skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The building a library/organizing - minidlna has handled that well, it scanned through my music and exposes Albums/Artist/Genre listings, not only the folder browser, and searching also works good. For now.

I am now looking to improve the quality of my music library so I am using beets to organize it right now, it corrects tags, fingerprint, deduplicate, fetch covers and so on. Its a tedious process because I do help it manually. Once its done, Ill use beetFs to expose the beets database of the collection on a new mountpoint, and thats where Ill point minidlna. That way beets wont need to change the tags on disk (screwing up the torrents hashes), or copy/move files around. But minidlna will get served the corrected tags through beetFs.

Its quite nice to just easily access huge music library on smartphone, good search and nice browsing, then download whatever artists or albums I like to the phone, or listen to, or select my brothers TV to play them on when Im at his house. Basically all of this functionality is in UPnP-av/DLNA with implementation by minidlna and UPnPlay.

Ive yet to setup a nice gallery/picture thing.

Ill get back to you once Ive made the blogpost (any suggestion where I can just write this and leave it there, github?), I made it sound easy, but I see thats because Ive spent the last few days playing with these stuff, have been trying out mediatomb, ushare and coherence too as servers, but as you say I wasnt pleased with their indexing.
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Ironically, Murray wrote a book in 06 called "In Our Hands" where he advocates replacing the welfare state with a universal income of $10k/year per person for every citizen 21 and over. He opens the book by saying his preference would be to have no welfare of any kind, but that as most people would never accept that, a universal income program would be the next best thing. In an America of increasing stratification and decreasing wealth and power on the lower and middle sides of the scale, I find myself liking the idea more and more. I don't think we really need so much of the population in the workforce as we move towards better automation/software processes.
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Is it supposed to be a general purpose search engine or just something that searches a subset of popular sites?

I tried to search for "hacker news" and got a lot of news articles in the results..

Not saying that's bad, just curious.. Maybe you can talk about how you are generating your results?
Joachim, I apologize for being snippy in my comment. It was late at night and I should have just gone to bed. Lets agree to disagree on the level of drift in the discussion and agree that I could have been much more civil in my reply.
We still have no gasoline though and the cars/boats/planes are not electric. We have a lot of free energy in regards to heating, hot water and electricity only. Nor can we easily export that energy without large advances in the field of superconductors being so far from mainland Europe.
The point of sysadmin scripting is to automate stupid and repetitive jobs. They are payed for that kind of programming.
Also, it can be viewed as kind of hacking -> word that is not popular in most of enterprise environments. You know it works, leave it alone :-)
You mean I can't build any more huts...

I almost cried...
Sounds like the description of a second or third world country.
I am moving all my feeds from RSS to Twitter. Is there a Twitter feed with links to all the new stories that are posted to the RSS feed? I don't see a Twitter link on the web page.

Thx
There has been quite a lot of transparency recently, and many congressional representatives have come out roaring against the NSA's suspicionless data snooping programs. Whether they're playing political football (jumping on the bandwagon) varies from one representative to the next, but they're out there.
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How does this compare with http://www.themoviedb.org/?
Yup. My country, Canada actually experimented with this idea.

Sources:

[1] http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100

[2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2010/03/25/mb-p...
In the US, if it were sure to pass, there would be many amendments for unrelated things and then it would be 600 pages long and we'd deal with the repercussions of unseen gotchas for the next 50 years.
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I agree. But, there is some value in "Advocacy" for people in this position. Although, that card is probably played out by now and its cliche/annoying unless someone actually proposes or better yet is actively involved in a solution.

There is a 2000 year old book that basically says "There will always be the poor" --not sure exactly what that means, but it kinda makes sense. For me, I've tried both large scale and small scale ways of helping "the poor" and I've developed the model of:

1. help people when you can & however you are able...It probably won't help them long-term though but maybe thats ok.

2. A few of those folks really are motivated to change their life for the better, so when you help them, it may pay off for the greater good.

Either way, studies show that helping others and "giving to a good cause" typically pays off higher "happiness dividends" than selfishly spending money on yourself (unless its for a new smartphone or laptop of course :))
Can't add much to the above, just wanted to lend my support to what you've said:

I had to learn and maintain the network, equipment, software, and the code to all work together in one solution. They may call this full-stack developers now, but in my circle of friends I grew up around in technology, it was the only developers that could learn and work with the full stack that got the most done.

SysAdmins from the past years might not be able to code, but I can tell you this much: 7+ years ago, there was very little luxury of being a coder or sysadmin only if you were close to solving problems.
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We're reinventing things over and over again because we haven't yet learned to design platforms that can evolve. Because the platforms can't evolve, every time we have a new platform we have to reinvent the applications of the old platforms.

