skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish technically-inclined people who could live off their savings would work on FOSS communication tools (e.g. FreedomBox, MatterMost, Matrix.org, Smallest Federated Wiki, or similar) to create viable alternatives to the centralized profit-driven communication and search systems created by venture capitalism. Or do whatever other worthwhile FOSS floats your boat like for educational simulations or whatever to be part of the gift economy. We desperately need alternatives -- and they are mostly not going to come from the surveillance capitalism culture (or its captive governance) which privatizes gains while socializing costs and risks (including costs and risks to privacy and democracy).

And non-technically-inclined people with savings could help by promoting, documenting distributing, training, prettifying, and providing other support for such systems.

And yes, I've put all my spare resources into that kind of FOSS technical work myself (although at the moment I'm once again working for pay to climb out of taking on debt to finish another FOSS project done with my wife -- this one called NarraFirma).

Related by Alan Kay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15261691
"In the interview -- to say it again -- I'm not calling for the field to implement my vision -- but I am calling for the field to have a larger vision of civilization and how mass media and our tools contribute or detract from it. Thoreau had a good line. He said "We become the tools of our tools" -- meaning, be very careful when you design tools and put them out for use. (Our consumer based technology field is not being at all careful.)"

See also "The Skills of Xanadu":

Printed: https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1956-07/Galaxy_195...

Audio: https://archive.org/details/pra-BB3830.08

And yes -- a Basic Income would make that possible for everyone someday. But if you can live that way now, why not help create a more joyful and sustainable alternative right now? Isn't it plausible that our direction coming out of any Singularity may have a lot to do with our moral and technical infrastructure going into one?

(Obviously, there are some paying jobs that align more closely with such ideals, but they tend to be few and far between, and if you have savings and take one, you displace someone else who might not have your options.)

Also related by me on basic income:
http://www.pdfernhout.net/basic-income-from-a-millionaires-p...
http://www.pdfernhout.net/towards-a-post-scarcity-new-york-s...
The toggle for that notification is in the Maps app under Hamburger > Settings > Notifications > Your Contributions. (If you think that's buried, you should see the developer menu.)

The difference between 5m accuracy and 30cm accuracy isn't terribly important if you're just trying to tell what building someone is in, and it won't improve in-building accuracy. I can't think of anything sketchy that it enables that someone couldn't do already.
All the more reason for people to switch from Android to Apple ecosystem.
Are chargebacks a consideration for the non-Bitcoin forms of payment?
I would like to point out that, anecdotally, the articles you read about this in newspapers do generally have that pattern. Not always. Does seem to involve love in pretty much every single article I've read. The biggest part of those incidents, however, is muslim families imposing punishment on daughters. And yes, they often do it specifically in ways to minimize punishment. Not just by selecting the weapons, for instance they have minors do it, or they do it in large groups so everybody has to protect eachother and there is no single responsible person.

I also dislike your implication. Just because numbers don't seem to pass your standard (which isn't a coincidence, those numbers are very politically charged) does not change the fact that it is very much a problem that muslim communities impose their "values" on women (and elderly, and kids, and ...) with violence in immigrant neighborhoods in the west. Most worrisome these days is that not a week goes by without an article how some banal government intervention (fire brigade, wasps, car crash, shoplifting, ...) goes by without muslim youth attacking everyone, the police, firemen, bystanders, ...

But if you want to see whether this is happening or not, just go there. They've got good food (if you like it), and it won't take you very long to see aggression in the street against women at all. Probably nothing as serious as acid throwing, probably just shouting, but you'll see it. In the evening, especially on fridays, you stand a very good chance to see a physical confrontation between the police and locals near the police station or perhaps the train station.

Or perhaps just search it on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP51aD_72PU

Search it and you'll see just how common and normal these things are. Or visit.

I don't care how much your worldview depends on denying these things are real. They are fact, they are obvious, and they have become so banal, so normal, and in some cases so brutal. Meanwhile, you'll never read about these incidents in either the normal press, or on the BBC or newspapers, and figures detailing these events are so absurd they're utterly ridiculous. More and more stories of people forced out by "crime" (somehow specifically targeting them and not others) keep finding me and dismissing all of them as if this doesn't exist, well, I wish you wouldn't do that.
If two people just got drunk and had sex, they would probably be more likely to pursue contraceptive options like Plan B and abortion than a couple that had consciously decided and planned to have a child. There are exceptions to everything but I maintain that for the most part in the modern world what has replaced "natural selection" is not "sexual selection" but a "conscious selection" that incorporates sexual desire as well as other factors.
The most sought-after job in America
all the best man, downloading it now will give it a spin
Right, but if the product is on the market, doesn't that make the whole trade secret thing kind of void anyway? Because it most likely can be reverse engineered?

