skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Guitarists and audio enthusiasts are some of the most superstitious and bull-headed people I know.

I do think audiophiles trump musicians when it comes to superstitions. Just recently found out there’s a market for cables costing hundreds of euro’s to interface hi-fi components, with lush descriptions of the soundstage afforded by such cables. Ignoring the fact any record one listens to will have its sound passed through 20 euro cables at some point in its production.
Cool. I assume that's a toll road. Now let's say every single separate road you travel on was owned by a separate company - how would you pay your tolls? In cash, every 30 seconds? Would you have to install a tracking device on your car that any road owner can tap into? Who'd control access to such a thing? How would you ensure that they don't display monopoly-like behaviour, like the identity verification/credit check/etc companies of today?

Could the road owner outside your work or your home jack up the prices to make it prohibitively expensive to take your car there? How'd you prevent that? How would you ensure that somebody didn't buy up all the major roads into or out of a city and make it prohibitively expensive for poor people to access the city?

How would you ensure that somebody didn't sit on their monopoly on the route to or from wherever you need to go, and refuse to perform repairs?

The whole thing could, potentially, work for the countryside, where land is cheap and plentiful and if you don't mind wasting economic production on duplicating and triplicating and quadrupling routes just to make your fantasy work out, it might work. Except wait... America's got a privatised industry which theoretically competes with road travel already and has many of the same restrictions - the freight rail industry - and when's the last railway that got built? Apparently it's prohibitively expensive to buy the land.
The Mission to Decentralize the Internet (2013)
> Ars Technica adding many "premium features" as a bundle to justify the subscription fee.

Personally I think this is fine. If paying for their content encouages them to maintain a quality RSS feed and not track you that seems like a reasonable exchange.
For anyone that clicked through to his 1988 question on comp.lang.c ... what was causing what he was happening? I'm assuming something with an old version of gcc, but I can't reprocue it- I get the correct result using both cc and gcc.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.lang.c/spols...

Are you allowed to use getchar() twice? (seems like a silly question?
read on!)

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kangaroo% cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
int c;
c=getchar(); putchar(c);
c=getchar(); putchar(c);
putchar('\n');
}
kangaroo% gcc test.c
kangaroo% echo "Hi" | a.out
H^@
kangaroo% cc test.c
kangaroo% echo "Hi" | a.out
Hi
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Anybody know what's going on?
Are we sure there wasn’t a coal-burning species 55M years ago?
Not really. The opsec was poor; the aircraft had been using the same ingress/egress routes, so the SAM batteries knew where to look. That helps tremendously. Also, the F-117 has to open it's bomb bay to release its weapon. When it does so, it increases it's radar return dramatically, if only for a very short period of time. This helped the Serbians a lot.

And passive radar isn't a thing. There's passive radio sensors, that can theoretically detect a transmitter, but frequency hopping etc make that tough.
The untold history of the XPS lineup
Cebtralization as I see it has been mostly pushed by spam and abuse. Email became centralized due to the difficulty in combating spam at scale. The large positive I see with crypto networks is the cost of being a bad actor is magnitudes higher, and now you don't have to be the machine intelligence wizards to fight spam, you can combat it fairly straightforwardly with simple economic hindrances for being a bad actor.
These sound utterly bleak and awful. If you want to live in a collective space, just go into a house-share, you can find a nice enough room for £600-800/month. Or if you go further from the centre, you can rent flats etc. I pay £1,000/mo for a single bed with small garden 3 mins walk from Crystal Palace station (though I did get very lucky). My commute is a perfectly pleasant 40 mins to Shoreditch.

The problem is that people seem to want to live right in the centre, whereas if you're on a reliable public transport route (and TfL is fairly reliable). Knowing what areas are awful and which ones are lovely is nice, too.

If you move down towards Greenwich, Sydenham, Peckham, Deptford, New Cross etc there's much better options in much nicer areas, and if you're happy living places with good transport links that are shittier in general you could hit up Stratford, Mile End etc.

Zone 3 seems to be a sweet spot. Then it's £160(ish)/month to get pretty much anywhere by transport.
RSS exists and is ubiquitous on the web outside of a few large players. It doesn't have the consumer mind-share but nothing about that hinders your personal RSS experience.
How to Pull Off the Iconic Marilyn Monroe Blonde Wig
Ya, volume is dumb, until you can't find the remote. Which happens to me so often I glued a Trackr to it.

Remote is usually better, but I like having tv control ability on Alexa for when I can't find the remote or don't want to get up and get it.
So your belief is private = Rich, and Government = Helping poor people? Because in reality the opposite is true, government mainly assists the rich not the poor

Even programs like EBT have been shown to assist companies like Walmart a great deal.

Smash the State, Eat the Rich (https://c4ss.org/content/30085)
Bureaucracy is also some type of basic income.

