skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A perpetual free option doesn’t make for a viable music industry"

People have been trained for almost 100 years (since radio) that music is free but ad supported via radio. So thats bunk.

The industry is just pissed people wont buy $20 cds anymore. Suddenly people had another option for on demand music with napster.

Here we are 17 years later and the industry still hasnt gotten over it. I guess why shouldnt they - easiest money ever. But time to put big boy pants back on.

I think ultimately key music services are going to collude or move in lockstep to increase ad frequency. And frankly i think its smart to put the hottest stuff behind a paywall / available only on subscription. Record labels are essentiallly caught in this trap where you can go exclusive and reach a small percent of audience or dont be exclusive and reach everyone. An artist could go exclusive behind everyones paywall, now that would be interesting. Pandora youtube spotify whatever - listen to taylor swift new album now thru subscribing.
"Every home is a slow charger. Tesla has Superchargers covering most of the first world."

I agree with your post, BUT remember that we apartment-dwellers are often forgotten. Few landlords are cool with snaking an extension cable to your car. My own apartment has no parking at all (a good thing, in my view, since parking encourages auto reliance), so I've parked on the street since I moved here. Incidentally, I sold my car earlier this afternoon, and am moving to a city where living car-free is practical.
PC gamers are not universally tech savvy, and cracking games (especially newer ones) usually involves a lot more than just running a cracked exe. Games that are licensed through Steam are exceptionally difficult to pirate. Not impossible, just difficult, and most gamers once they reach an age with disposable income would just as soon pay the $60 bucks and enjoy the multiplayer/ranking/etc.

I agree on the second point, I have a 7 minute commute so a streaming service just isn't a huge thing for me. I'm a collector and my music tastes are admittedly fickle, so I stick to managing a library in an ownCloud instance that I control. It's just easier for me.
I'd personally see people just stop using Windows. The more people using Linux, the more money in the market for Wine to get better and better replace all the Windows APIs for everyones "I cannot use Linux because X program is Windows only" software.

I mean, I'm already playing Skyrim natively on an AMD GPU thanks to Gallium Nine. And that is only because there has been a lot of internal pressure in the community to have the best Windows only games running here. The more people we get to switch, the more market for businesses to make the process of switching easier.

Of course, we still need Ubuntu (or SteamOS) computers in stores. That would be a nice start. It is hard to get people to switch when they need someone with technical know-how to violate their warranties and give them no commercial support unless you have a small business IT shop like what I run in the evenings that will do it.
It's a service problem that none of the current distributors of mainstream music seem willing to solve.
Not sure Microsoft in it's heyday was a great engineering culture. The were a monopoly, which allows bad engineering to occur without ill effect for a long time. I think many of their problems today are due to being tied to code written in those days.
The amount of garbage Scala generates doesn't get enough airtime IMO. There are at least five instances I've been part of where an underperforming Scala component was rewritten in Java for significant performance improvements, mostly due to significant reductions in GC.
Talk for yourself.... :) some things are similar some are not.

The title says Semi-automated what is semi about it the entire article seams to imply fully automated translation.
I think a glossy screen in a well lit room will never achieve an acceptable black. I am writing this on a macbok in a room with bay windows and I can see my reflection on the white parts of the screen.
There's an Arabic saying that goes

لا تسأل الطغاة لماذا طغوا , بل اسأل العبيد لماذا ركعوا

Do not ask the tyrants why they tyrannised, but ask the slaves why they knelt.
You mean this ?
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1937_en.htm
But insurance for those isn't.
I think these are exactly the right observations. It's no coincidence that a lot of advocacy for the UBI comes from the far right who want to use it as a pretext to dismantle the welfare state. Conventional social programs are not perfect, but they exist to address specific issues and mostly do their job well. The efficiency gains to be made here are minimal. The real cost savings are made by simply paying the needy less.

