skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, semantics can be fun...

As for the implementation, I am partial to the proposals of MMT economists like Bill Mitchell. They boil down to an arrangement where certain institutions - mostly local and regional government and non-profits, but the details vary - can post jobs. Those jobs will administrated by the institution itself with minimal central oversight. However, funding comes from the central (monetarily sovereign) government at an hourly wage that is fixed by law.

So it is simply an offer that you can take or not. If there is nothing that you like, don't take anything. The theory is that there are so many useful things that could be done once money stops being the limiting factor, it's extremely unlikely this would happen.

Basic income advocates like to say that it allows you to do whatever work you want to do. Well, the Job Guarantee intends to allow essentially the same freedom as long as what you want to do provides some public benefit.

That said, there are other proposals for how to generate infinite demand for labor at a fixed price, e.g. this one: http://www.morganwarstler.com/post/44789487956/guaranteed-in...
Could not agree more. BTW I see we have similar taste and amused by your handle - drop me a line via gmail if you're in the Bay area. or just anyway :)
>Tablets, like mobiles generally sufferer from planned obsolescence.

Elderly people suffer from planned obsolescence, too.
"Pink Floyd" is a band, not a person.

Your first sentence betrays a similar lack of understanding about how royalties work.

And bridge-building.

And doors.
I would have liked to see more numbers.

How much does Pandora charge? How much do they pay in royalties? How much do artists make from radio royalties? How much did artists make in royalties from CD sales? How much have CD sales declined for Pink Floyd?
> If you want to call having people dig holes and fill them back in "work," okay, fine.

Well, it is work, but it's not what I want people to do. Why on earth would you assume that that is what I want?

Whatever happened to giving the benefit of the doubt, and perhaps showing some curiosity as to what the other person really intends?

I have explained that a bit in response to another comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5936103
A related issue from several years ago that makes for an interesting read: http://stuartcheshire.org/papers/NagleDelayedAck/
Could not be more wrong
On the role of scientific thought
Apple losing their server division, and their huge focus on iOS has led to many of their core OS technologies lagging behind. Examples are networking, filesystems (still HFS+), kernel level benchmarks, concurrency, NUMA etc, and especially so compared to what Linux, Solaris, *BSD, and NT have progressed in the last few years.

A few years ago, I remember some of their kernel engineers saying Apple's performance goals are holistic with their hardware ie prioritise things that the majority of their consumers (mainly low end laptops) would need. This seems reasonable, why invest in best of class IO when most users are on 54g wifi with a single 5400rpm HDD. The problem is now consumer hardware has caught up, gigabit wifi, PCI-e SSDs, 8+cores, retina screens, multi-level cache hierarchies.

One thing OSX does extremely well at is power management, and that's in a large part due to iOS. I wonder what Apple run at their data centers?
You'll enjoy this: http://afxaventurs.tumblr.com/
Lets all generate lots and lots of cat /dev/random over ssh ?
Beaches in California are public only by historical accident. There are plenty of public beaches with facilities for visitors like lots of beach space, parking, restrooms, and restaurants. Santa Monica, for instance is about 15 minutes from Malibu and has all that. Why is the homeowner the bad guy for wanting a little privacy without hordes of people partying all night in his back yard, blocking his parking, leaving fast food trash everywhere, and pissing in his bushes?
I see. So both are paying next to nothing in comparison to the number of plays.
I was in Andrew's AI course at CMU! Best lectures ever!
"Abiword normally does not have built in facilities for mathematical formulas"

The Xerox Alto had this in 1982[1]. NINETEEN FREAKING EIGHTY TWO. How is it possible that any WYSIWYG word processor is allowed to ship without this?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODZBL80JPqw
> Cornell is as much a NYC school as Stanford is a Pacific Grove school.

I have no idea what Stanford's relationship is to Pacific Grove (presumably not much), but Cornell already has a very strong relationship with NYC:

- Cornell's medical campus in New York, also called Weill Cornell, is on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.

- The Cornell Urban Scholars Program encourages students to pursue public service careers with organizations working with New York City's poorest children, families, and communities.

- The NYS College of Human Ecology and the NYS College of Agriculture and Life Sciences provide means for students to reach out to local communities by gardening and building with the Cornell Cooperative Extension.

- The Cornell College of Engineering's Operations Research Manhattan, in the city's financial district, brings together business optimization research and decision support services addressed to both financial applications and public health logistics planning.