If it's provided to users only as a service, then I can see they could protect it as a trade secret by limiting access somehow. But then... would that invalidate the patent (considering the first-to-file stuff).
Because the new body will heat up a lot due to collisions, how bright do you think will this new body be, for people on Earth?
Boy do I miss those types of sites. I need to find more of them.
You're buying convenience in a relatively sterile container, with refrigerated contents. Physically, that bottle of water is 99% identical to the bottle of Diet Coke sitting next to it, but the logic of that product is never questioned.
That's more to do with the OS than the DB, and many repo entries are outdated. MSSQL hasnt existed on Linux before, but either way:

> I'm surprised at how many people seem to have taken issue with a simple comment.
Most bottled "spring water" is tap water that is pumped in a few yards away from the "spring" and then bubbles up, legally now "spring water."
I'm one of those people you're trying to strawman.

I don't disagree with the science as it regards the safety of GMO crops. I'm sure that I could eat concentrated amounts of whatever protein the added/modified DNA codes for without ever noticing.

I, and many other people, are lightly uneasy about the general trend of over-engineering our food supply. The trend points at fewer and fewer varieties of each species being farmed. That results in monocultures and all the inherent risks, such as susceptibility to pests etc. Both selective breeding as well as gene editing also optimise for only those traits with immediate commercial reward: The one or two varieties of Apples you'd end up will be huge, extremely colourful, and have 18 month shelf life. Already we've seen that the market doesn't usually care about taste, and there's a recent paper showing a widespread loss in nutritional value over the last decades.

In regards to nutrition, it has been shown again and again that there's more to it that the day's science has firmly established. The discovery of the major categories (protein/fat/carbohydrates) was immediately used to optimise diets in, for example, the newly industrialised cities, or the military. The result was a widespread decline in health among these populations, with fun new pathologies such as beriberi or scurvy.

Those mistakes were corrected with the discovery of Vitamins (beriberi: B1 deficiency, scurvy: C deficiency), and, once again, science thought it knew enough to reduce nutrition to its parts, and create healthy foods from scratch. Only they continue to fail, because the are myriads of molecules working in a complex network with gut bacteria etc that all have effects on your health. And the only winning strategy has always been: variety.

Note that none of this is really controversial within nutritional science today. But what scientists say is good for you is not always the same as other scientists' new crops. One is human physiology, the other is crop science.

I'm also hesitant to embrace such technology because it turns an industry traditionally organised around small, family-owned businesses into the purvey of three or four incredibly large multinationals and their patent portfolio. And while I think today's democracies have established a working regulatory regime for these behemoth, there are just to many stories about rather shady conduct by such companies in countries with weak governments and institutions.

I also question the need for further increases in ag yields. Much of the discussion is infused by the fear of exponential population growth that was all the rage in the 80s (Club of Rome etc.), but we're actually seeing a gradual flattening of growth, and aren't too far of from "peak humanity". Hunger is no longer the #1 problem of humanity, and where it still exists, it is caused not by a lack of production, but by organisational deficiencies (see North Korea vs South Korea, or Venezuela today vs Venezuela 1995).
The productivity gains are due to capital, not to any improvement on the part of the worker. When a more advanced machine lets you replace 10 unskilled workers with 1, you don't pay that operator 10 times the wage, you pay him the same wage or even less. Why less? Because there are 9 people waiting to take his job if he quits.
This made me laugh!
I wonder if we'll see these in Microsoft's 2018 HoloLens. 1ft accuracy + spatial mapping = a global spatial mesh with countless commercial applications.
Catalonia sends much more money to the central government than it receives (the difference is an amount equivalent to 8% of the region's GDP, according to a Guardian article that's a few years old). I wonder why shaking off the central government wouldn't be a win for them financially, even if they spend more than they ought to.
Thanks so much for all of this! You’re right, we really would need to see more studies to verify claims of substantially increased output via their gadget, and even then, their “ecosystem” of attachments and whatnot sounds a bit too young. It’s actually (good) news to us that milk intake levels off at 4 - 6 weeks - one of those many essential facts that nobody teaches you!
I'm really excited for Graal which will make high performance Ruby, Python and JS possible.
https://youtu.be/5BMHIeMXTqA

Imagine being able to run Pandas and Reactjs and Spring using the same runtime.

https://github.com/graalvm/truffleruby

Java is now officially signalling that it wants to make building new languages as the future of Java.

Graal is also probably going to define the future of the JDK internals as well. http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-Septembe...
Isn't this exactly what happened in the US in the 1800s? A panic and a crash every few years.
One day I'll try learning about California water rights... or perhaps ignorance is bliss for this one.
The US spends the most per capita on healthcare out of every industrialized country, with worse outcomes.

