skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well first of all, I seldom search for an address. 99% of the time I'm either looking for a general category (places to eat or sleep, that sort of thing) or directions from one town to another (specifics can be worked out later on a mobile device once I get there).

So, if I'm looking for, say, a place to eat, I just go to Google Maps (I just tested it, I only need to hit "m" to make it auto-complete in Chromium) and then type "restaurants" or whatever and hit enter. Or, if I'm looking for a place to eat in another town, I type the town name, hit enter, then type "restaurants" and hit enter again.

An alternative, since I have DDG configured in Chromium, is to type "!m <place> restaurants", which gets me the same result, no clicking. But frankly, I don't even usually take advantage of the shortcut because it just doesn't seem that much better for the frequency with which I search Google Maps (probably twice a day, on average).
> Basic Income should never be enough to live comfortably on with no drain on savings, at least until we've reached a place where we don't need human labor for very many tasks (if ever).

Its seems to me to be self-evidentally economically impossible for universal BI to do this (which, incidentally, means it probably can't replace all existing social benefit programs, because you probably still want to have some programs that people can live on without a drain on savings, though these would need to be time limited and almost certainly have other qualifications) unless we've reached that point of labor-irrelevance.

If you set the level of BI such that it would allow such comfortable living given pre-BI prices, the resulting effect on prices would quickly drive such comfortable living back out of reach for those relying solely on BI.

You can mitigate poverty and economic inequality with BI, because the inflationary effects will be no greater than the income boost given at the low end of the scale, but there is a declining marginal benefit of each additional dollar of BI.
I also hate this idea, but I agree that the long term trend is for society to support very few jobs. Do you disagree that this is the trend? If not, do you have any better ideas for what to do about it?
Yes, public housing projects worked so well.

You can go look up economics papers on Google Scholar or SSRN about the benefits of direct payments versus in-kind payments. You might worry that someone will use their direct payment and spend it on hooch, but you can't stop that: if you give them food stamps they will trade that for money and then spend it on hooch.
I don't think a manufacturer is going to embrace double-walling when thinness is desired by consumers.
My first impression is, does more mpegapixel instantly make the Nokia Lumia 1020 a better phone? If you truly want to take good photos, use a real camera, like a DSLR. Admittedly, 41-megapixel is quite a wow factor, but based on the hardware specs it seems it's more of a camera than a phone. The other questions is, do people want to every photo to be 20MB+?
The first part, moving authentication from the user to the browser, is exactly what Mozilla's Persona is about. However, the whole "multiple device" thing kind of kills browser-level authentication (persona gets around this by allowing email accounts).
> That question is so impossibly difficult to answer

I agree, which is why I think we should not implement a basic income immediately, but that we should proceed with further trials and examine the evidence on the ground.
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Much was made of this when it was first announced a few months ago, but in reality it just puts India on par with most other major governments. When proper procedure is followed, BIS communication records can be obtained - in the same way a carrier hands over records in the US when a warrant is served. (Or without a warrant, as the case may be...)

BlackBerry still can't provide access to BES communication -- and this what India was actually pushing hard for.
"the biggest threat to your business is if you stop loving what you do"

so nothing to do with getting up early.

"building a schedule that protects your love for what you do is critical to optimizing the quality of your life"

Oh right, getting up early helps me love what I do. Somehow.

Add some vaguely related info about depression that mentions weather which ties into time of day based on light I guess.

All sounds like hand-wavy pseudo-rationalising to me.
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the malware point is moot.

malware can steals passwords saved, which are optionally saved encrypted. the cert at least in the one browser i checked is always encrypted.

and even then, if you have malware in your box, any and all security measures are worthless at this point.

decent Renegotiation and mobile client support will come if people using that on the desktop request the feature. it's like that for everything for a while now.

Managing the devices and revokation is also trivial. most sites does that very easily with API keys and cookies (e.g. google 2step auth, you can control which cookies are still valids for the 'remember this device' feature). the same logic could be used for client certs.
I don't think the number of kids goes up with prosperity. Developed countries and upper classes typically have much lower birth rates than their counterparts, and some countries are even experiencing negative population growth.
I've found media organizations will sensationalize the little stuff (to make it news) and de-sensationalize the wording on big stuff. My hypothesis is they want to sound less crackpot. If they call it a "torture regime deserving of the Middle Ages", they are going to lose readers, because it can be hard to take that sort of stuff seriously.

