skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that basic income is not enough. Most of the people who will receive it will still need and want more. This means they will still be looking for work, and will be willing to accept lower wages, because they have the basic income. This will in turn drag down wages for everyone and end up as a tax-payer subsidy for employers - effectively, part of wages will be paid by the government/tax payers through basic income.
National Geographic, if you want to count them as a "map provider."
That's pretty much what they did, but as a fundamental architecture of the OS. The "emulation box" is the win32 subsystem. Applications interact with the API in the subsystem, which translates, for example, win32 calls to the native NT API. They also created a POSIX subsystem and an OS/2 subsystem.
Yeah, like I said, many things have been improved, but they come with as many regressions in the UI which are mostly done to chase wrong goals (tablet unification) or misguided design (go back to Windows 1 flat UI). In some ways Microsoft's Core Server variant might be a better Windows for development as was Windows Server 2003 back in the day, but I doubt it'd be fully functional on the desktop. These are just a few things that will hold back Microsoft compared to Linux and BSD, when you want to do more than just Visual Studio and Steam Games.
Seems simple to apply the tax rate pro-rata rather than on a cliff. Then the rule works more fairly and gaming is somewhat limited. Government seems to love rule cliffs for some reason.
Freedcamp
Really? That's your answer for people in Haiti with no electricity? Borrow from the blockchain? They live on less than a dollar a day and have no access to computers, let alone internet.
Even during the original WPA, I suspect that a lot of the labor was borderline make work. AKA building a stone bridge for a hiking trail in a national park wasn't the most efficient way to cross a stream even back then.
Canadian law enforcement obtained BlackBerry Global encryption Key
XMPP IRC Gateway – IRC with XMPP Client
Annotations and autoplay. 2 features that I literally never want. It might make sense when watching a series of videos, maybe. But 9 times out of 10, it's "here's some other random video that has nothing to do with this one that you watched." Why would I want that?
It doesn't help that you have either FTPS or SFTP depending on the platform. I call it FTP as a generalization, but if I ever saw it as an actual FTP implementation I'm outta there.
Ask HN: Best recommended content strategist/copywriter (agency/freelancer)?
Our sports marketing platform is looking to hire a content strategist/copywriter, either an agency or independent freelancer. Any recommendations?
The world is full of things that easy to fix if you have the experience, but remain unfixed.

> "In the 1880s, James MacNeill Whistler, as plaintiff in a libel action, was challenged, "For two days' labour, you ask two hundred guineas?" "No, I ask it for the experience of a lifetime." That seems an apt summary of the message of this
legend."

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp
The Air Force wants the cash to help make up for the abysmal F-35 program. The USMC and Navy should have control of ground attack resources. Let the Air Force play with their missiles and laser death rays.
It seems to me that the premise of this article is "things have changed economically over the past 50 years, so we should change infrastructure to match". But then what happens in another 50 years when things change again? Wouldn't we be locked into a more rigid infrastructure based on early 21st century economy, and then people in the future will be drawing new maps talking about how "the 7 mega-regions are not serving us well"?

Regardless, it sure would be great if we had a better rail system in the US!
If Y is enough to live on, you might decide X is not enough to keep you doing that job and look for something else.
States are just a collection of individuals. Laws are made by human beings, not land.

House: Californians and Wyomingans are equal.

Senate: Wyomingans are 48 times more important than Californians.

It doesn't balance out.

If you're ok with the senate giving greater influence to low-populated areas, would you be ok with giving rural voters a larger vote weight than urban people when electing a senator? It's contradictory to vote for senators by using "1 person 1 vote" who then do not proportionally represent the population.
>White-collar types see their peers as life-long adversaries who do not belong in the same boat they are in. Some also believe that they “really” belong to a much more exclusive boat and were just plain unlucky to land in their one they are in.

>Almost every white-collar type sees his peers as his or her biggest enemy. His (or hers) biggest ambition in life is to somehow triumph over them and move to a “better” place.