The only place wages are growing (healthcare compensation) is being siphoned away by parasitic for-profit health insurance companies.
> There's a worrying number of people in the world living in places with perfectly potable water, but who insist on drinking only environmentally-damaging bottled water through some superstitious belief that it's better for them.

It always seems odd that bottled water gets trashed a lot more than bottled soda, when soda is both worse for the consumer's health, and probably has a higher environmental footprint (since it's not just the water, but the water plus whatever sweeteners and chemicals get added).

True, soda doesn't taste the same as tap water, but bottled water doesn't taste the same as tap water a lot of the time, either. Some people also prefer the convenience of buying a bottle of water, and it would seem strange to say: "Hey, it's fine to buy something in the bottle if you're doing so for the flavor, but if you're doing so for the sake of convenience, that's terrible."
> in an easily consumable container

That's the thing though: people wouldn't have so much issue with bottled water if the container actually was "easily consumable". As it is, bottled water is simply crime against the planet.
Down to 30cm - good! Now all we need is a GPS-enabled
app for urban pedestrians that reminds them to look
left or right just before they step off a curb
into oncoming traffic.
And I'm sure the Coca-Cola plant down the road pays $524 as well, but for some reason plain water (which is basically the same product minus carbonation and sugar syrup) is somehow a unique moral catastrophe.
The question was not about their success, the question was about wether you consider them simple or complex. You did not answer the question.
I don't understand where you're having trouble writing dynamic sql with postgres. I've worked extensively with sql server, and postgres and I found both to be pretty equal once I learned the ins and outs of each.
I feel so glad that we finally live in the future. Such a shame how terrible it is, though.
Apple has location-based ad targeting on by default, too.

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT205223
Its the technology that make worker more productive not the worker itself.
Go is the new Java, and I think everyone will have to come to terms with it.
This is because governing bodies don't want to put a price on water. Yes, there needs to be another way to ensure Nestle is not taking advantage of natural resources, but setting a precedent for charging for water isn't a great option either.
Apple is also an advertising company - they have unique IDs with your personal information pinned to them, and they sell ads based on your location, too.
You learn quickly not to mention favorably certain taboo subjects here on HN, like Austrian economics or free markets being better than regulated one. (I'll refrain from pointing out others, I want to limit the number of downvotes I get. Self-censorship or, in other words, learned helplessness.)
The CEO claims that water should be treated more like a commodity yet they are happy to exploit this. Perhaps it is because if this kind of exploit that he feels so strongly about water as a commodity.
Enough with the watt-hours already! Let's all just measure batteries using Joules, we have a unit specifically for quantities of electrical energy.
You may be right, though things were far less standardized back then. When I went to boarding school, they had no such drills. I'm not sure if that compares, as it was also in a different State. So, you may be right. I dunno, really.
I think "can't" is "wont" in this case. Apple law enforcement guidelines state:

"All iCloud content data stored by Apple is encrypted at the location of the server. When third-party vendors are used to store data, Apple never gives them the keys. Apple retains the encryption keys in its U.S. data centers."

and

"iCloud content may include email, stored photos, documents, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, Safari browsing history and iOS device backups. iOS device backups may include photos and videos in the Camera Roll, device settings, app data, iMessage, SMS, and MMS messages and voicemail. All iCloud content data stored by Apple is encrypted at the location of the server. When third-party vendors are used to store data, Apple never gives them the keys. Apple retains the encryption keys in its U.S. data centres. iCloud content, as it exists in the subscriber’s account, may be provided in response to a search warrant issued upon a showing of probable cause."

So in short, Apple retains encryption keys for much of the data (including iOS backups), and will provide decrypted data to US law enforcement on request.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...
Google Cloud adds support for more powerful Nvidia GPUs
There are other industries that are billion dollar plus globally that rip off consumers. Natural remedies and diet trends for one. Not saying it's good, but it happens.
Faster GPUs cost more but also take less time, is there a way to figure out what is net cheaper without running an experiment?
I find the chloride taste of tap water disgusting, that's why when in the US I drink bottled water. Same holds for soda drinks in restaurants etc. Always ask for bottles.
Hmm that page is pretty unclear. Because while it says the data is encrypted serverside. What it doesn't say is which data is encrypted with a key that Apple has access to.

Much of the data listed as encrypted on server is available to US law enforcement under warrant.

It would be nice, to have an option available where data is encrypted on server, with your key. But that would mean you couldn't recover your data if you lost your key of course (and I think Apple consider that a poor user experience, or are under pressure not to do that...).
A responsible contractor should ask the right questions to make sure the customer is not asking the impossible and are not going to be stuck with a useless solution at the end, they should not just milk the fuck out of them and cover their arses with layers of get out clauses.

