skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe Spolsky summarized it as:

1. Smart.
2. Gets things done.
The entrenched interests complaining about piracy need to realise it is a symptom that their pricing or product isn't good enough.

For instance, I would be lying if I said I've never pirated music in my life. My total lifetime spending on music in physical form is probably only around £100. My spending on live music in the past 2 years probably exceeds £1000 though.

What's changed? I have a Spotify subscription. Spotify has made music discovery far easier (than even tracking down torrents) and is something I gladly pay for without a second doubt. A secondary effect is I now see far more live music as I have discovered artists I actually care about supporting.

To quote Jeff Bezos: your margin is my opportunity.
Somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Question from non-american to non-american: What do you find different from American shows to shows from your country? Apart from the funny words?
So you expect people to relocate from California to Detroit... Good luck with that happening.
VMWare's Open-Source Angular UI Framework: Clarity Design System
What's the use case for this? Machine learning? But data? General math use?
Lending Privilege
Also, the AWS free tier lets you get a windows VM for 750 hrs/month for absolutely $0.
Introduction to WebRender – Part 1 – Browsers Today
It would be interesting to know what the nature of these bugs was, whether they are mostly memory safety issues or not.

I find it scary that for $1k one can find so many bugs in software exposed to untrusted content.
A fictional device in the DODO book. Describing it would be a spoiler.
TOML: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language
What about Little Wicked Newsletter?
> Yea, it makes a lot sense

In fact it does make sense. China has undergone the greatest debt binge in world history in the last 10 years. In fact, there has never been a debt accumulation even remotely close to what they've done.

Tens of trillions in publicly known and shadow debt has been taken on by the Chinese economy. Compare their GDP to debt growth:

https://i.imgur.com/J2u9qFz.jpg

It's obvious what's coming, sooner rather than later.

To make matters worse, Chinese consumers are now aggressively loading up on debt:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-21/china-s-o...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/06/how-chinas-billion-savers-em...
That will happen in most states, but if you don't pay long enough they will usually come after you. It may take several years.
I love this, but I'm missing a key piece to make this effective for non-tiny code bases.

The author proposes using 2 webpack configs, one for es2015 and one for es5. That means running webpack twice from scratch. This, in turn, means you can't effectively use webpack's devserver because that's just a single instance with a single webpack config.

The author's boilerplate [0] "solves" that by hand-coding a watcher based on chokidar which just rebuilds both files on every change. On our code base, clean webpack builds take minutes (and when babel is even configured to exclude /node_modules/, as the author recommends against). If we'd follow the author's advice, we'd be waiting for minutes every time we make a change.

Anyone got a good idea here? The best I can come up with is to use the es2015 build (but with node_modules excluded) in dev mode, and then for staging and production, running webpack twice as the author suggests. That makes the dev version rather different from both the production es2015 output and the production es5 output, however, so if there's any bug in the chain anywhere (babel bug, webpack bug, babel-env browser support table error, etc etc) we may not always find it.

In all honesty that itches me a bit (even though by skipping uglify in dev mode we already depend on at least 1 tool being essentially bug-free). Any ideas?

[0] https://github.com/philipwalton/webpack-esnext-boilerplate
Snap Spectacles Hardware Lab Cuts Some Jobs, Changes Leadership
as noted above "part 15" rules actually allow low-power transmission along a multitude of bands. In some bands you are restricted to only a few mw of power, others like the scientific bands allow more.
The quoted blurb (I haven't checked if this checks out in the study proper) does seem to suggest that at least in some cases, the report found the positive result that it isn't harmful:

> On the contrary, in the case of video games, the study found the opposite link, indicating a positive influence of illegal game downloads on legal sales.
Getting the feeling almost every news site does not accurately report on this for the sake of click bait.

I doubt "Report finds no conclusive results for pirated digital goods" would raise that much attention.
I ended up skimming. A lot. I just didn't have the patience for pretty much everything post-white-sky until the leap forward in time.
ChaCha20 isn't a lightweight stream cipher.
is there any legal limit?
12 Mbps may be an OK bare minimum if it's consistent.

