skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure you can. I mean, no offense, but there are a lot of people who will sell you a display ad that gets in front of whoever you want. And lord knows there is nothing stopping you from doing cold outreach.

I think what a lot of people want is inbound warm leads for free, without actually reaching out to do sales.

And no, that's not gonna happen. That ship has sailed long ago. You could go viral, that's still a thing. Viral content has never been able to spread farther and faster, although it's pretty damned competitive these days.
You are missing a great deal of suffering in the middle. Decent hard working people can start dying long before the robots must shut down.
> this is in no way a troll

Really? Because this is this the basic premise behind one of the greatest examples of satire in history...
Still doesn't prove causality of course, but there's an article on the front page at this very moment about a spike in ransomware. And most ransomware (and ransom in general) is paid quietly, not discussed publicly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14324129
And then with out any human interaction, the tablet asks politely for a 20% tip... I wonder if the tablet makes less than minimum wage too.
https://m.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/12/drone_consoles_linux_...

Military drones were using XP until they just had too much spyware on the machines to operate the drones.
8 year hardware cycle for phones? You'd still be on an iPhone 3G. That's crazy.
MassPlanner is shutting down at the request of Instagram
How does this work when you purchase a royalty free license and then use it in an open source project?
A UBI alongside a progressive income tax is identical to a negative income tax, assuming that the negative income tax is truly progressive (that is, the marginal tax rate is monotonically increasing over the entire income range; I only add this caveat because I've seen NIT proposals where the marginal rate was higher in the range where the total rate was negative, then dropped down, and was progressive beyond that point.)

That is, with any such NIT, you can add a fixed amount to the tax laibility so that the amount is never negative, and add a UBI of equal amount, and get exactly the same net results, and with a UBI you can subtract the UBI amount from everyone's tax liability, delete the separate UBI, and have an NIT with the exact same net financial effect. They are basically interchangeable.

Administratively, they are different, in that the UBI payments are effectively an advance against the potentially negative income tax that those above the point with 0% marginal tax have to pay some or all of back at tax time. But that's the only difference.
I wasn't sure about the title of this post chose to view it when I saw janestreet.com
> Housing, ... supply limited

The US is incredibly sparsely populated, there would be billions of residents if we were as dense as Western Europe.

We do have limited supply of housing in artificially low dense cities that have good jobs, but that's politics and not economics.
Global+Bone+Cement+Market+Present+Scenario+and+Growth+Prospects+2016-2021
Fair point. Good example of death march project!
Cyberattacks Would Lead to Super Artificial Intelligence
The post WW2 Poland was a creation of the Western powers, there was fighting into the 1920's in 'Poland' - the war only ended in 1918 for some but not all. There were the mass migrations and ethnic cleansings going on as this new Poland stitched together some backstory of nationhood that was fairly confabulated.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/map-russian-empire-191...

If you look at the 1914 map you see that Churchill and co bundled up a bit of three former empires to build out this new nation. I imagine if there was some conflict in America and Texas was bundled off with a chunk of Mexico to form 'Greater Texas' as a new sovereign state, with the borders being drawn up by Russia and China, then I imagine it would not take much for the U.S.A. to 'invade' this 'Greater Texas' and to collaborate with Mexico to restore the borders.
Was concerned that this was Amazon injecting ads into every skill or interaction.

This is actually just a new ad sdk for skill developers.

So this is only for third party skill devs who want to monetize their own skills.
I don't know, but you'd think so. Otherwise the carriers would set their price at $100/MB or something ridiculous.
Side question... Is there anything better than Yelp?
Are macOS or ChromeOS options?

Heck, some of my relatives are good with an iPad for 90% of their online activities.
You seem to be assuming that low-wage workers are all poor and uneducated. That is misleading. From [1]:

50% of minimum wage workers are under the age of 24
25% of minimum wage workers are under the age of 19

Entry level jobs paying minimum wage teach important skills to teens and young adults:

* being on time
* attention to detail
* how to work with others
* how to follow instructions ...

There is certainly room for discussion about how to help heads-of-household who are struggling with a minimum wage job because they don't have any other skills, but it is a mistake to assume that is the situation for all minimum wage workers.

High minimum wages price many entry level workers right out of the market making it difficult for them to gain these entry level skills which are important for subsequent jobs.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/08/who-makes-mi...
Since I'm a Cocoa developer and I don't like change for the sake of change I'm just using Parallels for Visual Studio and Windows software development and macOS for my main OS. I don't particularly dislike Windows but it's still a bit messy.

However under the hood Windows is catching up if not overtaking macOS since Windows Vista. I'm probably one of the few people that thought it was an amazing improvement over Windows XP at the time (using it on a machine with rock solid driver support perhaps helped). The graphics subsystem, security, driver model: everything was better.

