skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As one of the partners for the past two years this came as somewhat of a shock, although not entirely surprising. About two weeks ago they had a "maintenance" window to supposedly make changes to their entire infrastructure to enhance performance, etc.. so to completely throw all that out the window a month later is a little surprising. In addition, this was literally a short notice. I actually never received a notice from them. I saw the TechCrunch article earlier today and reached out to one of my contacts who confirmed. For once I am glad I read TechCrunch today.

From a partner perspective, their API is pretty good and easy to use, although their support has gotten really bad over the last year. I don't think they have many working on the support team and I have had tickets go weeks without even an acknowledgement. Only after opening multiple tickets or updating the ticket constantly do I get a response.

One thing I did notice though is that they did not seem to be developing or improving much over the last year. Their partner interface can be a little confusing if you need to do more than reporting. About a year ago I was told there were some upgrades coming to the interface and API to make it easier and that they were enabling real-time reporting. Neither of which came about. When I asked again I was told they were working to make their job postings more "mobile friendly", whatever that means exactly.

We initially chose SimplyHired over others because of some of their API functionality (i.e. you can search by O*NET code for jobs) and their revenue share was higher than Indeed. For the last 6-7 months though their revenue share seems to have taken a significant hit and not sure what is happening.

I tried to get some more details from the partner director, but she didn't seem to know who or what was going on with the acquisition. I would have to agree with others that it appears to be a "fire sale" or acqui-hire, as they are not offering their partners any alternatives. In fact the only help I was offered was dumping reports or data so we could go with another partner. Luckily we didn't have clients with jobs posted through their site so we don't have to deal with refunding job postings which could be a nightmare in a short period of time.
Much of the developed world is indeed running out of people though.
> rdiff-backup (written in Python)

"If you have ever needed to work with UNC paths in a Python script for Windows, you might have experienced the same dilemma that we did. What’s the problem? Python has virtually no support for UNC."

http://developer.covenanteyes.com/unc-paths-with-python/

"As tiny as our minority might be, we wanted to deal with these difficulties once and for all. I introduce to you the win_unc library."
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Just because someone isn't going to lose their "job" (BI), what's to say it will end up in the landlord's hand? They can still default on payments. I wonder if signing over all/some of the BI to the landlord so it goes direct could be a good upgrade. It comes with the creditworthiness of the state (in california that is less than 100% mind you).

Thoughts on the risk of someone not paying their BI to the landlord?
I grew up poor. Subsidized school lunch made sure I ate at least one decent meal a day (to be fair, parental mental health was a bigger factor than income at times). A lot of people grow up a lot poorer than I did.
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People developing Windows are unlikely to be using npm. And outside of npm (and similar occasional app that uses a very deeply nested directory tree for storage), you don't run into this issue all that often.
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What I've found here on HN is that there is an extremely large amount of "wishful projection" and selection bias, in that many people here are young and promising entrepreneurs-in-training, and they believe that basic income will allow them to work on their startup dream without having to worry about paying the bills.

While that may be true, they fail to realize that they are in the extreme minority of actually-motivated people who would make a good use-case of basic income.

The vast majority of the world will fall into other categories, such as non-productivity or black markets. Not everyone wants to go build the next great app, folks!

I personally believe that this is the most important decision that humans must make over the next half-century, as we automate nearly everything and have little need for cheap human labor:

What do you do with all of those idle hands and minds?

In my opinion, if you allow the masses to do absolutely nothing while providing them the necessities for life, society will collapse upon itself over time, as people vote themselves more and more benefits for doing less and less work, while ostracizing the working and ownership classes. Question is only how many generations it takes.

My favorite example is what happens when you put rats into such a utopia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM

IMHO, humans are no better than they (possibly far worse, in fact), and I see no reason to believe how anything else will happen over the course of several generations of "free stuff".

Humans without responsibilities and accountability = chaos. Tell me it hasn't already begun.
>5-year survival rate is an extremely misleading statistic. Much of the increase in the US is simply attributable to the fact that we detect the cancers earlier, so that patients pass out of the 5-year window before they die.

This does not make sense. The earlier you detect cancer, the higher is the likelihood that treatment is effective.

5-year survival rate absolutely correlates with 10-year survival rate and 30-year survival rate.

Though it is undoubtedly true that in the long term, we're all dead. That is however not a meaningful indicator of health care system effectiveness.
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There are so many reasons why the whole marriage thing is a boondoggle. The most pithy is: 'Women marry men, expecting they will change. Men marry women, expecting they won't.' More often than not, both wind up disappointed.

