" level.
> No two humans will ever have equal opportunities, without destroying all progress, individuality, and justice (it is unjust that one person should be held responsible for the choices of others).

Well, I mean you just said a bunch of things with no supporting arguments. And, since people affect those around them, including their choices, there absolutely is a share of responsibility for the choices of the people you affect such as your children.

> I've come to think that equality of opportunity is wrong

That happens when people try to justify why they deserve more than others based on nothing.

> and the alternative that we should fight for is equality before the law

That's not an alternative, that is something that is also required.

> We should also strive to treat people as they deserve, based on their character, choices and actions.

I guess you leave homeless people to die on the street because you intricately know their character, choices and actions, and based on those you decided that they deserve it?
i think the meaning of "nice" here is to be constructive in your criticism:

1. stick to "just the facts", eg, "lack of https support will expose your users to security vulnerabilities"

2. list potential solutions if possible
The TARP bailout was not money just handed out to banks. It was loans to banking and other industries which was repaid in full overall. And in fact it was the auto industry which failed to repay the loan, not the banking industry.

I'm not a fan of the financial sector but let's keep the facts straight here
I think this is well intentioned but would be absolutely disastrous if implemented; it would give large employers de-facto control over what we are allowed to teach in higher education and encourage short sighted investment in current careers at the expense of cutting edge fields. Nevermind the substantial arguments that an education should be more than vocational training, and that job placement in many majors is more a function of the candidate and not their degree; predicting the careers of tomorrow is a hard task best not left in the hands of government bureaucrats or even large corporation's hr departments.
There is no integration with existing tools. There are some very good CAD systems out there - Catia, ProE, etc. However, for security reasons, there is no way I could link up to that software on the server.
I wish you good luck in finding a spouse. It's not about the shiny rock, it's about the financial commitment to a symbol of your enduring love, or something.
I do the same thing. There's a particular way of speaking in the North of New Zealand that is associated with poor Maori - when I'm talking to my dad's family, I switch back to talking like that. I mask it in almost all other situations, but it's caught a few friends out at times. One told me it was like talking to a completely different person.

My dad is a tradesperson, and his influence is the one thing I have never been able to completely hide, even in professional settings. It's gotten me a bit of grief over the years, as my response to stress is often to start swearing like a builder.

On one hand, I like being able to code-switch easily. On the other hand, I feel like the only reason I can do it is because I had to, and the inability to completely mask my lower class upbringing has negatively impacted my opportunities at times.

At this point, I just try to own it. If I don't, it's just persisting the negative stereotypes of people of Maori descent never making something of themselves. Gotta start breaking those biases down somehow.
''you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!''
They are conditional with having employment in the first place as well as if the government entity they are under has approval for such forgiveness. My wife doesn't qualify under most programs and given the glut of newer grads or veterans (she's been beaten out by veterans for 10 positions with 100+ applications referred - none of which were non-veterans according to the hiring committee we managed to find out) she's competing against that can accept the $12 / hr wages I basically have to pay the residual myself instead. That's marriage for you.
Apply HN: Niche social-network for farmers, plants, their uses, seeds exchange
I felt in love with a agriculture movement called agroforestry and I've being learning and practicing it for the past year and a half, also I've being practicing a vegan raw food diet and this together brings me so make questions when I see a plant species:

- What species is it?
- Is it edible? What parts?
- Can I eat it raw? Or just cooked?

There are SO many leafs we could eat and most people think it is just weed, we call then here PANCs (Plantas Alimenticias Não Convencionais / Unconventional Food Plants). We can crowdsource this kind of information.

The beauty in PANCs is that they usually don't need fertilizers neither pesticides thanks to their rusticity, but:

- Where can I buy them to consume?
- Where can I find seeds or seedlings so I can produce?

Maybe someone near me have a plant and wants to sell/give it away. It would be a nice opportunity to connect farmers in so many ways other than that.

Plants are not just edible, most are medicinal too and I've cured so many things with plants that I'd love to see a more organized way to browser their medicinal uses too. I've some good books on it but books are difficult to browse, to carry around and miss a lot of information specially on local species that today just some elderly knows.
So we crowdsource medicinal uses too. But how to trust this kind of information without scientific studies on the specie?

We can crowdsource all those the questions.

I see a really engaged community of plant identification and seeds exchange on Facebook even though they work it could be a lot more organized and with better engagement with some gamification.

