skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's never an issue with funding it. The problem is that it always ends up being a form of theft in real terms from somebody. They eventually get fed up with the bad deal and either stop producing or end the system.

https://medium.com/modern-money-matters/is-basic-income-basi...
https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/25/proof-stake-learned-lov...

The above blogpost should explain this sufficiently.
Intellectual property in general causes all manner of harm. It makes things more expensive to repair (monopolies on repair parts/services), limits access to medicine, and keeps significant quality of life improvements in the hands of a privileged minority that can afford to pay the stacked up monopoly fees of all the IP contributors of an “official” product.

Information is not a scarce resource and while there are many business benefits to the current arrangement, IP on balance harms the average person.

For those that say small artists need IP to survive: how much cheaper would an artist’s health care and automobile be if both of those industries had essentially “open licenses” (in our speak) for that content. How much cheaper would a Toyota clone be if it used standard parts and didn’t change every year, where any manufacturer could produce the necessary parts?

Artists could live as well as they do now for cheaper if there were no IP laws in my opinion.
This is by far one of the strangest things I have seen HN get mad about. The commenters on the linked issue seem to be mostly aimbot users. Wouldn't be surprised if they're here too.
Codys lab is great.
Noam Chomsky on the survival of human civilization. The talk might have actually occurred in 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrE5EZr5ZVY
Tips from a Shipwright
"P25 has some nice features ... but security is not one of them."

And that is just fine.

Police and firefighters/medics[1] are civilians and are in their role to serve civilians at the pleasure of civilians. There is no need for secret comms and, in fact, it is often quite valuable for the public at large to have visibility into their operations in real time.

There is no need to encrypt public safety radio comms and you should be quite suspicious of anyone who claims that there is.

Those radios belong to you. The frequencies belong to you. The people who use them are your own servants.

[1] I am a firefighter/medic in the SFBA.
Both Isabelle and Coq are based on higher-order logics, so I am not sure how first-order logic is a barrier to entry. Especially Isabelle is very easy to use because the logic is so standard with nothing really surprising or especially restricting (a very strong form of the axiom of choice is deeply embedded in the system, so it's probably harder if you care about it at this level).

Regarding your second point, to me this looks pretty much the same as in software: In high-quality code I expect high-level comments that give me intuition about the code, and I also expect high-level documentation giving me further intuition about the components and the system as a whole. The more complicated the system is, the more important the comments and the documentation become.

I see no reason why we should hold computer-assisted proofs to a lesser standard.
Short anecdote:

A few years ago I had to fill in some translation keys within a ecommerce shop gui. Eventually, I had to revert some key to it's default value and therefore tried to copy and paste the displayed default value, but the system always refused to take that value. It complained that the string contained invalid characters, but I wondered because I just inserted the previous valid default value and to my eye there where not special characters anyway?!?

So I called one of the devs and after a few minutes he told me, that the output I copied contained a zero-width space and that character was not allowed by the validation engine. So when I typed the string myself everything went fine ;-)

Nowadays, I like to consult `hexdump -C` in such cases.
I wanted to offer another reply:

I think it's dangerous to engineer for moderating against terrorism/extremism.

Surely there are things Google and Facebook could do but if it were me I would not want to. There are automated ways to look for extremism, but to do it ~well~ it would certainly require a human to rule out false-positives. At that point Facebook and Google become an extension of law enforcement, and if something is not caught it then becomes a liability to have involvement in the first place. No sane person wants to see anyone get hurt, but is the gov paying for assistance from Facebook/Google? They can't just put engineering hours toward something for the Greater Good (tm). Lets create a task force within Google to assist law enforcement for the 200+ countries "fighting extremism".

The gov wants what it wants without considering the harm to civil liberties of its citizens or what risk it might be exposing corporations to.

It all feels like manipulation.
> No real users have been harmed

If they had, they wouldn't know why. That's one of the major parts of the problem - the entire ban system (and appeals process, or rather, the letter memory hole valve deigns to call a process) is opaque, a black box.

You don't know why you're banned beyond "cheating/hacking" or "cheating in game X" in the best case.

There's then the self-fulfilling silliness with the proclamations of perfection of VAC; you need such a high standard to prove the negative, that you did not cheat, and a ton of luck for them to even consider the possibility.
Perhaps the result has not yet been as catastrophic as he suggested at the time (I mean, it's Edward Teller, after all), but he was more generally correct that use of fossil fuels would have negative impact on the environment. CO2 levels would rise and cause warming. The later Stanford study noted in the article came to the same conclusion. The point of the article is that the oil industry knew by the end of the 1960s that this was a problem, and they buried it.
I think shorter or no IP protection terms would on average harm the wealthiest and benefit the poorest in this world. How many lives would be improved if all the medicine in the world could be freely cloned? How much cheaper would our cars be if the designs could be legally cloned?
Open system.
The world has become radicalized, and HN is no exception.
Can someone explain to me why police scanners are so popular? I recently came across some guy (https://www.reddit.com/user/regoapps) who made millions off of making a police scanner app. Is the demand really that high? What's the appeal?

