skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you would be 'young' longer and wouldn't have to worry as much about age related diseases at an age we currently consider old. So you might get aging related cancer when you're 120 instead of 60, sure, but those 60 years might also be enough time to fix those diseases then you'd never have to worry about them.
Part of the reason why some people may say your system has flaws but never address is them is that they may not be able to be addressed.

Your system looks like it strives to be purely democratic, but pure democracies have inherent flaws such as being open to tyranny by the majority or irrational voter behavior. It is clear that some of your solutions try to mitigate these issues, but there are tradeoffs. For example, the reputation bonus for education could be seen as biasing the system against certain classes of people.

For a better framing of the voter irrationality problem (which is a misnomer because its actually rational irrationality,) I would recommend looking into the debate between Bryan Caplan and Donald Wittman. I imagine if you can mitigate the issues of both sides in your system, you'd really be on to something.
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While due process can occur after the fact, in order for a process to be 'due', it would have to (a) happen soon after the fact - but the website takedown isn't ensured to be so, any actions would simply stop after the takedown is done; and (b) include a way for compensating the innocent that are unduly punished - the given example has no practical way to redeem losses of the website if they are found to be innocent.
All of our alarms are connected so when one goes off they ALL go off. We have a particularly sensitive alarm just a few feet from our kitchen. It goes off nearly every time we cook bacon. It has a large button right in the middle that will shut it off for a few minutes. It makes a fairly loud chirp when it has reset itself. The pantry is near so it is not too difficult to grab the broom and push the button with the handle. It would be nice to just wave my hand instead grab the broom. Same functionality... just better implementation.
Does this mean it would be a good idea to invest in a one month bond if you can wait out the chance the government would be delayed in paying you back?
Correct, but blocking advertisers is. :-)

Before I get a lecture about how the current web is paid by advertisers, I rather have yesteryears non balkanized, non spammed, non spied web back.

There was less on it but the quality and relevance was way better, there was more collaboration, there was less hiding behind own language and nationalism.

And most important, the web was ours, not theirs, they took it away from us by poisening all the new people with these stupid freebees that in the end were just tools to build massive profiles on anybody.

I have no illusion to ever get back that period, I just will enjoy that I shared that period with a lot of friends, and because of that I will block any advertising agency forever as punishment for taking that away from us.
All I can say is: Epic Troll!
Brilliant.
> Record labels functioned as venture capital firms.

Record labels acted as industry gatekeepers who hoovered up talented young performers, paid them gas-station wages then spat them out once they'd finished exploiting them. Now, a youngster can learn their craft from youtube videos, record in a home studio using affordable equipment, and distribute their music worldwide using BandCamp.

I personally know two people who have quit their dayjobs (in music equipment stores) to create music fulltime using this model. And this is in a sparsely-populated backwater city.

It's a frigging beautiful time for the artform yo'. I'm jealous of the youngsters!
The government already got to seize private keys when they got search warrants and ceased servers. I'd imagine this is the case in all of Western Europe.
All true but several groups are attempting it. LPP has published a paper in Physics of Plasmas showing they'd reached 1.8 billion degrees C, well over the minimum required for boron fusion. They claim that bremsstrahlung is suppressed at the extreme magnetic fields they generate, and that this effect is well-known to astrophysicists.

There are also papers claiming that side ignition of boron fuel is possible with a 60-petawatt picosecond laser, about six times bigger than our largest today. Tri-Alpha is also attempting boron fusion: http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/06/tri-alpha-energy-review.htm...
Pardon my crass cynicism, but exactly how is moving PhDs from one bubble (academic) to another (startups) going to help? We are going to have the same PhDs who, by the admission of the paper might be "unequipped for a nonacademic career" moving into companies. If they're unequipped for some reason or another that is about cultural knowledge of the academic vs. industrial process and folkways, then that might be fine. But what if they're unequipped because the PhD process has merely used them as interchangeable labor and not fundamentally instilled in them critical reasoning or thinking skills? How are these startups, then, going to have any chance of succeeding? Shouldn't we be worried, then that the unequipped PhDs will flood the market and drag down the people who are trying to do startups which have a shot of succeeding?
Twitter eng., UConn security analyst among 13 indicted for 'Operation Payback'
Hi there (I wrote the piece) - I didn't intend for this to get posted to HN. Per the post, it's a framework for more posts to come, where I intend to go into more detail. I'm sorry you didn't find it valuable.
> I have a hunch icons and text are recognized by a different part of the brain

It doesn't "feel" like that to me, as far as my own metaperception goes. At least not at a purely semantic level: I see a word, and I associate it with a concept; I see an icon, and I associate it with a concept. There's rarely any syntactic relationship among icons as there is among words, so icons are equivalent to merely seeing an single word in isolation, labelling something.
Mmmmmm 180 minutes of atonal 'sound collage' hell, otherwise known as complete and utter self-absorbed wank. 99% of the music listening public aren't interested in hearing it.

