skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "best personalized newspaper" I guess they mean "most external-sound-proof echo chamber", since that's the lines they've been going along so far?

I'd really like a website where you can tell it your opinions and it finds intelligently written, interesting to read counter-arguments; though I can't see such a service succeeding in a world where "changing your mind when presented with new facts" is considered a sign of weakness :(
I have never liked the concept that you 'have a job,' I prefer that you 'sell your labor' and someone else chooses to buy it. The phrase 'having a job' suggests it's some sort of privilege to work for someone else, rather than a simple economic transaction.

This is why I believe a Job Guarantee to be a better policy. Basically, have a program that ensures infinite demand for labor at a fixed wage.

But how does it do this? I'm not disputing that it could, I'm just uncertain how you are proposing to implement this. For example, will I have a choice over the sort of work I like to do? What if I feel like changing that? I also a see a bit of a problem when people who are much more competent at some particular task feel unhappy that they are not able to earn more than someone who is unskilled or lazy and does inferior work.
While OP's apology is appreciable, there was more than enough information available in 2008 to understand that his Czech colleagues were right.

The Prism scandal may have come as a surprise to US citizens, but the US has been spying foreign nationals and companies for years, and we've long known about it - haven't you heard of Echelon? It was also well known that these systems were used for industrial espionage.
I just spent a whole day figuring out and setting up celery and a broker just to have a small maintenance task run for a few milliseconds about once an hour in a django application.

This seems needlessly heavy and complex, and somewhat negated the development time I expected to save by basing this project on python rather than java.

I'm not blaming python, but rather my knowledge of it. There must be an easier way to run small periodic scheduled tasks in the background than this.
Regarding the recent IO outage: Pick your domain registrar carefully
TL;DR Skype P2P performs on mobile devices so we removed the featues people loved about Skype and kept the name.
Here's the difference: the process of becoming a barrister is a long and expensive process that many people fail to complete. Degree, followed by a training course, then you have to try and find a chambers that will accept you, then spend six months to a year doing a pupillage that might cost you more than you make. For at least a year or two, you'd probably make more money as a waiter or shop assistant. And the number of people who try to become a lawyer and fail is pretty high. As for doctors? Have you seen how long medical school takes? It's a long, expensive and arduous journey.

In comparison, I make excellent money doing something I mostly enjoy, have no formal qualifications in anything relevant (I've got an MA in Philosophy), never struggle to find work, make enough that I can go out and have fun and so on. Yes, I'm not making £2,000 an hour. I don't particularly care. Does that make a second-class citizen? Absolutely not. (Of course, the fact that I can't legally marry another man actually does make me legally a second-class citizen...)

My problem is that any reasonable person outside the tech community would look at the situation we find ourselves in work-wise and think "well, if you enjoy building software, that's a pretty fucking sweet deal". And they're right. Bitching about getting paid a pretty good salary for doing something reasonably enjoyable, having a wide variety of options for work across a variety of sectors... that's pretty fucking whiny and entitled.

In this discussion, we started with the comparison by the author of the linked piece of animus towards gentrifying technology workers to the persecution that immigrant and trans people face. The point is this: we do actually get paid quite significantly better than most of society, to do something most of us love. The idea that we're either second class citizens or being persecuted qua being engineers/developers (etc.) is laughable and shows a complete lack of perspective relative to the worst off in society. The idea that animus towards tech workers is in some way analagous to the violence, social disapproval, contempt and often legally-sanctioned persecution that immigrants or trans people face is ridiculous.

Should tech workers be paid more? Probably. I certainly wouldn't object if I could double my day rate. Am I a second-class citizen? Absolutely not. I'm getting paid what the market pays for people with my skills and experience. Second class CITIZEN would imply some kind of discrimination or persecution by the state. (Again, like not being able to get married.) Being paid hundreds of pounds a day to write code isn't one of those things.
This space has become fragmented enough that I'm actually quite curious to see what Facebook's take on it is. However, personally, I don't want to tie-up any more of my data in that platform, though.
Population will continue to stabilize and possibly fall in the developed world and population growth will lessen in the developing world.

Also, a life on basic income would probably be similar psychologically to unemployment -- more depression, disease, shorter lifespans, etc. These things contribute to a reduced rate of childbirth.
People's feelings about something is an irrelevant metric. It doesn't fucking matter if no one is concerned. There are plenty of past disasters and tragedies that happened because no one was concerned.
Scaling with C++11
Who your parents are and who you know is a big determinant of what you're going to do with your life. I don't see anything wrong with using these resources if they're available.