I'm Brazilian so I'm taking more about my reality here, but this kind of platform could benefit people around the world and maybe help with food crises.
Why nothing else? It could help us understand more about the human mind.
Must the value of an education be purely the salary you can get afterwards? The true roots of liberal arts (which used to include everything from astronomy to mathematics to botany) lie in creating a well-rounded, educated, sophisticated person. We can't all study STEM, and we as a society shouldn't demand that.
I think referencing Frost is a little dismissive here. The writer has some pretty clear reasons and description of his regret that probably many should pay attention to.
The indeterminacy of the images
There's a bunch of these already but none of them allow you to limit bandwidth so they are unusable on residential internet in most cases. Baffles me...
What about jobs that aren't particularly "entertaining" to watch? I'm thinking something like lawnmowing, gardening, landscaping, etc?

And how about the scope of "free labor"? You mentioned house demolition, but on the other end of the spectrum it could be menial tasks like filing papers or delivering food.

If you were to start the business strictly on "entertaining" jobs like house demolition, what's the market like for number of houses being demolished that would bring a steady stream of broadcasts and viewers to satisfy sponsors?
The Education Department has assembled a “behavioral sciences unit” to study the psychology of borrowers and why they don’t repay.

“We obviously have not cracked that nut but we want to keep working on it,” said Ted Mitchell, the Education Department’s undersecretary. He said many defaulted borrowers dropped out of school and are underemployed.

This is surreal. Could they be any more patronizing?
Why Avoton then? You just lost a sale.

I shouldn't have assumed ECC, but if you have a group designing your own hardware then routing another 8 wires shouldn't be a problem.

I'm disappointed.
also i think a lot of it is this kind of stuff[0].

[0]: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/everest-college-closure-no-s...
Hey guys! I really like this idea. Can you tell me a bit about what types of events you foresee people posting. For instance, would I post my dinner plans as an event?
I certainly didn't mean to imply that the signal processing perspective was untenable with the modern world of actually-rectangular pixels, but what you describe is really a post-hoc shoehorning of square-pixel thinking into the signal processing framework. And you still haven't accounted for pixel-oriented font hinting or pixel-first design of bitmap fonts and graphics that gives leeway to the underlying shapes in order to maximize legibility when rendered onto a pixel grid. The signal processing perspective can offer some valuable insight, but it's a pretty bad choice as an overriding mode of thought for computer graphics.

(And I'm not the author of the article.)
I'm a recent graduate. People don't go to college because they think they'll have their debt absolved. They go to college because an undergrad degree is now the equivalent of a HS degree 30 years ago. It's simply a prerequisite, and every parent/counselor is pushing children towards it.

Besides, the students described in the article graduated long before Bernie sanders arrived on the scene. He was clearly not a factor in their decision to attend in the first place.
I had this very experience. Everyone I encountered in my schooling and personal life basically pushed me to take out loans and get a degree by whatever means necessary. Even after I explained that I had no idea what I wanted to do (at the time).

Thankfully I thought it foolish to put myself in significant debt for an education I wasn't passionate about and a direction I wasn't sure about. The whole "just go and get it done" excuse is thrown at a _lot_ of young adults and those loans are sure easy to get. Just crazy.
I am all for the basic concept here of empowering workers. I have blogged previously about why I think gig work done right is the wave of the future. But I am concerned that this is not a solid concept for how to implement it well.

I have done gig work for over four years and my experience suggests that a broker model is effective. I don't know how to develop that outside of the niche where I work, but I am concerned that the focus in your proposal on the amount of the cut taken by the middle man is the wrong framing.

I don't care how much my virtual employer tacks onto what I charge for my work. Yes, it is possible for me to set my pay rate from my end and the person hiring me sees a different number from their end because the service tacks some amount on to covers their expenses. I am very okay with them making enough money to pay for the full time employees that run the service (and other business overhead) so there is a virtual marketplace for my work.

My concern here is that your focus or framing of the problem space will mean the service is not sustainable because there is no inherent mechanism for making sure the service makes enough money to pay its own bills.

I would very much like to see more services that empower workers to set their own hours, choose their own tasks and set their own pay. But they need to be designed such that the service also makes enough money or it isn't sustainable. It will wind up a tragedy of the commons if everyone feels like "100% of that money is mine because I earned it and the middle man does not deserve a cut."

So, I think you probably need to rethink that framing.
This may be pedantic, but there's a couple typos on https://bulkblacksocks.com/socks.html which make me think twice about signing up.

'Heals' is a pretty critical one. Even though the service is dead-simple I want to trust my socks source knows the distinction.
IPL would be the wrong way to do it. I thought it worked by heating the hair until it dies, not burning/cutting it off.

