skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you getting your data from for these graphs?
Isn't this the "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" of blog posts? Surreal and beautiful.
And also GitTip.
> Another problem is that it might devalue the currency. When most of it is given away, there's decreased competition for it, and thus its value in the market decreases.

No proposed basic income would give away most of the currency in circulation as BI, which makes that argument somewhat irrelevant.
Well that's the problem, there's not much any one of us individually would be able to do. It has a be a mass movement to effect that type of change.

Even simply refusing to join these organizations doesn't help as much as you might think. NSA can teach smart people to program if it comes to that, so there's always someone to fill the seat. Only now, the person filling that seat has ethical norms even farther away from yours.
If a project contains code which infringes someone's copyright, then no professional is going to touch that code. Companies with any kind of legal department will not use it, linux distributions will not ship it, etc..
I don't think they care about that. The reason they're shifting is that they don't want to sell you Word once, then fail to persuade you to upgrade to the next version; they want to sell it over and over which brings a more stable and guaranteed revenue stream.
This sounds suspiciously like the beginnings of a death rattle.

What impressed me most about MS (worked with them around '97-2000) was that the company was divided into small divisions that had very precisely defined goals, and were able to operate somewhat autonomously (as long as they didn't conflict with core MS goals).

Moving from a federated empire to a Soviet-style, run-from-the-top dictatorship is not likely to end with much success.
All this on the day Microsoft announced their restructuring. They neglected to mention a new division called "NSAlite"
It's a much more efficient and transparent tool to incentivize behavior than the current tax code.
All these are already done by our Tonido (http://www.tonido.com) and TonidoPlug project and it is available and it works.
I often find that when somebody claims "you can't do x" that we learn a lot by asking, why exactly is that.

In your case I am wondering why exactly is that we can't turn people away - in aggregate it is likely to save more lives since seeing people dying would be an excellent motivating factor for others to make sure they pay their health care insurance -- and since they would therefore have it and would be able to get treatment earlier, which is cheaper, thereby causing the price of health care to be pushed down (treating people in ERs is frighteningly inefficient).
The issue I have with super-high megapixel cameras isn't that number, it's the sensor density. At certain densities, light begins to behave different because of the shape of the sensor and it doesn't capture the image correctly anymore. This is part of the reason why a 16MP SLR and a 16MP point-and-shoot have vastly different image qualities. As for your SLR, 16MP, even around 20MP is still well within the "light behaves well" range. 16MP in the point and shoot range? 40MP in the camera phone sensor range? Now we're getting in a bad place.
Lumia 1020 sample images:
http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/07/11/nokia-lumia-1020-p...
-"remuneration would likely improve"

why?

-"artificial competition for jobs would decrease drastically"

why is artificial competition important? You are saying that it will be easier for qualified people to get jobs because unqualified people won't bother to apply any more?
You can specify per-host keys in ~/.ssh/config (hint: "IdentityFile").
The best part is that it's still his name at a common domain. I didn't bother with the code, but you can pick the common letters and match the positions to be pretty confident. The hardest part is his middle initial.

edit: To be more on-topic, Dwolla had a pretty challenge for their hackathon last year: http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/29/dwolla-etsy-join-up-for-ny...
No, it's basically a tautology based on continual technological progression. Imagine if we could build a robot that was exactly equivalent to a human. If it ran on less energy than a human, then basically no human would be needed for any task. Now imagine a continuum of less sophisticated robots that excel in certain tasks beyond what certain humans can do.

Another example I like http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2010/08/08/unemployed-21s...

there was a type of employee at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution whose job and livelihood largely vanished in the early twentieth century. This was the horse. The population of working horses actually peaked in England long after the Industrial Revolution, in 1901, when 3.25 million were at work. Though they had been replaced by rail for long-distance haulage and by steam engines for driving machinery, they still plowed fields, hauled wagons and carriages short distances, pulled boats on the canals, toiled in the pits, and carried armies into battle. But the arrival of the internal combustion engine in the late nineteenth century rapidly displaced these workers, so that by 1924 there were fewer than two million. There was always a wage at which all these horses could have remained employed. But that wage was so low that it did not pay for their feed.

The arguments people make against this are that humans aren't horses. Humans can learn and adapt much better. But they can't do that infinitely, and some will reach their limits faster than others.
This is not a brain hack. This is not something you can or should fix yourself.

SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP IMMEDIATELY

Please see a doctor, psychiatrist, or a psychologist.
Microsoft often "competes" by trying to strangle competitors revenue streams even when outside their core business, where they are happy to lose billions on Bing and their online division if it also reduces Googles primary revenue stream: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/microsofts-online-sinkhole-8-5...

