skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably my UK bias showing - we have separate income and capital-gains taxes so I am used to thinking of them as different things although, as you point out, they are both "income".
It’s not so much evolution he is predicting, but the biological and geological future of the Earth based on several known long-term effects.

The rate of cooling of the Earth’s interior, the gravitational interactions with other objects, and a steady increase in the Sun's luminosity is well documented.

The sun is just another star, and the basic of star phases is good understood. The sun will eventually burn up most of its fuel and enter a red giant phase that destroys the Earth if we don't intervene [0].

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_phases
“We need to land because we cannot get a correct indication of the fuel indication – we need to land”

My explanation is that they were heading back to Moscow, but then were not sure if they had enough fuel because of a problem with the fuel indicator, so they asked for permission to land in Vienna.
The i is scoped differently in clojure than in golang so it doesn't have the same potential pitfall. I think golang people consider their scoping here a mistake (and have tooling to check it?).
The politicians that want to offer asylum are also against this.

The politicians that like this thing, are the same ones that stopped Evo Morales plane thinking Snowden would be on it.
Indeed, it appears we have the same definition of "life of leisure", but to be blunt, as someone who has worked in organizations that serve the poor, you are completely out to lunch.

No one is enjoying life in this country at $10K/year. The life of someone at that level is a constant barrage of worries, of harassment, of choosing between having one basic necessity of life over another.

No one chooses to be there, and certainly no one would stay if they had the opportunity to exceed it.

> "but available data on people below the official US poverty line certainly agrees with this general picture."

You're going to have to cite specifics from that document, because all I see are labor force participation rates and income levels - there is nothing in there about people choosing not to work in favor of "enjoying leisure time".

> "This describes most of the poor in the US."

Really? You think the day laborer standing outside Lowe's hoping for a job has chosen to be below the poverty line, and instead has chosen a life of leisure?

I'm going to state this in the most civil way I know how: you are sorely lacking in perspective - and this is after reading all of your posts in this thread so far - and for your own sake, and the sake of people you share this society with, go volunteer at a poverty or homelessness-related organization for a month. You have beliefs that are in no way grounded in reality, and the numbers you continue to cite to make your argument are between nonsensical and specious. Please find some way to experience the issues from within.
There is this great quote attributed to Mark Twain:

"If you have nothing to say, say nothing."

The current state of the internet is quite far from this: we are all encouraged to say something, anything. Here on HN it is quite far from this, but most on the traffic on the social networks I believe can be related to "dumb shit".
Brain freeze. Fixed the title.
Yea, that was why the Apple logo was added to the ADB keyboards. The Apple IIgs had to be compatible with the IIe.
I suspect that the only countries that are NOT secretly doing something like this fall into two groups:

• Those who make no secret of it.

• Those who don't have the technology to do it.
It is totally fine! Compare this to Android: http://bluebox.com/corporate-blog/bluebox-uncovers-android-m...

Security, privacy, copyright — these are three problems the humankind is as dumb as a monkey with.
As far as I know the only thing that works this way in the UK - there is as scheme where you can get a bicycle tax free and paid by deductions from your salary:

http://www.cyclescheme.co.uk/
Why not just use Airplay? It's free and video that plays on your laptop can be mirrored onto your TV.
post-napoleon french number system is quite... peculiar.

Some places kept pre-revolution French (like Switzerland) and there they use "normal" numbers (ie: 79 is seventy nine, instead of sixty ten nine, and 84 is eighty four instead of four twenty and four)
Does anyone know if there are any issues with the javascript OTR library they use (https://github.com/arlolra/otr)? Or are all the issues only with their custom multi party chat encryption system?
If by then we have the technology to refuel the sun, we'll probably also have the means for interstellar travel. I'm betting we leave this joint for somewhere more hospitable.
On the contrary, guaranteed low wage jobs sounds like it has all kinds of perverse incentives - for politicians and corporations.

Not to mention, why should people have to do worthless government-assigned work to get that money? Yes, of course, there will naturally be some people that would take the 10k and live on it - as best as can be managed - but I think it would free up a great many other people to pursue work they're actually interested in, especially in the arts.

In past times, the majority of human work was growing food. Today, less than 2% of the population can feed everyone else. As a result a great many people had to find other work; and they did. But now it seems that software and automation will reduce the number of people needed to do all other kinds of required work to a minimum, as happened to agriculture.

Coincidentally, artistic work by and large pays less than ever today due to the ease of piracy (you can trace the profits of RIAA over the last 3 decades for a good example of this) even as more people than ever are able to do artistic work (better tools) and reach an audience at no cost (better communications). Art and entertainment will be the last bastions of human "work" when current trends start to max out.

