skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those living with and off of their parents are, in effect, already receiving a kind of basic income, administered privately at the family level. That is enough to survive, but for most people it is not enough to feel content.

> That's where games come in. They don't put food on the table. But they do provide, at least in the short to medium term, a sense of focus and success, structure and direction, skill development and accomplishment.

I think this is the best prediction of what most people would do with their time if they were on a society-level basic income. The idea that there would be an enormous wellspring of art, culture, and technological progress is not supported by what is happening now.
It's actually cloud front.
Theoretically this would also cause resistance as surviving lice multiply in extremely rare cases.
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The Linux systems that get brought up in these arguments have a lot of non-default helper programs that obfuscate the underlying OS and remove really any reason to be using Linux in the first place other than it's free and it runs on everything.

I mean, yeah Android is nice. And it technically runs Linux. But so does my wifi router... just because I plugged it in and logged into the web interface doesn't mean I can, with a straight face, claim that I am a Linux user.

Does having a laptop that boots straight into a browser without showing anything lower level than that really count as Linux? Does it really make me a Linux user?
Exactly. The impact of any decision has much more significance socially that the sum of all of the individual significance.
At the peak of the first empire, maybe. But a monarchy is only as good as it's leader, and king George was not a good one
Software developer must come to a flexible mindset in order to succeed.

Use whatever's right for you! And, if you come to a workplace where there are "rules" about that, try to obey them.

Never take part in any of those wars of Tabs vs Spaces, VIM vs Emacs vs Sublime vs whatever.

Spend time on writing more tests instead!
People generslly want information they don't currently have but want to be free for then to acquire. People often also want information they do currently have to be expensive to other people to acquire.
which language's run time cares about types?
email is a dead end with Uber. If you listen to the Reply All episodes about a hacked account, the only way they got to a person was by calling the emergency phone line.

(ignore the vast portions of the episodes where they wild goose chase improbable scenario after improbable scenario though. Bloody infuriating)

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/91-the-russian-passenger/

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/93-beware-all/
I don't think that's true. I've worked w/ GA and they use slack and they have thousands of employees.
80 character line wrapping is IMO more important on larger and wider-aspect ratio screens. Even the smallest 16:9 aspect ratio screen can be split into two columns, one being an 80 character column for code and the other left wide for a web browser or document viewer (this is now my setup when working on 16:9 aspect ratio laptops).

I see a lot of people work on large displays and with multi-monitor setups. Those who do not have their screens split into an 80-character or similar terminal and text editor width columns spend a lot of time switching between screens or applications. Couple this with the fact that you have to move your eyes around a lot on larger displays (and even head, in the case of multi-monitor set ups) and their setups actually make them navigate slower than they would on a smaller display.
> As the saying goes: information wants to be free.

Don't anthropomorphize abstractions; they hate that.
I take my daughter to a lice removal specialist. She does a thorough combing to remove the lice. 2 weeks later you return for a follow up to check for any lice that might have hatched from missed nits. If there are any lice they are removed for no additional cost and another follow up scheduled. I have had to use the service twice over the years and neither time were there an lice at the follow up. For me well worth the $100 fee. I don't have the patience to perform the type of thorough combing required and certainly would not get them all in one combing.
Negotiate new keys with Diffie-Hellman periodically, I think.
According to our president, they are just taking advantage of loopholes in the system... Anything else would be practically irresponsible?!
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"Dongles, Dongles Everywhere"

Straw men, straw men everywhere!
What's so difficult about it?

You have swipable 3 tabs, messages, camera and stories. Is that so complicated?
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The UX is ridiculous but there're only so many 'operations' you can do on phones before you discover everything it does—swipe up/down/left/right, tap, double tap, long press, pinch, drag etc, so eventually you get all the gestures. Plus, Snapchat only has 3-4 'pages' (Activity in Android), so there is not much to discover.

I think the UX barrier is a post-hoc generalization. Of all places, people on HN would agree that we tolerate (and often even embrace) much worse UXs if we are sold on the functionality. The git CLI is a mess, but it's far too powerful and functional a VCS to just ignore, for example.

Sure, if the UX were nice, everyone would want to try Snapchat on their own, but there's a good chance you are not on the app because your friend group is not active on it, OR you don't care as much about the stuff they post on it. After all, it's social app.
So because Snap has a higher market cap means there's no excuse for the messy financials? Show me all the money Amazon was making when it was worth $20B.
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Doesn't that mean you make tools like git blame a whole lot less useful? I'm all for formatting my own code correctly, but I'm not going to nuke git history for a few spaces.
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So this 'quite sophisticated' group suddenly became completely inept. Who the hell do NSA take us for? There are no specifics just copypasta and diversion. Oh yeah this thread is full of it. Consensus! BS more like. pure, unadulterated, prairie fresh by the shit-ton.
Don't post titles in all caps, and don't post a domain - use a reasonable title and a text post or a link to an article we can discuss. This isn't Twitter.
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Free as in beer, not as in freedom. That already happened decades ago.
Lots of medical students have illness anxiety while in medical school. So far it hasn't bothered me too much, but I have friends that are on medication because of how stressed they would get thinking they had symptoms pertaining to diseases.