Just look at Murray's proposal. All social programs get eliminated and now a single mother with 3 kids has to make do with $10,000 a year? Impossible; a cruel joke. An elderly person on disability? They get half the money a healthy 22yo couple gets. This isn't a serious proposal.
Do you happen to have any benchmarks to back this up?
I lived in Thailand in the 90s. Sad to see it's become (or was it always?) so draconian with speech perceived to be against the monarchy. :\
fuck economist.com
Louisville’s Muhammad Ali Center Posts Video Tribute and Archival Videos/Images
Ahem. "cards" = "cars", "inertia" = "momentum"
Professional criminal deployment for thieves and assassins.
>Well then cut down working hours.

This introduces inefficiency. One worker working 8 hours is more useful than 2 workers working 4 hours. While this might end up being a good trade off (as workers might be willing to sell 4 hours of work for less than half the price of 8 hours), attempting to legislate this would be a market distortion.

>Then have sufficient minimum wages.
Minimum wages distort the market.

>Also universality, what is the point?

The "universality" has two components. One is that there are no strings attached (eg. you are not required to be seeking employment).
The other one is that it is not dependent on your income. As I explained in another comment, making a BI decrease as ones income increases is equivalent to a progressive tax. As we already have a progressive tax system, we can achieve the same result by modify our tax brackets, which is mathematically equivalent but easier to understand.
Same thing in basically all of the USA. Even hybrid SUVs get worse mileage than more reasonably-sized cars.
The "Alan Kay"-style moment of Hacker News for me was when I posted a link to article describing sendfile, tcp_nodelay and tcp_nopush. The article referred to Nagle's algorithm when describing tcp_nodelay and described the problem incorrectly. And lo and behold, Nagle itself came to enlighten the uninformed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9045125
"It may be more commonly used in British than in American"

What is this American you speak of? Perhaps it's the unique dialect of Spanish spoken in southern California? Or the Canadian French spoken in bits of northeastern North America? Or the dialect of English spoken in Belize?
You can certainly host it yourself on AWS, GCP, Azure etc.

The general services administration is restricted to only assist federal government agencies, so you wouldn't be able to use the version being managed for the federal government.
Fuel injection helped a lot with this as well.
Ever since I could run 1Password using Wine with full browser integration, I've completely turned my back to Windows.
I got into using Scala a few years ago and initially loved it (took a couple of Coursera courses on it (FP using Scala and Reactive Programming)). The problem is most other devs I've worked with haven't been interested in learning to use anything other than Java. My current lead in particular has flatly refused to consider it ("I want a pure Java system!"). He's also told me that since Java 8 has introduced some "functional" features it's a moot point anyway (Java 8 lambdas suck. Java 8 streams really suck. The hacked-on functional interfaces really, really suck).

Now, I have been able to use Scala along with Akka on some smaller projects at work (usually where I'm working solo), not that I bothered asking for permission or anything :) At home, I've started using Clojure on a side project and I generally find it to be a more pleasant language to use than Scala (but Scala is still vastly superior to Java, of course). But it leans more toward FP than Scala does, so I know if Scala is a no-go at work, Clojure isn't even worth asking about :)

So, yea, if I'm ever in a position to select languages/technology stacks for a new project (hasn't happened yet) I'd definitely lean toward Clojure for a true 'greenfield' project. If I needed to integrate with an existing Java codebase, Scala might be a better choice.
You also want to batch your DOM manipulations as much as possible, and you get it automatically by using vDOM libraries.
These laws have been on the books well before the junta seized power.

It's a criminal offense to criticize monarchs both living and dead in Thailand. A lot of people found guilty are pardoned, but a lot are not.
Sign up.

"Can I download a backup of my humans database?

Yes! Just click "Settings" at the top and you'll be able to download a full backup of your humans."

It also works offline and sync when online again.
I was expecting for style guide on how to design shell user interactions.