Edit: Why am I being downvoted? It's a genuine question... I see listening to police scanners is a popular thing and I just want to understand why
Former/failed/flamed-out computational chemist right here. I can't give a recommendation, because I forgot which book I used way back when, but the answer depends somewhat on whether you're interested in "large" or "small" structures. Each will use different techniques.

Molecular mechanics, which is interested in simulation of big biomolecules and the like, ignore quantum mechanical effects, or use a hybrid of quantum/classical mechanics, because the structures of interest are large enough the QM effects can be approximated away.

Other subfields of computational chemistry use only QM, with some approximations to make the programs tractable.
dont think because its easy for you, it must be easy for everybody else. that thought held me back for quite a while until i recognized it was bogus.
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VAC exists in this weird doublethink state.

It's perfect, and if there were false positives, then the fact that they were discovered means that it's even more perfect.
You're right but if that fails (as it has in my case) what then? How much support is reasonable to expect from a company that holds your money?
Many TV shows in the 1990's and 2000's were iconic, here in the U.S. They didn't purchase the rights to include the music -- which had its own selection, err "casting" and was central to the shows -- in retail copies (VHS tapes, DVD's, etc.). And the eventual owners of the shows didn't want to pay to acquire those rights for those formats. Or for the streaming versions; I can think of at least one prime example on Netflix (yeah, a pun).

As a result, we can't view those shows in their original, and as I described, iconic, format -- or sometimes, at all -- except haphazardly on syndication or through piracy.

I mean, shows that e.g. everybody would sit down at home and watch on Monday evening.

Tell me that doesn't have a cultural impact. As just one example.

Copyright is in serious need of reform. You're granted a limited monopoly, not total, perpetual control -- nor the right to remove what were public, cultural objects from public discourse.

Something similar is at risk with regard to the news and other reporting. Watch copy vanish from the Web. At a minimum, there need to be modern libraries of such content where access is guaranteed. It represents the continuity of our history.
This often occurs if proper exclusion lists are not setup for past purchasers at the SKU level (somewhat of a headache at scale). Instead, often these campaigns might use a duration-based list option.

So for example, you might target an audience of people who viewed a product detail page for 7 days. If you purchased on day 3 and there was no SKU level exclusion list, the targeting has no way to know you already bought it. In this case you might see the ad for a few more days.
What a coincidence! I just discovered Jordan Peterson on Joe Rogan show few weeks ago and been binge watching his talks since then.

I get a certain feel of skepticism every now and then whether he actually represents any fascist ideas. Not because of his talks, but rather how they are edited out of context, used in "Stupid liberal got owned by Jordan Peterson" videos with these kind of aggressive titles.

That aside, he is really enlightening in these frustrating times.
soma.fm has a "mission control" station that has NASA mission chatter over the ambient music - and I prefer it to the police scanner overlay channels:

http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
The largest complaint against basic income or government social programs generally is that most people will not use the income productively, and that it would lead to increases in vice and decreases in productivity. This, not being a closed system, does mean that the local economies are getting outside money injected into circulation, but it is a stretch to think that people would act differently (i.e. become less productive) in a closed system. In terms of rights or wrongs of income redistribution, I'd note that a lot of laws (laws that allow rentiers) and taxes (corporate tax cuts) are designed to redistribute wealth upwards too.
Was the drug being administered by a male or a female researcher?
Ask HN: A question about a venture I'm involved in with a friend
Over the last year a friend and I decided to start a LLC(my co-founder hired a lawyer etc and took care of the process) for some apps we've been working on, we really don't have any grand ambitions for it and just thought it would be fun to try our hand at possibly making some extra money on the side, we both have day jobs and are pretty content. The LLC is split 50/50 between us and we work well together. Recently I was contacted by a former associate who has a decent idea for an app(he thinks it's a "billion dollar idea" I don't know if it is nor do I care but I could be wrong). I told him I was currently part of an LLC and I couldn’t get involved in what he wanted to do outside of the LLC because of non-compete but I said I’d talk to my partner. My partner was open to talking and we set-up a meeting. He went over his idea and it seemed neat enough(nothing earth shattering) but he wants 25 percent. He’s not a developer so we’d still handle coding etc(the associate has a business admin degree)and as I’m new to doing my own thing my question is: is he wrong in his asking for 25 percent?

He also wouldn’t sign our NDA and asked us a lot of questions I didn’t feel comfortable delving into about our company's projects, plans etc and would not sign an NDA concerning us discussing our stuff.