The closest thing we ever got to "platforms that can evolve" were first Unix-like systems, that were too low level, limited and specific-machine-bound to be able to support the engelbartian applications that preceded them (probably this is why these applications and their concepts have been mostly forgotten, there was a "platform gap" over which they could not be ported so they had to wait for one more platform generation, but then people forgot all about them), then the Java platform (that should've been either the Lisp or the Smalltalk platform if market forces hadn't screwed up everything) and now the Web platform (you see, every platform moves up the abstraction ladder and away from the hardware - the annoying side effect is that you have to wait for the performance to catch up at every up step, like waiting 20 years to do in software in the 90s what you could do in hardware in the 70s, then waiting to do it on mobile devices etc.) - it's the closest that we ever got to having a "platform that can evolve", so we can gradually update the applications to evolve along with the platform, instead of porting them from one platform to another and loosing important pieces of them in the process...
> When we took the decision to switch to Chromium, compatibility was one reason — but most importantly, we wanted to spend our time on browser innovation, rather than competing on building a rendering engine.

This seems to be saying that "browser innovation" can only be done in the UI? That seems misguided.

Innovating only in the UI has been tried many times: Flock, RockMelt, Dolphin, etc. It's never worked in a significant way. Not to say it never will, I suppose anything is possible, but it seems highly unlikely - what is different this time?
I live in th UK so can't physically participate, but you have mine and many other Brit's support on this issue. If nothing's changed by November then I'll be suggesting similar protests over here, all on the 5th.
Is it just me or is everyone getting the impossible to dismiss popup covering the story?
Here's my wish list for Opera 15 and beyond:

1. Linux support.
2. Don't break my bank (dnb.no) like Chromium
3. Single-key shortcuts
4. Ability to close browser windows with C-w (or C-q without it killing *all* windows)
5. Ability to start browser windows without tab bar

Single-key shortcuts and a tiling window manager recently brought me back to Opera after only using it for banking a while. It's far from a perfect TWM browser, but the keyboard navigation really is worth it.

Faithfully yours,

2003-2008, 2013-present
I liked it because it had a passable file navigation view. I never really liked how it auto-detected files, and i was far too lazy at the time to organize my growing collection. After boxee stopped supporting the software, i finally replaced it with a proper plex setup.

I honestly think that the plex media server is the absolute 100% totally correct way to develop a system like this, and it will only get better over time. It's why Plex is so amazingly suited to having clients for smart tv's, or roku or mobile ... Hell, i'm even busy putting together a Rasplex (rasplex.com) setup on my raspberry pi.

Also a hint for anyone interested, the default Plex skin is atrocious, and probably puts more people off than anything else. I recommend PlexAeon or Refocus Blue.
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Are you saying that a writer at a newspaper who makes median income is actually in a position to give some of that income to poor families, versus a CEO who makes $15 million a year?
New type of spam?
I love these sorts of projects, but I don't trust them as a rule. If I can't independently verify the security myself, I don't use them. What sort of symetric key encryption does it use? What cypher? What hash algorithm? Does it provide perfect forward secrecy? Does it anonymize the sender in some way? What data is logged? Etc.
They ask for an address and zip code. As long as you don't indicate a false zip code I don't think it would bother anyone. I'm sure politicians will be reviewing this to see public sentiment and if there's a bunch of known bad data clouding the results, it would probably be taken less seriously.
Are there any initiatives to build a new internet with secure/anonymous transmissions in place from the ground up? Could such a thing even be possible?
Karma encourages better discussions. Myself, I treat it as a tool for becoming a better writer. If karma moving up and down is distracting, figure out how to make it move in one direction...and not the easy one. Otherwise it is best ignored.
Your other recourse is to move to a different country, which brings another set of problems.
Exactly as hugi said. Not going to happen.
There's a reason bankruptcy doesn't discharge government student loans: congress amended the bankruptcy laws in 1978. Why? Reports of abuse from doctors, lawyers, and other high earners that racked up massive debts and declared bankruptcy immediately after graduation.

People with $100,000+ in student loans are the 3%.
Is it just me thinking that the archaic nature of the way we vote is hindering progress?

I mean, we can have all these complicated websites/applications that are expected/relied upon to have utmost security (that are constantly being made better), but we still can't have the option to vote online? I know in some eastern European countries people can vote online like Estonia [0].

