skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad you found it useful. The great thing about Lambda, I think, is the cost, which is so cheap as to be effectively free for a lot of uses (according to https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/, the first million requests each month are free). So if you could design a web service to be deployable on lambda (via zappa or whatever framework), you can effectively host a website for close to no cost assuming you don't have a lot of traffic. On the other hand, you lose some of the control that comes with having your service run on a EC2 instance. For example, I like being able to SSH in to the server to troubleshoot things when they go wrong. But for a hobby project that I put together in a few hours, I might not care enough to pay for the EC2 instance.
I am willing to face that danger in OPs stead!
Most are dysfunctional. You have to specifically look only if you want functional ones.
Except if you don't have 3k rents you might be able to just find a place to live.

This is not "I've lost everything and am homeless with no way out" it's "I wanna build a startup so I'm going to go live in a van".
You'd probably assume liability for all of the other stuff that's around that thin lithium lining.

It must be cost, because I can't think of any other reason that we don't have micro-machine dis-assemblers for slowly picking apart our garbage in to neatly binned resources.
Remember, school is all about profit, wait no, I mean testing, no, I m
Real Time Collision Detection is great, but leaves almost all capsule collisions to intuition. That was fine for me, but probably pretty unsuitable for people who aren't very good at geometric visualization.
What were some of the funnest engineering challenges Dropbox faced when deciding on architectural implementations or how to get a system that could store exabytes?
As an aside, the use of electromagnets occasionally produces hilarious failures. There have been some rare signaling errors that push a huge amount of power through the alternator and turn windmills into giant fans (at least until they shred themselves).
Tesla Model S crash after 82ft fall shows importance of a large crumple zone
WordPress 4.5.2 security update
Do you lump Ann Arbor in with Detroit? Just curious.
Step 1: Give homeless people a home.

As Utah found, just giving homeless people a home, without demanding any substantial money or qualification or whatever from them for it, reduced the number of long-time homeless by a huge percentage and in the process saved net money for the state because of reduced medical and policing costs.

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic...
I think that web app benefits vastly outweigh the constraints. Distribution is easy (give people the URL), the app is always up to date, and it's cross platform. Unless you absolutely need the features and/or speed of a device, you should seriously consider a web app vs. a not web app.
this is a great insight, i have been thinking the same thing for some time. Another angle is the "media image" your company has. I read the book "Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulator" after watching some YC videos and was blown away how a few people can use technology (bots, tweets..etc) to influence small local blogs, which influence larger blogs and in turn media outlets like CNN etc.. He talked about using this strategy to shape public opinion which eventually called in the lawyers and caused congress member to resign, and in another case help his friend promote a low budget movie to a national level etc.

I can't help but wonder if the competitors of Theranos understand this idea (use tech to influence media to influence regulators)and used it as a weapon that Theranos has not done a good job of defending against.

It would be fun to run an analysis of all news articles mentioning Theranos and see historically the sentiment analysis of each one, and at what average sentiment point the regulators got involved.

You could extrapolate and see if there is an average media sentiment that can predict when regulators will get involved. Could be a great "weapon" to use.
This isn't my area of expertise and what you've said certainly makes sense, however from my understanding ship-to-ship, or in this case ship-to-barge, boardings at sea aren't without their own inherent risks.

It could be that having the first stage untethered is deemed less risky to personnel than having a team of welders board the barge and tie it down.
Went through this with Dropbox when I lost space provided under a time-boxed promotion. I could keep data that was already in my Dropbox, but I couldn't add anything more until I dipped below the new limit.
Just giving money will not work, see Saudi Arabia. They have all the money they can dream of and did not evolve.

What do you mean didn't evolve?

My understanding is a lot of stuff is free in Saudi Arabia. Oil money is used to fund education and cash is given to citizens.

Not sure I understand your point.
> Why wouldn't I just let someone else figure out how to automate jobs? I've got my income.

Empirically, people often expend effort to increase their income when there are opportunities available, even if their current income meets basic survival needs. I don't see why that wouldn't continue to be the case with basic income. What, people are going to stop wanting luxuries?
> Imagine what just a billion dollar fund could do for tech in that region.

Lots of good for tech.

Should we send buses or just have some people go through and chase the current residents away on foot?
The SSL config for dovecot on Debian Jessie (2.2.13-12~deb8u1) stops Thunderbird 45 from connecting.

(I did open an issue about this.)
The spy agencies of foreign countries published all the details at http://are.youkidding.com. Go check it out for details.

Meanwhile, a rational perdon should assume that if (a) a major method/weakness for NSA surveillance is published then (b) defenders will start addressing that hole/weakness. Further, the proof of subversion for America, but not others doing espionage, means America took a huge financial hit as people boycotted its products.