I can relate my only illness anxiety experience though: I had some lab tests done for autoimmune diseases, and came back negative for everything except a liver antibody test. The disease that the test is specific for has initial symptoms of fatigue and itching. You can imagine how most students have some amount of fatigue, and I must have had some contact dermatitis from something else giving me an itching sensation. There was a week long period where I thought my life was going to revolve around when I'd get a liver transplant.
Perhaps it's the psychological effect that's salient--the honor/shame spectrum, rather than the good-explanation/bad-explanation spectrum.
If that's the solution, it seems like you can just make a code change every 50/100 years or so to increment the assumed century, and then this fix can work indefinitely for fairly low maintenance cost
Nah, people have short attention spans.

You cite the dismal perception from 2006-2008, but what changed? In 2008 Obama was elected and everything is new again and he won the Nobel. Did the country completely change in 2 years? Has it changed that much in 8?

Not really, that's why getting so riled up over singular negative events isn't worth your time. Things change fast, and countries have long histories. Germany and Japan were ruled by jingoist elites for centuries and just 80 years ago they were culling populations. Today they are examples of doing it right. Do we really believe 4 years of a bad leader is gonna flip centuries of progress?

It's an issue, yeah, but let's not overstate it because that' s not being honest with ourselves.
Many people think a cage-free life is better for hens. It’s not that simple
My understanding is that pacemakers and planes (and similarly high-reliability systems) tend to statically assign everything and avoid allocators altogether, for precisely this reason. It's much easier to prove that you don't have memory problems if you simply assign every byte of RAM to a specific task and then make sure it's always used for that task and only that task.
> Win16 can run in 64bit mode as long as it is 16bit protected mode code.

Not under Windows: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14246521
This is an excellent write up of the first software based HD Radio receiver. It is licensed GPLv3 and on Github at https://github.com/theori-io/nrsc5
Glad the courts are doing something. Civil forfeiture is one of the most horrifying abuses of police power and very directly contrary to the Constitution; one of the reasons the American Revolution happened in the first place!
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That article is false. A large number of people in the security community have spoken out against that article, which had the effect of convincing people in dangerous situations to switch to less secure communication methods.

"Security researchers call for Guardian to retract false WhatsApp backdoor story" [1]

The Guardian claims they have offered to let Zeynep Tufekci write a rebuttal; according to Tufekci, they have repeatedly delayed and are not taking the offer they made seriously.

If you have spread this misinformation in other places, you might want to follow up with the people you misled.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/20/security-researchers-call-...
Of course not! For one thing, as one's earning power increases, one's high frequency hearing deteriorates. So market forces could well be emphasizing features and capabilities other than frequency response. Fashion, build quality, social signals...these are all very significant factors in something you wear, the practical priorities of audiophiles and enthusiasts notwithstanding. In fact, those are probably stronger factors for that set of people! (Of which, I am a member.)

Headphones also have a serious empiricism issue. You can probably pass off one high end Sennheiser for another in an A/B test. But you couldn't pass off an Audeze for one and have a valid A/B test. Also, you will often read or hear an expert say, if the measurements say something is bad, but it sounds good, or vice versa, then it means we're measuring the wrong things. I'm not saying that the Harman response curve isn't valid. It's just not the whole story.

tl;dr -- Buy the cheapest headphones that you really like, and ignore whatever your coworkers say. ( Hell, there are actually Beats that are good headphones! https://www.innerfidelity.com/content/time-rethink-beats-sol... )

Things are going to change in significant ways in the future as the price of signal processing, compensation, and active correction drops, however. Combining those with advances in the cheaper manufacturing of better drivers will result in the headphones of 10 years from now making the high end headphones of today seem "meh" and today's typical headphones seem trashy.
I don't believe it's a specifically human flaw, but one of social creatures. Humans are just really good at providing examples.
This article referenced the ESP8266 (specifically NodeMCU configuration) as a cheap alternative for WiFi IOT projects that don't warrant the Pi's complexity. I've played with this chip and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to get it working. The bare chips can be had for a couple of dollars, or $15 for a development board which supports USB flashing.