There are plenty of examples of the non-3 minute song and generally they've been done by masters of their art, the reason songs are 3 minutes long is because that's our attention span for average music.

Records, your plastic limiter, haven't been popular for decades, eons in pop music time, entire generations of teenagers have gone and past, and yet most songs are still 3 minutes long.

So there's your pet theory out of the window.
This is a confusing situation. When I call D.C. they say an impasse blowing through 17 October is likely. When I call my rates and bond dealers on Wall Street I'm told that it shouldn't be too unsettling. The truth is likely in the middle.

Past 17 October the U.S. Treasury can prioritise payments, i.e. make interest and perhaps Social Security payments while blocking others. This makes the U.S. plunging back into a recession probable. It also virtually assures Federal Reserve (The Fed) intervention.

Some time before 1 November all bets are off. There are big payments due that will force the Treasury to be creative (e.g. minting a $1 trillion coin, issuing original-issue-premium debt, or blatantly ignoring the debt limit) or default. The Fed could open swap lines with the banks in an attempt to de-couple the U.S. financial system from its political system. The odds of success are low.

An unknown number of pieces, with uncertain capabilities on a shifting board, collectively daring or being dared to test new limits. This is an interesting situation.
Hold Up – Anxiety is Good?
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=eSkzWm8B because gwern's noprocrast has kicked in.
The best 10 minute read I've ever found
Sounds interesting, but I'd have to see it work in a live practice. There's a lot of neat and interesting protocols out there that look good on paper, but in a real world setting completely fail. That's why we've seen a disintegration of services that run outside of port 80 (www).
http://vimeo.com/22531716 ?

The reputation bonuses are just that: bonuses. If you contribute in a positive fashion, your reputation would increase as well. Yet all ideas (including those from anyone receiving a "bonus" boost) must still pass the moderation phase.

Or perhaps bonuses are a bad idea altogether. I thought that someone who graduated from environmental studies would be able to propose environmental policies sooner than someone who has not. Maybe that isn't good.

Thank you for the pointer!
bgentry's comment didn't seem disingenuous to me at all, and I was surprised by sync's question. WebSocket connections are long lived, thus if your framework only supports one (or a few) concurrent connection you're gonna have a bad time.

Heroku's past routing problems with certain low concurrency frameworks/servers doesn't apply with WebSockets because you'd be crazy to use such a framework for WebSockets.
Do you know about liquid Feedback, which is used by the pirate Party? Or liquid democracy in general?
I think they might be very interesting for you if you haven't heard of them yet.
"It's safe to assume that anyone who hopes to leverage websockets will not be using a blocking application architecture."

No, it isn't. I'll wager that right this very second, there's someone out there incorporating websockets into their Heroku-based Rails app and not thinking about (or understanding) the consequences.
198(1)(b), 198(1A)(b), 198(2)(b) say otherwise?

The U.S. law, I think, but I haven't looked to refresh my memory, does something similar. It says it's only a crime if the value of the work(s) in question exceeds a dollar amount, on the premise that only someone seeking commercial advantage would share works of that much value. Ignoring, of course, that a lot of people who do a lot of p2p filesharing (completely not for profit) exceed those limits.
Important lesson of blogging:

If there isn't someone out there spending their time to tell you you're an idiot, you're doing it wrong.
To summarize, Wall Street's saying "They couldn't possibly be that stupid." and Congress is saying "Just try us."?
Quite right. Still, I think this whole libertarian concept is probably based on the idea of _someone_ making some money somewhere along the lines. :)

I assume the mediators would need to be paid, at the bare minimum, probably moderators to filter out junk and spam and whatever other unforeseen circumstances pop up.
I use a FIFO to pipe alpine's new mail alert to notifyd; not sure how clever that is, but it works for me.
I find that you likely need to determine if you are extremely detail oriented or not in your life. Do you like putting due dates on everything and following checklists? Or are you more carefree.

I have found its best to not fight your own personality. Getting Things Done (GTD) is very popular but if it doesn't suit you, then there is other things to try.

Personally, I am following the Personal Kanban approach. Jim Benson has more details at http://www.personalkanban.com/. I use mind mapping to layout everything for myself in my life (things I need to do, my goals, books I want to read, etc.) I looked at the many different online products for mind mapping but settled on buying Novamind 5. Mindjet's Mind Manager is supposed to be really the best but I didn't want to pay the premium. Xmind is also good and free. The main thing with Novamind and other commercial offerings is the import capability (you can import Mind Manager maps easily). Sites like biggerplate are incredible for the amount of free mind maps others have put together.

