skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One important thing that everyone seems to be missing is a firearm. What good is prepping if all of your goods can easily be seized? This is in addition to a firearm's utility as a hunting instrument, which could prove useful if your supplies began to dwindle. Regardless, owning a firearm is prudent whether or not your prepping efforts come to fruition.
I'm sorry.

What can (non-american) outsiders do to help fix/improve this situation (in American prisons)?
Right as "fucked" as the poor can be in this country prisoners have even less agency and are even more vulnerable to the abuses of the system they get thrown into.
Von Foerster, The curious behavior of complex systems: lessons from biology 1975
The point of Universal Basic Income, is in part, to give people more choice in terms of employment. Some people choose to live in NYC or San Francisco, but many do so because that's where the work is. With Basic Income, well, perhaps a job paying a little less a little further away will help.

It's not clear that this will be enough to offset inflation, but the truly excellent Basic Income subreddit FAQs [1] addresses inflation specifically, and in essence there has been little to no evidence of it in practice.

I personally have always been a fan of Henry George who not just advocated an LVT, but suggested that this should be the only tax - all other taxes were unfair. I realise I am in a minority and some taxes can help with social/healthcare issues (e.g. on tobacco and alcohol).

That said, UBI with a rigorous LVT would be my ideal. Alas, voters utterly despise both, at least in the UK, so it's unlikely we'll see either any time soon.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/basicincome/wiki/index
Security in-a-box – tools and tactics for digital security
True, could not get used with putty myself also. But since I upgraded to Ubuntu I started using only PacManager as my primary ssh connection manager and never looked back
What's a good source?
This seems like something that's really easy to get mad about; but given it's optional nature and the fact that you're watching these videos on a tiny phone screen actually seems like almost universally a good thing.
Really? I haven't seen one and I've had six figures in brokerage/checking/savings for a decade. I know someone who worked at their datacenter a while ago and, well, heh.

Also, do they support e-statements for savings accounts yet? I swear it is the only piece of mail I get now a days.

Overall though they are a great bank with a magic fee-less debit card and human beings who answer the phone 24/7. And they don't seem too evil, but I haven't turned over many rocks.
I don't. Just speculating. Would love to hear about different experiences.
Not true. You can throttle packets by source or destination IP block, and by throttling the connection, the player will be forced down to a lower bitrate rendition.

This is how T-Mobile performs their throttling, and could be done to any class of traffic.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/eff-confirms-t-mobiles...
> American Criminal Justice is particularly leaning towards the concept of Just Deserts: if someone does something bad then it is right that bad things should happen to them, without any concept of overall harm minimization.

Why do many US Americans think this way (I'm German, so also by looking at Germany's history I think completely differently about all this).
Ask HN: Leasing your live/work loft to a startup
I'm currently moving out of SF, and wondering if anyone has experience leasing their place out to a startup. I own a loft in a live/work building that I think would be a good fit for a startup (separate street entrance, two other units in my row of ~10 are startups, roughly 1600 sq ft, prime SOMA/Yerba Buena location).

Did you find an agent? Find leasing docs yourself and self market? Any advice?
The city and the sublime
Be careful googling synthetic diamonds. There are a lot of scammy companies out there using slippery language to fool you into thinking their cubic zirconias are sythetic diamonds. AFAIK there are only a few companies making real jewelry grade synthetic diamonds and they are just barely cheaper than mined diamonds, so if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Well, modern flat design generally also includes a much more animated interface, which would probably entail the addition of much more code. And I don't think the drawing speed of buttons was ever a very strong reason for the rise of flat design - though I completely understand your distaste for it.
Chrome also has chrome://serviceworker-internals.

I have no idea why Hampton Farms saw it fit to install a service worker. Furthermore, this isn't gated by a permission dialog like location services or plugin access?
Imagine if you could influence the direction a black hole aims- what a fantastic interstellar raygun this would make.

First sign of intelligent life is it wiping itself from the galactic map.
Exactly this. The problem with every diamond critique I see is that their very first argument against diamonds is that they're expensive when that is, in fact, the entire point.

Likewise, all the people who cry foul about the De Beers conspiracy are neglecting the fact that this does absolutely nothing to reduce their signal value. If I spend a large sum of money on something which I know to be worthless just to start my engagement, that's an even better commitment than spending a large sum of money on something which I think is worthless.

People who are anti-diamond should really focus on coming up with alternative signals which has better social outcomes. I would personally prefer some sort of trust, where if the engagement is successful the money is donated to our preferred charity—but if it's not, it's donated to a politician I despise.

