skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hm. was in columbus, ohio a few weeks back: if you are at certain places in the US (an like walking) you have no other possibility then jaywalking. cities and especially indudstrial/commerical areas are not constructed in a way to make it easy for pedestriants. you can be happy if there is a pedestrian crossing within the next mile...
Indeed--the TARP bank bailouts (where the government decided in a top-down manner which banks deserved to "live") were much closer to standard Soviet Union practice than a guaranteed income would be.
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We're kidding ourselves if we believe that we can continue to find meaningful work for the uneducated. Given that education for the poor is appalling and getting worse, it seems that we are kidding ourselves.

At some point we need to accept that an economy based around leisure is already here. The irony is that adapting people to that mindset is going to take education...

The bigger irony is that only the (rapidly becoming extinct) upper classes really know how to entertain themselves.
One has to understand/learn/remember that Germany doesn't have the same speed limit laws like we do in other countries/cities.

In other words, the more people respect "zebra crossings", the less drivers have to worry about driving 15 bloody mph in some residential area cause the folks there see no problem in just jumping across the street.

What the German example shows us is that: if we all abide by the rules -- with no exceptions -- we can all have nice things.

(like driving your Porsche @150mph on the freeway cause we are actually adults)

Some might call that an environment for progress and innovation :)
I like this idea! But what happens if someone "suspends" their account after 1 month? How long will the content remain online then?

There is no point in asking these questions about a free product. But since this is a paid product, an exhaustive Data Retention Policy will be very helpful, IMO.
Reminds me of the movie "Cars" by Pixar.
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That's great guys.

You still email me almost every day, though.
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Good points. I have long thought OAuth was slightly nuts on principle alone. Training users to trust the untrusted software to redirect them safely is in itself a bad idea. Worse, some solutions remove the chrome and, hence, address bar on the target site, so users can't even readily see that they are on the proper site before entering their credentials. This just encourages bad user habits and recklessness with credentials.

The generated key, copy and paste solution is one we used to integrate our site with our FB app before FB offered its OAuth style authentication. This alllowed them to pull data from our account with us for viewing on the FB side. Worked well, was simple, and much less hackable.
Part of the rise in the number of people on disability is simply driven by the fact that the workforce is getting older, and older people tend to have more health problems.

This is probably one of the key points the article could be making, but it's kinda glossed over. As the baby boom generation (the one born ~1946 –> ~1959) nears retirement, it makes a lot of sense. That generation - my parents' generation - really did a large portion of the work involved with building out the physical infrastructure that allows our economy to operate as it does today: buildings, roads, power lines, mining, machinery, warehouses, etc. Physical work tends to create more injuries and disabilities than sedentary work, and people who do that kind of work simply cannot do it for as long as people who do sedentary work. How can we forget there was an entire generation of people who turned the 1940's USA into the one of the 1970s?

I know I've mentioned this on here before but it's relevant: my dad hung sheetrock for living. He stopped going to school after 6th grade. There was no way he could have made to age 64 -- people thought he was crazy to be doing it until age 53 -- which is when he died, almost 10 years ago. From a combination of issues related to what his work did to his body.

But the sheer idiocy of the system which has rewarded and continues to reward neat-suit Realtors and loan officers and salesmen (those "educated" ones who tend to work the sedentary jobs) -- instead of the workers meant that he was left with no options for healthcare, retirement, or even being able to leave his children a dime.

It's not like none of them have a work ethic. . . many of them have worked long and hard already; they're just "prematurely" tired and worn out. Not to mention the system keeps trying to move the dangling carrot of retirement further and further away from their grasp by attempting to increase retirement age.

[edit -- apologies for the awry double pasted text in the original post]
Right, but it was at the expense of AT&T.
Lets consider regular startups and science on different level as microbiology is different from regular entrepreneurship. But you are making many assumptions without explanations.
I agree wholeheartedly, including on basic income, with one more detail: as long as people are being paid, why not pay them for "unprofitable" work?

Firstly, pay people to go to school. Any subject, useful or not, for as long as they like. The education and mental fitness of the populace is a deep reservoir of Real Wealth.

Secondly, pay (more) people to do community service work: visiting the elderly, cleaning up parks, tutoring kids, etc.

And last, those people still work in the few remaining market jobs: have them work fewer hours! There will always be those who want 40+ hour weeks, but for everybody else, distribute up the same workload over a larger number of people with 20-32 hour work weeks. More people employed, who are less stressed, and a healthier society due to more time to self-improve and spend with family.

Income is only one part of the sociological phenomenon called "jobs". People also want to feel useful.
The Soviet Union has a "command economy". Industries and labor produced what the central agencies told them to, with very little feedback to adjust and no incentive at all to run R&D, QA, etc.