Erring a bit more scientifically, the male and female brains are genuinely structured differently and process sensing input differently [1], [2]. It's no wonder they respond to the same situations differently. An anecdote: I've asked dozens of people: "What would you do if you were walking down the beach and you heard the screams of a child drowning?" The men unanimously say they'd dash to the water, tearing their clothes off as they run to the rescue. The women, not unanimously but overwhelmingly, say they'd run to get the life guard.

When the stakes are high in a marriage, agreeing on how to react can become very difficult and disagreement can lead to schisms in the relationship. It might be a disabled child, a layoff, a drunken one-night stand, serious accident, or any number of misfortunes. These misfortunes will push people into emotional territory they may have never been in before, and you can't know in advance how they'll react.

In the end, if you decide to marry, you're taking it on faith that the two of you will remain committed no matter what. You really have few indicators to go by.

[0] Speaking strictly in terms of man/woman marriages, the only place I have experience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Female_Brain_(book)

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/books/review/Bazelon-t.htm...
Does McSweeney's count as "small"? http://www.mcsweeneys.net/tendency
Another reason I wouldn't not tell the truth is maybe the interviewer knows my ex-colleagues.
It comes down to how much Basic Income one can expect to collect. I don't consider myself extraordinarily lazy, and thus do my part working to earn a comfortable living. Really though I'm the type who hasn't found my "dream job", so working 9-5, 40 hour weeks, is something I don't particularly enjoy, and it sucks the life out of me.

Existing social assistance where I am doesn't even cover the cheapest rent in the city, requiring you to live with at least two others who are also on welfare in a studio apartment that deserves to be condemned as being unsuitable for human habitation. So long as "basic income" means bottom-of-the-barrel minimum income that requires you to rent in the slums with roommates, while barely having enough money to eat... I will remain employed. If "basic income" ever provides more than that, I could see myself being tempted into joining the ranks. Particularly if you are allowed to keep income from a part-time minimum wage job without any clawbacks to the basic income.
Safe spaces are echo chambers. Only people who align with their own views are allowed, so those views are the only ones expressed. It's "Free" as long as you say what they want to hear.
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Are there Linux distros dedicated to kiosk mode?
i dislike basic income, here the concept defined by the term

that said, similarly, i think economics will be dismantled by means of capitalism without the need to acquire capital

as for bi and welfare, i consider the two completely separate

i think bi and welfare should coexist until one eventually renders the other unnecessary

in which case the notion of eliminating programs will be, in hindsight, correctly assumed
If you want to lose friends and be disowned from your family - learn to play Monopoly by the actual rules and follow this strategy: http://imgur.com/a/vX3zm

I can confirm that it works and nobody wants to play Monopoly anymore. Instead we play more fun board games
That was a fast beta invite! Got errors and looking forward to when it's more stable. Curious about pricing -- if this is freemium set up like heroku, will gladly dive deeper in
U.S. court says no warrant needed for cellphone location data
The blog post tackles this. As I understand it, if the attacker can run `localStorage.getItem` on your webpage, you are already screwed. They will just craft an AJAX request, which will have the `httpOnly` cookies tagged on, and send that data back to the attacker's servers.

`httpOnly` doesn't protect you from anything if you are using those same cookies in AJAX requests.
I was just re-arranging my widgets last night! I use the bookmarks, google now, email, calendar & spotify widgets.

I used to use the Weather widget, but switched that with spotify and a smaller clock widget.
Yeah. Indeed.com has the worst user experience and yet it is still running strong, simply because Indeed.com is everywhere!
People can make good decisions, but one health care provider (e.g. the government, in most countries) can provide health care and purchase supplies more efficiently than individuals can.

Specifically, the American system is flawed because 'shopping around' between different providers whose sole purpose for existing is to make and maximize profits just results in you picking someone who's taking the least advantage of you. A single payer, for example in Canada, you go to any doctor, clinic, hospital, pharmacy, etc. and you get the thing. The health authority pays a fixed amount to the provider (and they make a good living, make no mistake), and the health authority attempts to maximize the value it gets from every dollar without compromising patient care, and following the mandate that everyone should have the same access to care.
Wow, you can actually see the exchange rate fluctuate (not by much) when big transactions hit the market. Cool stuff.
Income taxes still make up a near 50% of total tax dollars, right?

So the only response to that 'fair share' argument is still only "take more from those that have/work and give to those that don't/can't".