If we're dead-set on continuing to use pretty rocks as signals, someone should establish a monopoly on a gem which is impossible to procure from exploiting conflicts. They should still make it extremely expensive, but have all the mining be ethical.
Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years (2015)
Media in the Age of Algorithms
What makes you think that video-game-style shooting is going to deter the professionals that are attempting to seize your goods?
Secure the Network Part #1 – OpenVPN and DNSCrypt
I'm digging the cover of "Home Sweet Home" they're using in the commercial, but can't find a source for it!
No one has ever thought it was anything other than a diamond ring

I recently bought a ring from Diamond Foundry after reading this: http://qz.com/630512/would-you-propose-with-a-diamond-grown-... and related articles, and AFAICT no non-specialist can tell the difference.

There is also an interesting online company called My Trio Rings (http://www.mytriorings.com) that does conventionally mined diamonds but has, AFAICT, lower than average prices. I think one of their guys posts to HN sometimes.
Anybody else have a SO who doesn't care about any of this? We talked about rings for 10 minutes before she and I got married. We wear white gold bands. No one has ever asked us about our rings. I'm feeling like I'm missing something here. Do rings appreciate in value?
So what happens when there is only one bitrate available at 1080p and it's encrypted?
This. A trace amount of bleach is also a highly effective purifying agent, though it's trickier to get that right.
You seem to have nothing to say on the topic of emotion, except that the 1000's of people who study it in universities, clinics and hospitals around the world have nothing correct to say...

I am certain that your emotions on the subject are clouding your judgement. But to be the consistent razor of occam as you present yourself, shouldn't your term be computational neuro? what does physiology have to do with it?
>> her diamond ring will be worn forever

The divorce statistics say something else.
2. Intel has its own internal fabs, which allows them to control the entire process, but also eats into their margins.

[...]

4. Intel's CPU related R&D expenses are much higher than either Apple or Qualcomm. On top of this, Intel does a ton of research into process optimization, materials science, and general circuit design, which obviously needs funding.

Isn't this double-accounting? TSMC and Samsung have the same process-related expenses; indeed Samsung is very close on Intel's heels, process-wise. But somehow this isn't reflected in SOC price? Again, it doesn't seem to make sense to me that Intel chips go for around $100 but Qualcomm chips list around $25.
Thanks buddy! I did miss that.
Favoring first match vs. longest match.
> Cubic is cheap and tacky

Why the fact it's cheap makes it tacky? There's plenty of good CZ jewelry and 99% of people won't know the difference with diamonds or moissanite if you don't tell them. Moassanite is good, but still way too much expensive than it should be. It would be fun if we chose homes same way -
"Oh, that big house with large lot, fireplace, etc is perfect in every way for us, but it's 30 times cheaper than that another almost-the-same house that was built by the company which enslaves people and makes them die while building those houses. We will only have to be in mortgage for it for 1 year, so we won't buy it."
Why don't use left over money to buy some trip or something like that? I don't understand why regular working people want to wear half a car on a finger...
At Facebook's scale, I'd bet someone has research and evidence of 7 digit per year reductions in support costs by making capslock (or forgotten capitalisation) problems "go away"...
Professional, what?

What makes you think that you'll be up against these "professionals"?
Interesting claim, considering someone has been sentenced to a 15'000€ fine for violating it just this year. http://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/mediabig/239773A.pdf

If you want to ensure you don't get fined, I'd rather let the user opt-in than risk a legal confrontation.
Silicon Valley was worried about the wrong bubble
I go out to collect gemstones as a hobby on the weekends. And it only took a half day class to learn how to shape them for jewelry. So while some people still like diamonds, I prefer to give hand-collected and crafted stones. They might not be worth as much, but I made them myself and can guarantee nobody was harmed or screwed over in the process.
Your player is going to stutter hard if it doesn't wait to preload enough of the content.

Disclaimer: My last job was infrastructure at an Internet-only video news org.
> If poor people can't be taken care of to the point they have these things (and I think they should!) then I don't think starting with the prisons is the right way to go.

If you really care about this, then you should advocate that poor people don't produce children anymore so that at least "born poor", that is a common cause of poverty, is mostly eliminated.
That sounds like a really complicated command, requiring countless amounts of keystrokes and indepth knowledge of the CLI (piping, etc) and the commands (tr, awk) involved.

Something that could easily be solved with a bit of copy-paste and regex usage in the right text IDE. I'd argue that you're comparing a seasoned professional at the CLI with an inexperienced IDE-user. It's always assumed that IDE and non-CLI users are basic and not at all adept at performing their tasks in efficient ways.
I definitely downvote Reddit comments that are all <h1> text.
If I was raiding homes, I would prioritise those that aren't shooting back at me.
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I thought case insensitivity was only for the first character?
The majority of video traffic on the internet is encrypted. But it doesn't need to be downscaled directly by the operator, since almost all streaming services will adapt the actual video quality to the observed bandwidth. All you need to do is detect video traffic (quite easy to do even if it's encrypted) and selectively throttle it. The servers will take care of the rest.
I do wonder if some issures (especially about composability) are actually caused a layer deeper, in the programming languages.

