skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The critical difference is one is a tiger with limited reasoning ability and the other is a human being.

No it's not, it's a system of human beings. Systems make "decisions" quite differently than individuals do. In some cases they have what we might consider far superior reasoning ability compared to the individual, but in others they're even more limited than the tiger.
How dare someone even try to insure taxpayer money is well spent.
HAXLR8R explores different ways to sell connected devices
One of those might do something.
>With a sufficient basic income, you could effectively get rid of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, public subsidies in all types of places they're unnecessary or harmful. And you remove the disincentive effect on productivity that most welfare schemes have.

This might be a stretch, but this could be seen as the part mentioned in the article: “The idea of unconditional income comes from the failure of conditional programmes. As soon as there are conditions, there is erosion. Conditionality means intermediaries, which means power, which means corruption.”

But then again, what will all the companies that benefit handsomely from these conditional programes do (outside of lobbying with the money they are currently given by government)?
It wasn't number theory, but I couldn't remember and was hand-waving.
Similarly, structured control flow (C's if, for, while, switch etc.) is better than unstructured (LLVM IR just has the equivalent of gotos (yes, LLVM IR has switch too, but it can go anywhere, so it still isn't inherently structured)). So it goes both ways.

Some other advantages of C over LLVM IR:

ABI compatibility with C automatically. In LLVM IR, being ABI-compatible with C is often a considerable headache and you have to do different things on each platform.

You can use C libraries by #including their header files (the way many C libraries were designed to be used), instead of hardwiring all that information (macro expansions, enum values, typedefs, inline functions, struct definitions, etc.) from their header files in your code generator.

You have the option of switching C compilers; you're not as locked into a single backend.

With a bit of care, you can make your output much more readable. LLVM IR demands either SSA form (most front-ends don't want to do this) or herds of allocas, loads, and stores everywhere. In C, you just say "int x;" to declare an int, and just "x" to refer to it.

You can use C features like bitfields, designated initializers, short-circuit operators (&&, ||), compound assignment (+=, -=, etc.), and so on. You can do all these things in LLVM IR, but you have to lower them yourself.
"GOTO Mars"
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1. I never change my signature, really, who cares? I've registered several domains on my google apps, and when I change the email address I'm using, the signature changes automatically.

2. If you need to change the subject, maybe you need a new email.

3. Attaching a file?, just drag and drop from the download bar, or from the folder... Links really dont need to click the button.

4. Maybe your contacts use tweeter, but most of the industries dont, dont mess our email system with tweeter. It's awesome and anything you say, but it's almost exclusive of IT/media industry.

5. It's quite rare for someone to change the sending email address. I've several but I only change the email address when I really need. Most of the time, everybody knows my main address. (I happen to manage several companies, each of them with a simple webpage, I always receive my email at r*a.com, but I also have the other addresses just in case. Anyway, I always use the same. (Does Bill Gates used @microsoft.com @xbox.com @hotmail.com @….. =

In conclussion, Gmail is awesome for bussines, try Streak for managing your mail chains with other parts of your company and you will love it. The only thing I really need is an option to attach a Google DOC directly as PDF on a Email on Gmail, and chain it up to Streak.

EDIT: Sometimes I'm writing an email, and then I have to search for another one, or I receive a call. Sometimes I can be redacting an email for 4 hrs because I get busy. It's neat to minimize it and keep work rolling.
"Spaceman I always wanted you to go
Into space man..."
It feels like a dating site to me. Or Hotornot et al. Marsroulette?
Is is really less effort?

I can simply write "SELECT a,b,c from table" instead of s.select().from('table').field('a').field('b').field('c').
http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=64&id=5 is another hacker going at it as well, from 2007. It includes a little more information about the protocol, but doesn't touch on listening to encrypted versions.
What we need to do is to get a standard cease and desist letter that tells service providers that selling our personal information without notification, auditing powers and compensation is not permitted, and is a violation of our right of publicity and image rights, copyrights and other rights. Get a few hundred thousand people to send them to the the major telecommunications providers and ad networks and then assemble the team for a class action.

This is a perfectly valid tactic to use against private interests that are violating peoples 4th, 5th and 1st amendment rights.

