skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like DropboxHelperInstaller can be used to extract an arbitrary tarball as root into /Library/DropboxHelperTools, preserving permissions. It takes two arguments: the first is a number (doesn't seem to matter--maybe PPID for callback?) and the second is the bath to the GZIP'd tarball. It seems to require that the tarball have an RSA signature appended to the end, but there are signs that the check may be less than ideal and possible to circumvent.

Output from extracting a Dropbox-signed tarball (in this case, DropboxHelperInstall's own tarball):

<pid>52229</pid>
crypto error while Verifying Signature: block type is not 01 (in rsa routines:RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1)
crypto error while Verifying Signature: padding check failed (in rsa routines:RSA_EAY_PUBLIC_DECRYPT)
mkdir '/Library/DropboxHelperTools' 0755 -> 17
extracting ./._DropboxHelperInstaller
extracting DropboxHelperInstaller
<ok>

Output from attempt to extract a third-party tarball:

<pid>52286</pid>
missing magic number
unable to read_digest
couldn't verify signature
<failure> -1

Output from attempt to extract a third-party tarball with the signature copied from a Dropbox tarball:

<pid>52142</pid>
crypto error while Verifying Signature: block type is not 01 (in rsa routines:RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1)
crypto error while Verifying Signature: padding check failed (in rsa routines:RSA_EAY_PUBLIC_DECRYPT)
crypto error while Verifying Signature: bad signature (in rsa routines:INT_RSA_VERIFY)
couldn't verify signature
<failure> -1

It's probably worth reverse engineering DropboxHelperInstaller to ensure that the signature check can't be evaded. Even then, I'm not sure I like the idea of anyone with Dropbox's private key being able to install arbitrary setuid binaries on my machine. Given recent events, it's quite possible the private key has already been stolen.
You can have a successful product but hat doesn't mean that the document format is necessarly good.
Ok, now do it for >2tb.

Our prod hadoop dataset is now > 130tb, try that!
The author is another fantastic and accomplished musician, vocalist and song writer: Amanda Fucking Palmer
Because a headline is meant to let the reader decide if it's worth reading. The newspaper doesn't get to make that call via. trickery.
Banks! Digital! So digital that our partner integration API is a batch SFTP upload of CSV files, with most success/failure reports coming back over the next few days but several coming back weeks after the fact.
Rules must have a few exceptions, else they are not rules but universal laws that go without saying...
This seems to be the Manta [0] way. Letting you run your beloved Unix command pipeline on your Object Store files.

[0] https://www.joyent.com/manta But the youtube videos with Bryan Cantrill are even better at explaining.
This is a reversible debugger, it records all the state needed to run your program backwards in time from a breakpoint so you can see find where a variable assignment went wrong.

You might want to try out the standard Python stdlib command-line debugger called pdb first, once you get used to that try this.
I'm all for personal responsibility. However, I don't see the problem in the government playing their part also. Whilst some people have enough privately owned resources to work around the issues without too much fuss, there are those who have more limited resources who are less able to do so.

Let's take the case of flooding in Manhattan. Let's imagine it hits the subway first. There's a large number of people in NYC who live outside Manhattan but work in Manhattan, travelling to work on the subway from the other NYC boroughs. Whilst people may choose to move away from NYC over time, what about those first few weeks after the flooding hits the subway? Other forms of transport are already heavily used, so it's not like NYC could continue to function smoothly by all former subway users using buses instead. In cases like this, I'd want the government to intervene to help speed up the implementation of flood defences and organise resources to help people continue to live their lives until they were at a point where they had the resources to move.
Enough with this dumb Paleo stupidity. Sure you lose weight temporarily. But its not sustainable and greatly reduces your chances of... being alive.
Whole-foods plant-based - I know its boring, but there are decades of science behind it. Eat your greens.
> The leading argument is that there won’t be any jobs left anyway, and that meanwhile technology will bring all the costs down.

Oh there will be many jobs left but they will all require a certain level of education, let's call that university degree for the sake of simplicity. Also people will need to have some degree of mental capacity to attain this level. It is pretty much natural to presume not everyone will have this mental capacity. Already this is showing everywhere. What will society do with those who have the physical capability but not the mental to work? BI is one of the answers. It may not be the best answer but do have a better one? We need an answer right effin' now because long range trucking will be automated away Real Soon Now(TM) and that's (at least in Canada) is one of the most populated occupation and society level answers are never reached quick.
A quick look at humanities progress, and its fairly obvious where we're headed. there will be a day where many people won't have to work to survive. There will be an extreme amount of abundance in the economy due to technology and automation. More for everyone... :)

Whether this happens 20 years from now or 100 years or 1000 years from now is beside the point. It will happen. And therefore thinking about and preparing for this future is worthwhile.
Latvia, abysmal voter turnout, but the same system pretty much. Elections on a Saturday, voting stations open from 07:00 to 20:00, and you can vote at any station. No advance registration, no requirements other than being able to identify yourself at the voting station.