For example, java has some very peculiar ideas about typing and metaprogramming that encourage a "plugin" approach an tie your codeto 3rd party libs stronger than would be necessary.

Some examples:

- Classes that implement an interface now have it as a dependency: If the interface class is not present, your class won't compile. This even though the interface class usually doesn't contain any additional information (exception being "extends" clauses)

- the same is even true for annotations - even if those annotations don't even end up in the compiled class at all.

- the language itself offers an extensive range of tools to package your code into discrete units with well-defined inputs and outputs. It offers significantly less tools to wire those units together and actually make then into a complete piece of software. In the end, if you roll your own solution, you often get to choose between "bowl of spaghetty" or "needlessly complicated". Frameworks stepped in to solve that problem (or at least make it look as if all the complexity were justified).

- the reflection API encourages adding your own semantics to java language constructs and in a way extending the language - except there is no way to coordinate reflection usage by different frameworks.
I have found the FB pixel to be both awesome and not fully baked in terms of reporting.

The general concept of allowing custom events is awesome. It means it plays really nicely with situations that don't fit nicely into their standard events. By the same token, custom events feel like second class citizens in FB ad reporting.

Here is a scenario and I'd love any suggestions if people have them because there is no documentation on this and FB has basically done away with access to a live person for ads (while interestingly enough Google now goes out of its way to connect you with a live person, even if only via chat).

I work on a product with a free trial with subscriptions of multiple plan levels and terms. I can track a custom event on subscription and pass plan and term params along with the revenue data, but there is no easy way to drill into those dimensions keyed off of custom params with their reporting. The only manual hack I've found is to create an aggregate custom event for all subscriptions for top level reporting, and then individual custom events for each plan/term permutation (plan1/annual, plan1/monthly, plan2/annual, plan2/monthly, etc.).

This is manageable for now as there are only 8 events plus the aggregate one, but I then have to add each of those as custom columns to reports which gets super messy.

The not fully baked part is that as an advertiser, my ideal reporting dashboard in FB would let me drill in at multiple levels and segment reporting by these custom dimensions just by using a single custom event's params. So I'd have a report segment option for plan and term that then broke those out in the table and then the chart (and their charting capabilities are also sorely lacking right now for serious advertisers).

Instead, I need to dump this to a spreadsheet and pivot it if I want to do any serious analysis.

Has the author or anyone else solved for this differently outside of using a PMD with better reporting? We'll end up switching to one soon enough, but I feel like FB has really failed to go the final steps with this. Adding custom parameters but then not allowing advertisers to report and segment by them is a huge opportunity for them. And they clearly have the data parsed already because offer it in the custom conversion and audience builder tools.

Also, and this applies to most ad platforms...I wish there were better support for recurring up and LTV tracking and reporting. Helping me easily report on the full deferred value the ads are driving makes it easier for me to build the case for more spend. I can do that in other analytics tools, but I feel like this is data FB would want to have in a structured format. Maybe that's just me though.
What sort of stuff do you find hard to build?
Wait. Why, exactly, is this argument ridiculous? Your references are about the Sokal hoax; are you claiming this is a hoax too? Is your only evidence an unrelated 20 year old hoax?

I'm somewhat credulous about the original assertion myself, but what is just as bad as shoddy humanities scholarship is the out of hand dismissing of all humanities scholarship as shoddy.
Given free market indicators such as Bitcoin marketcap and the recent rise of Monero vs zcash - perhaps absolute privacy is not what the market values?
Four Non-Obvious Things Pink Floyd Can Teach Your Team
What is with that horrible music in his promo video?
If there were ever a prolonged problem I'd be worried about the shelf life of medicines.

There are two problems for preparation. We are typically restricted in the quantity we can buy and they often don't have a long shelf life.

I myself have enough MREs for about one month. I get mine from mealkitsupply.com and hotpackmeals.co.uk. These are self heating ration packs which is nice if the electric cuts out.

The mealkits last for five years, probably ten years to be honest. I've seen people eat MREs from the Korean War and they were perfectly good to eat.

The hotpacks last only three years, but are quite nice to eat and I tend to use them up as I go for lunches.
I keep a weeks worth of freeze dried food rations/MREs, a couple of charged USB powerbricks, flashlights and batteries, body wash wipes, a basic bathroom kit. As I'm writing this I realized I don't have any water. I need to buy water and gas and put some stuff in my car.