Disrupting bureaucracy means also higher unemployment, because that means, that those people have either to find another job or the will live on welfare as well.
Basic income is an admittance that hundreds of millions of people are no longer necessary. Governments and corporations will not pay billions of dollars per year to people who do nothing. It will result in a strange situation where companies like Apple will be giving people money so that they can buy the iPhones they make.

Eventually, these people will somehow have to disappear. This means there will also be less demand for the robots to make things. This would then end with a small population with robots occupying the planet.

Welfare is essentially a way to kill a human's soul. If the choice is to go out slowly like this, then I would say "it is better to die on your feet, then live on your knees".
Is this what kalleboo is referring to https://kyivstar.ua/en/mm/services/voice/sim_pair ?

> Incoming calls, messages etc. can be taken only by one of the mobile terminals, in which SIM-card is in so-called “active” state. Accordingly, SIM-card in another mobile terminal is passive and any outgoing operations can be made from this device.

> To transfer basic SIM-card into active state it is necessary to dial 1071#. combination on mobile device keyboard. In this case extra SIM-card automatically transfers into passive mode. To transfer extra SIM-card into active state it is necessary to dial 1072#. combination on mobile device keyboard. In this case basic SIM-card automatically transfers into passive mode.

Yeah, I can understand why Apple didn't go down this path.
Wolfram: Mathematical Notation (Past and Future)
Contracting in SWE is lucrative.
>> SO has never quite cracked the "be nice" rule.

From my experience, the thing with online forums, whether they be about programming, photography, coffee or whatnot is that they seem to be dominated by people who think they are "the smartest guys in the room". Those people tend to be less nice to people who don't think like them. It's even worse when they wield a little power, like the ability to downvote.
Microsoft pretty much had an anti internet strategic policy until 1995, that’s why. Back in the day a tcpip stack was a third party add on.
The fact something looks "dark" on that plot doesn't tell you anything about how much of the space is allocated.

The site linked by that many years old Reddit post says that in fact loads of this space is allocated, to specific people, in this case "Hams", I see alphanumeric designations which I seem to remember Hams call "handles" as well as geographic locations and some human names.

Is the Amateur Radio "Ham" community disorganised? Yup. Does that magically mean they're not using this address space and so it's "unallocated"? Nope.
PEP 572 – Assignment Expressions
Tesla does, alu profiles are from China.
Patent Review System Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court
This is horrible, and reminds me of the programmer mentality in general. I come as a human asking a question, and instead of answering like a normal person, they grill me until I've proven something to them.
Fun fact: this is because they start out the same place as ovaries during fetal development and then migrate down and out of the abdomen leaving a trail of vasculature and nerve endings. This is why you get nauseated after testicular trauma.
Some things simply aren't achievable with a conservative, incremental approach. Imagine yourself having a container ship and needing a cargo plane. You won't reach the skies by trying a pilot program with one engine and half a wing bolted to your hull.

Maybe universal basic income is one of those things where, to escape the local optimum and reach a global optimum, you have to start from scratch and go all in.
Just did. 7 operators over 90%. On 7th page you get under 50% adoption if sorted. Well, given how old is IPv6, it's a failure.
Amazon Key expands to deliver packages inside your car
For me, there's a lot of minor annoyances that add up. Some have been fixed (start menu), and others have only gotten worse (searching for a file is totally broken. I can be looking at a file in explorer.exe, type its name into the search bar, and be told that no files were found).

There's also a lot of antiprivacy things that bother me (Cortana, push to sign in to a Microsoft account, weird spammy notifications, etc)
> Except I literally can dictate the price as I see fit. Currently my 400 is slightly below of others because I don't want to deal with getting new tenants every year. You are now assuming that other people wouldn't raise the rents for "free" money - which frankly is just naive on your part.

If you can set prices as you see fit, you don't need to wait for basic income to do anything, just raise your prices to the max today...

> This is as simple as economics gets.

But..it isnt. Inflation is a monetary phenomena, not a subsidy consequence: food stamps don't make food (significantly) more expensive, even though they increase food demand!

There is no way to know how will people migrate in response to a basic income, but the economists I talked to would expect people to move out of cities: again, a basic income through taxation would literally lower income of cities and increase income in rural, so you would expect people to behave accordingly.
That is a good point and not easily solvable. I think the best approach is the OP updating the question title and text to reflect the actual problem they need a solution for, eg. <Ubuntu will not boot after doing XYZ.>

I don't think it is helpful to answer the literal question rather than the actual problem, since this is optimizing for a hypothetical future reader at the expense of the actual person having a problem. After all, the future reader might also have the same problem as the current user.
sure http://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2017-12/27/content_181168...
I think hackhands is what you are describing: https://hackhands.com/how-it-works/
Every HN conversation about Stack Overflow is full of carping, so I feel obliged to say: I love Stack Overflow. It has saved me days of work, and I've really enjoyed helping people when I could. It was a revolution, and I would hate to return to the days of searching old phpbb forums for help (and if I was really desperate creating yet another account to ask something myself).

