skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that people that bettered their lives with that money did so by entrepreneurship or by solving money draining problems(the roofs), which gave them long term benefits.

In contrast, I live in Brazil, here we have a governmental handout program which gives sure money every month. People use that money to short term spending, there is not much entrepreneurship or sustainable richness generation among the receivers.

It would APPEAR that one time downfall stimulates wise spending, since that has much more value than "blowing it on booze and cigarettes" or buying a plasma screen.
One should, of course, have in mind that the article seems to only show us a few examples, constituting anecdotal evidence at best, prompting for further studies.

Another thing to consider is if this model is better than microcredit which stimulates entrepreneurship less diffusely and possibly more efficiently in respect to the relation between total program cost versus social betterment.

If on one side we have the fact that microcredit only costs the subsidy to the interest paid the debtor, things such as the metal roofs would not be feasible under such a model and although money would circulate and the entire society would benefit, this program would only be directly beneficial to people who have entrepreneur qualities, effectively creating very distant social classes (which is kind of ironic for a program which aims to distribute wealth). Could such a disparity dissipate over time, or would it evolve to a social abyss?

For every society the answer is probably different and the ideal path probably lies somewhere in the middle. One thing is certain: no matter what route is taken, this certainly shakes things up; and in a stale misery scenery, I can't seem to find a reason for this not to be positive.

My father once said that however bad a social program is, if it betters society it can only be the second worst thing to do, the worst being doing nothing.
I live out of a backpack. Everything of emotional value is scanned or photographed then recycled; for the originals that I have to keep, they’re kept in safe deposit boxes.

Going with good enough alternatives that could be rented instead of bought goes a long way. That said, I don’t own cars, desktop computers or musical instruments, so YMMV.
Looking forward to this making its way into ubuntu-gis ppa.
This looks interesting, but I am generally worried about something being owned by Oracle. Simple example; I own an Openpandora. I wrote a live coding environment in Java with a very basic, lispy language at it's core. Using any free Java implementation it either; did not start (core dump; suspect; not enough memory to get even the VM up) or ran very (unusable) slow. With the Java 7 closed source ARM version from Oracle; runs fast (just as smooth as on my Macbook) and uses very little memory.

I have the same experience on x86, but because of the abundance of resources it's less noticable.

I don't insist on everything being open source (completely), but base languages/VMs should be. Unless something about this changes, I'm not using anything owned by Oracle again.
I believe it is the "data in use" portion, glancing from the page.

Why? Because all forms of powerful server-based crypto rely on software-based crypto. The problem with this is they need the private key of yours on the server side, somewhere, from the whole thing to work. This means the server operator can recover the key from a running operating system, easily (through system utilities) or forcefully (reading it out of memory with specialized programs), or just writing code to fool you into enter the passphrase and storing.

If you have heard of host-proof systems, they indicate (I would say correctly) the only way for crytography on network service like the one offered here is the data is encrypted on the client and sent to the server, never ever will the passphrase see server receiving the data. Therefore, not even the service provider can crack it without the same effort as some adversary from outside the system.

That being said, I could have read too much into.
Yeah, GIS requires a lot of features. Geometry, data... PostGIS is really without alternatives :)
He did that after facebook security team rejected his request to report a bug
I'm from Russia and live in France. I don't care about drugs, I care about people not bullying each other over unproved made-up values and ideals.

When I talk about insurance, I talk about voluntary agreements. About giving as much "power" to insurance company as you want. If they suddenly begin carrying guns and threatening people instead of having peaceful arrangements, customers will go away and all the funding for weapons will quickly end (or they won't, it's their choice). Also keep in mind that any enterprise needs savers who will invest their hard-earned money. They wouldn't like to gamble with a risk of losing all their money and customers by doing something people wouldn't like. Like shooting, killing, spying.

If you say that your ideal is being able to "sue" someone, what you are really saying is that you wish to use unilateral violent power to be directed on someone you disagree with. Now you have a problem. Because you won't be able to control that power. You'd either have to become part of that power (and fight hard with other such ruthless guys), or stay away from it and watch it being used upon you too whether you like it or not. Courts, police and politicians are not enterprise: they didn't have voluntarily invested private money that feeds them. They first take the money from every person by force, then decide what they want to do with it. This makes the whole motivational structure reversed and inherently abusive.

So fuck that shit. As I mentioned many times again on HN, pro-government or pro-law rhetoric is no different from religious bullshit that one group of people uses on another group of people at the expense of someone else.

"Without religion and church there's no morality" => "without government we'll have anarchic chaos"

"You must trust pope because he's set here by God" => "You must trust mr. president because there is society that elected him"

"If god does not exist, who created everything?" => "Without government how would we build roads and fly to the moon?"

"The Bible says what's good and what's bad" => "The constitution defines our rights."