Anyway, in 2008 I lost power for 15 days during hurricane Ike. It was an interesting scenario I'd never been in or considered. I still had to go to work 30 minutes away (Houston) which consumed gas, having to go to work during this might sound bad; but it was the ONLY place in miserably hot September in Houston where I could charge my phone and sit in an air conditioner because we had power. To buy gas I had to find a gas station and they all had insane lines (hours) if you could even find a gas station that was open AND had gas. All of those gas stations were 30+ minutes away from my house. Nothing in my part of the city (Heights, which is nearby downtown) was open at all. This might not have been an issue for some, but I had lived in the city for about a month and knew nothing but my neighborhood and now I couldn't use GPS or look up anything unless I was at work.

I had never really considered that some emergency like that would happen and that there still had to remain some normalcy of life (like waking up and going to work). I actually had to have my friend mail me food/items a few times because I was still able to get packages, I just had no idea when power in my area would be restored.

It was definitely an eye opener. Also property theft was incredibly rampant. There were times I had to sit on my balcony and watch my neighbors places because so many people left town and looters were looking for places with no people present. If you saw the popular "You loot I shoot :(" picture of the destroyed house from Houston during Ike, that was a block from my house.

I remember after about a 10 days the CVS down the block from me opened up as I was driving by. I ran in and left with about 10 boxes of Gushers and other random fruit chew type foods because all of their perishables were bad and candy was all that was left. But at least I had something to eat.

edit: TC Jester/Washington you loot I shoot image; https://xnomad.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/17-09-08_1931.jpg...
you can get married without a diamond ring or a expensive marriage. its only a netloss if you make it one
Is it possible to multiplex from various IPs? IPv6 has a huuuuge address space.
What does your food supply consist of? MREs, or things like peanut butter?
They don't complain. They just don't ever install or use the app. The average user installs less than 3 new apps per month. https://www.tune.com/blog/no-the-average-american-does-not-d...

App install friction is much higher than website visit friction, and with PWA's, coming back is enough to prompt the user to install the app to their home screen with a single click.

Learning something new is not the big obstacle. The big obstacle is investment vs return on investment. If you have to write the same app 3 times, that is a significantly larger investment, and potentially much smaller return if what you end up with turns away most of your users.

Each click in the install process reduces the number of successful installs by 20%. So, start with 1,000 interested users. If the user has to click six times to install the app, you end up with only only 262 installs. And then you have to activate them to keep them using the app. Data shows you'll lose an average of 80% of your users after install if you fail to activate. That means you end up with 52 out of 1,000 potential users.

VS PWA. Once click means you start out with 800 instead of 252, so then you just need to activate them, which gives you 160 activated users.

3x the users for 1/3rd the investment. I don't know about you, but these are pretty compelling numbers for me.
If anyone read the New Cosmogony by Stanislaw Lem, he would instantly conclude that higher powers are not quite fond of organic life, just from the existence of such beams. The fact that rays can wipe out stars (or, at least, preclude their formation) only strengthen that conclusion as stars are necessary for organic life to form.
Exactly. You don't need to run faster than a lion to escape it, you only need to run faster than the slowest of the group.
On top of that, this kind of interactions are usually used by power users (individuals, not business), so it wouldn't be as popular nor profitable as they need (e.g.: Google Reader was a fantastic tool but they shut it down anyway).
It was Sam Saffron, one of the ex Stack Overflow and now Discourse developers that turned me on to it:

https://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/05/03/eliminating-my-tri...
But effectively all modern products have their prices inflated by hype (i.e. marketing) and many by artificial scarcity.

Not many people think about this for any product, why should we expect them to think about it for diamonds?
Ask HN: Should I just program or should I continue to go for engineering?
Hi HN.

I'm having a bit of a hard time. Since Aug 2015 I've been studying to get a bachelors in computer science. The first year was a base technical year to get my math skills up to par and since august this year I've been enrolled in a program over at KTH in stockholm, Sweden.

During this time I've been going at it quite hard. Around 40h of school and 16h of work each week (i have a contract with a swedish start up). It's been working out fine but I'm starting to grow frustrated with this path. I started studying to ensure a safe future. I have by no means any hard time finding work and I've been doing things for major ad agencies and some major brands (nike, samsung, wwf, mentos). I just thought I needed a bachelor to be safe in the future.

Now I've just been at websummit in portugal and I've just missed a weeks worth of studies but I can already feel how much I need to do this week to get everything done. Quite frankly I'm sick of the workload. My courses only partially connect with what I want to work with (developer) and the stress is hard to motivate.

How much of a difference does a bachelors in computer science really make? Is it really bad for me not to go through with this?
> we have a large amount of heirloom seeds we've collected over the past few years.

Don't seeds get unviable (if that is the right word) after a few years? I've done gardening in the past, and seen that seeds a few years old sometimes do not germinate. Might want to test with a few of each kind and date range, periodically.
Chrome for Android blocks autoplaying videos. To get around this, sites now use JS to decode and render video into a canvas. For example: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178297.... As one might imagine, this is not so great for power usage…