Since Google's products are essentially "free" to end users, they don't criticize them on value, so they build an anti-Google campaign against how Google makes money, i.e. their strategy of targeted advertising.
Five languages for MongoDB RESTful interface
> The point is basic economic theory define this as an impossibility.

Given that economic theory is often wildly divorced from reality, I don't really see a problem with this.

Snark aside, I don't see how service jobs are safe from automation. I've already seen videos of a robot that prepares your ice cream and puts it in a cup; I've interacted with automated checkouts; I've bought and had things shipped to my door (soon to be shipped with less human involvement than ever when self-driving vehicles get big) with no human interaction. Education is going through a phase of experimentation with teaching at massive scale (all the current ed startups, kahn, etc.) which is only going to get worse as we find ways to integrate teaching and game principles (fast feedback loops for faster learning, pacing adjustment based on student, learn by doing rather than hearing, etc.)

I don't see how if corps indirectly pay their customers to buy things this is going to cause the world to collapse. An economy relies on the flow of money between parties to exist; if we have full automation, and all the money gathers in the hands of the people producing things, we have no economy because no one can buy anything (except the top .001% who have everything). There simply isn't any way around this except to tax and redistribute the money. There's already mountains of friction in terms of bureaucracy, regulation, etc., and this has hardly stopped the economy from moving, so I just don't understand your point there.

And really, advocating a decrease in population for stability in a technological world? What on earth? Technology is what allows for MORE population, for more people to have food, places to live, and all the rest. The entire point of all the technology we've developed is to make human lives easier and better... but you think it means there's less need for humans? The logic astounds me.
In a weird way, if you can capture enough of the light field over time (an insane amount of data by the way) you can "go back" and get whatever picture you want. Which has the potential of allowing complete novices to grab the raw data with some local sensor, and to out source the 'picture taking' to someone who can look at it and return the picture that they should have taken. I know, its crazy talk and off the wall, but my friends in computational circles say that its no more crazy to them than a 1TB hard drive possibility was to me back in 2000.
It is not up to PyPy to support non-pure-Python libraries; it is up to those libraries to fix themselves by evicting their C and FORTRAN balls and chains.
"some of your learning is stored in your nervous system outside of your brain seems compelling"

The keyword here is "your," as in what kind of organism we're talking about, and what kind of nervous system we're talking about. In organisms like worms, what we'd think of as a brain is obviously a few orders of magnitude less centralized and less specialized than ours. The nervous system plays a much larger role. Ditto starfish, the organisms famous for being brainless (literally). Starfish run entirely on distributed nervous systems, having nothing that passes for a brain.

It's very tough to draw comparisons between what happens in the nervous system of a worm and what happens in the nervous system of a human. Even rats, which we've been using for decades as neurological proxies in drug trials, are proving to be less than ideal as analogues for the human nervous system. It turns out that we're so much more advanced than other animals that there's a lot less common ground than traditionally assumed.
Stock footage demo
As far as I know, they're all the same union (UFCW), but they have regional contracts. I'm pretty sure Portland (Oregon)'s grocery workers have a lower top pay.
I want to comment, but then I'd feel bad...
That just implies that communication in government is poor, particularly if it is a local or state government that wants to know something from the federal government. I am sure the IRS would have no problem finding those people if they were so inclined.
"Simple electrical work" might equate to "wiring Nacl into an application". Designing a cryptosystem to replace Nacl in your application is more akin to climbing up the pole in your alley and working from there.

But I'm particularly interested in David's response, because he raises this concern pretty regularly.
hot air blog posts get too much attention here
They can't click "yes, I want to see the dancing bunnies" when you are the system administrator ;).
I can vouch for this, Nokia Maps is just amazing. The ability to download maps offline is extremely convenient, not just when you are out of the country and don't have a data connection, but also when you are running low on battery.

However, I am still surprised how we got here, we went from having offline maps on all GPS devices in the beginning of last decade to online only maps by the end of it! Now we have to tout the ability of having offline maps as a feature?
Not to be glib, but it sounds like your Nokia saved you from adventure :)
https://www.google.com/search?q=halliburton+sex+trafficking
because they still would be better of working, just possibly at a lower hourly rate.
basic income: 1000 USD.
unemployed janitor: 1000 USD
employed janitor: 1300 USD.

He does not need to work anymore, but it might still be worth it.
Congrats, cool topic. Impressive stuff.

We're tackling eTMF plus other R&D from a content perspective through SaaS. See you're integrating with Medidata as well.

Greetings from Pleasanton ;)
You should keep the fact that it runs ordinary commands. It is like a shortcut menu for the command line which is awesome.
But then we'd all have to die at thirty.
of course better cameras make better photos, that was never in question, and the 5D mkIII is one of the best out there.