I've been on the site since the beginning, although my participation waxes and wanes. I often only check the "bounty" tab for tags I care about, since those tend to be better-asked questions. That's one way to engage off-and-on without much effort.

When I do look through the non-bounty questions, I find a lot of beginners. Some questions are so badly-asked I won't engage, but a lot of questions show someone trying who is just not yet knowledgeable enough to know the right approach, or even how to ask for help. I feel like those are the most fun to answer. I could probably mark them all as duplicates somehow, but where is the fun in that? I'd rather offer an answer tailored to their own situation, possibly with links to other SO answers that elaborate on relevant (not "duplicate") topics.

Joel's post here actually sounds less hard-line against duplicates than the Stack Overflow conventional wisdom. It sound like what he really cares about is whether the asker is trying. Personally I have never marked a question as a duplicate, because there is usually some room to explain how that other question applies to the asker's situation.

With Rust I've been on the other side of that exchange, too. That is really the only region of Stack Overflow where I've seen the pedantry and unhelpfulness that others complain about---mostly from one person actually. And I wonder how many people have given up on Rust because of bad experiences there.

What looks like a duplicate to an experienced developer may seem totally unrelated to a beginner. When your question is marked as a duplicate you get this sinking feeling of hopelessness, like someone is saying, "I can see the problem, but I won't tell you, and I'll make sure no one else sees your question either. Good bye!" Knowing what it feels like makes me even more inclined to answer every question in its uniqueness. And it is very rewarding to help someone out of their bind!

Another fun question is the "Something is failing and I don't know why" type. If you have a lot of experience with that tech, you might be able to recognize the problem or guess it from little information. These questions are like fun puzzles, and they let you show off a bit of "magic".

Anyway, every time I see a HN post about Stack Overflow, I want to write this comment. Joel, Jeff, and everyone else there: thank you so much for a huge gift to developers everywhere!
and they haven't succeeded. Try finding something for Angular 5 without getting bogged down in previous Angular stuff or seeing questions about tech choices that are ridiculously out of date because they stopped allowing people to post those questions in roughly 2010.
Because XKCD doesn't have any of that and he explicitly supports hotlinking?
Leverage only matters if your home appreciates (or depreciates!) in value relative to inflation. There is a very large section of the article devoted to explaining that on average, this does not happen.
Samsung's 970 EVO SSDs Reviewed – 500GB and 1TB
Show HN: DevOps demo showing microservices, online A/B tests and KPI logging
What can you do with your phone that isn't easier on your laptop?

Alexa is easier than pulling out your phone, finding the app you need, waiting for it to load, possibly having to authenticate, then making the change you need, in lots of cases.

Thermostat, lights, podcasts, quick questions, timers and more.
How does it differ from the flat dependency support added in NPM 3?
Cli-matic – Compact [sub]command line parsing library, for Clojure
> It's a cost on society, not on the individual pupil, just like how the education is a gain to the society at large, while the individual effort of the individual may seem negligble.

What is society in this sense but a collection of many individuals that pay, through taxes, to a common pool? Perhaps society gains, perhaps it does not. We can never know. The services are still paid for.

> So of course it's free. You are not paying. And you don't pay it over taxes, society does. Think of it this way: If you didn't go to university, and just learned on your own, then you still pay the same taxes if you reach the same income level. So taking a university does not increase your taxes. Ergo free.

If I learned on my own, I would just receive less public services for the amount of money I pay in taxes. It doesn't make it more free that my taxes do not increase. It would just make the amount of services that I do receive more expensive.
I'm not convinced these big bang experiments, in the context of a wider economy not organised around the concept, are that useful.

For me one of this big advantages of BI is not enabling more people to 'drop out' of the productive economy and become artist such. It's actually the way in which it subsidises low income jobs. One of the big problems we have at the moment is low paying work being squeezed out of the economy through automation and increases in the minimum wage. A basic Income enables more people dropping out of the labour force to get back into it, because with a BI low paying jobs become a more viable way to earn a living. This gets people out of the poverty trap and also makes businesses dependent on low wage work more viable. It could be a real shot in the arm for the employment sectors that the most vulnerable people in our economy depend on.

On that basis, rather than pick a few thousand people to give a large BI to, why not start by providing a very modest BI to everybody. Fund it by equally modest tax increases, so it's revenue neutral. You could start with on the order of a hundred bucks (quid, whatever) a month. If a BI is going to have a beneficial effect, then even at this level it ought to do some measurable good.
Here's one big difference: it's also common in London for people over 30.