I just want Windows to be incrementally improved and homogenized for a long while instead of half assed system wide changes every other release. The real beauty of macOS in my opinion is that somebody coming from the betas on a BW G3 in 1999 would still find his or her way easily on a 2017 Mac. But when they changed it from OS 9 to OS X they did it drastically and with a pretty clean cut from the past.
Will take a look at this tomorrow - thanks
Dealing with unhappy minimum wage workers seems to be the default to me as well. My theater experience sounds like yours. As for minimum wage cashiers, I would rather use the self checkout.

Most cashiers can't be bothered to puts things like eggs anywhere except directly under gallons of juice. I am not trying to beat them up, most are clearly hard working and decent people. But they are people who are being replaced by more efficient, cheaper an more reliable machines. Except for the part where I have to bag my own eggs, but I won't crush them, because I paid for them.
where did you get these addresses from? I only get the 115p address on a retweeted photo from an NHS computer
> Patriotism is both a wonderful and terrible thing

I found that hypothesis widely accepted, without so much for it.

Patriotism fuses core values like freedom or solidarity with a flag. That's why it is easier to pervert.

Patriotism tells people that because there are people born in the same line limits that you, you should be proud of what they do, and you should help them first.

Patriotism distorts history.

> "Fourteen thousand years ago, Sweden was still covered by a thick ice cap." https://sweden.se/society/history-of-sweden/

Bullshit. Sweden didn't exist 14000 years ago. All history is learned as if the current countries were an inevitable result thousands of years ago. World history, human history, gets displaced to be able to build a national sentiment.

> "The colonial history of the United States covers the history of European settlements from the start of colonization until their incorporation into the United States of America"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United...

Again, we get that feeling of pre-determination. As if those people weren't free to choose their future as if they weren't individuals but just a means to create a country.

Patriotism narrows the mindset of populations. I don't see that usefulness. Anything that people does for patriotism will be better done for freedom, equality, fraternity, etc.

Why is patriotism a wonderful thing? What arguments am I missing?
Terrorism is the wrong word. But in general it's game theoretically optimal to have a policy of never giving into blackmail. If you take a bunch of hostages and start making demands, the police will never let you get away with what you want. Because they know if they did, it would inspire many copycat crimes. For some reason cyber ransom is seen differently. Even though the stakes are much lower than a hostage situation.
There is quite a large cost to that, though. Being able to search through old emails is a lifesaver. I can't count how many times I have searched through email to find some account info I set up years ago, or to get date information about when something happened. Just today, I searched my email for my old FastTrak account info, and found it on an email from 5 years ago.

Deleting all my email would be a big cost to pay for a gain that I can't exactly quantify; I would have to figure out the likelihood of my data being leaked over time and the cost to me if the data was leaked. That isn't readily obvious what the risk factor is for me, but I KNOW the cost factor.
My understanding is that this is a 3rd party that may even be breaking Amazon's own rules so this may not come to fruition. Also it would be tied into a Skill so you can just stop using annoying Skills.

Alexa is already too "wordy" though. Many error messages and other responses need to just shut up and use fewer words or be changed to a sound effect. If an ad or any other piece of voice lasts 15 seconds, that sucks on this platform and even advertisers should understand this.

I am reminded of old Star Trek series and I am always laughing at voice interfaces. The ship is accelerating out of control and is about to explode, the crew is asking the computer for VITAL information that should be provided as soon as possible, and yet the voice babbles something like: "Warning, at risk of structural failure, at current acceleration, the ship will explode in 15 seconds" (most important detail last, and the computer used up 10 of your final seconds just speaking it to you).
Well, Google could have just pulled an Apple and don't licence Android for manufacturers that allowed this. Can't tout "bigger install base than Apple" with that, though.
Did I say stop using them?

Distribute risk. Use multiple accounts. Don't handle all work/financial stuff on a single account. Keep work and personal accounts separate.
Reduce the number of hours you spend online being a data milch cow for these corps. This automatically reduces dependence. Don't allow messenger chat transcript backups to happen by just uninstalling the app every other night. Don't restore any saved transcripts on disk on reinstall.

I could go on and on but basic rule is use your imagination. Don't use these tools the way they want you to use them. Use them as you would use a tool in a workshed as an aid, not as a drug you are dependent on.
It is funny, how we started to use comparisons to mean just adjectives. E.g., 'like no other' -> 'really good'.

Funny, and semantics breaking.