The damage is real even if the spy agencies don't list each, classified example on their websites as you require. You can bet NSA is also adjusting tools and strategies to deal with it. Yet, they have to be feeling the pressure as encryption, air gaps, Tor, non-US software/hardware, FOSS vs their proprietary buddies, and so on across board in response to leaks. I mean, you cant simultaneously think the Snowden leaks are helping fight NSA surveillance while saying no surveillance losses resulted. That's hilarity of your position.
I wasn't completely broke but I couldn't keep affording rent as expensive as it was. I was able to shower at a gym, and worked out of Tech Shop on what I was trying to build. But it's hard -- like super hard to just be homeless. The social stigma associated with the word alone is hard for people to get beyond. I would often hear, "But you don't seem like the type to be homeless" and then they would slowly just distance themselves from talking to me. Super weird.

I've been in such a position following an abusive employment/housing situation. What you say completely rings true. I think there's a partially neurologically wired category of "other" in our brains that is meant to make us super cautious of rootless individuals. Even in our nomadic hunter-gatherer days, we had good reason to be suspect of individuals who didn't have group membership. (Effectively a "home.")
Turkish journalists jailed for five years, hours after courthouse attack
Predicting the Super-Hero Archetype of Captain America: Civil War'16
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They literally already did that in the same press release which announced this 15->5gb change. Office 365 subscribers used to have unlimited, but it was dropped to 1TB.
is that something amazon mecahnical turk could be used for?
Internet Voting: A Requiem for the Dream
What would happen if GPS failed?
What are some of the cool advantages of rebuilding Magic Pocket with Rust (outside of just memory usage)?
Without the need to work, there is a greater incentive to automate jobs.

How do you figure? If that were true then that means companies are currently thinking "I could automate all these human jobs, but these guys need work so I won't"?

Not sure I've ever heard a business make that decision.
Corbyn forced to abandon speech calling for Turkey to join the EU
I'm a programmer in Fintech and it feels like a blockchain bubble in it's early stage. There are a bunch of suits running around screaming "we need blockchain!". It's a feeding frenzy. It's a great time to do a blockchain related startup.
> "look at this index first, but if it's not here, go look at this other one"

I agree that this would be very helpful for a lot of people,
but it is kind of the opposite of what I was asking about.

As far as I understand it the commercial repos try to solve two main concerns:

1. license compliance

2. security

Better performance and reliability are just additional benefits.

I only know the details for a certain Fortune 500 company.
They don't want the builds to fetch packages from a site they don't control, and they
certainly don't want "if it's not here, go look at this other one".
The idea is more control about where the packages come from, not more flexibility.

I think if Cargo doesn't provide a way support alternative (possibly commercial) repos, it would be an obstacle
to the adoption of Rust in the corporate world.
Just FYI, your comment got flagged but I vouched it. I think these little fragments of appreciation should be okay on HN. Sometimes an upvote just isn't enough.
I only need one API for TechCrunch: https://apiharmony-open.mybluemix.net/apis/550ad2f16170695ca...
Can someone point me to any unbiased research on the micro/macro effects of basic income vs raising minimum wage? I've been struggling to find non-hyperbolic politically laden information on the subject.
I've always wanted to write a book that contained every last minutiae about the hardware titled, "Everything you never wanted to know about the SNES, thus you didn't bother to ask."

The problem is that it's been so long since I've had to work extensively on the emulation core, that I'm starting to forget a lot of this stuff as well >_<
Article doesn't mention the big difference between the recursive and iterative Fibonacci solutions, which is the O(2^n) and O(n) respective time complexity.
"Stop for a moment and and think about what exactly in my comment have provoked you to attack me in this fashion"

Flashbacks to middle school.
One of my earliest machine language programs was an experiment to see how fast a 1 MHz Apple II+ could count to a million. The code initialized some characters in the display buffer to ASCII '0' and then incremented them directly.
Project Zero. https://cansecwest.com/slides/2015/Project%20Zero%20-%20maki...
Since this is a distributed system, did you consider using Erlang for the implementation?
That shame is fine with me. My apologies for dragging you back into a thread that is so obviously beneath you.
I don't think there is as big of a decline in classical music quality if you consider that these days the real classical music (as in, orchestral music that actually sounds good to the average listener) seem to be composed for film rather than for the opera house: John Williams' opus is incredible, for example.

The unfortunate issue is that these days modern music labeled as "classical" seems to be dominated by unlistenable or nearly unlistenable works composed under the guise of "let's break convention with harmony and so on" thus ending with pieces that might be interesting on an intellectual level but that do not move the average listener at all.