I mean fine, but let's call it what it is.
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Not the OP, but HN is a trade forum that addresses a specific audience/niche. It makes sense to cull the submission load to something that fits the forum's designated purpose. Twitter and Facebook are supposed to be platforms for discussing/sharing anything one finds interesting, so restrictions are less sensible there.
I have experimented a bit with the raspberry pi to drive some TV's around our office. Stock Raspberian OS with different browsers. Unfortunately I was kind of underwhelmed by the performance: tv.giphy.com already is kind of too heavy, and even geckoboard is to heavy to run on a raspberry..
Or am I missing some great performance tweaks?
there's an interviewing technique among senior execs to take on an aggressive, rude tone to interviewees to "see how they respond under pressure." One way to spot it is if they respond in a contrary way to everything and generally try to pick on you to find chinks in your armor.

the first time I experienced it I was pretty shaken up.

either that or the person you spoke with is just an asshole.
Isn't a digital signal an analog signal with a particular interpretation? I'm speaking of the static and dynamic disciplines for digital design. A digital logic cell is an analog circuit with a nonlinear filter to bias the signal away from 0.5, ensuring interpretability, keeping noise from amplifying. And there are defined periods after a digital signal settles during which outputs are assumed not to have any valid digital interpretation.

To nitpick: a digital circuit is always running (at the analog level) whether or not a clock pulse is hitting it. It's just that the digital circuit may begin to switch state when the clock signal is interpreted as a pulse. Then the analog transients eventually die out, which means everything has a digital interpretation, before the next pulse.

Of course, none of this applies to an ideal digital circuit with every wire holding a perfect 0 or 1 signal. I think might be what you are talking about when you say "digital."

I think if you used a genetic algorithm to produce digital circuits to model some function, you'd find it would use the logical gates well outside spec, taking advantage of intermediate states that we avoid by principle. In other words, sure it would use logical gates, but it would be an analog circuit.
> But riddle me this: what do you do when someone on BI has a financial emergency or, as will happen with some regularity, just flat-out blows all their money and now can't afford rent and/or food? Do you tell them "tough shit, you've exhausted all your social safety nets" or are there safety nets below BI, essentially recreating the welfare programs previously destroyed? If so, how do you prevent fraud without a department following up on Joe's twelfth "my car broke down" case of the year?

I think you're comparing BI to a different standard than the existing programs.

The question isn't "Is BI perfect?", but rather "Is BI better than what we have today?"

The exact scenario you laid out can easily happen with the various programs that exist today. If BI reduces (but not eliminates) those scenarios, that would be a worthwhile improvement.
Yeah, article like this one would exist, but with a caption "You wouldn't believe 10 ways this guy invented to destroy the earth! Number 6 will blow your mind!" and then the article is split in 100 pages just to get more clicks.
In this case, its not accurate to group all brown people together. Some brown races (Indians) are actually stereotyped as less dangerous than whites.
Cool, thanks for the info. Fantastic work as always :)
If I understand your proposal correctly, you propose to

* set the income tax to a flat 20%
* provide no (or very little) universal basic income
* Increase freely available benefits

Addressing the tax issue specifically - you propose the benefits are:

* Reduce overheads
* Reduce risk for abuse and manipulation

I don't think a flat tax rate will achieve the things you want it to.

A progressive tax rate doesn't add any administrative overhead at all, it's just a different way of deciding how much tax you pay once you've correctly totaled your income.

Right now, I see 3 general categories for 'abuse and manipulation' in taxes - fraudulently misrepresenting your income, fraudulently misrepresenting deductions you may qualify for, or legally structuring income and behavior to pay much less taxes than otherwise expected (i.e., finding 'loopholes').

Your primary way of combating those abuses would be to simplify the deductions people can take. To a lesser extent, you can also simplify or refactor the different definitions of income.

A flat 20% tax rate means decreased government revenue overall, lower taxes for the rich, and higher taxes for the middle-class and poor. Most people would consider that to be a failure on every point.
I know that the current trend among academics (in the US, less so elsewhere) is to insist that dyslexia has no visual component, and that it is purely phonological. This leads people to draw the seemingly-obvious conclusion that special fonts cannot make reading easier for dyslexia, since they are visual.

This is an unfortunate oversimplification. Even if dyslexia is not primarily visual (a question that is not settled in the international research community), reading itself is indisputably visual. So changing visual aspects of reading can have an impact on the overall ease of reading for dyslexic readers, even if it's not directly easing the "dyslexic part" of the reader's struggles.

Approaching this from another angle, researchers have indicated that visual tweaks such as alternative fonts may disproportionately impact readers with dyslexia because of second-order effects. That is, a reader who has dyslexia likely reads less than his or her peers, since it is more difficult/unenjoyable. As a result, the reader is not as practiced at reading in general, and can benefit—sometimes significantly—from visual tweaks that are helpful for readers who are not as highly skilled.