- The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning has a facility on West 17th Street, near Union Square, to provide studio and seminar space for students and faculty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University#New_York_Cit...
The Sad State Of HAR File Compatibility in 2013
17MB/s is still 17 times more then I get normally. I call that an upgrade.
My wife's decision to deactivate her Facebook account.
As a whitewater kayaker in Texas, I can concur with this saving us. But the police don't often know the federal law and will still harass or arrest you.
There's an island named after the 3rd UN Secretary General? I did not know that. Cool!
No, I don't think it does in this case actually.
Limiting the energy source to a single star is weak. If you use a whole galaxy (or several) you can easily bring that up to 256 bits. For example, the Milky Way has on the order of 10^11 stars; most of those aren't supernova-sized, but if we use a few million galaxies we can get that many. That gives you an extra 37 bits, bringing the counter to 256.

So, if you have terrifically huge enemies, who will burn galaxies to get at your secrets, you might want to use a few more bits.

You might worry about quantum computers, too, since afaik Grover's algorithm halves effective key size.
I was once an ambitious 20 year old (1990). I found that I had an overpowering urge to do something, and the only part that held me back was that the old people didn't wan't me to. So I wore them out until I could. I certainly didn't ask for advice - all the unsolicited advice I was given told me I was on the wrong path.

So I got a franchise at 20, then ran it as best I could, made a some money and won some awards. If I was 20 today I would probably make some sort of SaaS product. I certainly wouldn't be asking “I’m an ambitious 19 year old, what should I do?”

Of course, some people don't have an overpowering urge to do anything. So maybe these are the people who ask that question. I once employed a mechanical engineer like that - at 30 he had no ambitions, no dreams. He didn't last long at my company because he also lacked skill and was slow.

I am 43 now, and the urge is subdued but still there. I think if you have a drive in you to make something, then you should go make it. Don't ask for permission and certainly don't wait for permission. Just go do it. When you fail, if you fail, pick yourself up and try again. You only really fail when you stop trying.

My advice for ambitious 19 year olds? Just go do what drives you. If nothing drives you, find someone who is driven and help them.
How would you suggest pricing things whose value cannot be reasonably known at the time they are created?

Royalties make sense for music, books, movies, and such because at the time they are produced we have no idea how much value they will provide. A song that is mildly popular and then disappears provides less value to the public than a song that becomes an enduring classic that is listened to for generations.
First full JOBS biopic trailer starring Ashton Kutcher releases
The way I read the article, it seemed like Amnesty are just saying that he should have protection as a whistle-blower on the grounds that the leaks demonstrate human rights violations.
My smart phone has a "Beats" option to enable when headphones are plugged in, (and oddly enough bluetooth) as far as I can tell it's simply acting as a pre-amp and upping the voltage.
Please, don't act like this is anything more than feigned humility poorly disguised as a tidbit of wisdom. Even calling it that is generous since he doesn't offer any real insight or solution.

The fact that you fail to understand why so many people agreed with that comment is equally mortifying. Is your blind sympathy for "rich guy problems" overpowering your ability to read between the lines?
The Pirate Party was largely a media phenomenon. The media has a short attention span. That, and there was a long period where the party leaders were acting in a rather unclever way.

(I personally think that people should be allowed to act in that way - but the reality is that it made them very easy targets for journalists who wanted to paint a negative impression of the party.)
Gallup: 70 Percent of U.S. Workers Are Disengaged
Use the self-hosted version then: http://jsbin.com/evafaz/4/edit
Some basics on CPU P states on Intel processors
Sure, but I think the commenter has a point. Let's assume everything works the way it's supposed to. Ideally, when something like this happens it makes perfect sense for the US government to take notice of the fact that a law has been broken, bring charges, and take this to court. If the system continues to work the charges will be contested on the grounds that the action was in the interest of the public and that the leaks document a violation of the constitution. The govt drops the charges, and heads off to repair the completely fucked effects of the patriot act, etc.

So I agree it's naive and even unreasonable to expect the US not to file charges. I also agree that there's plenty of evidence that our justice system fails to operate even close to the way it ought to with respect to cases of this nature so I'd sure as shit get out of town if I was in this situation too.

[edit: Very much agree with replies to this comment suggesting none of this is likely to, or can possibly happen today.. I'm just saying the nature of the machine is to act as if it's not broken, which with respect to our approach to intelligence-related disputes, it obviously is.]
... " they most likely are not wearing band t-shirts past 30."

hey there now, sonny. I'm 51, and some of them still fit just fine, thanks. I even go to several concerts each year.
This is a convenient justification that paints the British as 'bringers of light' rather than the oppressors they were.

http://www.hinduwisdom.info/European_Imperialism13.htm
FACEBOOK FATIGUE.
You might as well name names: what manufacturers are you talking about?
You got a point. About the features to come, I have to disagree with you tough. We didn't disclose on the page what features we're going to include, so I don't blame you. On the top of our list, there's pubsubhubbub (so your news get to you faster), a mobile webapp, offline reading and some interface tweaks that a lot of people told us they want. I don't consider this "neat gizmos", they are only supporting the one simple thing you want, which is reading. We'll not be adding tons of social features, fancy viewing modes or anything like that.
The title should be: OS X is holding back the 2013 MacBook Air’s 802.11ac Wi-Fi speeds.