Unfortunately, most connections I've used give you a burst, and then drop drastically down, so you only experience the 12 Mbps for a second or two, then watch it fall over 30 seconds to around 1-2 Mbps.

Right now I have 20 Mbps fiber that is consistently 20 Mbps. It's right at the threshold that I would call "comfortable". I'm not sure I would be OK with half that.

"Broadband" used to mean "really fast". Redefining it to the lowest threshold that internet is usable does not sound reasonable to me.
a) Self documenting doesn't mean no comments

b) I didn't give enough context for your specific commentary to really make sense. I mean, when did I even say this is a function? It's a snippet of pseudo-code not a code sample.

c) Are you really running around programs ripping out references because you don't know what they do? I'd advise working on your definition of optimization before worrying about whether your code documents itself.
> He wasn't trying to line his own pockets at the expense of others. In fact I don't think I've ever encountered someone so completely uninterested in personal wealth. You know the old saw about being able to get a lot done if you don't care who gets the credit? Satoshi doesn't want the credit. Two years later he walked away and left the pseudonym behind. And hard as this may be to believe, it looks like he doesn't even want to be paid for it. As far as we can tell he mined approximately a million Bitcoins and has never sold a single one of them.

That's rank speculation. Satoshi also didn't provably burn those millions of coins by sending them to a bunk address-- i.e. whatever the Bitcoin address equivalent is for "IF-I-HAVE-THE-KEY-TO-THIS-ADDRESS-THEN-THIS-HASHING-ALGORITHM-IS-BROKEN".

Unless Ray is one of the authors of Bitcoin he has no idea whether Satoshi was interested in personal wealth, or died, or was tracked down by a security service, or something else entirely.
General math use, like numpy/scipy.
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If you assume UBI is based on an income tax, then that's not universal basic income, that's negative income tax.

Even so, if you hypothetically see a decrease in income for 3% of the population and an increase in income for 97%, you still have inflation. 100% of the population purchases housing, which is income-elastic, meaning housing prices will increase because 97% of the population's income will increase.
Lime has the best hardware/specs at their price points, but their software toolchain is atrocious; just trying to do simple tasks in GNURadio is so flaky/error prone. I wish I'd gone with ahackrf (michael ossmann products) rather than the lime.
"Comparison with Other Formats

"In some ways TOML is very similar to JSON: simple, well-specified, and maps easily
to ubiquitous data types. JSON is great for serializing data that will mostly be
read and written by computer programs. Where TOML differs from JSON is its emphasis
on being easy for humans to read and write. Comments are a good example: they serve
no purpose when data is being sent from one program to another, but are very helpful
in a configuration file that may be edited by hand.

"The YAML format is oriented towards configuration files just like TOML. For many
purposes, however, YAML is an overly complex solution. TOML aims for simplicity, a
goal which is not apparent in the YAML specification:

http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html

"The INI format is also frequently used for configuration files. The format is not
standardized, however, and usually does not handle more than one or two levels of
nesting."
Greenland usually gains about 350-400 billion tons of ice over the summer, but this year, it gained 550 billion tons and is still gaining.

Temperatures in the center of Greenland's ice sheet never rose above -10C all summer, so it's hard to see how it could have lost any ice. Ice accumulation is nearly two standard deviations above the 1981-2010 mean for the same period, and it is very, very early in the season for such gains.

Both of Greenland's largest glaciers (Jakobshavn and Peterman) are growing at record rates, about 1km/year.