Of course the polite way of putting this is that modern classical music is "challenging", but from my perspective if it doesn't move you (and I don't mean move you towards the nearest exit of the concert hall) it's not really music.
While it's noble to give away $30M, it won't necessarily give strong support for universal basic income. In order to have an effective experiment, you need to also tax those people $30M and redistribute it. That's missing from their checklist.

Of course free money is better than no free money! That's all this will prove and few will debate that. The real questions are: 1) is it worth the cost, and 2) is it better than alternatives?

I would personally donate to a large-scale A/B experiment where you give one group cash and the other group food, housing and education worth an equal amount and see which works better.

I worry that the recipients are going to be better off (because you just gave them $30M) and then everyone is going to want to implement a huge, risky (and fundamentally different) program in the US.

Note to avoid excessive downvotes: I like the idea of UBI in theory and I will support it one day but I think we're not there yet. I think we need more automation and more overall wealth before it makes economic sense - before benefits > costs.
I think the serverless(ish) space is headed in an exciting direction overall, especially if we can drastically reduce wasted compute time. I'm watching your repo and hopefully will get inspired! Thanks for the reply Jim
>Lol.

lol indeed
There is a GoFundMe page set-up for this guy - no idea how legit it is. Can anyone confirm?

https://www.gofundme.com/NeilTortorella

Edit: He's also on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/ntortorella
I hate disqus for having no search option. You see traffic coming from them and there is no way to figure out where those comments are.

Any information written in disqus comments is only slightly more accessible than the dark web.
Fuck you shill.

Mods will delete. Fuck the pro state mods as well.
Code here:

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WTF/wtf/...

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WTF/wtf/...
Not a good idea, because now you cannot easily grep anymore for "WTF" in source code comments :)
Show HN: Easy access to next/previous first-level comments in large threads
A friend of mine frequently says that he appreciates the fact that Obama got into office, assessed the situation, and made these decisions once having all the information the office has provided. I don't buy that entirely, as I think that the years spent in Iraq combined with our newfound ability to actually make drone strikes feasible meant that 2008-onward was always going to see a dramatic increase in drone usage rather than troops. I will admit to having said that, if this program was going to happen, I'd rather a cerebral Constitutional lawyer be the one calling the shots than anyone else, but that's certainly not a justification and I'm certainly less confident in saying so.

It is worth noting that one year ago, the Post's Editorial Board[1] wrote that "Drone strikes are bad; no drone strikes would be worse" and that "What shouldn’t be up for review is whether drone attacks will continue to be a weapon in the U.S. counterterrorism arsenal... [T]here is little question that drones are the least costly means of eliminating militants whose first aim is to kill Americans."

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-continuing-value...
This was for a small startup which is not public. Even with options, 79K is not prevailing wage in SF for a developer.
Because of Moloch? http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
"It is provided to everyone, regardless of need, forever."

How long will the experiment last? I feel like the recipients knowing they are guaranteed a payout for at least a decade will result in very different behavior than only knowing you have it this year and maybe next year, even if you do for it a decade.
You could, at least, rent a place somewhere very cheap (Lodi?) and visit it only occasionally, while living out of your car in the Bay Area.

It might ultimately be more sustainable, especially if you're open to having a "roommate" or two (who probably wouldn't mind you being gone a lot!). I spent a year paying $233/month for an attic room in Atlanta (and I lived there), so the opportunities exist.
POV on social democratic systems as someone who is from one of those countries but lives in USA atm

We dont have it b/c they are more fair. We have them because they are cheaper, for everyone individually and a whole.

Yes we have higher taxes for higher incomes but on the other side. I couldn't even imagine getting 2-3 kids through college in America no matter what my (realistic) income would be.

Imo it's good to let the free market do what it's doing best: optimize, create entropy. Keeping balance and fairness between the players is the job of society, not of the market/the market players.
Aha, I remember now. I was puzzled by what this comment meant at first. This isn't the first time I've come across this site!

I recall being annoyed by this, too. Fortunately, uBlock Origin[1][2] came to my rescue back then. It's a great adblocker which requires minimal configuration out-of-the-box, but also offers a bunch of Power User options for the more discerning Internet user. One such option is a point-and-click tool[3] that allows you to block arbitrary elements loading on a given site, which I promptly used to obliterate this image on first sight. :-)

[1] Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

[2] Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

[3] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Element-picker
In my perfect world, most human work is automated away. What's the point of minimum wage if there are no jobs to do?
Propranolol, the Cure for Fear?
Great minds think alike (or so I want to tell myself) I was going to (sadly) post the same info and suggest the same thing. It's an interesting, but sad, part of American history.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/green-book-helped-ke...
I wholly agree with this, often it takes some sacrifice; while others play, you're working or living frugally to fund your dreams but this isn't the same as forgoing basic amenities. Also, I don't know the backstory but anyone looking to do this by choice may want to consider the ramifications of the outside looking in if you're looking for investment. To most looking to invest, I'd imagine going to this extreme raises red flags regardless if they're warranted or not.
The MIT Campaign for a Better World
> You can use the time before it runs out to apply for other federal or state assistance programs.