Which in other European capitals is an age where you would more likely live with your partner and start a family, rather than live like a student.
The future of work in blockchain era: Decentralized, Transparent and Trust based
I'm actually old enough to remember when that was normal. You could also phone your branch and the security was basically someone who recognised your voice.
> We are committed to removing content that encourages real-world harm, including (but not limited to) physical, financial, and emotional injury.

(Emphasis mine)

That's rich. Facebook is in the business of intentionally showing users emotionally distressful content on purpose in order to drive them into a depression. They do this on purpose, they tell us about it proudly, they are not shy. Facebook experiments on its users by taking content they now deem bad, and specifically increasing the amount users see it, so as to intentionally affect their mood and make then sad and depressed. Facebook is so proud of it too!

This guide is a bunch of corporate speak for PR. It means nothing to Facebook; it couldn't, they love breaking the rules they try to assign to others.

Edit: Also Facebook happily separates out the time you spend on Facebook from what they call the "real world". I'd argue that logging in to Facebook and seeing any content at all is likely to cause a person "real world harm" for all kinds of reasons. But Facebook would like you to think that only your friends can hurt you in the "real world", not Facebook itself. But they do hurt people. Every day. And that will be x1000 if they helped foreign powers elect a dictator in the USA.
I guess Deck Network was an example of that. Most of the 5-6 ads I intentionally clicked ever was theirs. There were also similar networks like Carbon.
Unfortunately newsify is ios only
It was all well and good when we were getting good cheap Chinese goods. Now that China is rising, we've all suddenly become humanitarians.
Not long ago, I read William Langewiesche's Vanity Fair article on the El Faro disaster. Not long before that, I read the Navy Times opinion piece about today's Navy not being very good at driving ships any more. I took from these articles that, even with modern ships, navigation is difficult and dangerous. How will autonomous ships handle heavy weather and crowded shipping lanes?
But they were right: nobody needs a computer from the 70’s - they were and are not a mainstream product. Alexa may be in a similar spot now, and may someday evolve into something that finds a mainstream ‘killer app’ - but let’s not call naysayers short-sighted
Tesla: Will Investors Want to Buy Insurance on Its Bonds?
https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic is quite good
Apple Will Start Paying Back Taxes to Irish Government Next Month
Cow could soon be largest land mammal left due to human activity
Well the sensible option there would be to move which outskirt you work nearest? If she was going from outskirt to outskirt, why not like, go and live on the outskirt she was working in?

Luckily there's a lot of tech work is in or close to the East (Shoreditch, City), so I can live in the South East.

If I had to commute to west, I'd probably look to move to the outskirts on the west.
I love RSS and I use an online RSS Reader (NewsBlur.com, but there are others).

However the article makes the mistake of saying that RSS is about "obtaining content from a website without having to visit the site itself". That's definitely not true.

RSS is about being notified of new articles. Subscribing to an RSS feed is like subscribing to a mailing list.

But it won't deliver the content reliably — many RSS readers restrict the HTML being rendered, for good reasons I'm sure, but they mess it up, there's no standard for what kind of HTML is accepted of course, so it only works well for textual articles, but rich text (e.g. images, CSS) is very problematic.

On my own website (alexn.org) I had many problems with rendering articles, due to images and code syntax highlighting, enough so that I decided to no longer render the entire article in the RSS feed, I prefer to deliver just a summary.

Being notified of new content, with a good summary, is all you need. If a website's readability is shitty, you can always invoke the browser's Reader View (Firefox, Safari) or open it with Pocket or whatever.
Isn't the better response to start charging for API access at that point? Not revoke access and go silent?
The problem is that half of the EU has no common language (and that ratio is worse once you step outside the EU and broaden it to Europe as a whole).

Certainly Scandinavia etc. have tremendous English adoption, that doesn't do much for the two dozen nations in Europe that don't. If you're Swedish or Danish and you are fluent in English, the problem is that still doesn't help you with the other half of the EU or Europe that doesn't understand English.

France is near 40%, and Italy is near 35% on English speaking. Even Germany is just barely over 1/2.

Spain, Portugal, Czech, Slovakia, Ukraine, Bulgaria are near or sub 25%. Russia is closer to 5%.

France + Spain + Italy is about $6 trillion worth of GDP, and maybe 1/3 of their combined population is English speaking.
Facebook Has Hosted Stolen Identities and Social Security Numbers for Years
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I'm leery of projects whose goal is make bootstrapping easier. Bootstrapping projects has generally gotten easier and easier and was never a real bottleneck. Projects spend 99% of their lifetime in development and maintenance so those are the parts that need the most help.
> I have seen people's career stall because they worked on the wrong project.

... and then they wonder why there's so much turnover in our industry. "Due to circumstances completely outside your control, you have no future at this company." "Hm - well, maybe I have a future at this other company then." "What ever happened to loyalty?!"
RIR is (unclearly) given: regional internet registry.

Your complaint is otherwise wholly valid.