Thanks again for the help!
I would like to know if there are examples of Silicon Valley actually solving issues around disparity. Social and economic justice has typically been addressed by the margins of society — while those “instigators” seem have have deftly used technology. The Black Lives Matter movement, the career of women technologists who this year brought to the fore pervasive sexism in Silicon Valley are two examples that come to mind, maybe YC funding of Africa-based startups is another?
Behold, robo-bee: https://youtu.be/myOTp1wr3Bg?t=39s :-)
So you are attempting to evade tracking by being uniquely identifiable?
Blender projects in 2018 to look forward to
Gamifying this kind of thing would be intriguing. I'm imagining some server that would work like spamnesty, i.e. you could easily let it handle your spam. But I'm also imagining the possibility of registering as a bot creator and plugging in your own algorithms. API-wise it would be super simple, much like creating a chatbot for Slack, but the logic could be as advanced as one would like. The server would then score the algorithms on established metrics such as "average number of responses" or what one might dream up. There would be leaderboards and stuff.

It would all work nicely until the spammers start creating their own bots to keep our bots busy. Bots would keep inane conversations going forever.

Then, I presume, Skynet.
If the market is competitive, and if there are not hard limits to production in face of increased demand, prices will not go up. That is, if stores know that we all have an extra $100 in our pockets, they'd like to raise prices, but when they do, people just start buying a competitor's cheaper product.
Note the call for contributors at the end: "we can use contributors in many ‘orphaned’ areas: such as Booleans, Video editor, Freestyle render, Particles, Physics caching, Hair, Nurbs… but also to work on better integration with Windows and MacOS desktop environments."
Decentralized Asset Exchange
Ok yeah maybe I don't believe it. But then we have to throw away all other (incl older/non-Google partner) hardware to use this system. Could work, but not sure if the user really benefits of that in terms of freedom or garbage.
If you look at the last few months, it becomes pretty obvious. The ones at the bottom are grayed out, and the only difference is their lack of salary ranges.
Or it could show that UBI works very well. Your biases are showing.
It is done in parts of the world, it's called taxes and you get back "services" (sometimes you get something, sometimes you get nothing) and the 20% is around 50-70% in Europe.
I read everywhere that both are complimentary. I am a complete amateur in web dev but the only place where I can imagine flexbox in an otherwise grid display is when divs are stacked and we do not know how many divs there will be.

If grid has a way to address these unpredictable divs (not knowing how many there will be) then my last use case is closed.
There's an entire episode of the Simpsons premised on Homer getting his hair back and being promoted as a result:

https://youtu.be/XxQX4sh9VqE?t=157

Sure, it's a cartoon, but it's funny because it's true.
Has any of this tech "trickled-down" to agricultural applications? The ability to track an individual seems like it could be used very effectively for livestock monitoring.
That’s great, but doesn’t explain why we get ads for things not during three months of scouring product reviews but only after the purchase.

“Oh! This consumer bought a new car! Let’s show them ads for more cars in case they buy another car on impulse!”
This is really great. We are currently using it with Google Stackdriver (https://cloud.google.com/trace/), since we do not want to care about hosting Jaeger/Zipkin infrastructure. I think Aws X-ray needs to catch up on Stackdriver.

Since we want to be compatible with opentracing, you need a bridge for Google Stackdriver and Opentracing/Zipkin.

You can either use a Google-provided Java-server for this (https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/zipkin) or in our case we use https://github.com/lovoo/gcloud-opentracing which is great.
I think this is a problem with your expectations or reading of the evidence.

Esperanto are the only once who really want to offer extreamly high performance and they are not going primarly after Intel, but rather specialised applications.

There are multible companies offering IP and SiFive will realease a linux capable SoC soon, but thats it. LowRisc will hopeful produce hardware in 2018.

In terms of open source there is BOOM and in terms of IP Esperanto will sell you IP for the ET-Maxion that should be fairly high performance.
Leg room can be purchased, if you're willing to spend more. Airlines attempt to satisfy both those who prefer leg room (premium economy), and those who prefer cost savings (economy).

In my experience, the TSA experience is consistently inefficient, with (occasionally severe) bottlenecks. But more frustrating than inefficiency is a sense of apathy radiated by many TSA agents.

Whereas the airlines compete to serve us, the TSA feels vaguely like a slaughterhouse, in which we are the livestock.
That is solely due to training and culture. Computationally both are equally difficult for AI. Why do you think the Turing test is language based?
My experience (in short): i quit my job as a project in chief and for x and y reason, i started managing a IT school. My school had 7 years and im tell you:

a) online videos are not competition. Trust me, Udemy and Youtube aren't real training.
b) i tried to train particular however most of the 90% of my customers are business and the government. The focus of the business was particular: train people that could land a nice job... but people are so damn lazy, most are seasoned living in the mud!. I feel disappointed, so damn disappointed with the people.

c) the price is low, i charge around $23USD and i live in a third country (a "banana" country), the State covers me with 1/3 of this value. And i consider that the price is low.