But what he's proposing isn't a command economy, it's a default economy. The government isn't telling Factory A to make widgets and it's not telling Person B to work as a basketweaver. Instead everyone gets some minimum amount of capital to use every month.

In fact it sounds more market-driven than what we have now with welfare and disability where, again, centrally-managed plans are laid out and imposed on employers and employees saying what requirements you have, what you can and can't use the money on, etc. And don't you dare get a job and start accidentally making too much money!

It might even be beneficial to employers looking for talented employees: If people are safe to shift around looking for jobs they should move away from poor managers and bad companies to good managers at good companies (and if you're a good manager you'd suddenly have a lot more talent to find the gems out of). This is one of the same resaons governments take such an interest in education, is to ensure a competitive workforce in relation to other nations in the global economy.

I'm sure there's more to work out with the proposal but I like the spirit of the idea.
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That is one of the highest converting messages you can put on a button.
See EF Cultural Travel BV v. Zefer, 318 F.3d 58 (1st Cir. 2003) (the fact that a website owner “would dislike” the use of an automated script “to construct a database” of information available from visiting the website does not render the use of the automated script an unauthorized access under the CFAA).

Interesting that a court has already opined this. I don't see any other basis on which one can define what constitutes unauthorized access, than whether the website owner would dislike it. I think, as you have argued, that a court looking for some more technical definition will find there isn't any that holds up under scrutiny.
Thank you for putting this into words. I wanted to write something similar for a long time, but didn't get around to it.

Not only these things are frustrating for us as developers, they also decimate IT recruiting for companies. I've seen it from the other side too (while conducting some interviews). It's quite incredible, really. It's like a game. Both sides go through all the usual motions, but gain next to no useful information about each other. In the end it all boils down to unsubstantiated personal impressions, coated with some generic BS that makes it sound "objective".

(Before you ask, it's very hard to change interviewing process when you're a part of an established process with a lot of people involved.)
One problem is finding people responsible / hardworking enough that you can rely on them doing your errands and chores without constant supervision. Someone that competent isn't likely to be working for $8-10/hour.

Obviously there are some subsets that mostly work at this price level (cleaning, landscaping, etc.) but there's a reason personal assistants are expensive.
Goodbye Posterous. Hello Pelican.
there is the letter and the spirit of the law. I think the spirit of the law is what is usually important, and in the case when there is no car in sight and no one is walking across the street, that's what i was referring to.

regardless, it's an example that I saw and thought represented the general mindset, and reflected what I saw and heard from Germans themselves about the state of the startup ecosystem.
> The <nationality> like <stereotype>.

What's funny to me is that I found Berlin completely different to all the other cities I had previously been in Germany. One could say too much hype, but I sort of enjoyed it.
Ahh come on, that's just trying to see a lot more in psychology then there really is.
I'm from Berlin and many people DO jaywalk.
BUT they don't (and i don't) when there are kids around. And unless it's night there are kids around more often then not. Is that so bad now?!

As if you can analyze a whole nation by seeing them jaywalk (or not)... pfft.
I've got to agree with you. I recently started getting serious about changing positions and I've become completely convinced that much of the so-called 'talent shortage' is caused by the job search process, from job listings through to interviews. Every step is unintentionally outrageous in a new way.

The first step, finding open positions that are appropriate to your skills and abilities, is overwhelming and impossible. The only way you have any hope of short circuiting it is to have connections with the right people who can open the maze from the inside. Or to become famous in a community.

Otherwise, it's a slog of browsing through hundreds of job listings, finding the one in 20 that isn't for .NET or MS-SQL or C# or Oracle, and the 1 in 50 that's not from a recruiter who's listed the same job 5 times, realizing that you aren't qualified because you haven't used the all 4 languages they care about, or maybe because you've only dabbled with some key piece of tech they're convinced you need 3 years experience with, or they won't look at candidates who need to relocate, or you absolutely need to know Red Hat when you've pretty much used Ubuntu derivatives or Arch or whatever. Then you waste time adjusting your resume, and never hear back.

Those you do hear back from will often mis-represent themselves and their businesses in an attempt to get hires. In fact, I was a victim of this at my current job.

Oh well.
All I need to do is start spending all my evenings and weekends on side projects while building an impressive blog to talk about coding and technology. Once it's popular with the Hacker New digerati all I'll need to do is wait... After all, we all know 'talent' is code for 'marketing.'
There's always incentive to earn money as as long as there are things to buy that your neighbor won't be able to buy with basic income an you, with your earned money will be able.