You might be inclined to say, so what, lose readers. But if people don't read it, how do you spread a message?
It's been a while since I've read the paper, but technical aspects like runtime size of binaries led to a bytecode compiled language like Smalltalk, leading to NewtonScript.
>"...wealth creation will increasingly be confined to those with capital, and things start to follow a Marxist logic. The middle classes (and their elected representatives) will not let that happen."

In the absence of real campaign finance reform, is the middle class really that empowered to "not let this happen" through their elected representatives? Those representatives, after all, are currently much more beholden to their financial masters--the corporations and its wealthier beneficiaries (executives, prominent shareholders) which provide large campaign donations.

Not that it can't change. There are just a lot of steps between here and there.
I'm really curious about what will eventually happen to Mohammed. Does he rot in Guantanamo forever? I thought we were closing it? He's definitely not going to get a trial, I don't believe that for a second. Does anyone have any insight here?
Most places where you can authenticate with SSL client certs allow you to add your own self-signed certificate and authenticate using that. All the validation you need is to check wether the cert is in the user's list. You can only forge that by stealing the private key.

There's really no reason to only allow CA signed client certs.
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If everyone had an attitude like that, no one would ever take a risk to fight the incumbents in any of the markets.

Offering Battlefield 4 for only Linux would do wonders for Linux adoption. Linux on the desktop needs something like that to push it.
The article does a really bad job of explaining what's going on here- the resulting photos won't be 41megapixels. It uses that huge amount as a means to "smooth out" the noise/oddities in the photo, and save it as a more reasonable 5MP or 8MP image.
Is immutability (usually) good for GC? [JVM/Java/Scala]
Awesome, incredible quality and content.
>You're basically saying that we can have the social safety benefits of BI for only 10% of the cost by using means-tested programs .

No, BI can cost the same amount as Nordic social security, while increasing motivation to work and helping people more. (Source in Finnish: http://www.vihreat.fi/files/liitto/Perustulolinjapaperi.pdf ).

Nordic social security works better than American social security, that's fore sure, but it can be improved on. The main problem currently is that social security assumes that people are either unemployed or employed full-time. This assumption is increasingly false. There's more and more part-time (and 'part-period', e.g. full-time for 3 days only etc.) and freelancing work.

Basic income really means social security without that assumption. If you work 0h/month, you get 100% social security. If you work 120h/month, you don't get anything (because you'll pay for the basic income through taxes). If you work 60h, you'll get someting in-between.

And there's no paper work or bureaucracy.
I wonder how you deal with security concerns. I think since the result of clinical trials can have such a large impact on a pharma co's share price, there have been a number of cases where insiders with access to trial results have given information to financial trading firms who then proceed to exploit the information in the market.

how do you assure your customers that the information put in your system won't leak?
The Photon came out around a year ago. That's a really short time in terms of corporate lifetimes.
Alternatively, Rust is very good at changing so quickly that trying to write authoritative articles about it is a futile endeavor. :)
I have heard exactly zero accusations that ICANN is doing anything to control or manipulate the Internet for the good of the U.S. None of the recent revelations about Prism, tapping cables, etc. have anything to do with ICANN.
"Use of the Service shall be solely for your own, private, non-commercial purposes and for no other purpose whatsoever."

Also the terms of service seem to indicate that you own everything created although I may have miss parsed that one.
I am inclined to agree with you but I'm not certain. There are some arguments that those living off of BI would form a unique subset of the population and might effectively be ghettoized at least in terms of colocation as opposed to the more economic/social aspect due to their similar needs/means.
No. If you engaged two neurons you will realise it took as long to turn the assembly from the giant jut out hump to the slight rise it is on the lumia.
From the comments:

>Why is this news? Memories aren't stored only in our brains. There have been heart-transplant patients who suddenly craved food they'd never eaten.

wat
What is one good thing that Ballmer has done for MS? He's ridden the momentum left by Gates, and since then..... what? Nothing new & good. If I'm an investor in MS, is he really the best option? Not that Microsoft isn't a good company and does some great work (Microsoft Research labs are amazing, I don't care what people say), but honestly it seems like as a company, Microsoft hasn't really done anything new & better in over a decade. He's kept a steady course with the golden goose(s) of Windows/Office, of course.
You must be living a very sheltered life!
The only reason public sector unions exist is because they are so influential, despite FDR's warning against them and the conflict of interest that falls on the taxpayers representatives who often have their campaigns partially financed by unions. And I don't think you can look at the past 10 years of "belt tightening" at the state and local level (let's be real, that's where the cuts are), and say they aren't that influential. They still have tons of power.
Here's an in-depth analysis in the form of a documentary[1] (German audio, English subtitles).