Icepacks and glaciers calve into the sea. That's what they do. It's Nature's way of moving the ice and snow away from the center and back into the ocean. If they didn't, the snowpack/ice would extend to the Equator, which is impossible, or the snowpack would be 5 miles high, which is not the case.
Completely agree. Survival past that point would probably be a worse outcome. Just imagine the long tail of life when fully aware of humanity's self immolation. Combine that with the fact that most of the people likely to survive are the most paranoid of today's preppers, one shudders at the thought of plodding through an existence trapped in the most neurotic subreddits come to life.
I appreciate the way the book teaches the realities of nuclear war. Some interesting things I picked up from the myth/fact section:

-Food & water isn't contaminated unless fallout particles enter into it. Thus any food/water stored in airtight containers is safe to consume.

-The US & Russia likely don't have enough nuclear firepower to kill every human being on earth (a commonly cited "fact"). This is based off of misleading calculations.

-Within a couple of weeks, fallout radiation would be reduced to the point that most people could leave their shelters.

-A bomb said to be 1,000x more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima is not 1,000x more deadly or destructive (16x more deadly is apparently more accurate)

-"Nuclear winter" is a discredited myth propagated by de-nuclearization supporters.

-Airburst nuclear weapons produce basically 0 fallout. The bomb has to burst on the surface to pick up particles of earth and debris to create fallout.

Nuclear war doesn't seem so bad now! :D
The nice thing about betting against the end of the world is that if you lose it doesn't matter.
The median income is $57k/yr [1]. Or we can go to the second chart and get the following: 11.2% make under $15k. 20.8% make under $25k. 30.2% < 35k, 43.1% under 50k, 60.1% under 75k.

The point isn't that the lower can't save, it is that people above the median income still don't save. These people should be able to save, but don't.

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2017/demo/income-poverty/...
What's new in the 2001 edition?
same experience, sadly.
Just cache all images in apple's servers (even if the user doesn't open the mail) by default and tracking is useless.
Yes and and IMO that's OK when it's about iPhone X's cost but not OK when breaking news about policy maker corruption.
A universal income increase is not a universal net income increase, if taxes on non-UBI income become more progressive at the same time.
That's because the GOP isn't a party, it's a coalition of bickering factions that has chosen to prioritize winning over purity. (As opposed to Democrats, who prioritize purity over winning.)
With Java 9, Java finally supports HiDPI on Linux and Windows. MacOS has had HiDPI support since Java 7u40. On Linux it also adds GTK support.
How will you work part time if there are no jobs due to robotic automation (not that I believe that's a significant problem for a century)?
Kids Today will affect Programmer's Wages Tomorrow
How to Be a PrepperBut Not One of Those Crazy Ones – The Organic Prepper
> It feels the same in Germany, if i had to guess i'd say most western countries are going through something like this at the moment.

Yeah, that's what I think I'm seeing too. When I talk with my fellow Canadians, especially those who grew up here, they say things like "we don't have a culture"; I get a similar vibe from visiting Germans, and even (to a lesser extent) some less-patriotic Americans.

It's like the west simultaneously forgot that their greatest cultural artifact is their societies. Western society is very, very different from how people lived before, and I'd say for the better, but there seems to be a taboo on taking pride in it.

I tend to get along well with the parents of second gen. Canadians. The parents seem to know why they came here more than native-born Canadians know they want to stay.
Perhaps they jumped the gun? It's obvious that work has been ongoing to e.g. automate GPU provisioning on Google's container OS image:

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45136
> The trick is believing.

For those that lack belief, Valium or Xanax should do the trick too.

I don't fly international often enough to worry about getting hooked, so 2 pills (one to sleep on the plane and one to force myself to sleep at the right time once I reach my destination) have always made jet lag a easy for me.
One thing that tends to get overlooked in these discussions is what being 'a decade ahead' really means. Suppose you go back to 2007. What ciphers are you able to break now that you couldn't then?

In the past decade, I can think of 2 sort of new general cryptanalytic attacks: invariant subspace attacks, and the division property. The division property didn't really break anything; it claimed a full break of MYSTY1 with complexity 2^70, in case you happen to have the entire codebook already. It doesn't work well mostly for the same reason cube attacks haven't: most cipher designers know how dangerous a low algebraic degree can be.