Earners are driven by envy and competition.
Please don't do this! Entity-Attribute-Value tables are a nightmare waiting to happen about 98% of the time.

If there's something wrong with your DBMS where the alter table to add a row is an expensive or dangerous operation, just add a new table for every attribute, having lots of tables in a database is no worse than having lots of variables in a program.

If your DBA gets angry at you for adding new tables all the time, get a new DBA.
> Can you imagine living on $20K, $30K, $40K, a year?

Where do you live that $30-40K a year is poor? The median personal income in the US is under $33,000 a year for employed workers, and still under $40k if you exclude part-time and seasonal workers (which is think is abusing the statistic).[0]

My father raised me and took care of my mother on barely $30k a year all throughout high school. It's not impossible to live on that or less, nor is it especially hard if people would stop acting like they deserve a new car, a big house and the latest toys.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S...
I love it. See what happens when you click one of the "Buy" buttons.
> If GitLab security were to be perfect, then this change would not affect security in any which way.

Yes, it does: right now users can use ssh to push and pull repos on my machine using gitolite but they do not have shell access to the computer. "ssh git@gitlab.example.com" just prints a short message and exits. With this change they can all just ssh into the computer and have a bash prompt. Trying to make that secure requires a whole different level of paranoia than just not letting people in in the first place.

It also means that every gitlab user has access to every repo that's hosted and the permissions in the web interface are just for show.

If this is really the case and the attitude of the devs then I don't think I will be updating any time soon...

However, I still feel I must be missing something because the gitlab guys host private repos at gitlab.com and so they must have worked these security things out, right? I can't create an account at gitlab.com and just ssh into their server. At least, I really hope I can't.
Ask HN: What role do political submissions play in HN?
There's a very interesting phenomenon I'm observing, and I would love some feedback from the community.

HN seems to be fairly divided in terms of the role of politics on the site: either we should avoid political postings as much as possible, or we should argue them relentlessly. I'm curious what the current prevailing wind is.

The reason I ask is that there have been two interesting developments this week: the PyCon fiasco and the vote on the upcoming internet sales tax in the US. I note that the former resulted in front-page saturation, while the latter seems to have slipped off into obscurity--especially troubling, right, because it may directly effect business for all of us online service providers.

So I would like to ask: when do you, the individual HN user, care about political issues? What would you like to see more/less of in submissions, and why?
looks great but you should take a look at your pricing structure! pricing is extremely difficult so I don't mean to over-criticise, the thing is that you've basically priced yourself out for 90% of potential customers, especially larger ones
Sure. The simplest approach is to use a naive Bayesian classifier (you can find a bunch of open source implementations).

In my app, I actually track client-side actions -- essentially, clicks, but with more context. Anyway, you can treat a single user session like you would the text of an email, where the "actions" are the words.

From there, all you need to do is capture a bunch of sessions and tell the classifier which users are not strong computer users and which know what they're doing, passing the corresponding "documents".

Now you can feed in new documents and determine which of your users know what they're doing, and which aren't really computer users.

(It my experience, people fall into one of those two camps.)
Can anyone explain what the difference between TypeScript and ECMAScript 4 are? I know ECMAScript 4 was abandoned for some reason, but from the few examples I've seen of Typescript it looks very similar. Did the js community just need a few more years to come around to the ideas?
So the people who can't find jobs are merely the irresponsible and/or lazy?
I'd imagine that examining an efficient stack architecture like the J1[1] would be even more refreshing. No need for register allocation and tremendous gains in code density. You lose the ability to do out-of-order execution, but in many situations independent operations can still be combined into a single clock cycle, and the CPU is still faster because it simply has less work to do.

[1] http://www.excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html
Agreed.

I found myself halfway to a facepalm until I clicked the "Buy" button. Beautifully executed trolling.
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honestly, if i got a recruiting mail that emphasised a strong commitment to tool-based programming best-practices (dvcs, review, continuous integration) it would raise my interest in the company significantly.
What happens if I'm a smallish site and suddenly get slashdotted / DDoSed? Will I be charged thousand dollars? Is there a way to cap monthly costs?
I use several npm modules in my ember app.
I find sarcastic naming conventions can help the pain just a little. But yeah, otherwise completely agree.
Hey do you know why it isnt working on linux?

"On Linux, after hitting CTRL+SHIFT+R, I just get the option to launch Chrome. I come back and hit CTRL+SHIFT+R again, and it's the same option"

and the console shows:
Created new window in existing browser session.
[Finished in 0.4s]
I don't think per user is the way to go. Customers want more predictability. Plus, per user feels like it's penalizing growers. It seems a bit more appropriate to charge per/email since there's som atomicity there.