Instead of: OS X is holding back the 2013 MacBook Air.

They have very different meanings.
Canada Cracks Down On Coding Schools
At some point, to gain any form of remote access you have to put your trust in one piece of software. Being it VPN, ssh, or something.

For many people ssh is considered secure enough. And any secure issues get immediate attention so you can be updated pretty quickly.

Now any software could have unpublished zero days, which is why I also do some other host based security.
I have to respectfully question some of your assumptions:

Pandora has exactly one listener per track played?

1% of people listen to a popular radio station 24 hours a day?
Short on facts. What's this "85% pay cut" line they keep repeating? Unsupported and smacks of sensationalism.

This thread has a much better discussion of the actual numbers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5935183

In short, Pandora is small right now and that's why the payout seems small. But by paying per-listener as opposed to per-broadcast, it has the potential to scale to higher payouts than traditional radio.
A few years back it was common practice NOT to expose ZeroMQ to the wide open internet as it was built for that. I think they says it OK now, but its left a bitter sense for some of us.
What's OCaml a solution for?

Rather, what sorts of problem domains does it excel at?

(More cynically: why shouldn't I just use Ruby/C/Javscript/Erlang?)
"Welcome Pandora, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream.
So welcome to the machine."
I am assuming your comment is meant to be sarcastic.

Be careful about assigning cause and consequence properly. Mass unemployment is an involuntary, macroeconomic problem. [1]

I am not an expert in the British economy, so I don't know whether your numbers make sense. But just taking them at face value, it is quite likely that those millions of people are unproductive precisely because they have never had a job. So it's not their fault.

Incidentally, I partly agree with you in that I think that basic income advocates are too starry-eyed about what people would do on basic income.

This is part of why I prefer a Job Guarantee, as I have explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5931534

[1] http://alittleecon.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/the-parable-of-1...
Someone downvoted me... Just to clarify I called it a "raw js file" meaning that you can just right-click the link and save it as prism.js
Why would you drive all the way up to Malibu when LA has an uninterrupted stretch of beach that is 50 miles long?
I find the inline-commented version a bit easier to read and to reason about, personally.
yet they test 10ft los in a barren band, making it clear that they're trying to conduct an unrealistic lab style rf/phy interface test.
I agree this downgrade is likely coincidental with Snowden's HK departure

However, consider that Assange is neutralized as long as he's trapped in the Ecuadoran embassy, whereas Snowden is "at large". Slight difference there.
I always think of Tom Hank's line in "Catch me if you can": "I can't stop, it's my job."
OCaml seems like one of those languages that's so well-designed that it's boring.
CodeEval Adds 4 New Languages: Haskell, Go, Bash, & Lua
> But ambitious programmers are better off doing their own thing and failing than going to work at a big company.

I wish I could have told this to my wife when we were 22!

"I'm sorry, babe! You need to pay the bills and support me while I work to get my startup off-the-ground! You'll see! We'll be raking in the money in no-time. Our 130K of student loan debt will be paid off before you can say `boo'."

</sarcasm>
> Nobody alive today in the US killed any native americans or owned any slaves.

Honest question without a clear answer: If your grandparents had robbed a bank, killing innocents in the process, and left millions for you in a secret untraceable trust fund, would you accept the money?

That's the real moral issue underlying social justice. While I wasn't responsible for slavery or genocide, I still profited from it. I don't claim there's a clear solution, or any intrinsic culpability, but it is reality. While I wouldn't blame anyone for taking the bank-robbery money, I would certainly advocate for giving some/all to charity or to the descendants of the victims.

You are quite correct on [2], by the way, which deserves to more widely known. However, that still doesn't justify all the broken treaties and other abhorrent behavior.

> blame America first crowd.

Let's be fair: this is more accurately described as the "Blame the powerful first" crowd. It simply happens that America is really, really fucking powerful.
If your app is designed to do one thing, please take the time to find a typeface that is incredibly legible, and then set it so that scanning long paragraphs is a simple matter.

That condensed typeface you've chosen, and the fit-to-width paragraph size make it harder than necessary for users.
I went there on Saturday, it's nice indeed ;)
The artist is complaining that Pandora pays a low royalty rate, and to make this claim they compare to FM/AM radio and Sirius XM royalties. However one "play" on radio or Sirius is equivalent to at least several thousand "plays" on Pandora, as there are many people listening to the radio station (and hence the song) at the same time, while with Pandora it is generally only one or two people listening at a time. So what you really want to compare are the "per listener" royalty rates, which appear to be pretty similar. Say 5000 station listeners * 18797 radio plays = 94M "pandora equivalent plays". If you compare these adjusted play counts to the royalty amounts, radio only pays 30% higher, not 100 times higher.