So - why not have a society where people are free to pursue the work they're interested in, whether it pays or not; where art and entertainment are possible to freely create or consume, unconstrained by the bounds of the market; and where the necessary work for human survival is compressed to a minimum of needed people that are interested in those matters and/or the money that comes with them?
They can always threaten another volcanic eruption if the US starts to get too pushy.
It seems that your argument then is that no one should ever be able to resell or give away anything that they buy ever. So when you buy something, anything at all, you would have to own it yourself until you throw it away. Obviously that would have a huge negative impact on the environment with items like cars, computers, clothes, etc. Also, the lack of a second-hand market would have a negative impact on low-income people who need to buy used goods for the lower prices. So it seems to me that your argument against the existence of any second-hand market would have disastrous effects and cannot exist in the real world.

You have avoided the issue of whether or not second-hand markets positively impact the primary market. For example, if people weren't able to sell their used cars, would they be more or less likely to buy new cars. I think that the answer is pretty obvious. If people couldn't resell their used cars ever, they would buy new cars less often. Mainly because people often partially pay for new cars by trading in or selling their old cars.

I agree with namlem's comment "Why does incurring the costs associated with resale on the industry in any way morally gray? It's the manufacture's right to price items accordingly. They can just raise it to compensate." The manufacture should simply price the existence of a resale market into their product. That's what ever merchant other than Steam already does.

Steam is breaking the law in the EU and their illegal business model (not allowing resales) is what allows them to undercut the prices of their competitors. Don't you find that to be a moral grey zone?

The problem with making the argument, as I suspect you are, that because games are intellectual property that they shouldn't be able to be resold when you are done with them, is that almost everything is intellectual property. Think of how many parts of your car are patented. Those patents are intellectual property. If you let Steam say that you don't own the games that you buy then you opening the floodgates to a world where you don't own anything that you buy - you are just "licensing" it. As I've stated above a world like that isn't practical and I don't believe it is morally correct either. It restricts the rights of consumers for no reason other than to further enrich the producers of goods, who many doing just fine as is. Valve is worth 2.5 Billion dollars. Aren't they doing well enough without having to step all over consumer's rights?
Or politicians are so corrupt they don't want to be found out...

Like, Brazil (for example, when our intelligence agency DID spy on suspected corrupt politicians, everyone involved with the investigation was fired, and all related investigations got closed, much to unhappiness of the population)
There is no reason why it wouldnt play straight from a USB hard drive - but it only has 2 usb ports so keep that in mind, I used both of them - wireless keyboard/mouse and wifi.

You do need to know some Linux commands, I doubt/havent tried to see if XBMC can auto-mount things inserted. But that would be cool if it worked like that. Perhaps the raspbmc distribution has the automount setup done for you.

Audio quality, only had TV speakers to "try" it out with, sounded just like any other content, so I cant tell you if it suits for a high-end audio system, but the audio-over-hdmi worked with no fiddling from my side.
Totally agree. Kind of creepy to think about...
Fascinating. Do you have any links to articles describing these events in Brazil?
Clojure, being a Lisp, is as terse as you want it to be. Some of the examples on this page could be made even shorter with macros.
AngularJS Fundamentals in 60 Minutes: Directives, Filters and DataBinding
There is absolutely no evidence that any of the things you listed - with the exception of the first one, maybe - is made possible by the government spying on you.

What you are living in is not safety. It is the illusion of safety. And thanks to years of government propaganda, you have come to associate the pleasant feelings that come with this illusion with government spying programs.
The role of TrueTime in Spanner, Google's globally distributed database
Yah, for demo purposes of wanting to show something taking awhile thread/sleep is very convenient. I have no idea, time.sleep in golang might actually block a real thread too. I'm just curious if blocking in a go block could starve your thread pool or if there is some magic being done by the macro to even correct for that?
Abstract:

Generic programming holds great promise – ultimate reuse, unprecedented flexibility, and never a need to reimplement an algorithm from scratch due to abstraction penalties.

Unfortunately, the shiny city on the hill is difficult to reach. C++’s generic power has effectively reached a plateau – anything but the simplest generic constructs quickly turn an exponential complexity/benefit elbow. C++11 fails to be a strong sequel in the generic programming arena, and many other languages don’t seem to “get” genericity properly at all. The D programming language is a definite exception from this trend.

D makes short work of the most formidable generic programming tasks achievable with C++, and makes virtually impossible tasks readily doable. It also reduces the relevance of “Modern C++ Design” to that of an introductory brochure (much to the dismay of that book’s author).