While I don't doubt this occurs there are plenty white-collar employees that don't look at it this way and don't operate this way. The author has a very cynical view of white-collar employees. Makes me wonder if this is just an attempt to stir up some emotions in the readers of their blog piece.

Since graduating decades ago I have been a white collar employee and employer at times. Today I manage a few people, do work with them (we manage 130+ web sites and code backend and front end) and lead a cross department team. We don't express any of these tendencies. In fact if we did we would not be considered a high performing team and we are considered by others to be just that. We work with people on other teams that seem to be the same as us in terms of desire to get the job done right and in a way that is collaborative and at times fun. Maybe I would believe this more whole-heartedly if the author referred to senior executive white-collar employees. I see and have seen the tendencies the author speaks to more at the Vice President and Senior Vice President level than at the middle manager level.
Advocates for the reverse ought to bear in mind that however noble the goal of avoiding harm to individuals in the short term may be, the harm done to individuals in the long term is even more massive, and then much harder to fix.

Two case in point examples: Prop 13, and rent control.

These are not, as popularly concieved, great ways to protect the poor and disadvantaged. They are simply examples of very short term thinking becoming public policy, which has the unintended and paradoxical effect of harming the poor and disadvantaged much more in the long run.
ODF has many similarities to HTML. HTML has <div>, <h1>, <p>, <span>. ODF has <text:section>, <text:h text:outline-level="1"/>,<text:p>, <text:span>.

Images are also PNG, JPEG and SVG. Formulas are MathML.

Styling uses the same properties as CSS, but the are written in XML instead of using the CSS syntax.

The ODF Essentials book is good introduction to the format.
http://books.evc-cit.info/odbook/book.html
Do you want to see 80% of existing content creators online to die and the other 20% to keep the lights on through paygates?

Because that's what we're going to get if advertising dies.

Do you have a better business model? People have been seeking a better business model for content for the last two decades. It's not quite so easy as just saying "evolve! innovate damn you!"
If RoboVM isn't revenue-positive, what's Microsoft to do? Xamarin bought RoboVM, presumably hoping that there were synergies there. Then Microsoft bought Xamarin, and Xamarin's business-model changed, and those synergies may not be there anymore. At that point, you can make a case for RoboVM to operate independently if RoboVM pays for itself. But the decision to take RoboVM closed-source and increase what they charge indicates that maybe RoboVM couldn't and can't self-sustain.
>>Reduce the federal take of taxes, leaving the money in the hands of the people who actually innovate, employ, and make economic decisions.

Are you suggesting that the federal government doesn't innovate or employ (which would be wrong), or that the states are better at those things than the federal government (which would require a citation)?
Wow, you've really solved this!
Remote developer jobs. Avoiding the fucking cubicle
Top 10,000 “Show HN”s 2006-2015: Where are they now? Please, share your story
A rise in gluten allergies? This is news to me. Is there anything published that you can cite?
> A modern GMO actually lets you use LESS herbicides and insecticides, and often far less dangerous ones than many that are OK for labeled organic crops, and happen to be far more toxic.

Citation needed.
Show HN: Quaint – a statically typed language with seamless resumable functions
See, and no tripled salary at 20% tax rate would ever pull me to a country where I pay 3000$ per month for a toilet with bed, every toddler has the right to bear arms, clowns like Trump are even seriously considered for presidency, and my kids don't get free health insurance, daycare and later on great education until college level.

And nope, I don't feel unfairly treated by leaving 50% of my paycheck on the desk in exchange for a society with an overall super low crime rate because everyone here has a minimum amount of money here and the same right to the same chances of starting out in life.

Guess it's simply a different lifestyle. :)
Use whatever works. Use the present to build the future.
I wonder why continuing with the OS branch of RoboVM (BugVM?) is not listed as one of the options?
Using a Dyson hand dryer is like setting off a viral bomb in a bathroom
I whole-heartedly support this suggestion. Devolution of economic and political authority has been a model for success throughout history. Central planning, not so much. Not that it can't be, but we are replete with examples of it failing disastrously.