How could we write a title that just said 'the book is really good' and still felt compelling?
What physicians really need from AI
Griffin and Sabine (Nick Bantock) is also somewhat similar. There the entirety of the story is cards and letters written between the title characters. It has the same idea of having these as inserts within the book. It was well done; the "found object" nature of it has a nice quality.
I've been shopping for land to build a tiny house, lately...and I've kinda fallen in love with maps. It began by necessity; most places near metropolitan areas have zoning ordinances that mandate large (often very large) houses. So, every time I find a possible option (close enough to a place I'd want to call home, in my price range, has a reasonable road to get to it, etc.), I usually have to spelunk deep into the GIS maps for the city/county, to figure out zoning, whether water and sewer will be reasonable to hook up to, the actual boundaries of the parcel, etc.

So, I had no idea that I'm a maps nerd...but I'm a maps nerd. I'm really enjoying doing the research at this point; I hated it until I figured out that a large percentage of counties provide web-based GIS map access. And, GIS provides a tidal wave of data to play with. Combined with Google maps (for street view and satellite) and Bing maps (for the Bird's Eye view), I can rule out properties without ever leaving the house or picking up the phone. I can usually know within a few minutes the zoning, the kinds of neighbors I'd have and how far away they are, how far I'd have to run water/sewer or whether I'd need septic and a well, etc.

Anyway, these really are gorgeous maps. I'm absolutely gonna pick up Imus' Texas map for the wall of my tiny house (or whatever state I end up settling in, as I'm also considering NM, for the much more flexible natural building codes).
I have seen many sides of this dice...

I have lived in New Delhi for 20 years, in Singapore for 5 years and in SF/Berkeley for 10 years.

Public transit in SF Bay area is horrible. You are right... it smells because of the homeless riding it all day, and service times are bad, and its quite expensive too.

Even New Delhi's metro is nicer and cleaner than the BART / Caltrain (because its newer but also because the company keeps it clean).

Singapore's public transit system is out of this world. Its absolutely amazing. Clean, efficient, reasonably priced, etc.

It was a shock to me when I landed in the "greatest country on earth" to see such a pathetic public transport systems.

I brought a motorcycle after my first year in US. We have 2 cars now, not only because we like the cars, but precisely because we would like to avoid the public transport.

However, people who have seen good public transport would always vote for that. I would love to see a Singapore like public transport in the US. I loved it and would give up 1 of our cars for that (still need 1 car to head out to Yosemite). But alas, I don't see that happening in the US because US people have not seen good public transport.
Yes, but you need fragments of only about 50 basepairs to assemble a genome (or a big part of it) back. A typical DNA strand has on the order of hundreds of millions of basepairs.
I like to fact-check my assertions prior to making them, unless I'm being metaphysical. Not snark; it's just a huge time saver.

There are a bunch of such datasets, some commercial but accessible for a small fee (like ASCAP), others freely available. I personally like the Discogs one best but some of the commercial offerings are better curated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_music_databases
Great info. So, for the layman. How vulnerable are users behind a firewall or broadband router?
This looks awesome, just one question and forgive my ignorance; since the topic is free to choose and audits will only be performed in the repo involved, what's stopping someone from creating an app a month prior and then simply manually replicating their commits during the 48hours?
You're basically talking about the "fast casual" dining craze. Like a panera, where you can order and take payment online, or from a tablet there, and they drop the food off when it's ready. Drinks and everything else until you leave are self service.

Pei-wei is another example. These are all the rage because of the efficiency (less wait staff) but still good food and a sit down environment.

The distinction is in expectation. Certain places you expect a waiter, to be seated, brought everything ("fine dining"). The difference between casual dining is mostly the atmosphere (usually better furniture, tablecloth, cutlery, etc) and a waiter (who may or may not be formally dressed).

The fancy waiter is adding value in the second case, because you're looking for that fine dining atmosphere. If it wasn't, they'd probably be going toward iPads too. Instead they have dress codes.

The difference is the waiter doesn't add much to an everyday meal. The waiter could be terrible though. So in terms of a business cost, that's something casual places can skimp on. For a more "fine dining" feel, you need great waitstaff, so that's harder to automate.
the entirety of your argument seems to be "it's not unethical because other countries do it", which is not compelling when you consider other forms of unethical behavior using this defense.
> The attacks were reminiscent of the hack that took down dozens of websites last October, including Twitter, Spotify and PayPal, via devices connected to the internet, including printers and baby monitors.

Lazy writing at NYTimes; what on earth does this attack have to do with the one at hand? It's not broadly the same type of attack, nor the same scale, nor the same outcome.
I'm curious, not trying to be smart: 1. Would running Windows 7 in a VM violate the certified software load? 2. Is new device software being written to run in containers/hypervisor level?

I could understand if 1 would be a violation, but perhaps, after today, the FDA could fast track manufacturer patches to run software loads on VMs?

I don't imagine 2 would solve current infrastructure issues any time soon given the size of investments in current equipment, but could it be a best practice going forward?
You don't have to worry about tumbling anymore.