For analytics, simple tiers (without pro rating) should work fine.
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Thanks for this feedback and for your support. I really appreciate it. I'll try to incorporate all of this into the site today.
Is that with MySQL? I've used it for scores of projects, always with Postgres, and it's never failed me, even if it's been a bit slow when there are lots of rows in play (which isn't really South's fault)
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In GCC you can actually offload the decision about which registers to choose if you are writing inline assembly code. You just specify what type of registers you need and GCC optimizes the assignments for you. Then you reference them with % notation - e.g. movd %1, %2. Imagine you provide this as an inline function in C++; all the calls for simple functions like arithmetic operations will be optimized on the spot instead of building stacks or moving some value to/from eax... It sped up my 3D software renderer more than twice! :)
What are you using today?
Even for a wild guess I think you're off by at least an order of magnitude if you don't take into account velocity (typical dollar is spent four times per year; edit: and bitcoin, as a digital currency, is likely to have higher velocity) and the different types of money (monetary base is maybe one fifth of total money supply).

Note also that your math involves 12m BTC but your page says 10m.
Whould you mind sharing one of these reports with me?
I did an interview 2 week ago. I'm not a programmer, yet, they gladly asked if I code wich I answered yes. What made me go nuts after show them all my work is, fill a questionary? one question was: "Tell us what you understand by "pixel perfect"
> We are not heading to Mega City 1.

Gutted, I need a Chopper style surf board!
I had the same issue a month or so ago. I needed to install a local Git repository and because I'd be working with people who had never used Git before, I wanted to have some kind of GUI for them.

I looked at GitLab, Gitolite + gitweb, and Gitosis. GitLab's installation was the worst of the three. It was horrible, and seemed like it would have been impossible to maintain/upgrade. I really hope that the entire experience has improved.

I ended up using Gitosis, and while I don't quite like the workflow, the installation was pretty easy (there was a bash script to run that installed and configured everything).

I'm going to evaluate the new version of GitLab, but if the installation process isn't better, I'll just stick with Gitosis.
Yea, precisely. I'd say for us we could maybe to like, $100/month. Also - how does it work for multiple sites? We actually have 4 separate sites for separate towns.
I love the concept, definitely addresses a pain point in using other platforms. The thing I worry about is when I make some change to the styles or HTML structure of my site I have to now consider how that will break my analytics.
A more common name is Array Mapped Trie. See the papers by Phil Bagwell (RIP). DJB's crit-bit Trie page is good also. Many people forget that it's rather easy to pack tries for locality since there is no rebalancing to fragment nodes.

AMT's are one of clojure's most heavily used container types.
Perhaps you haven't been to the South? Even the poor people hate the poor people. And they have the most poor people. Figure that.
The part about kids and SSI abuse is also cited as being the reason for the uptick in ADHD diagnoses (and not violent video games or high fructose corn syrup or gay marriage):

http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/12/13/follow...
The PyCon incident blew up because of the tweeted picture, which to many of us was _far_ worse than the stupid joke. Complain to the organizers, sure. Make fun of them at the conference, even.

But the tweeted picture to a large number of followers took it well into harassment, where the joke wasn't.
> perfectly competent people that they can't live off of the stolen labor of others

You mean like whole government, all government employees and everyone that is paid by or subsists on tax money?
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I love that he just assumes people know the Heinlein quote. ("Specialization is for insects.")
I don't think "author" counts. I've written a book but I didn't get a Wikipedia page.
But also if you change your page structure your reports might stop working
If I understand the idea correctly, using a different key pair for every transaction should help mask user histories. Not sure if this is easy in practice.
If everyone were entitled to everything that might possibly be used to improve his circumstances, then everyone would be entitled to everything.
That was unfortunate, mostly because a single compiler flag brought the code base way down, smaller the JQuery. If I recall correctly, that mistake was from a blogger, not Google, but it caught the bad publicity winds. Somebody was more eager to tear it apart than learn the tools.
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The point is that they did not intend it to be directed at her and probably were not regarding her as part of the conversation. Human perception is very selective, and you can literally look at things and not see them. There's nothing @-ist in this, it's just how the brain works. Should the guys be more aware when in public places? Yes. This can be handled by a gentle reminder, not by a public campaign. Of course, this does not produce a splashy effect of fighting @-isms and being on the forefront of the struggle for all good against all evil, but it is usually better for everyone involved. Which is the main point of it, and hopefully more people realizing it would be at least a little win in this huge heap of fail.
How does B follow from A? Where does A even come from? No one said A.
But if this takes off, I'll lose all my security by obscurity. I guess I'll have to go back to BeOS