"If you are against religion, you are against morality" => "If you are against government, you are against society".
Care to explain what this is, what it does and why I want it?
Criminal records never look good on a background check. For a substance which is probably less dangerous than cigarettes and alcohol, they shouldn't be there in the first place. Regulate it like cigarettes and alcohol, but don't criminalize it.
Primary reason for Dubai office - 0% taxes
I'm not a pot user (though I have tried it). I favor legalization of most drugs (also not a user of those drugs). Imprisonment of drug offenders is horrible, counter-productive, and expensive tactic for dealing with social issues (I was a prison guard for a few years, too).

PS I rarely downvote anyone to spite them solely for their opinion.
The timeline editing is pretty cool. But you could easily get automatic vendor prefixing with SCSS/SASS (and you should be using a compile-to-CSS language if you're doing serious web design), and automatic reloads with Vogue or LiveReload. If I wanted to do serious CSS animations, though, this is worth a shot - and it's a great tool for inexperienced web designers or those short on time.
Even a broken clock can be right twice a day though.
I don't think has anything to do with saving money. It really seems like a case of trying to take human judgment out of the equation. Strict adherence to rules is easy for bean-counters to push but frequently problematic for dealing with real world situations because rules are never perfect.
The speed / memory gains seem to be because of optimising away the dynamic type overhead.

So Clojure yes but Scala, no.
Having been kicked out of school himself he probably did mean more about learning than about formal education. Though (IIRC) he did attribute much of the post-WWII technological innovation to soldiers going to university after the war.
Show HN: js-regex, a fluent regex builder for JavaScript
another modern advantage is that we can now know the state of the ocean everywhere at any time

Are you sure you're not vastly over-estimating our abilities at the moment?

For example I though they'd only recently been able to confirm the existence of super waves.

I know little about this, so I'd be interested to hear, I honestly have no clue of our capabilities.
All the cancers have one thing in common: unregulated cell growth. Any victory against one type of cancer is a step forward that may help us one day find a permanent cure for all types of cancer. Besides, Leukemia is amongst the most common types, so I don't get the cynicism of some people in this thread.
The whitehat page explicitly says that you must “not interact with other accounts without the consent of their owners” in order to qualify for the bounty. So yes, apparently Facebook can deny payment and suspend your account if they can reasonably suspect that you violated someone's privacy during bug discovery.

However, it seems that if you don't give them any clues in your report, they'll close their eyes and won't investigate carefully that possibility.
I'm not sure where you get double from. The tickets probably won't be cheap anyways since there is only capacity for 3360 passengers per hour each way. Of course most other high-speed travel like the TGV and the Concorde started out as business travel with high priced tickets.
Musk's Hyperloop math doesn't add up
it says "Each of these visas requires the prospective employer to first file a petition with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services"

as freelancers have no employers this is not a solution for my case.
Why You Need To Show Two Products Instead Of One
One answer that immediately struck me was generally in medicine if something is on a decline, waiting for it to get worse is not a wise choice. On the other hand at research time, administering something that might simply kill someone or confuse them into not taking a known existing "good" treatment path because they're experimenting has some ethical issues (unless you're into patent medicine, fads, faith healing, homeopathy, crystal healing, that type of thing).

So in the long run, rather than sitting around waiting for the tumors to weigh 7 pounds because every other current treatment failed as per the article examples, this might be an early treatment option. Certainly "processing" 7 pounds of dead tumor is going to be hard on your biochemistry. But years or months earlier in the progress of the disease, a couple grams of dead tissue, maybe even less, eh, no big deal.

Gangrene of a leg, today, well that's gonna be a tough one. Minor infection of a toenail six months earlier, eh, no problemo.

The interesting part of the human interest puff piece is they ran several trials and of course only the successes get any commentary. Curious what happened with the failures, ranging from no effect to maybe the treatment killed them. Although the journalist thinks what happened to the most successful patient will define the future of this treatment, in the real world, what happened to those folks where it didn't work is likely to define the future. Compared to the amount of ink spilled about baseball, not much was mentioned, which sounds like good news...
This is amazing.

First because it means we can have _fast_ versions of existing languages.

Second because we can interact with the _huge_ amount of JVM libraries (this is a very big deal).

Third because SubstrateVM seem to be enabling the things I really like about Go: low memory footprint, fast startup time, and easy deployment (give me a binary that does everything I need).

They just need to make sure native interop is easy (both C and C++), and we have a winner!
Tiny Little Elevator Simulator (Qt)
I coded this about 9 months ago. A lot has changed. I've learned a lot more. The code might look ridiculous to you, but I thought someone might find it useful! ^_^
I just downloaded the trial, but the app requires Mac OS X 10.8, I'm still on 10.7. I suggest to put something in the website that it requires 10.8.
Give a Damn - A public rant
I was asking because the OP to my comment implied it could be done with just a browser and CodeKit. I'd rather keep the number of dependencies to a minimum. I haven't used Chrome for front-end dev work for some time, so maybe it's added these features. And CodeKit does compilation, so I figured it would have this.