[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/06/e...
Kipochi launches first Bitcoin wallet in Africa with M-Pesa integration
Sadly my favorite story about a person dealing with a motel with nearly the same number turned out to be false. It was still funny though. I like this guy's sense of humor but he could include in the end of his response the real address (or set the reply-to on his responses to be the actual address)
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"And lurking at the bottom of this morass one finds flagrantly irrational ideas about the human condition. Many of my critics pretend that they have been entirely self-made. They seem to feel responsible for their intellectual gifts, for their freedom from injury and disease, and for the fact that they were born at a specific moment in history. Many appear to have absolutely no awareness of how lucky one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, to not have cerebral palsy, or to not have been bankrupted in middle age by the mortal illness of a spouse.

Many of us have been extraordinarily lucky—and we did not earn it. Many good people have been extraordinarily unlucky—and they did not deserve it. And yet I get the distinct sense that if I asked some of my readers why they weren’t born with club feet, or orphaned before the age of five, they would not hesitate to take credit for these accomplishments. There is a stunning lack of insight into the unfolding of human events that passes for moral and economic wisdom in some circles. And it is pernicious. Followers of Rand, in particular, believe that only a blind reliance on market forces and the narrowest conception of self interest can steer us collectively toward the best civilization possible and that any attempt to impose wisdom or compassion from the top—no matter who is at the top and no matter what the need—is necessarily corrupting of the whole enterprise. This conviction is, at the very least, unproven. And there are many reasons to believe that it is dangerously wrong."

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/how-to-lose-readers-witho...
Apart from all the humble-bragging, and unsupported assertions ("They showed no signs of anxiety" !! Right... not one candidate you got was anxious on the day of the interview.) the content I'm getting out of that post is minimal. And yes, I completely believe you that writing a syntactically complete piece of code on the whiteboard and finding bugs in it in while a senior engineer watches you like a hawk (without any intention of helping you out) is an everyday occurrence for a software engineer.

Anyway I don't think I'll be able to argue you out of your long-held beliefs per se. All I (and other engineer employers reading this) need to know is, Google has been the foremost purveyor of this method since it began hiring engineers and they now say their data shows it doesn't work. That's enough for me to renounce it and find other ways to screen talent (and yes, we're currently looking for a senior hacker in the Bay Area).

PS. btw, you might want to see a specialist about that deadly seriousness... before it gets, you know, too deadly ;-)
Agree with the sentiment about the (lack of) effectiveness of online petitions. Disagree with the meaningless swipe at overweight people as lazy, etc.
A few politicians in the parliament, not "Iceland".
Differences in flavor and mouth feel of lettuce wraps vs. breads poses a problem for the chains that goes beyond the material costs.

If you look at the ingredients of the typical hamburger bun sold at a supermarket, you'll notice that it's actually doubling as a delivery mechanism for additional sodium and soybean oil - it's very influential on the taste and texture of the sandwich. And when you remove the bun from the burger, you have a meat patty which tastes like any meat that's been fried or grilled. So because the bun allows the chains to distinguish themselves further, it's part of their brand identity, as well.
I'll be with you on that one.
That's no true, plenty of people who support legally enforced redistribution also donate money to charities.
You don't need complete totalitarianism for that - straightforward authoritarianism works just fine.
His meaning was quite clear from what he wrote. If you must, argue against his points, don't just appeal to emotions - they are never useful for conducting policy.
Can't Britain revoke America's government until they figure this out?
What if the only two choices are both pro-creepy spying?
Hmm, this is really interesting. Have any other communities experimented with this?
was it a statement of intent?
Distributed Everything
Don't you have hydrogen "gas" stations?

Wikipedia says they are aiming for 2050 energy independence.