You would want to use regular electric barber hair clippers with a vacuum attachment for cut hair collection.
Daesh’s Alrawi App is a game changer
Mods: consider switching this from the original blogspam to Wikimedia's blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/04/strike-against-freedom...
A plug for a technology that amplifies the reach of transit: the folding bicycle (e.g., Bromptons).

You can't run trains to everybody's home or workplace, but you can run trains to within a couple of miles of the endpoints of the commutes of many persons. Can some of this large budget somehow be used to subsidize folding bikes?
This allows more than the top 1000 words. The dictionaries clearly have 3000 lines
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Ethereum vs. Mossack Fonseca: The IBC and it's blockchain alternatives
I think you have identified a need and not a market.

My suggestion would be to charge a lot for the service (and hence be able to pay a lot for the proofing process), but have the payment delayed until the the applicant gets a job. This would align the interests of the proofreader and the CV owner.
It was backstopping shitty loans with the full faith & credit of the gov't. Note that the person who received the shitty loan still got foreclosed on and lost their equity. The persons responsible, who made the loan, don't have to take a loss.
The threshold for payment is quite low, around £20000 pretty year in salary before tax. I'd expect most people to make some payments, although compared to an engineer the artist might take a few extra years to reach the minimum salary.
I'm from SE Texas and had a very thick accent growing up. I spent considerable effort getting rid of that accent around age 16. It's a double edged sword. I got so good at it that when I acquired a job at a newspaper in the town I was born in it caused some issues. Locals were upset about our paper hiring a girl from Indiana and another guy from Ohio. It was a very small town and the locals believed the local newspaper should be staffed by locals. When I would interview people they would get standoffish, accusing me of being a northerner, an outsider. I would tell them I could see the hospital I was born in from my office window, but they wouldn't believe me. My accent still comes out when I've had a few drinks or get tired. I've had a few people notice and think it's hysterical that I try to hide it. I too work in tech now and don't want anybody making snap judgments about me from the way I speak.
Teaching at Title 1 schools for five years can result in $17500 of forgiveness, with some stipulations I'm forgetting.
I have had my share of compliance battles over the years so I definitely understand the issues. However it is currently my understanding that the compliance onus will be on the advisory firm that use our software. Every compliance officer has their own interpretations of ERISA but I think we should be able to satisfy their requirements.

Fees will be charged to the advisors on a per-participant basis, or should a company want to provide it directly we would of course accommodate them.

I think you generally will be better served talking to someone in person however most advisors don't touch participant personal finances outside the retirement accounts. Also I do think people are increasingly comfortable not interacting with people for their financial services. I personally find going into a bank or calling a banker on the phone an inconvenience. My bank doesn't even have branches or ATMs in my state. Thank God for deposit by phone.
Why not just invest in someone inside the community trying to do just that? This entire experiment is exactly what we're trying to do at Baqqer. Crowdfunding (+equity) / social proof from the community to help build products people want from the start.
One question I would like to ask, for each project, is:

Will all journal publications from the project be published as Open Access Science?

For every project, this question should be answered up-front.
If nothing unexpected happens, Facebook will be dead by 2020 [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=facebook
There was a bill in the state house several years ago (I think 2009?) to build up housing around link stations but it unfortunately didn't pass.
For what it's worth, I'm in the trading world and we evaluated Power8. It's cool. But reality is, it needs to become ubiquitous before it's all that useful.

You're looking at $6k+ for a 2 socket barebones system... preposterous. If you want FLOPS, you can add a few Titan X's to a dual socket E5 server and absolutely destroy the Power9. Want ECC? Throw in a single Tesla. Don't want to rewrite code for CUDA? Use an Intel Xeon Phi with the Intel C/C++ compiler. Just need more CPU power? Throw in top of the line Xeon E7's and they'll still outperform.

Now, the math on this would change if Power8 actually managed to become ubiquitous and competitive price-wise.
I have a Certificate in GIS and wanted to go into urban planning, so I like the basic idea here. But I am wondering what you envision as a use case. What can be done with this? Who would use it? Why?

Thank you.
Demolition with heavy machinery sounds like an easier sell for both the people who do the work and sponsors.

In my country there's a company offering 'events' where you use heavy machinery. My parents did it for fun (and I paid for this).
Yes, it's certainly not a general problem (and seems unlikely to be due to running Ubuntu). I don't work for Canonical.
And even outside of just automation and authentic followers you have Amazon mechanical truk which would allow you to pay real people a quarter or whatever to vote for you.
rkho-With jobs that aren't exciting then I would think the sponsored team would make it exciting. How? Maybe bikini clad Women.
This also ignores also that most Democratic presidents spoke on the same level