Nontheless, Shell Coding Style Guid is interesting.
> Many "engineers" using React or AngularJS actually don't know how the DOM really work, like many people only know jQuery and not standard DOM API in order to perform a task, or many "engineers" don't know how to write CSS so they use Bootstrap.

Many know how all these things work but prioritise your first reason "code you don't have to maintain and test".
> But if you think of the need to be productive (for survival) as a force/pressure that has shaped...

That's why UBI is only now becoming a possibility.

The need for everyone to be productive is diminishing. The labor force participation rate has dropped enormously since 2000.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CIVPART
This is really cool. 18F has been doing a lot of amazing work, it seems like the possibility of government tech not totally sucking may be on the (somewhat distant) horizon.
Well, in priniciple variant specific application has nothing to do with CRISPR, any genome alternation could be coupled to certain mechanisms that rely on reading out the specific traits of the targeted humans. Of course, the current developments enhance these possebilities with gene drives etc. But on the other hand it also allows the development of defense mechanisms, no technology is the ultimate game changer (though CRISPR is thought to get pretty close).

Spread through food or water supplies is probably possible, given that CRISPR is currently mostly administered via virusses like AAV or lentivirus. But that nothing new, those virus cassets existed before, and can also be used with other methods like zink-finger nucleases or TALENs.

Delayed? I don't know, probably. It really depends on what you want to do. Keep in mind that most current applications affect around 0.5 percent of all hit cells. The effectivness of the process heavily depends on the construct and probably decreases with complexity. But sure, delayed promotors and other regulatory circuits should be possible, though unlikely for now.

The whole technology is dangerous, so dangerous that we probably cannot stop it now and have to form and regulate it. But it also has enourmous benefits associated, and again, can probably defend against itself. You cannot win evolution, only participate.
> Bunches of bugs are eliminated and others are easier to find.

Got a link to the research for that?

My pet peeve is unsubstantiated bullshit claims. We let sooooo much nonsense fly, especially in JS land.
You're overthinking it a bit. What it does it remove the worry that you're going to starve or have no place to live, or take you from subsistence to a level that you can invest in the future. That's all. Perhaps that's enough.

Whether this "solves" anything depends. Initial experiments are very limited, but fairly positive. Giving money to people in rural India may not translate too well to giving money to people in New Delhi, much less people in Cleveland. But I think it's worth a try to see how things work out.
is https://github.com/mvdan/sh relevant ?
“THE TRUTH IS, EVERYONE IS GOING TO HURT YOU, BOB MARLEY   Explained
If you ban sale of gas cars in say, California, everyone will just hop over to Oregon/Nevada/Arizona to purchase vehicles.
I partly see your point, but I am going on my recollection of the early splash, which was about everyone being dazzled by a restatement of the Pareto principle as applied to unknowable futures. It is one of my pet peeves that a lot of naked emperors get a lot of publicity. The blood rises, and then, here we are. My fondness for giving into impulse is why I don't use twitter.

That said, I always struggle to give anyone the benefit of the doubt. At work I have a mantra about code I don't like: "I might have done it differently". The coder on the other side of it was doing his or her best. I've seen things that on their face where just flatly crazy and only later learned the reasoning. A lot of them remain crazy, but crazy with a reason for the craziness. The usual missing ingredient is communication, which is why another useful thing to remind myself is "let's go ask".

In general, though, it is a long and widely accepted tradition that the powerful don't need us to be nice to them -- that mockery is one of the few inalienable counterbalances the plebs have against those living on top of the hills.
Awesome! I love the minimal design.
> Similarly, Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos are well known for humiliating engineers in front of an entire room after a presentation.

Michael Jordan had a reputation for being a jerk too, but it's cargo culting to think that's how you get world class performance.

