skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You don't ever do anything - not any one single thing - without a <strike>profit</strike> motive?" [Corrected]

There are many non-profit motives, from simple hunger (i.e., when you're hungry you want food, not "profit") to curiosity (e.g., can I build a robot to beat Bill's bot?), from sex-drive (e.g., oh-la-la, she's hot, let me go chat her up and see if there's a "we" in our future) to helping friends and family (e.g., mom's yard has a dead tree in it, and she can't remove it herself, let me get some buddies together to go do it).
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The problem is, these things are so self-serving. There's really nothing new they can offer, every startup just wants their own conference.

So they pull friends to come and speak and charge you $100 to advertise their company to you.
Really impressed about examples with parametrized types (but I'd still better switch to Haskell for those :).
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They have problems to profit.

My startup is for educational games for kids, and almost noone want to invest in us, because of how the market works, that is basically or you sell, or you don't. There is no middle ground, no organic slow growth...

Happily our seed money is sustaining us, but it is clear that we need to spend in marketing about 5 or 6 times our current budget (That go almost 100% for development).
Can there be a "one more thing" where Ballmer retires, please?
I couldn't get over this masterpiece:

We will allocate resources and build devices and services that provide compelling, integrated experiences across the many screens in our lives, with maximum return to shareholders.
The worm can grow a new head from the body. Can it grow a new body from the head?

If so you cut its head and you have 2 worms now.
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Silly question, but you don't mention security or HIPAA/HITECH anywhere on your site (or in jobs).

Are you guys working on that, or is it just 'assumed' that your stack and cloud capability is compliant?
It's both, actually. But that said, Nokia uses very good glass.

It's only once you get up to P&Ss and DSLRs that the glass can really hold back the sensors -- phone sensors are always struggling to make a compromise between package size and image quality, and usually package size wins.
Can't find the link between Halliburton and sex trafficking to Africa, can you provide one please?
I think Sony is rumored to use a RX100 lens or sensor in their upcoming Sony Honami (of 20 MP).
Certificates can also be marked as non-exportable.
> "I don't care about RTT time, the lack of bidirectional communication, and the inability to inline binary data in the protocol stream" ... said no mobile/wireless/desktop developer, ever.

+1

http://www.igvita.com/slides/2013/breaking-1s-mobile-barrier... if you want to read about this from a mobile perspective.
I agree, but unfortunately I don't think "basic income and no other welfare programs" is a politically stable policy. No sooner will it have been introduced than politicians will be tempted to screw with it to help a favored constituency.

Go to work as an inner city teacher? Here's an extra 20% in your BI.

Live in an area damaged by a hurricane? We'll bump your BI for a year or two.

I don't think a "simpler" tax code would last much longer for the same reason.

The only way I think it could actually work is if we turned over the whole thing to a bunch of unelected technocrats like the Fed (which might not be a terrible idea since it gives them another lever on economic policy...)
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I just came across the Plug Kickstarter, which I think might be the basis of a viable back-up storage for professional photographers.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloud-guys/plug-the-brai...

Specifically, the $129 level, where you get two plugs, which they claim, "to replicate your data in 2 different places." Talk two of your friends in remote parts of the country into letting you Plug in to their home networks, and this might be viable.
I find that hard to believe. Nearly everyone I see using a phone is txting.
Caution is a good attitude to have when working on critical code with non-obvious modes of failure.

However I agree with davidw; this "dont' touch it" or "we're not smart enough" attitude is tiresome. Couldn't we instead admit that this is a difficult problem which requires some engineering rigor to solve well and talk about how we can address such problems like professionals instead of hiding from them?
One can write plain English without sensationalism. Waterboarding someone 183 times is obviously torture. People only use roundabout phrases to describe torture when it's their side that did it.

Conversely, it's easy to see the nature of these bureaucratic euphemisms when others use them:

http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/05/-versc...

Tangential edit: every time I hear "enhanced interrogation techniques" I remember Orwell's classic essay:

If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase [...] into the dustbin, where it belongs.

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
I don't think practical cryptographers ignore the difference between computations and interactions—there are different threat models and they are carefully studied. Part of the problem might be that a system designed to be safe against 2^32 interactions is deployed in a place where the system is vulnerable to attacks on the order of 2^32 computations.

The problem I think the author is highlighting is that the mistake risk distribution is hard to understand. Some kinds of off by one errors may cause relatively small reductions in security margins. Some kinds may cause complete loss of system integrity. It's hard to distinguish between the two without extensive testing and expertise. Furthermore, the kind of user who would never tell you about your error is exactly the kind who will find it.