You can use XMR.to, Shapeshift.io, or Changelly.com over TOR to move funds directly into another another blockchain currency. So have fun following things around Bitcoin blockchain like some high tech sleuth, but thats a wild goose chase.

I buy all my cryptocurrencies through those kind of services nowadays, because there's no risk or temptation to keep coins on custodial exchanges, instead of in a private wallet. As well as no worries about withdrawal limits (although shapeshift has fairly low per transaction limits, just make an additional transaction)

For unlinking the transaction, the only currency you want to cross-chain into is Monero. With its Ring Signatures and Stealth Addresses it is a private blockchain by default (in comparison with some other cryptocurrencies that have a secondary optional privacy feature like Zcash/Shadowcash/Dash).

I'm actually surprised that the ransomware isn't taking Monero directly yet as some exchanges have direct Monero/USD markets already.
There are two distinct problems at play:

1. Workers whose contributions are undervalued.

2. Workers who cannot be trained or educated to provide high-value labour.

These are both issues.

(There are other categories: parents, caregivers, the disabled, sick, or handicapped, etc. But the two classifications above represent a major part of systemic failure of labour markets.)
Disclaimer: Employee, not on Windows.

> With Windows 10, some editions cannot even postpone installing those updates for long.

Not saying that users will necessarily find the place to do it, or understand the implications of this action, but anyone can permanently postpone installing the updates by disabling the service.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/turn-off-windows-update-in-win...

I think you were referring to the "defer updates" feature which is only available in Enterprise (and maybe Pro, I'm not sure about that one.)
I misread VME as VMX at first. Totally different.
> Already in the old days, Nokia was one of the very few manufacturers that bothered to provide firmware updates, and even then usually only once.

When you put it that way, it seems like it's gotten a lot better.
Encryption is difficult to get right. Multiple ransomwares have failed because they screwed it up and it was possible to decrypt without paying. It's also time consuming. It takes a long time to encrypt every file on a hard drive and antivirus will scan for that kind of behavior.

Whereas throwing together a program that corrupts every file on the hard drive is not too difficult.
This really should have "(virtual 8086 mode)" in the title.
> use Localbitcoins.com and trade for cash

You either have to meet someone in person for this, or go to a bank. Either way you are open to having your identity tied to the transaction.

> Booting into Tails on any public network is fairly easy

The vast majority of publicly available WiFi hotspots block Tails/Tor now. There may be some exceptions, but you're also dealing with the fact that network admins can set up alerts to notify them if someone is using Tor, and where. It is likely there are also logs being kept of IP addresses where Tor has been used.

> buyer targeting is rare enough... until you start purchasing large amounts

This is really the only real reason such activities have been able to continue at all. I would not necessarily expect it to stay this way. Also, if records are being kept of this sort of thing, they could be used against anyone at any time if other reasons to target an individual surface.

If you're comfortable with the risk involved in acquiring illegal goods and have made your peace with possible repercussions, none of this is a big deal. Most of this stuff should be legal for independent adults anyway, right? But if you're wondering whether something like this might come back to bite you in the ass... well yeah, it sure as hell could.
We can draw an interesting historical parallel from the Roman Empire in the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE. Expansion had greatly enriched the Senatorial class (and the Equites). Meanwhile, middle class Romans (I use the term technically to refer those in the middle property classes able to serve in the military) had been the soldiers who fought in the campaigns the senators had used to get rich.

The soldiers' farms fell into disrepair while they were away campaigning and were bought by the wealthy senators when the soldiers realised they could not work them anymore. The Senators then used the slaves they had brought back from overseas to work those farms thereby eliminating the need for hired labour from the dispossessed. The now landless soldiers lived off the grain dole until popularist leaders came along and offered to pay them directly to fight for them. This was a key factor in the breakdown of Roman democracy and the rise of the emperors (princeps).
Odd, child-bearing is kind of the original source of all the zero-sum status-seeking behavior.
I'm yet to see anything positive from patriotism. It's a form of outdated tribalism. Even the idea of a nation-state isn't that old - this all started with the Napoleonic Wars.

Patriotism always leads to "us" vs "them", it seems.
Yes, the parts that can be automated now are already automated. But the parts that are left are hard to automate and not glamorous.
If Google makes it easier for manufacturers to make phones that can be updated OTA by Google than phones that can not (custom Android builds) most of them would probably do so. Have a hardware layer, an Android system layer, an OEM layer, and have a clear interface between them so they can be updated independently. Then Google should push updates themselves, they can't leave that to phone manufacturers or carriers, like you said, there's no incentives for them to do so. Of course, this has been an issue for Android since day one, so I wont hold my breath.

Are there any work done on a system similar to the one on PC, where software can enumerate available hardware? We have advanced computers in our pockets, but they can't be updated to a new OS version as easy as a 15 year old PC. It's ridiculous.