Which if you are a non-disabled, employable (whether or not employed) adult without dependents, in most parts of the US, are extremely limited, quantitatively and, often, temporally, as well.
Welcome to the void
Panama Papers: John Doe's Manifesto
If this works (disclosure: I think it will, and I've put money on it) then it will become a highly visible target, both literally and figuratively. If I were in charge, I would even make contingency plans for air defense.
I totally disagree.

Drones are the most precise tool (limiting collateral damage) in the history of war.

Do you seriously think that if drones didn't exist, they wouldn't be conducting air raids or sending in legions of troops to do the wetworks?

The US had an obligation to get out in front of the rest of the world, and set some de-facto and de jure international standards for how drones should be used in a military capacity.

There are legal memoranda and strict procedures being followed. Nobody is unaccountable - to the contrary, the consequences are more visible and individually attributable for accidents during war now, than ever before.

I heard a quote one time, to the effect of "If you told the average US citizen during Vietnam era, that the President of the United States personally signs off on individual military raids after verifying intelligence data, during the prosecution of a war, they would think we now live in a liberal utopia."
Living in a US national park (on land you don't own) would be illegal. Rangers also seem hyper-paranoid about remote areas being used for drug cultivation.

I believe national forests have a technical time limit on how long you can stay there. Maybe BLM land?
Dude, I'm not sure if you're trolling or serious.

If you're serious...it's not worth it. Life is long. Find other ways of motivating yourself. Commit publicly to shipping something awesome. Find a community of badasses to support you. Don't do this.
Seems like not a good place to work at, if they didn't even design a proper problem that needs debugger to be solved. And expected you to use debugger.
The barge was located about 400 miles downrange of the launch site in this case, so if you're landing in Lake Michigan then you're launching from somewhere around western Iowa/Minnesota or eastern Nebraska/South Dakota. When your rocket goes off course or explodes, you'll rain parts and fuel down on Minneapolis or Chicago or whatever other inconvenient population happens to be in the way.
The Surf Office is a community driven workspace and accommodation
I really like this, too... I have this movie (and others including Antitrust and, yes, Hackers) in my "night time playlist" for when my wife goes back home to visit family for a few weeks each summer and Christmas. It is a very comfortable movie for me.
how much money and time would a robotic lashing system cost? hint: a shitload.

how much money would a few ditched rockets cost, in comparison? hint: less than a shitload

would a recovery crew approach this platform in rough seas, even if a robotic lash were in place? hint: nope

then what exactly is the point of securing this 'cargo'? hint: there isn't one.

problem solved.
An API for nudity/adult content detection with a ROI endpoint
Although I wouldn't want to encourage anyone to take the conventions surrounding the last vestiges of the feudal system too seriously, it's either "Sir David" or "Sir David Attenborough".
> Step 1: Give homeless people a home.

This is one step, but it's not a silver bullet. New York City has had a similar program for a long time, and it's actually come under fire from homeless advocacy groups for being ineffective (while simultaneously expensive).

New York City also poses a greater challenge than Salt Lake City for a number of reasons, but so does San Francisco, so solving SF's homelessness problem will require more than just building more housing and giving it to homeless people, even if that's ultimately one step of the solution.
This is one of my favorite books (and I found out about it through a comment like yours on HN). All the ideas were well thought out, plausible and mind-blowing.

I especially love the way he explored how social interactions could change in a society made up of people who are really immortal computer simulations. A leader changing their apparent age during parts a speech to suit the tone, the same way someone today would shift between a large smile or stern expression based on what they're delivering. Or the couple having an argument, visibly presenting themselves as standing face-to-face, yet neither of them is able to really look at each other with their actual "viewport" (and neither of them is aware if the other is doing this).

I just might have to re-read it this weekend :) Or Axiomatic, as wyager suggests, I haven't read any of those stories yet.
Lots of omitted details there. A kite can pull its tether from one location to another location of lower potential energy, but how does it get back to the higher-energy location? If we're talking about a circular train on a circular track, half of the kites must continually have either a lower-drag configuration or a lower-wind altitude. That's plausible, but that's a lot of additional mechanisms, plus a lot of "cancelled-out" wind traction, plus a lot of friction as the train rolls around the track. Will there be power left over for electricity generation? Probably, but it isn't clear that it will be worth all the trouble. If a reasonable prototype exists, it should have been in the video.
If you have a better implementation, ship it. Don't trash someone else's work from the sidelines.

edit: OP removed the snark from the comment.