Don't cheap out on the dev board, the cheapest ones use a shitty USB-serial chip and it was a headache to get the drivers working. The adafruit one worked out of the box.
No, and I don't think I claimed it did? Mostly just that back-channel shorting would be extraordinarily tempting while subject to a lock-up. That, and you can't really keep employees from saying that they plan on selling stock when their lock-up expires, and you can't keep the lock-up period under wraps, so the market will try to estimate the size of the impending sell-off and get in front of it with short positions.
The existence of HIPAA has little to do with whether you have to take your records across doctors.

HIPAA requires that our medical data is secured when stored at a medical facility, but I still have to drive over with CDs and printed X rays if I have to go to different doctors and specialists. Doctor's referrals are still paper printouts, and you have to show up early to any doctor as a new patient, and fill out the same form about your medical history all over again. Things are still faxed, sometimes emailed.

This problem is still completely unsolved in the US. The closest thing is maybe if you're going across doctors in one hospital or hospital network, then your records are electronically "transferred"
What I learned from the last chart is that Clojure devs earn the most money regardless of whether they use spaces or tabs.
Being an Elixir programmer also pays off nicely but for heaven's sake don't use tabs unless you want to earn only half as much as you could if you used spaces.
Thanks for the research. Whenever I see ROI numbers my BS detector goes off.
> Note they are type annotations. They are for tooling/development only; the runtime doesn't care about the types at all.

Neither does, say, Haskell's runtime.
I practiced more traditional methods of Vipassana (U Ba Khin and Mahasi Sayadaw) for years, but have actually found a combined metta/insight practice [1] to be more effective, both in terms of mental/emotional wellbeing and progress of insight.

1. http://library.dhammasukha.org/uploads/1/2/8/6/12865490/a_gu...
ShadowRun has video games but it's not a video game. It's a huge RPG universe (first published in 1989) featuring video games, pen & paper rule sets, novels (around 60 of those) and tons of lore.

I was pointing out the similarity of contemporary coporate campuses (Google, Apple, etc.) with the "Self-Contained Industrial-Residential Environment" of that very dystopian world where corporations have taken the upper hands on governments.
How do I get stuff to and from my "Everywhere locker". And when and how can I retrieve it again?
i just tested it and it works with golang.
you have to add the path of your golang installation as a system prefix in preferences and reopen the callgrind file.
http://imgur.com/a/j3NQ9
Tax cuts and being able to fire people is far more important to startup formation than government directed investment.

The mindset comes from opportunity and belief that you can own what you build. Schooling is almost irrelevant, especially today.
They exist. Even prepaid options are getting cheaper. Take a look at discounter offers (Aldi, Lidl etc). Though don't expect great network coverage on the countryside...
You might be interested in reading about the free rider problem. This is a well known phenomenon in economics. Also consider that there are no instances of charities providing for the basic needs of a nation's poor. It was with government programs that things like universal education and healthcare became a reality.
The touchscreen itself is not the issue. You can't swipe properly because the rubber from the glove gets stuck to the glass of the screen. It's extremely annoying and most UX designers don't think about this.
TLDR: Intel's advantage of being able to clock higher gets removed because of heat in these high density multi-core chips. 1p 32core $2k. 2p 32core $4k.

"..14% advantage of cores per rack that ship with their Naples platform compared to Intel’s. On Intel, a singular rack will consist of 4704 cores while AMD’s Zen based Naples Rack will ship with 5376 cores.

There’s also 14% advantage in VM (Virtual Machines) per socket. Memory bandwidth sees a 33% advantage as AMD has 8 channels while Intel’s Purley platform is configured for 6 channels per socket. Intel platform also supports 24 DIMMs while AMD can support up to 32 DIMMs." "release 20th of June."
If you have rules about formatting that should be part of automated formatting for the code which should be part of the standard (hopefully automated) check-in process.
I would be happy if my code only had a bug every 50 years.
Do you have a better proposal?
Why drummers carry those big bass drums and cymbals when they can just use a pocket drum machine?
Very interesting, thanks! Out of curiosity, how soon is "soon" for the expanded data? If you're able to say whether it will be this/next quarter, or this/next year that would be interesting.
There's mostly no centralized system in the US here either. I had to get an MRI on a burned CDR from my old doctor's office and walk it over to my new doctor's office three weeks ago here in NYC. None of my doctors share records with each other except when they're in the same hospital's network. And even then it can be iffy.
right on!
It depends on so many factors (hosting costs, design/availability of motherboards/servers, workload easily parallelizable across multiple servers, etc)

But Intel does the same. The 2-socket http://ark.intel.com/products/91768/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-... is superior in every single aspect to the 4-socket https://ark.intel.com/products/93796/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5... but yet the 4-socket CPU is priced 1.6× higher...
Initially we are using UberRush or Postmates API to use their drivers while we scale up the service.