Finally, loss of your security infrastructure is unlikely to cause just small visual discomfort to your users—it's likely to hurt them materially.
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I'm a lifetime night owl.

In funner days, I could stay up 2, almost 3 days without sleep or caffeine. It wasn't normal, healthy, or sustainable, and adding caffeine only prolonged the inevitability of these truths.

The feeling of being tuned into something so much that you can just do it sets some interesting bars of what a "productive" day is.

Paraphrased from my journal of experiments:

One (non deadline day), instead of working until 3 am because it was when I could finally concentrate, free of distraction, I took a little nyquil and went to sleep at 9:30 PM.

I woke up, naturally around 4:30, bright as a bell. Alarm had been set for about 6:30 AM. It seemed my brain was ready to go too. I sat down and got more done that morning than 2 late nights.

I had creative energy to put into something that was often by the end of the day.

Putting my time into the mornings now, just to learn, work on something for fun, or explore different ways to solve a problem has strangely added to my daily fuel.

....

Realization: My work, whether it's for myself, or others, didn't always need my highest and best creative energy, but my attention to detail and reliability, and oversight. I could get good at it and keep things moving well.

My focus now: the real skill in waking up early is first learning to do it, and more importantly, learning to get the habit going when the inevitable late night occurs.

I try to write myself a note to remind how waking up at 4:30 gave me the all night progress in less time, and with more concentrated productivity from having a rested and fresh mind. Some things, like waking up early, just need to be tried, honestly, a few times. I'm convinced, and converted.
I went from iOS Google Maps->Apple Maps->iOS Google Maps on my iPhones. The Google Maps worked really well.

The HERE Drive+ from Nokia Maps though is fantastic. One nice feature (of many)... it shows you the current speed limit on every road that you're on. It also shows you your current speed and it is dead-on accurate. It can even be set to give an alert if you exceed the speed limit by x MPH.

Hands down, the built-in Lumia 928 maps application is better than any maps application I ever used on any of my three iPhones.
Is this just another CTMS? Similar to OpenClinica etc?
This flight was a month ago, and was briefly discussed here [0]. Video of the winning flight is available [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5884266

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJq10EQkog
Congrats Rick and Jud!
No argument there. I love the idea of creating a pool of money that goes to people who do work that is beneficial to society. Or even just to make art for personal enjoyment.

I'd just like to avoid having the government pay people to, say, drink and party. I think there does need to be some external social pressure / structure to motivate people. Otherwise, you wind up with the same political problems what current welfare programs have.

The best solution I can think of is that the government hires and trains people to do some form of public service if they can't find anything else they would rather do. Limit it to 20 hours per week. If people are really useless, give them a disability wavier. If not, have them plant free or clean up parks.

I've seen the impact of people living on the dole in Britain. It's not good for them or the society. It just abandoning them to lead a mediocre life.
This is a great approach. Even better because you carefully examined the requirements and found an interpretation which allowed you to make an optimization (words only, not counts, therefore sets are useful)
The OS doesn't matter; the apps do (at least the few "important" ones).

Most notably absent from WP is Instagram, which will be resolved when Hipstamatic launches for the OS.
Good thing Satoshi wasn't scared of cryptography or we wouldn't have bitcoin. Also good thing the Truecrypt devs weren't scared of it, or the Debian devs, or the OpenBSD devs and others who gave us OpenSSH.

Moxie Marlinspike doesn't seem to be scared of it either. According to him it's not impossible to learn simple, tried and true methods for crypto engineering that are all spelled out in Schneier's books and various white papers. These standards were completely ignored by the cryptocat guys (and ignored repeated warnings from auditors). So if you can read, comprehend and do bare minimum research of NIST standards you're pretty safe rolling your own crypto software if you know about attention to detail, the doom principal, PRNGs and their flaws, and know not to attempt to make your own primitives. If you guy's can push out incredibly complex and relatively secure financial trading software there's no reason you can't roll your own SHA-256 on your Android phone replacing SHA-1 FDE or even design Redphone like Moxie did. Would also help if you hung around hashcat forums, read Schneier's cryptogram newsletter, and watched some lectures about software crypto engineering.
> "our strategy will focus on creating ... bla bla bla.

I parse this as follows: PC sales are declining and selling Windows & Office licenses is not going to make it; now the option is either to focus on
- Windows Server and cloud services
OR
- copying Apple; go for closed gadgets/tracking devices with a processor

Copying Apple is a bad choice, very crowded space here / everybody wants to make an IPhone.