However, the author of the article does get at a very interesting and relevant point, which is that the political system in the U.S., at both the state and federal level, is now badly out of date and does not reflect the contemporary realities of where the population centers are and how their economies work. It does seem like our country would greatly benefit from a broad reorganization of political-economy amongst the states and at the federal level as well.
> debunking theories that the US mission was a hoax

Because that will matter to the people who believe this "theory".
Clarification: I collected HTTP response codes from top 10,000 "Show HN" projects published since 2006. Half of them returned 200. The others returned timeouts and redirects, which indicates that they perhaps get closed.

So, what's happened to them? It's interesting to hear your Show HN project's story.

And, yes, supporting links:

Top 100 "Show HN" Projects in 2006–2015: https://github.com/antontarasenko/smq/blob/master/reports/ha...

Top 100 "Show HN" Projects plotted: https://plot.ly/~AntonTarasenko/20/top-100-show-hn-submissio...

Top 5,000 "Show HN" Projects plotted (this submission's link): https://plot.ly/~AntonTarasenko/23/top-5000-show-hn-submissi...

Top 10,000 "Show HN" Projects CSV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-fi5DaWfQWbdlVKMU84czFrNk...

The data from: https://github.com/antontarasenko/smq
The State of Jefferson is alive and well, according to a surprisingly large number of billboards in my home town.
> Ideally most transactions should be off the shelf

What about SaaS, when most value comes from second 'S'? =)
Even just from an economic standpoint, I think such fines should be far higher. Sometimes it takes lab tests to determine fakes from real foods.
Also, I disagree - consumers shouldn't have to know the market. One could argue that they should, but they should not have to.
How to Increase Your Startup's E-Commerce Revenue
How to deploy secure, auditable, and reproducible Kubernetes clusters on AWS
Are you going to post what you find?
From my understanding, Happy Birthday isn't necessarily public domain, but rather the true owner's are unknown at this time until someone can come forward and claim ownership, and defend ownership in court. But it sounds like it will be very difficult for someone to successfully do and therefore, Happy Birthday is possibly public domain.
But how would I discover content if I didn't use HN? Is there a way to aggregate and rank content without an authoritative server?

Also, HN isn't for-profit (although YC is). Like, yeah, it's not a non-profit, but it's not designed to make any money either.
Right, and I agree with you, but the fact that it would be better not to have them in the long run doesn't do anything about the short term harm of thousands of people losing their homes all at once. "It will be better for everyone in the aggregate, eventually" doesn't do anything for someone who just became homeless.

What I'm saying is, if you want this policy, start thinking of ways you could change it while accounting for the harm that changing it would do.
There’s Application Virtualization and There’s Docker
Kylix was pretty cool. I wish Borland didn't implode...
L.A. plan would demand Airbnb hand over information
Yes. This is the fifth installment of the series investigating his life. The other episodes mention how his code inspired TrueCrypt.

The title for this submission should really have done a better job at explaining this is a series.
An amazing talk, especially if you were gaming at the time.

I can't believe how little crowd reaction there is to some of the things he's showing, eg. the cityscape reveal in the Storm game screens.
VR, as it is currently, is puzzling in terms of the reality of it compared to the hype.
The cutoff is actually June 13, 1979, not 1978.

source: https://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol/
Any plan that puts North Dakota and Minnesota together shows the lack of knowledge of the planner. If everything went to heck, the Red River of the North would be a border.
The capitalization is "IoT" [0], not "iOT".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things
I thought the whole point of the "local" movement is that cheaper is not better and bigger is not better, as people are willing to pay more for less food because it is supposedly "local".
My African friend tells me stories of how his mother runs a successful rose exporting business in Ethiopia and regularly pays off bank employees so none of her (personal) money gets stolen.