This talk has a simple structure. It will pose a few generic programming tasks that seem difficult or impossible with current language technology, and then will show solutions in D that solve said problems.
LeMonde: Revelations on the French Big Brother
Thread/sleep will block the entire thread. The thread pool could create more threads, but core.async uses a fixed thread-pool, so, yeah, don't use Thread/sleep in a go block. A timeout channel would be the way to go, or, you can use an alternate core.async implementation, which is a (small) part of the Pulsar project: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/1xxxTti6Vi0 (I'm the main author)

We will have full API and semantic compatibility when version 0.2 is released next week. Pulsar also has cluster distribution and an Erlang-like actor framework.

Because Pulsar uses instrumentation at the bytecode level, you have more freedom within Go blocks. You wouldn't use Thread/sleep in the Pulsar implementation, either, but Strand/sleep will do the job. It detects whether you're in a go block (implemented as a fiber in Pulsar), in which case it suspends the fiber but doesn't block the thread, or within a normal thread, in which case it will simply call Thread/sleep.
They thought Snowden was on the Morales' plane because of the intel they received from the bugs they planted in the Ecuadorian embassy in London that were found weeks ago. The Ecuadorians announced they discovered the bugs within 24 hours of the forced landing of Morales' plane.
I guess it's just a memetic artefact of the blind worship many people have for the military. Personally I find the phrase trite and somewhat distasteful.
African tech startups
that technology and progress are going to keep going forward in a more or less linear pattern for thousands of years, after only a few hundred years precedent is a _huge_ assumption. The number of ways progress can slow, be stopped, or reversed, are many - asteroids, viruses, calderas, wars, catastrophic scientific accidents, severe climate change, and of course the influence of governments, both repressive or ineffective, or lack thereof. I sincerely hope progress continues forward but at the same time when I think of "1000 years from now" I can't help but think the planet might be a dystopian wasteland by then.
Non-blog-spam story by the french newspaper that outed it:
http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2013/07/04/revelations...
> All the other stars are running down at the same time. Although admittedly not at the same rate.

I don't think it works like that. There is no known principle that allows energy to be created or destroyed. So theoretically, the total amount of energy in the universe must remain constant.

So when one star disappears the energy gets transferred as radiation, mass and heat that eventually will be used to create new starts in a process known as "stellar evolution"[0].

However this process may stop in the far further, as the ultimate fate of the universe is currently unknown, but some theories has been made: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe#T...

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution
Hi, I have been a Solaris/SGI admin (2 years) and software engineer (10 years) in my life. The reason why sysadmins can't write software is this: Every day sysadmin stuff like pulling cable, installing OS's, fixing printers does not require someone whose super intelligent. But real IT work-- setting up domain controllers, running a global corporate network, running a cloud service, etc takes a fair amount of brains yet a lot of companies compensate their IT departments as if they're well paid cable monkeys.

The skill sets for a good programmer and a good sysadmin overlap somewhat. But you can make MUCH MORE MONEY writing software. In the early 2000's when I was a sysadmin jobs in my area were paying 40k-60k a year. Programming jobs were paying 60k-100k. So basically, poorly payed IT positions select out anyone who could actually do a good job at them because those very people can make more money writing software
And the Germans. The Germans haven't been party to most of the post-WWII spying, if I understand geopolitics correctly.
Pretty sure he was talking about jobs/companies/industries and not people there.
Yeah, Thread/sleep isn't quite what you want here:

(time (let [c (chan), n 1000] (dotimes [i n] (go (Thread/sleep 50) (>! c i))) (dotimes [i n] (<!! c))))

"Elapsed time: 8412.25733 msecs"

(defmacro gosleep [millis] `(<! (timeout ~millis)))

(time (let [c (chan), n 1000] (dotimes [i n] (go (gosleep 50) (>! c i))) (dotimes [i n] (<!! c))))

"Elapsed time: 91.278469 msecs"

ETA: for comparison, here's what happens if you actually make 1000 system threads:

(time (let [c (chan) n 1000] (dotimes [i n] (thread (Thread/sleep 50) (>!! c i))) (dotimes [i n] (<!! c))))

"Elapsed time: 4183.669835 msecs"
We have a street name after Iceland in our capital. The reason: Iceland was the first western country to recognize the restoration of the independance of Lithuania. It took some balls 22 years ago, maybe they still have them :)
He said he tried to get it corrected. There was a time when I was in $BIG_CORP where I kept getting added to the distribution-list of some upper-management email. I kept telling them I wasn't suppose to be on it, but the emails kept coming in. Eventually, I started replying to the emails telling them to make corrections in the Excel-spreadsheet attachments and started rescheduling meetings. They quickly removed me from the email-list.
From a recent interview with Brewster Kahle[1]:

Q: Do you encrypt all your own email, as a result
of this stuff?

A: No, that's really hard.

Brewster is the founder of the Internet Archive; the subject
of the interview was an NSL that he fought off in court. He's also a pretty smart techie in his own right. But I suppose you could still argue that he's lazy, stupid, or not in need of strong crypto.