My point was that shooting that wonderful camera in 5mp mode is stupid.

"The higher end cameras made a huge difference in quality" - even when you down-sampled them to 5mp? And I think you're being ridiculous when you say "huge". There will be more intra-shot difference in quality than between any two modern DSLRs. The light will make far more difference to whatever it is you think is quality.

For weddings of course you don't need much. That was my point really.

You do realize right that you can put those same better lenses on the entry level canon right?

You, and everyone else, it seems, misunderstood. My point was that down-sampling to 5mp a canon 5dMkIII's images is a waste of that camera, and any entry level DSLR will produce indistinguishable images at that down-sampled level.

Also the standard for lab work is 300PPI, not 200, so I am not sure if I lend very much credibility to your comment.
Wow, this is completely wrong. The idea that "there is always a cost for doing something" is trotted out so often, and almost every time, there's ignorance of the fact that the intent is for the benefit to be higher than the cost. Enforcing contracts has a "cost", maintaining a police and legal system has a "cost", a road/highway system has a cost, maintaining a currency has a cost, regulating food so there's no arsenic in it has a cost, etc etc etc. The entropy and friction created by these things are considered to be far below the benefits to economic efficiency (lowering barriers to trade, reducing non-productive expenditure on security, etc). Saying that introducing friction into an economy causes the world to collapse and completely ignoring the potential for economic gains in efficiency is beyond ludicrous.

I may be misreading that last sentence, but luckily the other possible interpretation is equally ludicrous. The idea that corporations paying their consumers who then buy their goods will cause the world to collapse is even more ridiculous than the previous claim. How do you think the economy functions exactly? The wages that employers pay to their employees ARE the money they use to buy products from employers (whether theirs or someone else's). "Any college economics textbook" can tell you this. In fact, if you partition each person's wages into subsistence wages (i.e. basic income) and "extra" wages, corporations are already doing exactly what you're claiming will cause the world to collapse. The only difference is that right now it's being done horribly inefficiently, and the gaps in coverage (unemployed people) have an even more inefficient system servicing them, welfare.
That it can't be assumed to be a fait accompli that "negligence" or vehicular homicide is involved in the scenario of anyone leaving the scene of an accident.
Becoming a Freelancer Again
Definitely. "Service" implies something you pay for on a monthly basis. "Software" implies something that comes in a box with a CD key.
Bamford mentions it briefly in one of his books, either The Puzzle Palace or Body of Secrets. They've had chip fab capabilities for some time before the 1990's.
I haven't read the article yet, but if what I'm gathering from the comments is true, what's new here is that Microsoft has been caught in a lie to the public and their shareholders.
That's why I wrote you should research all the new info like the Doom principal (encrypt then MAC) www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-cryptographic-doom-principle/

I dont think this is easy at all just lots of articles saying dont even try it, when I bet theres more than competent people here like you who could probably pull off impressive alpha software for long and thorough peer review instead of us all being stuck with decades old clunky software like Truecrypt or GnuPG Assistant.

Who knows maybe in a year cryptocat will be excellent software at least the devs listen to auditors now
It's overall a lousy book that happened to get some obvious things right.

The fact that people in her time disagreed with these obvious things does not mean Ayn Rand was particularly prescient, it just means lots of people believe obviously wrong things.
You'd have pressure both ways.

If people are working for a combination of extra cash and personal satisfaction (as opposed to "not eating catfood under a bridge"), you could safely eliminate minimum wage and some jobs would probably be priced at close to or near $0. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to a bookstore or even library and had to fight my brain telling me to rearrange all the books in the correct order. Given unlimited free time, you'd have to pay someone to stop me.

On the other hand, I'd expect unsatisfying or unpleasant jobs to pay more, since people could fearlessly tell their bosses where to put it.

If I had to guess, though, you'd also have an uptick in part-time jobs, especially the shitty ones. Maybe most people don't want to be a garbage man 5+ days a week, but if the pay is good you might find quite a few people who are willing to be garbage man once a week or once a month.
sometimes we all need to accept that burnout is real
That doesn't account for the 7,100 articles -read-, not the home page visits.
It is important to notice it is from 2009. Many things are outdated.
Absolutely. But that's somewhat tangential to the question of whether or not Python is fast AND has good libraries. Regardless of blame, it doesn't change the fact that Python doesn't meet that criteria.
U.S. posts $117 billion budget surplus in June
Since d-i is split into a ton of components, we know that all but 1 of them had 0 bugs found.
It might not be PyPy's fault, but it is PyPy's problem.