That would be incredible.
It's easy to fetishize forward secrecy, but the reality is probably that forward secrecy is much more important in the context of TLS, where the lost of a single key might compromise billions of messages, than it is in the desktop case, where losing your key to an attacker also lost your keyboard inputs forever.
Thanks, can the Pi with Plex or XBMC, play straight from say a USB hard drive? What's the audio quality like on it?
I think your opinion of what this piece implies is a bit skewed. I see this scenario played out over and over everywhere I look.
I happen to be one of the lucky ones, I won the genetic lottery, and the geographic one too. I expect to be able to make a decent living at least until the brain rot sets in.
The sad fact is though, at least it appears to me, is that there will be fewer jobs for the majority of the population every year. At the same time the wealth that society as a whole is producing is accumulating at an increasing rate.
I do not think the author of this article wants everyone else to shoulder the plight of the masses. I think that he, like many others suggest that society as a whole considers a method to allocate a portion of our GDP to those who have been eliminated from the game.
The most ironic part of this ongoing discussion, it that the people around me who are most vocal about letting "these parasites" fend for themselves, are the next group that will be in the same boat. Yes, many of these "hard working" design engineers who paid their way through the public supported universities, will not be needed when the tech evolves just a little bit more. Then the lower 85% will be the extraneous work force, and the beat goes on.
I really don't like this argument. First, advocacy of an idea is good in itself. Second, the advocate putting their money where their mouth is will only impoverish them self while making very little change. However, if overall society was to adopt a united approach to it, the results would be very different. I'm not going to give up 10% of my income if it's just me doing it, but if everyone is doing it, I'd be willing (assuming there is a non-stupid plan for how to spend it, which is not likely).
Well, there might be 0.1% chance. I mean, Framsóknarflokkurinn just supported the new constitution, a bill put forward by the Leftist Green. They might yet surprise us.
Ok, so obviously this is a hoax. However, I've run into a lot of people that believe that it has to be possible for magnets to give unlimited power. I've found the best way to explain it to them is to compare a magnet to a spring. Yes, a spring can push or pull another object, moving it from one place to another. But it takes energy to compress the spring in order to get it to move something else. In the same way, it takes energy to move an object an magnet into position so the magnet can push (or pull) it. Therefore, the magnetic force can be viewed as having nearly the same properties as a coiled up spring.
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Years of linux kernel, theo de raadt/bsd, and grsec mailing list total rage and various IRC hacker/dev channel slamming of idiocy has hardened my skin and actually makes me thankful they are clear, concise and direct with their criticism instead of phony hand holding and passive aggressiveness. It's a rite of passage to get your ass handed to you by other devs. Some people just don't get it, you have to pummel them with a blast of anger on the mailing list or they'll continue to waste everybody's time with their idiocy.

It's not the end of the world if somebody calls your insecure program a pile of shit and you a nerf herding waste of skin for inflicting said shit upon the world. That's like standard behaviour since the days of Stallman at MIT labs
That's why the primary elections are important - by the time we get down to the final two choices, they usually are both in favour of all kinds of evil things. But in the primaries in 2016, we'll probably have 10 choices from each major party, and it's much more likely you'll find someone that matches your views.

It's very important to vote in the primary elections in order to not end up with two evils by the main presidential election. The same logic goes for all other elections, too: your state government, and all levels really. Voting for just one president from two choices is hardly voting at all.
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On mobile, there's something called Gibberbot for Android but it's XMPP-based and fairly fiddly to get working.
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"Big data" is huge an expected to grow exponentially over the next couple of years.

Well, there's plenty of things expected to grow, that doesn't make them necessarily good. Pollution levels are expected to grow as well, that doesn't mean it's OK to pollute.

This is just another form of big data.

I disagree with that. Some forms of big data violate people's privacy, other forms don't; we can't judge them all equally.
The good thing about symmetric key encryption in the browser is easy enough to check. You just need to make sure that messages/images are encrypted before being sent to the server, and that the password is never sent to the server. Also ChatStep uses sjcl so the crypto isn't homemade like CryptoCat.
Firstly, thanks very much for taking a look! Its a general purpose search engine. To answer your other question, a set of results is drawn from our own crawler. Other sets of results are drawn from different APIs (e.g., wikipedia) that we use. Right now, results that we could term as "News" results come from a specific set of sites (e.g., CNN, BBC, engadget, etc.). And you are right, there certain queries generate a lot of news results with their respective dates.
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It's the intent.
Moving to another country is not voluntary. It's based on your ability to get immigration status somewhere else and even then it's usually temporary and limited. Which is pretty difficult in most countries unless you have an advanced education.
I'm not appealing to emotion. My question is rather simple and I want him/her to answer it.
Thanks for these links. Feeling a little impotent here in the UK, but happy now that I can voice my concerns.
When is it being voted on? Are people going to gather around Alþingi? Has anyone planed anything to push the MP on letting this through?
RSA refers to Rivest-Shamir-Adleman and ECC refers to Elliptic curve cryptography. They are both algorithms which take different approaches to public key cryptography. RSA has been in use for longer than ECC and it's considered to be more well understood. However there are some exciting things going on with ECC, for example it is thought that you could have the same or better security as RSA with a much smaller ECC keysize.
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Yes. Icons on the desktop? You must be crazy! (there was an option in the config tool to restore them; not sure if it still works)
Anonymity (to the extent of disconnection of voters from votes) is valuable in elections to prevent various forms of vote sale or coercion. This is hard or impossible to achieve online (at least while retaining reasonable protection against double voting and ineligible voters).
If only the president would be held accountable for his promises, we would not be having this discussion (PATRIOT Act).
More to the point, the writer is in little position to do so. The CEO, however, is getting that fifteen million out of the value created by workers like the Stanleys and the Nuemanns.
Oh, come on. It was a joke.
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