I use Trello has a kanban board (backlog, this week, today, now, done) and organize my week with this. I don't use due dates period. I bought into Omnifocus on both the Mac and iPhone but just couldn't stick with it.

I am finding that with this approach, I am able to stay on track more.

This document from Paul Klipp http://paulklipp.com/images/PersonalProductivity.pdf describes this approach nicely. I am using his approach as a guide but with my own tweaks.

These tools are not magic bullets. You still need the discipline to stick with it to see the payoffs, but they definitely can help.
"if your framework only supports one (or a few) concurrent connection you're gonna have a bad time."

Rails only supports one concurrent connection per process (by default...for good reasons), and there are a great many people using it at scale, including on Heroku. Asynchronous stacks are becoming more common, but they're still exotic in terms of deployment -- and most of those probably aren't written very well.
Can you explain further? Playing is literally done only by sending to a Bitcoin address. You win or lose and get paid back or not. There's no website involved in the actual game.
1. Make a list of what I need to do that day. It's only things I absolutely need to get done, not extra or bonus.
2. Do nothing but the list until I have checked off everything from the list.

For non-starter days, I use a modified pomodoro method. Getting up early helps me to have fewer non-starter days.
I am not a huge fan of this thread but I am compelled to comment being a native New Yorker. The 1% clearly refers to a "post-Guiliani" New York which has both positive and certainly negative sentiment from most who live here. However, to better understand the creative complexities of the city is to think of it as just that, a city... with 5 boroughs not just certain areas of Manhattan and certain areas of brooklyn but also Bronx, Queens, Washington heights and all the other areas that still blossom with creativity that once were clearly visible in the now over commercialized areas of soho and tribeca. Don't fret, creativity still abounds just not in plain-view, but in those areas that are less frequented by the "rag & bone" set...
Who are you talking to when you "call D.C."? I am curious.
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yeah, from the HTML tab you can just right click the style on the right hand side of the window and click New Rule. It'll assume that you're attempting to write a new rule for the type of element you currently selected, but just tab to that box and you can change it.

Note, when I say style here, I mean style on the HTML tab, not the style tab itself.
https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Related%20...

Please see the "Technology" section. If you know of any other related technology, please add it to the wiki.
Well that's nice; I'm glad to see that our common interests as HN users extends only to the US border.

Widespread unchecked surveillance is evil in and of itself, it doesn't matter _who_ is doing the surveilling.

Following your argument, if the Chinese government engaged in exactly the same sort of surveillance against you that the NSA does, you'd be fine with it, since it would merely be international espionage. But in the end, the same information about you is being stored. And your information is probably less trustworthy with the Chinese government than even with the NSA!

'Spying' in the traditional meaning is qualitatively different to dragnet surveillance of all communications.

I understand that all countries engage in a level of spying, and that friends may not always remain so, but the US' seemingly widespread lack of trust in _any_ other country, only works when you're (1) right and (2) the most powerful country.

These may not always hold true, and it's when bad things happen that you need friends you can trust (and that can trust you).
Most, if not all, of these companies do not articulate what "the bar" is that candidates have to meet, or at least do not do so publicly or as part of the job req, so no, I don't think there is currently a way to unify that across companies. "The bar" is largely a euphemism for an information asymmetry in a company's hiring.
This is an inaccurate account of events. If you read the actual documents [1], you can see that the FBI had exactly 2 demands: A pen register device, attached to his servers; and his SSL private key. That is the sum total of what they wanted: complete, near-real-time access to all of Lavabit's data. A physical device to copy the server traffic and send it to the FBI, and the SSL key, to decrypt that traffic.

The stated use of these two things was to get information concerning a single person, but they never wanted just that information. On page 100, Levison states that he can manage to get the information the FBI is looking for, without providing the FBI with Lavabit's encryption keys. Someone (AUSA[censored]) says that the proposed solution does not satisfy the subpoenas and court orders, because it would not provide real-time access to the data.

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[1]: http://cryptome.org/2013/10/lavabit-orders.pdf
I'm hoping driverless cars begin to make people realize how intrusive these types of stops really are.
Ahh.... I was wondering where all my new Twitter followers were coming from.
The lunch with Steve Wozniak that changed my life...
Also, we have ample proof that the US Government cannot be trusted period. An entity that cannot be trusted can still reflect on itself, realize it has done lots of wrongs, and trust others that are reaching for higher standards.
This is kind of missing the point, which is that fewer artists will get to that level, not that artists already at that level will suddenly be forgotten.
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Hard to crack: The government's encryption conundrum
"Not the place to swing around"? Firstly, there's plenty of entrepreneurs here who don't code at all. Secondly, that's a really silly thing to say. Do you honestly think that you can't be a great Rails engineer without having fluency with linked lists off the top of your head in an interview type situation? I can think of a thousand questions that would give me a much more accurate idea of how good a candidate would be as a web developer and the day to day issues they would face.
(I'm a member of the Firefox Developer Tools team)

Our RDP (Remote Debugging Protocol) is not interoperable with the one in Chrome or any other browser. There are two reasons:

1) Both us and Chrome team would like to iterate on our protocols and tools as fast as we can. Maybe in future, when tools across browsers stabilize there will be a case for a standard but I personally believe that a wrapper protocol is a better answer.