With manual vote counting, using paper ballots, we usually have preliminary results around midnight and it's clear who won the election from those, and 99% of the votes are counted by early Sunday morning.

We may have flaws in our democratic system, but the voting process is something we do right.
It lets you put data on the wire, in a structured format, right out of memory. Asking the question "how much faster is it" isn't even valid here, because it skips the usual serialization process.

Cap'n Proto generates you some code that contains some data structures. You put data into these structures, and they will automatically be in the right shape to put directly on the wire. And then that data can be pulled right off the wire and right into memory and be fully ready to access, with no intermediate step.

It's, in a sense, infinitely faster than JSON serialization or deserialization. Because it doesn't even perform any serialization. It's just data.

There are some other tricks at play here, but I won't go into them. This is plenty cool.
It's a cool idea but not sure why I would subscribe to this instead of using something like JuneCloud Deliveries which isn't subscription based but less automatic
Min – A smarter web browser
In many cases, it's less about knowing how to shoot a rifle (though that is a factor as well) and more about how to safely handle one. Even if you do not care for guns, there are many around, and knowing how to safely handle one and treat it with the care needed helps to prevent deadly accidents.
There will be no post-scarcity economy, or rather, if there is one, we're already living in it.

People like to trade stuff. This means there will always be things people want to trade. This means money, commerce, and scarcity aren't going anywhere.

The post-scarcity folks seem to assume that there is some basic set of things: food, shelter, healthcare ... that once we have, we'll be "done"

It's never going to work that way.

Let me put this another way. We live in a world with millions, perhaps tens of millions of millionaires. Folks that if they wanted would never have to work again.

Do these people stop working? Do they stop accumulating and trading things? Is their participation in the economy so drastically different than others?

The poorest person in the U.S. is living a better life than the richest person alive 1,000 years ago. Do they live in any fashion similar to those folks? Would those folks, if they could see 1,000 years into the future, guess at how the common many would behave, given all the things he has?

Post scarcity is a nice sentiment, it just doesn't work.
Thank you for your thourough answer. I'm in Spain, so the options are slightly different. Sacharine + cyclamate (I think it's banned from the USA) tastes much better than anything else.

Cocoa (with no sugar added) and orange peel is my favourite choice for the natural additives.

The artificial flavors are more or less the same. But it's very limited. There's no way to find the complex, more subtle mixes used in branded yogourths, say mango, papaya, kiwi, raisins and the more realistic fruit varieties.

I believe that the lack of choices is caused by the artificial bashing propaganda. People would not buy artificial flavors yet they're consuming them anyway, just because they're conveniently fooled by a few fruit bits in the mix.
I notified the author about it on the uLisp forums. He has now updated the link.
How about immigration? Once Basic Income is introduced in one area, people from all over the world will start moving there.

Right now SF is not even capable to host 450 homeless arriving every year. What would you do if that number of people arrived every day or every hour?
Thank the "low-fat/fat-free" craze for that.

Associating dietary fat with body fat has been one of the worse mistakes in "nutrition" in the past decades.

Now most "low-fat" food has added carbs to deal with the loss of consistency. And even regular foods (especially in the US) have added sugar.
Side note: are there platforms that make responding to essays easier for the writer and reader to follow the logic? It'd help for replying to pieces like the OP.

I struggled with this example on the RMI/RSA in France.

>So you could argue that the “RMI/RSA” is basic income, except maybe for the paperware frictions that it inflicts on those who are eligible and that could be removed thanks to technology. Accordingly, those in favor of basic income should pay attention to the “RMI/RSA” and draw appropriate lessons: it’s not simple (at all); it has adverse economic effects; and it is widely denounced, notably on the right, as “assistance” (assistanat) that deprives those who claim the benefit from any incentive to look for a job, thus making them live off the middle class taxpayers.

The author holds this example up as why UBI might fail. But the reasons listed why the RMI/RSA failed are all either driving forces for UBI or solved by UBI.

1) RMI/RSA is complicated to administer due to high burden of proof for the individual to demonstrate no income. UBI solves this by allowing everyone to have an income, not just those without a salary.

2) RMI/RSA has adverse economic effects because it disincentivizes people to seek jobs. Part of why people are thinking UBI could be a good idea is there will be fewer jobs in the future and so disincentivization to look for a job for a subset of the population is partially a good thing.