And to forestall some of the objections; it is a tactic that is uncertain of success and that will in the short term most likely cause the passage of unconstitutional legislation protecting service providers against the public ( like the blanket amnesty for wrongdoing granted to phone companies in 2008 as part of FISA ). Having several thousand plaintiffs trying to get certified as a class, and overcome the additional hurdles that will be thrown in the way will force the issue into the light; and let's be honest do you think that most people think the government needs to know exactly where they sleep each night?
i've always wondered about /var/www vs /srv/www

nginx on ubuntu now uses /usr/share/nginx/www

i wonder how long these conventions will continue to be all over the place.
OTOH: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/how-microsoft-and...
If Facebook genuinely saw Path as a competitor they would simply buy it and kill it. I think it's more a case that Path's spamming tactics could have been seen to have Facebook's approval had they not intervened and put an end to it.
What is this "definitive resource" and what resource would you recommend for learning perl? I'm learning now (self-teaching) and don't want to learn the wrong way.

Here's the book I've been using: http://bixsolutions.net/
Even if they knew this day was guaranteed to come, it still makes a lot of sense for them to have had the feature up to now. A lot of the previous growth has been from this feature.
It is not a given that there are "more moving parts" in generating C output from a compiler than in using LLVM.

While that's a true enough statement by itself, your snipe conveniently skips half of the process in question.
When population density goes up, you are more likely to live close enough to your grocery store to make multiple smaller visits and make quick visits for one-off items you might need. I rarely ever buy more at the grocery store than I can carry on my own and I find the smaller more frequent trips much more convenient than having to plan around one large trip to a more distant location.
Totally useless for devices without a mouse. Touch-screen devices don't have pointer movement events.
Twitter Web Application (CSS3 / HTML5 / JavaScript)
Even without cookies, Google stores IP addresses and can use those to correlate searches.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Relying on governments to do the following:

* determine who is really in need
* helping people to make better choices

seems absurd to me, and more a defense of the guaranteed income than a critique of it. Faith in perfect markets is hogwash, but so is this level of faith in bureaucracy; even a wise individual would have trouble making these kinds of judgments personally.
I don't mean to self-promote, but http://hackdesign.org may be what the author is looking for. You can move at your own pace, and the lessons are curated by some of the most thoughtful designers I know of.

We're pushing out a lesson on Color Theory on Monday, then David Kadavy (author of Design for Hackers) is up the week after. We've already got 4 months of great content so far, and 8 more to go.

Let me know if you try it out - @wr on twitter.
That's why we have the FHS ;)

/srv contains site-specific data which is served by this
system.

http://www.samba.org/~cyeoh/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVI...

Unfortunately, /srv/ is often ignored. Good move by Debian to make this change, and hopefully this gets the ball rolling for other distros.
What the sticky bits of a sticky note look like to an SEM
Not a Lie: Portal and Left 4 Dead 2 arrive on Linux
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And don't forget Analytics. Google Analytics has seen a vast improvement in UI and usability.
The air quality is still going to be incredibly bad.
I'm not sure about this site...it would be nice if someone like the EFF ran it and got actual lawyers to look at these. In this case:

> Google can share your personal information with other parties: Google will share your personal information with other parties. For sensitive information (medical, racial, ethnic, political, religious or sexuality) Google requires “opt-in”. Google can also share or publish aggregated data that does not identify a person

links to this discussion: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tosdr/QZgR8faRWDU/discussi...

which quotes this part of google's privacy policy:

> We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of Google unless one of the following circumstances apply:

> With your consent: We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google when we have your consent to do so. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.

and then he proceeds to conclude that because google separates the notion of "personal information" and "sensitive personal information", and the latter is covered by the "opt-in consent" clause above, that must mean that the former (plain "personal information") must be sharable because consent is assumed.

Logically that doesn't follow at all, since the base assumption would be that they don't share personal information unless it falls under one of the listed exceptions, and just because one "consent" has "opt-in" in front of it, does not mean that any other "consent" means some kind of assumed consent. If the words "opt-in" had never appeared, there would be no reason to guess otherwise.

What's worse, that line appears to be the sole source of information for him (and no one else came in to discuss it), so that becomes the authoritative line, without a caveat about how he arrived at that conclusion (though, luckily, a link to the "discussion" of that line). The site also says Hugo Roy is an "Economic Law student" in Paris, but his reading of those terms doesn't sound legal in the EU even if that was the correct conclusion.