Also, as a European, I am continually amazed by the low, low real estate prices in some parts of the US. There are very nice big rural properties that even I could afford without a lot of hassle.

I must admit I've actually toyed with the idea of buying one, but to make it full circle with the article, decided against it because I thought it would be utterly unfair to my cat (she suffers enough absences as it is) - I realized that she has very little time left and that we're going to make the best of it :)
Max Schrems: "Langeweile wird das Ende von Facebook sein."
Not all people know that a Mac is commodity PC-based hardware which you can install any operating system you like onto.

In that regard it is a hidden feature, but maybe more so for the Mac than for OS X.
This would be a great topic for a blog...every few days, a guest blogger submits a chunk of code they wrote a month ago and then their reflections on it today. The chunks could be small enough that it hopefully doesn't violate any intellectual property rights of the employer.
Exactly!

Prism slide: Skype: 2/6/11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg

But "Microsoft to acquire Skype": May 10, 2011

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20061371-17.html
A lot of companies still give each employee a telephone on their desk too.
It's just a whole different philosophy. If the bad guys don't feel threatened by the people they rob, they will be less likely to use force against them. If we hear a burglar in our home, we europeans tend to hide and call the police, not confront them. It's the police's role to capture the burglars and justice's role to prosecute them.
The law protects everyone.
The cattle in Central and Eastern Europe is grown for the milk, not for the meat. That is the reason, why it tastes like shit. If you want a good steak there, get an Argentinian.

Of course, there are exceptions. In Prague, you can have good Czech-grown steak from cattle-frown-for-meat (go to Cestr).
That's not true. The whole network was effected because the centralization point they chose had a client bug and since the whole network had to use these nodes it took them down.

To take down a decentralized network with a bug you'd have to have every user on the exact same version and no way for them to simply role back to the previous version. I.e. nearly impossible.
Single photograph looks like 4 individual photographs
Seat Count for Each Reservation of Every Course in TNEA 2013
that makes sense. not that i have anything specific in mind, but i was thinking free for personal use and something cheap for business use
I think the main problem is unknown exposure:
Do you audit all old commits to find any sensitive data?
Only if you had to use supernodes. All you had to do was open an outside port for skype and you wouldn't need supernodes for anything.
It's not a topic in Germany at all. At least not for the majority of citizens and the parties making up at least 90% of parliament seats.
HK has nothing to fear with regards to economic sanctions. One can be reasonably sure that even under "One country, two systems", China wouldn't take kindly to economic sanctions against HK, and in the end, the US needs China more than China needs the US.
Runs well on CentOS, looks promising.
well. of course knowing oop is useful. but why the modula flavor and not the smalltalk flavor? vtables cannot be used with message-passing object orientation.

shouldn't students learn lambda-calculus? shouldn't you teach a functional programming language then? or even a logic programming language? "the real-world software stack" is not the most important thing in the world.
Excellent project, but the shading on the solar panels from the railings is more than likely severely reducing the output of the panels at lower sun angles. Even shading a single cell on a series connected panel effectively reduces the output of ALL cells. Also having peak power tracking would increase panel utilization.
I really like the power monitoring using the Arduino though.
>They can be as angry as they want to be, but that will not un-transfer those bitcoins. Hell, they can beat you with a wrench for the rest of your natural life but that will not get the bitcoins back

That's very comforting.
I don't see countries with a growing population being able to implement that at all, not because of the rising population, but because they are poor.
Anyone has a verified list of libraries for languages that deal with this correctly?
Do they get all these cases right?
It creates barriers to entry for new participants in the market. I don't lose lots of sleep over it but as someone who makes electronic music it's quite annoying to see that people with no talent or technical skill can just buy their way to stardom. It's an open secret that many of the top earners don't make their own music, but just trade on their brand or outrageous antics; eg Steve Aoki's party trick is throwing cake into the faces of girls during his live 'performances' - http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/superstar+Steve....

When I mention that I make electronic music and people ask me 'oh, is it like David Guetta' or suchlike I just want to cringe in embarrassment. Not because I consider myself a musical genius or anything, but being good at it requires years of study and practice like any other musical discipline, so it's depressing to see the market leaders that perpetuate the stereotype of electronic music as pushing a button and waving your hands in the air. I hope the fad either blows over over or audiences wise up a bit and demand a better standard of artistry, but that probably isn't going to happen :-/
I'm so tired of seeing these numbskulls from Silicon Valley trivialize what it means for something to be a "newspaper", as if it's just some "content organization" to aggregate.

I see the same thing with Medium. Beyond frustrating.
If somebody wants to work, shouldn't we make it possible for them?