Jordan could do it and be idolized for it because he was the best on the court usually. Microsoft in the 90s was the powerhouse. Working for Apple has (had?) carried a certain panache, and Amazon is a similar powerhouse.
I would expect them to get bored and find something interesting to do. Could be quite a positive. Regardless, most existing small studies and surveys show few people behave like this or intend to.
Tangentially, http://www.shellcheck.net/ is an awesome static linter for shell code. Available online, as a command-line tool, but most importantly as a plugin for your favorite $EDITOR.
> Neither IDEA or Eclipse are particularly great (I routinely get types that can't be introspected, and both require inordinate amounts of RAM to work well)

If you don't use an IDE than you don't know what you're missing 'for the sake of RAM'.

> The compiler is slow (and yes, it does matter)

Worth to note that with SBT you won't need `mvn clean install` at every compilation and it only recompiles the source which has changed. At the end, the compilation time won't be worse except at the first.

> SBT is a productivity sink to do anything beyond the basics with

What is your problem with SBT? What are the missing features?

> The compiler's error messages are poor

They're far more descriptive than in java - what are you expecting? Can you provide a sample?

> I find the code in many Scala libraries impenetrable (which matters a lot while debugging)

I think you need to learn the basic syntax of the language first before debugging anything, right?
Apple’s insanely ambitious tree-planting plans for its new spaceship campus
I'm OK with allowing only e-bikes that are limited to the 15mph cruise speed of a human-powered bicycle.
That seems really wrong to me. I work for TELUS and starting wages for entry level programming positions is around the 55k-70k, and then for more intermediate positions (something like 5 years experience) you are looking at 70-100K
It will be difficult for Apple to do this unless they can get their maps software on Android or make the iPhone more affordable everywhere (compared to the Android)
butt.gov ?
There's a sense of irony seeing this post today when just last night, as my girlfriend and I were planning a weekend trip, I asked her what OS she was using (not being familiar with anything beyond Win7), to which she responded Win8. I then asked if she planned to upgrade to Win10, noting a post I had read about MS charging for the upgrade after a certain date, to which she responded no...then a minute or two later, poof, Win10 auto-update starts...literally in the middle of a reservation transaction. She swears she never explicitly consented to the upgrade.

It's one thing to read about and discuss the issues with Microsoft's overt push to migrate the world to Win10. It's admittedly a completely different experience to see it happen right before your eyes. Some time ago, I half-committed to never owning another computer with a Microsoft OS beyond Win7, reasoning that you just never know if a useful tool may pop up that's only available for Windows. After last night's surprise, that commitment became unwavering.
Seems to say a whole lot about the lack of clear process. Despite all the investigative power of those following up, they seemed unable to discover if complaints had actually been raised.
This event seems not to fall under these laws - it has not been shown that she has criticized the monarch, and "should have condemned the criticism" is an entirely different issue, these laws do not state that failing to condemn criticism is a criminal offense.
Sadly, you must have other goals besides personal happiness. But given that you only live once, why would you prefer a different goal?
I'm not aware of a simpler PRNG. It took me quite a search to find Marsaglia's.
No. You could eat a jar of it and nothing in your genome would change - you'd just digest it like any other protein. You could sit in a bath of it, again, no problem.

In fact, the downside of crispr is that making changes in mammals is still difficult. Progress is being made on delivery mechanisms, but it fundamentally can't go into a runaway process. You'll always need an injection of some sort, or some deliberate action the part of a doctor.
Except this isn't "criticizing the monarch". This is making a case out of basically nothing against the mother of a "student activist".
This is pretty cool, a must-see CSS framework. I really love the responsive grid.
Thailand's technically a constitutional monarchy but the royalty is much more than just a figurehead like those in Western Europe.

The actively interfere in elections and are on record supporting the various coups that have happened over the decades.

Cables leaked more recently had the King backing the army during the massacre in Thammasat University.

People should really read "The King Never Smiles" to get an idea of how this came to be.
I think this is a critical problem to solve with UBI. If you give people in expensive areas more money, more people might crowd into cities, intensifying the affordability crises in places like SF and NYC. Plus there are strong incentives to cheat the system and lie about your address, or even to live homeless in the most expensive cities to collect the higher UBI payments, etc.