One great thing about this project is that it's something no old media company would have ever attempted, through worries about liabilities, or fear of offending corporate partners, or just a perceived lack of interest from their viewers. It will hopefully be a great way for the actual users of the internet to keep companies accountable. On the other hand, if somehow an old media company had written about this, many would have consulted an expert (and possibly google themselves) before making that kind of sweeping conclusion. The EFF would have too. Hopefully participation can increase in this project so it's not just one guy's reading of a bunch of ToSs. I can consult random HN comments for that sort of thing :)
Apple's research into curved battery technology
God's answer was NEAT but not good. That's how He plays chess.

God says...

46:25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will
punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods,
and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him: 46:26
And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives,
and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand
of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days
of old, saith the LORD.

46:27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O
Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from
the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest
and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with
thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have
driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee
in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

47:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against
the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

47:2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and
shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all
that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men
shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
I actually developed a gem that solves this problem exactly, I am in the middle of cleaning it up and solidifying the api abit hopefully will release it soon, I will also be talking about it at red dot ruby conference
I love this, its great, its funny and its not (really) demeaning either.
In light of this article (and this comment thread), what we're seeing at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5655243, previous reading I've done, and my increasing exasperation at supply-side solutions for economic troubles that don't seem to be particularly on the supply side...

How do we make BI happen?
im gonna try this out for sure - why is it free?
I'm not sure they could buy it. Path was offered $100 million early on from Google when they first released and were not getting traction. They rejected it.

David Morin appears to want to build a company for the long term, and so selling to Facebook (his old workplace) to kill the project seems unlikely.
Fair enough, but in developed markets (where the money is) FB is shrinking and Path is growing (and very quickly if one is to believe their numbers). Of course, given FB's user base (most every adult who has access to a computer) there is really only one way to for their numbers to go.

All that being said, FB's priority these days has to be increasing revenues per user (regardless of whether it's desktop or mobile) and for Q1 revenues were $1.33 per user--so there's plenty of room for upside there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/technology/mobile-efforts-...

In any event, it's hard to root for Path (or even think using their service is a good value proposition) given their nefarious business methods. My main point was that I doubt FB was making it harder for Path to operate purely out of altruistic customer privacy concerns.
For those interested in Lisp implementations which compile to C, providing cross-platform benefits and a nice FFI, gambit-c and chicken are performant, mature implementations of the Scheme programming language.
This reminds me of the time I taught myself photography through online resources. All of the 'photo' tutorials taught how to use the camera, which a) doesn't teach you fundamentals on what makes a good picture and b) is not necessary with modern cameras.

What I found much more useful was tutorials on how to paint, because they started off by teaching artistic fundamentals, such as composition, colors, etc.
/srv will continue to be ignored just as /opt and other one-offs are ignored. Reason being that they duplicate existing functionality, in this case under /var, /usr, or /usr/local. What /srv/ really stands for is NIH.
One quick point - AFAIK Megastore uses quorum based across data centers but uses BigTable within a data center - so master based. Is that not true? If it is then your point does need to be qualified - cross center DC failure models are (I assume) different from those within a DC.
this isn't about high level math... this is about penny pinch... doesn't no-one go to open-air market?
These are my personal laptops I'm talking about :)

FWIW, I'm a web developer, but I've been playing with Linux since I was 11 years old (2001).
Yeah, I like and agree with that. Doesn't help that my parents are real estate and commercial developers :P
Rap, not rape. Well I could share statistics which clearly show a major rise in violent crime by urban youth in the 90s, with a major decline afterwards, and there could be several explanations for that.

As for "ghetto culture" - I am referring to the statistics on single mothers / teen mothers in urban ghetto neighborhoods, and the amount of violence, drug use and drug dealing and done by chronically unemployed males who are feeling disenfranchised and without a purpose. Note that poverty by itself is not the main factor - the same neighborhoods before welfare (50-60 years ago) which retained similar demographics in terms of race saw far leas of either one of these phenomena. The culture was certainly different, with a greater emphasis on productive labor, two parent households, and responsibility. And I say all this to show the diminishing returns from welfare, because the welfare class will be expanding to include more and more people as automation takes over.