The point of a basic income is that it allows people to work. Because it's unconditional (at least in the variant I support), there are no marginal disincentive effects.

If you want to call having people dig holes and fill them back in "work," okay, fine. But at that point I don't see why we shouldn't just call simply living a job and call it a day, because at least that way people can focus on valuable economic tasks that a government can't necessarily see or effectively plan.

And it's harder to attack because it is universal and unconditional. Compare foodstamps and Medicaid to a program that's available to all income classes, such as, say, Medicare or Social Security. One class is constantly attacked, while attacking the other ends political careers.
> Post script, you can like pop and Bach at the same time and there's precisely nothing wrong with that.

THIS. And let me add Bach is (was) the dance music of yesteryears (follow the 3/4). (Mozart was probably rock)

The thing with "modern music is crap" has one factor helping it, we never got to hear Bach's time crap music.

(Note: the above is my opinion based on my shallow knowledge of music)
I just wonder why telcos I've been dealing with have always required to encrypt all information which is not classified as public information. All customer, project, system, configuration, documentation, contracts etc. must be encrypted before transit. - Surely they must have known about this. So if telcos won't trust privacy of telecommunication, why should anyone else think that telcos are trustworthy?
Hey pretty good for a 13 year old. Basic doesn't encourage structure ... Nor the 'ide' for that matter. A+
I don't really mind tipping for a job well done, and I tend to be harsh for those who are lousy. (That's what tip supposed to be after all.)

I have complaints to people who is working in the service industry (or have worked in there, as part-time and whatnot) telling me that I should never undertip them/leave without tip, even if the service is horrible, because that's how "they are getting paid properly."

That's total BS, if "tipping" is an incentive for better service. And if they feel undertipping/no tipping is bad because I am docking their pay, by all mean, just include that in the price and refuse any type of tipping.
UIView+QuickSize
My most used Obj-c category.
Does Cmd-N (when Finder is active: open a new Finder window) help?
I think these things tend to miss that work is not only about providing sustenance for oneself (and family) but also about what people want to do with their lives.

Also these things assume the role of some centralized entity in this age when governments have been cutting back massively on things considered to be for the public benefit (because of their own financial short falls eg. Detroit). We seem to be thinking of doing more of the same in this paradigm when its falling apart around us…

Who is going melt the PVC to build this pipe dream?
A beautiful thing that this demonstrates is that no matter how old a concept is, there's always room to explain it clearly so that those who didn't already understand it have the benefit of finally being enlightened. I learned this many years ago as an author, thinking that my most basic ideas weren't worth writing down. It turns out that what's obvious to one person isn't obvious to everyone else.

Thanks for the reminder and for the clear explanation of how git deploy might work!
All Apple homepages since 1997 till present
I understand the concept of having a secure centralized network. I'm interested in attempting to learn about such one myself (and perhaps one day contribute or implement one). It just seem like the original comment said that security is totally fine now, which I feel like is incorrect.

For Skype's security model, I thought that before MS bought them they had E2E encryption (sure, it can be MITM'ed, but the conversation's that's not MITM'ed cannot be decoded easily, whereas they could be now).

(Is it fair to say that I verify _some_, not all, of my friends' identity via the way the talk? I feel like if I have E2E encryption, I would be fine as a MITM would have a pretty difficult time faking how some of my friends talk.)
Sometimes Stackexchange sites will close a thread, because it's "not a question". Sometime's they won't. Nitpicking, but this is not a question. (Still great answers, though.)
It has to be only for adults. Or else people are going to have many children to get more money.

And it has to be only for native citizens, to avoid mass immigration.
Another solution would be to shrink the work week to 4 days.
http://shortcatapp.com allows you to search the contents of any on screen window.
Progressive taxation that starts from negative tax rate and goes upwards from there as more income is generate by working more is quite reasonable.

You always get something but most people want slightly more or much more, so they can choose to work just enough to get what they wanted. The tax rate goes up as the more work you do, so at some point you actually start paying taxes instead of receiving money as negative taxes. In this scheme, if you work more then you always get more money. Currently it doesn't always make sense to go to work because welfare/unemployment subsidies will disappear at some point.
> a class of people smart enough to gain admission into and pay for college, yet too simpleminded to assess the hazy job prospects based around a degree in English, psychology, art history, and the like?

There is a metric fuck-ton of people who get into college and have no idea what they got into college for. That's what happens when you tell entire generations of 18-year-olds that merely having a college degree is the important part, and that they must have a college degree.