[1]: http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the_basic_income_2008/
How does she afford to live there now?

If you want to live some place forever, buy the property. Buying and renting each have risks. Buying risks that you will lose your initial capital, but you get to live there. Renting risks that you might have to leave the property, but the landlord absorbs the risks of the property value declining.

We can't really have effective policy if someone experiencing some kind of risk vetoes it.
Giving the Indian government access to BBM and BIS was a requirement to operate as a messaging service in India. People shouldn't be upset with BlackBerry for complying with regulations; outrage should be directed at the government for creating and enforcing these regulations.

If the US government decreed 'Phones made with white plastic are no longer allowed, they can not be sold in our country', would you get upset with Apple for only selling black iPhones in the US?
There's a division called "Cloud" being headed up by Executive VP Satya Nadella that encompasses Azure and the apps that build on top of it (Office 365, visualstudio.com...)

That seems pretty first-class to me.
This is a niche device, IMHO, which may be the way to go for Nokia (as long as the software can keep up).

It starts at $299, which is $100 more than the entry price of the iPhone 5 (even though it's the same price as the 32 GB iPhone, you can get an iPhone for cheaper if you wanted to).

It won't necessarily appeal to people for whom iPhone/GS4 quality photos are good enough (and who only share on Instagram anyway) but it definitely takes the place of a point and shoot. It seems much more appealing than the Galaxy Camera or Galaxy S4 Zoom.
The 757 and 767 share a common type rating. 737 and 777 do not. (The FAA doesn't much live in a "mostly" world... :) )

Source: FAA Advisory Circular 61-89E http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAdvisor...
Office is indeed moving under Qi Lu. (Applications and Services group)
How fuzzing helped us find a nasty bug
A hacker's phone! This sounds like a great idea, but it's probably too innovative to be designed by Moto and too risky to be sent into production by Google.

A toned down version though, which like the Jolla adjusts the background and user experience based on the color/style of the case - that I could definitely see.

BTW, where did you learn that the Jollo phone is held together by magnets?
If I had a reason to learn Clojure I'd already have done it.

Why I'm vaguely interested: I enjoy functional programming. Why I haven't: I couldn't do without Scala's type system.
For a thoroughly thought-through take on a similar subject, check out Friendship is Optimal.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/Friendship-is-Optimal

"Hanna, the CEO of Hofvarpnir Studios, just won the contract to write the official My Little Pony MMO. Hanna has built an A.I. Princess Celestia and given her one basic drive: to satisfy everybody's values through friendship and ponies. Princess Celestia will satisfy your values through friendship and ponies, and it will be completely consensual."
One thing won't change - they'll still remain complete jerks when it comes to software patents, vendor lock in, closed standards and other junk like that.
Do you hire non-Americans? (Not that I'm looking at the moment, but I think this should be mentioned on startup job postings).
Combine unpopular expression with overzealous DAs wanting to get ahead in their careers, and you get this situation. I'm convinced that the entire culture and method of promotion in all departments of justice need to change if we want to see real reform. More convictions does not equal a better DA
> That just doesn't make any sense -- words can't be redefined like that.

I used the quotes and the "just as much as..." reference because I was applying your logic about corporate taxes to the alternative you proposed. I don't agree that either is regressive, obviously, and I laid out exactly why that logic was wrong earlier in the post, before showing how if you ignored the fact that the logic was wrong and applied it consistently, it would say the same thing about your alternative as it said about the thing you proposed the alternative to.

> The very definition of progressive taxation is taxing high salaries of individuals at a higher rate than lower ones.

Actually, the usual definition is about taxing higher incomes at a higher rate. Confusing income with wages or salaries , so that one ignores non-labor (and, particularly, capital) income in considering the progressivity of taxes, is a pretty serious error.
This seems more like a halo device than an assumed success.

This certainly makes owning a Lumia more attractive to me even though I'm not interested in WP whatsoever.
So, why your business needs an internal blog?
...says the company who brought you the UAC popups :)
Pity that Dilbert's Automatic Mission Statement Generator is not online anymore.

This is not bad :

http://cmorse.org/missiongen/
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Hmm, this is an interesting algorithm, but I'd challenge its major assumption for a lot of searches. I don't have metrics, so of course my own assumptions can be challenged also, feel free to.