But on a more positive note:
http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen...
Use Debian testing for the desktop. Desktop users don't use stable, or at least use it with backports. And what's so unbearable for the server? As others pointed out, RHEL ships even an earlier version of the kernel.
I'm glad you self promoted... looks like a cool program. I signed up and am about to start lesson one (I've already seen the movie, but really enjoyed it so I'm glad to see it again).
Most of the Basic Income proposals I've heard don't go as far as covering basic needs very well; meanwhile there will be money available working to provide for people who aren't able to get enough of their needs currently met. And if you want nice things, you'll still have to work.

There aren't zero parallels to the USSR, but it's really not going as far, and I expect the human responses to be different.
dear Googler, you made me waste a bit of time: trying to do that by using tweets isn't accurate for obvious reasons. Power user vs normal user, motivation to tweet, bias against Microsoft etc. The other post was confusing as hell, I couldn't make out his point. Absolutely no data, other than suggesting that the poll was rigged. It may very well be.

You may want to check this http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/04/... from http://searchengineland.com/users-prefer-google-even-when-15... It's impartial, afaik, and almost 70% like Bing results with the Google logo vs around 30% o Google results with the Bing logo. Amazing since that case shows that people liked the Bing results and had their preferred company's logo on Google. (Not sure if Bing had anything to do with that study though)

Either way, if Bing narrowed the preference to 10%-20%, it's a great feat. Personally I find Bing lacking on obscure terms but most people wouldn't care.
Do you have spam filters for traditional corporal mails as well, Matt? It'd never bypass them in that case.
Ask HN: Twilio/Plivo style service that supports MMS?
anyone know of a telephony service that supports buying phone numbers and sending/receiving MMS messages with that number, as well as being able to support phone calls?
I thought RJS died with the release of Rails 3.0
The point of this really shouldn't be "I leave it to designers because they're better at aesthetic design" it should be "I leave it to designers because I'm already a good coder, and my time is more valuable".

Designing a really great product beyond choosing fonts, colors, and shapes (which is extremely hard, but you can Google good font pairings and color palettes) just takes time and lot of thought. Experience counts, but you have it. If you spent 2 weeks working on a UX, you'd do great work, I promise you.
What about plain old Georgism/"geolibertarianism" with the proceeds from the LVT going straight to a uniform citizen's dividend? In my view, this would be a near-perfect system, having only a couple of flaws:

1. The difficulty of disentangling improvements on land from the land itself/fairly valuing land

2. It doesn't address the issue of population growth
Sure - while it is an opinion about me (and others), it is also (simultaneously, though not exclusively) a recommendation (perhaps only an implied one) about what is in my best interests, when I alone can decide if I am safe, for example (it is not a lamp, or a number, it is my own feeling): therefore the commentor is speaking for me. Furthermore, since I define safety for myself, my assertion that the comment does not reflect my interests also makes it misrepresentation (in addition to speaking for me) in my case.
I hope you made exorbitant purchases at a retail postal shop to compensate for your extreme abuse of the system.
> ... free membership

The membership is the per member profit. Costco doesn't mark up items more than 14%. In some states they aren't allowed to require membership to access the pharmacy. If what you proposed was workable, I'd expect groups of people in an area to band together or have a middleman in order to only have one membership and break up bulk items.

(And technically there is such a middleman doing their best to lower prices - they are called Walmart.)

> ... greater purchasing power get access to the lowest cost ...

Same thing happens with the US health system - the uninsured pay the most for exactly the same procedures at the same place. At least in the case of Costco it is economically sensible because buyers purchase a bigger volume and the store has greater throughput. (Costco typically has 4,000 SKUs per store while a normal supermarket will be around 16,000.)
Wait, how is he doing this? Wish there was a tiny bit more explanation in the post...
Typing this on a PlayBook. It's a very well designed tablet and works very nicely with a BB phone. Despite being two year old hardware, it's as useful now as when I originally got it. Now that hardware and software are mature, it seems like the tablet upgrade cycle will be much longer than phones. Maybe that's what is behind those odd comments from the BB10 ceo.
But it would be self driving..
Ask HN: Advice on the first steps for starting up in India
I am looking for any advice you guys can offer - especially from those who are based in India.

I'm deliberately not asking open ended question so that you can tell me the first thing that comes to your mind.

Thanks.
Creating a Company Vision [2011]