So ideally we'd avoid this and everyone would get the same amount of money. But, if we continue to let city prices shoot up, we might end up in a place where people want a job but can't get one because they live somewhere cheap and can't afford to move to the city where all the jobs are on their smaller basic income payment.

With or without basic income, we're clearly on an unsustainable path of letting cities get so much more expensive so quickly.
Absolutely, there's been various approaches researched in the past - and I've used Oberon before, really enjoyed it - I'm just curious as to why it doesn't seem to happen any more.
From the article: "She is accused of insulting the monarchy - a charge that can lead to jail sentences of up to 15 years."
>of what seems like excessive Internet bandwidth usage

To clarify, I meant, excessive usage by process not directly started by me.

Also, a couple of other steps I took earlier:

- I disabled Google Drive client on my machine.

- I disabled Dropbox.

Disabling Drive is okay, because I don't use it. But disabling Dropbox is not so good, because I use it. However I decided to do this for now, until I resolve this problem, because I saw in Windows Task Manager that Drive was using a lot of bandwidth, even when I was not saving anything to it. So did though Dropbox may be doing that too, and did the same for it as well. I think I saw Dropbox at one point using a lot of bandwidth too, but not 100% sure.
>there is no point in doing any work that does not pay well enough to make a living

Artwork, open source software, charity work...
The proposed problem - and it's an elitist one - is that if you try to solve the basic income problem with minimum wages, the skill level required to be productive also rises, and eventually you get to the point where employers try hard to automate the job out of existence. The argument is that at some point, the skill level required to justify an income becomes so high, large portions of the populace become unable to meet that bar.

You can't simply cut down working hours, since the problem isn't that there aren't enough jobs for people - it's that there are people who are unable to be productive enough to fill a job.

The UBI gradually transfers responsibility for someone from the government to an employer, as opposed to a minimum wage + welfare system, where the transfer is a lot more sharp.

(I haven't decided if I agree with this, and how plausible it actually is - but I think this is the argument for why UBIs are necessary, and necessary now.)
I like it, definitely worth checking out!
Ali was of little education, easily manipulated, and certainly was not an ideological leader to any degree.

Those words are sourced from the concepts of Elijah Muhammed, Louis Farrakhan, Malcolm X and others.

Its fine to repeat Ali's words here...but lets not misconstrue them as original ideas or Ali as anything other than a follower and a mouthpiece fueled by his own anger issues.
In 1988 I've been standing for quite a long time on my balcony, awing at 5 huge lighting objects dancing in the sky. Never believed in UFOs, but - in front of my own eyes, and in the middle of a big city! Then my mother came and said it must be preparations of light show for tomorrow's concert over the stadium. Oh well...
eli5: what can we potentially do in the near and long term with this technology? play god?
It would be really dumb to stack the taper on top of existing tax rates.

Which I guess doesn't mean it wouldn't happen.
what does this add instead of using whois?
Anypixel.js
I don't think that's a good analogy - a run has a very defined course, a very defined technique (you must run, not use a motorcycle), and very defined end point. Most programming problems have infinite solutions, and you're typical 1x developer can only see what they know and have experienced.

To carry the analogy forward, a 10x runner might take a shortcut, use a better implement to complete the course, etc.
Are there any good example scripts that show actual examples of most of these cases? I think that would be a great supplement supplement to this guide
at first I was going to make fun of them for choosing "Cloud" half a decade after that buzz word reached its peak, but then I looked at the service and it is pretty cool
Few known facts (About Finnish children);

- In Finland 80% of 3-year olds have had ear infection.

- 53% of 2-year olds are in daycare. Due to various reasons group sizes are getting bigger and bigger, new normal can be around 30 kids in a single daycare group (=constant infections...)

- Half of the kids have private health insurances (public outpatient care has some issues..)

- Typical treatment for ear infection(although many times unnecessary) is antibiotics.(=to keep parents happy / easier for the doctor)