They'll pick it up from you, store it in one of our "flash storage" facilities, and you request it back when you want.

Can be returned back anywhere (geography limitations initially).
Amazon is interested in buying Slack for $9B
The implications of the mindset of "money laundering is a crime" is the problem. It's how we get this invasive government reporting requirements on our own money - which apply whether or not you are actually laundering. It is how we end up with these $10K rules, and people getting hit for structuring. (Which is even more absurd. Create a law to make people get reported at $10K. Then create another law so if they do less than $10K suspiciously, that's a crime, too!)

So, if AML tactics were not so draconian and far-fetched, if it was just a tacked-on charge (like how they'll throw wire fraud on to everything), then it'd be an annoyance and unfair, but not so harmful. Instead, we have this fearful environment because people think laundering is some terrible crime, and that makes it more acceptable to have things like civil forfeiture.
To me 'intellectual' conjures an image of highfalutin college academics - that sort of rigor has not been linked to offensive security, historically. If a rag-tag group like Anon or curious but intelligent teenagers can exploit systems, so can a North Korean cyber-division. If you are suggesting that intelligence has been purged out of the North Korean gene pool, I have a bell-curve to show you.
Ask HN: Do Coursera or Udacity certifications help for getting a job?
I am wondering how much do the Coursera or Udacity certifications help to get a job in tech.

Do these certifications really count in the CV ?
h1b databases

Canadian engineers get TN visas, not H1Bs. TN visas give way more bargaining power to the employee.
And so exactly how is the top-most comment more reliable than the article then? Same people voting, same lack of critical analysis. At least the bloody author probably spent more than 5 seconds making up his mind.

> I don't even go to articles anymore

You're endorsing this as best practise. Right? Because that was my argument, that this is not best practise. Note that if everyone followed this practise, this site would fall apart.

edited - turns out i do want to continue arguing about it
Hmm. That does sound neat. When and where do you launch initially?
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>what about the simple idea that I shouldn't have to tell anyone about my income sources?

That's not even an argument. That's the lack of an argument. That's throwing a temper tantrum and saying "but I don't wanna!"

It's a sovereign citizen argument and I love seeing YouTube videos of people telling the police that exact thing.
This is blatant content marketing. "Give us your contact information and we'll send you our paper."
$20K More like $100K difference for an average developer or senior tech.

I see job postings in SV in the $150K-$200K range all the time. Top dollar here in Toronto is $100K-$120K, Canadian. So chop 25% off that.
The penalties associated with white collar crime are not effective deterrents. If you have billions of dollars and the worst that can happen is that you pay a couple million in fines, then you are effectively above the law. This was evident in the subprime mortgage crisis. Vast communities were destroyed with limited consequences for the perpetrators.

I would personally like to see white collar crime lead to incarceration more often as that seems like a stronger deterrent. Having said that, I am not deeply knowledgeable about the facts of this particular case.
C++ only supports capturing a variable with a lifetime at least as long as the closure. In other words, you can't _return_ a closure from a function that captures an automatic variable (i.e. "stack-allocated" variable), or pass the closure to another thread of control that such that it outlives the original function invocation. AFAIK Go will automatically heap allocate any variable that is captured. (Theoretically, it could attempt to prove it won't out-live the enclosing function(s).) Automatic heap allocation requires automated GC.

C++ has lots of syntactic sugar, but at the end of the day, like C and Rust it's a fundamentally pass-by-value language.

Here's a good paper which describes some of the complexities and design decisions for a full and complete closure implementation that doesn't require decoration and compiler hinting:

http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/roberto-ierusalimschy/closures-draft.pdf
We have excellent knowledge of psychoacoustics; it's why audio compression works so well. It's pretty straightforward actually. Psychovisual tuning, that's the one we're not good at.
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And my original response merely suggested that using the ethically compromised complexity deliberately introduced into one of the more obscure forms of "money" we have to justify the technical complexities and their attendant consequences in yet another is at best fallacious.

That is: "But CDOs" isn't materially responsive to "BTC is complicated."
> People often also want information they do currently have to be expensive to other people to acquire.

I don't think that's necessarily true. For example, pirated copies of media are typically created when someone legally purchases a copy of the work and then publishes it for others to use entirely for free. I find it very hard to believe that the people posting these pirated works want those works to be expensive for others to acquire.
just settling a rape case does not give Uber execs the freedom to pass the private health records within the company and defame that woman so she is still entitled to file the defamation case. I'm surprised that you're surprised.
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