3) RMI/RSA is politically difficult. That's why people involved in the UBI movement are running private, small scale experiments. They want to prove/disprove their hypotheses to provide evidence in favor of or against UBI.
Somewhat related: "X-Rays Expose a Hidden Medieval Library" https://medievalbooks.nl/2015/12/18/x-rays-expose-a-hidden-m... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10758257 (86 points, 267 days ago, 6 comments)
OT but if you've never heard of Buran, you might like this blog post: http://russiatrek.org/blog/history/two-abandoned-spaceships-...

It's rammed with fantastic photos by Ralph Mirebs of the hangers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome used to house it (complete with an ageing, abandoned Buran inside).
This is an interesting thought but it does not get into the motivations for why a real political party might make the choice to operate this way -- there likely needs to be some perceived comparative advantage to the potential users of such a model for them to use it, or else why take the risk and venture into the unknown?

I think it's possible that a DAO could be part of a system that does provide such an advantage -- it may even be the case that it alone confers one! But I don't know what it is and want to see one articulated.

This topic is of current interest to me, as I've been reading summaries of the history of political and philosophical trends lately[1]. The interplay of different power groups with economic, technological, and other factors to form novel systems for controlling their environment is very complex, and fun to speculate about, especially the internet's role in possibly allowing new power structures to exist that may lead to new systems.

1. In particular, Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, which has been a surprising lot of fun.
There's a replica of Stonehenge in Maryhill, Washington:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryhill_Stonehenge
> You have to fill in many papers, prove that you don’t have sufficient income or any valuable property, go through many humiliating and intrusive controls. If you want to earn (a small amount of) money without working, then you must endure it all. In most cases it is necessary to seek the help of a social worker to carry out the procedure in its entirety.

This is exactly the reason I want basic income. I want nobody to feel like someone else is cheating the system. I hear a bunch of people (even old people who are on medicare and social security!) who will talk trash about "welfare queens".

It is not like we can't afford it. There will be short term pain, of course but I think we will have greater solidarity. This is good for the 0.01% as well because if you are doing really well, you want to keep the ship steady. (Well to be cynical, you could try to keep everyone else fighting amongst themselves but any arsonist will tell you that a fire once started won't spare the people who started it.)
That is very much like the advice I remember Annie Proulx giving--something like "don't do workshops, read prodigiously"
Is there a list of these places somewhere?
A reasonable article, albeit not capturing the full argument for UBI. One missing pro-argument is reducing the creativity monetary risk barrier.

Entrepreneurship is at about 14% working age adults in the US (1). I would say that the number of people who would be entrepreneurs is higher, but limited by risk. Entrepreneurship is very high risk. Reducing that risk would enable more people to become entrepreneurs (a good thing). Removing the risk that being an entrepreneur will make you loose the shirt off your back, will allow more people to start companies.

It is not limited to entrepreneurship. How many more amazing painters would there be? Writers? How much more creative common good would there be in the world if basic needs (via UBI) was taken care of?

None of the current social risk insurance, are directly reducing this loss to us all.

(1)
http://www.inc.com/leigh-buchanan/us-entrepreneurship-reache...
There is a lot in this article I disagree with but let me focus on the NHS argument.

>> "The painful problem, which turned the NHS into a thorn in the side of every British government, is that in the current context of tax revolt, hatred of government, and fiscal austerity, the quality of the experience provided by the NHS can only go down, with longer waiting lines, less customized care, and ultimately a vicious circle in which everybody loses, patients as well as professionals."

The only reason this is a problem is political. We have the NHS but we also have private options - get rid of those. Then there would be more staff available for the NHS, a huge some of money would not be wasted on locum staff, and therefore more money would be available to the NHS. Some of that could be used for funding and some could be used to pay staff a fairer wage. The fiscal austerity argument is nonsense. We have plenty of money - it's just spent poorly. We don't need to spend £30bn on nuclear missiles we'll never use (and if we ever do need to use them it'll be too late anyway). We don't need to spend £30-40bn on the military. Of course defunding these things is political suicide but you can't tell me we can't afford decent healthcare when we're wasting money on missiles we don't need, a huge military we don't need, and locum staff which shouldn't be a thing in the first place when you have a public health care system.
I think the concept of "social technology" is an important one.

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/social-technology-and-anarcho-...

While we have the machines and such needed to build a subway or build a bridge, we no longer have the capacity to organize men in such an endeavor.
> Hopefully this has illustrated some points about using and abusing tools like Hadoop for data processing tasks that can better be accomplished on a single machine with simple shell commands and tools. If you have a huge amount of data or really need distributed processing, then tools like Hadoop may be required, but more often than not these days I see Hadoop used where a traditional relational database or other solutions would be far better in terms of performance, cost of implementation, and ongoing maintenance.
This shit is showing up in almost every major paper now. Look at it on the bright side: Articles with titles using the clickbait style guide are instantly recognizable as the tripe. Because no paper's going to lead a local crime story, for instance, with "Pregnant Mother shot -- you'll never guess where" or "Mayor indicted for corruption was silent until he heard this."