If you want help then PM.

My advice: put a real website, just skip facebook.
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Copyright has distorted our culture since its inception. Artists subconsciously self-censor their work because in todays culture remixing, adapting and reusing other art is classified as theft. Whole industries which heavily depend on copyright would not be the same as they are today. Maybe copying and sharing would be seen as something natural, as something good.
With journalism (and propaganda) truth and falsehood are not as important as what you leave in and what you leave out and how you present it.

When it comes to propaganda it is always better to deceive people with truth than with lies because lies can be disproven. The art lies in framing snippets of truth in the correct way, leaving larger truths out, to achieve your desired goal of perception manipulation.

Objective journalism can be just as powerful as a tool of deception as it is as a tool of enlightenment.
There's the Fit Text to Width add-on for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/fit-text-to-w...

The Accessibility section in the Firefox for Android settings also contains options for adapting pages to the system font size and overriding zoom-blocking. And there's the built-in Reader View which extracts and represents the text from supported pages.
A very large reason for the huge user base of UC browser is that it used to work on very low end phones, like Nokia S40 editions, similar to Opera Mini, and many people who migrated from those kept using UC.

Also, these browsers operated with very less data using server side comprssion. Not good for privacy maybe, but good for slow connections.

Another thing I hear from people using UC is that it has really good download capabilities. Such functionality might be common in today's mobile browsers, but 4 years ago, it was difficult to find another browser which could pause and resume downloads, which is essential if you have a slow internet connection.

A lot of people using UC were using Opera Mini. However, UC has a much larger bigger marketing budget and that I think made the difference.
So - why not do the experiment? You think people would go for it?
>When did HN become so... radicalized?

More and more hackers and programmers from outside SV/startup culture started showing up. Outside of that bubble, hacker culture leans far more anarchist, and fundamentally mistrusts large scale power structures and centralized authority. And then Snowden and Aaron Swartz happened.

So in a way, HN isn't becoming radicalized, it's becoming normalized.
An even more beautiful idea would be if you could let your phone provider run the bot. Just press the magic button and the spam caller gets transferred to the upside down in the phone company data center, and your phone line is freed again (like hanging up, from your point of view). If he gets mad and calls back, Lenny picks up the phone. I don't know how billing works between phone companies but maybe your phone company could even make a profit from keeping spammers bouncing around in virtual Lennyworld. Which would be a nice incentive to do R&D on improving and diversifying the bots.
Oh god pasting code from a PDF, that brings me back.

Doesn't your editor handle that? I don't exactly remember but I kinda remember having a button to convert pasted characters to ascii (mostly used for those annoying stylized unicode quotes)
Actually given the horror stories that have been told about the windows source code over the years, I'd be very, very surprised if there wasn't 20 year old code in a lot of places.

Hell there's still 20 year old code running in the Linux kernel
Firefox with uBlock installed gives a much faster overall experience on my device compared to using Google Chrome. Ads have become such a nightmare on mobile sites.
Who needs porn when you have the various “gone wild” subreddits?

I have not ever watched a porn movie.

File this under “How to bias your survey results to hide information and make it look like your project needs to be funded for a few more years”?
Agree, it is probably good for police / fire / EMT etc. to be open.

However, the linked talk above notes that the researchers accidentally discovered that some "sensitive tactical law enforcement operations" were unwittingly operating in cleartext, and divulged to the open air "names and/or identifying features of targets and confidential informants, their locations, descriptions of undercover agents, [...] plans for forthcoming takedowns and operations," and a few other things you probably don't want to widely announce.

It also notes that radio locations could be easily discovered, even if they're not communicating. Bad guys could therefore build a map of possibly-federal-agents in the city, and learn things they're not supposed to know even if they can't hear what's being discussed.

Again, PD/Fire/EMT are great to have open and mutually communicating. But there are (life and death) reasons why you might really need a secure channel in other cases.
It isn't clear to me that they 'buried it', there are quite a few papers and studies on climate change that were funded by the oil and gas companies over the last 60 years. Have they argued against it over the years? Sure.
Google adds Pixelbook as target device for Fuchsia OS
It doesn't even work for the Turkish i. One cannot proofread the text to see if the right i is used - nobody is going to check the code point numbers.
Ok, so creative workers should participate in a market but at the same time should not expect any benefit from it. Why should they produce content at all?

As for software: You can choose to put your code under an open source license, you're not obligated to it. Many have the financial means to do so but many who make a living from that software don't.