In the end this means bad news for Windows Server, however who cares ...

see "PC sales see 'longest decline' in history"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23251285

(On the other hand modern laptops nowadays look like tables, they have a touchscreen and detachable keyboards; there is some convergence here, so it is all very confusing)
A more reasonable hypothesis: the severance of the autonomous afferences coming from the heart affects the brain stem and / or hypothalamus, which in turns affects the rest of the brain.

It has the advantage of being testable.

Another (IMO less likely) possibility would be that the lack of brain-induced rhythm variations of the denerved heart has an influence on the brain.
What part of education is a laggard when it comes to technology? Education is always trying something new when it comes to technology. It seems like a bigger issue with education is that it's an easy target for con artists.
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see welfare vs. disability
Thank you for spotting that.
I've never really heard of anyone proposing a weekly payment from the state, which is enough to live comfortably on

I've heard of lots of people proposing a very small guaranteed payment from the state, as in, bare minimum for subsistence-level food and shelter, on the order of $10,000/year. You would not be able to "party every night for life" on such a pension.

The idea is that it would lubricate the job market, reducing the costs of employment, by taking some of the social benefits-providing responsibility away from employers and giving it to the government, which arguably should own it. This would encourage entrepreneurship (less scary to quit your job and start your own business if you have a better safety net) and also potentially alleviate homelessness and various other social ills.

Those content to never work and do whatever "partying" they can afford on their tiny basic income would also be free to do as they wish, because who wants those people in the workplace anyway? Save the jobs for the people who actually want them, not the people who only need them in order to not starve.
Definitely. If the methane thing pans out .. well, in 10 years time we'll probably be totally desensitised to news headlines that read something like "Reflective cloud seeding program starting over Pacific basin" or "Mirror assembly nearing completion at LaGrange Point".

I just don't think we have the ability to stop ourselves huffing at that hydrocarbon crack pipe so I think we'll have to switch to management rather than prevention in this generation.
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What evidence is there of that? Because we've had a slow recovery from the last recession? That couldn't possibly be because of bad policy, no?
> I'd be far more worried about this sending a false prosperity signal that could exacerbate our already insane and unsustainable population levels.

Strong social safety nets seem to be pretty strong contributors to reduced family size (which is why the developed world has low natural population growth and many of the places with the strongest safety nets have negative natural population growth) because people don't need children as a form of old-age insurance.

> Why the hell should I pay even more and subsidize those who have more than two kids?

A fixed basic income per adult is self-evidently not a subsidy for having more kids. In fact, compared to existing welfare policy (where the principal basis for cash benefits is number of dependent children), its a disincentive for that.
Maps app or Driving Navigation app? Because they're extremely different use cases. My experience with Nokia Maps was very poor, but I don't need to drive, so never got to try that out.
I see, if there is enough data It would then make a lot of sense to search for :

{A language/framework/... you want to learn about} tutorial

As some comments said, the best website are not necessarily the one you spend most of your time on. But tutorials are an exception.
Just imagine what one could do with one's life, backed by an unconditional income! One could strip off parts of the daily worries; one could try out more things; one could develop ideas, big ideas, without having to fear that a possible failure risks your and your family's lives.

Today, only very few people with a solid financial background can afford to work on big ideas. What a waste! Think of all those geniuses out there who can't just afford to take the time to read a book because they have to work so hard to feed their families!

I also want to argue, that merely the knowledge that you can't completely fail in your working life will cause a huge benefit for public health, physical and mental. I would bet that many diseases would just disappear, due to the lowering of the general distress level.
>continuous power microwave

That technology is called a 'Microwave Inverter'. A lot of Panasonic microwaves have it.
>> If anything, taxing corporations is regressive -- the taxes ultimately get passed on to consumers through higher product prices

Tax on corporate profit does not need to have this effect, because it only applies to profits, not to revenue.

Sure, if a corporation wants to keep the same amount of profit after a tax hike it has to put its prices up. But because we're only taxing what's happening after deduction of costs, there's room for others to come in and compete with a lower margin (and lower taxes as a result).