The invariant subspace attack has been more successful, mainly in the lightweight space, mostly because it exploits the symmetries that tend to make a design smaller and elegant. But once again, against vetted ciphers it has not done so well.

So let's posit the NSA does have another couple of attacks in hand we don't know about. Chances are they're not going to be very useful. Do they specifically affect SIMON and/or SPECK? It would require an intersection of conditions that seems very implausible, and it seems tricky to have it affect both designs at the same time without being noticeable. But I guess we'll know in 2027.

In another note, if I was going to make a cipher with a hidden weakness to dupe the world into using, I probably wouldn't go with a block cipher---literally the most heavily analyzed kind of primitive in the public sphere. I would probably go with a stream cipher, or a stream-like dedicated authenticated cipher, whose security is much less studied than block ciphers, and can still be used in most places a block cipher would be.
This is just such a nonissue. 10mbps is fast enough for anything regular users need.
Wow that is an incredible price. Comparing that to the OLPC XO[1] just shows how far tech has come in the last 10 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO
Real Transactions are Serializable
What makes this better than an RPi Zero W at $10?
Realtime Terminator vision with object detection
Revenue doesn't equal profit, much less the tax on profit.
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I'm not assuming it would be distributed through the tax system, I'm insisting that it is either funded by taxation or inflation.

Maybe it would be funded by magic fairies, who knows. I guess funding it with inflation would be close enough to that.

The point I'm making is that the "universal" or "unconditional" just means that everyone gets it. It doesn't mean that everyone is better off after it is put in place, because there will be tax and economic effects from putting such a thing in place.
Only in America. They could not store personal information about us without obtaining permission in Europe, and we would have the right to revoke it for any reason as well.

This is not normal, it is dysfunctional. I'm not arguing that it's not legal, I'm arguing that they need to lose their license. (Never mind that no such licensing requirement exists. Like I said, it's a dysfunctional system, and I don't know why we don't have more than 3 credit reporting agencies. It sounds like a great gig!)
Fucking. Duh.

In reality though, I've been against this whole thing for a few years now. The entry level is already saturated now, I wonder how bad it'll be in 5-10 years
How GitPrime (YC W16) builds software with developers in 5 timezones
Installer is digitally signed August 3rd, why such a long delay until release?
At a glance (and because of the name) it appears that way, but it does not universally increase income, it gives everyone universal access to basic income.

Many people (the wealthy) will have their net income (income after taxes) go down considerably in a UBI system.

For example, everyone gets $12k a year in UBI income, however funding such a system will require a fairly stiff tax increase (this is how the wealth redistribution will occur), so for high earners, their $12k in UBI will be negatively offset by the increase in taxes.

As an extreme example, someone earning $1MM annually will get the $12k UBI same as everyone else, but an (example) increase in the top income bracket from 39.6% to 60% will cause them to pay $118646.4 more in taxes resulting in their net income under a UBI system to go down (-$118646.40 taxes + $12000 ubi) $106646.40.
TED talk: How to survive a nuclear attack by Irwin Redlener.

https://www.ted.com/talks/irwin_redlener_warns_of_nuclear_te...
Is EDGAR data publicly available, as in, can I download the archive for a year?
Part of the problem is random bureaucrats have no way of knowing if Joe Schmoe's Web Shop can actually do the job. Some of it has to also be covering your ass - if there are serious flaws in the system, your ass is covered if you spent $350 million - not so much if you spent $450k.

I have no idea how the process goes, but it seems like some sort of outside consultation on picking appropriate bids might help. Maybe even something like the congressional budget office, but for software systems. That way expertise can be concentrated and they can focus on their core competency, rather than requiring every agency to develop people who can properly analyze bids for software systems.
The lesson Congress takes to heart that you should learn:
Greed is more important than your financial security.
Unable to issue TLS certs for names in private.cam.ac.uk
This happens surprisingly often when reasoning about blockchains: you start with some concern and follow the trail of logic to some form of necessary centralization.