If I have code that wants those libraries, PyPy is not an option. As an end user, I don't care who should fix it. I just know that I can't get my job done with PyPy.
Ah yes, I see now. I definitely agree with you then. That line will most likely not sit well with employees that don't give a damn about the shareholders and would rather just create amazing products.
When the car was invented, millions of horse and buggy operators, manufacturers, and horse dung sweepers lost their jobs. Their jobs were then replaced by used car salesmen, mechanics, the tires industry, etc. etc.

But it is a bit presumptuous to believe that all future inventions will destroy jobs. A great example of the reverse is the compiler industry.

As compiler technology / programming languages have become easier and easier... smaller and smaller teams of programmers have been able to get more things done. This hasn't destroyed programmers... it has instead increased the demand of programmers.
My main problem with LINQ is that it seems to perform terribly on mobile. I was looking for map/reduce/etc type functions for C# in Unity, and thought I found it with LINQ. To my dismay, LINQ creates so many crazy intermediate objects to pull off its "laziness" that our GC high water mark was being crossed all the time. I went and just reimplemented everything from underscore.js in C# and got way better performance. I imagine this is probably not an issue on desktops/servers.
It is a bit much to upload your browsing history and install a plugin. I just went through all of that and gave the service a try. So far I've found at least a handful of articles that I enjoyed reading that I may not have found otherwise.

I suppose it's worth it if they're not doing anything nasty with my data. I'd like to think that the Last.fm guy isn't up to any dirty tricks with Lumi... if you're skeptical about privacy concerns, this may not be for you, but I'm enjoying it so far. Also, I'm a former web news editor and still have a serious jones for news, so this was a perfect fit for me.
Ok, beautifully written article, I enjoyed reading it. But you really are downplaying and underestimating the kind of reward and benefit that one gets from writing articles and code. For example, I have written a number of articles and library tools on and in C++. Over time, these things received lots of links from places like stackoverflow. As a consequence, my stuff is #1 on the search engines for terms like "C++ rvalue references". That gets me an enormous amount of attention and exposure. And if someone, like a prospective employer, hasn't found me yet that way, I just tell them, "Hey, search for 'C++ rvalue references', you'll see." Now if someone were to say, "Ok, that's all fine and well, but you don't have a lot of Karma points on HN," then screw them, I don't want to work for them anyway.
If you can wait until the fall, there are rumors that the next Nexus will feature some fancy pants camera.
Awesome concept. Couple of issues/questions:

-The gray text is hard to read on my screen. It does make the black text stand out more, but it's at the expense of readability for the rest of the content.

-This looks like it's solely for mobile, but you don't mention that anywhere on the page (I suppose "app" sort of implies that).

-Is this opt-in for users? Is it even opt-out? That's a big question I would want the answer to, and the "See how Emulos protects users' privacy" link appears to be broken.
and a 5 minute browse on Amazon didn't occur to her?

Your wife is right, there is no such thing as a sub $250 pc that would usurp her MBP
Frankly, reports from doctor-friends who work in ERs indicates that a large part of costs are treating people who are dealing with preventable often drug-related problems that create emergencies because the people involved are basically incapable of prevention. Seeing other people on the street homeless is apparently not enough incentive to keep people from becoming homeless themselves. I have no idea why seeing other people dying from internal bleeding because they didn't have the foresight to buy medical insurance to get the appropriate medication to treat their issue would curb behavioral patterns which seem to be flawed at a very fundamental level.
That looks pretty awesome.
This is really just off the cuff, and I haven't done the math and all that, but various forms of real (not simulated) imaging are entering increasingly small scales and timeframes.

Clock accuracy pertains directly to such imagining. I, um, "imagine" there is relevance to this work.
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I would be a lot more inclined to find value and even enjoyment in being a waiter or cook if my desire (quite plausible to imagine) was to own and operate a restaurant. Likewise, I wouldn't mind so much doing janitorial work or running the cash register in my own shop.

Maybe what would disappear is the huge retail / food service chains, in favor of passionately-run local businesses?
Meet the new Snow White. Same as the old Snow White.
Running tests, even with coverage and quickcheck does not replace static verification. At very best, such tests can assert that program should probably work with some known probability. In contrast, strong statically-checked typing may be used prove that program produces results correctly to the extent type system may express the necessary proof.
I suspect that by "transferring" the files they mean "transferring a token allowing the recipient to access the files from your plug". From there, under their (debatable) underlying assumption that accessing files from a plug from your device is fast, it's as if the data has been transferred: recipient can view the files on their device, except they're being fetched from your plug (and maybe copied to their own plug in the background).

(Caution, this is just speculation.)
Well, cloning is a git thing, not a github thing. Cloning repositories doesn't put them on your github repository list.
It's funny to me that they try to get back-doors baked in to all sorts of hardware and software, but somehow appear to believe that nobody else has done the same.