It encourages firms to reinvest, to hire more people and to find other productive ways to use the money rather than either sitting on it or passing it directly to shareholders.
I sent you an e-mail together with the console log, containing response codes I'm getting. Hope this helps :)
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Depends on the definition of a word. I18n is normally hard, and likely would make for an exciting discussion instead of just a tech interview.
Too risky for a half-billion dollar ad campaign for "flagship" hardware. Google, while not exactly risk-averse, can be a stingy company in some respects. Everything else you mentioned came out either labeled "beta" or "an experiment" with comparably smaller marketing budgets (if any).
I'm working on a geofencing platform that allows content and services to be associated with a specific geographic location.

www.iamnear.com

Really geared for developers so any developer feedback would be greatly appreciated. :-) If you do decide to check it out please use a desktop first. Mobile version is for testing geofences.
This article seems to imply that there used to be some sort of highly intellectual, dialogue driven summer blockbuster that we're moving away from as a direct result of them not translating well to non-English speaking audiences. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single "intellectual" summer blockbuster even years and years ago (maybe Forrest Gump?).
Nokia Maps is _amazing_ and has been since the Symbian days, even more so by the fact that you can download maps beforehand (whole countries) and use them offline. Utterly unparalleled might be a bit harsh.
I don't think it's the same. What you're describing is the unemployment scheme -- "the dole" -- and it's not so clear cut. There are asset tests: if you have a certain amount of savings in the bank, you can't get it immediately. You also need to go in for interviews frequently and keep diaries of your job search.

The basic idea is on track, though. You know that no matter what happens, you'll be able to eat and put some sort of roof over your head. I'm curious to see if the social welfare programs continue to remain generous as Australia's government deficits increase and non-white immigrants continue to flood into the country.
Actually no it's still there :(. I sent geraldbaeck an e-mail like he asked. Thanks for following up though.
You can imagine a UX that would abstract certificates and their generation into a notion of accounts or personas, but the binding of those accounts to actual websites would be tricky and might involve new protocol, which is something you don't want to be doing with TLS certificates.
Do you prefer sudo or just to login as root directly?
Verisign still verifies - at least to some extent. Last time I got a cert I had to take my business registration stuff to a notary and get them to notarize a statement to the effect that I am who I say I am, etc.
I don't think you understand what "liberalised" employment law means, since it means movement in the direction (if not necessarily to the exact point) you are arguing for in arguing against it.
An interesting concept, although to be honest, I don't think you need the WordPress parts. I'd prefer to have a clean break from the spaghetti code of WordPress (but you could still have an import/export feature). I think the in-context editing part is very appealing (I have similar functionality in my plugin on CodeCanyon - http://codecanyon.net/item/textmorph-wp-onpage-editor/484369...). There is another CMS, Barley, that does something similar too.
Don't most Life Sciences companies already do this internally? I mean, I only have anecdotal evidence, but I worked on and released a couple versions of something for Abbott Labs that sounds eerily similar to what the press release mentions you doing (actually, went a lot further into budget forecasting (including updating and alerting for deviations based on incoming data automatically) and automatic payment calculation and authorization in addition to collaboration, data input, time keeping, and dashboarding for analysts/executives.

In any event, good luck to you. From what I've seen from the inside, newer tech stacks can deal some serious disruption in a very short time frame.
How do you wash your hair in space (from the ISS)
New laptops locked to support only windows 8 just like Mac and OS 10
Perhaps I can reply more clearly after some sleep :) What I meant is that it's to support an evolution of content from static print and "data" to dynamic, interactive and responsive content the likes of which we've never seen before on such a wide scale of platforms and devices. Write once, run anywhere truly exists for content that conforms to web standards, and HTML5 Components will push that boundary even farther. I'll admit, authoring tools and publishing techniques need to play catch up, but that's not a reason to stop progress on standards. That's only a reason to slow or change adoption patterns and usage. Build a better Wordpress, I say, one that's two way. It's not always for the big advertising players, you know...
Github Not Responsive?
Is anyone else having a hard time resolving github's website? I'd like to access my repos, but cannot.
And managing multiple devices is actually a security boon. If your auth creds get stolen you'll know what specific device was compromised and can revoke the one vs a reset of all creds.

Also agree that malware is moot (it can steal auth tokens live as they're submitted, so even physical tokens requiring 2-factor pins get compromised).

The problem is browsers haven't been proactive in making the technology user friendly, so websites don't adopt it, so browsers don't make the technology user friendly. A couple large icons and good design decisions would make it as easy as logging into your screen saver.
Not too bad on the Mac: prompts you to pick one when required. If you use more than one cert on a single site then you need to go into Keychain Access to delete the favoured cert for site thingy to make it prompt you each time. Move client certs to their own keychain to password protect them.
The "PRISM-free" bit is misleading and not even mentioned in the kickstarter.