2) RDPs depend on their platform's architecture. Ours is very SpiderMonkey centric while Chrome's is all about V8.

Google organized a nice Summit during the I/O this year and I attended on behalf of our team (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOO9Kb1-JJU). I shared my thoughts on interoperability and other issues here: https://medium.com/web-developer-tools/1060a9f69e6a

Hope that helps.
"Good to finally have some healthcare options as an entrepreneur"
I feel I should mention Plan 9's pipeline branching. Not named pipes, but something which I guess served a significant subset of named pipes' use cases. The Plan 9 shell, rc, had a feature where when a subprocess was invoked with the syntax:

<{ls}

that string would get replaced by a filename, which when opened would be hooked up to the stdout (or stdin for >) of the invoked command.

Used as an argument, this allowed you to essentially do none-linear piping in a mostly transparent way. I say mostly because I don't think you could seek.

Every once in a while I find myself wishing there was something like this in bash. Maybe there is...
Ironic that Google wants to essentially extend the useful life of workers, given that the average Google employee is 29-30 years old (depending on source). Among the youngest of any industry.
The basic problem is an impedance mismatch. Some people see the internet as this noble grand thing (like you, comparing it to the church). The government, like most voters, sees it as just a place to look at cat pictures and buy crap on zappos. The government treats the internet like it treats meat space things. Nobody complains that they can Public Storage to open storage units with a warrant, so why should the internet be treated any differently?

That impedance mismatch will take a long time to reconcile. If the Facebook generation is any indication, it will probably never be reconciled to your taste.

What I'm trying to say is: get used to being an intellectual minority. You're joining the company of lots of people, from those who think the government has no business forcing you to save for retirement to those who think the government has no business forcing you to serve or hire certain people in your private establishment. You probably agree with some of those people and disagree vehemently with others.
Something about this post tells me that there is not actually that high of a demand, and that there may actually be a glut.
Totally amazing...it is itself a fractal of information, I want to go into a recursion of link-following!

Can't resist posting my Clojure implementation of the chaos game: https://github.com/Hendekagon/card
This is an interesting time to point out that we're one of two Democratic countries with a debt ceiling. It's never, ever been used as a political chip.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/30/f...
Everyone knows math and science is a republican invention designed by evil businessmen for inhumane profits. I prefer a system of government in which I can trust my welfare to the good nature and honesty of bureaucrats rather than cold, evil numerical equations, actuary tables, risk profiles and budgets. It's time mathematics and science are recognized as the tools of class warfare that they are.
Banks are big because people's money is forced in by monetary supply inflation; it loses value when they actually save it.

Banks are crap because of regulation in a forced market: You basically have to put your money in a bank to counteract inflation, but becoming a bank is VERY difficult, so is competing with ones which will always be bailed out.

U.S. has the same issue with healthcare. Becoming a healthcare provider in the U.S. is incredibly difficult, even moreso becoming a healthcare insurer, and as such they consolidate and crapify as far as they can without making it bad enough to justify competing with them despite the regulatory barriers. Then all your drugs have to be FDA approved(which takes more than a decade at least), and many of them will be produced under one or more patents which also raise the cost of the medication.
This is notable because the change in perceived risk (as measured by the yield) of default appears greater in the shorter term government debt (1mo) as compared to the debt maturing later (3mo). It would indicate that "the market" believes there may be some technical non payment scenario over the short term (so, government shutdown related), but there appears to be no fear-mongery shaking of the faith in the nation. As you can see in the link the 30yr bond's yield has in fact fallen over the same period.

As this is a technical crowd, and there are requests for layman explanations, I'll elaborate some: Yield = Interest rate. This is inverse to the price of the bond. If you hold a bond and the yield rises (say, from 10bps to 27bps), you have lost money on your holding since the market price fell. The unexpected yield increase (price fall) on short term treasuries is notable because short term government bonds are held in large quantity by very risk averse investors (e.g. money market accounts) that not expecting to take losses. The unlikely downside scenario of a one off non-payment or deferred payment may cause settlement problems in short-term bond markets, or even a "freeze" as happened after Lehman collapsed.

Typically the yield of a bond increases over longer maturities because there is more time for something to potentially go wrong leading to an inability to pay. Thankfully, the United States is a sovereign nation that prints its money on keyboards, so that is only possible if a decision not to pay is made.
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