For example, when someone on Twitter raised the problem of collaterizing smart contracts (no one is going to lock capital away in extended escrow, which creates an obvious enforceability problem), Naval Ravikant argued in response that a third party guarantor would be necessary. As far as I can tell, he didn't recognize the irony in his own statement.
Which is also _another_ reason UBI is a terrible idea that is bound to fail.
This is EXACTLY correct!!

Driving statistics are aggregates. Some statistics may not apply, for example if you don't drive drunk, or on very dangerous roads, or very fast, or in wintery conditions.

Have you read about "gun death" stats? 50% of gun deaths are murders. 50% are suicides.

Don't shoot yourself, and you have permanently lowered your risk of dying from a gun by 50%!

Similarly, if you were to carry a parachute on a plane, or drive an armored tank, you would permanently lower your chances of "dying from an air accident or car accident", regardless of your chances of being "in an accident".

So, since I can control for a ton of risk on the road, but can't control for any risk in the air, I will continue to travel by road.

Thanks for writing :)
USD fluctuates wildly from my position in the GBP currency zone. But you don't get out of it - for the same reason you don't feel the 18.5 miles per second you're travelling through space.

BTC isn't taken as a currency because you can't live in its zone. Everybody swaps it into the currency of the zone they are living in - unless they are speculating.

You use the currency of the zone you are living in because everything you need is priced in that currency, and everything is priced in that currency because there is a strong taxation authority that demands payment in that currency.
Good point. Perhaps regulation would be needed to enforce uniform policy.
I don't think I said richest...

Also I don't think it's hard to see how this thought would come about (not saying I'm advocating it). But there are plenty of ideas that would help society in general (lower college tuition) that many Americans are against whether rationally or irrationally.

If you fail to see how the American public would have a negative reaction to some kind of redistribution of wealth I think you should think about the average American's reaction to the idea of a socialist politician.
Here's a direct link to the FAQ to save some clicks:

https://github.com/beagleboard/pocketbeagle/wiki/FAQ
And the point of this thread is that if everyone is to get UBI, economic principles like inflation need to be addressed first.

This is why traditional welfare programs tend to limit the type of spending - i.e. medicaid or food stamps.
Saving $1k has nothing to do with your job being stable or not. That's a safety net for life. It is the basic emergency fund. Cars break down, people get sick, life happens. So to extend your premise, "Failing to save is partially because people think expenses are stable." Which is clearly poor planning. We know humans are bad about estimating risk. I'm not sure why this is such a controversial idea.

What I'm saying is that if even those above the 50% income level are bad about saving a basic emergency fund, I don't expect those receiving this kind of grant to be any better at preparing emergencies. I do think they will be able to handle them better, but I do not expect them to plan better.
After watching enough shows about lions on Netflix, I can't see how anyone wants to preserve these creatures in the wild. They are mind glowingly brutal animals, whose very existence is predicated in mauling other animals. If you care about animal suffering, don't let lions out to terrorize livestock.
This article doesn't focus on the bigger issue: Mobile internet as a viable substitute.

Right now, the FCC's policy is for all Americans to have access to both home broadband and mobile internet.

Ajit Pai is seeking to change that, so that you only need one choice, and that that "choice" may be limited to 10Mbit down 1Mbit up.

While both changes are absurd, I think that allowing mobile internet to "qualify" as home internet is the most detrimental change.
Like say, the East India Company?
Make a point of frequently going to art museums and sculpture gardens. Read the placards and learn to recognize certain artists, spend time looking at the pieces that grab your attention and think about them. Don't feel like you have to enjoy every piece. This will build your appreciation/understanding for two reasons:

1) Like all things, art depends on context. A piece is often in conversation with other works by the same artist, contemporaries, predecessors, or historical events.

2) Sculpture in particular depends on scale, perspective, and physical detail. You'll never get to appreciate these qualities through a photograph - you have to be there in person and walk around the sculpture. Look at it from different distances, different angles.