If I have to go the route of installing a bunch of individual tools and maintaining them separately, then it becomes less appealing.
The point is not to individually judge the harmful effects of using an exploit publicly. That would be absurd. You have no right to say that the video posted on the girl's facebook wall was not a big deal. And I have no right to say that it was a big deal. The only sensible thing is to disallow any public usage of exploits whatsoever.
Yeah, but look at what he says in the first link:

Before contacting the submitter, we want to be sure that we weren't missing something, but after looking at it from every angle, we still couldn't see what the issue was.

...Stumped, we contacted the submitter. "From what we can tell, the call to system takes place before you call the Load­Keyboard­Layout function. Can you elaborate on how this constitutes a vulnerability in the Load­Keyboard­Layout function?"
Yeah, I get that. It depends on how often you do web work. If you do it as often as I do, it makes a lot of sense to put in the extra effort now to streamline you work in the future. But obviously that doesn't apply to everyone.
Show HN: FizzBuzz in C, without conditional statements
Just two words - "Loyalty cards"

Stop treating us like subjects.
Neat. However, I had a hard time quieting my Algebra teacher's memory from tut-tutting the example's lack of the other quadratic root.
Back in the early 1900s there were a handful of people making physical models of a number of these movements (and some that went beyond this incredible collection). They occasionally tour, Boston's Museum of Science had a big show of William M. Clark's collection back in 2006, I think. Anyway, Cornell has "The Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library" where they try to keep track of all of these physical models:

http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/collection-toc.php
I have no idea if anyone else does this, but I use tmux a lot for different projects. I usually have vim in one tab, logs in another, and tests in another. However, each tab I open I need to cd into the same directory. As such I came up with this helper for zsh. Every time I change a directory it records it. When I start a new session (new tmux or iTerm tab) it goes straight to that directory:

# record directory in ~/.lastpwd
record_pwd() {
pwd > ~/.lastpwd
}
chpwd_functions=(record_pwd)

# go to last directory when opening a new shell
if [[ -d `cat ~/.lastpwd` ]]; then
cd `cat ~/.lastpwd`
fi

For other shells that don't have something like chpwd_functions you could just alias cd.
Its clean.
Have you checked wayback on the domain?
http://archive.org/web/web.php
"The day remission is something that happens in so few cases it's a rounding error"

No, it merely has to be about as reliable as a "cure for pneumonia". It doesn't have to exceed that limit and approach a "cure for a laceration" or a "cure for appendicitis" both of which basically don't spontaneously reappear (assuming surgical removal of appendix)
The Road to Luna
That sounds very good.

"Fulfill that contract in Europe" means I can still sit in my apartment in US and do the work?
Will it really increase overall standards of living? We already have problems with there not being enough jobs to go around, automating more human work will just make that worse.
Earthlings is by far the best documentary I have ever watched. Must watch it. Probably available on youtube and torrents.
Unfortunately, too much of human society is based on printed matter.

Take shipping a box, for example. You'd still need to print a label. There's currently no way that I know of to associate that particular box to the place it's supposed to go otherwise.

Disclaimer: I'm building http://ezsend.it to help people avoid the post office lines, and it would be a useless endeavor without printers :)
Quite sure. It popped up something about "liking" them on this thing called "Facebook", which I've gathered is some form of virus that has infected the minds of most individuals on the net.
Dropbox: Some love for JavaScript applications (2012)
How to Negotiate Your Job Offer
Your mistake was believing that (1) there was a choice and (2) the _two_ choices actually differed in any meaningful way.

Both parties have the same masters.
I'm also surprised by how often this issue comes up. To use an example other than buses -- many ski lifts and gondolas are designed to take 10-15 minutes, but it's not unusual to be on one for over 30 minutes when there's heavy wind or a mechanical problem. They are also quite difficult to evacuate.
Yea I've checked .SE, .COM and .ES. Nothing.

This is why I'm confused about these requests :)
Why do you have to ask "why"? You can just sign up for yourself and see how the writing experience differs. Every popular service has benefits that are better understood through trying
probably oracle has now patents on ecery tiny detail...
Thanks also that was a typo. First time I have ever heard it was in these comments. We don't ever use it where I work and I deal with customer reported bugs every day.
Irradiation causes the copper itself to become radioactive. The copper atoms get hit by the radiation which causes some of them to change in radioactive isotopes.
and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436139
I won the DV2013 lottery (I have about 3 months left to relocate to the US) and I remember the chances being as high as 4% in some places.
Sorry. The reply to yours is correct. It's not centered. For me, this was so glaringly obvious and distracting.
> Like the buckle on a seat belt, they are designed to be strong in the directions of forces that might be applied in normal use, and require pressure in an entirely different direction in order to be released.