Counting them off in my head about half the people I went to highschool with (and kept in touch with) picked majors based on what interested them most, only to start panicing 3 to 4 years later and desperately throw in teaching track classes. Two unemployed english teachers, three unemployed chemistry teachers, and a woman with a BS in mathematics who is currently teaching special education 5th graders in maryland. Besides the last, the rest are mostly all still living with their parents taking substitute teaching gigs. The Chemistry/Math people got hosed by not having any plan or intention of going further than a bachelors degree.
The beauty of open source and GitHub :). With that addition, I have no more issues with the plugin, works great.
Can you specify more details? Essentially my understanding is that you think it is possible to transmit something in plain text (encrypted but if a third party can decrypt it might as well be in plain text imo) over an untrusted network and ensure privacy.
No. The reason is that good info-graphics designs coordinate the design of the element to strengthen the message of the element's data, and the overall layout and story to strengthen the message of all the data. I do not think it is possible to programmatically accomplish this, so I would not use the API.
If you have an external display hooked up to a MacBook, using the Macbook keyboard’s brightness keys will change the laptop display. The external keyboard will change the external display (if attached). Ctrl + brightness key inverts the behavior for both external and internal.

http://finerthings.in/mac/tips-for-changing-brightness-on-ma...
>This is why I believe a Job Guarantee to be a better policy. Basically, have a program that ensures infinite demand for labor at a fixed wage.

Oh good lord no. First of all, this means the creation of countless "dig a hole, fill it back in" jobs. Second of all, it will leave us stuck in this barbaric form of living once we can automate everything because the mega-rich with their robot work force aren't going to want to contribute "their" earnings to basic income.

And finally, basic income is just that: it's income for everyone. It doesn't mean you can't work if you want to. In fact it's better because it means you can truly choose what you want to do with your life instead of being under pressure to avoid starvation or living on the street.
I would love to read a review of this article by the good old Djikstra...
> I was a little suspicious of your initial reply but the "NYC in 1989 was all rainbows and smiles" was too much.

You were "suspicious"? So what, do you think I'm lying?

Anyway, I didn't say "NYC in 1989 was all rainbows and smiles," I said people were outgoing, sociable, and friendly. That certainly doesn't mean there wasn't any crime, or that there weren't social problems, but those things are not the same as an unfriendly populace.

My impression of NYC is probably more influenced by later visits, but I certainly don't recall any particular difference in people's overall demeanor in 1989 (and that would have been surprising; such things don't change quickly).

As a visitor I no doubt avoided the nastiest areas of the city, but spent quite a bit of time walking around in Manhattan (though the farthest north I ever got was just north of Columbia). And yeah, people were friendly. In 1989. In 1991. In 1994. ...etc...

Maybe you have a different opinion, but I very much stand by what I wrote.
I have not claimed that it is wished for by a majority of the population. It is a serious thought for both the established Die Linke and the (until recently) rising Piratenpartei, and discussed at the main stage of SPD conventions. Not sure about die Grünen, but I can easily see some potential there. The peak of the idea in the public discussion was about 2-3 years ago, but obviously there is no perspective in a conservative-right-liberal coalition.

As soon as aggressions between die Linke and SPD fade away, I can easily see this as an realistic way to take.
I liked this part

"In the case of
instant messaging, we have merged the Skype and Windows Messenger message
delivery backend services, and this now gets you delivery of messages even
when the recipient is offline, and other nice features like spam filtering
and malicious URL removal."

And wish to add to that, other nice features like "censorship and loss of privacy."

I remember when I ditched MSN in favor of a what I thought was a secure communications solution, I waved goodbye to Microsoft. Here I am again, my messages routed yet again through their backend.
Phanindra Sama confirms redBus acquisition
Basecamp Breeze is closing on August 1, 2013
I have a friend that started doing this years ago for iPods and is still going for all apple's iOS devices. I used to do a lot of his web work back in my uni days. http://www.iphonerepairs.co.uk/
It would be difficult to let kids live in squalor, though. Presumably parents would receive at least some extra money, but perhaps it would decline with the number of children.
I wish there were more pictures and descriptions of how to hook up the battery to the raspberry pi. That is the biggest unknown to me.
There are probably a lot of people out there who balk at the idea of personal sacrifice for a dog. It’s easy to spot these people, however. They are cat people.

I spent $1000 last month so one of my cats could get an abcessed tooth removed on Memorial day, out of about $2500 that I took in. You're not special.
architectures != stacks
Not sure - unemployment would cause a lot more anxiety, I would imagine. Are pensioners especially depressed (if age and diseases are factored out)?