I think that a lot of search engine enquiries are essentially questions, with an answer that can be considered correct. Absolutely not all, but I think enough that they should certainly be considered. In that case, a site which immediately and clearly answers the question should be given, I want my answer within seconds, not minutes. If you give me the site that answers my question and that users spend the most time on, that's the exact opposite of what I want in this case.

Here's an example, I search "Population of America",
your site's top result is sporcle.com, a quiz site. I bet people spend ages on there guessing the population of various countries etc, but I'd prefer to just get my answer.

That said, it appears such queries are handled outside the main algorithm by your competitors. Both Google and DuckDuckGo will give a card, at the top of the result, answering my query - I don't even have to visit a website.

I guess the tl;dr is that it's awesome that this is ambitious, but I challenge the assumption your algorithm is desirable for the majority of search results. Neither is Google's really though, so maybe this is an overly harsh criticism of something Google probably did very poorly early on too.
> you still have capital gains from stock trading, etc.

That's the whole point -- without corporate taxation, shares in corporations are more valuable, and the taxation is drawn from capital gains instead -- and capital gains tax should be far higher, of course (and ideally progressive as well, based on your total income).

Sure, companies can "sit on their money", but they already can. And that money is presumably invested anyways, so it's still being productive (on R&D in other companies, for example), and it certainly gets spent eventually.
Hi all. We're building an online tech community in Sweden - it's going really well so far - and we'd love more feedback.
Yes that could be a potential issue, expecially if you want to keep the data of the submitters as anonymous as possible. We are monitoring this closely, but honestly we don't have a single hammer solution against spam as always it needs my small steps. I will post some thoughts about it on our blog in the days.

-Gerald
Disclosure: I am the CTO of archify/Blippex.
>> If you truly want to take good photos, use a real camera, like a DSLR

As the saying goes, the best camera is the one you have with you.

The reality, however, is, that your best camera is actually the one you left at home.

>> 41-megapixel is quite a wow factor

This camera is a little more than just the megapixel count. It appears that they use something similar to pixel binning to use those 41 MPs to make better 5MP images.
"Trap" as in entrapment makes using this to arrest or expose people wrong.

Also, and this is debatable, talking with a chat "robot" in no way constitutes the crime of pedophilia.
They ruined the design of the old Lumia for the benefit of a better camera. Who's really clamoring for that? And who's willing to pay $299.99 with 2 year contract for it?

Nokia really doesn't know what they're doing.
How would you adjust for # of children per household?
It'd be nice to have an explanation that covered the jargon for a beginner. E.g. why don't BDCI losses count? What even is a BDCI?
I've actually started open-sourcing some of my work in this space (MDM vendor here) https://github.com/AppBlade my CA/SCEP implementation for iOS devices is part of TestHub [WIP]. These protocols also work for OSX boxes and you don't need full MDM to get most of the benefits, so long as you accept the .mobileconfig prompt.
>Most troublesome for me have been people who apparently feel intimidated and project it back as something intentional, as I'm trying to intimidate them

I am 6'7" tall and weigh 220 pounds. I've also been in IT for about 20 years in a corporate setting. Are you bigger than I am? I ask because I have never had anyone say that I intimidated them nor have I heard of anyone telling me that someone else is intimidated by me. I'm curious as to whether people are intimidated and just aren't telling me.
Here was an article a while ago about making safer beer mugs so barfights didn't turn into dangerous weapons. The UK police were backing rolling them out.

American police just shoot fuckers instead of getting in a minor tussle.
You really need to read the article and research a bit more. It is not just about the megapixel number anymore. The resulting photos can be set to be as small as ones produced by a 5mpx camera. The wow factor is the ability decide what you want in the photo after taking it.
Right, that's a completely different concept, with a completely different implementation.
Completely agree. Also the use of Google Translate is not going to be scalable at all. Many of the premises are theoretical and the criteria used to determine "level of disturbing content" is at best laughable.

Talking to Negobot would probably be the equivalent of this:
http://gizmodo.com/bank-of-americas-twitter-account-is-one-r...
WordPress love—install CMS on top of WP to add in-context editing and more...
Snaplive (my FOSS project) is a full-featured sitebuilder, but it can also be installed on top of WordPress to add in-context editing and (much more). It also keeps everything in sync, so that you can switch between the two: http://snaplive.org/developers/blog/wordpress-love/

Looking for feedback :-)
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I agree, but in depressions/recessions it goes down quite reliably. It's a strong signal
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