Likewise the customer should not be such a dumb-shit as to agree to/write a contract which produces a system they cannot use and not take proper independent advice.

I have no sympathy for either party.
Just a couple of weeks ago people in Alameda couldn't even bathe in the tap water. That's not a great testament to the quality of bay area water.

https://alamedaca.gov/wateralert
There just isn't a learn-able (or "un-learnable" for that matter) function _even_ on the restricted domain of frontal profile images that maps surjectively onto the MUCH larger space of possible 3D face reconstructions. Intuitively, maybe the side of my jaw is deformed in a way that is not visible from the front, for example -- how can any oracle recover this information without seeing the side of my face?

Many people are mistakenly under the impression that certain signal reconstruction techniques like compressed sensing "violate" the Nyquist sampling theorem. Compressed sensing is still under the same umbrella of the Nyquist Sampling Theorem, as is CNN-based reconstruction (the technique used by this paper). I realize my analogy might have been poor; my claim is that there is still unrecoverable information loss.
With houses it's not always that simple. Often in real estate fraud cases an 'agent' will sell one person's house to another and skip town with the money. If the courts revert the deed to the original owner then the innocent buyers are still out all that money.
Digital Ocean launches Spaces, its object storage service
Erik stated: "ask me anything", but maybe he didn't see this post?
People aren't paying for the water. They are paying for packaging and distribution and its worth it. You literally can't refute this.
How much power do you use
> we're talking about a substance we drink every day

Water? I cook with it, but what I drink is generally milk.
I stand corrected.

Someone is obviously in the wrong here, have doubts whatsapp would ruin their business for a single country.
If you never wanted to do something that was a "crime against the planet", we'd all be living in caves. You can't avoid it in a modern society.
These statistics are only in the U.S. whereas wages have been relatively stagnant across the whole globe with much better healthcare systems that aren't dependent on work.

What benefits are Europeans getting instead of wages?
Even we children knew that we'd be atomized quickly, should the Cold War turn hot and go nuclear. We would sometimes discuss it and, being so tied to the military, we were pretty acutely aware of those periods where the level of tension changed.

Yet, I don't think it really bothered us. I'm not a psychologist but I know that children still laugh, play, and sing while they are in a war zone. We were not in a war zone, obviously. But, we were pretty normal children and did pretty normal children things. We were just aware that we'd all die if they dropped bombs or missiles on us.

There's probably an actual psychological term for it, but I don't know it. Children are remarkably resilient. Other than the drills, the PSAs, and the silly educational videos they made us watch, we weren't that concerned. We were kids, it's not like we had the power to change anything.

I'm pretty sure there's a psych term for it.
How about you release yours first to get us started? No? Well, now you see the issue...
> Interesting how >80% of the commenters are defending panics

That's false.
this has been done/ tried. someone's already made an edible water bottle http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/04/12/edible-wate... - the issue is scale. No new startup can hope to match the scale and distribution the larger companies have. I think the best case scenario is for the likes of Nestle to see these new packaging types as a good investment to boost sales and start adopting them too. Hopefully the more eco friendly options could also be produced in 25 seconds!
You say

>Why does everyone jump to "demise of unions"?

And then

>Wages are not growing because of a policy to screw labor out of its earnings, and the policy is working.

Well yes, said policy would not be and was not tenable with powerful unions. Such abuses are only possible when workers have zero power, i.e. in the absence of unions as forces in the political and economic sphere. There has also been a concerted intentional policy of wealthy capitalists to demonize and destroy unions over the past few decades, continuing to this day, complete with legislation aimed at their destruction taking a variety of creative and ruthless avenues, violence and killings, extreme economic coercive force like shutting down entire businesses and factories in retaliation to even a sniff of workers talking about unionizing, and a massive and well financed propaganda effort. And the policy is working. The most powerful unions are teacher's unions and charter schools are being slammed through by wealthy interests in region after region with the explicit purpose of killing them off.

Things actually are complicated, we aren't making them so.
If every house had a Coke faucet that could supply limitless supplies of soda nearly free, your argument might be more appropriate.

You'll find plenty of people arguing against sodas in threads that talk about soda, this one, however is about the water, no one is suggesting that soda is a better alternative.
It looks like C, but actually it is common subset from C++.

GCC has migrated to C++ in 2008.

https://lwn.net/Articles/542457/
Augmented Reality.
After Pokemon Go went viral and the iPhone X including AR Kit. AR will be the next 200$ hour job.
I second this, please remove the forced GOPATH with the upcoming Go 2.0. (GOPATH is annoying to handle with multiple repositories in different paths, and probably there is no reason to have it anymore anyway.)

I really like Go, it's so nice for server side applications.
Build your very own PC keyboard
So the bribe wasn't for enough and wasn't the right people?