Lastly, in my experience (as founder of a startup whose browser plugin integrates OpenDyslexic and has thousands of users with dyslexia), I have heard from many readers with dyslexia that the OpenDyslexic font is incredibly helpful for them. While it is true that "the plural of anecdote is not data", it is also true that if a large number of people who don't know each other all report the same phenomenon, there's a good chance it's happening. (This is subject to the regular caveats of placebo effects, self-deception, etc.)

I congratulate the author on recognizing that folks have different experiences and that dyslexia fonts are not a panacea—this sort of thinking is strangely lacking in many parts of the dyslexia world. Also, I agree that things tend to get out of hand on social media when people post "this is what it's like to be dyslexic" graphics, which are generally pretty flimsy. Despite this, some of these fonts are, for some people, very very useful.
They're using Windows in development, and the "problem" itself is a compatibility thing to deal with now-antique versions of windows. The underlying kernel can deal considerably longer filenames, it's easy to create paths that can use considerably longer filenames, it's just certain UI portions that can't.

MS tries to keep backward compatibility at an almost obsessive level, warts and all. The unfortunate thing about maintaining backward compatibility to an almost obsessive level is that you get artifacts like this limit. While the limit should have been removed some time ago, it became so known, easy to work around, and seldom encountered that it was felt to cause more problems than it solved.
Theoretically, that's what your doctor is supposed to do at these "preventative checkups": convince you to exercise, diet, etc.
Lots of options here: http://superuser.com/questions/256105/how-do-i-delete-a-fold...

If you have 7-zip installed, you can open the parent directory in 7-zip file manager and delete it from there.
We'll see. It uses OpenGL 3.3, which is roughly equivalent to WebGL 2, which is not really available yet. You can enable WebGL 2 in Firefox or Chrome but it is disabled by default in both browsers.
I'd be interested to hear more about the last part concerning "subsidizing wages".

Welfare for many in this country basically is a subsidy for their wage (cue memes of "walmart welfare").

Take for instance when the big layoffs started in the tech/housing sector, you would hear stories of people staying on unemployment because it paid MORE than a new job in the same field would pay. And we kept extending benefit timeframes which just resulted in a vicious cycle.

That's a pretty big incentive to not work.
It’s pretty amazing that Microsoft lets the OEMs tarnish the Windows brand with this shady business.
Oh wow, that's cool. Thanks for the context.
Something I'm working on on the side is a way to run my sandbox in a Docker container inside a Linux desktop environment without any VM at all.

If I can get this working, my source code will just be a bind mount that's accessable on both sides of the barrier.

The last major hitch I need to sort out is that our MySQL configuration is massively slower when run inside a Docker container. I haven't figured out why yet.
> Or settle for wiping out all human life on earth and earth will survive just fine without us. Picking a US President that will use nuclear weapons might be a dangerous starting point to investigate.

This may be very dangerous. When you take antibiotics, you need to do the full course, 'lest some bacteria survive. Similarly, if the nuclear destruction isn't complete enough, the surviving humans will repopulate the planet and continue to trouble it for millennia to come. When planning an apocalypse, one needs to be sure it can be carried out to the end.
You're getting closer. Digital computers work in individual, specific operations on a data representation. Analog computers are continuous on actual, raw data. The brain is continuous on raw data with some kind of storage. So, it seems to be a mostly analog system with possibly digital-like features embedded in it. The combo of analog and digital is called mixed-signal in ASIC design, though usually more digital than analog.

Brain seems like a mixed-signal system that's mostly analog.

" ships without a C compiler *"

A feature. Invents & continually improves compilation instead from safer languages to C to safe languages again. ;)

"Version upgrades correlated to earth's rotation around the sun."

That's funny and original.
Martin Gardner was very good at that, and I think Erica Klarreich (one of the main Quanta math journalists and the author of this particular article) is good at it too: she likes to focus on the history and context of a problem, describing mathematicians' expectations and hopes for a solution, and then how progress was made and what consequences it may have.

I guess there's some risk that many of these stories fall into similar patterns (something was hard and mathematicians worked on it for a long time, they didn't expect it to be solved soon, now it's been solved solved and people are impressed and see various applications), but it's nice to see the details and hear from some people in the field in their own words.

I feel like Klarreich tends to give more details than Gardner did when writing about current research; maybe that partly has to do with the web form, because she can include links to the actual papers and supplementary materials. It's also a nice counterpoint to the enthusiasm that her articles convey because the applications and consequences are specific; it's not like journalism that says "maybe now we'll get a pony/interstellar spaceflight/spooky quantum communications/faster computers!" without really showing how the discovery is going to enable that.

The fact is that mathematicians are excited by unexpected progress in math research, so hopefully other people can be too! :-)