One could make the argument that a Pandora listener should be worth more, as they are choosing to listen to the personalized Pandora station rather than more forcibly listening to whatever the radio DJ puts on. However, the whole debate is obviously not as clear as the OP wishes it to be.
Crowdfunding: Due date
Good point. Where does one draw the line between encryption,encoding and compression for example?

What if a communication itself is not encrypted but contains encrypted elements, like maybe a session ID?
I think this was inevitable the minute we had the combination of sufficient bandwidth and decent quality audio compression. From there on it was a perfect storm of the music industry not understanding what was about to happen, the manufacturers of players not getting it right and everyone being greedy and trying to make off with the whole cake.

Fast forward one generation of kids who are now grown-ups and you have an entire generation of music listeners who will not pay ... whatever CDs used to cost where you live.

The toothpaste is not going back in the tube. The time when David Gilmour could make living sitting on his fat arse is over. He will just have to accept that, and the sooner he realizes that the good old days are not coming back, the sooner he can do something productive. Like cultivate new ways to raise revenue.
What factor(s) are used in determining what's related? Is age of last update factored in if a repo is abandoned?
I have always wondered about this. What kind of security do you really get if, for example, your SSL key is distributed to a couple thousand CloudFlare servers all over the world?
Facebook authentication in your AngularJS web app
> Your unloyal customers will steal your product if you don't sell it cheaply enough for their liking

Like all those thieving bastards listening to AM/FM broadcast radio, which pays no royalties to performers?

Home radio is killing music!
Hello! I built ostel.co. Nice to meet you.

Regarding signalling encryption. The system uses SIP TLS with a certificate signed by a common CA. Check it out and walk up the chain manually if you're concerned. Certificate pinning is interesting but in this case the signalling isn't really what we care about, from a priority perspective. We care about the /content/ of the call, which in SIP land is a completely different protocol with a nice peer to peer key agreement system which is currently unbreakable according to public information. There's some classified NSA doc that allegedly says it could be done, read all about it...oh wait, you can't because it's classified. :(

So the reason there isn't a bunch of copywriting which discusses the importance of the key agreement in the signalling layer is because I don't think it's very important. Now, one could middle the signalling in a clever way and that could, possibly result in a dropped call, which could be classified as a DoS vuln. But that's unlikely and there wouldn't be any content leaked. I would be interested in a proof of this attack vector.

Finally, my favorite part about middled signalling is that even if you do it right and a whole forged SIP dialog is built up and Mallory answers on the other end when Bob thinks he's talking to Alice, you still get to hear Mallory's voice! So unless Mallory is pro at doing voice impressions, like that dude on SNL can do Jay-Z and Dr. Dre real good, it's gonna be obvs that something is not right.

Really Finally, I'm using Freeswitch to provide diagnostic services like an echo test. There's some crazy ideas about offering an IVR that does encrypted voicemail but I don't know much about that.
> Three undergrads

Correction : A Professor(Manindra Agrawal) who had been working on the problem for quite some time and 2 undergrads.
> Why do you do this? You know that most of the money for an album doesn't go to the artist? Do you buy the physical CD or do you buy the song on iTunes?

You know that if you spend $0, the artist gets nothing, right? Then their label drops them because they aren't profitable.
They both provide PFS, but ECDHE_RSA is _much_ faster.

Do you have TLS 1.1/1.2 enabled in Opera?
> It currently appears that further automation concentrates income to a smaller and smaller group of folk, how do you propose we mitigate that?

You know, every time I read such discussions I think that the communists probably have it right. The answer is to make the means of production (i.e., the robots) owned by the community rather than by individuals.

This could even be achieved without changing any laws: http://www.demos.org/blog/how-about-us-sovereign-wealth-fund
Server glitch invalidates iLok licenses, leaves users stranded
Two things to always remember about this debate.

1) Pandora's biggest cost by ridiculously far is royalty payments.

2) Pandora is not now and has never been profitable.

Lots of stuff is broken to make this so, but it's not a case of big bad "piratey" Pandora ripping off poor defenseless artists and laughing all the way to the bank.
Asbestos: High-level DSL for Firewalls
Ask HN: Did you know that TOR is 60% sponsored by US Gov?
Via: https://www.torproject.org/about/findoc/2012-TorProject-Annual-Report.pdf

I've read about it here: http://fowlchicago.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/tor-project-2012-financial-report-60-of-our-funding-comes-from-the-u-s-government/
What do you think?
> This is definitely an issue, but I wouldn't say that Apple refuses to touch it.

I should have qualified it as: Apple refuses to touch it if you've owned the iPhone for more than 12 months. (The apple discussions link made that more clear, but I should have quoted it here.)