Let's pretend you build a bridge out of this material. Could the direction of force you'd need to apply to dissemble it capable of being generated by an earthquake, or by harmonic oscillation of winds (eg Tacoma Narrows)? It would be tragic to see a bridge with cars on it dissolve into cubes like the spaceship in Super 8.
FYI, the call to action is obscured (actually it's more accurate to say there is no call to action, i.e. a button to download the app) in iPad portrait mode. You can see this when you resize the desktop browser to that width.
I don't know and neither do you.
What surprises me the most is how bad they are handling the incident! The behavior reflects that of a classic old and inflexible corporation that hides some details in their small prints to screw their customers over.

It reflects incredibly bad on their relationship with the tech community and I am sure we will see some superficial backpedaling very soon.
I was also selected on my first try. Actually my wife applied for me.
They don't care what the "crime" was, a criminal record just disqualifies you. It's the same kind of HR idiocy that would forego hiring someone who has 5 years of Rails experience but did not list HTML as a skill, because HTML is in the checklist.
How to program your own violin tuner using overtone - 지연
Of all the countries on Earth, there are only really two that could mount a full scale invasion against the United States and hope to win, China and Russia. Neither is likely, but it would have to be one of them for us to consider this scenario.

Also, you're right that China invading the US is probably very unlikely, but probably not for any historical reasons. China and the US rely on each other too much as trading partners at this juncture for a full scale war to be wise. Also, much of China's wealth is wrapped up in US debt, a war with the US would endanger their savings. The biggest contention between the US and China at this point is the independence of Taiwan, which could lead to war, but not a mainland invasion of the United States.

Then again, if you do look at history, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was motivated by passive aggressive attempts by the United States to 'contain' Japan during the Second World War. Specifically, the United States blocked the import of oil to Japan. If the United States tries too hard to contain China, China might feel compelled to break the US's hold on the Pacific. This isn't like though, and a full scale war coming of it is also unlikely.
Node.js example code for ETag cookies: https://github.com/RobFox/nodejs-etag-cookie
And the formula given has at least two bugs, I think. They give it as

-b + (Math.sqrt(b**2 - 4*a*c)) / 2*a

Shouldn't it be

(-b + (Math.sqrt(b**2 - 4*a*c))) / (2*a)

(still ignoring the other root, of course).
Great point and I hope the FB security team take notice of your post. Whether or not this guy gets paid, I certainly hope they spend the money to get proper translation of their policies in every language they operate in.
Directed Graph Editor with D3.js
Anyone having an idea why parrot is not more popular?
Gladly, I would think!
If by rhetoric you refer to Obama's campaign:
The fact he didn't act as he said he would doesn't lessen the values of the rhetoric he held.

The arguments, the conviction, the ideology developed during his campaign holds the same values today as it did yesterday. The earth is round and it isn't less so if crooks say it.
The lesson IMO is to rebuild the whole political system, on a foundation made of sane rules. (And that should obviously include all government agencies, especially those which have been corrupting democracy for a few decades now.)

EDIT: Don't forget that one of the earlier whistle blowers said (a few months back) that Obama had been put under surveillance by the NSA as well [0], which means

a) you should expect him to have been vetted by the powers in place before being admitted as a presidential candidate by that 1 of the 2 parties available,

b) "they" have stuff on him and can handle him like a puppet that he seems to have become.

Ergo, it's not about which puppet you elect, it's about the system.

[0] http://www.peterbcollins.com/2013/06/19/boiling-frogs-blockb...
Misled is a political euphemism for lied. Politics is full of that sort of indirect language.
Subsequently debunked as an uncontrolled study. That's a prime example of the kind of research and researchers bought by ONDCP.
wtf. We're not going to pay you because after we ignored you you went over our heads.
If the head of state is a proven liar, is there any moral reason to tell the truth to any of the organs of state you deal with?
Money, and the lack of political will to procure it is the problem.
So Facebook refuses to pay this guy? So now this white hat hacker will next time, sell the hack and make a lot more money... Way to go Facebook, you've fucked up again.
I think as the topography of meshnets takes form, it just makes the ability to securely communicate more inherit in the system than storing our private keys on others computers. That makes me really excited. I'm also pretty excited about what kinds of hacks people will build upon such.
More relevant documents here:

https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Graal/Publications+and...
Letter To My Future Son, Part 2
I got this response from Stripe about rates:

We use the live exchange rate at the time of the charge, and there's a 2% fee for currency conversion on top (compared to e.g. 2.5% from PayPal). You can how much you'll receive for each charge in GBP immediately afterwards.
You could have just replied with the name of a test account and told him to post to that one to verify the exploit. In that way you would avoid any permission problems with real accounts.