Newspaper clickbait has some common traits: National story, sensational, dull. It's either lazy pop science or a shock story about what somebody did three time zones away. So it's always safe to ignore.
Funny how the article does not even mention paleo.
> people from all over the world will start moving there.

I don't think immigration laws would permit that. For one, you couldn't "just move" to the US like that.

Within the EU it could become an interesting problem if some countries did this and others didn't. I suspect that if anyone were to try this there'll be some limitations at first, like you have to have citizenship, or prove legal residency for longer than "since the past few minutes".
I'm actually happy that I was baited into reading it. Had the title been "low carb diet recommended for obesity", I would be on my way to the next headline.
Small towns generally do not have as wide a variety of shops as bigger cities, so residents in small town and rural environments have to drive several times a month to a bigger city, sometimes 100 miles or more round trip.
Any time they don't translate between units, or mix different types together, I assume the writer is not only functionally innumerate, but also just repeating what somebody else has told them to say...

Also note that (according to Wikipedia) the capacity is 250,000kg - so 275 tons, or 551,155 lbs.

The C-17's cargo capacity (again, from Wikipedia) is 77,500kg - so 85 tons, or 170,858lbs. That looks a lot more like a difference of 380,000lbs than 300,000lbs to me, which, with some journalistic licence, could surely become "almost 400,000lbs more". You may well be correct about the sensationalism aspect, and here they are leaving some of that on the table.

So I don't really know what's going on. Like I said, functionally innumerate... (Though of course, calculation error at this end is always a possibility! But nobody's paying me to do this, so I'm going to go with my gut here.)
Fluid dynamics and combustion chambers. It's rocket science, a long, expensive trial-and-error development process. And unlike other sciences, most of the results are never published so each entity has to recreate the foundations themselves. It takes money, time, and dedicated careers.
So the solution to poor service provided by NHS is to eliminate any competitors and force more people onto NHS hoping that this improves the service?
And? Do you mean that the "border" do not look very "straight"? Then the Malouines islands should belong to Argentine, right? And Alaska to Canada, and Monaco to France, and Antartica to the pinguins...
I use DriveDroid (http://softwarebakery.com/projects/drivedroid) on my rooted OnePlus One running CM 13. Very easy and convenient.
In fact the An255 can carry 250,000kg...

(My initial complaint was just with the units mismatch. But, as is often the case, this is just the tip of the iceberg. My rule of thumb remains in force: any time an article mixes up metric/imperial/US Customary units, you can basically ignore that part of it.)
Should probably begin by saying that there's no fundemental reason why China could not eventually develop their own modern turbofans without outside assistance. But obviously now is better for China.

Designing and building modern turbofan engines is incredibly dependent on your mastery of materials science and fabrication. These are areas of science and engineering that are notoriously "art like" or even "black magic like". The accrued knowledge that sits in Rolls-Royce or GE or Pratt-Witney don't really exist in textbooks, and they aren't taught in classes either. This knowledge and know how was generated over 60 years of trial and error, and are jealously guarded, not just by the manufacturers, but also by their governments.

Things to consider: modern turbine blades are already pushing the absolute edge of lightweight-temperature resistant materials. And then modern designs will run these blades at temperatures that are nominally above the material failure point, because we've come up with ways to cool the structures. Oh, and the temperature resistant alloys in use? Secret. Empirically determined, and likely unique.
Floating point isn't legible either, nor are are bitfields, opcodes, instruction formats, etc. That's why we use computers to do the 'right thing' and format the data if we need to read it.

I don't have a preference for either one, but using little-endian when most/every processor you will be targeting supports it makes more sense than using big-endian + extra work on x86 just so you can read it with less effort in a memory dump.
I was an idiot and I am not proud of that! I was thinking like "I need insulin when I eat food. So since I am not eating, I don't need insulin and everything will be fine" :-(
How to pick the fastest line at the supermarket
> 1.75GB

> 3.46GB

These will fit in memory on modest hardware. No reason to use Hadoop.

The title could be: "Using tools suitable for a problem can be 235x faster than tools unsuitable for the problem"
Not just added carbs, added sugars and starches, the worst kind of carbs.
But that would not be really basic income (which is unconditional). There would be second class of citizens. Something like controlled rent today.
The Floppotron ( Cover of Imperial March by Computer Hardware Orchestra. )
I'll save you from having to visit HuffPo:

1. Smaller portions
2. Making meals more of an 'event' (so, eating slower?)
3. Walking more (not exactly directly related to diet, but ok)

Nothing nutritional, just super basic advice we all know already and some cute pictures of different dishes from around the world. Eat less and slower and take more walks, the end.

Edit: Oh yeah, and did you know fish, vegetables, olive oil, certain cheeses and red wine might have health benefits?