In western countries it's almost unimaginable to not be able to rely on banks to store your money safely. They are typically the most conservative and reliable institutions among the chain of various business services you'd have to deal with as an entrepreneur. Without this critical underlying consumer-level infrastructure in place I'm in no hurry to be a pioneer there.

Despite my friends making similar claims about the endless low-hanging fruit opportunities there to make money.
United we stand, divided we fall.
> At some point in the corporate world the term "constructive criticism" came into vogue.

Looks like the 1920s - https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=constructive+c... .

For example, here's a 1919 source which uses that phrase three times: https://books.google.com/books?id=FFccAQAAMAAJ&q=%22construc... .
What is wrong with knob and tube wiring? Fuseboxes suck, but knob and tube isn't too bad. You are basically guaranteed to never have an electrical fire.
This is a rehash of the (excellent!) Urban Archipelago manifesto from the Seattle weekly newspaper The Stranger in 2004:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-urban-archipelago/Con...
It depends what you mean my 'enough to live on', because you can live on very little or no income, but you won't live well. At our current state we cannot provide enough for everybody for free, this might be possible in the future, but not for the next 50 years. Basic income does not fit well with our current system, it would be wiser to invest that money into useful projects such as free healthcare, education, transportation in my opinion.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-race-celiac-gluten-...
Actually, in order to advance to round 2 you have to be top 1000 in one of the first rounds, so you make it to the top 3000.

The reason I asked is because I placed in the top 1000 (top 1000 of round 2) back in 2011 but was only contacted by a google recruiter in late 2012 (in the 2012 edition I had been just outside of the top 1000 in round 2).
funny you should say that, because New York City is not part of Yankeedom on that map. Its in New Netherlands, which is basically a city state around the NYC metro area.

Now, I'm not saying that you're wrong. I'm a New Yorker that went to school in western Massachusetts so I know those two cultures very well. Not so much about The Great Lakes midwest. I think the map is meant to reflect economics as much as cultures though and certainly the St. Lawrence Seaway and Eerie Canal shipping routes, as well as the major railroads in the region, have established very strong economic ties between Yankeedom and the Great Lakes region.
The federal government has proven more times than any other organization that they are inept and inefficient at almost every task they undertake.

And yet the people all but demand that they do more, more, more.

Please! Take more of my money and more of my individual liberty! And in return please send me more regulation, bureaucracy, inefficient waste, and general mismanagement! I can't get enough!
I used it back when OpenOffice was just too slow and bloated to use very well on most computers I owned ~10 years ago and earlier. But through a combination of improved OpenOffice/LibreOffice performance and faster computers, I finally drifted away from AbiWord. For one, I still had to install OpenOffice for PowerPoint type work, so it was there anyway and it usually kept up with MS format compatibility better than AbiWord. I think the last straw for for leaving AbiWord behind completely was the Novell(?) patches that made OpenOffice feel more at home on Linux and stop sticking out like a sore thumb(and I think those were the same patches that led to the LibreOffice fork when Sun/Oracle wouldn't accept them).
One time I saw a farmer's market stall being set up. The people were taking produce out of bags that looked a lot like what they sell at Costco, and repackaging it into cute little bundles and crates. (NOT trying to say that they all do this)
>It costs £15/$21 for a single t-bone, but man is it worth it.

I've had plenty of local meat, and I'm in a rural setting known for its farming. I'm skeptical.

I'd love to see this actually tested, because I think this is an alternate view of the article; the "hipster" crowd is so keen on getting locally sourced food because it just tastes oh-so-much better (and they're more than happy to tell you). Half the time they're not even eating locally sourced food.

The global food supply chain is pretty amazing. Why do we assume that Joe Schmoe farmer down the road is automatically "better" at food production? Outside of the fact that some produce can lose nutrition in transport, I'd bet 90% of people couldn't tell the difference between garden fresh or grown-in-China...or that if they identified a difference they'd necessarily choose the former as a preference. Taste (in the literal sense) is a funny thing.
> People I meet seem to own 2-3 condos a piece. Everyone thinks they'll just rent them out. I think we are almost guaranteed to have a condo collapse in the near future.