Or maybe, just maybe, the available tools for the purpose
take a lot more than ten minutes to install and configure well enough for even an intelligent and technically skilled user to have any confidence that they've done it correctly.

People can't install good crypto tools in ten minutes. Not even people like Brewster. And if you're making one of those tools, and you want it to be anything more than a research toy, that's your problem, not theirs.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/06/what-...
(If you want to see the part I quoted, scroll right to the end.)
I understand your need to argue against a certain opinion, but I find it ironic that in a post where you use the term 'a rich white guy's game' you state that most people in Syria don't have access to a computer yet alone the knowledge how to use one. Yet a quick search shows Syria as 55th in the world with regards to Internet users - 5.4 million Internet users, or just over 24% of the population. Couple this with the fact that the government took Syria off of the global Internet, I think that maybe there is a solid use case for Syrians using strong crypto.
Where the US could take him by force without violating another nation's sovereignty? I don't think that would be a very good plan.
yea but like, maybe he could just change his name to Tony Falcons? a mafia gangster would be proud to have that name
Keep it simple.

I want a big, shiny button that links me to the content I want.

When I click on one of the software, I don't read the blue box. I scroll down and then click on an alternative. Then "what the?! I'm on the same kind of page again!" I scroll down, click on alternative... and repeat this again and again. Oh! Now this page has a big green "download" button! Awesome! click it Oh. It's an ad.

This was my reaction when I first visited the website just now.

Make the main link bigger. If it has a download link, make it big. If it doesn't? Make the website link bigger. I shouldn't have to think. I'm confused.

(Of course, I'm dumbing myself down on purpose when testing websites)
I think one probably wants to be careful about phrases like "supposed to fluctuate", because it's a stretch to say that the framers wrote the 4th Amendment expecting technology and social mores to continually redefine the meaning of the 4th Amendment over time. It's often more profitable to examine what precise concern animated the language and then project that concern across time.

Another way to look at the "reasonableness" requirement is that it's a deliberate constitutional punt to the judiciary; the word "reasonable" begs for judicial interpretation.

But no, I don't think the author of this post invented that interpretation of the 4th Amendment, and I think that interpretation leads to a sensible place in these circumstances.
60,000 active Facebook users just started getting privacy notices regarding the NSA

http://donohoe.tumblr.com/post/54550880706/facebook-is-warni...
It's a difference of the language. In the Go version, i is a mutable variable that can be read and written to. In Clojure, it's an immutable bound value. The i of one iteration is not in any way directly linked to the i of another iteration.
Yep, you must keep a log, and submit x number of job applications per month.

I know of houses full of 20 somethings who intentionally fill out applications left handed with spelling mistakes so they never get a job and can surf all day.

The amount of money is enough to live on, but you won't be really doing any leisure activities, so it gets old pretty fast for anyone that's motivated. For the unmotivated, it keeps them fed, clothed and sheltered, and stops them resorting to crime, so I think it's a good thing.
Inventors who didn't get rich from their inventions
Depends on what you compare it to. Go doesn't have macros and idiomatically prefers C-style for loops to higher-level abstractions (except for the built-in "range" construct) for iteration. So in general Lisps like Clojure offer more opportunities for terse code. (Which style is easier to understand is of course a never-ending debate.)
DNS is HIGHLY distributed (more so than SMTP)
Deconstructing Pebble's push into mainstream markets with Best Buy
> Their general argument can be summed up as, "They made poor choices, and are now facing the consequences of those choices." The problem with this perspective isn't the profound lack of empathy, but rather a presumption that there exists a system of perfect information that everyone is tapped into.

I think the real problem is just that it's trivial to see that it's empirically false. If you look at the statistics, the U.S. is roughly twice as ghettoized as it was only ten years ago, so it's not even plausible that societal patterns of wealth and poverty could be determined by the choices of individuals. E.g.:

"High-poverty schools, in which more than 75 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch (FRPL) [...] comprised 21 percent of all public schools in 2010–11, compared with 12 percent in 1999–2000."

"In 2010–11, some 24 percent of public school students attended a low-poverty school, compared with 45 percent in 1999–2000."

In other words, the percentage of students attending high-poverty schools has roughly doubled, and the percentage of students attending low-poverty schools has also roughly doubled.

Source: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2013/2013037.pdf, p. 78
this is not excuse. i write like an idiot that never graduated grade school regardless of whether i'm pecking on a phone or on a keyboard. much to learn you still have
What kind of jobs do you have in mind?

I have taken to saying "Everybody should have the right to a job as 'Verwaltungsfachangestellter'" (something like an office clerk). But I tend to say that in jest...
point in fact, we have a version of pfSense coming for EC2