If you're not hung up on owning, this is a great spot to be in. I can already rent a luxury condo here in Toronto for less than (mortgage interest + property tax + maintenance) would cost me if I had purchased it. Rich landlords are effectively subsidizing our rents (which are very, very cheap compared to SF or NYC).
Nice reference about https://www.projectcalico.org . At some point insanity of using ethernet on top of UDP to carry IP traffic between containers must stop.
A long time ago, perhaps 6-7 years, I used an OS X app that took screenshots and put a link on the clipboard. I noticed that it used very short paths and they appeared to be sequential, so in a moment of boredom I made a little PHP script that just gave you next/previous buttons to iterate through them. It was amusing and I considered actually scraping them and then trying to OCR for sensitive information or something out of curiosity, but I never got around to it (pity, I could have scooped this article!).

Well, fast forward about two years, and that script is still sitting around on a forlorn webserver of mine. Somehow, I have no idea why, some random person ended up tweeting a link to it and it spread around a bit until the software vendor got wind of it. They ended up sending me a probably too-polite email asking if I could do something about it, and after a bit of back-and-forth I got instructions from them on how to enable more secure "long URLs" in the software (an option that I think was new since I made it, so I wonder if I may have actually inspired it...) and added those to the bottom of the page.

It's long gone now, and to be honest I can't remember which app was affected. Possibly tinygrab.

The point of this anecdote is that the problem is not at all new, and the problem of how to deal with it isn't new either. I suggested to the developer at the time that they should probably use long URLs by default, but it seems users just like those short URLs too much. Going to non-sequential assignment would have helped, but the space was still just too small.

Really, I think the fix is just communication. Microsoft's workflow used to be sensible in that OneDrive gave you a long URL and then you had to click another button to get a short one. That second click should come with a warning that there should be no sensitive information in the document, and it will potentially become public after shortening. Users will have to be trusted with the judgment, at least you've CYAd.
It's a question of salary. If you are not an engineering superstar you will often hit a hard limit on your salary if you are an engineer. You can make more as a manager.
> Is there a way to aggregate and rank content without an authoritative server?

Something like RSS: Pick up all posts tagged such and such from these users.

I've thought a bit about this and if we really wanted to we could get really far with just a few hundred lines of code as well as some html templates.

Problem is, most people like facebook and instagram :-/
Advertising is an immoral business model in the age of constant connectivity and pervasive data collection. The winners are those who do the best job of getting you to come back over and over, and the best way to do that is to addict you. Once you're hooked, they make money by selling changes in your behavior to the highest bidder.

Today's advertising industry is all about addiction and coercion. Celebrate its death.
You always have rent, by some name or another. Homeowners pay property taxes and homeowners insurance. Homeowners with an extant loan pay interest.
Hi, I couldn't resist any longer after 3.5 years buried in the lab to show an alpha of our new automation tool to somebody (i love this board).
Please have a look at http://net-commander.com/screenshots and tell me what you think.

You can also download the alpha version for Ubuntu, Mac and Windows (it has still quit some bugs)

What's behind:

I am writing authoring software for experts since 2 decades and I wanted this time to make a tool which enables configuration tasks and automation of any networked device or service. In order to make this work like the new Excel for the new iOT and accessible to hobbiest or any person with minimal tech-skills, I followed the idea of providing a block based programming language which also can run any script in any language on the device. I hope being able to convert the block language via "pseudo" into popular languages like Javascript, C++, etc. Google's Blockly was a great inspiration for that.

Btw, another really big challenge (and very time consuming) is to write a web-based software which feels really snappy fast and works the way we know from older expert software (context menu, ribbons, main-menu, full keyboard support,...)

It is an Open-Source project and I hope somebody might like it here.

Your feedback is very welcome, greets